Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers | SRS #170

[Music] Mike Benz Sean welcome back it's good to be back man I feel like we just saw each other it was just a couple months ago wasn't it yeah but the before and after picture is quite different I know man wow I mean the stuff that's being unveiled and all the corruption that that that's being exposed I mean I we kind of chatted about this a little bit downstairs but this stuff is rolling out Fast I mean like lightning speed here did you expect that to happen I didn't expect the speed of this um I

think once they fixated on us Aid frankly I think it was us AIDS and trans agents as the Trump admin and White House were just trying to Simply audit things and it was their reluctance combined with I think the the scandals and uh leading up to it that led them to zero in on it and I think that just because of the pure money outlays and how easy that picture Is to understand for Americans it's now challenging the entire foreign policy establishment from the operations of the state department to the intelligence services to the defense

establishment I think it's it's validated um what had been percolating for a long time which was this weaponization not just of what the focus was for the past several years of domestic agencies like the justice department and FBI against US citizens But actually our even dirtier operations abroad our dirtier apparatus our blob foreign policy apparatus capacity for covert activity and political dirty tricks weaponized against Americans which is just a fundamental assault on on the premise for even having them in the first place yeah I mean it seems like it seems like Doge kind of started

with USA how involved are you with Doge not I I you know I mean I speak I I I think that a Lot of the folks there pay attention to the things that I publish yeah I think so too um but you know there's you know there so there's there's interaction action simply through uh you know through X and and whatnot but um you know there's they have an incredible job and one of the things we're confronted by right now in this moment is it's becoming increasingly clear I think to the rest of of the

American population That it's this foreign policy establishment that's been weaponized against domestic citizens but this was a nationalist movement from 2016 on word make America great again America First these sorts of things people joined it because they cared about their own country or their own neighborhood whether their streets were safe whether their school curriculum reflected their own values um whether there was waste Fraud and Abuse at the White House or DC Level they didn't think about in large Part International Affairs foreign relations they may care about a few Wars that they hear about in the

news but the the movement did not really have and is only now beginning I think to to incubate a sort of foreign policy intelligencia that both the neoconservative wing of the Republican party has had for you know over half a century and that the Democratic party you has had and so uh that process I Think is is forming right now and people are trying to um trying to form that North Star and I think many of the things that I've I've published help go into that thought leadership soup yeah I mean what I was going

to ask this at the end but I don't want to just popped to my head so I don't want to forget it but I mean you've really Doven into the USA Aid stuff and so once we get through all Of the USA ID stuff which is what we're going to interview about today what are you going to go at next what are you going to start looking into well it's all related you know this is one of the reasons when I do my lectures and I show the chart of the foreign policy establishment State Department

for US national interests defense department for US National Security CIA is a sort of covert player for to covertly help the state department or covertly help DOD um these things are all are all connected so um the dod picture is a a perhaps darker one and much bigger one to tackle in terms of cleaning that up I mean by the sheer size of it USA is about a $44 billion budget pentagon's 900 billion and um depending on how you measure it the the black hole in their budget is somewhere between hundreds of billions to 35

trillion and so wow um but the reason That I'm so Overjoyed that it's starting with the USA side is because it connects to all those points I mean and this is another thing that Defenders Of The Establishment are now uncomfortably trying to find the right way to defend themselves which is that if USA is supposed to be humanitarian assistance and build the American people as a kind of international charity why why are they working with the US defense department why are they Working with special forces why why is there even a civil military uh you

know coordinating Branch for USA and DOD they have no idea how deep the rabbit hole goes there or or how dark many of the operations they thought us Aid was involved in and I think that this is part of what the blockade being set up right now to stop Doge from finding out is about they don't want them to have us AIDS books they don't want them to have the internal records They don't want Them to have the emails and Communications they don't want them to they definitely don't want them to have the transfer of

money flows this was the sort of thing that even the Senate Foreign Relations Committee which directly oversees us a could not get access to until the present moment Senator Joanie Ur had an expace with Elon Musk where she said when she tried to do oversight she was threatened by us Aid when when usaid ran the zenzo op in In Cuba in 2014 and the Scandal popped off who approved this and it turned out it was all inous at USA what what Senate staffers said was when they tried to get oversight of this operation along the

way they were told that if Senate staffers found out what USA was doing people people could die so they had to shield shield it from there so we're opening up a Pandora's Box and that's the threshold question is how much access to this is do ultimately Going to get yeah yeah well Mike before we get to In The Weeds here you know I have a patreon account we got a bunch of behind the-scenes stuff on there we got behind the scenes interviews like what we just did with you and uh but one of the other

things that I offer them is each and every guest that comes on they get to ask a question and so this is from Jimmy W what warning sh what warning sign should we look out for now that USA ID has been shut down what are The chances the Republicans will work against Donald Trump with Democrats to just start a new slush fund under a different name uh so a few things on that one is it's true that you know almost 14,000 employees were laid off at usaid it's true that the name you know has been

covered up at the building it's true that all the you know foreign operations folks have been have been recalled um I I don't know still you know as of The time that we're speaking right now that it's appropriate to say that us a as a function has been shut down given that uh I believe that the you know the the grants are still uh ongoing there's been a funding pause but us8 is funded through q1 and there's going to be a dog fight in the budget about what to preserve and the plan is to fold

it understate but to my knowledge an executive order has not been passed formally abolishing it and Even if it did there'd be the legal Challenge and the bills to abolish usaid are still just born babies uh in the house and the Senate um and even assuming the the closure and abolition of USA it is going to be inherited by the state department so that function will continue but under the direct oversight of state but the warning signs to look for uh I think there's there's no better description of of what those warning signs are than

what was said by Uh US ambassador turned legal Hatchet Man Norm Eisen I believe in an MSNBC appearance this week where uh he called the the Trump Administration a autocratic regime and we have tools to display autocratic regimes around the world in uh you know people-powered revolutions and this was this was this was the man who basically spearheaded nearly every uh lawfare uh push against Trump World uh for the past eight years uh everything From the Trump impeachment to the to the j6 impeachment to the uh you know to the all of the Ukraine Affairs

to to a a group called crew which sued the Trump Administration hundreds of times and you know he was the former US ambassador to the Czech Republic for for President Obama and uh even wrote A playbook basically on how to um how to orchestrate color revolutions against populist movements uh that were rising in Europe while he was you know at at The Brookings institution just a few years ago and he's openly calling on live television to uh to take that same playbook for overthrowing foreign governments and to find a way to implement it here and

the the first two things that he said off the top were uh that this needs to be a legal fight and it needs to be a media fight so taking it to the courts and taking it to the media for hearts and minds but what you've seen one of the warning signs That I'm very concerned about is that a fundamental part of these people powerered revolutions these so-called color revolutions is is on the street action to destabilize countries which also provides a a sort of patina a predicate to the rest of the world that this

is the genuine reflection of of the democratic people being underserved by an autocratic government but it has the the benefit of shutting down the country and destabilizing the government because They're they're between a rock and a hard place they they'll shut down the highways they'll shut down they'll you know the union workers will all walk out and shut down industry by going on mass strike uh there'll be violent confrontations uh in dozens of cities uh attacking police as we saw with the BLM riots even burning down police precincts and then the only way to really

respond to that in order to stop that is through an Almost kind of Quasi military scale um you know deployment to physically remove those people from the highways they blocking the infrastructure that they're terrorizing but when you do that you get hit by the second round of the color Revolution Playbook is cries of humanitarian rights violations authoritarian crackdowns see now we provve their authoritarian because they've done this and that's where the International Community comes into the Picture with joint sanctions economic pressure now they can hold up this Crackdown is the reason to do it and

this gets back to the fundamental position we're in at this unique moment in American history where the foreign policy establishment is really for the first time in a very serious way having to respond to the will of the people who pay for it which is that you have this outof power Network here in the US that is grasping To try to find allies on the Republican side in in Congress but they are now being counter pressured by folks like Elon and others who were threatening to primary them if they defect and their strongest allies are

a handful of folks on the Republican side in Congress um but most potently the inpower governments abroad that have a similar act to grind against Trump and Trump World and Trump's foreign policy Vision that that will be happy to assist in This project any way they can so what I predict you're going to see is a a a transatlantic flank attack where you have the outof power foreign policy establishment here teaming up with inow foreign governments like in the UK in the UK labor party like across the EU with inow EU governments like in places

like Brazil with Lula uh like in certain certain governments in Central Asia and to use to I believe right now they're in the consensus building process of this Which was very similar to what what happened when Trump won the first time I cover internet censorship it's my my primary uh reason that I Crusade on all these other elements but this this H this played out in in the first few months of of trump 1.0 internet censorship didn't really hit the American people in a very serious way until late 2017 early 2018 what were they doing

in the interim time they were having these consensus building meetings You know they were all the major think tanks were having these cons how do we build the Coalition what exactly is going to be our civil society strategy our legal strategy who are friends in the Chamber of Commerce who can put economic pressure on this you know uh how do we build a predicate for this whether it's Counter Intelligence through Russia gate or whether it's a democracy promotion predicate that Trump is an attack on democracy and and that Process is the process of seducing people

from different fractal coalitions into one cohesive uh Network that can do this together and right now they're fractured I'm sorry if I'm taking a while for saying this but just to complete this point because it's going to hang over the rest of this conversation we can't forget that the Democrats elected Joe Biden as president and he was removed by another faction of the of the Democrats There was effectively a a westwing Democrat Party Civil War and Joe Biden put on the Trump hat while kamalo was running against Trump with a big smile he even asked

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difficult right now for them to form that cohesive Network and unified action plan when you have folks from the Joe Biden side of the foreign policy establishment still extremely upset and feeling betrayed by The kamla Harris side of it but those wounds will heal and time I believe does heal all wounds in that way as as their economic interests are threatened uh potentially by the DraStic reforms that Trump ad misra is pursuing yeah you know nothing forms an alliance like a common enemy and uh yeah so Mike second time you're on the show and uh

we're going to talk all about usaid here coming up us here's just some stats that we kind of pulled up budget of over $44 billion Employed more than 14,000 people 2/3 of whom worked overseas now we're down to 294 to 611 people after the Doge discoveries operated in over a 100 country H operated in over a 100 countries primarily in Africa Asia Latin America the Middle East and Eastern Europe I mean list goes on you know one of the things that that caught my eye you know is I mean like I said there's just been

so much that's getting unveiled but I recently did an interview With Colleen georgescu who's running for president in Romania and the Romanian Supreme Court annuled the election and basically froze it uh due to due to Russian interference and um you know I got a lot of flak for That interview but I wanted to give that guy a voice because I thought this this really kind of mirrors very similarly to what we saw with Trump not in the last election but the election before and you know Georgescu called the tens of millions that were sent by

usaid a bride wrapped as social Aid and an attack on their sovereignty so how does how does so it sounds like this was kind of funded this campaign against him and and shutting him down was funded and and instigated by usaid now the the the the Russian interference was never proven it was all just speculation and but the usaid stuff is proven and so it's it's interesting we Just did that a couple of weeks ago and I just I'm curious what your thoughts are on this well I'm shocked I'm shocked to find the US funded

blob NGO swarm descending on a right-wing populist party in Europe uh it's no of course I mean this is the most predictable thing of all time I mean you know George SK has been um a thorn in the in the side of the US and UK and sort of NATO foreign policy establishment for a number of reasons uh the central Lynchpin of world geopolitics right now is the conflict between Ukraine and Russia Romania occupies a critical uh strategic uh point in in that war um not just because the transport of Arms from Pakistan to Romania

into uh into Ukraine which is you know been been a longtime route to be able to run run G uh guns and and arms and Munitions in but but also because Romania shares the the Black Sea Coast with Ukraine and NATO is presently in the process of building the Single largest NATO base in Europe in all of NATO history 100% bigger than the uh you know the Ramstein uh base in in German and in fact NATO is as we speak moving arms supplies Jets and drones to that base because it points straight out at Crimea

