Nikki Haley gets a boost from the Koch Brothers in her bid for the 2020 Republican presidential nomination. Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley is on a warpath to become the next president of the United States. Former Vice President Joe Biden refuses to testify before Congress. Japanese fishermen find three of their crew missing after a plane carrying Japanese nationals crashes off the coast of Japan. Israel and Hamas agree to a prisoner exchange in return for the release of 30 Palestinian prisoners. Former prominent South Carolina lawyer and convicted murderer Alec Murdoch is back in court, confronted by distraught victims of his state financial crimes. A search is underway after a U.S. military plane carrying six people is lost in the midst of a typhoon off the Japanese coast.
00:06:23.180You might as well take all that money that you're planning to give her, Janie Diamond, and set it on fire because you'd have just as good return on investment.
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00:08:36.900So we're talking about now, all of a sudden, the masters of the universe, Jamie Dimon, the head of JP Morgan, one of the most powerful investment banks in the country, goes up and says, everybody should be donating to Nikki Haley.
00:08:51.800And he says this in a huge room with all the other investment bankers in there.
00:08:57.860All these people at the New York Times Deal Book Summit there in New York City.
00:09:05.000Why would Wall Street be getting behind the candidate of the military-industrial complex?
00:09:11.460And it occurred to me that somebody was here on this program just last year or just last week, Mike Benz, the executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online, explaining to us how there is a power alliance between what he refers to as the Yankees and the Cowboys, the Northeast Corridor, that power base, and the Energy Military Industrial Power Base.
00:09:37.960Well, you know, this is something that has been a theory of understanding the political substructures that go into D.C. for about 50 years now.
00:09:51.340It was actually left-wing researchers from the 1960s who sort of coined this idea of something called the Yankee-Cowboy War to explain the power structures in this country in the 1960s and 70s,
00:10:03.680which, as you mentioned, you know, they described a Yankee faction being sort of Northeast Corridor, high finance, New York and London, the sort of banks and financial investors.
00:10:13.140And then on the other hand, you have these, the Cowboys, who at the time were concentrated in large part in Texas and California, which were energy companies and Chamber of Commerce Republicans who wanted low taxes for their corporations.
00:10:30.780So you basically had this split between corporations who actually produce the companies that make money and the investor class who profits off of those corporations.
00:10:42.980But as America became increasingly a global empire, you know, as Darren Beatty calls it, the globalist American empire, you started to have this completely dispositive interest in the Chamber of Commerce with international interests.
00:11:00.460That is, we only, our corporations only service 300 million people here in the U.S.
00:11:06.580It's 8 billion people around the world.
00:11:09.420It's a, our companies, American companies are reliant on the U.S. government to serve as a battering ram to pry open other markets and shove Pizza Hut and Coca-Cola and Ford and, you know, you name it.
00:11:25.000Everything we produce, everything we produce, everything we export, everything we export, even things we extract in terms of natural resources, all depend on the battering ram of the Pentagon, the State Department and the CIA to pry these countries open, to protect investments, to ensure cheap labor pools, to ensure favorable tariffs.
00:11:41.740All of this is basically to enshrine the profits of these Chamber of Commerce companies in the energy and the military and then also in the general Chamber of Commerce sphere.
00:11:55.560And then the financial class, the profits off of them.
00:11:58.460The issue is, is what happens when globalism stops serving the American people and we want to focus on domestic priorities instead of foreign policy.
00:12:06.080This is where Trump came in, in 2016, and defeated both the Yankees and the Cowboys.
00:12:12.680He defeated sort of both the Hillary Clintonites and the Jeb Bushites.
00:12:18.020And in the process, this thing that used to be a Yankee-Cowboy war where they would trade power since the 1940s when, you know, Truman turned over to Eisenhower and then you had the, you know, you had the Reagans turning in, the Bushes turning into the Clintons.
00:12:31.780It was like the, like the Lannisters and the Targaryens.
00:12:36.080Right. And then suddenly a White Walker army comes in and just obliterates everyone.
00:12:41.500And that was really how they saw Trumpism.
00:12:48.020Well, yes, they weren't wrong in a certain sense, but they have forever changed the stakes and how our country runs.
00:12:58.440I mean, they've basically overturned two and a half centuries of precedent.
00:13:01.720You can bet that they would have never dared indict a Bush.
