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New Albany And Old

An Absract But Concrete Warning About The End Of  Humanity
Data Centers Stripped to Blood, Machines and Crucified Peoples

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New Albany And Old

An Absract But Concrete Warning About The End Of  Humanity ...Data Centers Stripped to Blood, Machines and Crucified Peoples

Whitney Webb Reader vol 1

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Chapter 6 — How the Epstein Network is Privatizing Government, Building the Surveillance State ...and Bringing it to Market

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Chris Hedges: The proliferation of data centers built to process immense amounts of data sets and train AI models has spawned widespread grassroots backlash by a diverse coalition of Americans across the country. The people behind these industrial behemoths and the legislative infrastructure that has laid the path to their development, however, are scarcely understood. In a recent article for Unlimited Hangout, Whitney Webb investigates the Silicon Heartland or the part of the Columbus metropolitan area that is being rapidly developed into a major hub for technological development, hosting big tech campuses, semiconductor production facilities, and massive data centers.Webb reveals that at the center of this technological development drive is Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent benefactor, Les Wexner, the billionaire founder of Bath and Body Works with ties to organized crime, who co-founded the Mega Group, a cohort of Jewish entrepreneurs, who once met twice a year to discuss where to target their philanthropic investments. Birthright Israel was one of the most prominent initiatives spun out of the group. Through a dizzying array of public private partnerships and alleged shell companies,

Wexner has gained control of key real estate that is now being utilized by military contracting big tech companies, enriching himself and the corporations he's lured to the silicon heartland along the way. But it is how Wexner has accumulated this leverage that illuminates the dark inner workings of our political system. These public private partnerships, Webb reveals, despite the benality of their name, function as a way for oligarchs to funnel taxpayer money into privately developed business projects. These agreements also ensh the money objectives and players of the private sector so deeply into the legislative process that they empower the private end of these partnerships to take defacto control of their government collaborators.

In doing so, these oligarchs facilitate a quasil legal corporatization of government.Inevitably, as data centers increasingly become a key component of the nation's surveillance infrastructure, other centers of power enter the mix as well with national security actors, defense executives, Israeli business interests, Vivvec Ramisami, Peter Teal, allies and vice president JD Vance lingering on the peripheries of the public private framework advancing this data center deluge. Joining me to discuss the legal infrastructure and networks behind some of our modern surveillance state is investigative journalist and author of one nation under blackmail, Whitney Webb.

So let's begin with Wexner, who he is and perhaps he has close ties to Epstein. You can speak about that as well.

Chapter 2: Who is Leslie Wexner?Whitney Webb: Sure. Thanks so much for having me back on, Chris. So yes, Leslie Wexner is probably best known for one of two things. either being the richest man in the state of Ohio or being the most well-known benefactor of Jeffrey Epstein, at least on paper.So Leslie Wexner created a large what is now a large conglomerate of companies now under the parent company LB Brands. But some of the best known companies that he has been behind are longtime staples of American malls. Bath and Body Works being one, Abracrombi and Fitch, the Limited, Limited 2, etc., etc. Some of my reporting on him in conjunction with Epstein has focused on things like his organized crime connections which were alleged by Columbus Local Police as they were investigating the death of one of his lawyers or one of the lawyers rather of the limited named Arthur Shapiro in the 1980s, who was deemed to have been murdered in what was referred to as a mob style hit back I believe, 1985 or so. Wexner and his close associate John Kesler were named as suspects and their ties to organized crime were detailed in a report that was heavily censored by the Columbus police chief at the time and ended up being revealed inadvertently through a Freedom of Information Act request by filed by local journalist Bob Fraus in the late 90s. [There is a record of  [that and various organized crime connections that were alleged record.] that in in various organized crime colle connections that were alleged to you know, a record of that.Notably, Kesler is the person that created with Leslie Wexter  the New Albany Company, a private company that has essentially taken control of what was once a very small suburb outside of Columbus, Ohio called New Albany ...and through a series of efforts to drastically alter not just local law but also state law, the New Albany Company was able to become the de facto local government of the town of New Albany by entering into a public private partnership with the local government of New Albany.

But in some of these law changes they lobbied for including at the state level allowed the new Albany company created by Wexner and Kesler to basic to do unprecedented things for a private company like tax local residents and issue bonds and all sorts of things that are normally meant to be the business of local governments. And Kesler for example has said that basically the new Albany local government in their partnership is extremely pro-development and adheres to a master plan that was developed by the new Albany company. So this is one of Wexner's other endeavors aside from his association with Jeffrey Epstein and longtime partnership there, and corporate his corporate behemoth Elbrands, that he runs that made him a billionaire. Uh but this is one of the other things that he has been developing for some time ... the town of New Albany is part of the broader Columbus region home to the vast majority of Ohio's data centers. So Ohio is currently, I believe, fourth in the United States for having the most data centers behind Virginia, Texas, and California, ... they have about 193 data centers currently, and 121 of those are in and around New Albany.

Chapter 3: What is the agenda behind the data centers?
Chris Hedges: Your article shows that Wexner and various public private partnerships are serving as a key node in the development of this data center in Ohio, the Silicon Heartland. There's a much broader coalition of people and institutions that are driving the data center push, wrapping big tech, the U.S. government, elements of the military-industrial complex in the mix. What's the objective and why data centers?

(WW) In Ohio or in general?

(CH) Nationally. Nationally. Well, both, but because Ohio is kind of your case study, right?

