Stay Free - Russel Brand - “You’re Going To Get KILLED!” Mike Benz EXPOSES CIA Secrets Like NEVER Before - Stay Free #363

00:00:00.000 So, um, I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to get out of here. I'm going to have to go back to the car.

00:00:07.000 I'm going to have to go back to the car. I'm going to have to go back to the car. I'm going to have to go back to the

00:00:08.000 car.

00:00:09.000 Well that was a really hard blind shot.

00:00:33.000 Really hard.

00:02:19.000 In this video, you're going to see the future.

00:02:31.000 Hello there you Awakening Wonders, thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand.

00:02:36.000 It's a very special show because we've got Mike Benz back again.

00:02:39.000 Mike, Mike Benz, excuse me, understands the architecture of the deep state and its application.

00:02:45.000 He's a former state official himself and whilst he didn't invent the term blob, by God, Does he use it accurately?

00:02:52.000 He was one of the first voices that came out in support of me explaining how the legacy media, deep state and NGOs operate when it comes to shutting down dissent.

00:03:01.000 I'm going to have a great conversation with Mike today.

00:03:03.000 We're going to talk about the Trusted News Initiative, the concoction of media organisations that collaborate together in order to ensure that there's one narrative and that independent media We're gonna talk about what the Deep State is in essence, and I'm gonna be passing on Kay Cotois, he's in Awakened Wonders, question about what is the aim of the Deep State?

00:03:22.000 Who are these guys working for?

00:03:23.000 If you just tapped him on the shoulder and said, what are you doing all this Deep State witchcraftery and chicanery for? 1.00

00:03:30.000 Who benefits if you're not working for the people?

00:03:32.000 If you're not working for God, who do you If you're watching us anywhere other than our home on Rumble, remember we'll just be there for 10-15 minutes.

00:03:44.000 You can't speak as freely as Mike Benz does, spitting truths that are going to shatter holes in the dome of intrusion and confusion that the state puts in front of your mind, mate.

00:03:53.000 No, you have to get that kind of stuff in the sweet stream of freedom we call Rumble.

00:03:57.000 If you're on Awake and Wonder, Then you can join us live for these conversations and even pass on your questions to Mike to show that he can do this stuff live.

00:04:06.000 If you use the code ISURRENDER, you get one month free and you get to see our exclusive videos this week on Operation Mockingbird, which is another subject that Mike's going to educate us about.

00:04:15.000 Because when do these conspiracy theories become conspiracy facts and how long will they maintain that that's even a legitimate term?

00:04:22.000 As if a conspiracy theory is some rare thing, some lime green butterfly, Rather than an ordinary moth devouring the very fabric of our society.

00:04:31.000 Without any more analogy, allegory or metaphor, let's get into what we came here for.

00:04:36.000 It's Mike Benz.

00:04:37.000 Mike, thanks so much for joining us.

00:04:39.000 Thank you, Russell.

00:04:40.000 That was epic.

00:04:42.000 I'm so happy to see you again.

00:04:44.000 I often talk to people in my community and team about the video you made at the point where my attacks truly kicked in.

00:04:52.000 Sadly, that day you were wearing a hat That's less than ideal, otherwise I would be using it as one of the key artifacts to demonstrate how the deep state and legacy media interests cooperate to bring down dissenting voices, even if particular members of it aren't really aware that that's what they're doing.

00:05:10.000 You know, the state is so sprawling and so vast, these interests so powerful, that there are perfectly reasonable people sort of wandering around I'm doing, I'm involved in activism!

00:05:19.000 I'm doing a good thing!

00:05:21.000 How diffuse are these interests?

00:05:23.000 How do they truly work?

00:05:25.000 And I wonder if you can give us a clear example of, just take, you know, like the takedown of a dissident voice.

00:05:31.000 A clear example of how these interests are able to cooperate and how the cartilage of NGOs works.

00:05:37.000 I remember you're very good on that and you've been very articulate on that subject before.

00:05:41.000 Give us a few examples before we jump into this extraordinary subject.

00:05:46.000 Yeah, sure.

00:05:47.000 Maybe we can start with that cartilage concept, which is a really great way to sort of visualize how state control over media works.

00:05:55.000 So, at the end of World War II, a so-called rules-based international order was constructed.

00:06:01.000 You may have heard this phrase bandied about by folks who were involved in the government or were involved in sort of official media.

00:06:09.000 They referred to the rules-based international order, which was constructed about 1947-1948 in the aftermath of of the world of World War Two and sort of in between it.

00:06:20.000 We had Bretton Woods in 1942 to 1944.

00:06:24.000 We had the Marshall Plan for reconstruction of Europe in the 1940s.

00:06:28.000 We had the IMF and World Bank set up.

00:06:31.000 We had the UN set up to tie all the countries together.

00:06:35.000 And we had something called the UN Universal Declaration on Human Rights, which promised national sovereignty to every country on earth as a fundamental right.

00:06:45.000 And within that was a formal prohibition under international law of the acquisition of another country by military force.

00:06:53.000 So the age of empire that existed from the Roman times all the way up until World War II, where you would maintain an empire or you would acquire an empire by sending your military in to take over a territory, became a violation of international law.

00:07:08.000 And so our traditional military and spycraft structures had to switch to another method to achieve a functional territorial acquisition.

00:07:17.000 And that was through political control over a country, or sometimes referred to political, economic, and informational control, which is now known as soft power.

00:07:25.000 So hard power being military, soft power being getting a country under your control because its political leaders are under your control, its courts are under your control, its educational systems are under your control, And one of the main methods to achieve that control is controlling the media ecosystems within that country.

00:07:43.000 That way, the masses of people, its leaders, its courts, all of its decision-making bodies are essentially on brand with whatever the talking points being piped in from US government-sponsored media were saying.

00:08:00.000 And so, starting in 1947, We created, in the U.S., the Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA.

00:08:08.000 And we restructured our entire spycraft intelligence apparatus along something that was called the Plausible Deniability Doctrine.

00:08:18.000 And the great starting place for this is one of the godfathers of the CIA.

00:08:22.000 His name is George Kennan.

00:08:24.000 He posted a memo to, this is one of the very first National Security Council documents we have in this country, It's called the Inauguration of Organized Political Warfare in 1948.

00:08:35.000 This is right after the CIA, 12 days after the CIA rigged the Italian election in Italy using dirty tricks, stuffing ballot boxes, importing swarms of media, working with both the church and with mafia groups who they had had a liaison relationship with to overthrow Mussolini.

00:08:54.000 And so George Kennan writes a memo saying, listen, We need to start looking at warfare as being political warfare.

