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Mike Benz is a former official with the U.S. Department of State and current Executive Director of the Foundation For Freedom Online, is a free speech watchdog organization dedicated to restoring the promise of a free and open Internet. www.foundationforfreedomonline.com

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0:30USAID, the foreign policy establishment, and the censorship apparatus
10:12Reforming the national security state, covert political warfare, and the Smith-Mundt firewall
19:55Continuation: USAID, judicial reform, and state-backed investigative media

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I

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The Joe Rogan experience

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Good to see you great see I've been looking forward to this one me too

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All night, I was like woohoo tomorrow's gonna be a good one for you

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It must have been very exciting to have the vault

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Opened and to get a peek into the machine because you've been describing this

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the last time you're on the podcast

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You went into depth about USAID and it's very curious why they chose USAID as

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the first

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Organization for doge to investigate because it seems like they were the ones

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that resisted the most. Yeah

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Yeah, well, you know the joke that I tell here is it's it's like what they tell

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you to do your first day of prison is

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You go in you walk up to the meanest baddest SOB and you punch them right in

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the mouth

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I mean that's basically what's happened here with the White House's first

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target being USAID because USAID

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Opens up the entire world of the blob of the foreign policy establishment and

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it's weaponization of what are supposed to be foreign facing

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Department of dirty tricks operations

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against domestic opponents and

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When it all got opened and you started to see the numbers and the different

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organizations and NGOs that were getting them

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Was anything surprising to you or was this all what you expected no in fact, I

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think?

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We're at the tip of the iceberg and what people are going to see on this is

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going to completely

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Reorient their mental map of how they think the world works

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How they think American power projects into the institutions?

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Um, and I think the calls for reform are going to get louder and louder as

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people realize the the reality that's been constructed around them

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Um is is downstream of something that was started very long ago

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When when American statecraft to manage the American Empire for the benefit of

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the American people?

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Began to warp and distort every institution in American life from the media to

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now the social media companies to the unions to the universities and academics

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To the NGOs and think tanks to the prosecutors to our conception of terrorism

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to our conception of

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activity in the drug trade

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to our

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Every you know what what we're really doing with

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Public health programs and and the medical establishment and what drives that

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You know all the way into

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Poverty relief and and you name it. I mean every institution is instrumentalized

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by this apparatus

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Supposedly to help us but really starting this has been done in u.s. History

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before this this happened against the left against the Democrats in the 1960s

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and 70s when the cia and and

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And you know to an extent its sister orgs like USAID and whatnot were pumping

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money

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Into domestic politics to stop the anti-vietnam war movement and this led to

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the reforms of the late 1970s

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The church committee hearing the pike committee the pike committee hearing the

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establishment of a senate intelligence committee and house intelligence

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committee for oversight, but

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even that was a was a very small glimpse into the window the end of the analogy

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I give here is like the lion the witch in the wardrobe you know

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the chronicles of Narnia where there's this whole cinematic universe you're

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living in this house and you there's this closet in the

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Back of the you know of a wardrobe and if you never walk through it you never

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see that whole world you can live your whole life without seeing it

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But when you open that door and you step into it

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You see there's an entire other universe here that's been right next to you

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this whole time

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When you first started working for the State Department do you had did you have

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any

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Inclination that you were going to get involved and did you had any inclination

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that this was going on like did you know already?

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Yeah, definitely you already knew. Yeah, definitely. I had already been working

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on this for many years

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When did you first discover it?

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around August 2016

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I was I was

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deeply passionate about the internet censorship issue

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and

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You know, I had I had some weird experiences playing chess as a kid where you

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know, I sort of came of age when Gary Kasparov lost a deep blue and

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AI took over

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You know to really

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Took the spirit out of a lot of a lot of the chess world and it was apparent to

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me as a kid that these AI

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Sensors that these AI chess engines were going to out-compete humans

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But when I was young the sort of older people in the room were in denial about

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it

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And when I saw that same thing in 2016 with the the development of AI

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censorship

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super weapons, you know, I

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I call those weapons of mass deletion that they would be like weapons of mass

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destruction

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But for speech, you know a few lines of code would allow you to

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destroy entire political movements

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governments

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Narratives, there'd be no escape from it. We would permanently change the face

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of

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political warfare or

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Domestic politics, you don't need a standing army of a hundred thousand sensors

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if you just have one, you know machine learning

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uh, you know

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Just ingested a database, you know of 900 million tweets that you can ingest

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and then make this sophisticated

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Narrative network map of all the different keywords and and concepts you want

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to censor and

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To me that was that was like the this this free speech

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Version or the censorship version of the atom bomb so I started I started that

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quest in in 2016

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But very quickly that research in the process of trying to trying to write that

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um showed these international networks immediately

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I mean the the nlp the natural language processing

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sort of backbone of this was

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Was all being sponsored by darpa and to be able to

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Monitor the speech of isis or extremist or terrorist groups and when I saw that

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Coming home and being advocated here. I

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I dug I spent my whole

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Day morning noon night 20 hours a day basically

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chronicling archiving

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That's how I know so many of these characters is because I feel like I

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I know them better than my own friends and family having spent so many years

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watching this all you know um

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Develop what did it feel like being one of the only people that was sounding

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the alarm for?

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essentially eight years like you get involved in 2016 and

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No one even the general public until you came on this podcast

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I don't even think we're aware that this was an issue at all

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But even then things got lost so quickly in the cycle of news things just come

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and go so quickly

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until

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doge started

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Unraveling all the spending right and you start seeing things like 200 million

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dollars allocated to transgender

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experiments on monkeys, right like what the fuck

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Like this is crazy and that's just a tip of the iceberg and and then the ngos

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and then that map

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Of 50 000 ngos that was essentially just democratic propaganda

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Machine that was exposed that was all just money being funneled in a circular

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Totally, I mean it's been

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It's been exhilarating

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uh, you know, there is a there's a sort of um, I understand the weight of

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history here you're we are doing

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Open heart surgery on the body of the american empire our influence abroad

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And it has to be done well and so

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You know, I I want to help the american homeland and so this is a sensitive

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process, but you know, obviously

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um, it's

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It's been a bit surreal seeing the past couple weeks where people are now

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I go to my x timeline and I see everyone doing the same exercise that

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I gave up everything to to be doing eight years ago going into

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You know because all this stuff is open source you didn't need to be an inside

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guy to see this if you knew where to look

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These are usaspending.gov

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You know, I used to joke is the main difference between or was I think until

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freedom opened up when elon acquired x and a few

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Institutional changes began to happen, uh, you know in in the government and

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with and with congress

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But you know I used to joke that usaspending.gov was the main difference

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During the height of this censorship, uh, you know total control era was the

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main difference between us and in russia and china

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Which was that we have this sort of autocratic control over information and

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institutions by by the u.s government

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So do they the difference is is we can go to usaspending.gov and look up how

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they do it

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and

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So when I when i've been going to my x timeline and seeing everybody

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independently doing that exercise and finding the joy in that the the self-discovery

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process

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And being able to share it with people and everybody being able to understand

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and make sense of the receipts because

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you know this

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Framework for understanding it has been has been shared and popularized

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That to me as as has been the goal all along to be able to give people the

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language and the frameworks to understand

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what is so terrifying and

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Necessary to reform but that that's right there

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You know in front of your eyes if if you only open your eyes to see it

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It's got to be exciting though for you to be there on operation day when they

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are doing the open heart surgery

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It is it is um

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You know

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We need to make sure that the the patient doesn't die, you know on the you know

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on the operating table

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Just because it's the right move to do the open heart surgery because the

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patient needs it

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Doesn't mean that the operation goes well if you know if

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The operating surgeons don't know the anatomy of the organ they're operating on

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and so that

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I see right now is sort of my prime function is to just teach more and more of

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the anatomy of the organ

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So that the people who are operating on the patient the the american homeland

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and

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Generally speaking the the american influence and power projection into foreign

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countries

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Comes out better smarter a little bit more honest

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And there is a hard

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Domestic firewall against our foreign facing dirty tricks criminal penalties

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Against against agencies who uh who go against this civil

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Penalties so you can sue both the agencies and the ngos who are sponsored

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Maybe with treble damages uh in in a bill from congress so that

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If usaid in whatever form it continues to take whether that's at the state

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department

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Or whether it gets rolled back out into another independent agency that you

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could sue the agencies as an individual if you've been

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If they've broken that domestic uh

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Firewall so that there's an incentive at the agency on their own budget to

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tightly oversee these things. There's so much that can be done

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to um

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To bring this in line in a smarter and more moral

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Uh and frankly more effective way and that's that's the task right now

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I think one of the most offensive things to americans is that all this was

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being done and all this money was being spent

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while they were denying money

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to people that

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clearly needed it

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like particularly

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victims of natural disasters like maui right

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The fact that they're spending all this money on those things and yet they gave

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those people a one-time check of

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$770 or something along those lines right well this gets to the fundamental

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heart of

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The breach of the social contract that this thing was whole was always set up

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to do

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You know, it was it was really set up in 1948 when george kennan

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It created this nsc 10-2 this national national security council

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We completely reoriented the structure of the american empire

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In 1948 after world war ii in 1947, we passed something called the national

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security act. That's what established the cia

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That's what established the national security council which coordinates all of

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our you know foreign foreign foreign facing empire management work

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It renamed the department of war to the department of defense so that it didn't

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look like we were

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You know acquiring territory by military force which had just been banned under

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international law

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Under the un declaration of human rights. And so we moved from primarily

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kinetic warfare into what george kennan called

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just two months before he

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Created the national the plausible deniability doctrine that we live under he

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called this organized political warfare

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And uh, and he has a great memo from april 30th 1948. It's just 12 days after

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the ci's first

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operation first first time it ever overthrew or rigged the election of a

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foreign government

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This was the april 1948 election in italy that pitted a pro-western

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A pro-western candidate against a sort of pro-soviet candidate and so

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The u.s state department felt it was essential to

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Tipped the scales of that election because it showed that the pro-soviet

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candidate was winning 60 to 40. This is all declassified and all the

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major people who are involved in that operation have all come out and said this

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publicly um, but

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So so you know the c basically we threw together this ramshackle effort to tilt

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that election by pumping in propaganda

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by using

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Charities and churches as fronts to funnel money uh into the the pro-western

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political party

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You know, we piped in you know, the greg garbo movies and whatnot

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We worked with some very unseedy very seedy elements of italian society there

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We worked with the mafia and we worked with

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Mafia connected unions because these were all assets for the war department

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During world war ii because mussolini was cracking down on them

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So the war department had a relationship with these organized criminal networks

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To serve as a beachhead against mussolini, but we kept those relationships

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In order to run this pro-democracy regime change thing so in 1948 when we

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established the secrecy doctrine doctrine doctrine that we now live under

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And all these ngos work under this cover effectively

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Because of their sponsoring organizations usaid or cia or state

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And he called it the inauguration of organized political warfare and what he

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said is

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We need to create a covert apparatus to hide what we do

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from the from the rest of the world to do

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Secret political warfare on the low and the problem is is the american people

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are not going to like this the american people

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Do not understand the intricacies of international relations

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They think there's always an easy political cure-all

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And they do not understand that they think there's a fundamental difference

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between peace and war

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And what he proposed is uh, and this is just two months before this before this

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would formally be given to the cia to do

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but at the time what he said was

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This was this worked gangbusters in italy we need to replicate this everywhere

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We need to create a capacity to do black propaganda to do economic sabotage

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demolition

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There's a whole list of what's authorized under nsc 10-2 and and what he says

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is the you know

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The american people are not necessarily going to like this and we're going to

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need to effectively hide what we do

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From them because if they find out then the rest of the world finds out if we're

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trying to run an operation in

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Eurasia

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And we report this in u.s news well, then any person in eurasia who reads us

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news now knows about it

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and so

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That was authorized at the time with some simultaneous with the smith-munt act

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which i'm not are you familiar with the smith-munt act?

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Is that the 2011 2012 thing where obama allowed people to use propaganda

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against united states citizens?

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Yeah, that was what was done then under obama was the was the

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Effective repeal of it. It was called the smith-munt modernization act

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But the modernization

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Got rid of the whole purpose of it the the fire the firewall because at the

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time the

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Media and media control was seen as as the linchpin crux of winning the cold

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war

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Piping in pro-us uh media influence to so that thought because everything moved

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after world war ii from kinetic warfare

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And military occupation and we used to militarily occupy the philippines for

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example after we won the spanish-american war

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But that was that was banned under international law

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Territorial acquisition by military force in 1948. So we had to win elections

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and and we had to influence the the passage of

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laws in foreign countries by having an apparatus inside those countries

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That influenced the hearts and minds of people which influenced who they voted

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for which then determined the government

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So you had to move towards political vassalage rather than military occupation

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And what the smith-munt act did is simultaneous with the creation of this in

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1948 congress recognized the frankensteinian monster

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They were creating by authorizing a covert

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Permanent department of dirty tricks and this is their phrase not mine

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Uh to do this cloak and dagger to in to to infiltrate in and co-op the

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universities the unions

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The media the politicians the judges the whole swarm army, you know what?

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Have been calling for a long time the usa truman show because you know these

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people in these foreign countries have no idea

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You know, how many how many of the things they interact with that are

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effectively a movie set being constructed

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By the u.s state department and its sister influence orgs

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But the point i'm getting at here is the smith-munt act in 1948 said okay

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You guys can do this state department can do this c.i. I can do this us aid

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when it came along 13 years later could do this

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but we

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So

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There was a guy named frank wisner who was known as one of the godfather

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figures of the cia

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He's known for creating what was called the wisner's worlitzer which was a it's

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like a church organ

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And that he would brag that he could play the international media like a symphony

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to make any media narrative

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Go viral in any country on earth because of the the suite of cia proprietary

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media functions

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And it's net in its distribution network

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Especially when the us had first mover advantage and radio and print it's

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basically the us and uk real the only games in town

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really and having robust

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radio film tv and print media so

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The smith-munt was said okay, you can do that abroad you can plant fake news

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stories in france you can

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You know, you can uh...

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Have propaganda blair into

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Africa or western europe or central asia, but that can't come home you can't

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psyop our own people

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With your propaganda organ abroad because the point of authorizing this is that

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we get cheaper gas we get import export markets

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you know, we get a high standard of living because

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If a foreign government doesn't want to give up its resources or allow a us

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military base

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Or allow joint partnerships or or exports of of goods or us multinational

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corporations to operate there

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Then the american people suffer economically

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So it was always designed to say listen you can do this dirty stuff abroad, but

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it can't come home

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We have them and even that protection which which lasted for 70 years

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And only we only lost it a decade ago

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We're up against a much actually deeper darker problem with this usaid scandal

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and as people will see

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increasingly the scandals that will break open at the pentagon and the state

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department

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Which is that we have a smithmont problem for funding and operations. It's not

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just propaganda

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the blob our foreign policy establishment can fund

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groups that uh

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effectively

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Work with prosecutors domestically or that uh or that work at media, you know

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dual sort of dual use

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We give them foreign grants to do media propaganda abroad, but they operate

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here

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Or social media censorship to coerce foreign countries to pass foreign

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censorship laws

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That explicitly and are intended to attack us social media companies

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And in u.s peer-to-peer speech, so we need that protection

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If we're going to keep this function at all, we need a hard firewall and

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absolute grotesque penalties for any violation

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so

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When you're watching all this unfold one of the things that

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I've been seeing is that there's been legal action to try to halt some of it

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They've been told to destroy any information that they got from certain

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databases like what's what's your take on this?

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And what whether any of that is going to hold up?

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Oh 100%

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Well 100. I don't know if it's going to hold up. I think it's going to be a

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legal dogfight. This is

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You know, it's funny because it's sort of a circular dragon eating its own tail

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because you're going after

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The primary soft power projection organ of the blob because it's been weaponized

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against americans

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But what is the blob authorized to do? What what is usaid authorized to do

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under statute?

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Well, something they call judicial reform

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which is usaid

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poaching

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funding

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financially the networks around judges

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around around courts around the legal system around the governance structure of

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every country on planet earth

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I mean and jamie if you want to just go through a fun exercise right now

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You can even put on screen just a simple google search so people can see just

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how open source this is

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And I can walk through specific damning examples of this

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but if you just type in on google the word

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usaid and then

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in in a boolean quotes

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judicial reform

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and what you're going to see are

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you know basically a hundred countries that usaid

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is

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going after the judges going after the legal system in in order to

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rig the scales of justice in favor of the foreign policy establishment's

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interest there and this has this has fully come home

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And I can I can go through some examples of this for example

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there's um

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There's a group a group called the occrp

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which is you can think of as the corruption reporting project

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the

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This is a group that

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Half of its funding comes from usaid and the u.s. state department

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uh

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Occrp has to

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has to

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The usaid and the state department have a veto right over the staff that it can

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hire

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This is the largest consortium of investigative journalists on planet earth

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This is this is the group that broke the panama papers

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You know, they got all these hacked documents. They got special access to it

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I don't have any facts on this. I'm simply noting that it's an oddity that

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a

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group funded by a major cia funding conduit usaid

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While the cia has the ability to hack

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You know any target around the world that's authorized

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by the national security council, you know, there's

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They're getting these special access documents, uh, that are reportedly either

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hacked or leaked and they're being sponsored by

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You know

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The group that's connected to something with a hacking power, but I don't know

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that for a fact. I'm simply noting that for

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investigative purposes for

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oversight bodies who may want to ask questions

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but

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They so they they've won hundreds of awards they've their their name has been

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you know, so pristine for so long

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They've been around for you know almost 20 years and they were sponsored in

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order to do

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They do investigative hit piece journalism about corruption

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And what they do is they go after all of the state department and usaid and dod's

24:27

opponents in the region

24:29

So for example, jamie, I text you this beforehand, but if the first thing you

24:32

want to put on screen

24:33

Are the first two images that I texted you this is from the usa.gov website,

24:38

and I think this will shock people

24:40

uh, uh, when they see this, uh

24:43

on

24:45

You know with the usa.gov url right there and so that you can you can see how

24:51

Yeah, so if you go if you go to the the first page that I texted that text you

24:55

and then we'll we'll get to this one

24:56

This is the first thing you said okay. I'm sorry the second one then

24:59

Yeah, okay

25:01

So here it is. This is us aids strengthening transparency and accountability

25:05

through investigative reporting program. Okay

25:07

What you'll see here is you'll see the life of activity this fund is they are

25:12

still being funded through this grant

25:14

And this is for europe and eurasia and you'll see the countries eastern

25:19

partnership armenia belarus georgia moldova ukraine and western balkans

25:23

If you scroll down, you'll see usa spending usa spending you say funding is 20

25:28

million dollars

25:29

uh

25:30

20 million dollars that our taxpayers paid to

25:34

Every listen, they don't report on you know kittens, uh being saved from

25:39

falling out of trees

25:41

Everything they do is a hit piece about an instance of corruption

25:44

That can be used by prosecutors in the area to arrest the political opponents

25:48

of the state department

25:49

And what you'll see here is capacity now. This is the phrase everybody has to

25:52

know capacity building

25:54

Is what this is all built under that means pumping up the blobs assets whenever

25:58

you see the word capacity or capacity building

26:00

It means this thing is useful to us. The more money we give it the more

26:04

powerful they are to project our influence

26:06

And so so if you if you scroll if you go back to that that page, which is page

26:11

two of this usaid you think

26:13

Here's what you see. So for 20 million dollars of of investment from from usaid

26:18

Here are the and this is live on the website and find this in the way back

26:23

machine right now because the usaid website's down

26:25

This is this is usaid the us government bragging about the achievements of what

26:30

they achieved by spending 20 million dollars

26:34

At least 4.5 billion in fines

26:36

levied against targets of these hit pieces now by the way

26:41

I should note that the head of the occrp was busted in a in a major

26:45

Documentary that is very little distribution by encourage everyone to watch

26:49

where he said

26:50

uh because this was this was a this was a

26:53

I think a year and a half ago or whatnot, but it was they're up to over 10

26:56

billion dollars now

26:57

What's the documentary? Um, it's uh, it's on the wikileaks x page right now. It's

27:02

by a group of german

27:04

uh uh journalists who had one-on-one interviews with

27:08

The head of this group occrp as well as the usaid grant coordinator and others

27:13

and so it's straight from the horse's mouth

27:14

And they they say he says in that interview. I believe his name is drew sullivan

27:20

um that it's now over 10 billion dollars and he brags that that is a

27:24

I think he said it was a 20 000 return on investment because all these

27:30

Dollars were quote returned to government coffers. So for 20 million dollars

27:34

Of of mercenary media for the state state-sponsored hit pieces

27:41

Uh, the government's got 10 billion dollars back. That's pretty good. That's an

27:46

that's a 1995 amazon level

27:49

Uh return on investment, but now let's get into the darker stuff

27:53

548 policy changes

27:56

By the government or actions by civil society in the private sector now

28:01

We don't know if these policy changes are good or bad

28:03

Do you think usaid would would list them as accomplishments if they were not in

28:07

furtherance of us aids or the state department's

28:11

foreign policy goals in the region

28:12

What they are are saying and in trying to sort of uh speak through their teeth

28:18

as they say it

28:19

Is that they proudly sponsored hit peace journalism to ruin people's lives and

28:26

go after political targets in order to

28:28

In order to change the policies of foreign governments from the inside

28:33

Now it goes on to say 21 resignations and sackings

28:38

Including of a present and prime minister now

28:41

the head of occrp in this documentary openly says that

28:45

That their reporting caused I think it was five or six different governments to

28:49

topple and turn over and be transitioned

28:53

proudly so so this is state-sponsored media hit pieces so that prosecutors can

28:58

arrest presidents and prime ministers

29:00

To regime change their government and install a more pro-us

29:06

Political vassal figure in the region and then the last one is 456 arrests and

29:11

indictments

29:12

And this again is listed as a usaid achievement. We don't know what these

29:16

people did

29:16

We don't know you know whether they're whether they're guilty or innocent or

29:20

whether or not these were political prosecutions

29:22

Like you see right now with the new york district attorney's offices, which is

29:26

a whole nother usaid connected can of worms

29:29

But these are state-sponsored hit pieces for hire in order to get the give the

29:35

justice departments

29:36

The prosecutors in a region the ammunition to arrest the enemies of the state

29:41

The prosecutors don't have the capacity to do a whole investigative journalism

29:45

dig

29:45

They might not have access to hacked documents that for example the cia the nsa

29:50

or deeply connected political insiders might be able to give to a group like

29:53

Occrp now now usaid gets a veto right over who they can hire

29:58

Occrp has to submit an annual work plan

30:02

To to uh to be submitted to and reviewed for approval by the state department

30:07

and usaid

30:08

And and here's the kicker of it all usaid dug up. I'm sorry

30:13

Occrp

30:15

paid for by us us taxpayers

30:17

Dug up dirt on rudy giuliani's work in ukraine. This is because you know, this

30:22

was part of the 2019 impeachment and

30:24

uh, you know, rudy giuliani and his work in ukraine so

30:28

They went and dug up dirt on rudy giuliani a domestic us citizen and high-profile

30:33

political figure actually attorney

30:36

To the u.s. President and then

30:38

That dirt came home and was used as part of the basis for the 2019 impeachment

30:43

of the sitting president donald trump

30:45

That would have never happened unless usaid sponsored that those you know that

30:50

hit piece work

30:51

And then they did the same thing with paul manafort

30:54

Because it's the same foreign policy blob that went after trump in the first

30:58

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The the lawfare against Giuliani is interesting like what is what is the case

32:33

that he lost?