and will be the the place of force projection uh uh and you this is this is the the military hard power uh play on on Crimea is which is absolutely essential to Russia in their view uh is this is what kicked off uh this conflict To to begin with really there was the effective secession of eastern Ukraine but it was Russia's warm water Port access uh in in Crimea and and obviously their military base there that was there was the CRI Crimea referendum to join the Russian Federation that kicked off all of this including the

the you know the rattles snake Nest that that Trump walked into with Ukraine and Russia and whatnot and so you know georgees SK has has effectively campaigned On um being friends with both sides enemies of neither um you know neutrality does not want to antagonize Russia by building you know the the NATO's largest War lethal War fighting uh capability right on you know Romania's Coast it you know makes Romania a Target um obviously from NATO's perspective the moment Russia bombs Romania and and extends the fight Beyond Ukraine that would be a major International incident um

but the Attempt to to remove georgees SK is the same thing that happened with Imran Khan The Intercept published leag cables who who was that Imran Khan is the was the Prime Minister of Pakistan and again there there's this deep relationship between Pakistan and Romania here because Pakistan was essentially how we trained and funded the muah hadin in in the 1970s and ' 80s against the Soviets there's a lot of uh military capacities that that we Warehouse there there's There's a lot of money laundering through those there's the famous BCCI Bank the Bank of Commerce

and credit International sort of CIA proprietary bank that that went down in in web of scandals around Pakistan Great Britain the UK which has massive interest in Eurasia just built an airbridge between Pakistan and Romania for this exact purpose um and so but Pakistan also Imran Khan the the Prime Minister did not want to Um he did not want to uh this is shortly after the 2022 Russia you know Ukraine military Fiasco kicked off um the US and UK foreign policy folks thought that in their own words when they were effectively bribing uh the the

political class of of Pakistan and this is all in The Intercept everyone can look this up uh these leak cables it showed that uh carrots and sticks were offered by the by the Biden foreign policy establishment to you know Parliamentarians in Pakistan in order to oust Imran Khan in a no confidence vote an impeachment that uh that would that would take him from power and then he was arrested shortly thereafter he's currently in prison even though he was the wildly popular uh you know elected elected head of head of state um and the reason cited

by the state department for carrying out this this two operation was that um was that Imran Khan had taken quote an aggressively neutral position Because Khan had had said that he will continue to have Pakistan to trade with Russia he does not want to you know allow weapons you know to to go to killing Russians and given how Central the Pakistan in is in this Pakistan Romania Corridor georis SKU I see is is the same way aggressively neutral but that's all it takes that was all it took for the state department there and if can

I continue just on this point really absolutely going after the courts uh in Order to nullify elections or influence the activities of the elections is the Beating Heart of what USA and to an and to a related extent the state department CIA and and civil military Folks at DOD do they USA is in their Charter to uh to pursue so-called judicial reform which which allows them to effectively bribe and try to rig the decisions of judges and the Judiciary and the rise and fall of laws in foreign Countries and USA made a special project of

targeting what they call embs election management bodies and uh which which are the the bodies in in in countries that adjudicate elections uh so for example we it's our Supreme Court that decided uh you know the bush versus Gore hanging you know hanging Chad's you know election in U in the US 20 years ago um in Brazil the the the EMB the election management body is What's called the tsse it's it's a basically a Subcomponent of their of their stf Supreme Court that is the demaras Voldemort judge who has you know who banned X seized

assets from starlink and is basically uh you know criminalized uh Pro bolsonaro uh support on Brazilian social media and and they were sought after by USA they were uh USA I have their internal documents where they've in just a few meetings alone they'll gather together representatives from 12 different embs AC uh across the world And and have usaid basically convince them train them on what kind of uh ways to structure their court or what task forces to set up in in the disinformation space in order to allow those courts to have a to not just

adjudicate the elections but to be able to effectively criminalize questioning the elections or speech during the election cycle this is part of how the power in Brazil you know of that Court expanded to such a huge size they USA Was pumping money into that whole network around that Court pumping up the academic thought leadership PP pumping up the the legal Advocates who were making pitches to the the prosecutors and to the disinformation task force itself and if they're going after every EMB election management body you know in in in the in the world effectively uh

to get those courts to criminalize populist uh Speech you can bet your bottom dollar They're doing that to criminalize uh uh populist election results in those same seps documents this is the political process strengthening Center usaid in that program they def the enemy is populism they say that part of the purpose uh in uh is to is to prevent the evolution of of uh of populist thought leadership because they Define right-wing populism as a threat to democracy because it undermines the efficacy of democratic institutions Us-backed Nos and Civil Society institutions in the area well guess

what georgescu is he's a ring populist or he's a populist at least however you want to Define it he is in their view the virus that the white blood cells of us Aid are custom built to take out and I have to I just have to stress this point this was attempted against Donald Trump in when he won the 2016 election when the Russia gate predicate came out about social media interference everyone Can trace the timeline of this and and look up the contemporaneous news reporting when when the CIA came out and said there was

Russian interference on us social media and there were Russian Bots and trolls and RT and Sputnik were supporting Trump they tried to get Congress to not certify the election result on the basis of Russian interference in the election and to my recollection they got I believe almost a somewhere between a dozen and two dozen Or almost a dozen us congressmen to agree not to certify that vote now it's not nearly enough you need you know there's over 500 people in in the house and you know 100 in the Senate but if you can get that

ball rolling and poach sitting members of Congress here in the US 8 years ago before they even built up this apparatus to be Juiced and as powerful as it's become think of how how much easier that task is and how how far A little bit of money goes a long Way in order to juice those networks in Romania yeah you know that that's what caught my attention was it seemed almost identical with the Russian interference and you know what actually blew him up was a Tik Tock smear campaign right and the T the Tik Tock

smear campaign actually resonated with a large portion of the population in Romania which boosted him up I mean the guy spent next to nothing on his campaign and had a tremendous lead and you know one of the Things that I spoke with him about in detail is how he doesn't he does not want that NATO base there I did ask him you know will you be able to stop that he he he couldn't answer that um which means you know maybe he can't I don't I don't know but but it seemed like the reason they

went after him is because he does not want that base built the biggest ever NATO base ever to be built in Europe to include World War II and And it you know it obviously would uh it'd be a detriment to the Ukrainian side of the war and he he he expressed many times he just wants he just wants peace he doesn't want Romania involved in that that's not their problem I think that's the way a lot of Americans feel too but um but so so I think you hit it but so basically what usaid is

doing is they are influencing their politicians to sway a certain way are they also are they also paying off their Media cuz he would not they wouldn't platform him yeah in he he he he was not heard other than on Tik Tok the day after I announced the interview that was going out with him they had 250,000 people should start protesting in front of their Parliament yeah no absolutely that's that's what USA does they create the surround sound this is part of the reason I call it the USA Truman Show USA goes after every single

category of institution in the country They're targeting the media control over social media speech the unions the workers groups the uh the judiciaries the parliamentarians uh the Arts and and uh and music and music uh and culture the uh the universities and the academic institutions uh everything the even you know folks in the the commercial for-profit sector side what USA does is it it does what it calls capacity building it does a Baseline assessment or strategic assessment of all the assets they have in the region and then they look at the gap between what they

have and what they need in order to accomplish a particular State Department foreign policy goal or a you know inter agency approved foreign policy goal and then they close that Gap by funding everything they need so for example if Georgia skew is is overwhelmingly popular with unions they will bring in They will fund the Neds solidarity Center uh or or other sort of you know uh CIA back you know back channels or Ned is you know this sort of squishy in between between State and CIA you they're a non nonprofit NGO that that uh gets

you know it's funding from the US government it was created by the US government uh you know it was conceived of by the CIA director in 1983 William casy for it's you know to be born it's it's uh you know its Founders even say That you know they their job was to you know do what the CIA used to do that's basically delegated them they have something called the solidarity Center which is their Union arm and they'll often work with the AFL Ci's uh International branches um so they so if they say okay he's overwhelmingly

popular there are those the people uh who are on board with our operational plan in in the in the place for example those people have more disproportionate Perception of political legitimacy for that they will pump those up if they say okay well George SK is popular you know in the media here or in these demographics they'll do a demographic assessment you know by ethnicity gender religious denomination and they will close those gaps they'll do that they they'll do art and activism you'll you'll see musicians you'll see performers you'll see cultural figures they will all be

approached by us us Aidf funded Nos and interlocutors to do that and and it that's that's effective enough in a country with counterintelligence antibodies because uh it's you know a sort of first world you know economy or or a second world economy in a place like Romania the task of trying to stop the reach of those Octopus arms is is impossible you know Georgia right now You know is been in the news all year because they've been trying to pass our equivalent of Farah the foreign agent registration act which is a a rule here that

criminalize any us you know person or or institution who is lobbying the American government or uh you know to change policies or lobbying Congress or the executive branch but is getting funds from a foreign country to to do that and is not disclosing it because we consider that To be a totally existential Counter Intelligence risk if you don't have a far a law to know which NOS or which universities or which for for-profit entities or whatnot are getting money from pick your foreign country X China Saudi Arabia UK you name it to do it then

that's an obvious Counter Intelligence threat that's an intelligence operation effectively uh being run when Georgia tried to pass that law which is just us far what Happened well you know there were the same street riots that were deployed that us a was you know was flat busted you know caught doing in every place from the Arab Spring you know to uh you know to virtually every color Revolution Street protest movement the the the US has done at least since the 1980s and so they're trying to stop Eastern European countries from even knowing the extent of

the USA Truman Show there and potentially even deploying their own Rental Riot muscle uh to to stop disclosure of that so I don't know the extent that Romania but I have to imagine if the truth is revealed it would shock the world I mean how how much of the how much of the world is influenced by USA every plot of dirt on God's green earth is influenced by us Aid I believe you said at the beginning of this that it was about 100 countries and you Mentioned Africa Asia Western hemisphere South America and Eastern Europe

it's every country on Earth for example why is USA paying tens of millions of dollars to British uh censorship uh you know Nos and British censorship firms you uh why you know why are they funding places like the center for information resilience and why are they funding all these British institutions Uh if you know it has no impact there well you're juicing the skids of this of these London Civil Society institutions when you do that uh you know Institute for strategic dialogue and whatnot and these what what are those groups doing what is Institute for

strategic dialogue doing it is doing advocacy and and high pressure campaigns and liasing with the tech companies to censor Americans Americans are targeted usaid is attacking Americans when when usaid paid The occrp uh this is the corruption reporting project that's that's in under the under the public you know Limelight right now because of massive scandals that have broken out in the past several months this is the largest Consortium of investigative journalists in the world this is the group that broke the Panama papers and other major world stories turns out half of their budget comes from

usaid and the state Department I believe in the beginning it was all of it or virtually all of it they were effectively spawned out of USA and the state department the US USA and the state department have uh approval over what staff they can hire they closely coordinate on the on the kinds of stories or category of stories or workload that uh that that they can carry out um on usa.gov right now everyone can see this in the Wayback Machine with usa.gov currently under maintenance shall we say um there's an incredible document at USA bragging

about the accomplishments that this investigative reporting group has done now these are hitpiece journalists that are that are carried out to capacity build Independent Media not independent from government it's our government it's independent from you uh uh or what we say independent from other governments but it's they use this this lie phrase Independent Media for all their sponsored media assets and so under the banner of supporting free and independent media in Central Europe because they operate in Ukraine and about nine or 10 or seven or eight uh Eastern European countries it's it's jointly to do