(WW) Sure. So, um, obviously it's fair to say that the network behind the data center push is is extremely large and influential, obviously spearheaded by big tech companies that at this point have for all intents and purposes fused with the national security state. Um, and this has been ongoing for some time.
8:048 , 4 secondsSo, a good example is to look back at the 2018 National Security Commission on AI on AI that was chaired by Eric
8:148 , 14 secondsSchmidt, the former Google CEO and a close associate of Schmidt who had previously held a top position at what is now the Department of War. And
8:228 , 22 secondsbasically everyone on that commission was either you know a major executive at one of these big tech companies that is behind the data center
8:308 , 30 secondspush or figures that had previously worked for the military to establish basically the the US roadmap
8:398 , 39 secondson AI and what needed to be done for quote unquote national security purposes. Um and it's fair to say that
8:478 , 47 secondseven beyond that you can see how these these two groups have become so intertwined by the fact that the
8:548 , 54 secondsintelligence community as well as the military and other major aspects of the federal government contract extensively
9:029 , 2 secondsuh with the same the these same big tech companies and are argu arguably largely dependent on them. while at the same
9:109 , 10 secondstime a lot of these big tech oligarchs you know are major donors to our politicians. Um so on various levels
9:209 , 20 secondsum they have much more influence than arguably any other group right now. And I think as a a very visual example
9:289 , 28 secondsthat people will be familiar with that's a testament to this is after Trump's inauguration or during Trump's inauguration last year, you know,
9:379 , 37 secondsbehind him was a a line of who's who of big tech CEOs like Jeff Bezos and and
9:449 , 44 secondsother figures like him. Uh a testament to their role and importance in getting him elected for a second term. and he
9:509 , 50 secondshas obviously so far been generously repaying their patronage. Um but there's important people to look at too in in
9:599 , 59 secondsthe buildout of this AI den you know the data center deluge as as you called it that aren't such public public figures at this point.
10:1010 , 10 secondsSo there's a lot of AI infrastructure companies that are becoming increasingly important to this but a lot but they
10:1710 , 17 secondslargely stay out of the news. So one good example I think for this would be a company called Crusoe AI which
10:2610 , 26 secondsis for example building the Stargate project for open AI and Larry Ellison's Oracle which was announced in
10:3310 , 33 secondsthe early days of I think one of the first announcements actually of Trump soon after his inauguration this time
10:4010 , 40 secondsaround and they're very they're basically building a lot of the data centers and and working a sort of a a
10:4910 , 49 secondsmiddleman between these big tech you know companies and the actual creation and and infrastructure that they rely
10:5610 , 56 secondson and so those companies are an important part of this you know constellation of actors as well and it's also something that's happening well
11:0411 , 4 secondsbeyond the US so one of the founders of Crusoe AI for example is named Khulli Cavness and he accompanied Peter Teal
11:1311 , 13 secondson Peter the co-founder of Palunteer on his recent trip to Argentina to meet with Javier Malay. Uh later they also
11:2211 , 22 secondsmet with Chilean politicians apparently including the president of Chile though it wasn't publicly announced and also the president of
11:3011 , 30 secondsParaguay. Um and you know not long after that you know at least in the case of Malay there have been these proposals
11:3811 , 38 secondsof having you know allowing companies with no human employees that are run by AI to operate in the country. an announcement of Stargate Argentina on
11:4711 , 47 secondsbehalf of OpenAI run by Sam Elman who's closely affiliated with Peter Teal. Uh so these people are looking to build data centers really all over the world.
11:5611 , 56 secondsUm and you know why are they doing it?
12:0212 , 2 secondsWhy data centers? Um it it's essential to basically their various plans from AI which run which include not just you
12:1112 , 11 secondsknow their their plans for you know AI related businesses but also a lot of these people subscribe to specific
12:1812 , 18 secondsideologies that see that extreme investments in AI and AI compute capability are necessary in order to
12:2512 , 25 secondsfurther the development of what they call artificial general intelligence or an AI super intelligence and some of them
12:3412 , 34 secondshold an almost religious fervor, you could say, um from having for having that come to fruition and are
12:4312 , 43 secondsopenly transhumanist and think that the nature the the end goal of humanity is to have humanity merge with AI in some capacity. So they have not just the
12:5212 , 52 secondseconomic incentive, they also have this I would call it quasi religious incentive as well.
13:0213 , 2 secondsum which may help propel this along even when the economics of it don't necessarily make sense and at the end
13:0913 , 9 secondsof the day I think it's a testament to how we're sort of living in an era of this is the importance to them of computing power over people and so you
13:1913 , 19 secondsknow people that are negatively affected by them apparently there you know their concerns don't matter and there's a coordinated effort to sort of
13:2713 , 27 secondspaint any push back as being propelled by China for example, um and and various different narratives are being
13:3513 , 35 secondsfielded right now to try and manage local anger at an increasing cost of living crisis, many of which have
13:4213 , 42 secondsbeen linked to data centers particularly their power usage and their water usage. And some of these teal
13:4913 , 49 secondsor teal linked outlets like pirate wires for example have tried to push against those claims but using the data on
13:5813 , 58 secondsthe books about water usage and and some other people but in in in some other claims but in states like
14:0614 , 6 secondsCalifornia most data centers aren't required to report how much water they use. So how accurate is the data we have
14:1314 , 13 secondson it anyway? Um and a lot of data centers are moving into areas that have you know water issues or are having
14:2014 , 20 secondsdroughts already. Um and so obviously local concern about that is is is quite reasonable. But obvious you know for the
14:2814 , 28 secondsbig tech oligarchs they're not really interested in in hearing those concerns.
14:3214 , 32 secondsthey have a dedicated mission to improving AI for as I mentioned various various purposes and and moving the
14:4214 , 42 secondsUnited States further into an an AI powered you know economy.
Chapter 4: What is the vision of Big Tech?
14:4714 , 47 secondsSo could you explain what the their po people like Wexter and Teal what is their political and social vision? What
14:5514 , 55 secondsare they trying to create and how will these data centers and AI help them achieve this vision? So essentially what
15:0315 , 3 secondsWexner has done in the state of Ohio and what I detail is that he has privatized major aspects of local and state
15:1015 , 10 secondsgovernment through the through first in the example I gave earlier of New Albany and then extending beyond that
15:1815 , 18 secondsto first the Columbus region and then really the the state in entirety focusing mainly on the department of
15:2415 , 24 secondseconomic development. Um, and where that essentially intersects with people like pe like Peter Teal is his
15:3115 , 31 secondsinterest Teal's professed interest in the writings of of people like Curtis Yarvin and the neo-reactionary movement
15:4015 , 40 secondsuh who posit that the the answer to current problems with our government is to privatize the privatize the state
15:4915 , 49 secondsuh entirely and place in charge of it a CEO that would essentially operate as a dictator.
15:5615 , 56 secondsSo both men quite clearly have an interest in privatizing major aspects if not all of the US government. And so
16:0616 , 6 secondsum you know ultimately from that what does that mean? And and up until you know this point the way to achieve that
16:1316 , 13 secondsin in a in a practical sense has been to expand and grow the power of public private partnerships where almost
16:2116 , 21 secondsalways the public sector is subservient to its private sector partner. Um and it's used to enrich the private sector
16:2916 , 29 secondsuh partner and the public sector ostensibly working as a watchdog here on private sector power does not end up
16:3616 , 36 secondsfunctioning that way. Um and so ultimately this is what we're seeing I think especially with the ascendance
16:4416 , 44 secondsof oligarchs like Teal and people close to him to the halls of political power for example the best example obviously being current
16:5316 , 53 secondsvice president JD Vance is to further this so we go beyond the public private partnership model that's predominated you know for several
17:0317 , 3 secondsdecades now and move into this more extreme privatization which may happen gradually or or suddenly depending on
17:1217 , 12 secondshow they think it could best be implemented to suit their interests.
17:1717 , 17 secondsOne of the points you make in the article is that they seize I think was it they took control of the liquor tax in Ohio, but one of the points you make
Chapter 5: Privatizing state funds
17:2517 , 25 secondsis that once this public money pours into their hands, there's no accountability. Nobody knows where it goes.
17:3417 , 34 secondsYeah. So what I was talking about in that specific example is this organization that was created as essentially the the privatized version
17:4317 , 43 secondsof the state economic development authority. Um and it's called Jobs Ohio.
17:4817 , 48 secondsAnd so Jobs Ohio was allowed to purchase rights to the Ohio liquor tax
17:5417 , 54 secondsuh for I think $1.4 billion which it made back extremely quickly. Um and they
18:0218 , 2 secondsbecause they are a private company are not required to show how they use the funds they take in from the liquor tax
18:0918 , 9 secondsum and are essentially referred to as a as a dark money organization. Um they claim of course to be creating lots of
18:1718 , 17 secondsjobs by offering you know taxpayer funded through the liquor tax and other means incentives packages to a lot of
18:2618 , 26 secondsthese large data center [snorts] uh companies and other corporations that are in the same sphere that have
18:3318 , 33 secondsmoved in like Palmer Ly's Anderil which is backed by Peter Teal. Uh but Jobs
18:3918 , 39 secondsOhio has been able to supposedly you know they claim that these incentive packages help attract all of
18:4818 , 48 secondsthese businesses to the state and if they didn't exist those companies would go elsewhere. Uh but studies show that's only true in maybe 25% of cases and it's
18:5718 , 57 secondsunclear how many jobs Ohio has actually created since it since it was you know
19:0319 , 3 secondscame into existence in in 2011. Um, and if you're looking at data centers, you know, a lot has been said about how many
19:1219 , 12 secondsjobs they're going to create, but most of the jobs they create are temporary.
19:1619 , 16 secondsThey're construction jobs. And so once the data center is built, uh, most of them employ maybe 20 to 30 people per
19:2419 , 24 secondsdata center, which is not very much. And so if you consider the amount of money which is often millions poured into these incentive packages which also
19:3319 , 33 secondsinclude in Ohio sales and property tax exemptions. Um you know is it really worth it for you know 10 to you know 20
19:4119 , 41 secondsto 30 jobs per center when the losses to the Ohio taxpayer number in the millions.
19:4919 , 49 secondsAnd this was money if I remember correctly from your article that that was used to fund education. I mean to fund kind of basic services once they took it that money is gone.
20:0120 , 1 secondYeah. So if you look at Governor Mike DeWine for example he pushed through a recent spending bill that gutted
Chapter 6: Mike DeWine’s connections to Leslie Wexner
20:0820 , 8 secondsall of those services and there was efforts at the state level to push through legislation that would curb
20:1520 , 15 secondssome of these tax exemptions for data centers and Mike DeWine vetoed that. Um but you know Mike DeWine and some of
20:2420 , 24 secondsthe people that work under him have been heavily their political careers have been very related to the fortunes of
20:3220 , 32 secondsLeslie Wexner who count among their biggest donors. Um, of course it's fair to say also that Wexner donates to both parties, but the vast majority of his
20:4120 , 41 secondspatronage in the state has gone to Ohio Republicans. [snorts] Uh, Mike DeWine being no exception. And his predecessor,
20:4820 , 48 secondsuh, John Kasich was heavily funded by Wexner as well. um which seems to have resulted in part in the creations of
20:5620 , 56 secondsJobs Ohio which ended up being used to scale the model that Wexner implemented in in Columbus via the
21:0521 , 5 secondsColumbus partnership at the beginning of the article where
Chapter 7: What are public-private-partnerships?
21:1221 , 12 secondsyou're writing about how Wexler helped create a network of public private partnerships and of course as you mentioned use
21:2021 , 20 secondsbillions of dollars of a high taxpayer money to fight finance a massive welfare system for corporations.
21:2821 , 28 secondsCan you detail how the public private partnerships are put together, how they work, how
21:3621 , 36 secondsWexner and how Wexner used them for to create this vast data center development.
21:4421 , 44 secondsYeah. So the culmination of that effort is the comp is the company the that we just discussed called Jobs Ohio. Um but
21:5121 , 51 secondsit started off in in the region of Columbus. So as I mentioned earlier Wexner successfully privatized the town of New Albany which which is close
22:0022 minutesto Columbus and sits within the Columbus region. Um, and in the early 2000s, Wexner and Kesler, who created the
22:0822 , 8 secondsNational or sorry, the New Albany Company that took over that that town, uh, created something called the Columbus Partnership, which basically
22:1622 , 16 secondsbecame the deacto economic development authority. And the Columbus Partnership then spawned something that is now called One Columbus. That is the
22:2522 , 25 secondsColumbus region's economic development authority. And it is it is a public private partnership that the the
22:3322 , 33 secondsprivate sector donors to one Columbus include Wexner's companies but also include very large companies that
22:4222 , 42 secondshave a large pres presence in the state like JP Morgan for example and ones that have large data centers in the state and Columbus specific the Columbus
22:5122 , 51 secondsarea specifically like Amazon and so not surprisingly one Columbus is as
22:5822 , 58 secondsthey say is quote unquote aggressively focused on achieving e the economic development goals of its private sector
23:0523 , 5 secondspartners which includes the bu the buildout of data centers and so to facilitate that and subsidize that with taxpayer money that is what you know
23:1423 , 14 secondsthese public private partnerships are essentially doing and as I said earlier there's no proof that these are necessary to bring the vast majority of
23:2323 , 23 secondsthese companies to the region or to the state but it is a way to use taxpayer money to subsidize the the buildout of AI infrastructure on a massive scale.
23:3323 , 33 secondsand they continue to foot the bill in other ways you know via higher power bills for example which in the Columbus region in particular have you know
23:4223 , 42 secondsexploded as the data center boom in the in in the state has continued to grow and as I mentioned earlier you know
23:5123 , 51 secondsthe vast majority of data centers in the state are in that area and so after the success of the Columbus partnership
23:5923 , 59 secondsvarious other replicas you could say sp were spawned in various other parts of the state, Cleveland, Cincinnati and so
24:0624 , 6 secondson. Um until it was basically I think in in about five or six maybe seven chunks and then jobs Ohio's created and then
24:1424 , 14 secondspartners with every single one. So basically, you know, they Wexner and Kesler created the model in Columbus and