00:13:05.980Frankly, there would have been too many Bushites within the Justice Department and the Defense Department and the State Department and the CIA.
00:13:12.520They would have stopped that from happening long ago.
00:13:15.200But Trump didn't come in with, you know, ironically, as an Atlantic City casino guy and real estate guy, you know, he didn't come in with a mafia.
00:13:25.280And because of that, he was disarmed against both sides of the foreign policy blob, these sort of Yankees and cowboys.
00:13:32.040And it has been this pipe dream for six, seven years now to reign in Trumpism and return the GOP back to its blob-friendly status.
00:13:44.820And there's perhaps no more impressionable face for that blob than Nikki Haley herself.
00:13:51.220Well, and that's exactly right, you know, and by the way, to go back to the analogy, Robert Baratheon leads the rebellion against the Targaryens, smashes the Uniparty out, takes power.
00:14:03.900But then who comes after him is the Lannisters.
00:14:15.040It's sort of that pre-existing power base retakes over the kingdom.
00:14:20.000This is exactly what happens throughout history time and time again when you have these sort of populist uprisings.
00:14:27.240But I want to go back to that clip of Jamie Dimon because it's so – if anyone's followed Jamie Dimon for like the last decade or so, I mean, this guy is no fan of Trump whatsoever.
00:14:39.480You would think that he's some arch-democrat, but all of a sudden to hear him going full-throated for Nikki Haley.
00:14:52.560Even if you're a very liberal – yes, I have.
00:14:53.960Even if you're a very liberal Democrat, I urge you, you know, help Nikki Haley too.
00:14:58.080You know, get a choice on a Republican side that might be better than Trump.
00:15:02.200And is that your view, that it's anything but Trump?
00:15:04.920I would never say that, you know, because he might be the president and I have to deal with that too.
00:15:09.300So, Mike, walk us through this event that he's speaking at and what is the importance of the fact that he's talking about the military-industrial candidate?
00:15:23.000I mean, the military-industrial base of South Carolina is enormous.
00:15:26.180And you can just go look at their senators, Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott, and you could see their policies clearly are directly tied to the interest of the military-industrial complex.
00:15:37.860Nikki Haley is no different in that vein.
00:15:39.620But why is it so important that he's saying this in a Wall Street context?
00:15:45.660Well, because Wall Street drafts off the battering ram of the Pentagon.
00:15:50.120You know, the Pentagon is by far and away the largest agency that we have in the entire federal government.
00:15:55.560It's the only one with an unbridled license to kill in terms of, you know, the entire rest of the world.
00:16:01.440It is the largest employer in the entire country.
00:16:04.380And most importantly, American Enterprise, when I say drafts off the battering ram of the Pentagon, you can think of it like a bike race.
00:16:13.520The person who's – you never want to be first in a bike race until the very end because the person who goes first cuts the wind.
00:16:21.620So you go faster and you're more efficient when you're drafting behind somebody else's effort.
00:16:38.180But you have the Pentagon, the State Department, and the CIA cutting the wind for American investments and enterprise all over the world.
00:16:47.940So a great example of this is Ukraine.
00:16:49.480In fact, it's kind of shocking to see the mirror of J.P. Morgan's actions today in 2023, the year before the election, as BlackRock did in 2019.
00:17:02.160If you remember back in 2019, Joe Biden took a long time to enter that presidential race.
00:17:07.540There was a lot of, you know, will he, won't he?
00:17:10.480Why are the months dragging by and he hasn't thrown his hat in?
00:17:12.940Well, according to mainstream media reporting, the thing that tilted that decision was having the firm handshake of BlackRock in his corner in 2019.
00:17:25.620BlackRock had a meeting with Joe Biden that basically assured their support behind his presidency.
00:17:31.720Now, Joe Biden was known as Mr. Foreign Policy before that for many years.
00:17:36.900He was on the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee for, I think, 40 years, and he was chairman or ranking member for 10 of those.
00:17:44.200He was the blob's pick in 2019, just as Nikki Haley is on the Republican side.
00:17:48.720But again, you have high finance as backing the foreign policy blob.
00:17:53.280And a great example of this is the Ukraine situation.
00:17:56.780BlackRock invested very heavily in 2015 in the liquefied natural gas markets in Ukraine.