Independent Media um you know sustainability funding and anti-corruption because we want to root out corruption in eastern Ukraine and so so and root Out corruption in Eastern Europe root out corruption in Romania and uh anywhere that basically what they do is they effectively function to write hit pieces and dig up dirt on the political enemies of the US and UK Legacy foreign policy established and then provide a predicate for prosecutors to arrest them or seize their assets or to induce policy changes in the country and in fact on usa.gov and everyone can find this in

the Wayback machine they have a document that says funding for ocrp in in in Eastern Europe $20 million function capacity building Independent Media anti-corruption accomplishments over $1 billion worth of assets seized I believe I believe it's several hundred policy changes induced in government or Civil Society organizations in the region I believe they have six or seven Government officials fired or sacked uh because of of this group's reporting including a president and a prime minister so they're claiming cred for regime change and then the final one is 456 arrests and indictments so these are this is

mercenary media for the state paid for deput pay these are these are effectively Hitman Hitmen hired to seize the assets of uh to uh to get fired from their jobs and to arrest criminally take Use the criminal justice system create a pipeline between their sponsored journalists and the local prosecutors in order to arrest the political enemies of the US government in these Target countries and you know this this relationship with prosecutors in usaid runs very deep for example it was the you know us Aid funding which was implicated in that in that Joe Biden you

know speech to you know threat to Victor shoken around the removal of Victor shoken in Ukraine um that you know that famous Council on Foreign Relations uh you know uh threat and by goly you know he did it son of a he uh he did it this was the you know the famous clip where basically said if you don't fire the prosecutor you're not going to get your billion well USA USA pays TW paid $27 million in in just two grants alone to the tide Center here in the US the tide Center is not just

the fiscal sponsor of the black Lives matter Foundation but they are also the fiscal sponsor of a group called fjp it's fair and just prosecutions which is the group that manages the Soros prosecutors and tells them who to prosecute who not to prosecute has them signed pledges like Alvin Bragg and Leticia James gives them talking points gives them social media posts they they uh meet this is all according to the media Research Center I should note uh you know meet on a a Weekly and sometimes daily basis so these are us prosecutors that uh where

the the fiscal sponsor of of that group 30% of Americans live under these Soros prosecutors now and they're working with this group fair and just prosecutions and they get their fiscal sponsorship through a mega grantee of us Aid us Aid is is they do this everywhere and they can get away with it because judicial reform and anti-corruption is part of our Humanitarian Aid work we're trying to strengthen their democracy but this when you read that that accomplishment section you you don't know what crimes these people have committed you don't know if they're guilty or innocent

USA doesn't even brag about that in the document it's the raw number 456 of our 456 of our enemies got arrested because of the incredible return on investment for paying our own mercenary media assets $20 million and think of the Return on investment we paid him $20 million and we seized a billion dollars you don't know what the crimes are when you read that document as a US citizen that scale of prosecutions it's hard to imagine that every single person there was was guilty of those crimes or that there wasn't you know some relationship with

the prosecutors in the background that politicize those cases in the same way we have in the DC Court here with the January 6 cases so this Plays out everywhere and this is also Why Us Aid funded uh Spock and and NOS were you know had their own uh Personnel making speeches to the the prosecutors in Brazil when they were TR when they ran the operation against bolsonaro I know everybody out there has to be just as frustrated as I am when it comes to the BS and the rhetoric that the mainstream media continuously tries to

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touches everything it's you think usaid is not having a massive impact on the government of France and the and the government and the government of of Germany and the government of the UK USA pays the Atlanta Council in 2018 in in the Atlanta council's uh Democratic defense against disinformation white papers the the Atlant council with seven CIA directors on their board I should mention funded by the the Pentagon and the state department as well and had a formal partnership with barisma but they're funded by USA in 2018 the front cover of their democra dis information

defense against disinformation uh one of their their Series in this which was an Internet censorship propaganda document and consensus building document so that the Atlanta council's muscle as NATO's Think Tank could go out to all their different granes and partner networks about who to censor how to sell it how to do it what connections to establish with the tech companies and these governments the front cover of this and everyone can look this up uh was was the uh the the so-called Macron leaks in France and the distribution web of of basically news stories that were

damaging to Emanuel macron in the middle of his presidential run against Marine Le Pen Who usaid and the US state department this is Western Europe This is where us Aid ain't supposed to be we're told uh the the front cover that's funded by usaid has Wikileaks at the center of this Jack pasovic as the other Main highlighted note a US citizen and the whole rest of The network map are all the different distributions of stories about these macron leaks that that helped Marine Le Pen but hurt their preferred winner of that election Emanuel macron and

what they were suggesting with that is that we need to stop Jack bobic and and Wikileaks from helping Marine from publishing news stories that might help Marine Le Pen in Western Europe win that election and that's USA sponsored baby they're touching every plot of dirt on God's green earth geez geez where does the so where does the directive come from well this is this is why it's useful to think of it as a blob so there it can come from several directions and then it gets consensus built to to build the appropriate operations Network to

carry it out so for example US foreign policy is supposed to be set by the White house uh through the inter agency process at the National Security Council and it's the state department who's Supposed to be the agency General to Steward the the the execution of of those foreign policy and uh and National interest goals and it's the pen and it's the Department of Defense that is supposed to Steward that on the National Security and Military side so the depending on what you are trying to do like for example let's take the the Georgia SK

Romania example this could come from any number of directions in Terms of how the idea first gets pitched and also a couple different tracks in terms of how it gets approved and sometimes it can be done in a way that's totally Rogue and this is one of the unique capacities of us Aid in this story and why I believe it's important for the Trump White House to shut it down to abolish it executive order congressional act however store understate and then after passing a series of forms that we can maybe talk About at the end

if necessary to spin out a new agency again but the typical way this will happen is the White House wants to do something or the Secretary of State or or some sort of thought leadership node within that or within the National Security Council pitch the idea all the different equities that would be involved in it uh whether that's the the defense department the state department um uh the Central Intelligence Agency Um supporting functions like FBI Counter Intelligence or DHS or or or other uh justice department and and other people who would need be need to

know in on that op would would all provide their comment and input it would finally get approved and then it would be green lit and the appropriate grants to support that you know would all would all flow you know the Pentagon would get the money state department would get you know would is would issue grants about This and then places like us Aid would do the relevant humanitarian Aid work in the region that would provide the the cover to to juice this whether that's doing doing Civil Society activity that has a sort of civil military

dual use purpose or doing you know Civil Society uh you know work in the area that has a sort of um CIA state department National interest political Warfare you know element to it and so and then that would that process will be Midwife by the National Security Council but usaid is really unique in this process and one of the reasons that it's gone so Rogue is because um usaid has always been this switch player you it was created in 1961 by JFK and a point that I've stressed continually is that a lot of people are

talking about this presently as if you as if JFK you know was purely thinking of creating USA as as a m you Know magnanimous charity because of you know the his high moral you know moral fiber and then it got corrupted through these money laundering and and uh and payoff networks that that are being publicized but two weeks before JFK created USA by executive order he awarded the the Green Beret to the US Special Forces and is singularly singularly responsible for the massive upscaling of us psychological operations civil military Affairs and Unconventional warfare you know

JFK was bogged down in Vietnam and la and all these counterinsurgency uh uh debacles where the US had interest in the region World War II had ended quite recently the world-based international order made it a big no no to declare conventional war and and bring in you know 1950 North Korea style tanks and and and planes and palm and and so we moved into this small Wars political war Modality and JFK believed in that very very strongly you know this how you have places like the you know John F Kennedy Center for special Warfare that

trains our our you know Special Operations folks and you know the the the whole Fort Brag you know JFK special relationship during during uh during his presidency but just two weeks after he that historic you know October 21 1961 uh you know Green Beret Special Forces Event JFK created USA and just one month later launched operation pin cushion which was the which sent the Green Beret sent sent our special forces to La uh where usaid was you know it it would later turn out USA very quickly uh played this function of supporting these very same

CI back mercenary groups that that Operation Push was was recruiting they were sent to La by JFK to train and recruit these Hillside gorillas in La uh as part of our southeast Asia Vietnam You know connected um subwar unconventional warfare effort we sent the Special Forces there to recruit them the CIA managed that CIA mercenary Army and it was USA who paid the head of that mercenary Army to acquire two US aircraft from two CIA proprietary Airlines air America and uh and Continental Air Services everyone can look this up in order to buy the planes

that that they use to to traffic it's unseenly but illegal Narcotics to fund that war effort as well as humanitarian relief relief supplies and Personnel so USA has played this swing role between State CIA and DOD and and Special Forces work practically from the from the day it was born but what's unique here is it's get out of white house approval free card can can I flush this out for a second um most of the major CIA scandals of of the past two decades have not actually been the CIA Directly themselves uh in in 1993

um USA created this new office to help wage the post Cold War uh political Warfare uh ini Al in Eastern Europe um after we were trying to create political vassel States out of the former Soviet uh colonies in Eastern Europe and this was called the the office of transition initiatives o oti USA oti and it was designed to be a um a fast flexible rapid response uh capacity for us Aid to do regime change work to do political Stabilization to basically do sort of a kind of civilian Special Forces um for civil military and political

Warfare work that would not have to run the traditional traps of approval it wouldn't be bog down in bureaucratic red tape and it would it would effectively function under cover of humanitarian work as as being a a CIA but without having the the the limitations that the CIA has on needing White House approval through What's called a presidential finding so all these CIA scandals popped off in the 196 and 7s the CI went through a bunch of reforms uh this was the the church famous Church committee and Pike committee hearings of 1975 and 1976 first

time the US ever created a senate intelligence committee a house intelligence committee to permanently oversee the CIA to stop what it had been doing domestic political targeting at That time of left-wing Democrats uh you know from ever happening again Jimmy Carter won the 1976 Presidential election because of these scandals and you know and immediately you know his first year in office carried out the the famous Halloween Massacre that laid off 30% of the CI Operations Division in a single night and crippled their budget by the way tell me if that sounds familiar to what's happening

right now you know the first month of the Trump Admin one the office because of political scandals from intelligence you know agency oversight you know hits them right away but then Carter ran into the uh ran into the Iran hostage situation the National Security State the media Ronald Reagan blamed that for you know blamed Jimmy Carter neutering the CIA for having for having caused that if we had had the CIA that we had before the Iran hostage situation would have never happened and so there was still a black Eye at CIA to get those old

powers back but they but the the re Administration wanted wanted those Powers so they couldn't get it through Congress so what they did is they basically created new structures to to do what used to be done by the CIA to be done by places like usaid and their newly created 1983 National Endowment for democracy who is who's effectively the the operations arm of much of USA work and and I I say all this to say that Usaid the reason so much of of the worst scandals that you find are are USA and why I always

say when it's too dirty for the CIA you give it to us Aid is because the CIA needs to get presidential approval for every covert action they do they need to submit a pres there needs to be a presidential finding that they need to do it USA does not which means if if if a rogue cell at CIA or special forces or or you know some some wing of the state department wants to do a dirty Deed and they know the president won't approve or in fact targets directly or indirectly the president or his International

allies they know they can't get the presidential finding but it has to be a covert action to to run the world can't find out they're doing it or what these granes are actually doing all they need to do is walk next door or place a phone call or you know meet in a secure location and tell their friends at us Aid and usaid can make the whole thing happen totally you know basically behind the president's back and I can go through a bunch of examples of that but that's what that's how Trump got Hoodwinked in

term 1.0 by his own us Aid so basically us Aid is a proxy arm for CIA Department of State the bureau DHS all these type intelligence organizations yeah yeah it's it's the it's the great flexible Swingman for any of their needs so how do they how do They keep from having any oversight well this is the magic of being a independent agency see is it an NGO no it's a formal US government agency but they make grants and subg grants and and you know Contracting work out to the NGO class but uh it's an independent

agency you know there's a great uh there's a great uh US army war College um book SL extended white paper that I've been publishing receipts from for the past six months and this is it's from 2014 And it's uh it's it's called the dod and us a uh and Analysis and recommendations for um you know uh development defense cooperation going forward and it it looks at this relationship between DOD State and US Aid and and it compiles DOD senior leadership thoughts on how best to synchronize what they call defense diplomacy development uh you know the