00:09:03.000 We need to undergo what he called the inauguration of organized political warfare, a fundamental restructuring of our power projection to engage in organized political warfare on every country on earth in order to swing it into our influence.

00:09:18.000 And if we don't do it, the Bolsheviks are going to do it. 0.99

00:09:21.000 So somebody's got to be doing the dirty work.

00:09:23.000 We know America has not traditionally done this in any sort of organized fashion, but this is the new way war has to be done after this UN Declaration on Human Rights. 0.51

00:09:32.000 And so, with that kickoff, we embarked on a mass, quote, capacity building.

00:09:38.000 This is the phrase that they use in order to get media organizations under CIA or State Department control.

00:09:45.000 And just so you understand, the plausible deniability doctrine Was this idea that that State Department wanted to do this dirty work directly.

00:09:55.000 The State Department is one of the in 1789 when we when the US had our first meeting of Congress.

00:10:02.000 We created three agencies.

00:10:04.000 We created the State Department, at the time it was called the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, now called the State Department, to manage the American Empire and its assets.

00:10:13.000 We created the War Department, which was changed its name in 1948 to the Defense Department, again to create this false sort of messaging that we're actually not engaged in warfare abroad, we're engaged in forward defense.

00:10:27.000 We're not taking over your country through war, we are just forward defending ourselves on your Terp.

00:10:32.000 And then the third agency that was constructed in that first meeting of Congress was the U.S.

00:10:36.000 Treasury.

00:10:36.000 So our money system, our military, and our empire, our State Department management, were all created at the foundation of America in our first meeting of our Congress.

00:10:48.000 So when the Department of War changed its name to the Department of Defense, and the CIA was created with this plausible deniability doctrine, It was explicitly created under this plausible deniability doctrine, under this NSC memo 10-2, which gave the CIA carte blanche to rig elections, to control media, to engage in sabotage, to engage in demolitions, to engage in all manner of black propaganda or subversion, so long as they maintain so-called plausible deniability, such that, quote, even if it were discovered,

00:11:27.000 It would not be traceable to the U.S.

00:11:29.000 government.

00:11:30.000 So, understand, there's a concept that we call diplomacy, which is a very euphemistic word for control or power projection around the world.

00:11:41.000 And we have two branches of the U.S.

00:11:43.000 government, essentially, two agencies that are charged with our diplomacy.

00:11:48.000 The State Department does overt diplomacy, and the CIA does covert diplomacy.

00:11:54.000 But the two are are one iceberg.

00:11:58.000 And they operate to synchronize with each other, such that if there are things that we need to do on the power projection front that State Department wants, but State Department doesn't want attributed to the State Department, such as, say, blowing up a pipeline at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, or getting tens of thousands of people in a foreign country on U.S.

00:12:18.000 payroll so that they're financially bribed to print pro-U.S.

00:12:21.000 media, We get the CIA to coordinate that, or at least that was the original structure.

00:12:30.000 And so, what was created at the time was called Wisner's Wurlitzer.

00:12:33.000 Wisner's Wurlitzer was Frank Wisner, who was one of the founding architects of the CIA, and he bragged that he was able to play thousands of media outlets around the world like a Wurlitzer, which is sort of like a church organ, you know, one of these sort of multi-layered pianos that you could theoretically play with octopus hands.

00:12:53.000 And so, at the time, the U.S.

00:12:55.000 had a huge first-mover advantage, together with Britain, in media.

00:12:59.000 Which is that we had a first-mover advantage in radio.

00:13:02.000 We had a first-mover advantage in TV programming.

00:13:06.000 And the U.S.

00:13:07.000 and Britain had the largest capacities for print media as well.

00:13:12.000 And so, on virtually every country on Earth, and every continent, the CIA, at the time, was working directly Funneling money through foundations to create, often using Cayman Bank accounts, Cayman Island Bank accounts, or using offshore bank accounts starting in the 1950s to do this, through foundations to then funnel money to media organizations on all six populated continents.

00:13:39.000 And then the issue was, Vietnam happened.

00:13:42.000 And there began to be a major dissent within the U.S.

00:13:46.000 for C.I.A.

00:13:47.000 and Pentagon priorities.

00:13:48.000 Now, again, the C.I.A.

00:13:49.000 had boots on the ground in Vietnam seven years before we sent in the boys with the military.

00:13:54.000 And the problem was, is domestic political actors were forming against this foreign policy, State Department, C.I.A., D.O.D.

00:14:05.000 agenda.

00:14:06.000 And all of it collapses if you don't get citizen funding, because it's all paid for by the taxpayers.

00:14:13.000 So if people decide in domestic politics to vote against, or to not fund, the priorities of the BLOB, the Foreign Policy Establishment, then the BLOB dies.

00:14:23.000 The BLOB dies on the vine.

00:14:25.000 And so, what the CIA started to do in the 1960s and 70s is turn that Wisner's Wurlitzer apparatus inside to use media assets at 400-some different media institutions, as well as even bribing student groups on college campuses In order to get people to support the infinite war apparatus.

00:14:48.000 And then I can get to the next evolution of this, because that structure crumbled in 1975, but it reformed in 1983, and we're living in the aftermath of that.

00:14:58.000 And that's really where it starts to get interesting.

00:14:59.000 I'll pause there, because I've been going for a while, if you have specific questions on that.

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00:16:51.000 Bloody hell, Mike.

00:16:52.000 I mean, all we'd have to do is memorise what you just said in the first 14 minutes of our show and we would have an understanding of the inception and execution of the Deep State apparatus, how it pertains to foreign policy, media control and the acquisition of citizen funding.

00:17:12.000 What an extraordinarily comprehensive answer.

00:17:16.000 I've got Obviously a good number of follow-up questions and I appreciate the fact that you could have carried on speaking for the entirety of our hour and it would have not once been boring but even you need the occasional guzzle of Fiji water to keep the machine running.

00:17:32.000 A few things that I want to check in on.

00:17:36.000 is that when you sort of touched upon the extraction of Mussolini and the CIA and I think you said the church possibly participate in in his removal it seems that there were points where these agencies or in particular that one could ...legitimise their actions, at least unless there's something I'm missing, by saying what we're doing is favourable, is advantageous to American interests, and one might even argue, I'm sure, I don't know, maybe I'm in for a new shock, that it was generally and genuinely good.

00:18:09.000 The removal of Mussolini was surely good, although I recognise he was very popular in his nation and he seemed to be in tune with his times.

00:18:17.000 He was an old-school fascist.