00:18:02.120They were all skating towards this grand energy play where they knew that the Pentagon, the State Department, and the CIA were going to come in and kick Russia out of Europe.
00:18:12.260And out of that would come a massive supplier need for natural gas or for liquefied natural gas, LNG, for suppliers of that market to fill all of Europe's energy needs.
00:18:23.640Because they knew the Pentagon was about to kick Russia out, and this trillion-dollar market was about to come flooding over.
00:18:31.140And this is 2015 when BlackRock made those major investments.
00:18:34.680This is right after the coup in 2014 that was organized by the State Department, Victoria Nuland, Jeff Pyatt, and the whole U.S. Embassy gang there.
00:18:44.500So they invested to where they knew the investments were going to be opened by the Pentagon.
00:18:54.020Mike Benz breaking it all down for us.
00:18:56.680The financial incentives lining up behind Nikki Haley, the foreign policy that's driving them, drafting off of really the sledgehammer of the Pentagon.
00:21:39.760But the one issue that really became clear was that that stood between Russia and the U.S.
00:21:46.800at that summit between Trump and Putin, Nord Stream 2.
00:21:50.840The idea that Trump, of course, wanted to sell the U.S. LNG.
00:21:55.900And of course, what patriot wouldn't, right?
00:21:58.120I would love to see the shale and the LNG coming out of Pennsylvania and the Permian Basin and the Brackenfields all the way being sent to Europe.
00:22:05.780The problem is now you've got shipping costs involved, whereas Russia is right there.
00:22:15.560Benz, why was it that Nord Stream 2 was sunk and hit and is now, you know, exists only at the bottom of the Baltic?
00:22:22.520Yeah, so there has been this 25-year war over the energy markets in Europe between the U.S. and Russia.
00:22:33.700Essentially, you know, to take it back in time, when we won the Cold War, there was about an eight-year period where Russia was a colony of the United States.
00:22:44.200This is at the time when, you know, 1991, we sort of go on this international parade with the unipolar moment.
00:22:51.480All of the former Soviet states that had become independent started to get folded one by one into NATO.
00:22:58.300You know, we at the State Department thought the entire world was our oyster.
00:23:01.640We had so much control over the domestic political affairs of Russia that in 1993, Yeltsin, I think, faxed the National Endowment for Democracy for permission to bomb his own parliament building.
00:23:16.200We basically rigged the 1996 election in Russia in favor of Yeltsin when he was drunk and unpopular, and we sent over political advisors and paid for media for his campaign.
00:23:27.740There's a whole Jeff Goldblum movie on this, by the way, on how we rigged the 1996 Russian election.
00:23:34.300Yeah, and then, you know, it resulted in...
00:23:37.560By the way, Ben, just to double-check, who was in charge of the U.S. government during the 1990s while all of this was going?
00:23:54.400And did they have something that set up that was called, I don't know, there was some kind of organization that they had set up on the side?
00:24:44.600And Putin really only had two weapons at his disposal to reassert Russian influence on the world stage.
00:24:49.660One of them is they had military exports, they had best-in-class air defense systems, and they ran a lot of small arms through sales to Central Africa, Latin America.
00:24:59.080They basically helped oppose U.S. militarism through their military export economy.
00:25:05.520But the big thing that they had is that they still sat on, at the time, the world's largest supply of oil and, I think, at the time, second largest supply of natural gas.
00:25:14.380And Europe was completely dependent on them for energy.
00:25:17.500So, when Putin took power in 99, the way that he brought Russia back from a regional power to a global power was by exploiting these energy reliances that Central and Eastern Europe had on Russia.
00:25:31.260And so, they shut off the gas to a couple of countries, Georgia, and a few others, 2005, 2006.
00:25:38.200And also, the financial entanglements between them and Central and Eastern European countries allowed them to influence those political systems.
00:25:46.620So, the U.S. government freaked out over this in the mid-aughts.
00:25:52.760We declared a new – this is right around the time the climate change narrative was developed, by the way.
00:25:57.000But we developed this idea that, you know what, Europe has to go through an energy diversification policy, and they need to start buying more expensive gas from the United States and from basically NATO energy suppliers rather than from Russia, even though they're already so low GDP, even though they're already broke, even though it's a commodity product.
00:26:18.900Because if they are more dependent on Russia, they will be – you know, they could be squeezed at a military or political level.