3DS all working together you know the military the state department and US Aid you know because DOD has National Security interest in the region state has National interest or economic interest in the region they need assets to play with assets to liaz with you know assets to build up and development creates those assets paying to create these institutions paying to co-op these institutions so these things all go together these three these these 3DS you know defense diplomacy development this is 2014 this is a this is over a decade ago and and in that US army

war College Member there's there's quotes from from us generals that say that they prefer working with us aid over State even though us Aid is independent but it's always supposed to be guided by state because even our humanitarian assistance has to serve us interests and state represents those stated interests but you have DOD people over a decade ago saying they prefer to work with USA over state for several reasons that that USA is not bogged down by bureaucratic red Tape of the of the quote inter agency knife fight that happens to the National Security Council

but that usaid quote actually does stuff whereas uh whereas you know state is is hamstrung by what they can actually do it's a diplomatic incident if the formal diplomatic arm of the US state department does something versus an independent aid aid agency that is there on humanitarian purpose and oh they were using it for this for this Wrong purpose and so and because there's much more oversight on state state runs the inter agency Gauntlet every day of its existence it has to persuade the white house uh you know the White House National Security Council and

all the inter agency partners to do something but really the only oversight there is at us8 is what's happened is at the office of Inspector General level you know their own in-house accountability mechanism and there's Some great examples of how this has gone so Haywire I don't mean to keep going okay there's a massive Scandal for us Aid and everyone can can look this up it was the zuno Scandal and let me make clear out the gate that I do not like and I'm not a fan of the Cuban government the I don't believe in

socialism I don't believe in communism I I'm I'm not saying what I'm about to say because I believe that the Cuban government should remain or whatnot I I'm leave aside the the the moral question about whether or not this was the right or wrong thing to do but here is what was done uh in 2014 a very massive Scandal popped off that I think few people today remember this was during the Biden Biden White House where USA took humanitarian funds that were earmarked for Pakistan and used them we are told to unilaterally uh create a

social media website in Cuba uh at a time when Cuba Had banned us social media uh considering Twitter and Facebook and YouTube and the like to be you arms of us statecraft the Obama Administration was riding high at this moment from the Arab Spring and the Facebook revolutions and the Twitter revolutions that us a and Ned played such a critical role in Te You Know funding money to these networks training them teaching them how to use Twitter hashtags teaching them how to How to coordinate Facebook posts to tell people where to protest you know $1.2

billion do pumped in by the state department in Egypt during that time you know for example and so so what USA in their own internal documents uh showed is that they saw the success of the Arab Spring and they wanted to create a Cuban spring they wanted street protests riots what they called smart mobs in Cuba on the basis of of us social media that they Could uh instrumentalize the problem was they didn't have the asset in the region they couldn't get their social media in so what they did is they they used a a

Byzantine Labyrinth of money laundering um flows from these humanitarian AIDS earmark for Pakistan again back to Pakistan and and use that to go through a sub a subcontractor called creative associat International who's a frequent USA uh contractor for this for this dirty work they were involved in all Sorts of other ones but it's Cai not CIA a creative Associates International who then basically uh you know contacted two Cuban businessmen to create a identical version of Twitter except but for Cubans and it was zunzo is is uh Cuban for for hummingbird it's basically even simulated the

bird it had the like button the retweet button and USA documents showed that that their plan was to you know get about 100,000 you know recruit people onto this platform In their own words with algorithms and feeds and promotion of of that this was the site to share sports music and hurricane updates that's their direct phrase in their own internal documents but that once they had gotten a critical mass of users on on the site between like 60,000 100,000 they would shift the algorithms they would they would use the data that they hoovered up from

Cubans signing up taking note of their political Proclivities the network clusters they' formed in order to get them to take to the streets in in a violent revolution protest against against the the Cuban government to form what they called smart mobs and basically at the appropriate moment once they they' got them in uh to get them to uh to overthrow their government now this is a classic CIA covert action this has massive diplomatic implications for the United States government if this kind of Thing is revealed that's why the CIA is in charge of this stuff

because the CIA is the political Warfare arm of the state department the state department maintains our diplomatic uh relations and posture with with the the fign world the reason USA is not supposed to be doing covert action the CIA is is because if there's diplomatic blowback it should be diplomatic organs who are doing it but but what us a said you know so evidently there was no presidential Finding for that they ran it you know this so without President Obama's approval at least that's the the official story and when you know Senate staffers during the

oversight could not get access they so the Senate intelligence senate for Relations Committee said they were duped the inter agency of of the White House said they were duped you know the official story at and they had public hearings on this by the way I believe in 2014 the official story is that USA did this whole thing in house and and they they did it because it was so-called discreet rather than covert that it was not a formal covert action it was simply you know discreet democracy promotion work to bring democracy to Cuba but that's

a if they ran that in the Obama Administration imagine what was done you know Trump wanted to knock out Isis um Isis according to the previous White House you know we have Wikileaks emails Of Jake Sullivan saying to Hillary Clinton Al-Qaeda is on our side in Syria and that effectively you know Isis was a useful friend against Bashar al-assad Trump wants to knock out Isis hey how do you fund money to Isis if the president wants to eradicate Isis if you still want to use them as Assets in the region well you're not going to

get inter agency approval if the CIA does it to covert action what if USA does it and that's how you see all this USA money Flowing to Isis and alqaeda and Taliban groups I think they just found 122 million from USA you know to them just this week I guarantee that number is a lot higher than that uh and in fact Trump's white house uh Trump's oig who just took over USA before they you know this this recent action just published a memo where he said this is unbeknownst to the entire American public until now

that actually there's a big fat loophole at at USA where their their contractors Evidently don't need to and there may be some I may there may be a technical you everyone can read that oig report John solom at just the news published all this but effectively usaid can look the other way uh because there are no restrictions on their contractors in terms of their you know oact and and counter uh counterterrorism uh M money flowthrough or at least there's giant loopholes in them so USA can fund terrorist groups and and get away with It in

a way that no other US government agency can wow you know I mean I know we're meddling in a lot of Elections and media and all that kind of stuff and I mean I I don't necessarily audience probably going to kill me for this but I I mean we do have to do that in certain situations would you not agree this is where it gets really dicey and this is what's where I'm in a really difficult position because we have two fundamentally there Are there there are two simultaneous tasks that appear to people who are

new to this Cinematic Universe that are in massive conflict with each other one is give that this thing broke its sworn oath that it would never be used against the American people and given the sheer depth and scale of what was weaponized the American people need to know about it and Massive Action has to be taken in order to not not just knock it out but salt the Earth and stop it from ever Rising again so you need you need to go extremely hard in terms of showing the the extent of it on the other

hand this has been you can make make a very compelling argument the reason that Americans have the standard of life that they do and uh have the advantages and privileges of the world's most powerful nation that it does you can make a very very compelling argument that that our that the rise of America to the preeminent world power in The 20th century would not have been remotely possible without this blob apparatus you know that what you know I come back to this concept of no no blob no pencils you know if you if you can't

even make a pencil in this country unless you have a mechanism uh to be able to influence foreign governments if they nationalize their graphite mines or the export of their you know gum trees in Malaysia or the ability to potentially make inroads or liaz with or Change the minds of unions that go on strike uh that you know that impact CR you know us National interest uh this is the reason that our corporations are so powerful they rely on the battering ram of The Blob you know in in the early 1970s when uh you know

in Chile when when you know there was an attempt to nationalize the bottling industry before we ran that that coup that coup was was jointly coordinated uh not just between the head of the the CIA but between the With the chairman of of the Pepsi Cola Company you know Pepsi met with the head of the CIA Don Kendall um you know met with Helms and this is all Declassified you can you read a great Guardian report uh you know read up write up on this or any of the major national security thing tanks basically Pepsi's

bottling operations in South America were were being threatened uh the the chairman of of Pepsi Don Kendall uh arranged a meeting with Henry Kissinger and said hey uh you know we need to stop this from happening Kissinger then put uh put him in touch with the head of the CIA Pepsi the head of the CIA and the state Department's media Mogul in in Chile all met to jointly coordinate the best way to take down the government and take it down indeed we did if you're like me health and wellness is extremely important to you But

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how we have energy dominance so and you can make the same argument about media right um um many people just this week are finding out that 90% of media outlets in Ukraine are funded by the US government and if You're totally new this space and you are rightly and righteously livid at finding out the extent of your own media ecosystem and you know diet has been puppeteered co-opted and financially sponsored by the by the government that is supposed to stay out of that domestic you see these statistics and you go burn it down salt the

Earth we've been told from elementary school to our own media Outlets here that we have a free and Independent press and that there's no role for the government in the media media is independent from government that's the difference between us and the Soviet Union in China is we have we have free and independent media they have statun media you know uh that's what def distinguishes a democracy and autocracy I totally understand the impulse and I believe as much as possible reforms need to be implemented criminal penalties need to be attached For violating it treble damages

for civil suits even be able to sue the agencies if they don't do oversight of the NGS who who operate domestically but people who are have not gone through their five stages of depression about the true extent of the USA triond show be before you you know before you proceed to the final evolution of of these reforms imagine a world where there's zero of that right imagine a World where 0% of media uh Outlets or soft or you know soft power hearts and minds work is sponsored by the US government in Latin America South America

subsaharan African sub subaran Africa Middle East North Africa Western Europe Eastern Europe Central Asia Far East Asia Eurasia imagine a world where there is zero influence whatsoever ever and other countries are not going to stop that stop doing that that work um we won elections doing this and in doing So we won favors for us corporations who in turn uh had skyrocketing and ever expanding corporate profits which in turn created the ability to hire Americans for jobs and to buy houses and to have uh you know and and to be able to buy health insurance

and to be able to have a 401 K of savings and to be able to pass down inherited wealth but another problem this is is the magga movement again has not really had to deal with this dirty work abroad because The p the primary concern has been what's 6 inches in front of your face my schools are have this woke curricula my infrastructure's uh you know crumbling my kids can't afford to buy a home until they're 45 years old but the other part is that this mission statement of The Blob to do this got corrupted

as globalization destroyed the predicate for doing this dirty work in the first place okay we overthrow the government of of of Chile for Pepsi we overthrow The government of of Iran for for oil and gas you know we we overthrow the the the government of some Central African country to get the lithium in the Cobalt nominally this is all supposed to help American corporations and and American citizens and and but what happens when those corporations Outsource all their jobs to to to farers what happens when they're not hiring American labor what happens when they're not

even building Their manufacturing plants here who are we doing these favors for when you have globalist corporations and and you have you know and you have you know globalist corporate boards and they've got no skin in the game these are these are not these are multinational corporations and most of their their export markets are to foreign customers at this point most of their labor pools are are foreign citizens most of their infrastructure the facilities that They're building this is why we had the Heartland turned into the Rust Belt it's because when you have these steel

companies and you have these manufacturing places build their facilities somewhere else it's not just the citizens it's the entire Regional development that goes away so we so this whole concept of reaganite trickle down economics that's what's good for the private sector is good for the private citizen has become completely divorced And this is how you have this Rogue blob that is stealing US taxpayer money you citing a sort of reaganite you know economic principle for doing this trickle down to the American citizens but when you have this globalist conceit there's no trickle down all you're

doing is is helping the the the Wall Street and London private Equity firms and financial firms and Equity holders and and and huge salaries for the sea Suite the directors and officers And shareholders of this college of corporations that that aren't even don't even represent the citizens anymore and there's ways to put firewalls by the way and this is what I'm trying to educate the American people about for example you shouldn't even be able to qu well we're going to make the reforms let's let's let's assume to the worst of this dirty work right just

like we did in the 70s we used to assassinate people the CIA did the had whole assassination Guides scandals of the' 60s and70s come out we said okay okay no more assassinations okay we can still do regime change work but we can't authorize the killing of people in in in a you know of a of a of a political figure you know outside terrorism into covert action okay well you can do these for these other Ro activities but in addition to that any stakeholder in a state department operation or a US Aid or That's assisted

by US Special Forces for for great great power competition has to meet some threshold of how much investment they're doing on the American soil how many Americans they're uh employing on us soil you know how how many contributions they've made to to the to to Americans and and the American economy you you can't have this helping you can't have American taxpayers Funding this globalist gut if this is done for nationalist reasons to Help Americans Americans have to be the beneficiaries of that so these this is all part of the so that's so that's that was