00:18:21.000 I love too, in your answer, how you described the inception of the rule-based order and the establishment of these triple-letter organisations and bureaucracies, the IMF, or double-letter in the case of the UN, and I'm imagining the WHO's not far behind, even if it's sort of historically subsequent to the advent of those other

00:18:41.000 agencies and how that aligns with my broad and certainly nowhere near as articulate or as well informed as

00:18:48.000 your understanding that these new bureaucracies and legislative entities are what we ought

00:18:56.000 fear now in the way that we are being coached by the very legacy media that you are apparently instructing us

00:19:05.000 are to at least some degree guided by and controlled by the forces that you just

00:19:11.000 outlined and described They will point out fear, stoke our fear, escalate our anxiety, that what we ought be concerned about is the emergence of

00:19:23.000 Nationalists, demagogues, populists, that appear to be 21st century reincarnations of e.g.

00:19:32.000 Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler.

00:19:33.000 But actually, no, it's to the literature of that time we can look now, or the near contemporaneous literature, the writing of Huxley, Orwell, and even Kafka, who seem to intuit that what would happen is administrative powers that are invisible and difficult to discern Would insidiously seep like fog under your door into your life.

00:19:56.000 Two examples of that I'm fond of using are if you ever interface with YouTube, and I'd love to ask you about CIA involvement with Google Alphabet.

00:20:06.000 Look, when you interface with them, there's a kind of Hal from 2001 style anodyne banality to their communication.

00:20:15.000 The team have decided that you are demonetized and we cannot help you at this time.

00:20:20.000 Or another example of this kind of bureaucratic power is a WHO treaty.

00:20:27.000 That says that we are here to help you and all we need to do is bypass your national sovereignty.

00:20:33.000 All we need is access to your budget, the ability to inoculate, the ability to censor, curiously enough.

00:20:40.000 You know, Gil Scott-Heron may have said the revolution will not be televised, but The force that we need to revolt against will not even come with identifiable semiotics or identifiable characters, not so much as a poster of Big Brother to warn us that we are facing horror.

00:21:00.000 So, in outlining your doubtless epic answer, could you talk us through the inception of big tech and social media, because it's impossible to think that anything could be that powerful without the involvement of the powers you describe, how the somewhat innocent Weisner's Wurlitzer has become the Zuckerberg Zoetrope or whatever it is we're confronted with now as big tech co-mingles with this kind of power and how what you've taught you've told us the history how has it evolved into the technological age and become more powerful starting perhaps with the relationships between big tech social media and the deep state, please.

00:21:43.000 Before you answer that question, Mike, we're going to have to leave YouTube for the rest of this fantastic interview.

00:21:50.000 I truly believe if you watch this interview like five times, memorised it, you'd be able to have a conversation with anybody.

00:21:56.000 He's going to help you to understand the origins of the CIA, the funding of Google, Jared Cohen's curious role.

00:22:05.000 There's so much to learn from this.

00:22:07.000 So click the link in the description and we'll see you for the rest of this conversation on Rumble.

00:22:13.000 Perfect.

00:22:14.000 Yeah, so let's get to the origins of Google.

00:22:16.000 So, you know, there's a funny story about the Internet, because when you're referring to big tech, we're talking about the big tech Internet companies, primarily here, you know, so like Google.

00:22:27.000 And, you know, they're all based on the Internet.

00:22:30.000 And the Internet was created by the American military in order to manage the American empire.

00:22:35.000 It was created by DARPA in the 1960s.

00:22:39.000 In order to digitize and be able to quickly share within the military all of the social science research that was being funded by the Eisenhower administration and the Kennedy administration, to be able to do anthropological and social science research, the reams of academic work that the military was paying academics to produce, on foreign populations who were posing insurgency concerns to US-installed dictators in different regions, or to US-managed governments, after we had begun to territorially acquire all these different countries during the Cold War.

00:23:16.000 There were student revolts on college campuses in the 1960s against the Internet, before the Internet even went private, because the Internet, the World Wide Web, The private internet that all of us use was not debuted until 1991, December 1990.

00:23:32.000 But even in the 1960s, people realized that the computer was an instrument of U.S.

00:23:39.000 statecraft.

00:23:39.000 In fact, during these sort of anti-Vietnam protests at MIT, you can even look for this if you run a search for this on your favorite search engine.

00:23:52.000 They were revolting against what they called the Octoputer. 0.97

00:23:55.000 The idea that the computer and this DARPA-funded Internet was going to be used as a world-spanning octopus power for the military to control other countries, other countries that student groups were accusing of being subject to U.S.

00:24:11.000 imperialism.

00:24:12.000 Now, what happened was, in 1991, the World Wide Web rolls out and DARPA turns over the Internet to the National Science Foundation and projects that through a bunch of universities to make it publicly available ...for commercial use.

00:24:28.000 But the other side of this is that it was being used for soft power projection.

00:24:33.000 See, at the start, when I was describing Wisner's Wurlitzer, the CIA created a bunch of proprietary media organizations like Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia.

00:24:46.000 These were all radio and then television programming that would project US media And also pay media organizations within foreign countries to produce pro-US propaganda.

00:25:00.000 And that was a very easy thing to do when there were only a couple of different radio frequencies available in that country, or that country wasn't producing its own native content, its own native TV content.

00:25:13.000 As other countries caught up to us in the other modalities of media soft power, you know, competition, The promise of the new internet for the State Department, the military and the CIA was that this would be sort of like a new radio, a new TV, a new Voice of America, a new channel where America had first mover advantage because it was all the American internet.

00:25:41.000 And so, right away, as soon as the internet came out, DARPA commissioned a program called the Massive Digital Data Systems Program.

00:25:51.000 And the Massive Digital Data Systems Program was a joint project of the NSA and the CIA in order to track how, quote, birds of a feather flock together online.

00:26:02.000 And their goal was to create what they referred to as an early warning political radar system to be able to track how political groups around the world were rising and falling and how they were congregating together on the internet because in Web 1.0 you had web forums and you had these static web pages and so you could track what groups in country X were accessing or maintaining these websites and you could use that to draw a network map of an entire political movement that you either wanted to run CIA support to

00:26:40.000 Or you wanted the CIA to crush through counterinsurgency.

00:26:46.000 And part of this involved tracking search results through the early search engines that were created to be able to navigate this new internet.

00:26:55.000 And this is where Google comes into the picture.

00:26:58.000 In 1995, Larry Page and Sergey Brin are PhD students at Stanford, and their PhD is being Sponsored, essentially, by DARPA.

00:27:09.000 They had a DARPA grant to do this search engine aggregation work.

00:27:14.000 And that DARPA grant meant that they were reporting to their grant administrator, which was ultimately the CIA and the NSA.

00:27:22.000 They would then take this work that they got the CIA-NSA grant to do to form a company called Google in 1998.