00:26:26.320So, we started weaning them off in the early aughts.
00:26:29.480But then, as time went by and Russia grew economically more powerful and started to, again, sort of bring these countries back into a Soviet orbit and started to resist more and more the NATOfication of Eastern Europe, it became a strategic priority to nuke Gazprom.
00:26:49.260Gazprom being the state-owned Russian energy giant that, 20 years ago, was the single biggest company in the world.
00:26:55.580And Gazprom is – you know, was the major supplier to Europe and especially Germany.
00:27:02.420A lot of people have quoted, you know, this quote that the purpose of NATO is, you know, is to keep the Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down.
00:27:11.320There's perhaps no better reflection of that than the NATO-compelled, coerced policy essentially for Germany to cut off its own arm in the energy sphere.
00:27:23.840And by getting rid of the Nord Stream pipelines, the current foreign minister of Germany, Annalena Baerbach, I predicted well before she was elected that everything was going to happen.
00:27:37.160Well, and Benz, by the way, that was Lord Ismay, that quote about the purpose of NATO, that was Lord Ismay who said that.
00:27:44.860So this wasn't just – it's not just a theory.
00:27:47.560This was stated by the first commander of NATO, period.
00:27:53.140So people need to understand there's a very British – you know, people talk about – like I've said before, I hated that new Napoleon movie.
00:28:00.100But people have to understand the purpose of NATO plays that role in the great game of Europe, which is predominantly a Britain v. Russia game.
00:28:08.360Right, and Germany is the capital of industrial enterprise in Europe, and the stronger Germany gets in terms of its economic base, the more independent it becomes from NATO coercion.
00:28:23.720And so there was this plan to basically crush Germany's industrial sector and have the profits flow from Russian sovereign wealth funds into private hands from Wall Street and London investors.
00:28:39.120And this is why George Soros was battling, you know, almost in a sort of, you know, YouTube boxer creator clash sort of thing for 20 years with Putin over control of Ukraine's state-owned gas company, Naftagas.
00:28:52.940I mean, they were like two, you know, plastic punching people.
00:28:56.340For 20 years they've been jockeying for who can control this Ukrainian gas giant because whoever controls that essentially controls Ukraine's political decision-making and controls whether or not –
00:29:07.960Which – and by the way, to tie it in, you know, just before we go to the break here, to tie that in, which Naftagas also has a number of deals with a company that has a ton of mineral rights in the Donbass,
00:29:24.540So Burisma, of course, which everybody remembers, is the exact same company that put who on their board?
00:29:30.600Oh, that's right, Hunter Biden, the son of the vice president of the United States.
00:29:34.180Didn't mean to cut you off, Ben, but had to make that point so that people could tie the dots together.
00:29:37.920It's perfect because, you know, not only was Hunter Biden on the board, but so is Kofor Black, who spent 30 years with the CIA.
00:29:44.660Burisma had a partnership agreement they signed just one week before Trump was inaugurated in 2017 with the Atlantic Council, who is the top dog in the censorship space.
00:29:54.460The Atlantic Council has seven former CIA directors currently serving on its board.
00:29:59.620They had a formal partnership with the Department of Homeland Security to censor the 2020 election, in which 100 percent of the repeat misinformation spreaders that they identified – and I think, Jack, you may have been on that list –
00:30:13.460This was the Atlantic Council doing that.
00:30:15.140They had a financial sponsorship agreement with Burisma.
00:30:18.920So you had this CIA-packed private energy company in Ukraine who was reliant on the battering ram of the State Department and the Pentagon to pay off its investors because all of those shale resources in the Donbass are dependent on having territorial control over that.
00:30:39.280So when there was the countercoup after the 2014 Maidan revolution and Russia basically – you know, you had these breakaway regions that were said to be backstopped by the Russian military.
00:30:51.460A lot of those rights that Halliburton and Chevron and Exxon and Philips Conoco and all of these major Houston oil companies had signed – they'd all signed $10 billion agreements.
00:31:02.720Shell signed a $10 billion agreement with Naptogas.
00:31:05.380Chevron signed a $10 billion agreement with Naptogas in 2013, right before the coup.
00:31:12.380They were expecting to get paid off because of the Pentagon battering ram.
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00:33:12.260Benz, we were kind of chatting during the break, and I think what you were kind of culminating towards there, because really, you've done so much groundbreaking work and pioneering work on the censorship industrial complex.