my next question is how do we I mean it is important that we are involved when we need to be in media in politics in the in these companies and so what I was going to ask is how do we effectively do that now that us AIDS pretty much shut down and so that is that what you're saying you they would have to work deals with the Company with the international companies to employ the there has to be oversight over the companies that are being funded by USA I'm saying that's part of the reforms because

people need to keep this in mind as as as a sort of nent Trump World foreign policy establishment you know there was a a republican foreign policy establishment you know for the past six years but they've all been the neocon faction that was you know represented the McCain the Romney the the Liz Cheney the Nikki Haley types and I'm not even trying to draw personal beef when I say that um you know you can make the argument that this is sort of the foreign policy school that Marco Rubio was substantially supported by and you know

that that Drew that distinction in 2016 between Rubio and Trump at the time but I think Rubio like JD Vance JD Vance you know was was not a trump Ally you know in the beginning either um but you know They've I think that Rubio is doing frankly an incredible job so far um but uh the whole of trump world is going to need to synchronize you know what their North Star is for these foreign policy visions and and I'm trying to say that it's a package deal the thing about us Aid was because of how

flexible it was and because of how dirty it could be again when it's too dirty for the CIA you give it to USA and it's been this way for 20 30 years At least um it was a shortcut it was a shortcut uh that could close gaps quickly and and it's also a shortcut for example if you're not going to do regime change work and you know the and the the the highest Roi to be able to secure the petroleum to be able to secure the lithium the Cobalt the aluminum the copper the zinc the

timber the the import export markets the military bases Well you're going to need to find other ways to offset the power you've lost by doing this so for example Trump in the oil and gas space Trump is uh you know you can see a creative way of of trying to offset this like for example let's just say a a country who we depend on for petroleum access um goes Rogue uh shakes off the Yoke of of of uh you know us soft power in the region say aeran or or something um and You you lose

the petroleum because you lost your ability to influence those elections well now you need to offset that well in in Trump's case he's saying drill baby drill domestically so there's ways that you can maybe offset that or maybe you should you can find other levers for carrots and stick sticks that prevent that don't rely on tapping into this dark arts sorcery work for example I believe one of those things that just like with Banning the Ci's ability to do Assassinations after after the 70s is Banning Social Media censorship diplomacy USA's huge in social media censorship

that is that's one of those assassinations level things that has to be completely banned by law in whatever continuing function usaid has and any usaid administrator or someone who's caught doing that there should be criminal penalties there should be civil penalties with treble damages for every US citizen who's impacted by that um and Because this is this is impacting us us taxpayers paying to have this Cloak and Dagger work Target them that's there has to be recourse for that but say you can create those categories but it also has to touch the the corporate side

for the stakeholder group because otherwise who are you doing this for what are American national interests so do you think you know now that USA is pretty much you know we've cut him off at the knees and and we've established that it's pretty Much gone Rogue I mean do you think we're going to see any I me what does it look like without them because they play an important role you know in history and a lot of different things and so you know what what are the ramifications going to be now that they're they've they've

had the legs chopped off what do you what do you think some implications might be I hesitate to concede that they fully had their legs chopped off because the Of a number of reasons um one is even assuming so they're moving over to the state department now what I've been telling you know I do all these private live streams for my ex subscribers and for 14 months I've been telling every you every lecture I've done I've said x-ray through every time you see us Aid and look and you have to see the state department everywhere

they are not usaid they' they're State Department They've always been State Department there's never been an an inch of daylight now they sort of start with that because when you get to there actually there actually is in the sense that it's it's a switch player between these other inter agencies and they have more flexibility to do this Rogue work than state but they are fundamentally supposed to be a state department function uh they are independent but they are supposed to be guided by State and they only exist to advance the foreign policy stipulated goals set

by state and but what difference does it make leave aside the flexible covert action under under discreet democracy promotion leave aside the accountability get out of white house approval free card aspect of it what difference does it make to shut down us Aid if you move everything over to the state department it's a state Department role anyway there was there was intense debate about whether even to make it an independent agency because it's fundamentally a state department it's the same debate that George Kennan had with with his peers in 1948 when they created the function

for cover action in the first place for the CIA George Kenan was the guy who authored NSC 10-2 the National Security Mount memo that established the plausible deniability Doctrine for the Central Intelligence Agency to do covert action Pol political Warfare e economic sabotage uh propaganda and and uh and uh information Black Ops the whole gamut of everything that the CI has authorized to lie about so that the so that our government can deny to us and to the world that they're actually doing it two two months before George Kenan authored NC 10-2 and gave us

the National Security structure that we currently live under he wrote this memo That I talk about frequently called the inauguration of organized political Warfare this is on April 30th 1948 this was two weeks after the cia's first mostly unauthorized covert action to rig and influence the course of and ultimately win the Italian election in Italy which was the first election in Italy after World War II that pitted a a us-backed pro-western candidate against a communist soviet-backed candidate and The CIA did all sorts of Dirty Work in there they had their assets stuffing ballot boxes using

Mafia muscle to shut down opposition meetings we bought the media in the in the in the region we worked with all the religious groups and the Charities uh the people involved in that operation you know publicly wrote in the me Memoirs that we would have lost that election if not for the CIA James Wy even defended that regime change Operation on Fox News uh in 2017 when he was asked just a CI still you know Russia's medling in our elections we don't meddle in foreign elections and he you know said well you know we used

to do that sort of thing uh you know in Italy and in Greece and he's referring to this this event that I'm talking about and then he said and then she says well we don't do that anymore though right and he goes well chuckle chuckle chuckle uh only in the interest of Democracy you know basically but but at that point there was no authorized CIA covert action to do it they were a spy agency they were on the ground they took the Reigns and run and expost F facto George Kennan 12 Days Later says hey

this thing was Gang Busters this we we just we just swung the entire course of the Italian election doing this we need to do this everywhere and in fact we need to create the capacity to do this everywhere even if we don't intend to Use it cuz this was a real last minute effort last last time we need this capacity in place our Assets in the organized labor our Assets in the Judiciary our Assets in the media our Assets in the movies and culture um even if we don't intend to just in case we we

ever need to and he called this the the inauguration of organized political Warfare and something like 15 to 20 times in this in this memo he presupposes that it's going to be parked At what he he wanted to set up inside the state department called The Bureau of political Warfare and that it would be a formal that that what we now call CIA covert activity would simply be another office at the Harry S Truman building in Washington DC in Foggy Bottom not in Langley Virginia and it would be called The Bureau of political Warfare but

he goes over the reason why we might not want to structure it that way we might want to put it another Agency which would come to be the CIA and he talks about how the the the fun in the the funding for it may not be able to be disguised on the state Department's books it may raise too many questions there there may be too much of a you know for for this sort of covert activity it may be best because it's political Warfare and it's really dirty and it's huge diplomatic blowback and state department

you know has to report its finances very publicly and there's You know we created the state department the very first meeting of of Congress of the United States of America in 1789 it was the first agency we created it's ancient everything runs through it so he said it might be best actually to have this done but it should still work constantly with the state department it's fundamentally a state department function but perhaps it should be parked somewhere else and then two months later boom C NC 10-2 was tasked to do the Thing that was originally

anticipated for the state department office of political Warfare the same thing is happening right now with USA that's all this is they're just going to create and in fact everyone can read Max boot the uh you know Council on Foreign Relations you know never Trump neocon um you know uh you know constant voice on the think tank space against all things Trump World he Pinned a article I believe it was during the Trump Administration where he called for this exact same structure to be set up to create that we should not shy away from from

this sort of work or or hide the fact that we that we do them um uh we should we should create a formal track at USA called the the a career track for political Warfare and it should be called a bureau of political Warfare inside of us Aid and PE people should be trained specifically for this Function of us Aid um you know early in their careers and it should not be something that that's a big Scandal and so we have a limited Personnel pool because nobody wants to say that's what they do they should

be celebrated we need to turn the culture around so that so that when usaid can do this they got a much bigger and better Network to do this and and we're now running into that so I don't actually see USA going away when you move it at State okay you are Inheriting and this is an uncouth phrase but I I think the visceral imagery is intended to make this stick closing the Ronald Reagan Building and moving the all those funds if it's a billion in overhead moving just if you keep all the grants and move

that 43 billion into the state department the state department just inherits a USA herpes infection it's the same problems it's this it's the it's it's a it's this tumor this growth this permanent flare Up that now it's just there's no difference between other than the structural and that that allows you to get away from oversight which is what I'm saying but frankly there'd be no difference if you shut down Langley headquarters and you created a office of political Warfare at at at state for do that to do that if you shut down USA headquarters and

created an office for International Development uh at State now you're have you're making Marco Rubio at that point the most powerful Secretary of State in American history when you do that but fundamentally the problem was there was not oversight or repercussions for um for for wrongdoing and Rogue activity at usaid and so it's coming back to the place it was intended to be spawned out of yeah I just I just see uh you know the pulse of America right now hates you and while they are rogue they do play an important role it is stuff

that we need To be involved in you know Venezuela Iran Russia China I mean just to name a couple we we we need to be involved in that kind of stuff and and into to do kind of like what we're talking about to influence and um and so it's just at the meantime you know they've done a lot of corrupt so you know you had mentioned uh an organization the Atlantic something with seven former CIA directors is that yeah The Atlant Council builds itself as NATO's Think Tank effectively um you know they uh you can

the easiest way to think of them is the sort of uh civil civil military semi-clandestine even though it's public facing coordinating arm for for NATO uh priorities so so when you have NATO is obviously the Western world's military Alliance and so they're concerned with the military you know activity Of us you know France you the whole you know all the NATO countries uh and it's their sort of consensus military activity but and people are you know finding this out who are mostly concerned with domestic policy they're finding this out more and more with this us

Aid story which is that a huge and sometimes the most important and dispositive element in Military Work is actually the Civil Affairs is actually the the the political and Civil Society tography of the target country and and its Regional uh Partners allies and and adversaries and that often times it's that the political which which determines the military result much more so than the military activity itself we're seeing this for example with Georgia SK right NATO wants to build the military base right there and just point like a gun out at Crimea this will obviously put

the people of Romania put A big fat kick me sign on their back from Russia the you know the moment this goes operational okay well um NATO doesn't want that to happen NATO could NATO roll into Romania right now and and run a you know Yugoslavia uh run back like 1995 and 1999 and uh georgu gets elected you know uh gets you know gets elected head of state decides to to cancel the the NATO Air Base kick everyone out kind of a diplomatic incident if They roll in and um you know Napal raid uh you

know from from fighter jets and drones the sitting government of Romania just because they ran the they that party won the election and uh and decided to cancel a military base so the military can't do that directly what they need is the Civil military they need the Civil side of military operations to make that election result not happen and you see the same thing it's not just always About tilting election sometimes it's about the passage of a law for example Ukraine um there was a lot of uh tense debates about the post 2014 uh maidon

Revolution government's uh in Ukraine's stance towards the Russian half of the country the Russian ethnics the Russians speaking portion pop uh part of the country the the the representation of the Russian side of the story on Ukrainian TV or social media or culture or the religious issues Around the the Russian Orthodox Church well every bit of of pro-russia institution uh institutional Affinity link that's cleaved out of Ukrainian politics or Civil Society helps further achieve the NATO goal of folding Ukraine into NATO and of of helping you know Ukraine at that point you know militarily achieve

reconquest of the Breakaway donbass and and Crimea region and so but the problem is is uh if zalinsky didn't want to do that for Example in May 2019 when when when he took office or April 2019 if he didn't want to do that it would kind of be a diplomatic incident for NATO if uh you know they ran strafing Air Raids uh over over Kiev until he promised to kick the Russian language off of uh you know off of Ukrainian TV um effectively you know ban or or place extreme limits on on the on the