00:27:31.000 So right from the outset, Google was a military and CIA and statecraft, you know, let's say dual-use technology, shall we say.

00:27:42.000 And even old Google's first-mover advantages were based on this.

00:27:47.000 Google quickly came out with very innovative product sets, like Google Maps.

00:27:52.000 You know, a sort of first-of-its-kind ability to be able to just plug in an address and know how to get there, go anywhere on earth and zoom in on it.

00:28:00.000 Well, Google didn't just, you know, brainiacs sitting in a garage, you know, come up with a code for that.

00:28:08.000 They got Google Maps by purchasing the CIA's keyhole satellite software.

00:28:14.000 So, it was the CIA's spy satellite software that is the only reason Google got Google Maps.

00:28:22.000 Now, and then, even the, Google's global operations work is based on this as well.

00:28:30.000 So one of the reasons that censorship set in across Google search results and across YouTube is because of a fundamental restructuring of how Google operated beginning after the 2016 U.S.

00:28:42.000 presidential election, started a little bit before that with the story of a guy named Jared Cohen.

00:28:47.000 Jared Cohen, so let's just take a step back and look at the history of social media.

00:28:52.000 You had Facebook in 2004, YouTube in 2005, Twitter in 2006, smartphone in 2007.

00:29:01.000 In 2007, a young kid named Jared Cohen arrives at the inner sanctum of the State Department, a place called the Policy Planning Staff.

00:29:12.000 As I mentioned in my sort of opening salvo, the iceberg of American diplomacy has overt policies and strategies Uh, from the State Department and covert from the CIA, and so they together form a united front of U.S.

00:29:30.000 diplomacy, which means the dirty tricks from the covert side have to be constantly synchronized with the overt actions of the State Department, so that if you're trying to regime change, you know, the country's government, the State Department has to know that and know exactly what's going on when they go in, when they send a delegation to that foreign country's government for their demands or what they want.

00:29:51.000 That synchronization process happens at the policy planning staff.

00:29:54.000 That's that inner cell within the State Department that coordinates the CIA and the State Department.

00:30:00.000 And this is a place that's normally occupied by the sort of wise old men, 50, 60, 70-year-olds, you know, fuddy-duddies. 0.94

00:30:08.000 Jared Cohen got there at about the age 25, 26.

00:30:12.000 Young kid, but he was brought on by the Bush administration Because he had created something called movements.org and he was embedded basically from his late teen years into the highly volatile youth movements that were being essentially sponsored by the CIA in Middle East, North Africa, in these conflict zones.

00:30:33.000 And because it's so important to instrumentalize student groups and youth groups for color revolutions in U.S.

00:30:43.000 statecraft, He was brought in as essentially a young guy who's hip to what the kids are doing these days so that that could be folded into American statecraft for how best to exploit those young people.

00:30:57.000 And what Jared Cohen did is he gets in around 2006-2007 and he looks around at these older guys and he says, what are we doing formulating CIA activities out of US embassies or US consulates or CIA station houses All the groups we want to mobilize are on Facebook, they're on Twitter, they're on YouTube.

00:31:19.000 We need a doctrine of digital statecraft, Statecraft 2.0, to be able to run intelligence operations using social media.

00:31:29.000 And this became the absolute talk of the town of Washington, and he became an overnight celebrity with this concept.

00:31:38.000 He was considered so valuable To not just the Bush administration and Condoleezza Rice, the Secretary of State there, as a Republican appointee, but his work was considered so vital, the CIA's use of social media, that he was kept over by the Democrats when Barack Obama won the 2008 election and Hillary Clinton became Secretary of State.

00:31:58.000 This is extremely unusual in Washington, let me tell you, when a political appointee is kept over from the next administration.

00:32:09.000 He then was effectively credited with starting the Arab Spring, which was a State Department and CIA-sponsored series of Facebook and Twitter revolutions stretching from Tunisia to Egypt, which were said to be the sort of high point of digital democracy when hashtags and Facebook groups were used to coordinate tens of millions of people to take to the streets to overthrow governments that were deemed to be hostile to U.S.

00:32:35.000 interests.

00:32:36.000 At that point, Jared Cohen could have done anything.

00:32:38.000 He was voted by Time Magazine as one of the most powerful, top 50 most powerful people in Washington at the age of 30.

00:32:46.000 But he left in the heat of all of that.

00:32:49.000 People were saying, this kid's going to be president one day.

00:32:50.000 He could have done anything.

00:32:52.000 But he goes over and basically stuns the Beltway crowd by moving in 2010 to a tiny little one-person nonprofit

00:33:04.000 within a mid-sized tech company called Google.

00:33:07.000 At the time in 2010, Google was only ranked number 120 by market cap in terms of US companies.

00:33:13.000 They were not even a top 100-sized company in 2010.

00:33:18.000 And he was poached by Google, as the story goes, in order to sit in a room all day, stare at a white wall,

00:33:27.000 and think by himself about all the creative ways that Google could use its proprietary data and resources

00:33:34.000 to solve complex geopolitical problems.

00:33:37.000 Julian Assange would later term this moment, term this, this transition, the moment that Google became the shadow State Department.

00:33:44.000 And this came out in Stratfor documents and Wikileaks when basically CIA contractors were openly speculating

00:33:50.000 that Jared Cohen's move from policy planning staff at State to Google was a way to synchronize what the CIA was

00:33:56.000 doing with Google resources.

00:33:58.000 Now, this becomes very important to the internet censorship story because this one-person think tank, Google Ideas,

00:34:04.000 would later be rebranded Google Jigsaw.

00:34:07.000 And Google Jigsaw was initially doing sort of a lot of free speech tech work

00:34:13.000 so that dissident groups being backed by the CIA and State Department would be able to freely proliferate

00:34:19.000 their media influence in regions where there's state control over media, like Iran or like Egypt.

00:34:25.000 But in 2016, Google Jigsaw took on a new power for censorship.

00:34:31.000 Censorship of political movements that were giving rise to political, you know, to leaders like Donald Trump in the U.S., also on the left-wing populist side, like Jeremy Corbyn in the U.K., who were NATO skeptical.

00:34:45.000 All the different populist parties in Europe, in India, in Pakistan, in Japan.

00:34:50.000 And so Google Jigsaw became this kind of CIA-intermediated censorship octopus, and it created what was essentially the world's first retail, what I call weapons of mass deletion, AI censorship superpowers to be able to scan and ban tens of billions of posts, when it created, in the immediate aftermath of the 2016 election, something called Perspective, which rates every post essentially on the internet by a toxicity score that can be used to automatically throttle it from public view.