32:34

It was in georgia and he was accusing these women who worked at this

32:41

Election facility of something some improper improprietary right this is a

32:46

different case than that because that you know

32:48

This was related to the 2019

32:50

Impeachment and all the ukraine

32:52

Kerfuffle around the you know the quid pro quo call allegedly that

32:56

President trump made to president zielinski

32:59

Which by the way we should get to usa's role in the process in the joe biden

33:04

Quid pro quo side of this uh in a second but um that case

33:08

I believe related to two workers uh in georgia and it was related to the whole

33:12

investigation of election fraud

33:14

And uh, and whether or not you know, there may have been fraud uh, you know

33:18

perpetrated in the uh

33:20

In the in the georgia election in I believe it was either 2021 or it may have

33:25

been

33:26

Um, i'm sorry the 2020 um, i'm not that that case i have not i'm not deep in

33:32

the weeds on but I

33:33

I have to say this as well

33:36

And and jamie if I don't know if if if the whole audience is familiar with this

33:40

clip

33:40

But it's a it's it's an incredible scandalous clip. Do you remember when when

33:43

joe biden?

33:45

Was at the council on foreign relations and um and bragged that uh, he got the

33:51

top prosecutor in ukraine

33:53

Fired by the ukrainian government because he explicitly conditioned the firing

33:59

of the prosecutor who was investigating burisma

34:05

He expressly conditioned the their receipt of a billion dollars in in u.s

34:10

financial assistance on the firing of

34:13

uh victor of victor shokin the prosecutor and he said and well son of a b

34:18

he was fired and

34:20

It's so crazy watching him brag about that publicly

34:23

It just shows you what an idiot he is

34:25

You know what that billion dollars in financial assistance was it was a us aid

34:28

grant

34:29

Yeah, it's the carrots and sticks and it's like find that video jamie

34:35

Because it's a shocking video and it's just the hubris that and the ego that

34:39

someone has to have to speak of this publicly

34:42

While it's being filmed not just publicly not just in a room not not even just

34:47

saying it out loud

34:48

But saying it in front of the council forum relations backdrop

34:53

And actually before you play this can I make one quick note for the audience

34:56

that everyone can look up publicly

34:58

Um the council of our relations was i'm just about to text jamie and another

35:03

thing related to this that's that

35:05

I'm going to pull up the usa grant so that everyone can see this billion dollar

35:08

usa grant that he's referring to here

35:10

And what's in the grant details?

35:13

But when hillary clinton was secretary of state running the state department

35:16

that usa answers to right it's usa is

35:18

Independent but guided by the state department because it's a state department

35:22

function. It has to advance us interest

35:24

Well, when hillary clinton was secretary of state

35:26

Um council foreign relations had just opened up a dc office they're new york

35:30

based and

35:31

She went over them and she made a speech and she said thank you foreign

35:34

relations for opening up your dc office

35:36

That way. I don't need to travel all the way to new york to be told what to do

35:40

I was ahead of the state department

35:45

She really said it like that. Yeah, everyone can look this up

35:48

That that might not be verbatim, but but that was that was

35:52

The it was it was as explicit as that effectively

35:55

But if you'll play this i remember going over convincing our team or others to

36:02

convincing us that we should be providing for

36:05

loan guarantees and I went over

36:08

I guess the 12th 13th time to kiev and uh

36:11

And I was going supposed to announce that there was another billion dollar loan

36:15

guarantee

36:16

And I had gotten a commitment from poroshenko and from

36:21

uh

36:22

Yatsenyuk that they would take action against the state prosecutor and they

36:25

didn't

36:26

So they said they had they were walking out to press conference and I said i'm

36:29

not going to

36:30

We're not going to give you the billion dollars

36:32

They said you have no authority. You're not the president the president said I

36:36

said call him

36:38

I said i'm telling you you're not getting a billion dollars

36:40

I said you're not getting a billion. I'm gonna be leaving here. I think it was

36:44

what six hours

36:44

I look I said i'm leaving in six hours if the prosecutor's not fired. You're

36:48

not getting the money. Oh, son of a bitch

36:50

Got fired and they put in place someone who was solid at the time

36:57

Solid still they so they made some genuine

37:00

Substantial changes institutionally and with people

37:06

Yeah, so there's there's two things to immediately follow up on that

37:09

So, jamie, I just I just sent you two things

37:13

Uh over over text here

37:16

Uh, the first one is the us is that billion dollar loan guarantee

37:20

Uh, uh, and then

37:22

I I sent you another one about securing commitments and then

37:27

It's just wild that someone would be so

37:31

Brazen to talk about that so publicly

37:34

That's that no one's going to look at that but someone that was solid what was

37:38

wrong with the first guy

37:39

Let's go into depth

37:40

You know the fact that you wouldn't think like maybe someone's going to

37:43

investigate

37:43

What was the first guy looking into?

37:45

Oh, why was my son running burisma?

37:48

Like what is going on? Why is he making 10 million dollars a year there? What

37:50

is going on?

37:51

What is this?

37:52

Well, okay, so this was a billion dollar

37:54

Okay, so this will actually go go to the go to the other one. Okay, we'll start

37:57

with this

37:57

Okay, so here's from usaid usaid announces now. This is again the the basically

38:03

the final months of the obama administration

38:05

Right, you know, this is right before the november 2016 election usaid announces

38:10

a billion dollar loan guarantee

38:11

Remember he referenced the loan by the way do they pay these loans back?

38:14

Well

38:15

Depends on if they play ball or not

38:18

Uh, you know, this is this is a this is another one of these things, right?

38:21

If you're a good boy and you do what the blob tells you to do

38:25

Maybe we can be flexible in loan forgiveness, you know, maybe maybe we can

38:28

allow you to punt punt the default

38:30

But you'll see it's it's a bit but these are the carrots and sticks

38:34

This is why we infiltrate and co-opt these institutions and why you have a 44

38:39

billion dollar annual slush fund

38:41

around the world to do this

38:42

But you'll see it's the issuance of the billion dollar loan guarantee to the

38:45

governing united of government of ukraine and it's

38:48

to support the implementation of governance reforms

38:51

So it's for it's it's for the the we condition it on you changing the policies

38:57

of your government and this is already

38:59

2016 after we

39:02

Installed a coup. Yes in 2014. Yes. Yes. I remember the last time I was here

39:07

We went over the 2019 zelinski's first month in office

39:10

The red lines memo, you know talk about how do you how do you prove you're a

39:14

good boy?

39:14

Well, when you get a the red lines memo that you will suffer political

39:18

instability

39:18

Unless you do the 25 below listed policy things with your government

39:22

You know

39:23

That factors into what the u.s. Ambassador in the region will tell their ukrainian

39:29

or other government counterparts

39:33

Loan guarantees and whatnot are conditioned on but um so if you go to the you'll

39:37

notice that

39:38

Biden there used a very specific phrase there about securing commitments

39:41

I don't know if everyone caught that I want to note the

39:44

The the similarity of that to if you go to the the other screenshot jamie that

39:48

text you here

39:49

I'm sorry that my my mug is on this. I just pulled this up. What's that? What

39:52

are you doing with your lips? Yeah, I well, I know

39:54

We'd been talking right before we started filming about about just throwing

39:59

receipts up on screen

39:59

This is just a live stream series that I do on x and so I but that's they

40:03

caught you mid words

40:04

I know I know but this is 1.5 million dollars

40:06

So so usaid is has given 27 million dollars

40:10

In grants to the tide center, which is the 501 c3

40:15

It is the fiscal sponsor that gives the 501 c3 staff to the black lives matter

40:20

global network

40:21

and to a group called fair and just prosecution, which is

40:24

basically manages

40:27

Prosecutors who are simultaneously funded by the open open society foundation

40:31

So they work with alvin bragg and latisha james and all these other other ones

40:35

and so but you'll see

40:36

Here in this this is a 1.5 million dollar grant

40:38

You'll see that exact phrase that joe biden used about

40:42

securing commitments from governments

40:45

To fight corruption

40:49

So

40:50

Sometimes this

40:52

Diplomatic statecraft this strong-arm pressure is done directly by the vice

40:55

president

40:56

Sometimes it's done by interlocutors like our state-sponsored ngos

41:01

Swarm who allow our ambassadors and allow the white house to maintain a layer

41:06

of plausible deniability

41:07

that it's

41:09

It's an intermediary saying it and they can say much harsher things than what

41:13

can be

41:14

Conveyed and may be used against you in a formal diplomatic channel

41:18

And I said I said one more thing jamie if you pull up if you if you go to my x

41:22

feed and you just type in the phrase

41:23

USAID burisma

41:25

Because this is another element of this again. How is this all weaponized at

41:28

home and whatnot?

41:30

So victor shokin was investigating burisma

41:32

Joe biden personally weaponized usaid in order to force

41:38

A foreign country's prosecutor to be fired in order to get that billion can I

41:43

can I stop you for something?

41:44

What was the investigation of burisma what it didn't entail?

41:47

Well, I believe it was a similar corruption, you know corruption probe that

41:51

there was

41:52

uh, you know that there was misuse of funding all this stuff is is uh, you know

41:57

well-documented in miranda devine's book

41:59

Uh, the big guy, but if you uh, if so if you if you open those those four four

42:05

screenshots

42:06

Um, I don't know if you're able to center it or zoom out a little bit western

42:10

protection is a great fucking title

42:12

Yeah

42:14

USAID to help young biden. This is in 2014. Hey, remember when uh hunter biden's

42:18

permanent

42:19

Blanket pardon goes back to it goes back to 2014. Right. Uh, and so so

42:26

This directs usa to guarantee loans. So it's loan guarantees

42:31

Uh, for every phase of development of oil and gas in ukraine moldova and georgia

42:35

now if you go to go to the next screenshot in this

42:37

this is from uh

42:40

This is a you know

42:43

A a foiled uh, or legally obtained internal document at the state department

42:51

Which says despite his room name in ukraine's licheski is actively campaigning

42:55

for

42:55

He's been sending uh letters to ambassadors. Uh, you know, uh, yovanovich and

43:00

and pyatt

43:00

Um, they note that hunter biden and devin archer on the board and they say even

43:05

internally at state usa does have

43:08

cooperation with with burisma

43:11

Says pre-existing small scale pre-existing cooperation. They're formally cooperating

43:16

with burisma

43:16

In the region they're noting that and then if you go to the next screenshot

43:20

Now now this again is

43:25

Is is state department email traffic that's been unearthed. Okay, so

43:29

They're talking about doing co-branding with usaid and burisma

43:34

And the public private partnership around usaid and burisma

43:40

But then noting quote the very sticky wicket of the hunter biden connection on

43:46

burisma's board

43:47

And then they go on to say that you know, they want to create incentives for

43:52

journalists

43:53

To ensure responsible and unbiased very sticky wicked what a weird way to

43:57

phrase that in an official email

43:59

Right, what they're saying is it would be a major scandal if everyone knew the

44:03

extent of it

44:04

They know it looks unseemly. They don't want they don't want the media to

44:07

report

44:08

On on the massive conflict of interest of joe biden going in and kicking out

44:12

that prosecutor and conditioning usaid

44:15

Money on it while usaid is directly working with burisma

44:18

But then the state department using its media mockingbird apparatus funded by

44:23

your tax dollars the swarm of ngos

44:25

You know as reported publicly this week that 90 percent of ukrainian media

44:29

outlets are funded by the us government 90 percent

44:31

Talk about a usa truman show jesus christ

44:34

And so who if they're funded by the state department guess what there's a state

44:38

department grant coordinator guess what if they want

44:40

To keep getting their contributions they are going to there's going to need to

44:44

be review and approval by usaid

44:46

And and by state because often these are these are co-grants and so

44:50

They have the capacity to ensure that the incentives are aligned for the

44:55

journalists to

44:57

Be responsible with the way they report on the usaid burisma connection while

45:01

joe biden is weaponizing

45:02

uh

45:04

Joe is weaponizing usaid to to protect burisma by the way

45:08

I should note hunter bines law firm actually pitched using burisma as an

45:12

instrument of statecraft to the state department because

45:15

The more you capacity build burisma the more endogenous gas ukraine

45:20

Is is able to supply and so that's less

45:24

Gas being exported into europe from gas prom in russia so they blend this it

45:29

advances us national interest

45:30

But hey, it makes us rich along the way. So, you know

45:32

It's the same reason pfizer gets to keep all the profits, you know for uh, you

45:36

know when when they have when there's a mandate a vaccine mandate

45:39

You know, they don't uh, they say well, we're just rewarding, you know, this

45:42

We're doing such good work. Well, why aren't you if this is a charity?

45:45

Why aren't you giving the money back to the american people? You know of what

45:49

should we put some cap on this?

45:50

It's oh, no, well, we're incentivizing this, you know pioneering approach and

45:53

we're uniquely in the position to do it

45:55

And what's important about this is this explains

45:58

For a lot of people that are very baffled by obvious propaganda and

46:02

misinformation that's being propagated by the mainstream media

46:06

when you look at

46:08

mainstream

46:09

newspapers and television shows saying things that are just factually incorrect

46:14

And you could research it. It's not hard to find out

46:18

And you see them propagate this stuff. This is all the same sort of thing

46:23

But this is happening on u.s soil. Oh, exactly. Well, actually jamie if you

46:27

pull that receipt back up

46:28

There's a there's a paragraph there. We didn't read but that's that's useful to

46:31

this

46:31

And then there's another topic related to this that I think

46:33

Makes this point even harder, but look look at that fourth paragraph there

46:37

This is from the u.s state department

46:39

Which is in control of managing all of the media assets those 90 of media

46:43

assets in ukraine and the ones that simultaneously operate here

46:46

I would offer that burisma's incentive to support could possibly read the main

46:50

objective of burisma was to create incentives for journalists to offer

46:53

sympathetic coverage

46:55

Wow main objective of burisma the main objective

46:59

It's an energy corporation. Yes. Yes

47:02

Humanitarian aid, uh, you know, this is a for-profit company. That's directly

47:07

tied such a wild statement

47:08

The main objective of burisma was to create incentives for journalists to offer

47:13

sympathetic coverage of the company on energy issues

47:16

Yes, yes. Wow, right. They they want to pitch it as a sort of you know patriotic

47:22

um, you know, uh

47:24

pro-western, um, they bought the media they bought the media they bought the

47:28

media and they bought the media here

47:30

on that topic can we talk about a a related uh

47:36

Scandal and frankly monstrosity that the american people need to understand the

47:39

full extent of its of its influence on american hearts and minds

47:43

No, we can't talk about that. Okay. All right. Well, let's go on to the next

47:46

thing

47:46

Okay, so, um

47:49

Jamie if you if you go to x, um, I think probably the best thread on this

47:54

currently published is the wikileaks thread on uh

47:58

on internews which just reading some of the statistics and that will help make

48:01

sense of some of the the clips and screenshots that i'm going to show you

48:05

um about its operations uh

48:08

that then impact domestic affairs and and

48:11

uh international governments that are allied with this with the state with the

48:15

state department

48:16

So if you just look up in just type in the word internews one word i-n-t-e-r-n-e-w-s

48:22

And uh, and uh, you go to search down the wikileaks profile you'll see

48:27

uh, uh

48:29

Yeah, here you go if you just top that that top one, you know usaid is pushed

48:33

nearly half the

48:34

so so this so internews i've been i've been talking about for a long time

48:38

but but now the stage is sort of set to really uh

48:41

show the extent of this but

48:43

What we do is we create these pretty little predicates these pretty little lie

48:49

words weasel words to hide from the american people

48:52

and especially from foreign governments what we're really doing in the area

48:55

So we have a catchphrase uh at at state and in statecraft it's called

49:00

independent media

49:01

You can think of that as the state department's word for good guy

49:05

Okay, doesn't mean independent. They are funded by us. They are not independent

49:08

from the government. They literally submit their work and approval

49:11

Plans for you know their work plans for what they cover for review and approval

49:15

to the u.s. State department

49:16

They are dog walked the whole way

49:18

But we call them independent because they are said to be independent from

49:22

foreign governments who uh influence so basically they're independent from

49:26

The chinese government or they're independent from the russian government

49:30

So there's just like with the word usaid itself that we talked about last time

49:34

It's your mind playing tricks on you you're seeing aid, but it's agency for

49:37

international development, right?

49:39

Nothing, but they do the same thing with independent media, which is that

49:44

Internally to them it means it's a good guy for us because it's independent

49:48

from our enemies

49:49

But it's but when americans see that they think well independent that means it's

49:54

a a free actor who's not being sponsored by any government

49:57

But under the banner of usa's independent media and media sustainability

50:02

branches we fund half a billion dollars a year

50:06

To this network of again over 4 000 media outlets

50:11

It reaches 778 million people 9 000 journalists trained remember last time we

50:17

went over the train

50:19

The atlantic council with seven cia directors and annual funding from us aid as

50:23

well as the state department and pentagon

50:25

How they were holding up?

50:26

I call

50:27

bs

50:28

Placards and putting trump tweets on screen to flag for disinformation

50:33

If you remember we went over that well, this is what training journalists looks

50:36

like is they uh is

50:38

Is not only do they have the direct?

50:41

uh spawn of of of a media octopus

50:46

under their direct

50:48

Sub-grantee group, but they then go out and train the journalists who work at

50:52

all the other ones who aren't directly sponsored

50:54

So they reach everywhere and you'll see here. For example, it makes reference

50:58

to uh to

51:00

You know gene burgo who who is uh, you know making a half million dollars a

51:04

year there

51:05

And if you go now i'm going to show this this domestic

51:08

Impact real quick and then a couple screenshots

51:10

So if you this is this has been going viral on x i've been talking about usa's

51:14

role in the censorship industry

51:15

Forever and if you look up if you just look up uh internews and you just plug

51:20

in the name

51:20

You know, uh, if you just copy paste that, uh, you know gene burgo thing

51:24

Phrase you'll see this in the video section because it's everywhere now. So

51:29

So

51:32

She made

51:33

Speeches for for a long time, but this is a this is a a big one

51:37

Um, here you go this one right here. Okay

51:39

So usa funded internews ceo pushes for global advertising

51:44

Exclusion list to censor disinformation. This is a 28 second clip

51:50

Like what they did to x yeah, exactly disinformation makes money and it's that's

51:54

one of them

51:54

We need to follow that money and we need to work with the and particularly the

51:58

global advertising industry

51:59

That a lot of those dollars go to pretty bad bad content

52:03

And so you can work really hard on exclusion lists or inclusion lists just to

52:07

really try to focus ad dollars and challenge

52:09

The global advertising industry all around the world to focus our ad dollars

52:13

towards

52:14

The the good the good news and information the good the accurate and relevant

52:18

news and information

52:19

So so this is usa sponsoring both sides of this

52:22

She runs a 500 million dollar mercenary media for for hippies for hire empire

52:29

Sponsored by the by usa. Usaid also gave 68 million dollars to the world

52:34

economic forum itself

52:36

And and usa's own internal documents show the explicit political targeting of

52:41

these advertiser networks

52:43

And I can show you receipts on that if you just type in the word seps c-e-p-p-s

52:47

uh

52:48

And advertiser on my x timeline and and I don't mean to just go receipt to

52:52

receipt to receipt actually no, it's okay

52:54

Actually before we get to that just so I can close the loop on something that's

52:57

a little bit more accessible and less political

53:00

Jamie I texted you a screenshot of internews

53:03

In in brazil and

53:06

Uh, if one of them has uh at the top of it something called rooted in trust

53:12

Uh, yeah, if he keeps going up

53:17

Yeah, there you go that one. Yep. Okay, so this is internews

53:21

with a worldwide media octopus

53:25

Sponsored a half a billion dollars a year

53:27

You know reaching 9 000 journalists 5 000 media outlets and here's what they

53:33

were doing

53:33

Um, just in uh, just on just on covet censorship

53:38

So rooted in trust is a internews program

53:43

It's a global pandemic information response program to counter the

53:47

unprecedented scale and speed and spread of rumors and misinformation

53:50

All which turned out to be true all which turned out to be true

53:53

Our our own cia says that our own you know house

53:57

Uh, you know oversight committee says says that now every single step of the

54:01

way

54:01

There's not one thing they said that turned out to be accurate not the death

54:04

rate

54:05

Not the ability to stop infections and transmissions not the side effects

54:11

Not the fact that natural immunity is far superior none of the not nothing not

54:17

one thing not the lab leak theory

54:19

Nothing, not even the funding of the research

54:23

And the actual lab which is also usaid, right? Yes. Yes, 50 million dollars,

54:28

right, right

54:29

From uc davis to eco health directly into and you know, because I always say

54:33

when it's too dirty for the cia

54:35

You give to usaid and that's and that's why you know, that's why you have all

54:39

this pandemic stuff

54:39

And maybe we can get to that later, but I want to show the scale of this

54:42

Uh, you you sponsored your own

54:44

State censorship

54:47

Rooted in trust has tracked more than 19 000 rumors about the virus across 14

54:53

plus languages globally over 81 million people

54:56

In response to the unique rumors sourced from each country context

55:01

This usaid sponsored pro project has produced a total of over 130 rumor bulletins

55:08

500 radio broadcasts and 480 media stories

55:11

Through through a series of training opportunities events peer-to-peer networks

55:15

and small grants root and trust has supported

55:17

550 local media organizations in order to

55:23

Scan and ban the internet or and more importantly to connect communities with

55:28

directly with timely and accurate covet 19 information

55:32

Which all turned out to be lies. I only had time before this to text one page

55:36

of this

55:36

I mean, this is everyone should go through this this document i'll post on my x

55:40

feed and there's there's millions around this

55:42

I mean this the whole global coordination was done through this through usaid

55:47

and the u.s. State department and its partners in in the in the uk and in nato

55:53

And you know the fact that these very organs are implicated in it these strange

55:57

darpa grants around creating the the great the gain of function

56:00

Um, you know the the usaid, you know, uh, you know grants that we're all

56:05

jumping, uh, you know

56:08

Animal to human, uh for for these things, uh, you know

56:12

The presence of folks like avril haynes the deputy director of the cia and then

56:16

head of director of the the director of national intelligence

56:19

Uh, you know at these censorship planning conferences for event 201

56:22

one the fact that

56:23

state and dod and and the uk foreign office all funded all of the censorship

56:29

organs like the atlantic council and graphica and these others that

56:33

We went over last time, you know, they basically they're the prime suspect for

56:38

the crime

56:38

And they and they sponsored the entire white blood cell apparatus to swarm any

56:44

kernel of truth penetrating the membrane in order to orchestrate the cover-up.

56:48

So they're on both sides of it

56:50

Um

56:52

And and and we you know, we can talk about more about the you know, the inner

56:56

news you know work there, but I want to but I want to

56:58

This is the darkest of conspiracy theories the darkest of conspiracy theories

57:04

was that the leak was intentional

57:06

The darkest of conspiracy theories is that this was planned

57:10

They knew this is going to be a financial windfall

57:12

It is the greatest transfer of wealth in the history of the united states by

57:17

far from

57:17

The working class to the elite. It's like three plus what trillion dollars or

57:22

something crazy like that. Yeah

57:25

We've already established that it was created in a lab. We already established

57:30

that usaid funded it

57:32

We already established that fauci at all lied about gain-of-function research

57:36

what they were doing

57:40

The worst theory possible is that this was released on purpose

57:43

Yeah, that would be the worst case scenario. Yeah

57:46

Have you ever danced that one around your head?

57:49

Because that's that's where you we know they're willing to do horrible evil

57:54

shit

57:55

But like is there a ceiling on that?

58:01

Even now to this day having spent

58:04

So much of my life in it. I try

58:06

I try to just pursue the leads that I have and then

58:11

Try to let the conclusions come to me

58:13

Certainly the fact that they funded

58:16

The capacity to do this

58:19

They

58:20

Worked directly with all the networks that were both doing it and censoring it

58:23

um is

58:26

Puts you pretty much as you know

58:29

They created it and they covered up at least the leak

58:32

Um in terms of the the intentionality for doing it

58:36

That is a really dark scenario, you know, there are a lot of things in american

58:42

history

58:43

um

58:45

That that have that same, you know

58:47

Miha leha distinction, you know

58:50

Do they do they make it happen or do they let it happen?

58:53

Do they let it happen or do they make it happen and both of them are major

58:57

scandals that completely change

59:00

The the the legitimacy and credibility of policy changes in response to the

59:04

crisis for example like

59:06

You know take something like pearl harbor, right?

59:08

It's been declassified now the mccullum memo the the eight action plan

59:13

Are you familiar with with this the yeah, right?

