The CIA controls a whopping $87.1 trillion of stocks, and to make it even spookier, it was founded by a man named William Denser. We'll also hear about a new Israeli blackmail operation involving the Vatican, Peter Thiel, and our technocratic future where Big Brother is always watching.
00:01:16.700Our first story today is both mind-blowing and instructive.
00:01:21.500It gives us a window into how the CIA recruits people, covertly funds entire arms of our government,
00:01:27.380and shapes the world from behind the curtain.
00:01:29.960We'll meet one of the founders of USAID and spend time in the early NSA, but not that NSA, a different intelligence agency-linked NSA.
00:01:39.760But ultimately, this story is about the $100 trillion company and how the CIA may secretly own and control the entire stock market.
00:01:49.400And I mean that more or less literally.
00:01:51.820The CIA might actually own just about every stock on the market, including all the shares in all of your retirement and investment accounts.
00:01:58.920This is the story of the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation.
00:02:04.580It starts with William Detser, who was born in 1929 at the start of the Great Depression in Rochester, Pennsylvania, to two middle-class Christians.
00:02:14.320I haven't found anywhere in his biographies or interviews where he talks about how incredibly hard those times were on his family.
00:02:20.120And they were probably hard, but reading between the lines, to me, it seems like they did okay in the middle class.
00:02:26.580In college, he wound up attending the first Congress of the U.S. National Student Association, the NSA.
00:02:32.840Over the years, he got more and more involved in the NSA until he was elected the NSA's fifth president in 1951.
00:02:40.120Now, if you haven't heard of the National Student Association, it was a famous CIA cutout, meaning the CIA was funding it.
00:02:48.400And they did so all through the 50s and 60s.
00:02:51.640Its purpose was to infiltrate, spy on, and influence the rising student movements of the anti-war era.
00:02:57.760At the time, the U.S. government was deeply concerned about Soviet and communist influence infiltrating America through our youth and universities.
00:03:05.200And though this fear wasn't entirely without merit, it yielded little to no results that were tangible.
00:03:11.460At least, not towards its stated goal of rooting out communist and Soviet infiltration.
00:03:16.140They did a great job of enacting secret programs to unlawfully spy on Americans, with programs like Operation Mockingbird, Chaos, COINTELPRO, Minaret, Shamrock, just to name a few.
00:03:28.260This included everything from reading people's mail and co-opting the press, all the way to trying to convince Martin Luther King Jr. to commit suicide.
00:03:36.620Crazy story. If you haven't heard it, look up the letter they sent to him trying to convince him to off himself.
00:03:41.360It is publicly available, and it's even on the Wikipedia page for COINTELPRO.
00:03:46.320Technically, it was an FBI program, but we're getting distracted.
00:03:51.760After traveling the world for the NSA and likely serving as an unwitting CIA asset for several years,
00:03:58.320they finally came out to him and told him that they had been funding the entire organization all along, and that they would continue to do so.
00:04:05.000This was all groovy with Denser, who later enrolled in the military and was immediately swooped up by the CIA, where he served for a total of five years before leaving.
00:04:14.520And obviously, once he left the CIA, he was done working for them.
00:11:16.580If you want to visualize a trillion dollars, the semi-truck down there is just for scale.
00:11:23.400You can see the person next to the pallet, next to the square of pallets, next to the semi-truck.
00:11:27.460And then when you zoom out and you look at the entire tower on the left there from the very bottom to the very top, that whole skyscraper is filled wall-to-wall, end-to-end, bottom-to-top with solid $100 bills.
00:11:42.940That is how much money $1 trillion is, okay?
00:11:47.660That tower is 465 feet tall, approximately 43 stories high, about 40 feet to a side.
00:11:57.240So, to contextualize this number that the DTC is putting out, every day the DTC trades two skyscrapers of solid $100 bills every single day.
00:12:10.020Just want to work your way up so you can visualize how big this is going to get because these are double-stacked towers, twice as tall as the ones you saw in the last graphic.
00:12:20.040Notice the pallet and the person in each image.
00:12:22.600The person is pretty much too small to see, okay?
00:12:29.780Notice the tiny Statue of Liberty way at the end of the line.
00:12:34.280You may barely be able to see the tiny speck that is the pallet with $100 million on it.
00:12:40.660All of these towers are solid, wall-to-wall, bottom-to-top, all $100 bills.
00:12:46.940This is what $1 quadrillion looks like.
00:12:50.800So, last year, the DTC processed $3.8 quadrillion of trades.
00:12:59.780Like, when your ass-cousin bought weed stocks.
00:13:03.220That's the kind of trades we're talking about.
00:13:04.880But that means that you multiply this entire graphic by 3.8 times, and that is how much money is changing hands at the DTC.
00:13:14.100And it's all being processed and overseen by this one company that no one has heard about that was founded by a CIA agent.
00:13:23.480In that annual report, they also mention that they're sitting on $72 trillion of mortgage-backed securities.
00:13:31.200You know, the things that caused the global financial collapse in 2008 when everyone got too carried away, milking the free money spigot for all it was worth, and then making off with massive taxpayer bailouts to pay their bonuses?
00:13:44.660Yeah, so it's safe to say that this corporation that you've never heard of is insanely important and insanely powerful.
00:13:53.160And it was founded by a CIA spook in collaboration with all the biggest financial institutions in America.
00:14:00.040To this day, it is still run by the same crowd.
00:14:03.720When you look at the board of directors, just about every major financial institution is represented.
00:14:09.080And let me explain what you're looking at here.
00:14:12.780And what I do is I just go and look up the board of directors and I read through their biographies on the official website and they mention, because they're trying to brag about it, all their past work history.