00:35:21.000 There's a lot more there, but I'll just pause.

00:35:23.000 Jesus Christ, Jared.

00:35:24.000 I mean, Mike, there's a lot there. 0.99

00:35:27.000 I feel like you're going to get killed. 0.99

00:35:32.000 That's my main response. 1.00

00:35:33.000 My first response is you're going to be killed and you're going to get us all killed because that's too cogent and too clear and too plain. 0.99

00:35:42.000 Thanks very much. 0.99

00:35:44.000 OK.

00:35:45.000 So, what I feel is that you've actually, you yourself have provided what I asked for, the cartilage that demonstrates how the anatomy of the deep state not only is connected but is able to coherently move as a single N-A-E. 0.96

00:36:06.000 And something like, as you described, the transition of Jared Cohen from working for successive administrations, where he's working with figures like Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton, right into sitting in a room staring at a wall like some extraordinary mystic.

00:36:25.000 In fact, it's beyond a revolving door, isn't it, at that point?

00:36:28.000 There is no door.

00:36:29.000 There is, it's just one single, well, as you say, blob.

00:36:35.000 Now, you've given me a pretty cohesive understanding and you've helped me to understand things like how, like when Lee Fang did some journalism on how myself and Greenwald and the guys at Greyzone are being subject to attacks by a CIA carve-out Operating out of Ukraine, like apparently independent Ukrainian media that when you look into it, the funding comes from the CIA.

00:37:03.000 But now this has become so, so sophisticated and diffuse, sort of molecular, I suppose, is a way of describing it.

00:37:13.000 Like, yeah, like you say, a blob is good because it just fills spaces, it moves around, it's difficult to locate a

00:37:20.000 center.

00:37:21.000 And I know that you could unpack a great deal there, but I wanted to pivot slightly,

00:37:25.000 because you've helped me to understand to a degree the inception of those agencies,

00:37:29.000 how they intersect with big tech, in particular, internet and social media companies, search engines,

00:37:35.000 and in essence, how that data, because I remember reading once in Legacy Media, Mike,

00:37:40.000 like, there was this magical moment after 9- there was a sort of, prior to 9-11, there was a moment where

00:37:46.000 censorship, where people were like, internet privacy is a thing, but after 9-11, it's like,

00:37:49.000 hey, we need that data to track terrorists, and Google sort of realized, oh wow, we've got all of this information.

00:37:56.000 And I recognize that that's probably some sort of counter-narrative to sort of mask the fact that

00:38:03.000 what's clearly happened from the point where the, you know, the proprietors and founders were...

00:38:08.000 PhD students, they were involved with the CIA.

00:38:12.000 There's no way that anything of that scale, anything of that influence and power was ever beyond the purview and remit of the type of power that we're describing.

00:38:22.000 Another thing I want to touch on, even though it's tangential, of course pick up anything that's been inspired by my response to your last announcement was When people say, like, that, just take a few examples, that George Soros and Bill Gates are, like, actually evil.

00:38:44.000 Like, you know, with Bill Gates, I can, I've got my own understanding of the significance of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, their influence over something like the WHO, their investment in vaccines, their acquisition.

00:38:55.000 of farmland, their misadventures in India and on the continent of Africa when it comes to agriculture, their promotion of synthetic foods, their odd intrusion into areas of legislature, health policy that doesn't seem right.

00:39:10.000 I have a bit of an understanding when it comes to Bill Gates.

00:39:13.000 Extraordinary that he's another person that's, you know, a tech giant and a tech entrepreneur and a billionaire and a philanthropist.

00:39:21.000 I wonder, with George Soros, he was a sort of one of those figures I don't sort of know much about, except like when he's attacked people say, hey that's anti-semitic and it's conspiracy theory, I understand that he's a Jewish man, but pretty recently I heard that when the Clinton Foundation were over in Haiti, ostensibly helping Haiti in a way that in retrospect looks pretty clumsy, we're here to help you!

00:39:47.000 Please get your help off of us! 1.00

00:39:49.000 And like the money was spent in all sorts of weird clumsy ways and even when you see video footage of a sort of a younger sleeker Hillary Clinton leading George Soros peculiarly through the wreckage of Haiti even though that's before many of their subsequent disasters You feel like, what's going on?

00:40:08.000 Why is this guy there?

00:40:09.000 What's happening?

00:40:09.000 So can you explain to us, when we, these figures that, you know, the defenders of, say there's nothing to worry about when it comes to Bill Gates, he's just a nice dude.

00:40:18.000 Or George Soros, there's no problem there.

00:40:20.000 I mean, I've heard, for example, that George Soros benefits in some way from the conflict between Ukraine and Russia with regard to oil.

00:40:30.000 But I don't understand that, and I wonder if you could help me to understand it, please, Mike.

00:40:35.000 Let's tie all this together with a comment that I think came from one of the questions on your vocals at the start of this, which was, who does the blob work for?

00:40:47.000 I forget how you teed that up in the beginning, but I almost think of it, you know, like the Austin Powers scene where he goes, Who does number two?

00:40:54.000 That's a good scene, man.

00:40:56.000 That's one of my favorite scenes.

00:40:58.000 You show that turd who's boss.

00:40:59.000 Now you use it.

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00:42:47.000 Right, because that's actually a great way to look at this, because the execution arm of this transatlantic foreign policy blob is the State Department, the CIA, and the DOD, and its swarm army of tens of thousands of paid assets in the media and in the civil society and university realm and things like this.

00:43:09.000 But they are essentially number two, if you will, working for a class above them who they have a revolving door relationship with and which is really where people in government make their money and do favors for in order to make their own careers and be able to have their own, you know, put their own kids through private school education and really join an elite class.

00:43:33.000 And that is what I call the corporate and financial donor and drafter class.

00:43:37.000 You might think of it as a co-investor class.

00:43:39.000 And before I delve into this, I'll start with a quick analogy from what I just mentioned with Jared Cohen, who I mentioned, you know, started at this, you know, started embedded in essentially CIA hot zones organizing student groups and then worked directly at the center of synchronizing CIA and State Department color revolutions on social media.

00:43:58.000 Then went directly to, you know, Google's essentially CIA branch.

00:44:05.000 But what did Jared Cohen just do a few short years ago?

00:44:08.000 Moved over from Google Jigsaw to the macroeconomic, basically asset management branch of Goldman Sachs.

00:44:18.000 He is now one of the highest ranking officials at Goldman Sachs.

00:44:22.000 And so he essentially, as you mentioned, you sort of referred to him as a sort of mystic.

00:44:26.000 You know, he wasn't just like a mystic You know, sitting in a room staring at a white wall.