24:2324 , 23 secondsthen it's replicated in every other major metropolitan area in Ohio. And then connecting all of them is the 2011
24:3024 , 30 secondscreated jobs Ohio which John Quish as I mentioned earlier the year before Jobs Ohio was created declared
24:3824 , 38 secondsreceiving 35 gifts quote unquote from Wexner but dis declined to disclose what the gifts were and how what their
24:4724 , 47 secondsmonetary value was. And another interesting point there is that the venture capitalist from Sequoia Capital
24:5424 , 54 secondsuh Markqame also donated I I think several million dollars to Kich right before he created jobs Ohio and then
25:0325 , 3 secondsafter creating it Kich putqaame in charge of jobs Ohio. Can you talk about the ties with Israel?
Chapter 8: Israeli ties to the tech companies
25:1225 , 12 secondsI know Compass Data Centers you mentioned has Israeli ties and I'm wondering whether the pairing
25:1925 , 19 secondsbetween Wexner and Compass illustrate a network driving the development of
25:2625 , 26 secondsbig tech in the AI boom that has deep Israeli roots. Well, looking at a lot of the the tech companies and data
25:3425 , 34 secondscenter companies that have installed themselves and New Albany in particular, the vast majority of them have significant subsidiaries that operate
25:4325 , 43 secondsin the state of Israel. Um and Wexner of course is intimately related to the state of Israel through his own activities. for example, I think several
25:5125 , 51 secondsdecades ago, uh he was sort of acting as a as a middleman in some business capacities between Israel and China and
26:0026 minutesalso working on establishing Israeli businesses and helping them establish themselves and the occupied Golden
26:0726 , 7 secondsHeights among other things. And that's to say nothing of his links to the Mega Group, for example, which as you noted in your introduction, created Birthright Israel.
26:1726 , 17 secondsum and and also Jeffrey Epstein who at this point is is quite known for his his ties to former Israeli politicians
26:2726 , 27 secondsand the Israeli state. But I think it's it also speaks to sort of a broader issue to have a lot of this
26:3526 , 35 secondsinfrastructure of of technology in the US be in intimately intermingled and connected to
26:4326 , 43 secondsIsrael. And this was actually something that was furthered and and actually developed in conjunction with Netanyahu
26:5026 , 50 secondsand the so-called vulture capitalist and significant donor to neoonservative causes Paul Singer who explicitly
26:5926 , 59 secondscreated a company called Startup Nation Central with the explicit purpose of making it impossible for the US to
27:0727 , 7 secondsever significantly support the BDS movement or the boycott divest sanctions movement. And the goal was to basically
27:1427 , 14 secondsuh market Israeli startups to US big tech firms so that they would acquire a lot of those startups in unprecedented numbers
27:2327 , 23 secondsand also contract with them so that US technological infrastructure on multiple levels would be so intimately
27:3127 , 31 secondsin meshed with Israeli interests that they could never meaningfully boycott Israel no matter what happened essentially. Um, and a lot of these
27:4027 , 40 secondsstartups, of course, if you've ever looked into the Israeli startup scene, um, are intimately related to, um, you
27:4727 , 47 secondsknow, Israeli intelligence and Israeli military , operations. They're staffed by veterans of one or the other. And
27:5527 , 55 secondsat the same time, coincidentally, uh that Startup Nation central was created, uh the Israeli government developed an
28:0128 , 1 secondexplicit policy where these startups would be used to conduct operations that previously had been conducted inhouse
28:0928 , 9 secondsby MSAD and UDU 8200 and other parts of the Israeli intelligence system. So for lack of a better word, uh they have
28:1728 , 17 secondsan explicit policy of using them as front companies for intelligence. And so basically by having all of these big
28:2428 , 24 secondstech companies absorb them, uh the goal is to have a a major economic lever of power over the tech industry in
28:3328 , 33 secondsparticular that would prevent US policy from ever meaningfully challenging Israel even you know at this point in
28:4228 , 42 secondstime when they have you know actively been conducting a genocidal war for years in Palestine.
Chapter 9: Anduril and the Thiel network
28:4928 , 49 secondsSo let me ask about Andural. Can you explain what that is and its importance?
28:5428 , 54 secondsYeah, so Anderil is a company that was created by Palmer Lucky and Trey Stevens. Palmer Lucky was a Teal
29:0129 , 1 secondfellow. He created Oculus Rift and later it was sold to Facebook when Peter Teal was on the board of Facebook and
29:0929 , 9 secondssubsequently Ly's subsequent venture Anderell was funded in large part by Teal and then Trey Stevens is a former
29:1729 , 17 secondsuh veteran of the intelligence community that went to work for Palunteer which of course is a Peter Teal created company and then later joined Founders
29:2529 , 25 secondsFund and decided to create Anderrell Wit Lucky at a time when he was also more or less advising the
29:3529 , 35 secondsTrump administration Pentagon its transition team during Trump's first term as president and so they in
29:4329 , 43 secondsparticular specialize in autonomous weaponry mainly drones and so they have moved into the Columbus area as well.
29:5229 , 52 secondsUh thank thank Palmer Lucky credits Jobs Ohio with their decision to establish themselves there for this
30:0130 , 1 secondfactory called Arsenal 1 which is due to be producing an extensive amount of autonomous lethal drones
30:1130 , 11 secondsreally any day now at this point. Um and nearby there's an effort by Howard
30:1930 , 19 secondsLutnik's company Cantor Fitzgerald to find the next Anderil to fill that particular space. So Cantor
30:2630 , 26 secondsFitzgerald of course being Howard Lutnik the current commerce secretary with a lot of ties to Epstein in in
30:3430 , 34 secondsparticular. Um, so it's kind of interesting to see that coalesce and in wet in the region that has essentially become Leslie Wexner's
30:4330 , 43 secondsfifom. And aside from that, it's worth noting that another venture of Palmer Lucky as well as well that's also more or less linked to Peter Teal and other
30:5230 , 52 secondsfigures around in and around Palanteer like Joe Londale is this effort to create a stable coin bank called Arabore. uh that which Lucky nominally
31:0231 , 2 secondscreated but it's going to be run by other people but it's based in going to be based in Columbus and so this is an
31:0931 , 9 secondseffort to increase dollar hedgeimonyy through stable coins dollar stable
31:1631 , 16 secondscoins and I think recently they were fielded as a choice to restructure Venezuela's sovereign debt or
31:2331 , 23 secondsparticularly the debt of their state oil company following the kidnapping of Nicholas Maduro in during a time when Trump at least
31:3231 , 32 secondsclaims that he is quote unquote running the country. So that's worth keeping in mind as is the fact that
31:3931 , 39 secondsArabore was explicitly created to replace Silicon Valley Bank which you may remember collapsing a few years ago.
31:4631 , 46 secondsAnd if you paid attention to reporting about the collapse, the collapse of the bank was largely created by a run on the bank that was orchestrated by none other
31:5431 , 54 secondsthan Peter Teal. How interesting. So just an example of how this this particular network u operates in one
32:0332 , 3 secondssense and also the fact that they have extensively sought to include Ohio in a lot of their plans.
Chapter 10: Smart Columbus
32:1132 , 11 secondsJust to close, I wondered if you can describe smart Columbus and how it's kind of functioning as a
32:1932 , 19 secondstest city for other smart cities in the US.
32:2332 , 23 secondsUh it's it's clearly I think you make the point part of a broader nationwide trend.
32:3032 , 30 secondsYes. So Smart Columbus is an initiative that was created by the Columbus Partnership which as I mentioned earlier was created in the
32:3832 , 38 secondsearly 2000s by Wexner and his his henchman. I don't know [laughter] what
32:4432 , 44 secondselse to call him John Kesler. Um and essentially it was created to yes make
32:5032 , 50 secondsColumbus a a test case for smart city technologies and the implementation of
32:5632 , 56 secondsvarious smart city programs. Uh one of which is aimed at eliminating the use of private cars within the city of
33:0533 , 5 secondsColumbus and moving sort of to these fleets of ride sharing vehicles, Ubers essentially and potentially in the future Whimos and things like that.
33:1633 , 16 secondsUm, and oddly enough, this directly intersects with an in an entity that I mentioned earlier, the US National Security Commission on Artificial
33:2533 , 25 secondsIntelligence, which was led by Eric Schmidt. Um and one of the goals of that commission though not in their final
33:3333 , 33 secondsreport but in documents of theirs that were obtained by Freedom Information Request was their
33:4233 , 42 secondsbelief that in order to for the US to compete with China in artificial intelligence which of course to them was
33:4933 , 49 secondsof prime national security importance. Uh it was essential that private car ownership be phased out and
33:5733 , 57 secondsreplaced with these ride sharing fleets of Ubers essentially or eventually autonomous ride sharing
34:0634 , 6 secondsvehicles as as necessary to train and improve AI in order to compete with China. Um
34:1334 , 13 secondsand so you know essentially Smart Columbus was a test case for that or is looking to promote those types of
34:2134 , 21 secondsinitiatives which they've done quite gradually. It obviously hasn't gotten to that point in Columbus, but essentially the goal of this other Columbus
34:2934 , 29 secondsPartnership connected entity is to have those kinds of things happen in Columbus specifically and basically use
34:3734 , 37 secondsit as a as a beta test for these technologies that are designed by you know Silicon Valley or you know in the
34:4434 , 44 secondscase of the US NCI military related figures as well to have that
34:5134 , 51 secondsessentially be beta tested in Columbus without the people of Columbus really having any input into that process at all.
Chapter 11: Totalitarian capitalism
34:5934 , 59 secondsWhat they're building is a kind of totalitarian capitalism, isn't it?
35:0535 , 5 secondsUh you could say that in a way. Uh it's interesting to point out that a lot of these oligarchs that swim in these same circles as Peter Teal, take Mark
35:1335 , 13 secondsAndre for example, is the author of a document that he calls the technooptimist manifesto. Um, and one of the main
35:2235 , 22 secondsinfluences he he says for that paper is a quote unquote philosopher by the
35:2935 , 29 secondsname of Nick Land who's quite popular also in the neo-reactionary movement.
35:3435 , 34 secondsAnd Nick Land argues that capitalism is a type of AI and that capitalism is also
35:4035 , 40 secondsGod. Um, and thus AI is God. Um, and Mark Andre kind of reflects those ideas
35:4735 , 47 secondsin his writings. And these ideas are pretty much very popular with the same people who are interested in Curtis
35:5535 , 55 secondsYarvin's ideas of privatizing the state and having it be led by a CEO dictator which as I mentioned earlier is of
36:0336 , 3 secondsinterest to Peter Teal and some of his allies which include Andre. So, uh,
36:1036 , 10 secondsessentially, you know, like I said earlier, I think they're building it out of the sense that they want to, uh, they're essentially creating, I guess, a
36:1736 , 17 secondsa new model of feudalism, but enforced by technology where basically there's a a class, um, you know, an upper class
36:2736 , 27 secondsand then a large underclass , and having that be enforced by by technology. And you know one of the
36:3536 , 35 secondsfavorite historians of these big tech oligarchs that they've done interviews with sitdowns with him like one with
36:4236 , 42 secondsMark Zuckerberg for example is you've all know a Harrari and he has argued that in this era of you know AI
36:5136 , 51 seconds[clears throat]
36:5136 , 51 secondsand and the data center push and all of this that we're living now but he said this several years ago that in contrast to the industrial revolution
36:5936 , 59 secondsof times past where it was the unexploited versus the exploited. Now for you know the vast majority of people
37:0637 , 6 secondsit will be exploited versus expendable and it's better to be exploited than expendable. And so, you know, as as AI
37:1437 , 14 secondsis taking jobs from regular people and all of this, being led by organizations that, you know, it must be a sick joke
37:2237 , 22 secondsto call it jobs Ohio, you know, we are basically living in an era where these people are attempting to
37:3037 , 30 secondsbuild a very antihuman future. Uh and they see capital as the most important thing to you know, support and and
37:3937 , 39 secondsguide and and nurture. uh you know people and humanity in general are secondary to the progression of of AI
37:4737 , 47 secondswhich a lot of these people as I mentioned earlier see as directly connected to capital and for you know is essentially you know deified
37:5637 , 56 secondsuh by these people and so we certainly cannot live in a world like that. Um,
38:0438 , 4 secondsyou know, some of them have written books about how the goal is to basically have like brains and vats and and robots
38:1138 , 11 secondsbasically conduct economic activity and have a perpetual growth economy with no humans involved at all. That our future
38:1838 , 18 secondsis essentially that. Um, so this is obviously a future that people that don't want something insanely dystopian
38:2638 , 26 secondslike that should reject. And the best thing the best way to do that is to not use their products and to
38:3538 , 35 secondsbasically divest yourself as much as possible from from big tech devices and and services and and the products
38:4238 , 42 secondsthey offer. Because for example in the data center push, you know, in in this paradigm where they say anyway that
38:4938 , 49 secondsdata is the new oil, uh data centers are sort of like the the oil pipelines in in previous decades. And if you look at
38:5838 , 58 secondsexamples like the Keystone pipeline and how the government managed that backlash and things like that and furthered their development through things like imminent
39:0639 , 6 secondsdomain, we may see a lot of that happen in the future with data centers, but the best thing we can do is not use their products. It's a little different than
39:1439 , 14 secondsoil where you have to fill up gas in your car to get by. We don't need to use AI chat bots and you know ask them
39:2239 , 22 secondsall these mundane things or use them if we're really against what the data centers are doing. And as this becomes a
39:3039 , 30 secondsprogressively more pertinent issue for people in the United States in particular if you want to stop the
39:3939 , 39 secondsdata center push in and backlash you know they have a lot prepared to prevent any sort of direct action or even
39:4639 , 46 secondsin-person protests. So the best thing we can do is just boycott and divest ourselves from their products as much
39:5439 , 54 secondsas possible because they can't really justify a data center buildout if no one is using the their algorithms and in
40:0240 , 2 secondsand chat bots. So, I mean, we absolutely do have a way to keep this from going as far as they would like it to go
40:1140 , 11 secondsum and to to prevent them from, you know, uh pumping out you know, pumping up everyone's water and
40:2040 , 20 secondsraising electricity prices and and basically and doing a lot of things
40:2740 , 27 secondsthat are going to make regular life people's lives increasingly harder. It's already hard. Um, and we have time
40:3540 , 35 secondsnow to develop something independent of these companies that are basically taking control of our government that
40:4340 , 43 secondshave very nefarious agendas not just for the United States but for the natural world and humanity in general. And I think really the best way forward the nonviolent approach is best and it is to divest and and not use their stuff as much as possible.Chapter 12: Outro
Great. Thanks, Whitney. I want to thank Max, Thomas, Diego, and all who produced the show. You can find me at chrisedges.substack.com.