00:33:24.960And it's sort of like that, you know, I watched the Scooby-Doo movies with my kids still and the old show, and they both like it, you know, that thing totally holds up.
00:33:34.460And it's like the end of each episode.
00:33:37.320It's like, let's see who you really are under here.
00:33:39.740And you take the mask off of the censorship industrial complex, the integrity initiative, the Atlantic Council, you know, DF Labs and all these different things.
00:33:50.200And suddenly we find out that it's NATO, that NATO is behind the censorship complex.
00:33:58.760And all of a sudden you get people like my good friend, Nina Yankovic, who very, very sadly, I had to get fired from her position at the Department of Homeland Security before she could lock us all up.
00:34:08.640But don't worry, Nina, because I know your good buddy, Jack Smith, is now tracking every single Trump supporter's likes and retweets and follows so that he can put you all on that very same list that they're looking to build for 2024 and probably putting on a list for prosecution like Doug Mackey.
00:34:27.880That's a lot of dots to connect, Benz.
00:34:31.840Yeah, so sort of like what we were just talking about with the whole Nikki Haley story and going back to everything from, you know, BlackRock to JP Morgan, there is this financial enterprise, regional investment story on every plot of dirt on Earth that depends on the battering ram of the Pentagon, the State Department and the intelligence community to secure and protect those financial investments.
00:35:01.160And what you had in 2014, you had this play, this grand Ukraine energy play, that all of the major Western financial stakeholders in the military sphere, in the energy sphere, and in the finance sphere who invest in those sectors, were all expecting Ukraine to be brought, you know, the crown jewel, essentially, of the Soviet empire to finally be brought into the Euro-Atlantic orbit.
00:35:28.600When they tried the coup in February 2014 and then it backfired with the counter coup when the country split apart, when Eastern Ukraine basically seceded from Kiev and then came to be backstopped by the Russians and you had the Crimea annexation, a voluntary referendum in Crimea to join the Russian Federation, there was a freakout in NATO.
00:35:52.400They declared this doctrine, they declared this doctrine, they declared this doctrine, it was called the Gerasimov Doctrine, named after Valerie Gerasimov, which was said to be Russia's new style of war is all about controlling hearts and minds and controlling media narratives.
00:36:07.400And, you know, it would turn out years later that the NATO scholar, Mark Gerasimov Doctrine, who penned this, would come out and say, actually, I sort of misquoted him, Gerasimov was actually referring to the way the US does soft power influence, not the Russians.
00:36:23.820But by that point, they had already changed the Gerasimov Doctrine to a doctrine known as hybrid warfare.
00:36:29.980And this was all the rage at NATO from 2014 through 2017.
00:36:34.280This was this idea that war had changed.
00:36:36.320Now, you have to go back in time and forget about 2022 and just the world as it was from 19...
00:36:41.820Which, by the way, Ben, just to throw out for people to remember this, this is all predicated on the fact that when you had Russian troops that were going into Crimea in those early days, and obviously, the Foster Paul Naval Blaze was the main target of this operation,
00:36:59.540that there were images of, and of course, you know, people say it was Spetsnaz or that it was, you know, unnamed military units, that there were images that were popping up on Instagram of girls, like, posting selfies with the soldiers when they were coming in.
00:37:12.720And so NATO and their allies had a strategic imperative to come out and say, oh, this is all warfare.
00:37:48.940Well, that's the way they had to contextualize it.
00:37:50.700In fact, Michael Chertoff had a very similar quote to what you just said in 2016 on this.
00:37:54.680So if you go back in time before 2022, you had this very weird situation where, you know, NATO had been around like 1949 and had never had to fight a hot war.
00:38:08.160By that point, I mean, there was, you know, Yugoslavia and Libya.
00:38:10.680In Libya, there were these offensive peacekeeper actions, you know, not genocide, it's peacekeeping.
00:38:16.980But there never had to have been an actual conflict with Russia or any sort of hot war.
00:38:22.240In 2014, when the Crimea annexation happened without Russia firing a bullet, NATO freaked out and said, oh, my God, war has changed.
00:38:30.700You know, we've been we've been thinking about things in terms of conventional terms for so long.
00:38:35.380But really, if you think about it, war is now all about hearts and minds in democratic regions.