59:15

You know and this was you know written

59:18

Before the the the bombing and it was eight ways to get japan to attack us

59:24

Because you know, we don't have diplomatic cover to declare war on them

59:27

but if

59:28

If if we get them to attack us and we can then spiral that into a war predicate

59:33

I mean the same thing for example with the you know, the north woods memo with

59:36

You know pretext to war with cuba and cooking up all these you know hijacking

59:40

our own planes sinking our own ships

59:42

Doing you know riots on the streets of miami and then saying that it was the

59:46

other cuban government behind it

59:48

Uh, the same thing with vietnam gulf of tonkin, you know, uh same thing with uh,

59:53

you know with the the weapons of mass destruction

59:56

Predicate for invading iraq. Did we know that that you know, did we were we duped

1:00:03

and the crime was negligence

1:00:05

For letting our national security state believe the new york times reporting on

1:00:09

you know on chem chemical

1:00:11

You know in biological and weapons of mass destruction in iraq or did we

1:00:15

make that happen did we

1:00:18

Did you know was that he?

1:00:22

Was that something that we knew was not true based on our own intelligence, but

1:00:26

because there was a useful thing there?

1:00:28

And you know

1:00:29

A lot of people have the same thoughts about issues around around 9/11 in any

1:00:32

number of crisis events

1:00:34

and I

1:00:36

I suppose I have my own thoughts on it

1:00:39

They're not fully settled and because they are beyond the evidence. I currently

1:00:44

have

1:00:44

Um, I I I stay in the zone of this is what they did to create it. This is what

1:00:50

they did to cover it up

1:00:51

Here the stars in the sky draw your own constellation from there

1:00:55

That's a good way to put it. Okay back to what you were just about to talk

1:01:00

about

1:01:01

Yeah, so well

1:01:03

So

1:01:04

Again, there's there's two simultaneous tasks that I have

1:01:07

one is to

1:01:09

Burn down these these rogue institutions that have been weaponized domestically

1:01:13

and salt the earth behind them so that these kind of excesses can never come

1:01:16

home again

1:01:18

The other one is

1:01:20

We do need us soft power projection in order to maintain the standard of living

1:01:24

and prosperity that we have

1:01:26

You know, I give the example all the time. No blob. No pencils can't make

1:01:30

pencils in this country unless you depend on

1:01:33

Goverments in Malaysia and South America and you know parts of africa and if if

1:01:39

that's the the case in

1:01:40

You know for pencils now do that exercise with petroleum now do that exercise

1:01:45

with cobalt for example

1:01:46

There's only one there was only one operational cobalt mine in all

1:01:51

Of the us and in 2022 that even that mine shut down

1:01:55

So most of the cobalt's in the congo if you if the if the congolese government

1:01:59

decides they don't want to allow you access to cobalt

1:02:01

Well, there goes your capacity to to create any high technology or renewable

1:02:06

battery or anything

1:02:09

There is potentially a need for some modified and more honest

1:02:12

Restrictions on our department of dirty tricks. For example, the cia used to be

1:02:17

allowed to assassinate world leaders

1:02:18

Um in the in the 40s and 50s, you know

1:02:20

This is where we got in trouble in congo with lumumba or you know, I end air

1:02:24

and any number of these and then

1:02:26

When those scandals got revealed there were

1:02:29

legislative reforms put in place and

1:02:32

Executive branch national national security reforms put in place to say okay,

1:02:36

you can do dirty work, but not that dirty you can't do that

1:02:39

um

1:02:41

The same thing needs to be done now for all of these things, you know many

1:02:44

categories of things for example

1:02:45

We just played internews and the internews ceo

1:02:48

campaigning to

1:02:52

Governments and corporations and private sector civil society organizations

1:02:57

around the world

1:02:58

That they need to economically blacklist

1:03:02

News sites that that operate on social media and those are us news sites. That's

1:03:07

this is the basis of

1:03:09

Lawsuits here in the u.s. Like daily wire in the federalist suing the state

1:03:12

department for uh, because

1:03:15

u.s. News sites are in these advertiser blacklists

1:03:17

And to that end, I want to I want to note two things first

1:03:21

If you if you go to my x feed and you type in the word advertiser or

1:03:24

advertisers

1:03:25

And if you need to you can plug in the word usaid or seps c-e-p-p-s in this

1:03:30

And I want to show you that that this is not

1:03:34

internews gone wrong

1:03:36

This is not a great a half a billion dollar a year grantee of usaid going rogue

1:03:41

and being ideological about this

1:03:43

This is top down

1:03:44

U.s. Government policy from the white house and i'll show you the documents on

1:03:48

that

1:03:48

Uh to the white house executive branch agencies like usaid and state

1:03:53

Uh, okay, uh

1:03:56

If you go to search and you put in the word advertise advertiser yeah

1:03:59

And it could be advertiser or advertisers

1:04:06

Okay, so you there you go. So click on that left the the left image first

1:04:12

This is now we talked about this group seps last time um, you know in in our

1:04:16

In our head a few months ago seps is a a program that is

1:04:20

Basically a joint baby of usaid and the state department and is implemented by

1:04:26

the by usaids key operational arm

1:04:28

the national down for democracy

1:04:30

But this is a usaid program on countering disinformation internet censorship is

1:04:35

what they do

1:04:35

And we went over last time remember we played that that two minute video where

1:04:38

they were

1:04:39

Openly saying that the plan is to get foreign governments to to

1:04:42

Pass legal reform pass laws and regulations to stop the spread of

1:04:47

misinformation on u.s. Social media websites

1:04:50

So us usa would not be able to lobby the u.s. Government to do that because we

1:04:53

have a first amendment europe doesn't

1:04:55

other brazil doesn't but here is from an internal document february 2021

1:05:00

of usaids seps program and

1:05:03

Now this is a 97 page document they

1:05:07

Reference the word advertiser and advertising in this document 31 times in 97

1:05:11

pages

1:05:12

So this is and that was three years before that clip

1:05:14

We just saw how how far back in motion this is and I can go back even further

1:05:17

that in 2017 and share clips on that and how this network

1:05:20

Coordinated the very ad boycotts that that elon is subject to and that brought

1:05:25

facebook and google to their knees when they folded to advertiser boycotts

1:05:29

There you go in order to disrupt the funding and financial incentive using the

1:05:33

same phrases that the internet ceo did to disinform

1:05:36

Attention is is turned to the advertising industry particularly with online

1:05:41

advertising

1:05:44

So they so it goes on to say thus cutting the financial support in the ad tech

1:05:48

space would obstruct disinformation actors

1:05:50

They're not human beings. They're not americans with you know running mom and

1:05:54

pop shops that depend on their facebook page

1:05:56

To be able to promote you know advertise their flower business

1:06:00

No, they're they're they're reduced to the inhuman disinformation actors from

1:06:04

spreading messaging online

1:06:07

So the efforts being made to inform advertisers of the risk such as the threat

1:06:11

to brand safety. So this is usaid saying

1:06:13

We got to talk to these advertisers and say hey, you know

1:06:17

Brand safety is really important to all your little all your brands

1:06:20

It would be a shame if you were known for putting ads next to misinformation

1:06:25

websites like daily wire and the federalist

1:06:27

And that goes on to say additionally with this data

1:06:30

Organizations and these are partner organizations this group steps runs you

1:06:35

know is together with usaid and

1:06:37

And uh in the state for their run network of hundreds of ngos around the world

1:06:40

that all jointly

1:06:41

Carry this out. This is what they're sponsored to do says the aim is to

1:06:46

redirect funding

1:06:48

To higher quality news domains and improve regulatory and market environments

1:06:52

regulatory means laws laws laws laws about this like the eu digital services

1:06:56

act

1:06:56

Redirect so this is a top-down us government plan to financially re-engineer

1:07:04

the entire economics

1:07:06

of

1:07:07

The news industry

1:07:10

In order to make it so that if you spread messaging against the state or

1:07:14

against a sensitive policy issue by the state

1:07:16

You are put out of business. You cannot professionalize you can't compete with

1:07:21

cnn or new york times or msnbc

1:07:23

You just like this is what happened to breitbart for example, and they got

1:07:26

caught up in this web

1:07:26

They lost 99 of their advertising revenue. They were going up like this and

1:07:30

however you feel about breitbart

1:07:31

This is these are the these are the plain facts of this in action

1:07:34

They were a rising star in the 2016 election steve bannon who was you know the

1:07:38

head of that went on to be the basically the top white house advisor directly

1:07:43

They got crushed when ninety nine percent of their ad revenue they this is why

1:07:47

everyone's having to switch

1:07:47

To bilking their our own citizens to pay for it because the natural thing

1:07:52

advertisers would want to do

1:07:53

A return on investment for putting ads, you know on on news sites or social

1:07:58

media

1:07:58

They can't do because they're getting pressure from the government

1:08:02

And so now look at the bottom now. I don't have this but any members of

1:08:06

congress or doge or uh

1:08:08

Or house or senate oversight or white house office of science and technology

1:08:13

policy. I implore you

1:08:14

A few ample examples of advertiser outreach are included in annex 3. I don't

1:08:20

have that annex

1:08:21

It's not it's not available. Uh, you know from uh from on the usa website that

1:08:25

I that I download this from before it went down

1:08:29

The usaid is giving out examples of advertiser outreach how to pressure them in

1:08:33

order to do this

1:08:34

And there's much more there if you go to the next slide for example

1:08:37

You'll see this is uh, this is they have whole categories of what usaid wants

1:08:43

Uh media companies to do wants wants regulatory bodies to do

1:08:48

Wants uh all of its other whole society partners do but here's just the first

1:08:52

two entries from this

1:08:52

What can technology companies do so this is usaid telling facebook twitter

1:08:57

youtube

1:08:58

Uh tick tock reddit twitch

1:09:01

Eliminate the financial incentives nuke their ad nuke their ad revenue if if uh

1:09:07

if we don't like what they say

1:09:08

What could national governments do again?

1:09:10

This is our government funded by our tax dollars

1:09:14

Telling foreign governments that they should regulate ad networks to kill the

1:09:19

ad revenue

1:09:20

of

1:09:28

Advertiser database at state and usaid under the biden administration

1:09:31

And and there's a million more examples like this but but if you want to go to

1:09:36

a really crazy one

1:09:36

There's a youtube video that is is still live. It's uh, it's it's by globsec

1:09:42

Actually before before I turn to that do you mind if am I going no go okay

1:09:46

I text before we're going to go to this 2000 may 2017 globsec video

1:09:51

But before I do that jamie I texted you an image

1:09:53

Of um of a piece that that uh my foundation just published

1:09:58

If you um it says 23 eu organizations drive eu censorship law

1:10:05

Uh, if you uh, yeah, if you scroll scroll up or or actually if you scroll down

1:10:11

um

1:10:14

Oh, you know, actually maybe I didn't text you so it's at the top my x feed

1:10:17

right now

1:10:18

And you'll you'll see it's uh, it might be like the fifth or sixth one down,

1:10:21

but um, you know, just

1:10:23

Down a little bit. Okay. Okay, right there. Okay, so um, so oh, sorry

1:10:28

No, the it's both the one above and below that so before we get to the one

1:10:31

above that

1:10:32

Let's go to the one right below that

1:10:34

I said one one more below that

1:10:36

One more one more one more one more one more one more one more it's it's that

1:10:39

one. It's it's yeah

1:10:40

See those four screenshots

1:10:42

Yeah, so so we just reported this

1:10:44

This is 23 us funded organizations who are all signatories

1:10:49

Or implementers signatories to the eu's code of practice on disinformation

1:10:54

Which if us tech companies don't comply with what the eu a foreign body calls

1:10:58

disinformation

1:10:59

The penalties for that are losing six percent of us social media companies

1:11:04

global annual revenue

1:11:06

Or get kicked out of the entire eu market, which is 550 million people

1:11:10

So, you know, we go through this you know in this in this here, uh, but if you

1:11:15

So not only are they the signatories to it?

1:11:18

Uh, you who you basically helped craft this thing and put the u.s government

1:11:24

stamp on this

1:11:25

Uh, but if you if you go to if you'll see they're also the implementers

1:11:28

They're the ones who are helping define disinformation in the eu that targets

1:11:32

U.s social media companies and u.s news websites

1:11:35

So go to the fourth one go to the fourth the fourth thing right here

1:11:37

Now this uh, my foundation just reported as well

1:11:41

We got access to a a white house

1:11:44

Interagency working group for for

1:11:48

Information integrity this is one of these censorship weasel weasel phrases weasel

1:11:52

words

1:11:53

Information integrity is what you just saw in that usa document about hike

1:11:57

redirecting ad revenue from high quality

1:12:00

High quality news outlets to low quality news outlets

1:12:02

They make that determination by determining high integrity news and low

1:12:06

integrity news

1:12:07

So basically if they like you they call you high integrity if they don't like

1:12:11

you or you're publishing a scandal or you say

1:12:13

Hey, the covet vaccines might have some problems with them. Uh, hey, there

1:12:16

might be some issues with you know

1:12:18

What happened in the 2020 election? Hey, uh, you know

1:12:21

What's happening with our ukraine aid low information integrity? So this phrase

1:12:25

information integrity?

1:12:26

Is is one of these evolving sets of weasel phrases in order to do internet

1:12:31

censorship while making it look like the

1:12:34

It's just an intervention to help you we're making the information integrity

1:12:37

ecosystem

1:12:38

You know, uh better so that we have a healthier information environment

1:12:42

Well, this is directly from the this was centrally coordinated from the white

1:12:45

house

1:12:46

This working group has 26 us government agencies and programs participating in

1:12:52

it. They're partnered with 14 outside

1:12:54

Universities as well as a whole row of private sector firms

1:12:59

Usaid is one of those by the way usaid is a contributor to this in the biden

1:13:03

administration

1:13:03

This is this started in december 2021 really got the wheels turning in december

1:13:08

2022

1:13:08

But this is from the white house office of science and technology policy itself

1:13:13

Where where it's someone from white house the other co-chairs are from odni the

1:13:17

director of national intelligence the job that

1:13:20

Tulsi gabbard is currently uh, you know campaigning for uh, uh,

1:13:23

DARPA, you know, the the pentagon's brain

1:13:28

As well as the national science foundation, which is the civilian arm that that

1:13:31

funds all the censorship work

1:13:32

But here you have from the joe biden white house itself

1:13:35

engagement with international partners

1:13:38

That this this is three years ago

1:13:41

Uh

1:13:43

Before you know before this thing even really kicked in in in in the way that

1:13:48

it now is

1:13:48

Engaging with our international partners outside the the united states on our

1:13:53

censorship efforts

1:13:54

Assessing establishing a partnership with the european union

1:13:58

To provide us researchers now. That's their cover word. That's the big lie word

1:14:03

of all of this. You know these it's operations

1:14:05

But they call them researchers to make it look passive rather than active

1:14:09

And I can go through a million examples of that to show how deep that lie goes

1:14:12

with access to social media data

1:14:14

accessible under the 2022

1:14:16

eu code of practice on disinformation

1:14:18

Every single one of these researchers is connected to the blob whether directly

1:14:23

or indirectly

1:14:23

They're either a part of organizations that are sponsored by us aid the state

1:14:27

department the defense department

1:14:28

Whether transatlantic networks in in the uk like the uk foreign office or they

1:14:34

are indirectly part or they're partnered with one who is

1:14:37

Every single one of these they don't just like researchers they got to be credent

1:14:41

they got to be accredited they got to be credentialed

1:14:43

They got to be vetted in fact a lot of these these internal documents talk

1:14:46

about how

1:14:46

You know only basically the the trusted in inside web should be able to get

1:14:50

access to this

1:14:51

But what they're saying is the us government can't pry that out of facebook's

1:14:54

hands

1:14:54

We have a first amendment we can't we can't make them subject to a code of

1:14:59

practice on disinformation

1:15:00

There is no legislative bill that'll pass congress that will force them to give

1:15:05

over that will force

1:15:06

Facebook to give over the you know the the private messages and all the you

1:15:11

know internal algorithm and spread of information to a random

1:15:16

us university like uh, you know

1:15:19

You know pick your poison the university of washington

1:15:24

Or or the university of stanford to a random university that everything you

1:15:28

thought was safe and secure on the platform

1:15:30

It's not is now being given to a

1:15:32

private

1:15:34

You know university because it was crowbarred out of your out of your out of

1:15:38

the platform's arms by the government

1:15:40

This is the sort of thing the nsa does when the nsa has you know uh secret warrants

1:15:45

forcing facebook

1:15:46

To uh compel you know private information about the platform for the fbi and

1:15:52

you know when they're doing a

1:15:53

An investigation or the nsa when they're doing a national security one

1:15:57

This is doing it for private actors and

1:16:01

They're using foreign governments to crowbar us companies because

1:16:06

We in their eyes are unfortunately bound by the first amendment

1:16:10

There's a lot more there, but I can I can pause jesus christ

1:16:13

It's so amazing how

1:16:16

Thorough it is like the the people that want to think the government is

1:16:20

completely inept

1:16:21

And the conspiracies aren't likely because people are not motivated and not

1:16:26

very good at their jobs

1:16:27

Like the people same people that want to say the government is terrible

1:16:30

They're it's filled with bloat. They don't know what they're not capable

1:16:34

of

1:16:35

Pulling off something

1:16:37

To this with this depth

1:16:39

So when you see it when you actually see it laid out and the mechanism in which

1:16:43

it was done through ngos and through these other

1:16:45

Non-government organizations

1:16:47

It's kind of astonishing it's it's kind of impressive

1:16:50

Oh, it is and you see how it all synchronizes

1:16:53

Just like wisners worlitzer did in you know from 1948 through you know the 1970s

1:17:01

when form

1:17:01

You know formally it was supposed to have stopped but just

1:17:03

That's why I say when it's too dirty for the cia. You give it to us aid

1:17:07

Uh, you know the cia used to do this work

1:17:10

Uh under covert action, but usaid has a couple of cute tricks that make it the

1:17:15

the

1:17:16

The central warehouse for all this and this is why

1:17:18

You know when we started this conversation

1:17:20

I was saying, you know, you ain't seen nothing yet

1:17:23

This thing is going to get so deep and it's going to connect to so many

1:17:26

institutions that everybody thought

1:17:28

You know, like like in the truman show they thought it was their best friend

1:17:32

You know, they thought this thing was totally independent and these were

1:17:35

authentic conversations

1:17:36

You're having with the cashier and it turns out oops, okay

1:17:38

Actually, you're a part of this, you know, usaid sponsor network or the state

1:17:42

or dod or or intel sponsor network because

1:17:44

this is fundamentally covert action that's being done and when

1:17:49

When the when the cia

1:17:52

The cia subject to restrictions on the kind of covert activity it can do every

1:17:55

covert action the cia does which is our

1:17:58

Organ for organized political warfare, you know, george kennan himself as well

1:18:03

as william casey and colby and

1:18:05

Everyone the express purpose of it was to carry out the subversive side of the

1:18:10

political struggle

1:18:11

You know, uh in so that we'd have a mechanism for influencing

1:18:14

uh foreign, you know, the

1:18:17

foreign affairs by creating an internal what what looks to be an organic

1:18:21

you know, uh

1:18:24

Grassroots authentic

1:18:26

Network within the country, but we're actually funding and directing their

1:18:29

actions their actions to be favorable to us interest

1:18:32

but

1:18:34

where i'm going with this is

1:18:36

usaid

1:18:37

is

1:18:38

has

1:18:39

most of the worst scandals

1:18:41

uh

1:18:42

of us statecraft

1:18:44

And covert action in the past two decades have actually been from usa rather

1:18:47

than ci and there's there's a reason for this so

1:18:50

after the

1:18:52

big scandals against the democrats and and and liberals and anti-war groups in

1:18:56

the in the 60s and 70s reforms were put in place

1:18:58

Every co and and and some of this goes back to the forage itself

1:19:02

But every covert action the cia does has to be has to be authorized by the

1:19:07

president and what's called the presidential finding to take that covert action

1:19:11

So if this if the cia senior leadership or a were just a rogue cell

1:19:17

that's not even at the top of leadership, but just a

1:19:19

A rogue desk a rogue portfolio portfolio a rogue network

1:19:23

Wants to run a covert action in a region, but they don't think the president

1:19:27

will approve

1:19:28

Or the president doesn't want to formally sign off on it in case it goes it

1:19:32

goes wrong

1:19:34

They can walk right over to us aid who can do the exact same thing the cia does

1:19:38

Except they can call it discrete democracy promotion because it's not

1:19:43

technically an intelligence agency

1:19:44

So it's not technically covert action. So it doesn't require

1:19:48

executive branch approval

1:19:51

Or for knowledge and they've gotten in trouble on in these cases in some pretty

1:19:56

incredible ways can can I show that please so

1:20:00

Let's start with with even the whitewashed version go to the wikipedia of zunzenio

1:20:04

z-u-n

1:20:05

z-e-n-e-o

1:20:08

Just on the wikipedia and then we can go deeper on this if you want

1:20:12

This was a scandal uh during obama the obama usaid

1:20:17

Uh era now we were running a number of of rogue usaid operations in cuba at the

1:20:23

time by the way

1:20:24

I have to say for the record i'm no fan of the cuban government

1:20:27

I

1:20:28

I'm and i'm not even weighing in on whether it's the right or wrong thing to do

1:20:32

You know in terms of regime change there or you know

1:20:36

Liberating people there from autocratic excess by that government. I'm simply

1:20:40

showing the american people

1:20:42

Where your tax dollars are going

1:20:44

And how these things are structured in order to systematically fool you

1:20:48

And to fool congress and to fool the white house

1:20:52

so for example, so this is

1:20:54

This is and i'll show a couple other things in a second here

1:20:56

But it so this is zunzenio if you have to just scroll for a second

1:21:00

We'll start with this right so it was an online social media just scroll up one

1:21:03

second

1:21:04

We'll start at the top here

1:21:05

It was an online social social networking microblogging service created by usaid

1:21:09

and marketed to cuban users

1:21:11

This was a a twitter knockoff see the background of this is

1:21:14

This is uh, 2009 2014 that period the state department and usaid were gangbusters

1:21:21

gung-ho on the promise of

1:21:24

Arab spring style social media revolutions to topple other governments

1:21:29

You know that the arab spring was a facebook revolution and a twitter

1:21:31

revolution

1:21:32

Usaid pumped 1.2 billion dollars in you know, and we we sponsored these

1:21:37

activist groups and these civil society organizations to learn how to use

1:21:40

facebook

1:21:40

learn how to use twitter learn how to use

1:21:43

hashtags learn how to

1:21:46

Coordinate street protests so that everyone knows where to go what street to

1:21:50

show up on you know, what kind of

1:21:52

Slogans to you know to to use in order to create the pro-democracy

1:21:56

You know predicate for it, but the problem was at the time cuba did not allow

1:22:00

us social media in so they said hmm

1:22:02

So they're not allowing twitter in

1:22:05

How can we get a twitter there but without calling it twitter without making it

1:22:10

look like it's coming from the us?