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Chapter 7 — Your Car Ownership Days Are Numbered. Here's Why

vb0:00
Europe isn't banning your car. It's
0:02
doing something far more effective. And
0:04
it's making sure you can't realistically
0:06
keep it. And don't worry, they're going
0:08
to try and do the same thing here in the
0:09
US. That may sound dramatic, but stay
0:12
with me for a few minutes because this
0:14
isn't really a story about insurance. It
0:16
isn't a story about electric vehicles.
0:18
It isn't even a story about
0:20
transportation. It's a story about
0:22
control. And if you've been following my
0:24
reporting over the last few years,
0:26
you've probably noticed something. Many
0:28
of the big changes affecting drivers
0:30
don't arrive through a single headline
0:32
or a single law or a single government
0:34
announcement. They arrive through dozens
0:36
of seemingly unrelated decisions that
0:39
all move in the same direction. One new
0:42
regulation, one new technology, one new
0:45
requirement, one new fee, one new data
0:48
collection program, one new safety
0:50
initiative. Individually, each change
0:53
sounds reasonable. collectively, they
0:56
begin to tell a much larger story. And
0:58
that's exactly what's happening right
1:00
now. There's more coming on this, so
1:02
make sure to like and subscribe and
1:04
click the bell for notifications so you
1:05
don't miss anything. Insurance companies
1:07
are saying they're trying to make roads
1:10
safer and your premiums lower. That
1:13
sounds pretty fair, doesn't it? But
1:15
there's a lot more to it. That's the
1:17
accepted narrative, the headline. That's
1:20
what consumers are supposed to believe.
1:22
And on the surface, it sounds
1:23
reasonable. And if you're a safer
1:25
driver, shouldn't you pay less? If
1:27
you're a riskier driver, shouldn't you
1:29
pay more? And most people would agree
1:31
with that. And I would agree with that.
1:33
But there's a question almost nobody's
1:35
asking. When did insurance companies
1:37
stop measuring risk and start managing
1:39
behavior? Because those are two very
1:42
different things. For more than a
1:44
hundred years, insurance companies
1:45
operated in a fairly simple way. They
1:47
looked at your driving history, your
1:49
age, your location, your claims records,
1:51
your vehicle, and a handful of other
1:53
factors. Then they calculated risk and
1:56
set a premium. They weren't interested
1:58
in monitoring your every move. They
1:59
weren't interested in scoring your
2:01
behavior every time you got behind the
2:03
wheel. Their business wasn't built
2:04
around tracking your decisions. Their
2:06
business was built around ensuring risk.
2:09
Today, that relationship is changing,
2:11
and most drivers didn't even realize it
2:13
was happening. The future battle over
2:15
transportation isn't about electric
2:17
vehicles. It's not about autonomous
2:19
vehicles. And it's not even about
2:21
emissions. It's about data. Your data,
2:23
your vehicles data, your driving data,
2:25
and ultimately who controls it. Most
2:28
Americans still think they own their
2:30
vehicles. And in many ways, they do. But
2:32
increasingly, automakers, insurers,
2:34
regulators, and technology companies
2:36
view your vehicle a lot differently. To
2:38
them, your vehicle isn't simply
2:40
transportation. It's a connected
2:42
platform, a rolling computer with data
2:44
generating machines that happen to have
2:47
wheels. And every year, it collects more
2:50
information. Every camera collects
2:52
additional information that you may or
2:53
may not know about. Think about what
2:56
your vehicle already knows. It knows
2:58
where you are. It knows where you've
2:59
been. It knows how fast you're driving.
3:02
It knows how hard you break. It knows
3:03
how aggressively you accelerate. And it
3:05
knows how often you drive. It knows when
3:08
you drive. and it knows how many miles
3:09
you've traveled. And many vehicles know
3:12
whether you're wearing a seatelt. And
3:13
the flock cameras, well, they'll confirm
3:15
or deny that fact. They monitor things
3:18
like eye movement, driver attention, and
3:20
distraction levels, steering inputs, and
3:22
other behavioral patterns. Some monitor
3:24
all passengers in your vehicle in the
3:26
first, second, and even the third row if
3:28
you have one. And new cameras will
3:30
listen to your conversation, decide if
3:32
you're under the influence of anything.
3:34
Maybe you're stressed or even stable
3:37
enough to drive safely. Yes, this is the
3:40
new kill switch technology that I have
3:41
been covering for a long time and it's
3:44
here and it's the law. No worries.
3:47
Insurance companies will have access to
3:48
all that data, too. And every year, the
3:51
amount of information being collected
3:52
continues to grow. And automakers tell
3:54
us this improves your safety. And
3:56
insurance companies tell us this
3:58
improves accuracy. And governments tell
4:00
us it improves outcomes. And they're all
4:03
right. But let's ask a slightly
4:06
different question. Once all that
4:08
information exists, who gets access to
4:10
it? And what happens next? That's where
4:12
things start to get a little bit
4:14
interesting. Most Americans are focused
4:16
on inflation, taxes, fuel prices,
4:18
vehicle affordability, and the rising
4:20
cost of insurance. And I understand
4:22
that. But while consumers are dealing
4:24
with those problems, something bigger is
4:26
quietly happening in the background.
4:28
Across Europe, insurers, regulators,
4:30
automakers, and technology companies are
4:32
increasingly discussing concepts built
4:35
around what some industry insiders are
4:37
calling transparent customer. Remember
4:40
that name, transparent customer, cuz
4:43
what the heck is the transparent
4:45
customer? You're not going to like this
4:48
one. I promise. It's not a phrase most
4:50
Americans have heard. If the term starts
4:53
in Europe, you know it's going to spread
4:55
globally. And frankly, that's part of
4:57
the reason you should pay attention to
4:58
it, because some of the biggest changes
5:00
in public policy begin as industry
5:02
discussions long before they become
5:05
mainstream news. The name sounds
5:07
harmless. That's the plan. It even
5:10
sounds positive. But who doesn't want
5:12
transparency? But transparency sounds
5:15
very different depending upon who is
5:17
expected to be transparent. And you
5:19
already know the answer to that.
5:21
Insurance companies aren't talking about
5:22
becoming transparent. They're talking
5:24
about you becoming transparent. And
5:26
that's a very different conversation.
5:29
The idea behind transparent customer is
5:31
simple. The more information insurers
5:34
have, the more accurately they can
5:35
predict your risk. At least that's the
5:38
theory. And on the surface, it sounds
5:40
logical. And if one driver presents a
5:43
higher risk than another, shouldn't
5:44
insurance pricing reflect that? Yeah.
5:47
But let's follow the logic all the way
5:49
down the road. If driving behavior
5:51
matters, collect driving data. If
5:53
mileage matters, collect mileage data.
5:56
If location matters, collect location
5:58
data. And if vehicle usage matters,
6:00
collect vehicle usage data. If financial
6:03
stability influences risk, collect
6:05
financial information. If lifestyle
6:07
choices influence outcomes, collect that
6:09
lifestyle information. Now you know
6:11
where this is going. Eventually, the
6:13
question stops being how much
6:15
information is enough and becomes, is
6:17
there any information they don't want?
6:20
Because the pursuit of perfect risk
6:22
assessment never ends. There's always
6:24
another metric, another score, a profile
6:26
or a data point. Any way another layer
6:29
of information comes in, they can use
6:31
it. And that's where the story starts to
6:33
become uncomfortable because at some
6:36
point insurance stops being about
6:38
measuring risk and starts becoming about
6:40
managing your behavior. That distinction
6:43
matters a lot. Insurance used to react
6:46
to outcomes. Now, it's increasingly
6:48
attempting to influence decisions before
6:51
outcomes occur. Think about telematics
6:53
programs, usagebased insurance and
6:55
driver monitoring and behavioral
6:57
scoring. And millions of drivers have
6:59
already signed up for all those onboard
7:02
diagnostic tools that go underneath your
7:04
dash. Many of them are voluntary and
7:06
they're supposed to help you save money.
7:08
The pitch is simple. Share your driving
7:10
data. It's that little dongle. You plug
7:13
it in under the dash. It's really easy.
7:15
It's supposed to prove that you're a
7:16
safe driver. You may receive a discount.
7:19
Who doesn't want a discount? Who doesn't
7:22
like to save money? And you can always
7:24
opt out. Sure, if you remember to or
7:27
even know how. But look at what's
7:30
actually happening. Everything is
7:31
getting measured. Your acceleration,
7:33
braking, mileage, usual driving times,
7:36
and habits, they get measured, and your
7:38
behavior gets scored. And suddenly, your
7:41
insurance company isn't simply
7:42
evaluating whether you're risky. It's
7:44
evaluating whether you're compliant. H
7:48
risk and compliance are not the same
7:51
thing. And that's the important
7:53
distinction that doesn't get enough
7:54
attention. And this leads us to
7:56
something else that rarely gets
7:58
discussed. The value of your data
8:00
itself. This is where the story starts
8:02
making a lot more sense. Most drivers
8:05
think they bought a vehicle.
8:06
Increasingly, what they actually bought
8:08
was a vehicle and a data platform. And
8:10
here's the part nobody's talking about.
8:12
Your vehicle may be worth more after you
8:14
buy it than before you buy it. Not
8:17
because the vehicle itself, because of
8:19
the information it generates. Think
8:21
about that for a moment. You make the
8:23
payments, you buy the fuel, you pay for
8:25
the insurance, the maintenance, and the
8:27
repairs, and you assume the risk, okay?
8:30
And then your vehicle spends years
8:32
generating information that has value to
8:34
someone else. That's every trip, every
8:36
route, every destination, every breaking
8:38
event, every acceleration event, every
8:41
service visit, every habit, every
8:43
pattern, everything you do. And data has
8:45
become the product. And you're producing
8:48
it every single day. And most consumers
8:51
never agreed to being data producers.
8:53
Most consumers thought they bought a
8:55
car. Yet, increasingly, the vehicle is
8:57
generating information that has
8:58
significant value throughout the entire
9:00
ecosystem of the companies. Everyone
9:03
wants access to your data. It's more
9:05
valuable than ever in insurance
9:06
companies, technology companies, data
9:09
analytics firms, data brokers, marketing
9:11
firms, they want access to it, too.
9:13
Government agencies as well. Literally
9:16
everybody. And whenever everybody wants
9:19
the same thing, it's usually worth
9:21
asking why. The answer is very simple.
9:24
Data is valuable and your data is being
9:26
sold for big money. And more accurately,
9:30
a company that can predict your
9:31
behavior, the more money it can make.
9:33
And that's true in advertising and
9:35
technology and finance and definitely
9:37
true in insurance. Which brings us to
9:40
another question. If your data is that
9:43
valuable enough for everyone to want it,
9:45
why are consumers the primary
9:47
beneficiaries? Why are you not getting
9:49
paid for your data? Well, as I always
9:51
say, follow the money. Because whenever
9:54
you follow the money, the story usually
9:56
becomes a little bit clearer. And in
9:58
this case, the money is leading us
10:00
somewhere very interesting. And that's
10:03
where the story starts getting a lot
10:05
bigger than insurance. Because once you
10:07
understand the data has become a
10:09
product, a lot of things that didn't
10:11
make sense before suddenly start making
10:13
perfect sense. Why do companies want
10:16
vehicles connected to the internet? Why
10:18
are automakers investing billions of
10:20
dollars in software? Why are insurers
10:22
pushing telematics programs? And why are
10:25
regulators increasingly interested in
10:27
connecting transportation system? Why
10:29
does every conversation seem to lead
10:31
back to data collection? Because
10:34
information has become one of the most
10:35
valuable commodities in the modern
10:37
economy and the transportation industry
10:39
is sitting on a gold mine of it. And
10:41
that's why I always tell people to
10:43
follow the money. Not because it's
10:45
dramatic, but because it actually works.
10:47
Whenever government agencies, insurance
10:49
companies, and automakers, and
10:51
technology firms, and software
10:52
providers, and analytics companies,
10:53
telematics companies, and consultants
10:55
all start moving in the same direction.
10:58
I want to know who benefits. Who's
11:00
making the big dollars? Well, insurance
11:02
companies benefit from more precise
11:04