00:44:30.000 He's a CIA backchannel, a State Department backchannel.

00:44:33.000 Well, what he's essentially doing at Goldman Sachs is he's not mystic, you know, forecasting what's going to rise and fall in terms of economies or assets to invest in around the world.

00:44:44.000 Because he's got this State Department CIA backchannel, he allows Goldman Sachs to do what's essentially insider trading at the most macro level.

00:44:53.000 If you know that the military, Or the State Department or the CIA is going to overthrow a government or privatize an industry.

00:45:02.000 You know, a trillion dollar industry in Venezuela or Ukraine that's owned by the state government, but now it's going to be privatized.

00:45:08.000 So if you're an early investor in that, your investment is going to go to the moon.

00:45:15.000 You have this corporate and financial overclass where there's a revolving door.

00:45:19.000 Let's take a step back.

00:45:22.000 What do I mean by donor and drafter class?

00:45:25.000 Let's start with the term draft, drafting.

00:45:29.000 In a bike race, the ideal strategy is not to be out in front.

00:45:34.000 Even if you're the fastest racer, you don't want to be out in the lead in a bike race because you are bearing the brunt of the full force of the wind.

00:45:42.000 Which slows down your traction, you need to exert more work.

00:45:45.000 In corporate terms, that is killing your profits, if you're out in front.

00:45:51.000 The ideal strategy in a bike race is to be right behind the person in front, so that they do the work cutting the wind, and you efficiently, with a much less amount of energy, get the same place, and then you overtake that person at the end.

00:46:08.000 And so, what corporations do, and by proxy their financial, equity, and debt holders do, is they draft behind the blob, the government side of the blob.

00:46:20.000 They draft behind the DoD, the War Department, the Pentagon.

00:46:25.000 They draft behind, so for example, when the military moves into Ukraine, they draft behind that.

00:46:32.000 When they, when the State Department goes in and threatens sanctions on a country so that it changes its terms of private enterprise or changes its labor laws to make it cheaper for, they draft behind the State Department.

00:46:44.000 If the CIA is incubating a new emerging leadership class in a country who is going to be favorable to ExxonMobil there or Walmart there, or an agriculture company there or a tech company there.

00:46:57.000 They draft behind that and they also serve as co-investors or donors into those projects because oftentimes it's not enough for just to have U.S.

00:47:11.000 funded allocations to fund a war project or a foreign assistance project.

00:47:18.000 Like for example, in Ukraine, there's a big issue about how much funding is enough to actually support Ukraine.

00:47:25.000 So part of what the State Department does is they go around to get co-investors In the project in the region so that Microsoft or Google will sort of like, you know, co-fund it and provide a top-up to get the amount of money needed to do this initiative.

00:47:40.000 Actually, a great example of this is something like DIA, the DIA app in Ukraine.

00:47:44.000 This is something that I think the Grayzone, as you mentioned, published a lot about.

00:47:48.000 This is this digital ID system in Ukraine that Zelensky has made essentially mandatory for all Ukrainian people and it ties their digital identity to their bank account.

00:47:58.000 It's basically the ultimate way to be able to manage a civilization, and it was created by USAID.

00:48:05.000 USAID is the major funding organization that straddles the line between the State Department and the CIA.

00:48:14.000 It essentially serves as an above-board public-facing State Department adjacency.

00:48:21.000 That funnels the money that is used by the CIA.

00:48:25.000 Essentially, when something gets USAID funding, it becomes an asset for our covert diplomacy.

00:48:30.000 And so USAID funded the creation of this app in a partnership with Google, Visa, and American Express, I believe were the two transaction companies.

00:48:41.000 So Ukraine doesn't have its own sort of sophisticated IT architecture.

00:48:45.000 The State Department, using its diplomacy arm, has now made mandatory the use of a system that Google profits from because it runs the architecture of DIA, and that Visa and American Express profit from because they process all the commercial transactions of now every citizen in Ukraine.

00:49:08.000 So you now have a locked-in, government-backed cartel over every single person in Ukraine for both, you know, Amex and Google.

00:49:17.000 And so, this becomes a very powerful... Now, when you look at who actually sits on the board of these CIA interstitials... So, like, let's take an example.

00:49:27.000 Something called the National Endowment for Democracy is a classic example of this.

00:49:32.000 So, in my first salvo here, I talked about how Wisner's Wurlitzer, in the era of sort of CIA control over Media 1.0, was 1947 to 1975-1976, which is when the CIA would directly co-opt media organizations.

00:49:51.000 And then this sort of went down in flames when it all came out in public hearings in the Church Committee and Pike Committee hearings in 1975-1976.

00:49:59.000 President Jimmy Carter, when he won as a Democrat in 1976, promised to put an end to that.

00:50:04.000 He fired 30% of the CIA's operations branch in a single night.

00:50:08.000 And basically kneecap the ability for the CIA to do this work directly.

00:50:13.000 Reagan comes into office in 1980 and wants to revive the, you know, sort of full poisonous fang power of the CIA, but doesn't have the bipartisan support to ram this through Congress.

00:50:25.000 And so Reagan's CIA director, Bill Colby, approaches the Reagan's Attorney General, the head of the Justice Department, and says, It was a disaster when media groups around the world were seen as being funded by the CIA.

00:50:44.000 What we can do, though, is if we set up a national endowment for democracy promotion and have that be formally firewalled off from the CIA so that it looks like it's just coming from a public endowment, Actually, it's not even public, a private endowment, then we'll be able to have the same capacities we had from the 1940s to the 1970s, but there won't be CIA fingerprints on it.

00:51:08.000 We'll just intermediate, we'll just back-channel with the heads of the National Endowment for Democracy.

00:51:15.000 And so, there was a back and forth between the CIA director, Bill Colby, and the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee at the time, where they came up with the structure that there would be a formal firewall, the National Endowment for Democracy would be a private, non-governmental organizations, but that as long

00:51:34.000 as there was Senate Intelligence Committee consent to it, the CIA would

00:51:37.000 effectively direct their operations. And by the way, they're a private, non-governmental

00:51:41.000 organization, but they're under the direct oversight of the House Foreign

00:51:45.000 Affairs and Senate Foreign Relations Committees. They're a CIA cut out and

00:51:49.000 managed by the State Department. Now, the NED, if you look at who's on its board,

00:51:55.000 it's the directors of of all these companies.

00:51:57.000 It's...

00:51:58.000 Their board of directors for the National Endowment for Democracy has members of the Officers and Directors of Google, Officers and Directors of Amex and Visa, Officers and Directors of Exxon and Chevron.

00:52:12.000 A great example of this, actually, is in the run-up to the 2014 Maidan coup, the CIA State Department sponsored overthrow of the democratically elected government of Ukraine.