00:38:41.740If you can control the political calculus in the country, you control the military by proxy.
00:38:47.680So so what we need to do is we need to make civilian media a military domain.
00:38:53.680And they did this through this this doctrine called hybrid warfare, which is the idea that war is no longer mostly a conventional thing.
00:39:03.980This is literally how they defined hybrid warfare and all of the grants and contracts and all of the motion.
00:39:10.560You know, I joke that it was like in, you know, in 2011, if you wanted to get, you know, grants approved for, you know, studying the mating habits of squirrels, you would insert a line about how it's got a lens towards, you know, how they're impacted by climate change.
00:39:24.500There was a similar thing with with Pentagon funding around hybrid warfare.
00:39:29.620Anything that that was useful to be able to pry hearts and minds away from Russia and towards NATO was considered a military necessity.
00:39:39.480And so they set up all this infrastructure in Central and Eastern Europe.
00:39:42.600They set it up in Germany, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, all over the Baltics.
00:39:49.520Sometimes it was called STRATCOM for strategic communications.
00:39:52.460Sometimes it was called psychological inoculation centers or centers, these centers of excellence.
00:39:57.920And they all connected the military establishment, NATO and, you know, both the Pentagon, the British Ministry of Defense, Brussels, all of the NATO military.
00:40:07.860The facilities and agencies started to connect to social media companies for the purpose of censoring pro-Russian propaganda or anti-NATO dissent within domestic countries.
00:40:21.420Now, this became a way to rig their elections because any political party that was NATO skeptic or that wanted to join, say, a Brexit movement in France with Brexit or Germany with Grexit or Brexit in Greece or Italy, all of these became targeted by the Western military alliance.
00:40:40.880Because by their logic, anybody who is not a foreign policy blob political candidate or political movement is de facto a pro-Russian, you know, asset of the Russian empire whose victory will undermine the security posture of the Western world.
00:41:00.360So they declared essentially a military predicate for taking over all civilian media.
00:41:07.620And this hit the gas when Brexit happened in June 2016 because the very next month, in July 2016, NATO formally added the hybrid warfare capacity building to its charter.
00:41:22.560For the first time in 60 years, it now had an unfettered license to engage in carte blanche psychological warfare.
00:41:31.640When Trump won five months later, all bets were off.
00:41:35.680And that whole NATO doctrine, which Jen Stoltenberg would formally call from tanks to tweets.
00:41:41.000They had a formal doctrine called from tanks to tweets.
00:41:43.460And that would all come racing over to the Pentagon as soon as Trump won the 2016 election.
00:41:48.240The geopolitical imperative to censor the Internet brought to you courtesy of NATO.
00:42:20.820He's got a piece up there right now that came out a couple of days ago where, you know, we've been talking about the situation, how we got to where we are, this combination of the financial military interest behind NATO and censorship of the Internet.
00:42:35.940And the reasons they're doing this, he's got a huge piece up about Google, the Google plan to vaccinate your mind.
00:42:52.680Talk to us about how Google is planning to vaccinate our minds.
00:42:55.900What really ties together everything we were just talking about, there is this cell within Google called Google Jigsaw that I sort of lovingly call Google's CIA branch because it was started by a guy named Jared Cohen, who began in the policy planning staff under Condoleezza Rice at the State Department, coordinating the State Department and the CIA's joint action to overthrow foreign governments using social media.
00:43:23.420Jared Cohen, the founder of Google Jigsaw, was just a 26-year-old kid when he was recruited to the top hive mind within the State Department that coordinates overt and covert diplomacy so that our ability to, you know, fund dissident groups is on the overt side of USAID.
00:43:43.860And the National Endowment for Democracy is coordinated with covert action as we're trying to overthrow that government with muscle from the CIA.
00:43:53.180And Jared Cohen is the guy who looked around as a young kid on that policy planning staff and said, hey, what are we doing running color revolutions out of CIA station houses and embassies and consulates?
00:44:04.280Everybody we want to recruit, students, young people, they're all on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
00:44:10.020This is 2007, right when the smartphone came out.
00:44:14.060And so he developed this doctrine called the Doctrine of Digital Statecraft.
00:44:17.340Even though he was a Republican political appointee, he was considered so important to the CIA's covert action online that he was kept on by Hillary Clinton when she became Secretary of State in 2009 after Obama won.