pricing and technology companies benefit
11:06
from more data and automakers benefit
11:08
from connecting services and
11:10
subscription fees. We've seen that
11:12
before and we've covered that before
11:13
because this is a huge profit center.
11:16
Cloud providers, data centers that you
11:18
see being built up everywhere and the
11:19
analytics firms benefit from storing
11:21
information. Consultants benefit from
11:23
helping companies navigate increasingly
11:26
complex compliance systems and
11:27
government agencies. They benefit from
11:29
better visibility and reporting so they
11:31
know more about you. Everyone involved
11:34
can point to a legitimate reason for
11:36
participating. And that's what makes
11:38
this so interesting. Nobody has to be
11:40
acting with bad intentions. Nobody has
11:43
to be plotting a secret room. Every
11:45
participant can honestly believe they're
11:47
solving a problem. Hm. Insurance
11:50
companies want better risk assessment
11:52
and governments want safer roads. Who
11:53
doesn't want safer roads? Automakers
11:56
want new revenue streams and technology
11:58
companies want innovation which also
12:00
leads to money. Consumers want
12:02
discounts. Each objective sounds
12:04
reasonable. But when all those
12:06
objectives start moving in the same
12:07
direction, consumers should be paying
12:09
attention because the cumulative effect
12:11
may look very different from the
12:13
original intention. And that's exactly
12:15
why I keep coming back to the one word,
12:17
control, not ownership, control.
12:21
Ownership and control are not the same
12:23
thing. You can technically own something
12:25
while somebody else increasingly
12:27
controls how it's used. You can
12:28
technically own something while somebody
12:30
else determines the rules governing
12:32
access, pricing, monitoring, and
12:34
compliance. And that's where the story
12:36
becomes much more important than
12:38
insurance premiums. Remember, many
12:40
people were told this wasn't happening
12:41
in the so-called kill switch debate.
12:43
There's no such thing, right? That's
12:46
false. I've been reporting on section
12:48
24220 of the 2021 infrastructure act
12:51
that was signed by President Biden for
12:53
years and I have been reporting on this
12:55
and no one believed it and everyone poo
12:57
pooed it. Even though some congressmen
12:59
have discussed it on Capitol Hill, still
13:02
it went through as a law. Still, it's
13:04
being funded. So, this is 100% true.
13:07
100% funded and 100% the new law. If you
13:12
followed my reporting, you know exactly
13:13
what I'm talking about. For years,
13:15
concerns about vehicle intervention
13:17
technology were dismissed. People were
13:19
told they misunderstood the legislation.
13:21
People were told they were overreacting
13:23
and people were told, "Nobody's trying
13:25
to interfere with your vehicle
13:26
operation." Then people started reading
13:28
the actual language. And suddenly the
13:30
conversation changed. Federal regulators
13:33
were directed to pursue advanced
13:34
impaired driving prevention technology.
13:36
And supporters argued the goal was
13:38
simple. Stop drunk driving and save
13:40
lives. And most Americans support that
13:42
goal. I support that goal. Nobody wants
13:45
impaired drivers on the road. But let's
13:47
focus on something far more important
13:49
than just the basic intent of the law. A
13:52
vehicle that can monitor behavior is
13:53
capable of collecting data and can build
13:56
profiles. And a vehicle that can
13:57
communicate with onboard systems is
13:59
capable of intervention. Today the
14:02
justification is impaired driving.
14:04
Tomorrow it could be something else. And
14:06
I'm not saying that that's the plan. I'm
14:08
saying that's the capability. And those
14:10
are two very different things.
14:12
Technology doesn't care why it was
14:14
created. Technology only cares about
14:16
what it's capable of doing. History
14:18
teaches us that capability tends to
14:21
expand, not shrink. Think about how many
14:24
technologies started with one purpose
14:25
and ended up serving 10 others. This is
14:28
not a conspiracy theory. The same thing
14:31
happens in government, business,
14:32
technology. Once a capability exists,
14:35
somebody eventually finds another use
14:36
for it. That's human nature. And that's
14:39
why consumers should always evaluate
14:41
technology based on what it can do, not
14:43
simply what it currently is being used
14:45
for. Because the future is rarely
14:47
limited by today's intentions. Who is
14:50
most likely to feel the impact of all of
14:51
this? Owners of older cars. The working
14:54
American driving a paidoff truck. the
14:56
family hanging on to an older SUV
14:58
because replacing it would cost a
15:00
fortune, the enthusiast maintaining a
15:02
classic collector car, which I'm a part
15:03
of, and the person who simply wants to
15:05
keep driving the vehicle they already
15:07
own, which is many of us. These people
15:10
rarely appear in policy discussions and
15:12
they rarely are considered in most of
15:14
these decisions, but they're often the
15:17
first to feel the consequences. And many
15:19
people assume that if governments and
15:21
regulations and industries want to
15:23
eliminate older vehicles, they would
15:25
simply ban them. I don't think that's
15:27
how it happens. The push would be huge,
15:30
especially with car collectors. In fact,
15:33
I think that's the least likely
15:35
approach. Bans create resistance and
15:38
economic pressures create compliance.
15:40
And you don't need to outlaw an older
15:42
vehicle, confiscate it, or make
15:44
ownership illegal. You simply make
15:46
ownership progressively more difficult.
15:48
Insurance becomes harder to find and
15:50
more expensive. Service parts become
15:53
harder to source and repair costs
15:55
increase. I've covered that recently on
15:57
another video. Compliance with
15:59
inspections and registration
16:00
requirements become more complicated.
16:03
more emission regulations are added and
16:05
the vehicle remains legal and you can
16:07
still technically own it. You just can't
16:09
use it in the way you once could. But
16:12
owning it becomes next to impossible.
16:14
And that's a very different form of
16:17
control. And in many ways, it's far more
16:19
effective than a ban because people
16:21
eventually surrender choices that become
16:23
too expensive to maintain. Not because
16:25
they wanted to, but because the
16:27
economics stopped making sense. Look at
16:29
what's already happening in parts of
16:31
Europe. They have low emissions zones.
16:33
Then they added congestion pricing. And
16:35
cities have vehicle access restrictions
16:37
where you can't drive a car or it has to
16:39
be electric. There are new insurance
16:41
incentives to get you out of your old
16:43
car. And the government piles on
16:45
compliance requirements because they
16:47
want to force you to make change. And
16:50
individually, each policy has a
16:52
justification. Collectively, they create
16:54
pressure. Pressure changes behavior. And
16:56
behavior is what the entire conversation
16:58
is really all about. This makes you want
17:01
to change to comply. Which brings us
17:04
back to the transparent customer.
17:06
Because once you start looking at
17:07
transportation through that lens, the
17:09
pieces begin fitting together. The
17:12
insurance companies want connected
17:13
vehicles that have driver monitoring so
17:16
they can bill you by usagebased
17:18
insurance. And this forces digital
17:20
identity systems that are based on
17:22
behavioral scoring. Then the companies
17:25
can take that information and monetize
17:27
your vehicle data. It's another source
17:29
of income for them. And all of that
17:31
advanced intervention technologies or
17:33
kill switches are all built around the
17:36
same fundamental concept. Insurance
17:38
companies want and need more
17:40
information, more visibility, more
17:42
insight to you, your lifestyle, and
17:45
every bit of information because this
17:46
gives them more predictability. And
17:49
ultimately, this gives them more
17:51
influence on how you live your life. And
17:54
this is the part where I usually put on
17:56
my tinfoil hat. Not because I'm claiming
17:58
some grand conspiracy. Quite the
18:00
opposite. Because I think the reality is
18:03
actually more interesting. Maybe I'm
18:05
completely wrong. Maybe connected
18:07
vehicles collecting more data, insurance
18:09
companies wanting more information, and
18:11
governments building more digital
18:12
systems and automakers creating more
18:14
connected platforms and technology
18:16
companies expanding behavioral analytics
18:19
are completely unrelated developments.
18:21
Just collecting innocent information
18:23
about you. Maybe. But if they're not,
18:27
what exactly are we building? That's the
18:30
question I keep coming back to. Nobody
18:32
involved has to be malicious and nobody
18:34
involved has to be lying or have bad
18:37
intentions. Every participant can point
18:39
to a reasonable objective. That concern
18:42
isn't the individual objectives. That
18:44
concern is the direction because every
18:47
road seems to lead to the same
18:49
destination. What we are seeing is more
18:51
monitoring, more connectivity, more data
18:54
collection, which leads to more
18:55
behavioral analysis. That means
18:57
insurance companies have more
18:59
intervention, less animity, and less
19:01
privacy for you and potentially less
19:05
control for drivers. I do not think it's
19:07
a prediction. It's an observation that
19:09
leads to you giving up your freedom.
19:12
Let's face it, the infrastructure
19:13
already exists and so does the
19:15
technology. They've already laid out the
19:17
incentives and created the business
19:19
model. The question is no longer whether
19:21
these systems can be built. They're
19:23
already being built. The real question
19:25
is where the boundaries should be. How
19:27
much information is too much? Who owns
19:29
the data? Who profits from it? And who
19:32
has access to it? How long is it stored?
19:34
And where is it stored? And how is it
19:35
protected? And perhaps most importantly,
19:38
who decides? Because ultimately, what
19:41
every debate about technology becomes is
19:43
this. Who decides what information gets
19:45
collected, how it's used, and how it's
19:47
shared, and how it affects your pricing?
19:50
Does all this information affect
19:51
mobility? These are questions that
19:53
should matter to you. They matter
19:56
because transportation has always
19:57
represented something larger than simply
19:59
getting from one place to another. For
20:01
generations, the automobile represents
20:03
freedom, opportunity, independence, and
20:06
choice. The ability to go where you
20:08
want, when you want, without asking
20:10
permission. That's happening in Europe
20:12
right now. you need permission to leave
20:14
your city. Here in America, most
20:16
Americans still view driving through
20:18
that lens. We want the freedom. They
20:20
want their privacy. They want to be able
20:22
to go where they want when they want.
20:23
And the question is whether the
20:25
institutions sharing the future of
20:27
transportation still do. Because the
20:29
future battle over transportation isn't
20:31
about electric vehicles. It's not about
20:33
autonomous vehicles. And it's not even
20:35
about emissions. It's about data. Your
20:38
data. And the side that controls the
20:41
data increasingly controls your
20:42
experience. Which brings us to the most
20:45
important question of all. Who actually
20:47
controls the vehicle? The person making
20:49
the payments, the person holding the
20:50
title, the person paying the insurance
20:52
premium, or the growing network of
20:54
insurers, software providers,
20:56
regulators, technology platforms, and
20:58
data companies that increasingly
20:59
influence how the vehicle operates, how
21:02
it's monitored, and how it's scored, how
21:04
it's insured, and ultimately how it's
21:06
used. I'm sure you can put this all
21:08
together very quickly and know this does
21:10
not sound like a good plan. Will you be
21:13
able to drive when you want to go
21:14
somewhere or will a kill switch deny you
21:17
that freedom? That's not just an
21:19
insurance question. That's an ownership
21:21
question. It's about privacy and a
21:23
serious freedom question. It's a
21:25
question every driver should be asking
21:26
before somebody else answers it for
21:28
them. Keep your ears open for the term
21:31
transparent customer because this is a
21:34
sign that you don't want to read. Let me
21:36
know what you think in the comments
21:38
below. If you like this video, give it a
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like and subscribe for more videos like
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this. And check out our car review
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Wall Street Pulling HUGE Climate Scam On Latin America! ...w/ Whitney Webb