1:22:12

So what they did is they took the exact same thing as twitter same user

1:22:16

interface same like and retweet button

1:22:19

Zunzunio uh is uh is the cuban slang word for for hummingbird so just it means

1:22:24

it's bird it was the twitter bird the whole thing

1:22:27

um, but the whole trick about it was you have to

1:22:31

Make it look like it's coming from the cubans if you're going to do this

1:22:35

operation. So what you'll see is

1:22:36

um

1:22:38

It began running. So this is 2010. This is right, you know during the arab

1:22:42

spring

1:22:42

And what you'll see is they took funds millions of dollars of funds that were

1:22:47

concealed

1:22:48

As humanitarian funds designated for pakistan

1:22:52

now, I don't know if

1:22:54

Joe or the audience if you've looked at a map lately, but

1:22:57

pakistan is not exactly the next-door neighbor of cuba

1:23:00

Right, so and this is the this is the wikipedia whitewashing and we can get

1:23:05

into the deeper layers of this but

1:23:06

Contractors funded by usaid I should note the main contractor was creative

1:23:11

associates international who's a frequent one. It's cai cai not cia

1:23:15

I promise

1:23:17

So they they concealed in the budget from

1:23:20

Senate from congress from the white house national security council

1:23:24

They said that that these were humanitarian funds for pakistan

1:23:29

And then they ran that to their contractor cai

1:23:33

uh

1:23:34

To quote set up a byzantine system of front companies using cayman islands bank

1:23:39

accounts and recruiting

1:23:40

unsuspecting business executives who would not be told of the company's ties to

1:23:44

the u.s government

1:23:44

according to the ap the private companies like creative associates

1:23:48

international uh designed the network the idea

1:23:51

Arose after uh, they were given 500 000 stolen cuban cell phones that were

1:23:56

available on the black market

1:23:57

um

1:23:59

and then what you'll see if you scroll down is uh, okay the network dubbed the

1:24:03

the cuban twitter reached about 60 000 cuban

1:24:06

subscribers

1:24:06

The initiative appears to also have had a surveillance dimension allowing a

1:24:10

quote vast database of cubans and eo subscribers

1:24:13

including gender age and receptiveness and political tendencies to be built

1:24:17

With the associated press noting such data would could be used in future for

1:24:21

political purposes

1:24:21

By the way, these are all in quotes from the internal documents and we can go

1:24:24

through that

1:24:25

The data would then be used for micro targeting efforts towards anti and pro

1:24:28

government users in cuba

1:24:30

The developers aim to at first used non-controversial content such as sports

1:24:35

and music and hurricane updates

1:24:36

By the way, they they used hurricane updates in the internal things, you know

1:24:40

Basically a humanitarian front that if you sign up to this app

1:24:43

You'll you'll know about natural disasters in the area meanwhile. What was the

1:24:47

plan the whole time?

1:24:47

Once they built up enough subscribers, they would begin to introduce political

1:24:51

messages through social bots and encourage dissent

1:24:54

Uh in this in this astroturfing

1:24:57

There's a great guardian write-up on this if you if you go to guardians and zineo

1:25:00

so you can see see how crazy just type in

1:25:02

zineo smart mob

1:25:05

guardian

1:25:07

You'll see the internal files

1:25:09

Explicitly said we're going to lure them in with music sports and hurricane

1:25:13

updates

1:25:13

You have to join you have to join

1:25:16

You know, uh this you know twitter and cuba if you want

1:25:19

You know to be relevant in the culture and see what's trending in sports and

1:25:22

music if you want to be safe in your homes

1:25:24

If you want to know where hurricanes are going

1:25:26

Twitter you know cuban twitter, uh is the the fastest place to get this it's

1:25:31

Humanitarian work for you know, that's we're saving lives by doing this

1:25:37

But the whole point is once they hit a critical mass

1:25:39

They would create rental riots

1:25:41

And and they would use this the same way they used it in egypt and tunisia to

1:25:44

topple those governments under the obama administration

1:25:47

they would organize smart mobs rental riots and if uh

1:25:50

And if you if you scroll down there's some you know, this this is a fantastic

1:25:55

article highly recommend

1:25:56

Uh, there's a lot more there, but but okay stop right there scroll up a little

1:25:59

bit

1:26:00

Okay

1:26:01

Documents show the u.s government plan to build a subscriber base through non-controversial

1:26:05

news content news messages on soccer music and hurricane updates

1:26:08

This is in the guardian

1:26:11

Later when the network reached a critical mass perhaps hundreds of thousands

1:26:14

operators would introduce political content aimed at inspiring cubans to

1:26:18

organize quote

1:26:19

smart mobs

1:26:20

Mass gatherings called at a moment's notice that might trigger a cuban spring

1:26:25

or as one usa document put it quote

1:26:27

renegotiate the balance of power between state and society and

1:26:32

you know

1:26:33

so

1:26:35

One more thing if you want to look up on this you see how that how they conceal

1:26:37

it if you just type in

1:26:38

usaid zunzineo and the word and uh discrete

1:26:42

Or or discrete action and you'll see how usaid when when this scandal popped

1:26:47

off

1:26:47

Everyone said what the hell?

1:26:49

How did this happen? Uh, this is classic cia work?

1:26:53

You're using cayman islands bank accounts. You're saying it's you're earmarking

1:26:57

it for pakistan you know pakistani aid

1:26:58

This has clear implications for us statecraft if this gets busted. This is what

1:27:03

the c is why we task the cia to do this

1:27:05

plausible deniability

1:27:08

If something has diplomatic blowback and we don't want us fingerprints on it

1:27:11

We need a formal intelligence agency because there's diplomatic blowback if

1:27:15

U.S. Fingerprints are revealed. So, uh, no, yeah, uh, just discrete. Um, uh,

1:27:20

yeah

1:27:21

Yeah, like discrete. Uh, let's see if you scroll down. Um

1:27:25

That third one might do but if you scroll down

1:27:28

Uh, buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh if you you put discrete discrete action

1:27:34

It may be put discrete action or discrete covert and action

1:27:41

I believe there's a huff po one on this that's yeah, there you go. Yeah

1:27:45

When is covert action not covert when it's discrete?

1:27:48

U.S. AIDS

1:27:49

So basically

1:27:51

When this and if you scroll down to the bottom of this you'll see if you just

1:27:54

control that for the word senate

1:27:56

you'll see

1:27:58

Last week

1:27:59

Elon musk held an x-space directly with senator joni ernst

1:28:02

Who has been on this crusade to reform us aid accesses and there's a really

1:28:07

scandalous moment there where senator ernst revealed

1:28:10

That she was actually threatened by usaid when she tried to get insight into

1:28:13

what they were actually doing

1:28:14

well

1:28:16

Uh, if if you actually scroll down if you just do the next the next one

1:28:21

basically what usaid said is well

1:28:22

It's discrete democracy promotion. So it's uh, you know, we don't need a

1:28:26

presidential finding for it

1:28:27

Um, uh, okay, maybe this is not there

1:28:31

But basically if if if you control after the word staff that might help it too,

1:28:35

but um

1:28:36

Everyone can look this up independently all this stuff. Uh, okay. Is that the

1:28:39

only okay?

1:28:40

Maybe it's a different article

1:28:42

But basically senate staffers and everyone go on youtube. This is there was a

1:28:45

formal hearing on this to for oversight what happened

1:28:47

and what the staffers said is

1:28:50

This is the staffers on the senate foreign relations committee

1:28:53

Which is supposed to be the thing that reigns in that gives the american people

1:28:56

oversight and accountability for usa gone rogue

1:29:00

And what what this what the senate staffers overseeing usa said is we had no

1:29:05

visibility on this entire operation the entire time

1:29:07

Because usa told us if they had to if they had to tell us what we were doing

1:29:12

people could die

1:29:14

This is classic cia stuff

1:29:16

But this the senate was blocked and I should note again when it's too dirty for

1:29:20

the cia you give it to usaid

1:29:21

This is why these drug operations and these terrorist operations run primarily

1:29:26

through usaid rather than directly at the cia

1:29:29

The inspector general, um, just just two weeks ago put out a report

1:29:33

The first time this has been publicly reported there's been inspector general

1:29:36

at usaid practically from the day it was born it's supposed to be

1:29:40

This is what joni ernst was complaining about senator joni ernst was

1:29:42

complaining about which was that

1:29:44

How how can they get away with this and it's because of the inspector general

1:29:47

who's supposed to hold the agency to account from from the inside

1:29:50

But it's an independent agency. So there's limited oversight from the outside

1:29:53

if you have a rogue inspector general

1:29:54

They keep the whole op in-house don't need to tell the executive branch. Don't

1:29:58

you tell the senate congress?

1:29:59

Run it just like an ali north iran contra style self-sustained standalone off-the-shelf

1:30:05

private enterprise to run covert action on taxpayer dime

1:30:09

But uh, not have it go through the formal approval channels. Well, so basically

1:30:14

You know what what they were doing here in um, you know in

1:30:19

What what the oig report the inspector general report just published and ever

1:30:23

the best article on this and with the the link to it

1:30:26

Is john solomon's just the news?

1:30:27

You know published this a write-up on it as well as the source document from

1:30:32

from the oig's office

1:30:33

We're just now learning this

1:30:35

two weeks ago

1:30:36

Despite them them doing this activity for 30 years it turns out there's a there's

1:30:40

a get out of

1:30:41

Get out of sponsoring terrorism free card at usaid

1:30:46

Which is that usaid cannot directly provide funding to terrorist groups

1:30:51

But their contractors are not required

1:30:55

Under the grant agreements to go through those you know ofac style those

1:31:00

counterterrorism financing if a bank did it

1:31:02

You would go directly to jail. Uh, do not pass go. Uh, you know

1:31:06

Do not have liberty again for the next 20 years of your life

1:31:09

But if usa does it it's completely legal right now

1:31:14

And so this is how you have usaid giving you know, they just last week 122

1:31:18

million dollars to isis. You know, we found

1:31:20

Uh, you know, they they fund all the terrorist groups in pakistan

1:31:23

They fund the you know the terrorist groups in the in the sahel in africa for

1:31:27

what purpose

1:31:28

paramilitary terrorist groups

1:31:31

are

1:31:33

extremely useful to us statecraft as

1:31:36

For for dod special operations work as well as for political destabilization

1:31:41

work. I'll give you a great example

1:31:42

We'll we'll we'll stay in pakistan

1:31:44

osama bin laden um a uh

1:31:49

Peaceful, uh, what uh, what was it? Um

1:31:52

Yeah, a warrior on the road to peace. I remember the puff pieces about osama

1:31:57

bin laden before uh before

1:31:58

The mujahideen the mujahideen

1:32:01

Here's a great clip. Can you find the clip of zbigniew brzezinski? I believe

1:32:06

this is around like 1789

1:32:08

Um air dropping out of a helicopter

1:32:11

1989 no 79, I believe it was uh, yeah, um

1:32:15

It's a big if you type in zbigniew brzezinski

1:32:18

That's going to be a a wallop one to spell live, but um if you just use a big

1:32:23

new

1:32:23

um

1:32:25

Brzezinski you can go to youtube

1:32:27

And uh, you know type in you know mujahideen

1:32:30

um

1:32:32

And you'll watch him airdrop out of the helicopter and make the exact same

1:32:35

speech

1:32:36

That john mccain made to the azov battalion the you know the extremist

1:32:41

Paramilitary faction of ukraine that was banned from getting federal funding

1:32:45

Uh, you know in uh, 2014 when the democrats said they're all nazis

1:32:48

But now they're all you know sponsored and get uh standing ovations from in the

1:32:52

halls of congress because now they are

1:32:54

Geopolitically useful, uh to pump up to capacity build so you go so so you go

1:32:59

U.S. National Security Advisor brzezinski flew to pakistan to set about rallying

1:33:06

resistance

1:33:07

He wanted to arm the mujahideen without revealing america's role

1:33:13

On the afghan border near the khyber pass he urged the soldiers of god to redouble

1:33:17

their efforts. Can you pause for a sec?

1:33:19

Notice how he said he wanted to arm the mujahideen without revealing america's

1:33:24

role role, okay?

1:33:26

The whole point was to pump up this, you know

1:33:29

fundamentalist extremist terrorist group

1:33:34

With the funding and support they need but without revealing america's role

1:33:39

hello us aid that's the function today, but but

1:33:42

We keep keep on it

1:33:44

Of their deep belief in god

1:33:46

We are confident that their struggle will succeed

1:33:50

You know that land over there is yours

1:33:57

You'll go back to it one day

1:34:00

Because your fight will prevail and you'll have your homes and your mosques

1:34:05

back again because your cause is right and god is on your side

1:34:11

That land is yours go out there and take it. We'll give you the money now

1:34:16

Jamie if you can pull up one thing and i'm gonna just talk a little bit more

1:34:19

about this case while you're while you're pulling this up

1:34:21

You can find this I believe on my on my x feed i've posted this clip

1:34:25

But you could also find it searching either x or youtube of john mccain

1:34:29

And I believe he was with lindsey graham making that exact same speech using

1:34:34

the same language

1:34:35

In I believe it was 2016 or 24. I believe is 2016 around then to the as off

1:34:42

battalion folks in ukraine and to the you know to the paramilitaries

1:34:46

It's almost it's almost word for word. Um, you know, this was

1:34:52

But let me let me stick on the mujahideen thing for a second because this gets

1:34:55

back to this fundamental structuring

1:34:57

Why usaid is allowed to is tasked with this, you know, there's a bigger budget

1:35:01

than the cia usa does it capacity builds the assets that cia liaises with

1:35:05

But if the assets aren't there cia has no one to tell what what to do

1:35:09

Yeah, they've none of their you know agents on the ground or

1:35:12

You know case officers can build an action plan unless there are assets on the

1:35:16

ground that have money that have training

1:35:18

That have food that have shelter and us aid steps in to build

1:35:22

To put the chess pieces on the board that that the cia can you know can play

1:35:29

with

1:35:29

Interestingly I should note that the you know

1:35:32

The cia gets a copy of every grant that the national endowment for democracy

1:35:35

makes this was published in the new york times

1:35:37

And in a piece called, uh, you know global uh missionaries for global pluralism

1:35:42

about usaids top operational arm ned

1:35:44

um

1:35:46

but but uh the point i'm getting at here is

1:35:48

Why were we funding terrorists in the 1970s and 80s well according to our

1:35:54

national security advisor?

1:35:56

He's a big new brzezinski the grand chessboard, you know this you know

1:35:59

celebrated uh

1:36:01

apex predator of american statecraft

1:36:06

You know, I think he hit a quote that was something like well, you know arm it

1:36:10

what is arming a few, you know islamic fundamentalists

1:36:12

Matter uh, when weighed against the history

1:36:15

Of america winning the cold war you know that this fundamentally destabilized

1:36:19

and bogged the soviet union down

1:36:21

Um, you know, this was extremely effective. But also how do we fund the mujahideen?

1:36:25

Well, the mujahideen is in

1:36:27

Afghanistan they were before they became al-qaeda and isis

1:36:32

Um, what asset does afghanistan have to play with in order to fund its uh, its

1:36:39

war network?

1:36:40

It's paramilitary network. Well, it's the drug network. They happen to sit on

1:36:44

the uh, you know

1:36:45

Basically, the poppy fields that uh, when exploited comprise 95 of the world's

1:36:50

heroin if you export that

1:36:52

And so the cia backed

1:36:55

State department usaid backed and we can go through receipts of usaid doing the

1:37:00

same, you know

1:37:01

Drugs for cash for guns work in the 1960s

1:37:04

practically from the day it was born

1:37:06

But uh, what they were doing is they were taking those poppy harvests and then

1:37:12

they were depositing them in cia proprietary banks

1:37:14

Like the like bcci the bank of credit and commerce international

1:37:18

Everyone can look this up or if you want to plug in cia bcci and look at all

1:37:22

the mainstream media report on this

1:37:24

It was a major major major scandal

1:37:26

Um, you know big become one of the world's largest banks and it was basically a

1:37:31

cia

1:37:31

front uh, and it was a you know pakistani frontman for this and it was

1:37:36

Converting effectively washing the proceeds of these drugs so that they could

1:37:41

be per so that the mujahideen could buy arms

1:37:43

And while the you know, the pakistani militants were being

1:37:46

You know funded and trained in pakistan and then they you know go to afghanistan

1:37:52

and

1:37:52

Conduct military operations against uh, you know against

1:37:58

Uh, you know against the russians who were our stated cold war enemy the same

1:38:03

thing's happening today though

1:38:04

If you go on my x feed right now, i'm going to show you something related to

1:38:07

this and how this still goes on today

1:38:09

usaid has been busted multiple times

1:38:12

For actually cultivating the poppy and heroin production in

1:38:17

Uh in afghanistan exactly in afghanistan. Uh, this was this was actually the

1:38:22

inspector. You know, there was a

1:38:23

It is one of the one of the adjacent units not I don't think it was directly

1:38:27

overseeing seeing usa, but they published a whole report on this that

1:38:30

Basically usaid, you know was

1:38:33

Keeping the poppy production alive

1:38:35

By doing you know what was said to be

1:38:38

You know irrigation and you know agricultural sustainability

1:38:43

Uh, but targeting it in the in the in the heroin network and this by the way

1:38:48

remember the taliban banned

1:38:49

uh banned poppy production

1:38:51

Uh, and it was after that ban that afghanistan became the source of 95 of the

1:38:57

world's heroin

1:38:57

So usa was growing those crops now

1:39:01

Okay, you can argue well. Hey, maybe it was an accident. Maybe they went rogue

1:39:05

I want to show you something now from an adjacent usa network group which is

1:39:10

Funded on under sent by the us government created by an active congress

1:39:14

If you if you go to my my ex account right now and you type in

1:39:18

Us institute for peace or you just put in institute

1:39:23

peace

1:39:25

You'll you'll see this

1:39:27

This organization gets 56 million dollars a year from us taxpayers its office

1:39:34

is right next to the

1:39:36

U.s. State department. I literally walk by it

1:39:38

Um, it is a so it's funded by the government

1:39:42

It's it's accountable to the government. It's you know accountable to the you

1:39:46

know, the the house

1:39:47

House and senate, you know, uh foreign affairs foreign relations

1:39:51

Uh, it gets all of its money as a pass-through from the u.s. State department.

1:39:54

Yeah, type in it. Yeah, it's yeah

1:39:55

There you go go scroll scroll down scroll down that one that one right there

1:39:58

right there taliban's successful opium ban

1:40:00

so this is

1:40:02

100 top to bottom a direct organ of the u.s. Government, okay, uh click that

1:40:09

click that

1:40:09

there you go

1:40:11

Okay, this how band successful opium ban is bad for afghans and the world

1:40:17

The ban is not counter narcotics victory and will have negative economic and

1:40:22

humanitarian consequences potentially leading to a refugee crisis

1:40:26

How could they say it's not a counter narcotics victory look and look at the

1:40:29

date?

1:40:30

2020 this ain't ancient history. This is less than two years ago

1:40:34

That's great. This is the state department saying

1:40:37

Yeah, listen

1:40:40

95% of the world's heroin, uh, you know keeps it flows from here

1:40:43

Keep the heroin flowing. It would be an economic disaster. Well, what do you

1:40:48

think those drug money?

1:40:49

What what paramilitary networks, you know, you hear about all these terrorist

1:40:54

networks that uh, you know, like

1:40:55

Think about what just happened in syria with isis

1:40:58

uh

1:41:00

Everyone well actually before I go to that

1:41:02

Let's let's get back to isis and the difference between the isis foreign policy

1:41:06

for the obama biden world and trump

1:41:07

I'm gonna connect this but uh, wait, can you pull that back up jamie for a

1:41:10

second?

1:41:11

I just want everyone to see it don't look away stare straight into the sun go

1:41:14

to the next next receipt here

1:41:16

There you go

1:41:19

2024 budget and brief

1:41:21

u.s institute of peace seeking 20 56 million dollars from u.s taxpayers

1:41:26

To promote global peace and security don't you know by keeping the 95 of the

1:41:31

world's heroin flowing

1:41:32

um

1:41:34

in accordance with its congressional mandate and then uh, you know

1:41:37

And then I think I have the next screenshot is just you know showing that they

1:41:40

give any examples of how it would promote peace to keep the

1:41:44

the opium flowing

1:41:47

Well, well because the way they're saying it it's like this orwellian speak

1:41:50

well, yeah

1:41:51

You always have to invert it right when they say peace. It's war

1:41:53

Right, so

1:41:55

So this is this is war for example

1:41:57

us institute of peace was doing the same thing with the albanian drug networks

1:42:00

that formed a

1:42:02

paramilitary fighting squad against the the the yugoslavian government as we

1:42:06

were overthrowing slovenom milosevic

1:42:07

I mean this stuff goes goes way back. I mean, this is created in 1984

1:42:11

somewhat thematic ironic, um, you know by congress

1:42:15

um, and again, this was a ronald reagan creation and why I come back to

1:42:19

You know that thing that just broke the uh, john bolton

1:42:23

uh hand grenade

1:42:26

The holy hand grenade of antioch from monty python. This is the uh, you know

1:42:30

nothing's

1:42:33

Nothing really gets to the heart of what usa truly is than the the image of

1:42:37

john bolton

1:42:38

um

1:42:39

proudly declaring that he was the head of policy and budget at usaid and his

1:42:44

farewell gift from the agency was a

1:42:46

golden hand grenade with his name carved on it

1:42:50

But you know what he said, you know in that in that piers morgan interview

1:42:54

Uh, and I don't know if you we could play it if you yeah, watch it off your

1:42:59

feed. Yeah

1:42:59

Uh, but you know what he said is listen. I said it also said proud reaganot

1:43:04

And this is why I come back to this we're fighting

1:43:06

a number of ghosts from our past here

1:43:09

We're you know, a lot of republicans are fine with fighting woodrow wilson's

1:43:13

ghost

1:43:14

He was the one who you know said make the world safe for democracy and gave us

1:43:17

this

1:43:17

Doctrinal blank check to do soft power

1:43:21

In infiltration work against every plot of dirt and every foreign citizen in

1:43:27

every foreign country on planet earth gives us

1:43:29

The blank check to be a global empire. Okay, a lot of people say okay, we're

1:43:33

gonna focus on us

1:43:34

You know, wilson's a bad guy. Okay, okay, but you're also fighting the ghost of

1:43:37

ronald reagan

1:43:38

You know, I should note that usaid is actually in its headquarters in dc's in

1:43:42

the ronald reagan building

1:43:43

uh usaid play and ronald reagan played

1:43:48

played the key role in fundamentally creating the

1:43:52

restructured

1:43:54

blob that we live under after the scandals of the 1970s that the cia was busted

1:43:59

in

1:43:59

church committee hearings heart attack gun

1:44:03

Mockingbird mk ultra, you know, the assassinations

1:44:07

All that stuff jimmy carter got into power

1:44:10

19, you know 76

1:44:13

Carried out the harshest destruction of cia operations capacity and funding

1:44:18

ever in american history

1:44:19

He laid off 30 of the entire cia operations division in a single day. That was

1:44:23

called the halloween massacre crippled their budget

1:44:26

Then the iran hostage situation pops off in you know 79

1:44:30

Then the national security state argues this wouldn't have happened unless the

1:44:35

cia had its old powers back

1:44:36

Democrats still hated the cia at that time because

1:44:40

It had been directly interfering in their own domestic politics and trying to

1:44:44

thwart

1:44:45

Factions of them just like they're doing today against the mega movement side

1:44:49

of the republican party. You know, the universal thump has been passed around

1:44:52

in that way

1:44:53

But so they couldn't get a legislative bill to do this. So what they did is

1:44:57

they they restructured the

1:45:00

The intelligence apparatus the covert action capacities and the way our statecraft

1:45:05

is done through usaid and the creation of the national down for democracy

1:45:09

To take the baton from what the cia used to do

1:45:13

But the whole point of it is is in tandem now

1:45:15

That's why you have these john bolton at usa. This is why you have liz cheney

1:45:20

at usaid

1:45:20

And this is what we're fighting against in as we're reforming

1:45:23

This is it's not really a partisan issue as I see it even though you know

1:45:26

statistics show there's disproportionate democrat beneficiaries, but

1:45:30

You know the real issue is the mega movement is fighting the the ghost of ronald

1:45:35

reagan past

1:45:36

The the reason republicans loved usaid john bolton types liz cheney types love

1:45:42

it is because

1:45:42

This was our muscle for us chamber of commerce multinational companies

1:45:47

to pad their profits

1:45:51

because exxon and mo exxon mobile how many you know how many hundreds of

1:45:55

billions in the aggregate

1:45:56

Has exxon mobile and chevron benefited from from us regime change efforts or us

1:46:01

pressure on foreign governments in order to give them access

1:46:04

To the petroleum in order to do partnerships with those governments. We saw

1:46:08

that just

1:46:08

You know a few years ago as we just went over with joe biden doing the same

1:46:12

thing for burisma

1:46:13

But so the big the big multinational businesses love this and it was sold as

1:46:19

trickle down economics

1:46:21

This is the the reaganite sort of reaganomics

1:46:23

And why it's attached to the hip with us aid and why this is something we need

1:46:27

to keep in mind as we reform

1:46:28

Is that the idea was is look

1:46:30

We do some dirty work abroad but at the end of the day that

1:46:34

Pads profits and revenue for us companies those us companies employ us

1:46:40

citizens and they build manufacturing plants in ohio and and in colorado and

1:46:46

new mexico and

1:46:47

That's what allows you to have 401ks. That's what allows you have discretionary

1:46:51

income

1:46:51

That's what allows you to afford higher education and houses and and a

1:46:55

retirement plan

1:46:56

The problem was is as globalization

1:46:59

Kept on a kept apace, you know through the 90s and 2000s

1:47:04

These same multinational corporations that the reaganite, you know trickle down

1:47:09

economics

1:47:11

Uh, you know use the blob to to to to support the chamber of commerce

1:47:15

They don't hire their labor here anymore. They don't have their manufacturing

1:47:20

facilities here anymore

1:47:21

You know, we're not the primary export market for this

1:47:24

So you have us state state department and usaid paying to help the corporate

1:47:30

welfare

1:47:30

of

1:47:32

nominally us-based companies

1:47:34

but the trickle it's it's all being kept within that secular blob of the you

1:47:40

know the thicket of

1:47:42

government officials

1:47:45

equity holders in these corporations

1:47:47

Foreign currency speculators, you know banking on the activity in the region

1:47:52

You know the the banks financial firms and and political insiders

1:47:56

And so it doesn't actually get down to the people anymore. So you do need to

1:48:00

restructure if you're going to keep using this

1:48:02

in order to qualify you have to have

1:48:05

a certain minimal threshold

1:48:08

of

1:48:09

Reinvestment in america, which i'm very happy that trump is doing by trying to

1:48:12

bring all this investment

1:48:14

You know, you saw with japan and other countries is trying to get them double

1:48:17

triple their commitments

1:48:18

We need to demand that of our of our own corporations if they want to have a

1:48:21

meeting with the secretary of state

1:48:23

Or the or the head of the central intelligence agency like pepsi did in the

1:48:26

1970s when we overthrew that if you want to go there

1:48:30

This is also this is it's so deep

1:48:34

That it makes you wonder is there enough time in four years to unravel this

1:48:39

stuff

1:48:40

Oh, no, not four years. This is this is a this is a 50-year project 50-year

1:48:45

project. Oh, yeah

1:48:47

There are many fractal layers to this reform process

1:48:53

Um, and every step of the way there are going to be layers of resistance. I don't

1:48:57

think

1:48:58

The the people who are look we should spike footballs. We should pop champagne.