Russian Orthodox Church influence uh If he if he uh defied the IMF and its private plan For ukrainians energy assets NATO wants that done but NATO can't be the one to do it they can't have their fingerprints on the gun so what they need is a sprawling civil military hold of society capacity to have that political result achieved but have it come from the Civil institutions in and around that and that's how you have the scandal of things like the ukraini of the redlines memo 70 US government funded NOS all all signatory to the US

Aid funded as well As NATO funded and us us uh State Department funded Ukraine crisis Media Center crisis management this is this is the US and NATO funded umbrella arm you know this we talk about this 90% of Ukrainian media well a lot of this is run is run out of these centralized us umbrella groups that coordinate the the media surround sound of all these different Nos and media organizations and one of the major wants is called the Ukraine crisis Media Center well I've talked about this before one month you know zinsky takes office April

2019 and may 2019 the Ukraine crisis Media Center issues zalinsky a redlines memo saying that UK that zalinsky will will will suffer political instability if he crosses any of the 25 listed below red lines uh that touched zelinsky's ability to negotiate with Russia about energy Affairs negotiate with Russia about about security Affairs block the privatization Efforts of major uh uh Ukrainian Industries um deviate in any way from the path to accession into the EU uh you know into into the NATO and surrounding EU bodies uh it had a section for their education for their culture

for their language for their media for their energy policies for their security policies it's not just the USA Truman Show in terms of what us as civilians think are organic institutions but are in fact you know USA proxies it's the Policies of sitting governments zalinski is only will only became the head of state for Ukraine because of the political instability this very same USA Network inflicted on Victor yanukovich however you feel about him I'm not even a pining an opinion but the fact is is he was run out of office in a rental Riot operation

where all of the major groups involved Were Us Aid funded so you know easy come easy go and what saying is twice in that memo the top Line of it says red these are red lines cross them instability they say it right again and bold in the memo right before the 70 signatories message received but NATO can't say that directly because hey that's an attack on Democracy if NATO says it we're supposed to have a civilian run government so you need a civilian front for the for the for the military consensus that's why the US

Department of Defense pays over a million dollars a year to the Atlanta Council why they have seven CIA director on their board to juice the capacity to create this civilian front for a military monster interesting interesting let's move into some domestic stuff with us Aid what is the relationship with usaid in our universities like Harvard yeah well usaid does grant funding um usaid builds uh thought leadership uh thought so academics academic universities function as a kind of Super turbocharged NGO you know they are 501 c3s they are nonprofits just like the NGS are they are

not for-profit uh you can give them a a lot more money without without the unseemly blowback of looking like usaid is picking winners and losers in in private sector you know private sector Partnerships and so usaid funds research grants USA you know funds departments and centers and institutions in order to make all these things happen so for example with the Wuhan lab how Did how did USA end up paying you know like $15 million effectively to the the Wuhan Institute of virology for um you know for the uh you to to create Bator uh jump

from animal to human gain of function gain of function SARS kv2 uh Franken steinan freak monster viruses How did why are there USA fingerprints on that on that work well it's because it's run through universities who then put the pass through funding in order to do that that Money initially went to for example I believe it was UC Davis it was you know the University of California then it went to through to Eco Health Alliance you know which is you know this famous um you know it was e ecoo Alliance was famous for its I

believe NIH and HHS grants this this was the famous case of you know it being barred after the revelations of the past few years I believe Eco Health Alliance is now barred from being able to uh get future Grants but they got his pass through money and then they then you know pass the money you then that that money flowed to the the Wuhan Wuhan Institute and so through this nonprofit sphere you can you can create ever more layers of plausible liability that the US government was behind this that the US government wanted to do

this for whatever reason you can make the argument that we create that gain of function is not actually to be you know Deployed as a biological warfare weapon or it's not actually to be sort of leaked to destabilize you know uh a popular government like the Trump Administration but actually it's we we do this gain of research function in order to to build vaccines uh in order to if somebody else build something like this we have a way to counter somebody else's biological warfare thing this is the same argument you can think of the Mockingbird

media apparatus the USA Truman Show in the media space you can make the same argument that listen we fund this Truman Show we find 90% of country's you know uh media complex while sort of either lying about it or trying to hide people from knowing about it like protesting these foreign agent registration act type things be because if we don't do it somebody else Russia could do it China could do it and so we need to be in the game this thing's dual use we're not necessarily just doing This to blare propaganda but it's the

counter foreign countries propaganda same thing with the with why we the justification for gain of function and building freak mutant you know viruses and jumping them from animals to human we create these viruses that never existed in a lab uh in order to create vaccines against hypothetical future V uh viruses and to build the knowledge base of academic researchers and medical researchers in the field so even if we Don't aren't able to have the vaccines we're able to quickly close the gap in the future to do that we're learning more about the Sciences by expanding

beyond the current set of vir Suites that we've seen that's a policy debate that I'm not even entering into but but the fact is is this is what this is what we do we do this at every major university and universities in turn often function as arms of the state for for example when this the the state US State department and and uh the CIA and usaid you know usaid created the Office of transition initiatives oti in 1993 that was when we were privatizing Russia well who functioned as as in many respects as the long

arm of the state department at during that time often representing you know the state departments in in diplomatic uh effectively a a diplomatic interlocutor was the Harvard the Harvard Harvard University Harvard endowment was working Hand and glove in fact everyone can read about this published in mainstream media the Harvard boys do Russia or read Casino Moscow or any number of writeups this is all openly acknowledged that Harvard was effectively a a shadow diplomacy arm and it was able to you know it put a massive favor in the favor Bank to the US because they led

the shock therapy they led the private ization of of trillion dollars And state-owned assets of the Soviet Empire to be bought up at fire fire sale prices by Wall Street and London stakeholders they loved what what what they were doing now I should note this is the same relationship that happens at the NGS take for example the tide Center okay we talked about this before the tide Center is you know known is by many conservatives is a sort of notorious left-wing Soros Network because I believe Soros uh gave at least like $14 Million or something

to the tide Center and the tide Center is the dark Money Network Hub that is a 501c3 but you can't see what money flows to any of its projects that are not 501 c3s but that get their 51 C3 through the tide Center and so black lives matter Foundation gets his 51 C3 through the tide Center USA gave them $27 million um uh fjp fair and prosecutions which is the effective puppeteer of at least according to the media Research Center report and the Daily wire reports on this which broke all these in Insider internal documents

they give their marching orders to Leticia James and Alvin brag and the people Prosecuting our presidents while while effectively pressuring them to do so while representing the donor Network that makes up their El re-election campaigns this is a massive conflict of interest and where do they get their 501c3 from the $27 million you know re us Aid Granty recipient uh and and but what are those grants look like well the tide Center is has you know I think one of these is about a $25 million Grant from from USA to the tide center for the

tide Center to quote and and and everyone can look this up I I believe I'm stating this accurately to secure concrete commitments from from car foreign countries for certain foreign policy goals that are hinted at in the grant of Course this is another issue because of the secrecy around us Aid these Grant descriptions are very very nominal you know instead of the you know 10 paragraphs or instead you know it it's just often times it's 50-word descriptions for hundreds of millions of dollars worth of of Grants and in this case the tide Center is being

formally deputized to negotiate with secure foreign commitments from secure commitments for the United States Government from foreign governments they're being deputized and this may I foret this may be this may be the tides Foundation rather than the ties Center which is its sister entity but this is the tides Network that is and but that's what Harvard did and that's what all these universities who get USA funding do when when they are involved in these in that gooey line between domestic University researchers or domestic centers but they've cultural exchange Events with the people in Pakistan and

the and the energy Engineers there like the Arizona State University for example or or or Harvard or Stanford or MIT these have international touch points and every one of those touch points can double as an instrument of statecraft and what's a big fat juicy incentive to go out and do that statecraft to achieve US state department ends big fat grant funding from the US state department us Aid and Frequently DARPA and the US defense department how are they manipulating immigration USA together with the US state Department's Bureau for uh Refugee population IM migration uh Refugee

population and migration last year alone according to I believe the uh I believe it was the center for immigration studies gave 1.6 was 1.4 or 1.6 billion dollar to the migrant groups who uh who form the Illegal migrant Trail from South America and Latin America up into the southern border paying for their food their their transport their shelter giving them uh often uh cash debit cards so this is a billion and a half dollars that us Aid in conjunction because again usaid always x-ray through USA is the mask State Department is mask off so it's

no wonder that they're that they jointly coordinate this but it's it's the specific immigration wing of The state department for Refugee population migration together with us Aid a billion and a half dollars just in I believe it was a single year alone maybe the the the whole B Administration to to web of over 200 200 NOS who who every step of the way capacity build illegal immigrants to make the voyage safely and comfortably and can and can pay their whole way through uh in order to violate US immigration law and to Illegally enter and make

their new lives here in this country and some of this gets really really ugly and I'll give you an example of this us8 is doing that and it was administered for the for the whole of the Biden Administration by Samantha power Samantha power's husband and I I don't normally feel it's appropriate to mention family members but they are both political and in the Biden Administration government doing a onew punch on this issue so you know It's this is not about the personal this is just because these two things are connected at this hour I'm Christina

oio in Dallas and here are your top stories the ex-chief of the US Aid Samantha power reportedly experienced a spike in her net worth during the time she served as the chief of usaid the organization that oversees hundreds of billions of dollars in global funding and is now under intense scrutiny from Doge audits being conducted by Elon mus and his team According to inside Biden's basement and financial records power made $180,000 a year as Joe Biden's appointee in those three years her wealth jumped from 6.7 million to a whopping $30 million leaving many on social

media questioning how her net worth made such a significant jump in such a short amount of time Cass sunstein uh was a very Infamous figure in conservative world for a long time because he was the the author I believe in 2008 20 708 of a Famous white paper called conspiracy theories which made the argument that the US federal government needs to infiltrate the online space and Infiltrate The the cognitive intelligencia of alternative movements uh you at the time it was he was concerned about things like 911 conspiracy theories on YouTube uh undermining The Diplomatic posture

and standing of the United States and our military posture uh if if these Popularities if these theories gained steam it would massively you know degrade the ability to to wage you know war in Afghanistan and Iraq and build an International Coalition and so he made the argument and I'm not weighing in on this by the way substantively but this is simply what he said and everyone can look this up this is Samantha power's husband who's current who then joined Samantha power on the other end of this actually maybe I'll start with that side Of the

story he moved over while while Samantha power was head of us a running this program spending a billion and a half dollars to fund illegal immigrants to make their make their way from foreign countries into our country illegally DHS is responsible for for managing that and stopping that and catching them Cass sunstein moved over to DHS in order to uh help run the immigration policy where he was basically a senior adviser on Immigration policy around the open that left the whole thing open so you have the one two punch Samantha power is funding the machine

so that they all get here and you know her husband is a DHS in you know uh you know creating and popularizing and implementing the policies that make sure there's no there's there's Catch and Release and the whole the whole thing's open and we can't do anything to stop them once they get here So you know inter agency approval uh you might say uh but it's uh it's all in-house uh right there but the other part of this is this gets back to the role of usaid and psychological operations and why USA needs to lie

about what it does abroad and why it needs to lie about what it does to our own oversight organs and the people the US citizens who vote for it so sunstein writes this you know conspiracy theories thing and he argues Whether you agree with it or not a lot of people never even think about that you know when they're considering the merits of such a thing that the things if they gain steam have massive diomatic diplomatic implications you're going to convince France to uh you know contribute to the war effort you're going to convince Germany

and the UK or you know uh you know while they believe they see things on on YouTube that make their own parliamentarians or prime Minister you know question the predicate for it you can understand the National Security impulse to want to do this work I'm not saying that's the thing to do by the way believe me but so so it was called conspiracy theories this initial paper and it made the argument that the US federal government needs to develop a new capacity to infiltrate these movements and develop methods to either neutralize them or reroute their

cognitive thought leadership in order to Avoid the outcome that results in free and unfettered alternative media popularizing ideas that could undermine the workings of the state department or or the US military then he then quickly thereafter he writes a book called nudge nudge is basically basically the Holy Bible for the the censorship industry uh and the it's basically required reading for anyone who wants to have a career in dis Countering disinformation or disinformation studies if you will or information Integrity or digital resilience or media literacy this is the the sort of it lays out the

gospel then it's called nudge because it's it's a book about how to get people to do things without top without top- down coercion the appearance of Auto autocratic coercive control and but have getting them to do it anyway how do you step Shove people to do it because that's what Russia and China do nudge them find a way to get them to do it without your fingerprints being on it without uh without it drawing the same critiques that would have if uh if the Russian or Chinese government decide to do this and it and what

it's about you know it's it's it's about creating this kind of whole of society surround sound the state department wants to do it DOD wants to do it CIA wants to do it USA Wants to do it okay we don't need to make it formal government policy we don't need to throw people in jail uh for they do it if they do it we need to create you know and and and nudge itself was primarily about the behavioral role of this but also the behavioral psychology behind this but also about the role of institutions in

making this happen but what you do is you instead of doing instead of doing top down you asur a bottom up and you Create a middle out in a whole society you don't want you want people to feel like their lives will be over if they if they challenge it but you can't criminalize it we have a First Amendment well what if there are you raise the cost of that behavior you know it's incentives it's carrots and sticks how do we heighten the cost of doing that what assets do we need in Civil Society in

order to achieve this well if they lose their if they're Deplatformed they can't access their wedding photos and baby photos cuz they're kicked off Facebook or they see a friend of theirs was and can no longer dm with Grandma because uh they posted about hey these vaccines may have come from the Wuhan lab or these these vaccines may have been funded by you know the US government or they might not work or we shouldn't go through with a a mandate we don't want to throw people in jail for that yet maybe um because a lot