Author and investigative journalist Whitney Webb explains to Jimmy the interconnectedness of this carbon offsets power grab with vaccine passports, digital currency, and mass surveillance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgE0MHk7YS4 

George Soros BRAGS About Brainwashing Ukrainians Into War!

Nov 5, 2025 Jimmy Dore — George Soros recently admitted to founding and funding organizations in Ukraine since the late 1980s that helped shape the country’s post-Soviet leadership, evidence that the billionaire financier exerted influence over Ukrainian politics. Specifically, Soros and Canadian politician Chrystia Freeland discuss the long-term impact of Soros’ Open Society Foundation in Ukraine, which could easily be interpreted as “brainwashing” Ukrainians against Russia.

Jimmy further ties Freeland to Nazi collaborators through her grandfather and accuses the current Ukrainian government of being linked to neo-Nazi movements such as those inspired by Stepan Bandera. The two conclude the segment by framing Western support for Ukraine as support for far-right nationalism and Western manipulation rather than democracy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUTtk35QKmU&t=15s 

DC National Guard Shooter A False Flag Operation?!? 

84,165 views Dec 2, 2025 — The Jimmy Dore Show
A CIA-trained Afghan operative—reportedly recruited during the Afghanistan War as a child into a U.S.-backed death squad—who immigrated to the US in 2021 was likely “activated” to carry out the Washington, D.C., National Guard shooting, likely as a manufactured crisis timed to justify nationwide military deployments.

Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger argue that early media narratives blaming “radical Islam” collapsed once evidence surfaced that the shooter, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, had long-standing ties to U.S. intelligence, prompting accusations of a staged false flag.

The segment links this incident to a larger pattern of covert operations, predictive online search spikes, and past cases of CIA-connected actors surfacing in domestic events. Ultimately, they portray the shooting as part of a technocratic surveillance expansion, bipartisan corruption, and a manipulated political theater designed to keep Americans afraid and compliant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-sJDPROwyU 

BlackRock's $10 Trillion Empire: The Company That Owns Everything

40,852 views Nov 27, 2025
BlackRock is not just an investment firm.
It is the most powerful financial structure ever created — a system that quietly controls trillions of dollars, shapes global markets, influences governments, and directs the future of entire industries. Most people have no idea how deep its influence goes, or how much of the modern economy is touched by a single company operating almost entirely in the shadows.

This video breaks down how BlackRock became the hidden empire behind the global financial system — and how it gained the kind of power that even nations struggle to match. With more than $10 trillion under management, BlackRock holds ownership stakes in companies like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Tesla, Exxon, JPMorgan, Pfizer, Coca-Cola, and thousands more. When people think they own their stocks through retirement accounts, index funds, or ETFs, the truth is far more complex:
BlackRock votes on their behalf.
BlackRock controls the shares.
BlackRock decides the direction.

Through passive investing, ETF flows, and voting power concentrated inside a few giant funds, BlackRock has positioned itself as the ultimate corporate decision-maker. They influence CEO appointments, executive pay, environmental policies, mergers, and long-term strategy across a huge portion of the global economy. When you look under the surface, the “free market” doesn’t look so free anymore.

But that is only one layer of the story.

Behind the scenes, BlackRock operates Aladdin, a risk-management AI network that watches over more than $20 trillion in global assets — double what BlackRock itself owns. Governments, banks, hedge funds, insurers, and major corporations depend on Aladdin for financial modeling and decision-making. No other private company in history has ever had this much visibility into the world’s financial flows.

Then there is the political influence. BlackRock executives regularly move in and out of government positions, shaping regulations they later benefit from. During crises, central banks and governments turn to BlackRock to manage emergency programs, debt purchases, and bailout operations. When volatility strikes, BlackRock is often the first call — giving it the kind of access and influence most companies could only dream of.

Through ETFs, passive-investing dominance, Aladdin’s surveillance network, shareholder voting control, and deep political connections, BlackRock has quietly built a structure more powerful than traditional banks, more influential than many governments, and more deeply embedded in the world economy than any corporation in history.

This video dives into the mechanisms behind this power:
– How BlackRock became the world’s largest asset manager
– Why passive investing concentrates market control
– How shareholder voting gives BlackRock corporate authority
– The role of Aladdin and its global risk network
– The political and regulatory relationships shaping the system
– And why this new form of financial power is rewriting capitalism itself

Whether you’re an investor, a creator, a student of economics, or someone simply trying to understand the world, this is a story you need to know:
The rise of a financial empire bigger than countries, hidden in plain sight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aAR83ILsTM 

Mamdani Secretly Funded By Globalist Billionaires!

Well, it’s over — after much controversy and ugliness through a lengthy campaign, New York City has elected Zohran Mamdani as the next mayor. Contrary to the consensus on the left, however, Jimmy and Due Dissidence’s Russell Dobular do not believe Mamdani’s victory represents a radical political shift but rather a continuation of establishment politics backed by elite interests, including figures like Alex Soros.

Russell suggests that while Mamdani may implement limited reforms such as a rent freeze, his administration is unlikely to deliver transformative change, comparing his prospects to past Democratic mayors like Bill de Blasio. The discussion also highlights how demographic shifts and frustration with entrenched political power shaped the election, signaling the end of an era for New York’s old political establishment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FJEKq59_mo 

CNBC Warns About Upcoming CIVIL WAR Against Oligarchs!

Jimmy Dore and Reportage author James Corbett discuss a recent conversation on CNBC where the panel discuss the problem of wealth inequality in the United States, and suggest that a civil war between the haves and the have nots may be looming.

Corbett argues that the ruling oligarchs deliberately promote cultural and partisan conflicts to prevent a unified populist movement against systemic corruption and corporate dominance. Both conclude that true change requires unity across political lines and awareness of how mainstream media maintains public division to protect elite interests.

Trivial Oligarchs In Love with Themselves Fondling Each Other

Holocaust Survivor Absolutely DEMOLISHES Israel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxLtxX7kPcU 

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CNBC Warns About Upcoming CIVIL WAR Against Oligarchs!

Jimmy Dore and Reportage author James Corbett discuss a recent conversation on CNBC where the panel discuss the problem of wealth inequality in the United States, and suggest that a civil war between the haves and the have nots may be looming.

Corbett argues that the ruling oligarchs deliberately promote cultural and partisan conflicts to prevent a unified populist movement against systemic corruption and corporate dominance. Both conclude that true change requires unity across political lines and awareness of how mainstream media maintains public division to protect elite interests.

JFK Files Bombshell SHOCKS Israel–Here’s What Media Hid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0RPFZ67bF4 

1,185,499 views Jul 21, 2025
Kennedy scholar Ken McCarthy challenges narratives about JFK, arguing that he wanted to make peace with the Soviet union and get out of the foreign coup business, and was fighting a secret battle against Israel alongside his brother Robert F. Kennedy.
https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Battle-...

00:00 Clip: JFK hosts lavish ceremony for President of newly independent Algeria, 1962
02:19 The Algeria Connection: young JFK spoke against aiding France’s war crimes
04:15 What Noam Chomsky got WRONG about JFK
05:38 Kennedy “saw what was right and spoke up for it”
07:18 How JFK’s approach to the cold war was different
08:23 JFK & RFK’s secret battle against the Israel lobby

Ken McCarthy is the author of "JFK and RFK's Secret Battle Against Zionist Extremism: The Documentary Evidence," and “John F. Kennedy Anti-Imperialist: His Character and Intentions Revealed in Five Speeches and One Telegram."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWwPFS6GLPk 

War Profit Pattern: How 5 Families Made Billions from Every American War

124,667 views Nov 8, 2025
Five American wars. Five families got rich from every single one. Not speculation. Government contracts. Public record. This video reveals the pattern that's made the same dynasties billions while millions died.
There's a business model in American history more profitable than oil, more consistent than banking, more protected than any monopoly. It's made the same families wealthy for six generations and it's built on a simple premise: profit from war. Every war. Any war.
THE FIVE DYNASTIES:

DuPont - Explosives and chemicals, Revolutionary War through Iraq (220 years)
Rockefeller - Oil and fuel, Civil War through Afghanistan (160 years)
Morgan - War financing, Spanish-American War through WWII (50 years of war loans)
Lockheed Martin predecessors - Aviation and weapons, WWI through today (100+ years)
Halliburton - Military logistics, WWII through War on Terror (80 years)

Total documented profit from war contracts: over $485 billion in inflation-adjusted dollars.
WHY WATCH THIS VIDEO:
This video documents the exact seven-step pattern these companies use to profit from every conflict:
? How DuPont supplied gunpowder to both sides of conflicts while claiming patriotism
? Why Rockefeller's Standard Oil sold fuel to Nazi Germany even during WWII
? How J.P. Morgan's war loans made American neutrality impossible in WWI
? The Lockheed cost-plus contracts that turned $2.1B projects into $5.3B profits
? How Halliburton got $40 billion in no-bid Iraq contracts while Dick Cheney was VP
? The revolving door between Pentagon and defense contractors
? Why the F-35 fighter jet is 700% over budget and still funded
? The documented billions in fraud, overcharges, and waste that went unpunished
THE SEVEN-STEP WAR PROFIT PATTERN:
Step 1: Position Before the War
Build capacity during peacetime. When war starts, you're the only supplier ready. Competitors can't catch up.
Step 2: Get the First Contract
"National security emergency" means no-bid contracts. Once you're the proven supplier, next contracts are automatic.
Step 3: Cost-Plus Pricing
Government pays all costs plus guaranteed profit percentage. You literally cannot lose money. Every cost overrun increases profit.
Step 4: Overrun the Budget
Underbid to win contract, then revise costs upward. Government can't cancel—too much already invested. F-35: 700% over budget. Zumwalt destroyer: 300% over. Every major weapons system follows this pattern.
Step 5: Hire the Regulators
Retired generals become defense contractor executives. The people who approved your contracts give you jobs. Dick Cheney: Defense Secretary → Halliburton CEO → VP during Iraq War.
Step 6: Lobby for More War
Defense contractors fund think tanks that advocate military intervention. $100M+ annual lobbying. When Iraq was debated, contractor-funded groups produced "intelligence" supporting invasion.
Step 7: Diversify the Profit
War profits build peacetime empires. DuPont: explosives → chemicals. Rockefeller: oil → banking. Morgan: war loans → industrial financing. Wealth becomes dynastic.
THE DOCUMENTED EVIDENCE:
DuPont Civil War: 4 million pounds of gunpowder, $10M in contracts ($300M today). Used profits to build chemical empire.
Standard Oil WWI: Sold to both sides through subsidiaries. Rockefeller became world's first billionaire from war fuel profits.
Morgan WWI Loans: $2 billion to Allies ($50B today). When Germany threatened to win, US entered war to protect Morgan's loans. Senator George Norris: "We are going into war upon the command of gold."
Lockheed C-5 Galaxy: Contracted at $2.1B, delivered at $5.3B (150% overrun). Cost-plus contract meant Lockheed profited from the overrun.
Halliburton Iraq: $40 billion in contracts (2003-2008). Pentagon Inspector General found billions in waste: meals never served, fuel never delivered, construction never completed. Company paid fines, kept contracts, continued profiting.
Current State (2023): US military budget: $816 billion. Top 5 contractors received $200 billion (25% of total budget). Lockheed Martin alone: $65 billion, 90% from government.
THE OPPORTUNITY COST:
$485 billion in war profits could have funded:

Free college for every American for 20 years
High-speed rail connecting all major cities
Universal healthcare for a decade
Complete infrastructure rebuild
Cancer research for a century

RESEARCH SOURCES:

DuPont company archives and Civil War/WWI contracts (National Archives)
"Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller" by Ron Chernow
Standard Oil Congressional testimony and antitrust records
"The House of Morgan" by Ron Chernow - WWI loan documentation
Senate Truman Committee reports on WWII profiteering
Pentagon Inspector General reports on Halliburton overcharges (2004-2008)
Government Accountability Office reports on defense contractor cost overruns
Lockheed Martin financial disclosures and contract data
Congressional Budget Office defense spending analysis
Defense contract databases (USASpending.gov)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTbnelADgxs 

Opium Fortunes: How America’s Elite Families Got Rich Selling Drugs to China

418,209 views Oct 29, 2025
Roosevelt, Astor, Forbes, Yale, Harvard: They All Got Rich Selling Opium to China

Roosevelt. Astor. Forbes. Yale. Harvard. You know these names. What you don't know? They all got rich the exact same way. Flooding China with opium. Thousands of tons. Millions addicted. Four hundred percent profit. And then they spent 200 years making sure you'd never find out. Until now.

This video documents the historical evidence proving that America's most powerful families made their fortunes through industrial-scale opium smuggling to China in the 1800s. The shipping records exist. The letters survive. The account books are in archives. This isn't conspiracy theory. This is documented history that has been systematically omitted from mainstream education.

DOCUMENTED RESEARCH SOURCES:

*Primary Historical Sources:*
"When America First Met China" by Eric Jay Dolin
"The Opium Clippers" by Basil Lubbock
"The Delano Influence" by Daniel W. Delano
"Yankee Traders, Old Coasters, and African Middlemen" by George E. Brooks Jr.
Shipping manifests and commercial ledgers (1800-1860)
Personal correspondence in historical archives
Russell and Company account books

*Historical Archives:*
Massachusetts Historical Society
Peabody Essex Museum archives
China Trade archives
British East India Company records
Yale University historical collections
Harvard University archives

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THE DELANO FAMILY - DOCUMENTED FACTS:

*Warren Delano II (FDR's Grandfather):*

"Warren Delano II was born in 1809 in Massachusetts. At 19 years old, he went to China to work for a trading company. By age 24, he was a partner in Russell and Company—the largest American opium trading firm in China."

*Russell and Company Operations:*
"Russell and Company wasn't just participating in opium trade. They dominated American involvement. They had offices in Canton (Guangzhou). They had clipper ships. They had connections with British opium growers in India. And they made millions."

*Warren Delano's Career Timeline:*
"Warren Delano ran the operation from 1833 to 1846. Thirteen years of opium smuggling. He returned to America a very wealthy man."

*Evidence of Wealth:*
"How wealthy? Rich enough to build a 40-room mansion in Newburgh, New York. Rich enough to send his children to the best schools. Rich enough that when he lost money in the Panic of 1857, he could go back to China, make another fortune in opium, and return even wealthier."

*Connection to FDR:*
"His daughter, Sara Delano, married James Roosevelt. Their son was Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR grew up in wealth. Private tutors. Harvard. Political connections. All funded by opium money."

*The Historical Irony:*
"And here's the kicker. In 1935, while FDR was president, he signed the first federal laws strictly controlling drugs—the Marijuana Tax Act precursor and expansion of narcotic controls. The man whose family fortune came from selling drugs to Chinese people spent his presidency criminalizing drugs for Americans."

THE ASTOR FAMILY - DOCUMENTED FACTS:

*John Jacob Astor's Fortune:*

"John Jacob Astor. At one point the richest man in America. His wealth built the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, funded libraries, created a dynasty. Where did the money come from? Furs, right? That's the story. He traded furs. True. But that's not where the real money came from. Opium."

*Documented Wealth:*
"By 1840, Astor was worth $20 million. That's $500 million in today's money. Most of it from opium profits. His great-grandson, John Jacob Astor IV, died on the Titanic as one of the richest men in the world. That wealth? Built on opium."

*Legacy:*
"The Astor family name is on libraries, museums, university buildings. All of it funded by drug money from China."

*Historical Records:*
Astor's shipping manifests and commercial records document Turkish opium purchases and China trade routes. The Macedonian's voyages are documented in maritime records at the Peabody Essex Museum.

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THE FORBES FAMILY - DOCUMENTED FACTS:

*Forbes Family Operations:*

"Yes, that Forbes. Malcolm Forbes, the magazine publisher billionaire? His family fortune started in China. The Forbes family of Boston sent ships to China in the early 1800s. Robert Bennet Forbes and his brother John Murray Forbes were major opium traders."

*Russell and Company Connection:*
"They worked with Russell and Company—the same firm Warren Delano worked for. Robert Forbes captained clipper ships that carried opium. John Forbes invested the profits into railroads and became one of the wealthiest men in Boston."

*Modern Legacy:*
"Their descendants used that wealth to start Forbes Magazine. The family became American aristocracy. And it all started with opium."

*Historical Erasure:*
"John Murray Forbes is celebrated in Boston as a great businessman and philanthropist. T

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Tucker and Col. Macgregor Warn How Neocons Are Exploiting the Drug Crisis to Drag America Into War (shortened version)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pc4xNqa9NM

Tucker and Col. Macgregor Warn How Neocons Are Exploiting the Drug Crisis to Drag America Into War (full version)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmscCAjVMFg&t=12s

 SPECIAL REPORT: Over 10,000 Ukrainian Soldiers Killed In Pokrovska

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Portland Politicians & Police SUFFER 3rd Violent Arson Attack

Premiered Oct 30, 2025 — News For Reasonable People: The Podcast That Makes Local Politics Make Sense — Portland's in chaos as usual, and where's Governor Tina Kotek? Off on a taxpayer-funded "trade mission" to South Korea and Japan while her state burns – literally. We've got three suspected arsons targeting Portland politicians in two years, FBI investigations into the Trail Blazers, nightly clashes at ICE facilities, and property crime rates second only to Memphis nationwide. Meanwhile, city leaders insist there's "no violence problem" here. Is anyone surprised?

We break down the pattern of political intimidation through arson, from City Councilor Candace Avalos's torched car to Commissioner Renee Gonzalez's parents' vehicle going up in flames. Plus, the Rachel Corrie Ghost Brigade burned 15 police training vehicles and bragged about it on social media – still no arrests. All while Portland maintains the second-highest property crime rate in America with over 5,500 crimes per 100,000 residents.

How does a governor justify international travel when her own backyard looks like a third-world country? What's it going to take for these leaders to prioritize public safety over virtue signaling? Drop your thoughts below – this madness has to stop somewhere.

Tired of politicians abandoning their responsibilities while taxpayers foot the bill?

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Former FBI Director James Comey posted a message (“8647”) on Instagram possibly calling for President Donald Trump to be taken out. The White House believes the former ex-FBI chief made a credible threat against President Trump. The Sekulow team discusses the Trump Administration’s possible responses to Comey’s threat, current FBI Director Kash Patel’s reaction, the ACLJ’s legal work – and much more.

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5-15-2025  https://www.youtube.com/shorts/v4iW0tP73CM

5-15-2025  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2JxKsruWYI 

05/12/2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqidDO6T5x0 

5/14/2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-9KF7l7i9I 

5/14/2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAU-_y-WRFY&t=19s 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NawH8u02zkE   Aug 31, 2024 11:52 pm West Coast

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https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/local-officer-shot-trump-rally-shooter-first-knocking-him-down-investigation-finds-5708022?ea_src=frontpage&ea_cnt=a&ea_med=most-read-1

story by Zachary Stieber, senior reporter at Epoch Times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC6hdk8QOm4 

[3] INDICTED Again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8x0RoH3hAY  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZCqhoWXBkc 

[4] Schroder v JPMorganChase v Rothschild

https://rumble.com/v50lbl6-hillary-clinton-facing-life-in-prison-for-crimes-against-children.html 

https://www.portlandhomeboy.com/2-3-hunter-biden---the-nazis-of-desire.html  

https://www.portlandhomeboy.com/2-4-Hunter-Biden-Dildos-vs-Pelosi-Buttplugs.html   

https://www.portlandhomeboy.com/2-2-Soro-Sabotage-Portland-Antifa-Kiev-Nazis.html  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMFj8uDubsE 

story — 1 — 2 —  3 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXDDTq6v9Hs

https://rumble.com/v56yx65-canadian-households-3rd-most-indebted-in-the-world.html?e9s=src_v1_finance

—1— (here)   —2a— https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aib8N76uyq0  —2b— https://www.millennialmillie.com/    —3— (here)   —4— https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqBU8EyPSh8&t=4s —4b— https://www.millennialmillie.com/  

(Editor's note: Not a photo ...photoshop collage to illustrate story.) MORE McCain slew Abel, here: Mid-East & Ukraine Maidan CIA-Nazi Coup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfL5KwUuvMc  

https://www.portlandhomeboy.com/4-37-Race-Targeted-Biological-Warfare.html

https://www.portlandhomeboy.com/4-35-biological-warfare.html

https://www.portlandhomeboy.com/4-35-biological-warfare.html   

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4.1 Weaponizing Climate Change

‘Climatic warfare’ has been excluded from the agenda on climate change

Michel Chossudovsky, updated Sep 14, 2023

Naturally the biggest solar flare of the year makes the biggest earthquake of the year  ...but, artificially — HAARP facilities & ionospheric heaters make the biggest earthquakes of the year (& volcanic eruptions, too)   ...for example, Japan was first threatened by Hillary's State Department if they did not comply they would suffer an earthquake

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& first-hand testimony by workers at the HAARP facility: https://www.portlandhomeboy.com/4-20-Obama-HAARP-Japan-Nuclear-Meltdowns.html 

https://www.portlandhomeboy.com/4-20-Obama-HAARP-Japan-Nuclear-Meltdowns.html 

https://www.portlandhomeboy.com/4-26-Obama-haarp-attacks-philippines.html

  Bird Flu weaponized thru gain-of-function by financial Google & Bill Gates, (here) —    (here-1-of-2 ) & (here-2-of-2)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li164lMRR48

https://rumble.com/v54d5wu-putin-issues-urgent-warning-us-preparing-bird-flu-false-flag-to-sabotage-el.html  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weq5yhyenmw 

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https://rumble.com/v51zmc9-australia-mandates-food-rations-to-prepare-for-bird-flu-pandemic.html 

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https://rumble.com/v51yfx8-embarrassing-uranium-fact-avoided-by-margaret-brennan-during-bill-gates-int.html?e9s=rel_v1_b  

<>1<> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC7DREY-Li8&t=98s&pp=ygUUYmxpbmtlbiB1a3JhaW5lIG5hdG8%3D  <>2<> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j4Ru3HhfnM&list=RDNS8j4Ru3HhfnM&start_radio=1 

https://www.portlandhomeboy.com/2-12-newsom-too-big-for-his-britches-Emhoff-too.html 

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https://www.portlandhomeboy.com/2-7-Podesta-skanks.html 

https://twitter.com/i/status/1503829062556520448 

https://twitter.com/i/status/1503829062556520448 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kym3q0DKLnw

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgW9aH_lBhE   chain of fools 

https://rumble.com/v2d5i9u-adam-schiff-named-as-person-of-interest-in-vip-child-sex-ring-investigation.html 

Original U.S. House Banking Subcommittee document, (here)  — Source: Federal Reserve Directors: A Study of Corporate and Banking Influence. Staff Report Committee on Banking, Currenc& Housing, House of Representatives, 94th Congress, 2nd Session, Aug 1976.  U.S. House of Representatives-substantiated primary charts: who owns the Fed, (pdf) (msword)

 (excerpts from, America's Nazi Secret, by John Loftus)
 (excerpts from, America's Nazi Secret, by John Loftus)

Concerned with Ukraine's border ...but not America's?