1:49:03

We should do a touchdown dance on this

1:49:05

This is the first serious time in american history that the foreign policy

1:49:10

establishment has had to be accountable to the people who pay for it

1:49:13

Even the church committee

1:49:18

Didn't cause the entire shutdown of a federal agency didn't layoff. You know

1:49:23

remember I mentioned the uh

1:49:24

The halloween massacre jimmy carter 30 percent of the workforce laid off

1:49:27

Yeah, we'll try what just happened with usaid which employs

1:49:30

You know a lot more people than even the cia did you know at that time

1:49:33

99 99 percent went from 14 000 down to 290. This is in every way

1:49:41

metabolically operationally

1:49:43

um financially

1:49:45

The hardest blow the blob has ever had to suffer in terms of accountability

1:49:51

And it's only getting way deeper from here because he's only been in office for

1:49:56

a month

1:49:57

Yeah, well, that's why we have we need to create

1:50:00

a legacy in a pipeline of people to carry on these reforms, which is

1:50:06

part of my personal struggle here, which is that

1:50:09

Most people

1:50:12

99 percent of people who got involved with the mega movement did it because

1:50:15

they care about the domestic

1:50:17

They care about you know, we talked about this they they got because they're

1:50:20

there's their school curriculum is woke

1:50:22

Because the the the police allow crime, you know in the streets and you know,

1:50:26

you you know

1:50:27

The infrastructure is crumbling and there's corruption everywhere and no one's

1:50:30

held accountable

1:50:31

They don't think about pakistan. They don't think about bangladesh. They don't

1:50:35

think they don't they don't they don't think about

1:50:37

you know, uh

1:50:39

Who's on the us azerbaijan chamber of commerce and you know how if they're

1:50:43

living in louisiana or houston

1:50:45

or uh, you know

1:50:48

Oklahoma that actually their jobs at exxon mobil and chevron sort of depend on

1:50:52

these you know

1:50:53

This strong arm diplomacy that we have with

1:50:55

Persian gulf countries. They don't care about the persian gulf. They care about

1:51:00

local oklahoma

1:51:02

And but they have to now

1:51:05

In order to understand the world they live in in order to understand what's

1:51:09

what's driving the world around them in order to understand

1:51:12

The actual true face of the characters they thought they've known

1:51:16

They're going to have to become

1:51:18

International minded they're going to have to become versed in the interplay

1:51:22

between the domestic and the international

1:51:24

One of the problems when I started out this journey in 2016 is there was no

1:51:29

mega foreign policy intelligentsia

1:51:32

I could make all of these you know, I was I was traveling the country

1:51:36

Slideshow presentation after slideshow presentation talking to every human I

1:51:40

could

1:51:42

Even dc insiders in in you know, uh in in mag world

1:51:45

You'd show them all of this and they they didn't have a framework for

1:51:50

understanding it. They could they could see

1:51:52

That they could see that the information was true. They could see that this is

1:51:58

these are you know

1:51:58

Formal government documents. These are formal grant outlays to real

1:52:03

organizations run by real people with real names and addresses

1:52:07

It's you know, but

1:52:09

But they didn't on you'd have to explain the function of every single one of

1:52:14

those

1:52:14

You know, you'd have to explain for example that um

1:52:18

The pentagon does an awful lot more than kinetic military activity, you know,

1:52:23

for example when I draw this is this is what's coming next, right?

1:52:25

President trump

1:52:27

tasked

1:52:28

Elon musk was sick and the doge dogs on uh on the pentagon

1:52:33

And uh, you know depending on how you measure it

1:52:36

the size of waste fraud abuse of the pentagon ranges from

1:52:41

A couple hundred billion. They are the biggest, you know federal agency in all

1:52:45

this

1:52:45

They have 900 billion dollar budget compared to only 44 billion at us aid

1:52:49

And even less at cia. So they but you know, the this yahoo finance, you know

1:52:55

published this a couple years ago

1:52:56

35 trillion dollar black hole if you want to pull up that receipt on screen

1:53:00

just so

1:53:00

I don't look like i'm saying this directly myself, but just type in 35 trillion

1:53:05

pentagon black hole

1:53:08

That's larger than

1:53:10

You know the entire national debt just the amount of

1:53:13

Just a black hole in the size of the accounting budget of the pentagon

1:53:17

Over the years from its continual, uh, you know failing, you know, this is on

1:53:23

yahoo finance, you know, this is and this is what 2020 I think

1:53:26

you have

1:53:29

When america was born in 1789 in the first meeting of congress

1:53:34

There were only three agencies that were created in the beginning of time

1:53:37

Shall we say the first act of congress was to create the department of state

1:53:41

the department of treasury and the department of war

1:53:45

And the defense department is that is the department became the department of

1:53:49

war in 19

1:53:49

the power of war became the department of defense in 1948

1:53:52

What what people even now they're seeing these these usa scandals with funding

1:54:00

to the democrats or funding to some of these blob internationalist republicans

1:54:03

or

1:54:04

Funding these media institutions

1:54:06

You ain't see nothing yet when you get to the pentagon stuff because usaid

1:54:12

was

1:54:14

Created effectively in part to assist pentagon activity under humanitarian

1:54:20

front

1:54:21

And I talk about this a lot, but I feel the point is underappreciated

1:54:25

So this is sort of a good moment to go over it. Am I talking too much by the

1:54:27

way? No perfect. Okay

1:54:30

So everyone you know they say

1:54:31

You know jfk is a martyred figure you know and in the news uh again this week

1:54:38

obviously with uh, you know the

1:54:39

the new trove of documents and whatnot and trump's eo around uh, you know

1:54:44

the source of his assassination, but the fact that jfk created

1:54:49

um

1:54:50

uh created usaid by executive order in 1961 and he is

1:54:55

Known and loved as a is a martyred figure regardless of who in the end killed

1:55:00

him

1:55:00

um

1:55:01

has given a sort of public in in premature

1:55:04

on

1:55:05

usaid

1:55:07

As a or usaid as it used to be called and you know, uh, you know in order to

1:55:12

Try to

1:55:13

Make clear that it was not, uh, you know in aid organization, but

1:55:17

Um now now almost you know even that parlance has dropped off as they need to

1:55:22

defend it more and more, but

1:55:23

So they they think okay, you know jfk martyred deeply beloved figure. He

1:55:28

created usaid

1:55:28

It was sort of out of the kindness of his heart. It was a charity. No

1:55:31

This was

1:55:34

It was jfk who fundamentally supercharged uh america's

1:55:39

The american military's small wars capacity. This is the the the terminology in

1:55:44

the us army war college and special forces around

1:55:47

You know sort of not full-scale conventional wars. They're either small small

1:55:51

scale paramilitary

1:55:53

um, uh skirmishes

1:55:55

Or um or insurgency counterinsurgency. So it's

1:55:59

And the problem was is jfk was was bogged down in vietnam bogged down in laos

1:56:07

And the the problems that we were fighting against were not the kind of things

1:56:10

that

1:56:11

You know, you'd have the other political predicate after a lot of the disasters

1:56:14

of the korea of the korean war in 1950

1:56:17

And uh, and the international blowback to having formal dod boats on the

1:56:21

grounds

1:56:22

What what he believed was was vital and necessary to capacity build and supercharge

1:56:29

Was a cover a paramilitary covert capacity for dod in the war fighting space

1:56:35

that the ci had

1:56:36

Had at that point in the political war space

1:56:39

And this is done through the u.s special forces

1:56:43

And through uh, some of its sub branches, which are

1:56:47

psychological operations

1:56:50

civil military affairs

1:56:52

We can stick with that. Uh, but basically these are civil military is

1:56:56

When in order to achieve the military objective

1:56:59

Uh, the the thing that needs to be done is actually something of the civil

1:57:03

layer like for example

1:57:06

In order to win the war in uh against russia

1:57:09

Right now nato believes we need to build the single largest military base in

1:57:12

all of nato

1:57:13

on the black sea coast of romania

1:57:16

That points straight out in a line at crimea and move this this base that's

1:57:22

under construction is a hundred percent bigger

1:57:24

Than the biggest current air force nato base in uh, you know in europe the the

1:57:29

rammstein base in in germany

1:57:31

We're now moving as we speak there are fighter jets and drones being moved from

1:57:35

germany to romania

1:57:37

As we are building this base that will be the point of source projection

1:57:41

against

1:57:42

the the black sea navy of russia against the you know against crimea in order

1:57:47

to

1:57:47

you know turn the tide

1:57:49

well

1:57:50

That's a military operation right the the the military the nato military base

1:57:56

against the russian forces in crimea

1:58:00

But what is actually the most important strategic objective for the military?

1:58:04

It's actually not a military one. It's a civil one

1:58:06

See there's an election going on in romania right now

1:58:09

You may have you may have heard about this the cancelled election in romania

1:58:13

with the georgia skew this

1:58:14

right-wing populist figure who has pledged neutrality in the war

1:58:17

He doesn't want to he's no doesn't want to antagonize america, but he doesn't

1:58:21

want to kill

1:58:22

The russians he doesn't want he wants to

1:58:24

Basically back nato off and he doesn't want to allow this military base to be

1:58:28

to be made

1:58:29

Well, that is a civil decision

1:58:30

By the elected government of romania decided by the hearts and minds of the

1:58:37

voters of the romanian people

1:58:38

But that civil action

1:58:41

Will either in nato's eyes

1:58:44

Win the war or lose the war

1:58:47

So the problem is is uh, you

1:58:49

It would kind of be a something of a diplomatic incident shall we say if nato

1:58:53

rolled in and did um, you know

1:58:56

slow, but on milosevic style airst

1:58:58

you know air strifing of uh, you know airstrives against uh, the romanian

1:59:03

parliament building and rolled into uh,

1:59:06

You know rolled into the capital with tanks and troops just because um, you

1:59:10

know

1:59:11

The president was responding to the demcrack will of the people

1:59:13

So you need another mechanism to influence these civil affairs enter civil

1:59:18

military

1:59:19

This is where you get us aid in this as well as us aid for psychological

1:59:22

operations

1:59:23

You know, for example, i've been i've been playing this, you know clip for for

1:59:27

months now and showing this, you know

1:59:29

U.s military document from the

1:59:32

John f kennedy

1:59:34

Special warfare uh, you know center. I mean the the the special forces the

1:59:37

psychological operations

1:59:39

Um and civil military training and recruiting center at fort bragg the center

1:59:44

of our psychological operations is called the john f kennedy

1:59:48

Special warfare uh, uh, uh, training center

1:59:50

But you know

1:59:52

U.s aid does that work

1:59:56

So for example, i've been showing a military document from the biden mark milley

2:00:00

era published in 2021

2:00:02

About how to plan race riots in africa in order to uh, in order to stop the

2:00:07

construction

2:00:08

Of a uh, of a port by a foreign government that would allow their force

2:00:13

projection into the atlantic ocean

2:00:15

In a sample scenario where the u.s ambassador

2:00:17

Tries to get this west african country on the you know on the atlantic coast

2:00:21

there

2:00:22

Uh to to cancel the port construction for the in partnership with the foreign

2:00:26

government

2:00:27

But that government doesn't want to do it and so they refuse the u.s ambassador

2:00:31

they refuse the state department

2:00:32

so

2:00:33

This is

2:00:34

Literally in the planning guide and pitch book for the u.s special forces. It's

2:00:37

available online right now

2:00:38

Everyone can look this up. It's all over my x x feed

2:00:40

I post the link a million times and all the screenshots

2:00:42

But they show the role of special forces they they're pitching this basically

2:00:48

to you know

2:00:48

To get more grant funding that that we can help a near peer competition

2:00:52

actually with these with foreign countries

2:00:54

By having special forces destabilize the country in flame racial tensions

2:00:59

between the africans who work in the factories

2:01:02

And the business owners of the foreign government in the local regional

2:01:06

development

2:01:07

uh

2:01:08

Cause mass walkouts and strikes but if you want to pull this on screen I can

2:01:12

you know

2:01:13

You know, I can just show you these two these two things

2:01:15

um, if you just go to my x feed

2:01:18

and um

2:01:20

Uh, you can type in rent rights or you just type in uh, you know, just type in

2:01:24

usaid job fairs

2:01:26

Or usaid, you know job

2:01:28

And you'll see in this scenario. Uh, they

2:01:32

They talk about the interagency coordination between defense diplomacy and

2:01:37

development

2:01:38

You know, uh, all all the the the roles. Yes, it was your usaid job. You can

2:01:43

pull it up

2:01:44

And what they propose is that as they are inflaming these racial tensions to

2:01:49

cause these riots and boycotts of the local businesses

2:01:52

that

2:01:54

USAID would play the role of swooping in yeah, go ahead click those and I can

2:01:58

show you the source documents and everything it's it's all over

2:02:00

um

2:02:02

So Iwc for example is information warfare center at fort bragg again. They're

2:02:06

in west africa now

2:02:07

Now this is a sample scenario with a hypothetical african country, and I don't

2:02:10

want to belabor this

2:02:11

I'm not trying to cause an international incident by saying this

2:02:13

I'm just trying to get the american people insight into

2:02:15

Why you are going to find usaid fingerprints?

2:02:18

All over pentagon operations and no one's gonna have known about it before

2:02:23

because

2:02:23

You park it at usaid

2:02:26

The military doesn't have to tell the president what they're actually doing

2:02:29

This is why for example, you had the fight over isis and I'll but we can get to

2:02:34

this right after this

2:02:35

But you know, I'll we'll get to how

2:02:37

How the us military duped trump through these these uh things

2:02:41

Constantly playing shell games with the numbers in syria for example

2:02:44

You'll see you know what the information warfare center did is

2:02:47

Um, you know, they saw a sign at the at along the road for this port

2:02:51

construction

2:02:52

And they they say the plan is we need to buy the ambassador more time

2:02:55

Uh, because this port is going to be they're going to close on it

2:02:59

And we need to give the ambassador more leverage at the negotiating table

2:03:02

So this is a support operation for the state department

2:03:05

In order to secure an agreement from the african government to shut the port

2:03:08

down

2:03:08

But right now the ambassador doesn't have the smoke doesn't have the clout

2:03:13

doesn't have the leverage

2:03:14

So the military will come in and provide that leverage

2:03:18

By destabilizing the country cause you know inflaming long-standing friction

2:03:23

between the african workers and the foreign corporations

2:03:25

popping off protests and then using their swarm army of

2:03:29

internews usaid you know the the social media campaign and media articles to

2:03:35

that are led actually in the background by the

2:03:37

Information warfare center at fort bragg to illuminate the controversy to a

2:03:41

global audience, right?

2:03:42

This caused international financial pressure and sanctions on them, but if you

2:03:45

go to the next slide

2:03:46

And here we go usaid so this is again

2:03:50

U.s military document 2021 biden administration

2:03:55

To make sure this thing really pops off usaid is going to swoop in along with

2:04:02

other ngos to establish job fairs near the protest areas

2:04:05

so that when so that when these in racially inflamed african workers

2:04:10

Uh, uh want you take to the streets, they don't need to worry about losing

2:04:15

their careers at those companies

2:04:17

They just went on strike at because they're going to be on us taxpayer dime,

2:04:22

baby

2:04:23

It's going to be us truck drivers

2:04:25

median income

2:04:26

You know 45 50 000 a year paying for striking african workers to get no show

2:04:32

jobs as a part of a race riot operation

2:04:34

For the u.s special forces to give leverage to the u.s

2:04:38

State department ambassador in order to stop a random port construction in west

2:04:42

africa

2:04:42

And it says here within two weeks the construction company lost 60 of its

2:04:45

required labor pool

2:04:46

So it's effective now you and and this is where

2:04:49

I don't know if you want you know

2:04:52

Take a breather and pivot to something lighter, but this is where it starts to

2:04:54

get really really nasty

2:04:56

Because there are layers to this

2:04:58

That I see

2:05:01

But because i'm not an insider i'm not i don't have access to the inside

2:05:05

government documents. I don't have subpoena power at congress

2:05:07

um

2:05:10

there

2:05:15

Someone has to has to get an answer on some of these questions and um

2:05:19

I was going to talk about the connection of this to

2:05:22

You know the rental riots

2:05:24

I should say formally we don't know that the rent rights formally the rights

2:05:29

that popped off in this country

2:05:30

In 2020 in that I see is one of the main ways that the blob

2:05:34

May be able to regain leverage here in the united states in the years ahead

2:05:39

Right right now they're doing law fair

2:05:42

They're they're trying to mend the they're a little bit impotent right now

2:05:47

because their coalition is very fractured

2:05:48

Many of the stalwart international republicans have gone full mega

2:05:53

So the bipartisan consensus on this is weaker than it was

2:05:56

and then probably most

2:05:59

Most difficult for them

2:06:02

There's a bit of a civil war happening even within the democrat party because

2:06:05

of all the bad blood between the biden camp and the kamala harris camp

2:06:08

I mean

2:06:09

You need a unified network on the democrat side to pull this off and you had

2:06:13

joe by you know joe biden was

2:06:15

Soft cooed out of office by his own party

2:06:19

And you have half the democrat party who was in but it was a very contentious

2:06:23

long drawn out process

2:06:25

Joe biden put on a maga hat actually asked one of those union workers

2:06:29

I believe he was one of those people at the at that event for the maga hat to

2:06:33

put on

2:06:34

And that was a that was quite a

2:06:36

How about jill biden wearing a red dress when she went to vote?

2:06:40

Yeah, yeah good. It's a big deal and and when joe biden walked out

2:06:46

At that white house press

2:06:48

conference to announce that donald trump had won the election day before

2:06:52

People go back and watch that. I have never seen joe biden smile harder in my

2:06:56

life

2:06:56

Right when he when he had trump in the white house and smiling and laughing he

2:07:00

looked like he was having a good old time

2:07:01

Right, right. He was happy a stark contrast between obama welcoming

2:07:06

Trump in 2016 right right and obama was was backing the kamala

2:07:12

you know sort of uh, you know ouster of biden so

2:07:17

When they were all united in this bipartisan, you know blob network and the

2:07:22

democrats working completely cohesive

2:07:24

And a full half of the republican party was it was internationalist

2:07:28

You could get this buy-in for example. It was easy to synchronize the u.s

2:07:33

chamber of commerce with

2:07:34

The afl cio with with with the union street muscle the way so usaid

2:07:44

You know get just back back at this whole usa truman show

2:07:47

And I didn't like I say this ever there is no nothing you can tell me that is

2:07:52

not affected

2:07:53

By by the usa truman show you want to talk about the music industry. I can I

2:07:58

tell you about usaid's

2:08:00

complete infiltration of the music industry how so oh my gosh, okay, so

2:08:04

Maybe I can show you ever seats on screen here for a second. Um, uh,

2:08:09

Do you want to well?