00:44:31.000And there was a turnover from Republican to Democrat.
00:44:32.920But Julian Assange basically credits Jared Cohen with causing the Arab Spring as one by one the Obama administration's enemies were all overthrown in Facebook and Twitter revolutions.
00:44:43.960That is, revolutions of hundreds of thousands of people coordinating with hashtags on social media and getting financial support from the U.S. government in doing so as they were toppling Tunisia and Egypt and other countries' governments.
00:44:57.900At that point, Jared Cohen could have been president.
00:45:01.840I mean, he was a young kid and he was voted top 50 most powerful people in Washington before the age of 30 by Time magazine.
00:45:09.440But he goes to join what at the time in 2011 was only number 120 by market cap in terms of size, a midsize company called Google.
00:45:17.060And not just to not to be at a C-suite position level at Google either.
00:45:21.380He was just his job was to sit in a room all day and stare at a white wall as part of a one person think tank and just think about all the ways that Google could use its proprietary resources and data to solve complex political problems.
00:45:34.780Julian Assange wrote a whole piece on this and he called it the moment that Google became the shadow State Department with Jared Cohen taking that whole CIA network and and color revolution network and merging it with Google itself.
00:45:45.880Now, Google Jigsaw would go on to create this thing called Perspective, which which was the first ever retail machine learning, artificial intelligence, AI powered censorship weapon ever deployed essentially on on the American Internet.
00:46:03.180Before 2016, all censorship was done manually.
00:46:08.840That's why that's why the censorship that happens now, where millions of posts can be killed instantly through keywords and through mapping the misinformation community networks that you want to all turn to down hundreds of thousands at once.
00:46:23.160None of that was possible before Jared Cohen, Google Jigsaw's AI censorship superweapons were developed.
00:46:29.060So this is a guy whose job was to help the CIA overthrow foreign governments.
00:46:33.220And when the 2016 election happened, he switched from a digital insurgency mode to a digital counterinsurgency mode and developed the weapons for censoring the Trump movement, as well as the Brexit movement and a number of other political hot topics.
00:46:45.300Now, what's also really interesting is Jared Cohen is now at Goldman Sachs running a geopolitical futures advisory for doing the exact same thing that Jamie Dimon, that we talked about at the top of the segment, was talking about in terms of he's helping Goldman direct financial capital, depending on what he knows the CIA and the Defense Department and the State Department are going to do, the same way Jamie Dimon is looking to do by, you know, by bolstering up its GOP blob network.
00:47:12.620So it all sort of comes full circle that way.
00:47:14.140But what Google Jigsaw is doing now is very peculiar.
00:47:18.500They are fixated on the power of viral videos.
00:48:00.800So there are – so there was $40 million in funding just from the National Science Foundation into the science of how to persuade somebody using a short 30-second, three-minute video for pre-bunking is what they're calling.
00:48:18.160But what that is, is that's taking subjects who have not encountered an argument that the government doesn't want you to believe yet.
00:48:25.260And showing them a video or a series of videos that gets them to build what they call a psychological vaccine.
00:48:32.360In the same way that a vaccine works by exposing somebody to a small dose of something so that they build antibodies without getting the whole sickness.
00:48:41.800At least that's the way, in theory, it's supposed to work.
00:48:43.600They do these pre-bunking videos, and there's millions of dollars behind this now.
00:48:50.820They're designed to basically do the same thing as a sort of psychological vaccine.
00:48:55.740They give you a weak, incomplete version of the argument they want you to reject.
00:49:01.040If they want to pre-bunk people against watching Jack Posobiec's human events show, they will produce a 30-second video or a three-minute video, and it will strawman the ever-loving heck out of your argument deliberately.
00:49:17.000Because if they were exposed to a full Pozo segment, they might believe it.
00:49:22.320So what they do is they give a little bit of the argument, they strawman it, they inject you with the talking points, they then give you the next part of the Pozo argument.
00:49:32.700They strawman that, so they never let the thing hit you full force.
00:49:36.300This was the same logic that Jigsaw proposed for the entire fact-check labeling system for the 2020 election.
00:49:42.540If you remember the Orwellian sense of those text overlays, it was so that you were never psychologically hit with the full force of a real argument, because you might believe it.
00:49:52.320Digital MKUltra, folks, Mike Bensiber on X.