00:52:21.000 Whether you agree with that or not, that's just the fact.

00:52:25.000 Victoria Nuland actually gave that speech about how they successfully orchestrated this using $5 billion, $5 billion with a B, in State Department USAID subsidies to the right-wing, right-sector groups in Ukraine who did this.

00:52:41.000 She gave that speech bragging about that $5 million in U.S. 1.00

00:52:45.000 financial sponsorship of the coup right at a conference that was right in front of Sponsored by Chevron, ExxonMobil, and Shell.

00:52:57.000 And by the way, those are the exact companies who had invested in the oil and gas space in Ukraine.

00:53:05.000 Chevron had signed in 2013 a $10 billion, again with a B, $10 billion partnership with Naftogaz, the Ukrainian state gas giant, which accounts for an overwhelming majority of Ukraine's national economic sector.

00:53:20.000 Shell had signed a $10 billion, again, a matching $10 billion partnership with Naftogaz in Ukraine, again, with a B. Halliburton had signed a deal with the Ukrainian government's Naftogaz in order to do all the oil and gas refining of the oil and gas base there.

00:53:38.000 You know who held the rights to the Black Sea shale resources that were Basically that were destroyed when Russia annexed Crimea.

00:53:48.000 All the shale rights in the Black Sea Basin there.

00:53:53.000 It was Burisma!

00:53:56.000 And you know who was on the, you know, not only was Hunter Biden on the board of Burisma, but Hunter Biden himself was on the Chairman's Advisory Board of the NDI, the National Democratic Institute.

00:54:06.000 You know what the NDI is?

00:54:08.000 That's the DNC branch of the NED, which is the CIA cutout created so that the CIA could run money without it having the formal fingerprints of the CIA during the CIA 2.0 restructuring.

00:54:21.000 So, Hunter Biden on the board of the CIA cutout That CIA cutout, having on its board all the oil and gas co-investors, were then marshalling the CIA and the DOD, i.e.

00:54:37.000 U.S.

00:54:37.000 taxpayer funding, in order to prop up their investments in the region.

00:54:43.000 And this same blueprint is replicated everywhere.

00:54:47.000 And virtually every multinational corporation on Earth is playing this game and has to play this game to compete with others who are playing it.

00:54:57.000 My god.

00:54:58.000 So, returning to the initial point, and I don't want to suggest that you didn't answer this question as well as a whole lot of others, figures like Soros and Gates's power comes from their unique positioning behind the head of the pack accessing back channels and financially and otherwise benefiting from the types of deals and piloting schemes that you see conducted post coups and within vassal states such as Ukraine is becoming.

00:55:33.000 Do we have time for me to go like super deep on that?

00:55:36.000 Go deep!

00:55:37.000 Okay, alright.

00:55:38.000 Now this is important to keep in mind because George Soros is not just like a player in this.

00:55:45.000 The annual contributions just to the DNC.

00:55:49.000 The last election cycle, George Soros contributed $100 million to the DNC.

00:55:55.000 The second biggest donor was only $40 million.

00:55:58.000 So George Soros was two and a half times bigger than anybody else in terms of a donor.

00:56:06.000 So he dominates.

00:56:08.000 the political leadership of the Democrat Party in the U.S., but this is very much a global story.

00:56:14.000 So let's sort of start with the George Soros origin story.

00:56:19.000 In 1979, George Soros was a partner at a hedge fund in New York who primarily concentrated on doing foreign currency speculation, that is, betting using New York financial firm assets under management.

00:56:35.000 on the direction of currencies in Eastern Europe, in the middle of the Cold War.

00:56:42.000 He creates the Open Society Foundation, in his own words, as a tax loophole for his children,

00:56:49.000 for Alex Soros, in South Africa in 1979.

00:56:53.000 But then he lucks his way into the windfall of a lifetime when Ronald Reagan becomes president in 1980

00:57:01.000 in this new doctrine of using NGO statecraft, using the National Endowment for Democracy,

00:57:08.000 as I mentioned, that same thing that Hunter Biden was on the board of and that was created explicitly

00:57:14.000 by the CIA director to have non-CIA fingerprints on funding of CIA assets.

00:57:21.000 In 1983, 1982-83, the NED gets set up, and Reagan expands this doctrine of working through NED cutouts and working through the web of civil society organizations and NGOs to do CIA-backed color revolutions, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe, which was the main hot zone of the Cold War.

00:57:42.000 So, Hungary, Poland, Germany, these countries were, you know, While the Cold War was global, these exact countries were the biggest hot zones of spy vs. spy, of the CIA vs. the KGB, and they were the crown jewel of the prize for winning the Cold War.

00:58:05.000 When Hungary toppled its communist government and became part of the NATO-Western world, when Poland toppled its government with Lek Walesa and the Solidarity Movement there, and when Germany reunified.

00:58:19.000 George Soros teamed up in the early 1980s when this collaboration was being set up so that the Open Society Foundations, their offices in all of those different countries would function as State Department and CIA vassals for the student groups and the revolutionary street muscle that would take to the streets in a show of force or would destabilize or shut down the economy or the governance functions of the ruling communist regime in order to orchestrate those revolutions.

00:58:53.000 So these were George Soros basically took this open society model and set up basically satellites in all the different regions that the CIA and State Department were running government toppling blueprints in.

00:59:09.000 And so his own universities, his own NGOs, his own you know sort of civil society organizations We're being used in order to help the CIA and State Department overthrow those governments.

00:59:22.000 Well, that's a great gig if you happen to simultaneously be running a hedge fund speculating on the direction of those currencies because you have an advanced 6-month, 12-month, 5-year head start in terms of the direction of that currency because you know that the CIA is going to overthrow that government and either prop it up Or crush it, so you can short it and make a massive, massive windfall.

00:59:49.000 For example, if you know that it's going to be destabilized.

00:59:53.000 And he was tasked by the Reagan State Department to do that destabilization work.

00:59:58.000 And they were getting tens of millions of dollars to help facilitate that.

01:00:02.000 Again, through this money network.

01:00:05.000 And so Soros became a darling of this bipartisan blob apparatus.

01:00:11.000 You know, he was best friends with John McCain.

01:00:14.000 You may have seen pictures of them where they're so close to each other, smiling, you think they're about to start making out.

01:00:19.000 John McCain, by the way, was not just this very powerful senator for two decades here in the U.S.

01:00:27.000 He was not just the man who the blog was deciding between in the 2008 presidential election when the choice was between John McCain and Barack Obama, but John McCain was also the founder and the president for 25 years.

01:00:44.000 of the I.R.I.