2:08:11

We'll start with with with an easy one because it's it's directly connected to

2:08:15

what we were just talking about with zunzanio in cuba

2:08:17

So if you go to uh, this max blumenthal's outlets called gray zone news and

2:08:21

again

2:08:21

I'm not trying to beat up on our foreign policy establishments

2:08:24

foreign policy on cuba or way into that

2:08:27

But this is how the sauce is made and you're going to see a million examples of

2:08:30

this in a second of this

2:08:31

But put but go to go to uh, just type in on google like or any search engine

2:08:36

gray zone news

2:08:38

cuban rappers usaid and um, you know, you'll see this and and

2:08:44

you know, these are basically

2:08:47

Sponsored hip-hop artists to write you know to to do revolutionary hip-hop to

2:08:54

appeal to

2:08:55

To appeal to the afro-cuban community who the national now for democracy had

2:09:00

identified as being

2:09:02

Um a demographic see every time we do these operations

2:09:06

USAID see

2:09:08

The ngos they'll they'll submit what they call baseline assessment or strategic

2:09:12

assessment to the state department where they will do

2:09:14

um

2:09:15

Where they will do a demographic segmentation of all the demographics in the

2:09:20

country

2:09:21

who's who's

2:09:23

Pro us

2:09:24

Who's against us in the region and then they will micro target the grants and

2:09:28

the capacity building to capacity build

2:09:30

The burning ember to turn it into a flame

2:09:35

so for example and and just so you see this

2:09:36

But you can go to the ci world fact book right now

2:09:38

This is this is just the public facing ci.gov

2:09:41

You can type in a random country like burma on just cia, you know world

2:09:46

world book burma you'll see the

2:09:48

we keep meticulous

2:09:50

tabs on the

2:09:52

The racial distribution the religious distribution the gender distribution the

2:09:56

you know the l the heteronormative versus lbg lgbt

2:09:59

lgbt one

2:10:01

This is why usaid and ned were were backing and supporting pussy riot in russia

2:10:06

uh, you know to do these you know sort of uh

2:10:08

insane

2:10:10

You know sort of feminist lgbtq

2:10:13

Styled left-wing

2:10:15

Uh street riots and this is what they you know causes international incident

2:10:19

You can see all the usaid any of these stuff on on them for pussy right is the

2:10:23

music industry and

2:10:24

Go to youtube and look at their music videos if you want to see what state

2:10:27

spawn what state-sponsored music looks like

2:10:30

But in in the cuba case, you know

2:10:32

They were

2:10:34

NED had published this document

2:10:36

NED is the operations arm of usaid and they get a ton of their grants through

2:10:39

it and they're

2:10:40

A companion star

2:10:42

Said okay all of our previous attempts to overthrow the cuban government failed

2:10:46

Well, you know something like 60 of the cuban population is afro-cuban

2:10:49

They're the radically underrepresented the cuban government

2:10:52

They have their own grievances around police policing issues and around

2:10:56

representation issues

2:10:57

And they even noted in the document that that demographic and i'm not saying

2:11:01

this ned is saying this in cuba is disproportionately drawn to

2:11:05

drugs

2:11:08

Influenced by rap music and and suffers from overwhelming amount of uh, you

2:11:12

know of on youth unemployment

2:11:13

and so

2:11:15

Capacity building those desperate networks

2:11:18

Capacity building you know the uh, you know anti-addiction programs will get

2:11:23

you into the into the into the drug networks

2:11:25

Doing job fairs and and you know getting these people on us payroll will

2:11:28

alleviate their pain points on on uh employment and

2:11:32

They all they're you know predominantly listening to hip-hop. So we need to

2:11:35

work with

2:11:36

I believe the group is the san isidro and i'm not beating up on it

2:11:39

You can make an argument that that

2:11:41

I'm not weighing in on whether this is good or bad

2:11:43

But the american people have to know this because this gets played on their

2:11:46

radio stations in miami

2:11:48

This gets you know art testimonials to this are at you know, um, art basil in

2:11:54

miami every year

2:11:55

uh, you know, and and this

2:11:57

This is the truman show around you, but you you can read that gray zone report

2:12:01

for example

2:12:02

Write up on that on all the usa funding all the meetings with the us ambassador

2:12:06

and you know and you know western hemisphere assistant secretary folks

2:12:10

um, you know how how the whole thing was

2:12:13

Get to you can talk about uh musicians like dua lipa you you know you're

2:12:17

familiar with dua lipa i've heard the name

2:12:19

yeah, you know don't stop now, you know, she's

2:12:21

You know a million of these uh great hits

2:12:26

Fantastic musician i'm a big fan on the music side

2:12:31

Um dua lipa won the distinguished leadership award

2:12:34

Uh, I forget if it was last year the year before from the atlanta council

2:12:37

Atlanta council

2:12:40

That's the same organization that we played on screen

2:12:43

uh during our first conversation

2:12:45

Where we went over the atlanta council, you know holding up. I call

2:12:50

Bullshit placards bs

2:12:52

And looking at trump tweets and training hundreds of journalists for how to

2:12:58

flag and censor him saying tweets like witch hunt

2:13:01

Or brexit slogans for you know, cheaper health care

2:13:04

Uh, the the atlanta council who has seven cia directors seven former number one

2:13:10

heads of the cia on its board of directors

2:13:12

That gets direct grant funding from the pentagon the state department and us

2:13:16

aid

2:13:16

Uh, uh, the atlanta council who had a formal partnership agreement with burisma.

2:13:22

I should note signed on january 19th

2:13:25

2017 one day before trump became the u.s. President

2:13:28

Why the heck would they give dua lipa a uh, you know distinguished leadership

2:13:33

or world award?

2:13:34

Well, you know, she's ethnic albanian and has activities in kosovo and but i'm

2:13:38

not trying to cause an international incident when I say this

2:13:41

But you know, her messaging uh around the uh

2:13:45

The post yugoslavia breakup

2:13:49

Uh balkan states and a lot of the geopolitics around serbia right now

2:13:55

The u.s. State department has been pursuing as well as us aid and to whatever

2:14:00

extent

2:14:02

You may or may not be there, you know, the the civil military arm of of the of

2:14:05

the us military

2:14:06

um, uh

2:14:09

I believe and i'm not privy to any inside information. This is this is my my

2:14:13

reading of the tea leaves that i've been laying out before everyone

2:14:16

um

2:14:18

Uh is is not very happy with the government of serbia and they want that serbian

2:14:23

government uh

2:14:24

People in the serbian government arrested indicted and put through a process

2:14:29

that they call transitional justice

2:14:32

And transitional justice is the idea that when you transition a country when

2:14:36

you overthrow its government

2:14:37

Or you pump up your favorite political party to win the election it transitions

2:14:42

from democracy from autocracy to democracy

2:14:45

Uh, or it transitions from a liberal democracy to genuine democracy

2:14:51

It's a turnover of government

2:14:54

And uh, and we have

2:14:56

Doctrine we have a whole field of scholarship at the state department at us aid

2:15:01

Uh, and that is carried out in covert ways, uh through civil military dod and

2:15:05

at cia called transitional justice, which is

2:15:08

weaponizing the justice department and creating the

2:15:10

Criminal predicate to eliminate your political adversaries. You just narrowly

2:15:15

vanquished in a nail-biter vote

2:15:18

Um in order to stop them from ever rising to power again

2:15:22

And i'll show you some great receipts on this so that everyone can see this

2:15:25

with their own eyes

2:15:27

Uh, but before I do let me just flesh this out for a second, which is that

2:15:29

Every regional desk at the state department or or in the usa portfolio has to

2:15:35

compete every year on for their budget

2:15:37

They have to fight for their lives because the people you know, uh, who are the

2:15:41

regional desks around

2:15:42

kyrgyzstan and you know

2:15:46

Georgia moldova latvia lithuania they're competing for in the budget for what's

2:15:51

going to western hemisphere

2:15:52

What's going to argentina and brazil and columbia and they're competing against

2:15:56

sub-air in africa

2:15:57

So the cheaper it is to manage the political vassalage of a country the better

2:16:01

They may have had to to to ask for a lot more money in the budget one-off in

2:16:05

election year

2:16:06

To run that money through democracy international or through seps or or any

2:16:10

number of usaid or nad programs

2:16:12

To fund the political party they want they want to win

2:16:15

But they can't keep that

2:16:18

They were only given that money because it was a specialty

2:16:20

They're not necessarily going to be able to get that the next time around and

2:16:23

they'll be able to spend money on other

2:16:25

soft power goals in the region if it's if they don't have to worry about the

2:16:29

other party rising again

2:16:31

or doing what trump just did you know winning then losing then winning again

2:16:35

and so

2:16:36

transitional justice is a whole field at state and in the ngo plex to

2:16:41

To make it cheap to manage the course of and result of foreign elections

2:16:47

By making sure anyone who's a serious challenger to you ends up in jail

2:16:50

And i'm just going to show you something because it's now in the news

2:16:52

elon musk this week

2:16:54

You know tweeted out about you know horrible situation where someone from the

2:16:58

pis the law and justice party in poland

2:17:01

uh, i believe is now facing arrest for clicking the like button on a social

2:17:05

media post jesus and

2:17:07

you know what was the post i don't actually know what the post was one of kanye's

2:17:12

i played the fit i don't know but but uh the fact is is

2:17:18

you know poland plays and i've been saying this forever and this is maybe too

2:17:22

far afield for for the

2:17:23

narrow topic of discussion today but poland plays an absolutely huge uh

2:17:28

Probably the lynchpin role in all of eastern europe with everything that's

2:17:32

happening with ukraine because the whole play was to kill russian gas

2:17:35

And and then you need an alternative gas supply into europe to offset that and

2:17:39

there's only two ways to do that

2:17:40

one is ukraine builds up its own gas

2:17:43

uh infrastructure and exploits its endogenous

2:17:46

uh, you know hydrocarbon supply which it has a lot of it's the third largest in

2:17:51

europe but it's unexploit under exploited

2:17:53

Unfortunately, they can't do that right now because russia reconquered that

2:17:55

exact territory in eastern ukraine that those sit on the only of

2:17:59

the other the only way to of the other way to do that is through

2:18:02

Exporting lng you know liquefied natural gas from north america, you know from

2:18:08

the permian basin or whatnot in houston

2:18:10

freezing it

2:18:12

shipping it you know

2:18:14

six seven thousand miles across the atlantic up through the the baltic straits

2:18:18

through these newly

2:18:18

newly built

2:18:20

uh, you know routing terminals uh into poland and the terminals there and then

2:18:24

routing it there into

2:18:25

slovakia and ukraine and and central europe and and on from there

2:18:29

doesn't this bring us back to what mike johnson said that

2:18:32

biden had signed an executive order that he hadn't read

2:18:36

About liquid natural gas. Yeah. Well, that's interesting because that has to do

2:18:40

also with the economics of it

2:18:42

You know, you don't want too much supply because then the profits of the

2:18:44

corporations

2:18:45

You know, they're selling it. They're selling it for less margin as the as the

2:18:49

supply goes up

2:18:49

but yeah, the lng fight is is

2:18:51

is

2:18:53

The major one in in the energy space

2:18:55

But it's much more expensive for lng that process liquefication transport de liquefication

2:19:01

Transport back is way cheaper than just taking out of the ground and putting in

2:19:04

a pipeline

2:19:04

You know straight straight to the customer. So the european countries don't

2:19:08

want to do this. They don't they or at least

2:19:09

Until they were strong armed and you know what the state department and nato

2:19:15

have done is they've selectively

2:19:16

bred and financed and politically supported

2:19:20

All of the european political parties and candidates who have vowed to

2:19:25

basically go go forward with this plan and put their put their country through

2:19:28

an energy

2:19:30

Policy and buy this expensive lng which is skyrocketed I should know the

2:19:33

profits of

2:19:33

Many of these these western exporters and so again, there's an argument

2:19:37

Maybe that's in the u.s. Interest

2:19:39

If there was that trickle down, but we'll leave that aside

2:19:42

But the point is is poland basically is a veto right on this whole plan

2:19:44

Because if if the poll if the poland government says hey, you know what we don't

2:19:48

want to antagonize the russians

2:19:50

The russians may actually attack us, you know, uh

2:19:52

This is this is provocative because this is in tandem with the plan to cut off

2:19:56

gas prom

2:19:57

Also, we don't want to become a political vassal state of the us or the uk or

2:20:01

nato

2:20:02

And this is what was starting to happen with the law and order, you know, uh,

2:20:07

you know

2:20:07

Law and justice pis party in poland and so this whole network the atlantic

2:20:11

council network was backing to the full hilt

2:20:13

Donald tusk who became the prime minister of poland in uh, I believe december

2:20:19

2023

2:20:20

With that context jamie. Can you pull on screen? I just

2:20:23

Re-upped these receipts. I've been posting this for months, but this is very

2:20:28

Everyone should see this with their own eyes because this gets back to occrp

2:20:31

and state-sponsored media to prosecute people

2:20:34

This gets back to you know, the role of of the us aid

2:20:38

Capacity building the networks around prosecutors here in the u.s

2:20:43

Um, the us aid capacity building the prosecutor networks and we should get to

2:20:48

that on brazil

2:20:49

But let's can we start here with poland?

2:20:52

There's kind of like bypass the whole music industry. Oh, oh my god. No, wait,

2:20:56

we've just we've just started on that. Okay. Here's an easy one

2:20:59

Look up look at the u.s music diplomacy program

2:21:03

So this is the this is but this is all music overseas or use music domestically

2:21:08

as well

2:21:09

Well, that's the issue is because there's this interplay for so first I came

2:21:12

back to the dua lipa

2:21:12

Atlantic council thing so

2:21:15

Again, essentially, you know, she's calling out human rights abuses from you

2:21:19

know the these balkan governments

2:21:21

Uh, you know with a with a family pedigree and popularity in kosovo and other

2:21:25

places that are hugely

2:21:26

In the geopolitical crosshairs right now

2:21:30

And so

2:21:31

And i'm not saying whether it's good or bad again. I'm not even weighing in on

2:21:35

you know, the the humanitarian abuses or whatnot

2:21:37

What i'm saying is is

2:21:39

It's it's music as an instrument of statecraft dua lipa is this is the the u.s

2:21:44

military the state department us aid seven cia directors the burisma networks

2:21:49

Because you know, she's got

2:21:51

Tens of millions of social media followers you people, you know who or die hard

2:21:55

follower concert

2:21:56

She's an international superstar and her public support

2:21:58

For calling out human rights abuses by you know, these these balkan governments

2:22:04

that are in the crosshairs of the u.s. State department

2:22:06

Makes it easier to prosecute those political figures just like with the occrp

2:22:11

publishing hit pieces for hire

2:22:14

These people become less popular because the people who love dua lipa have to

2:22:18

sort of hate those

2:22:19

U.s. State department enemies this has been going on forever. Okay

2:22:24

Jazz diplomacy the state department was doing this with black african jazz

2:22:28

musicians

2:22:28

To win the soft power war against against the soviet union in africa in the

2:22:32

1940s

2:22:33

State department was working with louie armstrong and most of the major

2:22:36

Jazz musicians because russia the soviet union was making the argument in these

2:22:42

newly sovereign independent african countries

2:22:44

Who had to pick a side in the great power competition that america was racist

2:22:49

america discriminates against african americans?

2:22:52

Uh, there's there's all this, you know, uh, you know upward mobility

2:22:56

limitations. There's you know

2:22:57

There's no legal you're underrepresented in the government

2:23:00

The marxist socialist

2:23:04

egalitarian concept

2:23:06

Of communism will liberate you from the racial inequalities of western imperialist

2:23:13

capitalism

2:23:13

And so to offset that we did jazz diplomacy

2:23:17

You can pull this up on screen as I talk about this jamie just so you see this

2:23:19

is on state.gov

2:23:20

You can look you can look up this whole this whole history

2:23:22

I'm telling you I look up, you know, uh, u.s. State department jazz diplomacy

2:23:26

and just

2:23:26

I'm looking it up

2:23:28

Louis armstrong initially pushed back on it though

2:23:31

He said the way they're treating my people in the south the government can go

2:23:33

to hell

2:23:33

Yes

2:23:34

Well, many of them did or had a complicated relationship with it

2:23:37

But you can I mean you can look up everyone like, you know, for example, they

2:23:40

targeted

2:23:41

um

2:23:42

You know other uh, you know, uh african-american musicians

2:23:45

Who were uh, you know who are using their platform?

2:23:49

Um, uh, who's the guy who sings uh old man river?

2:23:52

Paul oh my god, why am I blanking on the name?

2:23:55

Um, dizzy gillespie

2:23:57

Yeah, dizzy gillespie headed the first state department sponsored tour

2:24:00

Okay, but we've this is every job telling you it's every single genre of music

2:24:05

Is it rap music as well?

2:24:07

Oh my god rap music

2:24:08

Can I can I tell the evolution from from you know jazz to classical to rock

2:24:12

music to rap?

2:24:13

Sure, so um, so

2:24:15

In the 1950s and 60s and again, jimmy you can just follow along as i'm saying

2:24:21

all this if you want to put on screen

2:24:22

There was a big classical music

2:24:24

Shostakovich and other you know, russian uh, you know, soviet

2:24:29

Classical composers were more popular in europe than american ones were and

2:24:35

these were you know big aristocratic

2:24:37

Concerts and elites and they would be listening to russian

2:24:39

You know, they'd be uh, you know listening to russian music and getting to know

2:24:44

more russian culture and that would that would

2:24:47

Come money would flow into the institutions prestige would and so to combat

2:24:52

that

2:24:52

The cia backed uh front group and this is all public you know public and known

2:24:56

it's called the congress of cultural freedom

2:24:58

Sponsored american uh classical musicians to travel abroad there sponsored

2:25:04

classical music concerts in rome and in and in paris

2:25:08

and in and in germany in order to

2:25:11

Pump up and sponsor

2:25:15

And and have you know our classical musicians be more predominant in

2:25:20

distribution

2:25:21

Or uh, or basically, you know dominate, you know, you know, what at the time

2:25:26

were effectively, you know

2:25:26

The airwaves in europe and nor do that we did the same thing with rock music

2:25:31

You know, for example, I mentioned pussy riot and and pussy riot being you know

2:25:36

backed by usaid and ned in 2012

2:25:38

um in uh in russia, but also

2:25:41

Look at the the german rock music scene that uh, you know in

2:25:46

We were sponsoring these you know protest rock anthems against authoritarian

2:25:52

governments

2:25:53

All over the iron curtain, uh, you know throughout the cold war and in fact, we

2:25:58

were sponsoring them basically right up against the side of the berlin wall

2:26:01

As we were taking it down everyone right now can go on youtube.com and watch

2:26:06

the

2:26:06

The documentary called taking uh taking down a dictator

2:26:12

Which is a in-depth pro-regime change?

2:26:15

I think it was pbs who produced it this is us government funded media

2:26:20

Where it has in-depth interviews with with all of the architects of the color

2:26:25

revolution against slovenom milosevic in the 1990s

2:26:28

Working with a group called oat poor which received 72 million dollars of us

2:26:33

taxpayer funding

2:26:34

In order to pump up their political operations again, i'm not weighing in on

2:26:37

whether it was good or bad

2:26:38

You know, I leave it to to the audience to to you know, make their own

2:26:43

determination

2:26:43

But you can see how even in that effectively state-sponsored documentary

2:26:48

It's the state department's website. Mm-hmm

2:26:50

It's just going through the years of yeah, and we're gonna have yeah

2:26:54

We're gonna have a lot more on on that when we get to the rap program because

2:26:57

they just sponsored 22 rappers and hip-hop artists

2:27:00

From around the world to personally come to the state department

2:27:04

And uh, you know be trained in youth engagement and uh democracy mobilization

2:27:09

in their countries and art as activism

2:27:10

22 rappers from cameroon, uh, you know, algeria france

2:27:15

We'll pull that up as we as we get to it

2:27:18

um, but

2:27:20

the

2:27:21

coming back to the

2:27:23

You know the I think we're on the rock music, you know side of these are they

2:27:27

were sponsoring this protest rock

2:27:30

Okay, I just lost my thread for a second. I felt like I was

2:27:32

Have you ever read that laurel canyon book?

2:27:35

Yeah, yeah, the cia's involvement in the rock scene in the 1960s. Yeah, yeah

2:27:40

weird scenes inside the canyon. Yeah

2:27:41

Yeah, um

2:27:43

I think it would benefit greatly from a lot of the stuff that i'm i'm i'm

2:27:47

laying out now but to see how these things

2:27:49

had a foreign

2:27:52

Purpose for for pumping up a domestic scene and why you see these military

2:27:57

interlinkages with it with you know

2:27:58

With all these music promoters

2:28:00

For example, um, you know, they sent you in that gray zone article

2:28:05

I recommended on in in cuba, you know, they they usaid ran that operation to

2:28:10

sponsor protest rap music

2:28:12

um

2:28:14

through

2:28:16

uh

2:28:17

That through uh peep a

2:28:19

A contractor posing as music promoters in cuba, you know

2:28:22

Basically looking at these local rap groups and saying we can make you an

2:28:25

international star baby, you know type type thing

2:28:28

And then they get radio distribution

2:28:30

And this is how you see these bono types and sting types who are at every

2:28:34

single save ukraine

2:28:36

Conference again

2:28:37

Not even weighing in on the substance of it. You know that you want

2:28:40

distribution

2:28:40

You use you know

2:28:42

You use as a battery and i'd be remiss if I didn't say this even though

2:28:46

I know that this is going to cause a lot of headlines

2:28:48

But here's a great example of this. Uh, the nato psychological operations

2:28:52

planning center

2:28:54

In um in riga latvia in 2019 and you can pull this on screen if you type in uh

2:29:00

taylor swift nato

2:29:02

Or you type in um, you know, uh, what was it?

2:29:06

Trained trained to share messaging or just trained trained messaging

2:29:12

And uh, and I this was a big news cycle. There was a huge controversy around it

2:29:18

Uh, a lot of people misreported it by uh, by closing the loops on things that

2:29:25

were

2:29:26

that I that I didn't say

2:29:27

um, but that are open questions about what really happened, which

2:29:31

Which is you know, this sort of taylor swift as an instrument of statecraft

2:29:34

when the example I give here is

2:29:36

um, and if you pull this up on screen if just

2:29:39

You know jamie you'll see this and because I have it all underlined

2:29:43

This is a public youtube right now on nato's formal website the western

2:29:46

military alliance

2:29:47

They set up this psychological operations strategic communications cell to do

2:29:52

internet censorship and information operations out of after crimea

2:29:55

in riga latvia and in 2019 they held a

2:29:59

uh, a conference there about you know how to use ai uh

2:30:05

AI scanning technology to map out uh narrative distribution networks on social

2:30:10

media, you know facebook twitter whatnot

2:30:12

And there's three people you know who are at this thing. Uh, you know

2:30:15

One of them was 77th brigade from uh from british intelligence who are

2:30:21

presenting to nato

2:30:22

One of them started their career in the central intelligence agency

2:30:25

And one of them, uh, you know was

2:30:28

Put in the description is a you know someone who worked at it was part of the

2:30:32

johns hopkins

2:30:34

The school of international affairs, uh

2:30:36

School, but then that actually was announced on the panel and

2:30:40

You know according to their linkedin was actually working at the time for graphica,

2:30:45

which is the

2:30:46

Which does this internet censorship they get seven million dollars from the

2:30:54

pentagon

2:30:54

They were incubated they were they had a they were formally incubated inside

2:30:58

the pentagon's minerva initiative

2:31:00

Which is the psychological operations research center of the pentagon

2:31:03

When the pentagon wants to do psychological operations in africa or in central

2:31:08

asia

2:31:08

They turn to the thought leadership the the sort of policy planners who pitch

2:31:14

ideas about well, you know, these tactics work

2:31:16

So for example, one of the minerva initiative grants not to graphica this group

2:31:20

But to others because theirs was for russiagate stuff, you know sort of

2:31:23

psychological operations

2:31:24

You know stuff around uh fighting the hearts and minds war against russia

2:31:29

But graphica, but you know others in in the cohort were

2:31:32

How to secure citizen buy-in uh after a crisis event it in in order to make

2:31:38

people trust their government?

2:31:40

Uh against when we topple the government and people think it's a it's a coup

2:31:44

I mean basically how to get people to trust their government when they're

2:31:47

skeptical of it

2:31:48

and then you turn around and see graphica was partnered with

2:31:50

The atlantic council as well as the us department of homeland security to censor

2:31:54

the 2020 election and

2:31:55

partnered with you know, our own nih to censor covet but the fact is all three

2:32:00

people on this panel

2:32:01

Were involved or had a career at at one point in in intelligence work

2:32:06

And and specifically, you know at least with two of them psychological

2:32:10

operations

2:32:10

and on screen

2:32:12

And jamie if you can find it you're I think you're gonna you're gonna

2:32:15

You're gonna save us both a lot of headache because everyone will just see it

2:32:20

right there in red underlined on a

2:32:23

YouTube video everyone can pull up right now if let me know if you're having

2:32:27

trouble finding it just

2:32:28

trained to spread maybe

2:32:30

um and i'll i'll have this my time but it literally has

2:32:34

A pitch to nato sure what i'm looking for exactly for that video

2:32:39

2019 nato conference right yeah if you just type in if you just go to my x feed

2:32:45

and you just hit the search bar

2:32:46

And you type in taylor swift i'm on youtube though. You said to go to youtube.