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SS man Otto Von Bolschwing. —  Helene Von Damm — Reagan administrations —   Underground Reich —  Bormann capital network, —   Paul Manning 

https://www.portlandhomeboy.com/2-12-newsom-too-big-for-his-britches-Emhoff-too.html 

Little ol' Nancy Nazi-lover — FTR #673 Nancy Pelosi Bormann Democrat?

the Von Bolschwing/Getty family milieu and prominent Bay Area Democrats, including San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom [now California governor & presidential contender] and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi  

Nazi sympathizer and personal friend of Hitler J. Paul Getty .

city of london, founder-financiers of what is today, great britain & the united states, is the racist center of the fed city of london CNWO aka NWO + China + Great Reset; as such city of london dynastic banking families founded & maintain the food-, drug-, weapons- & human trafficking trade of men, women & children slaves & sex slaves & associated body organs, in the western world

1. 6,000-2,000-1350 B.C. — Egypt develops monotheism (Aten, Amon which eventually morphs to Amen) which becomes the basis of monotheism influencing Judaic Christian culture, with Psalms passages lifted from the Egyptian Book of the Dead Passage into Light. Lives of Old Testament patriarchs parallel the recorded history, families & wars of several Egyptian pharoahs.
   
2. 50 A.D. — Roman Empire founds Londinium on the current site of the City of London (not, city of London, proper), around AD 43.
3. 300-ongoing — Contantine institutionalizes Christianity as an instrument of the State.
4. 1,000-ongoing — German warlords create the Holy Roman Empire (which excludes Rome) founds the Fehme (assassins from the ruling class), & utilizes the Inquisition as a front to divest significantly wealthy rivals by deploying the Knights of Malta (to date).
5. 1607 — Racist white City of London central bankers finance first attempt to colonize north America.
6. 1608 — Racist white City of London central bankers finance & start to genocide & colonize India.
7. 1619 — Racist City of London bankers begin the human trafficking & slave trade of men, women & children to their colonies, the first 19 Africans reach the colonies that England was struggling to establish arrived in Point Comfort, Virginia, near Jamestown, in 1619, brought by British privateers who had seized them from a captured Portuguese slave ship, beginning human trafficking slave & sex slave trade from Africa.
8. 1672 — Racist white City of London central bankers start the slave trade from Africa (but, Africans were slave trading themselves for centuries). The City of London (a separate country inside the city of London) goes on to own all the British colonies of color around the world & finances the British monarchy who owns all the white colonies of color around the world, to date.
9. 1730 — Racist white City of London central bankers bring opium from India colonies into China & successfully addict China.
10. 1839 — The Opium War: China throws City of London opium traders via British merchants out of China
11. 1841 — City of London hires the colonists from the Republic of the United States of America as a drug-running front to continue smuggling opium into China ...the drug running families become the ruling families of the Republic of the USA found in the Blue Book
12. 1841 — American & City of London drug runners escalate the human trafficking slave & sex slave trade from Africa.
13. 1868 — City of London Corporation founding the United States Corporation to in 1860s to displace the Republic of the united States of America
14. 1913 — Our corrupt Congress (like today) sells out to white racist City of London Corporation ...City of London financial coup d'tate replacing publicly owned U.S. central bank with their own privately owned central bank (remember, we threw these vampire clowns out in 1776 with the American Revolution) ... & founding charter has private shareholders paid yearly interest on the national debt — forever — as personal dividends on their private ownership of founding Federal Reserve stock (which is exclusively owned by the international interlocking directorate of the Fed City of London including yearly national debt of the U.S. Fed plus the other five original Rothschild European central banks. Now do you see why Fed City of London orchestrated CV-19 as a biological warfare attack on the entire world? ...their annual national debt stock dividend is likely now about 12 trillion dollars directly into their pockets) ...not bad for a bunch of racist & fascist white vampire clowns.
    
15. 1914 — Fed City of London create WWI & fund both U.S. & Germany to fight each other.
16. 1919 — Fed City of London players finance Communism & Nazism out of New York City founding Ruskombank, involving Brown Brothers Harriman & Herbie Walker for whom George Hebert Walker Bush is named which illegally finances the Soviet Union & produces two consecutive 30-year Soviet development plans
17. 1928 — Financial coup of racist Fed City of London creates great depression.
18. 1945 — Fed City of London Lackeys (Dulles brothers, Brown Brothers Harriman) found CIA & hire Nazi leadership to run CIA eastern (anti-Russia) division —see Secret Treaty of Fort Hunt— & Kissinger (who Trump in 2020, fired) bring in Nazi rocket scientists & biological warfare scientists into U.S., Britain & Russia, later developing then deploying releasing smallpox, Aids, Lyme Disease, Swine Flu, Influenza, depleted uranium & CV-19 biowar weapons
    
19. 1947 — Fed City of London create Israel & Pakistan as imperial military outposts for their opium, heroin, oil & human trafficking trades ...to ensure religious unrest to obscure Fed / City of London ownership of  opium, heroin, oil & human trafficking.
20. 1947 — Fed City of London central bankers found United Nations to establish a New World Order of centralized global control (globalism) aka the New World Order (NWO) 
21. 1947 — Paul Nitze drafts National Security Memorandum NSC-68, scapegoating the Soviet Union as the mortal enemy of the U.S. (even though the Soviet Union defeated the Germans in WWI & WWII defeated the Nazis ...& authorizing domestic psychological warfare against U.S. citizens, embodied & publicised as The Crusade for Freedom, by Ronald Reagan on national tour sponsored by Bechtel & GE in the early 1950s.
22. 1940's — JPMorganChase interests along with DuPont finance & prepare to orchestrate a military coup against the U.S.A. to install a fascist government, but were busted.
23. 1988 — Reagan / Bush Administration caught bringing underage callboys into the White House after midnight.
24. 1988 — Reagan / Bush Administration's National Heritage Committee getting out the ethnic vote busted in national newspapers for all it's members being Eastern European death squad leaders & assassins during WWII.
25. 2009 — They (JPMorganChase / Deutschebank / Fed / City of London), all Nazi partners, orchestrate U.S. housing crash; (see, Kill a Banker, Win a Prize — Occupy Deutschebank: Financial Warfare for Dummies)
26. 2009 — NWO morphs to CNWO Great Reset ...New World Order Morphs to China New World Order
27. 2011 — 911/WTC & fake news — Muslim pilots German citizens trained at U.S. military bases? here & here & here & here; Project for a New American Century plan for '2nd Pearl Harbor' mrophs to 911/WTC to justify Bush oil wars in Iraq & Iran.
28. 2017 — Bill Gates & assumably foundation board member, Fauci, finance & present Covid total economic collapse & pandemic genocide scenario due to coming global influenza bioloical warfare attack for United Nations & World Economic Forum about releasing CV19, to the great reset crew.
29. 2017 — DARPA is ordered to stop developing the CV-19 biological warfare weapon in the U.S. ...because it's labs are too dirty & there's fears the biological weapon will be transmitted from lab animal to lab workers then the population.
30. 2017 — Fauci sends $350 million dollars to Wuhan Lab (presumably sending the virus biological warfare weapon as well), to continue working on the weapon in Wuhan (in cooperation with the Chinese Communist Party),  (here & here).
31. 2009 — CNWO (China + New World Order) morphs to Great Reset ...New World Order Morphs to China New World Order to the not so Great Reset
32. 2018 — JPMorganChase successfully predicts extreme social unrest not seen in 50 years (here & here & here)
    
33. Fake elections & fake democracies throughout the Americas since 1913.
34. 2019 — Fed City of London partnered with China release CV-19 biological warfare weapon officially released, to achieve Fed City of London-founded UN, globalist imperative & published objective to depopulate the world 90% by 2030.
35. 2020 — DC mayor declares Christmas Eve 'Dr. Anthony Fauci Day'
36. 2021 — China New World Order Great Reset of world oligarchs steal election to defeat Trump & deface democracy & U.S.  – no longer the beacon light of freedom in the world, as democracy falls to communism & authoritarian rule & censorship & defunding police to bring in UN Peacekeepers as defenders of the globalist authoritarian fascist regime striving to rule the world with computers & space age technology & corrupt voting machines ...to reduce America to a third world nation of economic slaves.

PMorganChase interests along with DuPont orchestrated a military coup against the U.S.A. but were busted by Marine General Smedley Butler (scroll down) ... that's why they remain among the usual suspects for releasing CV-19 & orchestrating the not so great reset. After all, Gates financed both a United Nations presentation & a World Economic Forum presentation that accurately showed the economic breaking of the world as a result of a biological warfare influenza virus, just a couple years before the current outbreak(s) ...and, Fauci is on Gates Foundation board of directors & both develop & own vaccines & Gates wants depopulation through vaccination.

[Editor's note: please go to ink FTR#1168 where all the links & formatting are provided thru-out the following text]

FTR#1168 Bio-Psy-Op Apocalypse Now, Part 24: A Pound of Cure, Part 3

FTR #1168, We noted South African links of the Struengmann brothers, apparently the source for venture capital behind BioNTech (here). Might we be seeing a manifestation of the same type of relationship that apparently exists between the Lyme Disease treatment establishment & biowarfare forces that appear to have created that scourge? 

When Heck Freezes Over The Darned Will Walk The Earth — Who in H*LL Groomed Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom, Diane Feinstein, Ronald Reagan, Adam Schiff?

https://www.portlandhomeboy.com/1-28-my-books-ebooks.html 

Russia has saved our ass many times throughout history the sad truth is the Nazi party was funded out of NY City, as were the Communists that usurpted the Russian Revolution -- when the people, moms, dads, soldiers could not afford food & were starving to death the people spontaneously rose up (as the U.S. Declaration of Independence & Bill of rights instructs us to do) and overthrew their corrupt government (like our corrupt Government today) and reclaimed the riches of the billionaire class to feed the hungry ...like we should be doing in America, today. The America Revolution was fought against the City of London Rothschild banking syndicate and we threw them out in 1776 ...they came back in 1913, and it's time to throw them out, again and their Federal Reserve System that is killing us; and dismantle the IMF; it's time for the City of London to repay us all the interest we've paid since 1913 on the national debt, and cancel the national debt in its entirety, then return ownership of our money to us — then dissolve themselves