00:14:21.920And so then I go out and I just get little graphics of where they've worked just so we can visualize the types of relationships that these board members have current and past on their resumes, right?
00:14:33.420And when you look through their board of directors, you see all the biggest financial institutions and most of the regulators like the FDIC and FINRA.
00:14:41.720But also the SEC, Apex FinTech Solutions, Davis Polk.
00:14:47.240The list goes on and on with names like JP Morgan, Citadel Securities, Goldman Sachs, Citi, TD.
00:15:27.380I just show you all this to make the point that it's a big club and you're not in it.
00:15:32.100But they're all good buddies with the regulators that are supposed to be making sure there's no funny business going on with our stock markets.
00:15:39.800Of course, when you go look up the board of directors at a place like FINRA, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, their board has veterans of Vanguard and Morgan Stanley on it.
00:15:49.780But then again, they are what is referred to as a self-regulatory agency.
00:15:54.600And when you start looking into how our financial system actually works, it's completely bonkers how much of it is made up of self-regulatory organizations.
00:16:04.880Meaning, I'm sure that these bankers and financiers will police themselves and make sure no one breaks any laws.
00:16:11.560Because after all, why would a banker ever even break a law?
00:16:15.600Just look at Gary Gensler, the chair of the SEC for the last four years.
00:16:20.520He worked at Goldman Sachs for 18 years.
00:16:23.400Every door on Wall Street is a revolving door.
00:16:27.940They brag about how much financial experience all of these stooges have.
00:16:32.120Another great example of a crazy conflict is from 2021 when the GameStop folks noticed that the global head of operations of Citadel Securities is on the board of the DTC,
00:16:44.060the company that's supposed to be overseeing all the stocks in the market.
00:16:48.520Now, this is a little in the weeds, but because the DTC are in charge of issuing everyone's shares of stock,
00:16:55.620it's not too complicated of a job, theoretically.
00:16:59.200But then, when everyone noticed that the public numbers were showing that more than double the number of shares in existence had been borrowed for short selling,
00:17:08.700i.e. selling something that you don't actually own, alarm bells started going off.
00:17:34.860And in the world of the stock market, these definitions matter.
00:17:37.960And so, the freaking retards online found this crazy obscure loophole that it's legal for anyone to take their shares out of the DTC's custody
00:17:47.560and register them directly in their own name with GameStop's transfer agent.
00:17:52.080It's all a little nerdy and a little confusing, but in about a year and a half, we, yes, I am proudly a part of this statistic,
00:18:00.000we took about a third of the company's shares off of the public market and stashed them all away so they couldn't be used in this corrupt manipulative system.
00:18:09.040People even started making rocket ship graphics and counting up how much the company had been taken off the market.
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00:20:39.280So, anyways, late last year, a scandal broke out in Italy with some pretty salacious headlines.
00:20:47.180Vatican, Israel, implicated in Italy, hacking scandal, leaked files reveal!
00:20:53.040The headlines were every conspiracy theorist's wet dream.
00:20:56.420But in this case, they weren't just salacious headlines.
00:20:59.300The story went even deeper the more reporting came out.
00:21:03.060It all centered around an Italian intelligence firm called Equalize, which was officially associated with the Italian government.
00:21:09.600And thereby, it had legitimate access to at least some of the Italian government's databases.
00:21:15.340Turned out, they'd been doing a little side work outside the scope of their mission.
00:21:20.220Here, in some of the reporting about this whole scandal, the words, quote,
00:21:27.620can hold institutions in hand got used.
00:21:32.360And this is originally an Italian publication translated into English, and that is a poor Italian translation for they are blackmailing politicians and other government officials.
00:21:42.540The suspects had often promised and boasted that they could intervene in investigations and processes, giving shades of Diddy and Epstein.
00:21:53.140It turns out that the hacking tools that they were using was a software called Graphite, and it was developed by an Israeli firm named Paragon.
00:22:01.820Reporters couldn't help but notice that journalists who had been critical of Israel and the government's handling of alleged anti-Semitism were being targeted.
00:22:11.580Italian law enforcement had wiretapped the offices of these hackers and recorded meetings between Israeli intelligence operatives meeting with the hackers and tasking them with jobs in exchange for cash.
00:22:23.220One such conversation involved discussions of a job that was allegedly for the Vatican and allegedly included $1 million of payment.
00:22:32.360Paragon's graphite technology that they were using is a zero-click hacking tool, much like its predecessor, Pegasus,
00:22:39.300which means that it can be put onto a target's device entirely without their knowledge.
00:22:44.000You don't have to click on any sketchy links or pop-ups.
00:22:46.840There's no notification or detection, and the hackers can gain access to just about anything and everything in your phone or laptop.
00:22:53.980Most notably, it is capable of hacking encrypted messaging apps like Telegram, Signal, and WhatsApp.
00:23:00.140This pissed off Meta and Mark Zuckerberg, and they actually threatened to file a lawsuit against the firm,
00:23:05.860which drew even more media attention to the scandal in the early months of this year.
00:23:10.180But I want to zoom out and look at a pattern here.
00:23:12.780This is standard operating procedure for Israel, and they've been doing it for some time.
00:23:18.340Since at least the early 2010s, this has been their official policy to move intelligence operations out of government agencies and into the private sector,
00:23:27.000where private Israeli tech startups can do the government's dirty work.
00:23:30.580And if they get caught, there is far less blowback onto the government of Israel.
00:23:35.000No matter the fact that Paragon, this technology they were using to hack everyone,
00:23:40.960was founded by Ehud Barak, the famous buddy of Jeffrey Epstein and a former chief of Israeli military intelligence,
00:23:48.540he did so in partnership with four other ex-Unit 8200 officers,
00:23:53.220including the former head of Unit 8200, Ehud Schnurrsen.