2:32:48

No, no my x feed is the best way to search it

2:32:50

Um, but it has a a picture

2:32:56

on that slide deck where again this is

2:32:58

psychological operations planners pitching to nato the world you know the

2:33:02

western world's military alliance

2:33:03

And the slide has a picture of taylor swift

2:33:06

And it says basically says something like and when the receipts of world screen

2:33:10

you can you'll read it directly it says you know example of you know

2:33:13

Celebrities who can be trained to spread desired messaging. I think that was

2:33:18

the exact phrase trained to spread desired messaging

2:33:20

And she and the presenter goes over the drawbacks of this and how and you know

2:33:25

what we need to decide some of the moral efficacy of this

2:33:27

but

2:33:28

Basically saying that you know taylor swift has worked in various things before

2:33:32

that have been empirically shown to move the needle on government initiatives

2:33:35

For example her get out the vote, you know, uh, or get out the vote work

2:33:38

Uh increase the vote her public health campaign stuff

2:33:41

But buying there well don't that video has a lot of cursor. Okay. Yes pause

2:33:45

right there. Okay

2:33:45

Scroll up scroll right there pause right there

2:33:48

And if you you see that goal identify key actors to train and spread desired

2:33:53

messaging

2:33:54

This is on nato's we pay for nato

2:33:57

We paid for this to be pitched now. Here's where some of this story got misreported

2:34:02

I don't know that anyone from nato

2:34:05

Directly reached out to taylor swift or her campaign to do that

2:34:08

I'd this and if they did this would not be formalized in a formal pentagon

2:34:13

grant or quid pro quo

2:34:15

But I should note look at who the biggest sponsor of south by southwest is in

2:34:19

in texas now

2:34:19

It's the military go ahead and look up the scandal if you want about south by

2:34:23

southwest

2:34:25

pentagon funding

2:34:27

They've taken over the music industry because it's hearts and minds work

2:34:31

Okay, well, I guess that just happened in 2024. Let's see if you if you go to

2:34:37

okay

2:34:37

So this has caused so much problems

2:34:39

Um from for the past couple years that I guess they're now they're now

2:34:42

Reforming this but if you if you run a bullion search for before

2:34:46

2024 you'll you'll see this but basically

2:34:48

The pentagon or if you scroll down maybe it might be right there

2:34:53

Um, so it caused this big boycott because the pentagon in tandem with this

2:34:57

music diplomacy program and these usa aid backing of these things

2:35:00

Um, okay. Well, that's that's a that's a u.s army in palestine one, but you'll

2:35:05

see the numbers on this basically

2:35:07

um

2:35:08

the pentagon

2:35:10

moves into this

2:35:12

And just like they were you know getting dual leap of the awards just like they're

2:35:16

working with pussy riot just like they have 22

2:35:18

In fact, you can look this up if you want the state department music diplomacy

2:35:21

program 22 rappers hip-hop

2:35:23

You'll see again

2:35:25

These people become network nodes. They become assets to play with

2:35:29

And you know an incredible example of this

2:35:33

That I that I hesitate to

2:35:36

to discuss here because I know that the

2:35:39

Organization uh, that these documents leaked from is is contesting

2:35:44

Um, you know the you know these documents, but yeah, there's um

2:35:49

There's evidence to suggest the same play around recruiting the you know, the

2:35:54

hip-hop artists in in cuba

2:35:56

And you know in and also here you go break dancing news diplomacy meets hip-hop

2:36:00

as 22 artists visit the u.s

2:36:02

Okay

2:36:04

This is the u.s state department

2:36:06

We are paying to recruit them as assets

2:36:08

So when they go and you go and look at the country list if you if you want look

2:36:11

how far and wide this is to the edges of the earth

2:36:14

um

2:36:16

You know, uh, you know, mongolia cameroon, uh

2:36:20

You know, there's there's a whole there's all thing here, but basically

2:36:24

The it was protest rock

2:36:27

You know, it's just protest rap in cuba for that us aid operation. It was

2:36:31

protest rap

2:36:33

You know, there's there's language for example in this gray zone report around

2:36:36

bangladesh and i'll leave it to the the current fight

2:36:39

but you know between them and

2:36:41

the national down for democracy about the nature of those documents, but

2:36:44

You know those documents that the gray zone published

2:36:48

Have two rap songs in bangladesh

2:36:51

That that have lines like they were designed, uh to inspire anti-government act

2:36:57

uh, uh, uh

2:36:58

Sentiment and to uh and to promote uh street protests

2:37:02

And uh and political reform. I mean

2:37:04

literally writing

2:37:06

Rap albums to get people to take to the streets and pull off the exact riot

2:37:12

that the state department wants to destabilize the country

2:37:14

and

2:37:16

Music penetrates. I mean this is what they got really attached to this during

2:37:18

the cold war and in the 1980s because

2:37:21

It's it's and in fact in those documents

2:37:24

They talk about how sponsoring individual artists is actually sometimes a lot

2:37:27

more effective because they do art and activism while they're doing

2:37:30

They're putting on these festivals. They're promoting an agenda at the

2:37:33

festivals

2:37:34

While they are putting these you know songs on radio distribution and supercharging,

2:37:40

you know, their their brand

2:37:41

those songs have themes and messages about

2:37:44

Taking down authoritarian governments and the people got to rise up

2:37:48

And you know, we have and you know, we you have to represent the will of the

2:37:52

people you know

2:37:53

We have to you know end poverty, you know

2:37:55

And then they'll make the arguments the government's fault that there's poverty

2:37:58

we have to add we have to end

2:37:59

Racial or gender inequality and then the state department will or usaid will be

2:38:04

working

2:38:04

Through its demographic segmentation with those exact groups. This is another

2:38:07

reason we've been pumping up these

2:38:08

Feminist groups and these lgbt groups if you want for example, you can pull up

2:38:13

the wikileaks cia

2:38:15

red cell memo that showed how the cia pitched to the state department in the

2:38:20

during the afghanistan war

2:38:22

That the best way to shore up additional funds from european parliaments is to

2:38:26

is to transition states media

2:38:29

octopus messaging from a national security predicate for

2:38:33

For the war to a to a feminism

2:38:37

And a women's empowerment one because of

2:38:40

field work and polling from the central intelligence agency

2:38:44

Around europe showed that european parliaments and and voting demographics

2:38:49

felt

2:38:51

Said on surveys that they were more

2:38:53

More willing to give money or wanted to give more money

2:38:56

From their their own government coffers their own taxpayer funds to the war in

2:39:01

afghanistan

2:39:02

If it was about stopping repression against women or if it was about

2:39:06

Giving women more rights in the society and whatnot and so that that wasn't

2:39:11

because the cia

2:39:13

Loves feminism now this was a cold calculated instrument of statecraft

2:39:17

To shift the messaging and then also to work with these exact groups who have

2:39:22

that

2:39:23

cleavage point acts to grind against their against their country as as part of

2:39:28

the mobilizations

2:39:28

It's how you see a lot of these women's marches and women's protests

2:39:31

Or you see a lot of these sort of protected class ones because that also gets

2:39:35

you the human rights

2:39:36

You know predicate to uh to add sanctions and and other uh, you know

2:39:40

Protected speech measures like this is why the state department pushed facebook

2:39:44

to put hate speech provisions in place to stop hate speech against the rohingya

2:39:47

One of the things that's come up that has been uh talked about quite a bit over

2:39:53

the last couple years

2:39:55

Is that the government had some sort of an influence on the emergence of

2:40:00

gangster rap?

2:40:01

And the promotion of it. Mm-hmm. What do you know about that?

2:40:07

I don't have a good record

2:40:09

You know in the in the 80s and 90s

2:40:12

There's there's a lot of strange things there

2:40:14

And I I want to tell you what I really feel

2:40:17

um

2:40:18

It is highly controversial though and I

2:40:21

I um

2:40:23

I'm not sure with everything else that we're covering and some of the other

2:40:27

things that I

2:40:27

You know i'd like to be able to just hit before the conversation concludes

2:40:31

about about

2:40:32

us aids

2:40:33

control and influence over prosecutors

2:40:36

And an example in brazil since I know that a lot of people in brazil want to

2:40:39

get to brazil. Yeah, okay. Yeah, um

2:40:40

I'm gonna get a lot of trouble if I say this, uh

2:40:49

When you read that national endowment for democracy wipe. Oh, we didn't do the

2:40:52

poland one

2:40:53

Can I put can I just can we circle back to this in one second before? Yes, just

2:40:56

because this this really is

2:40:58

uh

2:40:59

An appropriate international incident to talk about this here

2:41:02

Uh, if you if you go to my x feed and you just type in search poland or the

2:41:07

word pis

2:41:07

As a one-off or you can just scroll down you'll see I re-upped it, uh, you know

2:41:11

earlier this morning

2:41:13

You're gonna see

2:41:15

the the national endowment for democracies

2:41:17

In-house journal called the journal of democracy again, the ned is this

2:41:20

CIA front group the new york times reported the c.i gets a copy of every grant

2:41:26

that they make

2:41:26

Um, they they you know, they they their own founders say that they were created

2:41:31

that the c.i got in trouble for sponsoring

2:41:33

Uh pro-democracy groups around the world in the 1960s and that's why we don't

2:41:38

do it anymore

2:41:38

And that's why the national endowment was created

2:41:41

Uh, basically to take the baton from the cia during that transition between

2:41:45

Carter anti-cia and and reagan pro-cia

2:41:49

This was the compromise between left and right and that that's why they have

2:41:52

two political cores iri and ndi but can you pull that back up?

2:41:55

Okay

2:41:57

USA's partner in operations arm national down for democracy has been

2:42:00

specifically demanding donald tusk government in poland

2:42:03

Must find ways to arrest high-ranking members of the pis party in order to

2:42:07

quote stamp out populism

2:42:08

They wrote this the for the first month in office

2:42:10

So and again, you'll see this is responding to someone facing three years for

2:42:14

playing bus now

2:42:14

Let's click on this again

2:42:16

We pay as taxpayers for the production of national and now for democracies in-house

2:42:20

journal the journal of democracy

2:42:22

So what what can you can you zoom out?

2:42:25

Just zoom out a little bit when you see this. Yeah, perfect

2:42:28

How to dismantle in a liberal democracy? So again, nato was at war with the pis

2:42:33

party. They wanted more cooperation on

2:42:35

Security on economic issues whole other can of worms. They wanted donald tusk

2:42:40

the pro eu pro super pro nato candidate to win

2:42:44

um, uh, he wins

2:42:46

The month he takes office. This is december 2023 national down for moxie

2:42:51

The cia publishes this let think piece how to dismantle in a liberal democracy

2:42:55

and again

2:42:55

I think formally, you know, what's published here is supposed to you know

2:42:59

Not technically it's published in the ned publication doesn't mean it's ned

2:43:02

foreign policy, but this is what they're publishing and you're paying for

2:43:05

How did so they're saying listen, it's not an autocracy in poland unfortunately,

2:43:09

we can't call it a dictator like putin or the ccp

2:43:12

It's democracy because the people voted for it and they won fair and square

2:43:16

But it's illiberal democracy because

2:43:18

The democratic institutions don't you know are not are not having their way

2:43:22

But here's what it says poland may may be saying on its first steps in quote

2:43:27

stamping out populism

2:43:29

And holding those responsible for the worst violations of rule of law. That

2:43:32

means the criminal justice system now get to the next one

2:43:34

next slide

2:43:36

poland's new government must

2:43:38

Therefore do more than just return to liberal democracy

2:43:41

It must address trend address transitional justice the same thing which all

2:43:46

over every usaid operation

2:43:48

It has to arrest the people

2:43:50

From the government. We just transitioned from prime minister tusk and his

2:43:54

coalition must again not should not maybe should consider

2:43:57

Maybe if there's something there must

2:43:59

Stabilize the political system mean ensure the the rain in the against losing

2:44:05

in the next election to ensure that populism does not return in the next

2:44:10

election

2:44:10

Donald trump is a populist president

2:44:14

Bolsonaro is a populist president marine le pen is populist in france mateo savini's

2:44:19

populist in italy the vox party spot

2:44:21

This is state department and usaid policy everywhere and this is part of the

2:44:25

can of worms that's going to have to be

2:44:26

Unwoven here, but this is a direct order

2:44:29

That in order to make sure you win the next election and we don't need to keep

2:44:33

funding you or or projecting our lending our soft power apparatus to prop you

2:44:37

up

2:44:37

Arrest these people so they can't run against you again. Go to the next one

2:44:41

Can you zoom out?

2:44:45

It's not just telling them that you must do it if you want to get usaid support

2:44:50

like the you know

2:44:51

Ukraine uh, you know

2:44:54

Ukraine burisma loan type thing

2:44:56

But here's what says the new government should therefore focus attention on

2:44:58

whether and how suspect almost can be punished

2:45:00

At present there are a number of cases that should be tried immediately the chutzpah

2:45:06

the frigging chutzpah

2:45:08

This is a foreign cut for as far as the polish people's people are concerned.

2:45:14

This is a foreign government

2:45:16

it's foreign cia front apparatus

2:45:21

Imploring their own elected government about which citizens there that they

2:45:26

need to arrest those citizens and even giving them the list of targets

2:45:30

Imagine if the russian ministry of affairs sent donald trump said not only do

2:45:35

you have to

2:45:36

uh, you know, uh arrest

2:45:38

The remnants of the of the kamala harris joe biden campaign

2:45:42

But we're giving you the list of target names. Here's who pam bondy the

2:45:47

attorney general must

2:45:49

Uh file criminal indictments against this is an international incident again

2:45:52

Technically, I believe what's published here is not they're not supposed to be

2:45:56

you know

2:45:57

It does not represent it's like retweets or not endorsements, but you're paying

2:46:00

for this organization

2:46:01

You're paying for this journal and this is what they're publishing as a command

2:46:06

to a foreign country

2:46:07

This was a trump ally by the way the the the pis party, which is another part

2:46:11

of this net is doing a boomerang attack

2:46:13

By preventing pis popularity in poland they do a boomerang attack against the

2:46:18

foreign policy

2:46:19

international coalition that trump has

2:46:22

So here are the cases these include the 2015 appointment of judges

2:46:26

So going so arresting people for appointing judges

2:46:30

Here's another one to arrange a supposedly unconstitutional presidential

2:46:33

election by mail-in voting during the pandemic

2:46:36

w2etf we hate rail the

2:46:39

It was practically a crime to not support uh mail-in mail-in voting

2:46:44

With the with the national down for democracy here, but over there

2:46:47

It's it's they're saying it's a crime to have done it

2:46:50

And then you know range the supposedly unconstitutional president election by

2:46:55

mail-in voting during the pandemic

2:46:57

Wow, yes, and again, we can get all into this usaid ne d rabbit's nest and all

2:47:03

the domestic entangments of all it

2:47:04

And also the 2023 visa scandal. Oh, yeah, uh, yeah

2:47:08

Like this is the same thing they do if you you've ever seen alejandro mayorkas's

2:47:12

visa scandal from when he was in the obama dhs

2:47:15

And he was the deputy there you can pull this up on google. I believe it's 2015

2:47:18

Art the guy who was our head of dhs, which is the domestic interplay with all

2:47:23

these foreign blob organizations

2:47:26

Was busted by his own inspector general

2:47:28

in this in

2:47:30

Doing fast pass no look expedited vita visas for for uh, you know for obama

2:47:35

political donors

2:47:36

And not have putting it through the process, you know just to and the visa

2:47:40

scandals are all over this

2:47:41

You know, it was john brennan as ci station chief by the way in in saudi arabia

2:47:46

In in the romp to 9 11 who issue who together with the u.s consulate

2:47:54

Issued the visas to 15 of the 19 9 11 hijackers that was our visas now look

2:47:59

there were only 11 of the 19 were saudis

2:48:01

They were actually giving saudi visas to non-saudis and 19 15 of the 19

2:48:06

You can read all about this in in the guy who ran the visa desk

2:48:09

For that u.s consulate is j. Michael springman. He wrote a book called uh visas

2:48:13

for terrorists

2:48:14

Um, uh, you know where he goes over how the whole the whole thing was done

2:48:20

But wait wait i'm not done. There's there's one more there's can you on on that?

2:48:24

Can you pull up the fourth the fourth the fourth thing?

2:48:27

Because it's a doozy. So go to the go to the next one

2:48:32

These are just illustrative tips the cases and maybe just the tip of the

2:48:36

iceberg

2:48:37

Of who our cia front group our usaid operations arm is saying must be done

2:48:43

Naturally the leader of the law and justice party himself the democratically

2:48:48

elected president

2:48:49

Hey

2:48:50

Does what happened to donald trump now?

2:48:52

After the transitional justice that happened when biden justice department took

2:48:56

power starting to make a little bit more sense now

2:48:59

Should be held responsible but legally proving allegations against him will

2:49:03

likely be difficult damn

2:49:04

The problem is is we don't have a case we want to arrest him

2:49:06

But uh, we actually don't really have anything good to get him on so let's get

2:49:10

all his lieutenants

2:49:11

Uh, and again

2:49:13

The objective

2:49:15

pacification stability you don't need to worry about them winning the next

2:49:19

election

2:49:19

populism

2:49:21

As a political possibility in poland will be stamped out

2:49:26

Because the intelligence networks and the money arm of usaid and the corrupted

2:49:30

and warped prosecutors are all on the take

2:49:33

jesus

2:49:35

By the multiply this problem basically in every country on earth because you

2:49:37

know, we can get to a dozen of these here's a fun

2:49:40

Can I do a fun exercise real quick?

2:49:42

Go to google.com

2:49:44

And just you know that I mentioned this exercise before and just literally

2:49:47

We're just going to go maybe five six pages and just read what what pops up and

2:49:51

I haven't even

2:49:53

Fully done this exercise i'm just

2:49:55

I'm so confident in what i'm about to say that we that I that we can do it live

2:49:59

Go to google and type in usaid and then again bullying quotes the phrase quote

2:50:04

judicial reform

2:50:05

And I can also show you i've you know showed something okay, all right

2:50:10

So here you go. Let's just go through a list of countries that we are whether

2:50:13

we are seizing the judiciary

2:50:15

We are influencing the judges the courts the legal system the criminal justice

2:50:19

system the prosecutors

2:50:20

Okay, let's just start at the top

2:50:22

Okay, so, uh, what is that country click on that link for a second then go back

2:50:26

in the project in the republic. What republic is that?

2:50:31

Okay, serbia. Oh, what do you know we're back to dualipa?

2:50:34

You can't stop now. All right, so so we are we are

2:50:39

So that us that atlantic council uh distinguished leadership award is starting

2:50:43

to make a little bit more sense now

2:50:44

There's an in process uh attempt to

2:50:47

Basically bribe and co-opt the very same criminal justice system that

2:50:52

Our state-sponsored uh musical performers

2:50:56

I shouldn't say sponsors our state awarded uh ones are are calling to take

2:51:00

action against okay, let's look at what's the next one

2:51:01

This one didn't come up

2:51:03

They gave me a blank page for I mean their website's down

2:51:06

I don't know okay for advancing you eu integration can we just see the country

2:51:09

name in number two

2:51:09

It didn't I don't really didn't okay eu integration that's like for example

2:51:13

They want to you know fold these you know

2:51:15

The ukraine into the eu right there's been a big you know big thing about this

2:51:20

join the market, you know to also join nato

2:51:22

That's that's what this is

2:51:23

How do we get the criminal justice system on board, you know with basically

2:51:26

criminalizing opposition to it?

2:51:27

Okay, uh, and we can keep wait just keep keep scrolling down

2:51:30

We're just gonna do this for like four or five pages

2:51:32

I just want to you know, like literally every single one of these is a

2:51:35

government program

2:51:36

Okay, so here there that that one above was drc with democrat republic of congo.

2:51:40

Okay, we're how we are uh taking over the court systems in in congo

2:51:44

All right, go on go on to the next page or here. Okay, uh, yeah next page

2:51:49

Okay, so let's see here. Uh, okay more on more on congo. Okay, uh, uzbekistan

2:51:54

we're doing this in uzbekistan

2:51:56

albania we're doing it in albania

2:51:58

Uh, yeah, it keeps going down here. Let's see el salvador. We were doing it in

2:52:03

el salvador

2:52:04

This is one of the reasons you can imagine bukele was the first one on x to say

2:52:08

Oh my god, there's no more rental rights in el salvador anymore

2:52:12

And why was us aid so opposed to what we were doing getting rid of the drug

2:52:15

networks? Okay, here's here's for ukraine. Here's for uh, uh

2:52:19

Central america. Here's uh more for serbia. Here's for georgia

2:52:23

Every this is stock standard doctrine

2:52:26

It's the same usa truman show everywhere we go. This thing has been dialed in

2:52:31

for 60 years

2:52:32

And that's why I say it's gonna take 50 years to untangle this because you're

2:52:36

gonna run to political headwinds the whole time

2:52:39

You you don't think you're gonna have money flowing back

2:52:41

By the way, they're gonna go straight to their partners in europe

2:52:44

And you know around the world to to do top-up funding for what they lose

2:52:47

From from uh from us aid for example, they might go to the european

2:52:51

You know uh endowment for democracy they might go the eu may have to start

2:52:55

making funds to uh, you know to these us anti-trump networks

2:52:59

They may have to tap into their allies in china or their you know their allies

2:53:05

and other central american

2:53:07

or uh, or south american governments but

2:53:09

Mark my words that that usa truman show that joint, you know

2:53:18

These censors in exile these, you know regime changers in exile right now are

2:53:23

going to glob on

2:53:24

To every international ally the human can't humanly can they will be they will

2:53:29

be

2:53:30

Pressurizing the united nations they'll be pressurizing multilateral

2:53:34

organizations like nato the eu

2:53:36

Uh and and you know even some of these economic development packs

2:53:40

Uh to use the critical components they have there and sometimes dominant spot

2:53:44

They have there to weaponize those assets and that gets back to this sort of eu

2:53:48

fight but

2:53:49

I can i can pause i move to brazil phone pause fp okay when i come back rap

2:53:54

music brazil yeah

2:53:55

All right perfect all right we're back yeah so first hip-hop yeah

2:53:59

Okay the thing that you think you're gonna get in trouble for

2:54:02

oh you're gonna make me do this

2:54:04

well you already teased it

2:54:13

I think it was the 2009 national a national now for democracy

2:54:17

um cuba rap journal of democracy article that i believe was co-authored by ned's

2:54:23

founder carl gershman

2:54:24

um you know who openly

2:54:26

said that ned does what the cia used to do that they effectively took the baton

2:54:31

from it and again

2:54:32

the cia's cia has copies cia has copies according to the washington post and

2:54:36

new york times of every grant ned makes

2:54:39

um

2:54:40

when when you look at the analysis the in-house analysis done by ned there

2:54:45

that there was this dense interplay between the afro cuban population

2:54:50

and the drug networks in in cuba

2:54:54

and then you look at the role of hip-hop and drug culture

2:54:59

in retailing

2:55:02

what is wholesaled

2:55:04

in obviously us aid cia

2:55:10

pentagon

2:55:10

narco networks like for example we talked about the mujahideen narco network

2:55:16

they even they even set up a cia bank right there to back it

2:55:20

we did the same thing in 1960 you know usaid set up in 1961

2:55:24

at this at the very moment two weeks before usaid was created jfk awarded the

2:55:29

green beret to the special forces

2:55:31

just two weeks before that uh then he creates us that was october

2:55:35

1961 november 1961 he creates us aid

2:55:39

december 1961 one month after he launches operation pin cushion push pin

2:55:45

cushion in laos

2:55:46

for the u.s special forces to train and recruit hillside gorillas in laos

2:55:51

who are primarily funded by the drug networks that they sit on in the golden

2:55:55

triangle they sat on the opium

2:55:57

of the of the golden triangle and the way they financed the their own guerrilla

2:56:02

war c i c i backed

2:56:03

war and this is all well known ving pao was the cia it was the commander there

2:56:08

of the cia mercenary rebel forces there

2:56:12

in in uh you know this is 1961 to 1967 in this period that i'm talking about

2:56:16

special forces go

2:56:17

over there to recruit these hillside guerrillas they form an army ving pao is

2:56:21

is made the head of

2:56:22

it this is going to connect to the rap thing in a sec um ving pao was uh uh was

2:56:29

financing the the cia's

2:56:31

mercenary army by retailing the the opium from laos into uh into these networks

2:56:37

in southeast asia like

2:56:38

the cia proprietary banks like everyone can look up nugen hand bank or castle

2:56:42

bank and trust these cia

2:56:44

banks that were set up to launder basically drug proceeds and they all got in a

2:56:48

lot of trouble for

2:56:48

this in uh a few decades ago now the problem was is they couldn't sell enough

2:56:54

because they were a

2:56:55

scrappy little upstart you know group of hillside gorillas so what did usa do

2:57:00

in 19 in you in 1967

2:57:03

this is the 1960s how long this has been going on um so it was they were

2:57:08

recruited by special forces they were managed by the central intelligence

2:57:11

agency usa provided the

2:57:14

financing and this is all in according to and in the senate testimony of uh al

2:57:20

professor alfred

2:57:21

mccoy this is a book called the politics of heroin in southeast asia he's

2:57:25

testified from the senate

2:57:26

foreign relations committee in 1972 he detailed all this in his book but usa

2:57:33

financially provided the

2:57:35

financial assistance for ving pao and his narco terrorist network to purchase

2:57:42

two airplanes from

2:57:43

two cia proprietary uh companies one of them was air america another one was

2:57:48

continental air services

2:57:49

both of these have been revealed in subsequent years to be cia proprietary

2:57:53

airlines so the cia commander

2:57:57

the commander of the cia rebel army buys two planes from two cia airlines and

2:58:02

then uses them to traffic

2:58:04

and retail the drugs by selling them to the market in vietnam where where we

2:58:08

had special forces boots on

2:58:10

the ground so basically it was wholesaled by the cia in that case and then it

2:58:15

was uh the logistics for

2:58:18

that network were provided by usaid and then it was retailed to poor unsuspecting