Of these same folks have now started to talk about well maybe the fundamental problem is the first amendment itself and that's why they are all working with the EU and the UK and foreign governments like Brazil to make this happen but okay so we can so get the social media companies to demonetize them deplatform them do algorithmic suspension okay that's one thing we can do what's another thing we can do well we can do defamations and lawsuit we can Use lawfare you know for uh and we can make high-profile cases of this and there were

you know examples of this in in documents so the affirmative planning of finding a sympathetic plan if to make an example out of these me media companies to do this and this these were published before things like dominion and some of these other uh you know lawsuits around these cases uh how can you you know how can you create uh uh vocational Penalties for doing this so for example you don't need to arrest them but have the you know have Bill DeBlasio the mayor of New York Implement policies that he goes on live television and

proudly says no jab no job uh you know it's going to uh you know you can't earn a living if you believe the things or spread information around that Tony fouchy himself and the Eternal shame of it is it took 4 years after Co three years after covid for for these emails To come out said that you know one that one of the best ways to actually get people to go through to to to get you know citizen buyin for the vaccine roll out and and stop these vaccine conspiracy theories is to raise the cost

of people of people saying them and and you you need to make it hurt and and that will you know he said that in so many words and everyone can look up this this receipt I have you know I've reposted this 20 times in my Ex account it's been played on Fox News I believe there's an audio file with it as well but that was not you know the criminal justice system this was not the Attorney General of the United States but it was the key administrator of the entire public health system during the covid

response saying the fundamental guiding tenant of it is make it hurt make it hurt change the incentive so that if people question what we're doing it costs them their livelihoods it costs Them their social media accounts it costs them their standing it costs them their medical licenses make it worse than prison because at least you spend a year in prison you come out you still got your Facebook your Twitter your Instagram you still got your business license you know you you can you can serve your time and come back to society when you lose all

these things you often lose them forever at least until Elon you know acquired X and M and and S that You know set that free mhm and Samantha Powers Samantha Powers net worth increased from 21 to 24 from an estimated 6.7 million to 16.5 million to around 30 million how did that happen well I haven't seen the the the source documents I've seen this be reported I haven't you know double triple you know check that I've seen that as headlines and um so so I'm not affirmatively you know weighing into that until I you know

see the the the source of those numbers Myself but um what so I don't know her particular case but what what frequently happens in other highlevel scenarios like this is you have um you have stakeholders who now first of all so there's a few things right there's always the the potential so let me remove it from the Samantha power thing because I just want to be respectful and and note that I just don't know that for A fact but let's just call this um Cynthia p p word CN Cynthia pord we'll call it Cynthia setha

okay random example not hurt um there are many ways that this kind of radical jump in wealth can be acquired now first of all I also don't know if that if that's a cumulative household income that includes the the the net worth of her husband this is Also a frequent thing I know in reporting disclosures often times you don't need to just report your own income uh you need to report the in the combined income of family members and you know so that because that's often how money is laundered right you saw this with the

biding family for example and you know when you apply for SEC security clearance they need to know if you're holding your assets you know you you declare this much income but Actually the the house is owned in the name of your wife and so it looks like you you have a $5 million home but uh it's your home you live in it uh any moment you could change the deed you know back to your thing so often times they there are Equity interests or or large asset interests that are combined so again I don't know

in this case but there there are a few things first of all you have Insight or knowledge in these cases so so talking generally About this because this is you know the famous Nancy you know Pelosi tracker about how she does this and I talk about this frequently this is why there is a pipeline from blob to Banker um the people who administer US foreign policy and are insiders and have National Security clearances and know everyone in the business and know everyone in the network and know everything they're up to next and every their whole

inside thought process and They have access to the classified documents and they know you know like uh you know sure is a is a you know staring into a a magic eightball or maybe you know like a fortune fortune teller they know they can see the swirling purple clouds in inside the glass of what the CIA is going to do what the dod is going to do what the state department is going to do what the USA is going to do in Ukraine next in Congo next in Venezuela next they know or have a really

good Insider Traders Advantage knowledge of whether there's going to be a coup for example in that country that opens up that country's natural resources to privatization is the oil and gas going to be uh you know privatized in Turkmenistan uh and you are a part of a Goldman Sachs uh fund and like this is you know this is how you get these things like Jared Cohen from the state Department's policy planning staff then Creating Google jigsaw which played the the tip of the spearhead role in Internet censorship AI uh super weapons and works closely with

the US state department and DHS sisa for censorship work as well as foreign academic institutions like uh like the the Cambridge University social decision-making lab which is you know partnered with all these groups that does psychological inoculation work funded by uh by by the US taxpayer in part or partnered in part um well you know where did Jared Cohen do right after going to jakea what did Goldman Sachs and he's you know doing you know like macroeconomic and and global global policy there well what does he bring to the table uh the let's see the

state Department's policy planning staff and that hold Network where where he was it was basically the CIA branch of Google you know that he was interl intering with that whole time He brings the whole network how is he able to help Goldman Sachs make uh investment predictions uh so that they're one step ahead of the market well it's not technically insider trading um you know in the sense that it's directly at the portfolio company with Advanced knowledge of their business line and some 10 B5 Securities violation it is the UN the great unstated insider trading

uh uh B you know reason that there is this blob to Banker pipeline Mark Millie for example I believe is at JP Morgan or or another one of those Banks um another great example of this is the Joe Biden White House blob to BL you Banker blobber to Banker pipeline Joe B this is so Joe Biden's closest political uh adviser in the White House and has been since was since the 1980s was a guy named Mike donalan Mike donalan was this sort of shadow advis ER figure who who you know According to Media reports basically

you know sits over bid and shoulder with everything he does and uh and helps advise on you know political and and and other strategy well Mike so Mike Donelan's brother is a guy named Tom donalan Tom donalan was uh basically hit the hatrick of everything you can possibly do as an apex predator of the uh of of the US National Security State National Security advisor State Department uh You know coordinated the the the military the intelligence and and the statecraft world for years and years decades apex predator of the National Security State of the highest

level of military intelligence and statecraft what was he doing during the entirety of the bid Biden State Department B Biden White House he was the chairman of the of the Black Rock investment Institute so this is basically Overseeing administra you know uh the investment arm of Black Rock which has $10 trillion of assets under management I know a lot of those are donor advise funds and passrs but this is in at the end of the day a$1 trillion do you know uh Juggernaut of of in of in of portfolio Investments and his brother is the

closest advisor to the president of the United States who commands the Pentagon on the CIA and the state department so all that Need would need to be done I mean you can imagine why you know Black Rock might want to pick up someone like Tom donalan who you know even if he had zero experience whatsoever as a banker or as a or as a finance or you know Finance Mogul maybe you know who knows if Mark Millie can even read a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet or or you know can even have a conversation with any of

the wants you know who who crunch the numbers they don't care about that they want to know Whether or not uh they want and they want to know whether or not they can be the first mover and and and capture the entire market for example of of the potential for lithium to open up in the Golden Triangle because what's the Biden Administration going to do is is that is are they going to send in the Marines or going to they send in the boys are they going to do that you know in in Iran are

they going to what's going to happen with Russia and the $75 trillion worth Of natural resources that Russia s sits on you know what parts of that what what what regions how about Africa how about all the Cobalt and and lithium in the Congo or the or the the copper companies are their portfolio companies or the zinc or the timber or the copper or the aluminum the gold the silver everything and so in theory all that would need to happen was a conversation from Mike to his brother Tom and then suddenly Black Rock has a

first mover Advantage you know of of knowing exactly where you know the Wayne Gretzky quote right how are you so how are you so good you're not even that fast how are you so good at hockey and he says I don't skate to where the puck is I skate to where the puck is going that's how I look so F that's how it looks like I'm so fast well speed of investment is everything let's move into I want to move into Legacy Media how's USA influencing Us Legacy Media it does it in several ways So

there's there's the direct now all of this has moral hazard involved all of this corrupts the domestic process and and in some respect jeopardizes that sort of smithm style protecting domestic people from foreign facing operations type stuff whenever those media Outlets pick winners and losers in domestic politics but there are two variations of this that um one of them you know is uh well let me let me explain them so the first is a lot of People are just now seeing a lot of these very damning looking USA outflows to mainstream media Outlets like Politico

um you know or to Reuters for example you know I I mentioned that there's you know $300 million in in uh grants that that were given by the Biden Administration from various government agencies to Reuters while Reuters want a pullitzer for uh you know uh Reuters was the tip of the spear for all anti-trump reporting and they want to pullitzer in The year 2024 for uh their series on all on Elon Musk and and Mal by Elon Musk and his companies at all of his different portfolio companies you know Tesla neuralink SpaceX X at the

same time that Biden from the White House had asked had asked the US government had had had replied to reporters that Regulators should look into Elon Musk and that 11 different US Government Regulatory Agencies regulat bodies and agencies were pursuing adverse action Against all four of those very uh agencies that you Reuters was uh you know was one its pullitzer for writing hit pieces about this is this is by the way a little bit of a there's um there's the same sort of moral hazard here that you have with USA sponsoring the ocrp your hitpiece

journalists that only have the capacity to do that because their revenues and their profits are being buffered by the American taxpayer and those even though the grants are not Explicitly to the you know the US uh to do that right like there's no Grant from the Biden you know a Biden government agency the of that 300 million that says write hit pieces on Donald Trump you know or or Trump allies just like you know the the money to ocrp the corruption reporting probe is supposed to be for corruption for to to for uh politicians and

oligarchs and significant you know cultural figures in Eastern Europe um but in the process Of doing that occrp turned around and dug up dirt on Rudy Giuliani in his work in Ukraine and that formed part of the basis to impeach Donald Trump as president in the Ukraine uh impeachment in 2019 so American citizens who voted for Donald Trump effectively funded through Donald Trump's us Aid the impeachment of Donald Trump they also dug up dirt on Paul manaport and other US citizens but in that Case it was it was you can argue dirtier than the reuter's

case because the purp the grants were to dig up dirt in in the reuter's case it's it's complicated you see this with much just a huge quantity of of us uh Us Media because so let me start start start from the botb here premium subscriptions are part of news agencies business models pay walls almost every major media Outlet has pay walls for their news content and part of the justification For the US government paying us media companies sounds benign on its face uh we want our government officials the the our hired employees who are representing

you to be as best equipped and to be as knowledgeable as possible about the their line of business representing you as possible and so they need to have as much information as possible and so we pay premium subscriptions to you uh for foreign facing activity to to us you know uh to to Us Media companies who are The best in business or sometimes the only or some of the only uh you know um uh people who provide that needed proprietary service so a great example of this is with the reuter's case because you know when