01:00:44.000 You know how I mentioned, which, now, I mentioned the Hunter Biden's N.D.I., the National Democratic Institute.

01:00:50.000 When the N.E.D.

01:00:51.000 was created, when the C.I.A.

01:00:53.000 created the National Endowment for Democracy, it simultaneously created two different spindles, two branches of the N.E.D., subsidiaries that are wholly funded and controlled by the N.E.D.

01:01:05.000 One was for Democrat stakeholders, called the N.D.I., which Hunter Biden sits on the board of and Madeleine Albright, the former Secretary of State, runs.

01:01:12.000 But it also created the RNC, the Republican branch.

01:01:16.000 You can think of this like the CIA wing of the Democrat Party and the CIA wing of the Republican Party.

01:01:21.000 Now, the Republican branch of the NAD is called the IRI, the International Republican Institute.

01:01:28.000 Who founded and ran that for 25 years?

01:01:31.000 It was John McCain.

01:01:33.000 So you had, and so John McCain became essentially the Republican bipartisan branch of the Soros operation.

01:01:40.000 This is why you have sort of a kind of, even though Soros is known as a sort of left-wing figure, he is supported by half of the Republican Party, and he makes selective contributions and bolsters You know, these are folks like Mitt Romney.

01:01:56.000 Mitt Romney's on the board of the IRI.

01:01:58.000 Mitt Romney, by the way, is who ran for president for the Republic.

01:02:01.000 He was the Republican Party nominee for the 2012, you know, presidential election.

01:02:06.000 He's also the one who led the impeachment of the populist, nationalist, sort of representative wing of the Republican Party, Trump, you know, during the impeachment in Ukraine, over the Ukraine.

01:02:16.000 Amazingly, remember, they impeached Trump because he threatened to withhold military aid to Ukraine.

01:02:21.000 I.e.

01:02:22.000 the exact financial investments of this same blast that I just mentioned.

01:02:26.000 And this also gets the Soros story in Ukraine.

01:02:31.000 So, Ukraine is in debt to the IMF and the World Bank.

01:02:36.000 George Soros functions as a sort of financial intermediary between what the IMF, the creditors in the IMF and the World Bank need done to get their debts repaid, and the political actions that countries need to take in order to pay off that debt.

01:02:53.000 Often what that involves is privatizing industries that are held by the state, selling them, and then using the proceeds of that sale to pay off the IMF and the World Bank.

01:03:05.000 Well, if you know the IMF and the World Bank are going to force a fire sale of a major trillion dollar industry in that country, well then, guess what?

01:03:16.000 If you are a corporation or a financial firm And you know this is going to happen?

01:03:21.000 You get a bargain basement discount price to be able to swoop in and take over that industry when it undergoes that privatization.

01:03:30.000 George Soros explicitly laid out in a series of documents you can look up that were called the blue leaks or also called the hashtag DC leaks.

01:03:39.000 These were George Soros IMF coordination documents to coordinate the sale of NAFTA gas, the privatization of NAFTA gas in an IMF deal.

01:03:50.000 To be able to now get NAFTA gas is the state gas giant of Ukraine.

01:03:55.000 It is Ukraine's entire economy, okay?

01:03:58.000 Ukraine's entire economy is that it runs the gas transit points from Russia into Europe, which used to be 100% of gas into Europe from World War II, essentially, up until 2022.

01:04:14.000 Technically, they went through a gas diversification program in the early 2000s.

01:04:19.000 That the State Department coerced Europe to do to buy more expensive American gas in order to diversify off of Russia when Putin started to use gas diplomacy to reassert Russia on the world stage.

01:04:29.000 So, George Soros and Vladimir Putin were locked in a death battle for control over NAFTA gas.

01:04:38.000 Because NAFTA gas was basically split on its board between the NATO side and the Russia side.

01:04:44.000 Because all of Russia's economy was based on these Russian gas transits.

01:04:50.000 And so what NATO worked to do was diversify the gas transits so that they started from the Permian Basin in Houston.

01:04:57.000 They were ported in through the Baltic Baltic Sea to run through terminals in Poland to connect to NAFTA gas.

01:05:03.000 And so NAFTA gas would be Ukraine would still be getting billions of dollars of gas transit money.

01:05:08.000 But the starting point would be U.S.

01:05:10.000 companies and British companies rather than the Russian government.

01:05:15.000 And you can argue that that's in the national interest of American citizens or British citizens.

01:05:21.000 But, you know, at the end of the day, it is still a dirty tricks operation And that flies in the face of a hundred years of our free trade policies, if you will.

01:05:32.000 But George Soros was the battering ram for orchestrating that, and for privatizing NAFTA gas and prying it off of Russia.

01:05:39.000 And so George Soros funding, essentially, the Democrat Party and funding the political operatives who were spearheading the Ukraine situation, ...is perfect for his own financial empire, because he's the one who's investing in Naftogaz, and whose own portfolio companies and his own investment funds are invested in the endogenous gas industry in Ukraine.

01:06:01.000 So he is basically bribing US and British officials to take the battering ram of their military and CIA to pull off the operation that benefits his own financial portfolio companies.

01:06:14.000 The last thing I'll say is you can go on my Twitter right now, at MikeBenCyber, Type in, in the search bar, at Mike Ben Cyber, Soros Empire, and you will see a direct quote from George Soros himself, where he is bragging on tape.

01:06:28.000 That he created the Soros Empire by, quote, picking up the pieces of the fading Soviet Empire to create the Soros Empire out of. 0.60

01:06:39.000 So he was... You know that meme of two photographs and you look at them and you say it's the same picture?

01:06:46.000 When you see NATO and you see Soros, they're the same picture.

01:06:49.000 When you see the U.S.

01:06:50.000 State Department and the U.K.

01:06:51.000 Foreign Office and you see Soros, it's the same picture.

01:06:54.000 When you see the CIA, or British Intelligence, and then you see a picture of George Soros, It's the same picture.

01:06:59.000 They're one blob. 0.97

01:07:02.000 Bloody hell, Mike. 0.92

01:07:05.000 That was amazing. 0.74

01:07:06.000 We didn't even get a chance to get to the Hillary Clinton kill list, which I was looking forward to, particularly given that we're probably both on it.

01:07:15.000 It was a great conversation.

01:07:17.000 I'm gonna spit up my water.

01:07:21.000 There may be a little something extra in that water.

01:07:23.000 You keep carrying on the way you are.

01:07:25.000 Mike, it is always illuminating, educating, terrifying and wonderful to talk to you.

01:07:30.000 Let's stay alive long enough to organise a movement that can oppose the corruption that you have beautifully and brilliantly described.

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