2:58:22

um souls uh all over

2:58:25

southeast asia play the same game in the golden crescent with afghanistan uh

2:58:30

play the same game with the

2:58:32

with the cocaine trade in uh in its route from peru and bolivia uh up into columbia

2:58:37

and then up into the

2:58:38

the distribution networks in miami los angeles chicago you name it the

2:58:44

when you start having organized crime and drug and drugs um as as the as the

2:58:54

front end

2:58:55

that that retails the products and services that that are wholesale then part

2:59:01

of a

2:59:02

intelligence or military operation you know you can't sell those drugs by

2:59:07

having someone with a

2:59:09

department of defense id badge on the street corner uh you know on 187th and

2:59:17

broadway uh those there

2:59:20

are retail networks for that and that is the role of many of these drug mule

2:59:24

and organized crime uh

2:59:27

networks all over the world and i have serious concerns about um networks in

2:59:35

chicago i mean you

2:59:37

know gary webb obviously wrote all about this in dark alliance and uh you know

2:59:41

there's all sorts of

2:59:42

fantastic books on all this if you want to read more like operation gladio by

2:59:45

paul williams

2:59:46

um and uh you mean there's there's there's so much in this field but the role

2:59:51

of of narcotics

2:59:53

is in uh in financing black budget military covert operations in every major

3:00:01

place they spring um

3:00:04

is is a is a black box that is not my crusade i i frankly again i wish we didn't

3:00:10

we didn't even go

3:00:10

here because but i do feel like you do need to have a a side eye glimpse into

3:00:15

some of these worlds to

3:00:16

understand internet censorship because you are going to find usaid ngos uh if

3:00:23

bukele had not done the

3:00:25

radical reforms that he had had the internet would have been completely censored

3:00:30

by usaid and the

3:00:30

state department in order to rig hearts and minds against against him because

3:00:36

they would have they

3:00:37

would want to stop him from cleaning out the these drug gangs he was stopping

3:00:40

from cleaning up the crime

3:00:42

you're going to see the same thing about uh fact checkers in pakistan and you

3:00:47

know for example

3:00:48

according to the gray zone report on on uh on usaid and ned in bangladesh and

3:00:56

in fact this is

3:00:56

actually i believe on the us embassy in in pakistan's uh us embassy in pakistan's

3:01:02

website the countering

3:01:03

misinformation training seminar they had with the guy who's now the top farm

3:01:07

advisor in pakistan and they

3:01:08

brought in the executive director of politifact uh flew them all the way out to

3:01:12

the u.s embassy

3:01:14

in pakistan to train journalists about uh about how to counter misinformation

3:01:20

the same journalist

3:01:21

training seminars seminars we're seeing you inner news do we see seps do you

3:01:25

know we see the atlanta

3:01:26

council do um but i come back to um the u.s institute for peace on a live url

3:01:36

as we speak

3:01:38

not even two years ago made an impassioned plea to the taliban to keep 95

3:01:43

percent of the world's

3:01:45

heroin flowing you have to explain that to the american people that is the

3:01:50

state department's policy

3:01:53

if u.s u.s institute of peace is not going to go rogue against the state

3:01:56

department foreign policy there

3:01:58

because they're funded by the state department um you see the same thing with

3:02:03

these isis terrorist drug

3:02:05

narco networks anyone remember the wikileaks email jake sullivan to hillary clinton

3:02:10

while hillary

3:02:10

clinton was secretary of state isis is on our side in syria well that means the

3:02:15

more of those poppy crops

3:02:17

that get uh retailed off to uh isis networks the more powerful and well-financed

3:02:25

they are the more they

3:02:27

can pay their soldiers or stop their soldiers from defecting as uh from being

3:02:30

mercenaries and lo and

3:02:31

behold that same network just toppled the syrian government and i should note

3:02:36

structuring through

3:02:37

usa is is the is the sauce to this because the there is a sitting tweet from

3:02:42

the u.s embassy in syria

3:02:45

from 2017 when trump was wiping out isis that put a 10 million dollar bounty on

3:02:51

the head of muhammad

3:02:52

al-jalani the current the commander of those forces uh the current basically

3:02:57

head of state in the

3:02:58

interim government in syria there was a 10 million dollar bounty on his head

3:03:03

under trump uh they made

3:03:05

the argument that his hts group group was an al-qaeda spin-off and no al-qaeda

3:03:10

allowed well

3:03:11

according to his own military generals who said this openly in mainstream media

3:03:17

after after the fact

3:03:18

we were constantly playing shell games with the numbers to hide the troop

3:03:22

activity and and uh you

3:03:24

know and what we were doing on the ground in syria and and in the broader

3:03:28

region

3:03:30

if you don't need a presidential finding to to finance a terrorist group or a

3:03:33

paramilitary group

3:03:34

it's too dirty for ci president won't approve run through usaid and what does

3:03:39

this have to do with

3:03:40

hip-hop well you have these these narco networks like for example like what i

3:03:46

was saying about um

3:03:48

the usaid bought the airplanes for the ci for the front for the the wholesalers

3:03:56

to to move it to the

3:03:57

retailers and when when you have these this intersection between hip-hop and

3:04:02

the drug economy

3:04:04

hip-hop popularizing it you know you have a lot of these rappers who've said

3:04:07

you know we're told by

3:04:09

our promoters or our managers to you know you know lean into that stuff you

3:04:14

have the whole uh organized

3:04:17

crime gang i'll give an example this is in gary webb's dark alliance where he

3:04:20

goes through this network

3:04:21

from you know basically the cia uh playing us and the war and the defense

3:04:26

department playing a leading

3:04:27

role in propping up these narcotics trades in south america because they were

3:04:31

pumping up right-wing

3:04:32

death squads and in and uh and right-wing paramilitary narco gang networks that

3:04:40

were violent and effectively

3:04:42

shut down left-wing marxist theology movements who are considered pro-soviet

3:04:47

this i have a lot of this for

3:04:48

example with iran contra and the and the reagan reagan years so you know he

3:04:52

makes a very compelling case

3:04:54

about the role of of the u.s intelligence community and at the wholesale level

3:04:58

in peru and bolivia

3:05:00

and at the you know and at the actual processing uh in in columbia and then the

3:05:04

movement uh and transport

3:05:06

to the uh to the gangs in los angeles and miami and chicago and the like and

3:05:11

that wholesale movement

3:05:12

effectively goes from you know langley slash crystal city uh in in dc dc virginia

3:05:20

um to a sort of you

3:05:23

know hispanic population uh in in south america into you know into you know

3:05:29

other you know into into

3:05:31

gangs that are retailing it uh you know in uh into these compton gangs into

3:05:38

these you know um

3:05:39

you know these chicago and and miami and new york ones you have a culture of

3:05:47

drug use that creates a

3:05:48

market for uh for selling the proceeds so that drugs can be turned into cash

3:05:55

which can then be used to

3:05:56

purchase guns and when you see this look this just liquid seamlessness there

3:06:03

and then you know i you

3:06:06

know uh i don't want to tax jamie too much but you know this this this gray

3:06:10

zone report in bangladesh

3:06:11

has specific language uh with with uh the national dama for democracy and one

3:06:17

of its subarms making

3:06:19

explicit grants to bangladeshi rap groups um for the explicit purpose of

3:06:24

getting people to take to the

3:06:26

the streets in uh in street riots and protest movements and to undermine public

3:06:31

faith and and public

3:06:32

confidence and and favorable sentiment for the then in power bangladeshi

3:06:38

government and they are in

3:06:39

you know they were they were targeting the youth movements remember when we

3:06:42

pulled up the 22 hip-hop

3:06:43

artists on screen and the whole thing was about youth mobilization these people

3:06:47

formed the front

3:06:47

end of the you know of of the of the destabilization so your argument is

3:06:52

essentially that this game plan

3:06:54

is ubiquitous and that this game plan is done in the united states too to

3:06:59

promote drug use and drug selling

3:07:01

which they profit off of i'm not even going that far what i'm saying is is

3:07:06

there's there's a useful role

3:07:08

um around you know of of music and other artistic and cultural ventures

3:07:15

for um for creating a market for something that helps us statecraft for example

3:07:22

this is the major major

3:07:24

scandal the head of the central intelligence agency uh john deusch had to had

3:07:29

to travel to compton in

3:07:30

1997 i believe that was the year in order to plead with the the black

3:07:35

population there that what had

3:07:37

happened with the cis you know role in in in the drug trade was a sort of you

3:07:41

know occasional one-off

3:07:43

accident wasn't authorized wasn't supposed to happen um but the fact is is that

3:07:48

you know those narco

3:07:49

networks supported the nicaraguan contra movement you needed a market to sell

3:07:53

it uh you know and and those

3:07:56

were those were inner city urban populations in in los angeles that were you

3:08:01

know they weren't the ones

3:08:03

growing the cocaine that was grown in in peru and bolivia and then it was

3:08:06

processed in colombia and

3:08:07

then it was you know that's all that stuff that michael rupert exposed yeah

3:08:11

there's there's been a

3:08:12

there's been a million and it's everywhere you look and it's not just south and

3:08:15

and then again i don't

3:08:16

want to you know this stuff is all to me just interesting i don't have a hard

3:08:21

opinion on it i i uh i

3:08:24

almost don't want to take away from you know so much of the important factual

3:08:29

stuff where i have the

3:08:31

receipts on screen but what i'm saying is you are going to see resistance from

3:08:34

very strange pockets

3:08:35

as you do this distinct entangling process how many people knew that you know

3:08:40

an arm of the state

3:08:40

department right next door to it that gets all of its money from the state

3:08:43

department who sets the

3:08:44

foreign policy is telling the taliban to keep the drug networks open or that

3:08:49

same arm is going after

3:08:50

bukele uh when he tries when he tries to arrest the drug criminals in um in in

3:08:55

el salvador which by the

3:08:57

the way was the you know the most intense of these narco right-wing you know

3:09:02

death squads uh you know

3:09:05

during the um you know during the the cold war um and we pump up every cultural

3:09:11

vector we can again

3:09:12

you know watch taking down a dictator that documentary and look at the role of

3:09:16

music

3:09:16

in in the state department's eyes in being able to galvanize street protest

3:09:21

movements gets everyone on the

3:09:22

street united uh gets everyone listening to the same thing they're all sort of

3:09:26

uh you know aligned like a

3:09:28

magnet uh i mean there's there's i mean even look at places like the azov battalion

3:09:33

and how they sort

3:09:34

of grew out of this black metal rap or you know black metal music uh you know

3:09:39

coalition you know in uh

3:09:41

with with you know highly extremist lyrics and whatnot in ukraine the same sort

3:09:44

of extremist lyrics you saw in

3:09:46

the bangladesh rap songs or the call to take to the streets and the cuban ones

3:09:49

and again this has been

3:09:51

going on a long time look at the look at the lyrics of a of a riot song and

3:09:56

remember this they literally

3:09:58

are standing at the secretary of state's podium um you know uh with arm in arm

3:10:05

with the u.s state

3:10:06

department well you know our so and and everyone can look up you know rock you

3:10:13

know ci's rolling rock

3:10:15

and whatnot there's great guardian articles about all this as well but um it's

3:10:19

it's more to say

3:10:21

coming back to this usa truman show that everything and anything can be an

3:10:25

instrument of statecraft

3:10:26

whether that's the prosecutors the universities the unions the media the social

3:10:30

media

3:10:32

arts dance this is where you get these transgender dance festivals and this

3:10:36

demographic segmentation

3:10:38

you know to see who hates the government well if the if the government is

3:10:41

cracking down on

3:10:42

transgenderism or is not kind to it or they feel like uh you know they want

3:10:46

more rights that's a

3:10:47

useful demographic as a cleavage point for the u.s state department to capacity

3:10:51

build fun flow money to

3:10:53

so that they can be used as a battering ram and i'm not endorsing that but that

3:10:57

is just

3:10:57

why we work i understand what you're saying okay we're running out of time so

3:11:00

let's get to brazil

3:11:02

yeah okay so jamie i sent you a bunch of these um you know screenshots that uh

3:11:07

that you might you

3:11:09

my foundation is going to be publishing in our final report but i wanted to

3:11:12

just go through these

3:11:13

here because we've been talking about the the role of of the criminal justice

3:11:18

system more than anything

3:11:20

you know media is rigged okay it's a headline it's a reputational smudge it can

3:11:26

cost you your job

3:11:27

when the criminal justice system and the judges are rigged and the prosecutors

3:11:31

are rigged

3:11:31

you don't even have a country anymore because they can arrest the president

3:11:36

they can arrest the

3:11:37

they can arrest the the politicians um and uh it's it's a shortcut to control

3:11:43

over the over the whole

3:11:44

side and we we went through examples with you know ukraine burisma serbia we

3:11:48

went through that

3:11:49

whole exercise but um jamie if you can pull on screen you know just uh we can

3:11:54

just go through the the

3:11:56

the text messages this will be the last thing of usa's role with the judiciary

3:12:01

in brazil

3:12:02

and specifically against bolsonaro who is targeted by these anti-misinformation

3:12:08

populous president populous right-wing pot they called him the trump of the

3:12:11

tropics

3:12:11

um same thing part of that same international coalition let me know if you have

3:12:17

any trouble

3:12:17

okay okay start yeah well maybe if you start with the first one actually i

3:12:21

think this is it or unless

3:12:22

i'm in the wrong way well if you yeah if you know okay maybe scroll down or do

3:12:26

you see the ones where

3:12:28

you where you have where you have um yeah i'm just trying to do the lead judge

3:12:31

speaking your phone number

3:12:33

too because if i put the wrong thing on the screen your phone number is going

3:12:36

to show oh yeah sure

3:12:37

okay so how about just the pictures with the the pan okay here you go so yeah

3:12:43

we can start we start with

3:12:44

that one uh right there that image right there does that um does that guy look

3:12:49

familiar this is the lord

3:12:51

the lord actually he actually looks kind of like a mixture of both of us joe it's

3:12:55

kind of funny

3:12:56

but this is the man that they call the lord voldemort judge of brazil this is

3:13:01

the head of the tse the

3:13:02

censorship court which is the subgroup of their supreme court and here you see

3:13:07

a seminar uh that

3:13:10

that he is being trained in where is is that name ring a bell seps uh how many

3:13:17

hours have you and i

3:13:18

now spent talking about the steps program the usaid program that that

3:13:22

explicitly set its its job to get

3:13:24

foreign countries and foreign courts to pass censorship laws this is usa-aid

3:13:28

funded and implemented by the

3:13:29

national down for democracy um this is seps.org the recruit but this gets much

3:13:35

if you if you go back

3:13:36

to the the panel i'll show you more on this all right you know okay yeah okay

3:13:40

here's another one

3:13:42

seps core partner uh ifes is this is basically the uh election strengthening

3:13:46

teaming up directly with

3:13:48

brazil's tse court that is the censorship court that seized x's that that shut

3:13:53

down x and that seized

3:13:55

starlink's assets and that effectively criminalized the speech of virtually any

3:13:59

significant pro bolsonaro

3:14:00

voice in brazil this is our usaid network doing the training doing the

3:14:06

networking and if you go back

3:14:09

go back i'm just going to show a couple more of these okay this is inner news

3:14:13

inner news who we covered

3:14:15

500 million dollars from uh from usaid every single year in brazil doing

3:14:20

training seminars for how to flag

3:14:23

pro bolsonaro dis disinformation i can go on and on i got layers of all these

3:14:27

different judges and

3:14:29

and the the pitches to the prosecutors to arrest it the whole thing was a usa

3:14:34

truman show taking over

3:14:35

the judiciary or at least substantially influencing and tilted to take out

3:14:39

their political enemy bolsonaro

3:14:41

the whole way down and x is still banned in brazil um no i believe x uh you

3:14:46

know

3:14:48

uh entered into compliance by by taking certain actions so they have to censor

3:14:55

yes i believe they

3:14:56

yes they're they're still subject to the to the edicts of the court i should

3:14:59

note oh say lift ban

3:15:01

october 8th yeah after it pays a five million dollar fine right right but and

3:15:07

by the way but the ban the

3:15:08

ban is in place essentially to keep bolsonaro from gaining power well right

3:15:12

well they wanted to they

3:15:13

wanted to make sure that you know again it's the same thing with poland they

3:15:17

want to achieve stability

3:15:18

democratic stability so that he can't rise hugely popular right now it was a

3:15:22

razor close election

3:15:24

and remember you know we pull a lot of tricks in order you know around that and

3:15:28

you're going to find

3:15:29

a lot more of that when you look into the the role of unions like the national

3:15:33

for democracy solidarity

3:15:34

center um and uh and and the whole the whole suite there uh remember we

3:15:39

literally pulled favors with

3:15:41

taiwan this is reported in the in the financial times in order to get them the

3:15:46

the semiconductor

3:15:47

chips to build the voting machines against against bolsonaro's wishes the cia

3:15:51

head of the cia went

3:15:52

down and threatened him bill burns did the head of the pentagon went down and

3:15:56

you met with the army

3:15:57

to tell them you know you have to trust the result of the election is that lloyd

3:16:01

austin the head of the

3:16:01

pentagon um you know we're saying the head of the cia the head of the military

3:16:06

we're running

3:16:06

semiconductor chips just so that they can make uh voting machines that the

3:16:11

elected head of state

3:16:12

doesn't want uh uh and then you know we're we're we're funding their you know

3:16:17

workers movements through

3:16:18

so we have a very specific outcome that we want and then we also make sure that

3:16:23

they use voting machines

3:16:24

that we provide i'm not even weighing into the voting machine issue except to

3:16:28

say that it's it's very

3:16:29

strange that that we would divert semiconductor supplies bound for the us

3:16:33

during a critical shortage

3:16:35

and give them to a foreign government to put in voting machines that the that

3:16:39

the elected head of

3:16:40

state doesn't want that's a very curious thing you can read about all the you

3:16:43

know inside details of

3:16:44

that published in the financial times and in other places jesus

3:16:50

it's also daunting you know it's just it's so overwhelming

3:16:54

how do you sleep no mostly i don't um but uh we we have an opportunity we've

3:17:06

already done more than

3:17:08

anyone who's ever done no foreign facing government agent no no cog in the

3:17:15

wheel of this dirty tricks

3:17:17

apparatus has ever uh had 14 000 99.8 percent of the you know the workforce

3:17:26

laid off the you know the

3:17:28

the name taken off the building with from a month in terms of the the lightning

3:17:32

speed of it um but i'm

3:17:35

i feel a a sense of hope and optimism and a kind of spiritual fulfillment if

3:17:43

that's too big a phrase to

3:17:44

say but i don't you don't see me happy or doing cartwheels or it doesn't really

3:17:50

show on my face

3:17:51

because i know the the size the the the the scale and the duration of this

3:17:58

fight is going to continue

3:18:00

for the the rest of my lifetime and so i don't consider this is not a sprint

3:18:04

period we're running

3:18:05

fast but it's a marathon the whole way what's unbelievably baffling to me is

3:18:09

the complete absence

3:18:11

of the coverage of all these things that should be very concerning in

3:18:15

mainstream media complete absence

3:18:18

the the the all the dis all the discussion the negative anti-trump discussion

3:18:25

about us aid shutting

3:18:26

down is all the good that it does and then also you're going to get access to

3:18:31

people's private data

3:18:33

that's all you're hearing you're hearing the the gaslighting spin is those two

3:18:37

things right but

3:18:39

every single one of those people need to understand the category they talk

3:18:42

about public health and all

3:18:43

the lives and how many more people are going to have you know aids and hiv in

3:18:47

2014 u.s aid was

3:18:49

busted running a covert operation where according to their own you know uh you

3:18:53

know people who are

3:18:54

involved in the operation they set up an hiv uh uh prevention program uh in

3:18:59

foreign countries in or

3:19:01

because it would be the perfect excuse because counterintelligence would never

3:19:04

think that that

3:19:05

the hiv clinics were that were the place that they were using as you know as

3:19:09

key nodes and the regime

3:19:10

change network how many other facilities they were caught there how many others

3:19:14

but in every single

3:19:15

one of those it's dual purpose because the fundamental reason you do this out

3:19:19

of us aid is to dupe people

3:19:22

and this puts this puts our oversight bodies in a difficult spot let's just say

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we're funding

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transgender dance festivals in in some country because uh turns out they uh

3:19:33

they really dislike a

3:19:34

government that we consider authoritarian and so you could actually see a sort

3:19:38

of i don't know the

3:19:39

situation in venezuela but let's just say that the trump administration has

3:19:42

been at war with maduro and

3:19:44

uh you know wants to you know pursue a policy of turning over that government

3:19:48

and it just so happens that

3:19:50

that government is persecuting the transgender population and the transgender

3:19:54

population if

3:19:55

they could just be built up more you know would be able to convert you know uh

3:19:59

convert more hearts

3:20:00

and minds to vote against maduro well you could see a sort of if i may say

3:20:05

again i'm not saying

3:20:07

this should be done i'm just saying you could see a sort of mega foreign policy

3:20:10

uh explanation for

3:20:12

funding transgender dance festivals in venezuela if that's what the baseline

3:20:16

assessment reveals the problem is

3:20:18

is american people are never going to be allowed to know about it because

3:20:21

imagine the senate oversight

3:20:23

committee why are we funding these transgender dance festivals in venezuela oh

3:20:26

actually because

3:20:27

we're running a uh a lie there by the way everyone in venezuela can watch this

3:20:32

live hearing uh the whole

3:20:33

thing is actually a carefully constructed lie because we're cynically exploiting

3:20:36

the transgender people

3:20:37

to serve as battering rams against the the head of state we want to overthrow

3:20:42

but we have not declared

3:20:43

that publicly i mean you we're back to plausible deniability jesus

3:20:53

this is a lot i think it's probably good to end right here okay but uh thank

3:20:57

you mike thank you for

3:20:59

everything thanks for being you through like i don't think a lot of people

3:21:02

would chase this down like

3:21:03

this and i know this is a lot of weight it's a quite a burden that you're

3:21:07

carrying but uh i mean i think

3:21:10

you're being vindicated in like a scale that i've never seen before it's pretty

3:21:14

it's pretty impressive

3:21:16

and all the stuff that you were talking about before all these documents were

3:21:20

exposed before the

3:21:21

doge went into usa you were dead right about all of it thank you and again i

3:21:25

don't want to get you

3:21:26

in trouble with with this stuff you know some of the topics that we talked

3:21:29

about like the the drug stuff

3:21:31

and the rap stuff and the you know some of the the terrorism stuff is is not my

3:21:36

primary focus i'm not

3:21:38

making hard facial claims there i don't care about the taylor swift thing it's

3:21:41

frankly it's it's just

3:21:43

fascinating that you would see that on a native like this is what i care about

3:21:48

is you know what

3:21:49

we talked about with it's control over media it's control over prosecutors it's

3:21:52

control over social

3:21:53

media and pushing you know social media censorship and these sorts of things

3:21:57

that you know that we

3:21:58

have a once in a lifetime chance to reform and uh i want to thank you and

3:22:01

express my personal gratitude

3:22:04

um for for having these difficult and i'm sure taxing conversations to crack it

3:22:09

all open my pleasure

3:22:10

thank you thank you all right bye everybody