I talked about the Reuters case a lot of people it is there's still a scandal there and a moral hazard in in the in the system that needs to be reformed but a lot of people ran away with it and sort of presupposed you know when they when they Read this that meant that it was like a direct pay to play now we don't know that if there was or wasn't if there was back Channel conversations if there was an informal phone I'm not suggesting there there was um or if it's simply the the the

incentives align you know you know these are the people giving you the money you know they're targeting Trump you know because this was the other thing is the all 11 agencies targeting Trump uh targeting Elon Musk were paying To the non- news agency side of Reuters who was digging up the dirt that the Regulatory Agencies could use to go after Elon Musk the same thing for ocrp State usaid funds the hitpiece journalist the hitpiece journalists dig up dirt the prosecutors then use that dirt as the basis to arrest them and then you have a usaid

big fat bow on top of it with an accomplishment section saying Tada 456 arrests that that we that we sponsored but in this case for Example the justice department under the bid Administration paid tens of millions of dollars it was something like $60 million to Reuters for West law because Thompson Reuters is you know is has properties they their news agency side they have a tool for for you know legal folks for for legal research Lexus Nexus and West law dominate that space so Justice bar is paying for West law and they're tens of millions

of dollars padding the profits Of a portfolio company of Thompson Reuters but that's every every one of those million is less that they need to make in their newsline because they're they're still being their profits are are still being pumped up for the network and they are still picking heavy winners and losers in domestic politics you know like for example what if they were paying Ron you know what if what if the defense department was paying Ron you know Continually you know as it does billions of dollars in defense contracts and opens up a a

new line of business called rathon media LLC and Ron media LLC uh has an has a basically explicit uh Med you know media purpose to Target Joe Biden kamla Harris Republicans like Bill Crystal I mean just straight up you know just like the Washington Post just like Reuters just like like no objectivity in fact they even just like just like the Washington Post and the You know all the different journalistic things said we're going to end whataboutism objectivity is no longer uh an underpinning Credo of our reporting because we believe both sides makes misinformation spread

so we do need to pick winners and losers in this and Trump and Trump doubled Ron's Trump doubled Ron's uh Pentagon contracts to rathon so the contracts aren't going directly to Ron media they're going to rathon military LL you know LLC but now Ron media doesn't have to make a dime because their margins their revenues are padded up the Wazoo by a huge cash infusion infusion to assist their line of business you see this everywhere newsguard for example one of the most notorious private sector for-profit censorship mercenary firms with of former head of NATO on

its board former head of DHS on his board the former Head of the State Department's Global Engagement Center on board uh you know you name it uh Mark Millie the former head of the CIA NSA I'm sorry not Mark Millie um Michael General Michael V Hayden the former head of the CIA NSA fourstar General all his board they got a $750,000 pentagon contract nominally for the purpose of helping the Pentagon um you know scan the internet to help scan and ban uh you know Chinese and Russian propaganda Online line now as mag this new Maga

foreign policy um Coalition and and and base has to navigate the tension between foreign Ops and domestic interests there's we have to navigate what the role is of countering foreign influence and countering foreign propaganda squaring that with the fact that that was the exact predicate used to take out hundreds of thousands and arguably Millions of trump supporters at Home when Trump was called a Russian asset and a and and Trump was just like Putin Trump equals Putin this the FBI is saying it the CIA is saying it and you had tens of thousands of American

citizens who are rolled up in these very groups who were supposed to be focused on Russia making the argument that well these Americans are being an unwitting or unwitting vassel of talking points from Russia so now we get to put them in these Blacklist database now we get to So that's a tension that has to be navigated but the point is however you navigate it that 750,000 Pentagon Grant to newsguard was not explicitly for newsguard to create Advertiser boy you know Blacklist to Target Steven Crowder and Ben Shapiro and prer University and Fox News hosts

and and you virtually every uh populist right-wing media conduit for the man who is now the the sitting democratically elected president Of the United States but it's the same rathon military rathon media thing so we need to create firewalls so there's no domestic bleed if you volunteer to accept a a US Government contract for foreign facing work from any foreign facing agency whether that's State whether that's Aid whether that's DOD whether that's a you know a confidential you know uh you know CIA uh service that's another thing right Reuters does ser CIA in does CIA

Services they have a Whole you know intelligence assistance Wing you know so so they're getting paid by the CIA and the dod again this is the the you know it's not the Reuters media line but it's the you know it's the sort of strategic intelligence and and whatnot but this pop problem pops up everywhere with all these news but then you do have another problem so you have that USA Truman show that comes up from that but then you also have the other one which is that we actually do fund These a lot of these

me Us Media Outlets uh to operate in foreign countries and like uh and then they also operate at home so they are they sort of are being in a direct arm of the state department for for what the grant is doing and then they're coming back and using that so for example a great example is like our fact Checkers right independent fact Checkers my asthma okay uh there's no such thing is an independent fact Checker this entire Field was created by the US state department and uh I I would say the with with a you

know set Spike relationship you know sort of Kobe Bryant Shaquille O'Neal relationship with the UK foreign office because this was a transatlantic thing so the UK foreign office funds a ton of these as well but it's one foreign policy you know uh blob there but why do places like the pointer Institute and and Bas you know almost every one of the credential fact Checkers for Facebook and and Reddit and Twitter 1.0 and uh Tik Tock and twitch and YouTube why are almost every single one of these you know uh like groups um have are either

directly or or partnered with the a us you know stage Mar because we use the this International factchecking Network which is House of the pointer Institute as way to get foreign countries to censor their internet to stop the rise of politicians whether They be right-wing populist or left-wing socialist sometimes um to stop them to censor their internets we pump up these American fact Checker groups and then they get sent to to Myanmar and they get sent to the Philippines and they get sent to Brazil and they get sent to laia and Lithuania and Estonia and

and you know like for example you know in this story about Bangladesh that I've been talking about a lot lately where you have a lot of this usaid and you know International Republican Institute Ned funds to places like transgender dance festivals and rap groups there and you know uh you know supporting you know picking sides in in the political you know uh thing there the guy who who was you know is now B the top foreign adviser um was the former uh Bangladesh foreign secretary and during this period before he you know retook power here

recently in in 2024 he was brought in by usaid usaid Run a ran a countering misinformation Workshop hosted at the US Embassy in Bangladesh and who did they have as the featured speakers to teach Bangladeshi journalists about how to counter misinformation it was the guy who would be would get catapulted into be you know into the top foreign advisor position with with the new government and the guy who became the head of it is a Clinton Global fellow initiative I should not I mean it's basically a pro pro us uh you Know government now and

uh and who was who was the other person uh that was that was the the co-leader of this it was the executive director of PolitiFact the us-based PolitiFact the uh you know flagging you here for misinformation and disinformation you know pressuring the social media companies and have always having that latent threat of Advertiser boycotts and potential legal non-compliance I should note with the EU code of practice on Disinformation because it is in July effectively going to be illegal to spread disinformation in Europe under this EUR EU Digital Services act and if I can stress this

to any people presently in charge of White House or state department policy on this the EU digital sens ship act technically called The Dig Digital Services act has to be stopped uh through whatever diplomatic means necessary to stop it uh because it will absolutely destroy freedom of Speech in this country as we know it as Americans will not be allowed to talk to Americans about topics that a foreign regulatory body calls in its sole discretion disinformation unless you stop it w every US ambassador in Europe has to apply carrots and stick pressure the US ambassador

to the EU has to has to apply this pressure the US ambassador to Nato has to apply adjacent pressure the White House has to this this thing is is one of the the craziest assaults On Free Speech in America our country will ever experience and I should note USA and our foreign policy Blob made this happen in fact my foundation's publishing this report 19 US government funded entities are signatories and uh and and nine of them are helping implement this very EU code of practice doing this that's a full that's a full 20% of the

signatories uh are from the US government and most of the major ones you know that have a lot more clout but You know that that the critical node is coming from inside the house because the Biden White House actually had a formal policy goal it's information Integrity working group which is something that I've now published it's on our foundation's website to get Europe and help Europe pass this thing and tighten the disinformation RS USA had a formal program through seps to get to help the EU and other countries pass disinformation laws because they the First

Amendment wouldn't allow it so they're working with the international Partners well that makes a whole lot of sense wow wow well Mike I was going to cover terrorism but we kind of did that earlier and so kind of to wrap this thing up I just want to ask you know what would you like to see happen with us Aid I support the White House's current reforms I do believe fundamentally and if nothing else Symbolically the complete and total abolition of us Aid uh alone sends a chilling message to not do this kind of dirty work

in the future if you ever begin to look like the former disgraced folded up us Aid you can imagine whatever form us Aid takes in the future whether they call it us UD or whether it's the you know Bureau of International Development um at State people are going to be tempted to do this we have this is like God and the Devil this is like uh there's an eternal struggle here and sometimes the moral area can look great sometimes different elected governments are going to have different defined national interests uh about what governments to deploy

us soft power in and it's going to look to one side like it's freedom fighting one side of the American elector like freedom fighting or or Liberation it's going to look to another side like you know regime change Kum mongering and Black Ops dirty tricks um that that will always be there as well as the potential for profiteering or for doing that you know that uh you know index finger trick in the domestic thumm war of a fair fight of two you know Republicans Democrats conservatives liberals whatever it is whoever can weaponize the blob can

take out their domestic political opponent and we need so what I would like to see happen is during this education process while everyone is Learning about the sheer extent of it and we have just begun to peel the onion on this is that in whatever stage the aid function continues to the critical thing is is putting in a Smith month style protection for funding and operations and smithm was supposed to protect us from foreign propaganda distributed Inward and even that was destroyed by Barack Obama's presidency with the NDA modernization that removed that protection so we

are now completely Smith mless and we have been for 12 years um but there's something even worse going on with usaid which is the smithm problem of foreign propaganda do you know rigging the domestic information ecosystem but this is for funding and operations us Aid AIDS function can fund uh us organizations for their International work and now they are pumped up on steroids with their capitalization for their domestic work And also their their foreign operations can Target US citizens like we mentioned with the ocrp example you know how is it how are there no criminal

penalties passed by Congress how is there no civilian right of action with treble damages in civil court against either the recipient of that of the aid when Rudy Giuliani is paying his tax dollars for the state department to hand it over to the group that writes hit pieces on him to get him you know to get him not Only humiliated but to help you know you know all the adjacent reputational destruction that makes it easier to indictment indict him on related charges um so we need a sort of Smith month for financing and operations not

for us Aid also for the adjacent ones DOD should be subject to this law state CIA but Aid is the most obvious one because these are public grants and this is supposed to be humanitarian work it's the last place you'd see coming to get Socked in your own eyeball by the the government you voted for so that civil penalty can take the form of suing the grantee but maybe you should also be able to sue the agency itself you can sue the FBI uh for you know wrongful death uh if you know if something they

do is through gross negligence or or otherwise results in in the death of your family member or something this is something that the famous Jesse trenado case of the Oklahoma City bombing um That can be done what if USA had to worry for its own budget if it failed in oversight to catch one of its grantees and you could sue us Aid if one of USA's grantees uh broke that firewall well USA has to fight for its life in the budget every year just like everybody else does and yeah and if if if they had

their own budgets mortally threatened and they need to decide whether or not to plan the overthrow of a govern in Central Asia uh uh because they wouldn't have Enough Capital to pull it off because uh they're targeting a US citizen in Tanzania the whole thing gets chilled but you need these reforms to every layer you understand I do that makes a hell of a lot of sense that makes a hell of a lot of sense I actually I hope that happens me too but Mike thank you for being here overwhelming amount of information and um

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