00:00:14.000We talk about BlackRock and then we are joined by James O'Keefe in this episode on a BlackRock-focused ESG episode of the Charlie Kirk Show.
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00:02:36.000But I think a very important lead today, and we will have James O'Keefe to talk about this story, is what BlackRock is doing to our country.
00:02:46.000So James O'Keefe came out with a video which showed that a recruiting director of BlackRock was bragging about how BlackRock is able to purchase politicians, how war is good for business.
00:02:58.000Now, most Americans do not know about BlackRock.
00:03:02.000You, the audience, though, you're hyper-engaged.
00:03:14.000That there is a puppeteer class, people that are making things happen.
00:03:20.000And one of those institutions is BlackRock.
00:03:23.000Now, remember, BlackRock and organizations like BlackRock used to come under a lot of scrutiny from Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
00:03:31.000Do you notice how Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and AOC, they don't attack the big banks nearly as much as they used to?
00:03:37.000Yeah, they'll do some patty cake and hearings, but where's the forceful calls for breaking them up or chipping them away or investigating them?
00:03:49.000Well, it's because Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Elizabeth Warren and the radical progressive base, they realize how helpful BlackRock is being.
00:03:58.000They realized that instead of trying to break up BlackRock, which was always a massive wish, a big wish, instead, why don't you just take it over?
00:04:09.000So, BlackRock was founded in 1988 by Larry Fink and a couple of other people.
00:04:14.000Larry Fink is still running BlackRock.
00:04:17.000There's really nothing that sexy about what BlackRock does from a business model.
00:04:22.000They take pension funds, they take endowment funds, they'll take funds from universities, they manage it and invest it.
00:04:29.000And they've done it by all objective financial metrics rather well in a disciplined way.
00:06:32.000Well, here's the way it works: BlackRock gets all of these assets under management, $10 trillion.
00:06:41.000And then BlackRock is able to call shots with publicly traded companies on board spots and positions, behaviors, and political attitudes.
00:06:53.000So, for example, if BlackRock is going to go buy a stock, let's say they go buy Coca-Cola, which has always been a favorite of Warren Buffett's.
00:07:01.000It's stable, it turns a profit, not that sexy, it's going to give you a good return over 10 years.
00:07:09.000Well, BlackRock will come in and say, okay, we're going to go buy $8 billion of Coca-Cola stock, but Coca-Cola, how many lesbians do you have on your board of directors?
00:07:19.000What's your racial composition of your HR department?
00:07:23.000So BlackRock uses this massive asset pool, $10 trillion, as a bludgeoned force object to remake corporate America in their image.
00:07:38.000Global wealth is estimated to be about $460 trillion.
00:07:43.000BlackRock by itself is managing more than 2% of that.
00:09:15.000ESG is a corporate social credit score system that is derived from Maoism as a way to rank companies on their environmental social government.
00:10:04.000Larry Fink himself has stated that you have to force behaviors.
00:10:11.000So much of our politics, so much of what's going on in Ukraine, so much of what is going on domestically here with corporate America is being driven by a company most Americans do not know.
00:10:26.000The $10 trillion man, Larry Fink, running BlackRock.
00:11:51.000It's a great argument against the Federal Reserve.
00:11:54.000It's a great argument against this ridiculous infrastructure planner, having people like Pete Buttigieg or whatever calling shots.
00:12:02.000But I think one of the fault lines, one of the failings, one of the shortcomings of the DC-based, quote-unquote, conservative movement, I put in air quotes, is they've completely ignored how non-government institutions can do the central planning too.
00:12:25.000You see, when I got my start in 2012 or 13 with Turning Point USA, I was immersed in Austrian economic literature.
00:13:02.000But one of the major contentions of Murray Rothbard and Ludwig von Nises in particular is that central planning is evil and that that is going to erode human liberty and flourishing.
00:13:16.000However, if I were to offer a little bit of a critique, they would only possibly entertain, Milton Friedman made, I think, he didn't quite see this either.
00:13:25.000The only type of short central planning that could come is through the government.
00:13:28.000But what about a private company that ends up central planning your entire economy?
00:13:33.000They would say that's never going to happen because there will be competition and market forces.
00:13:38.000Now, mind you, the devil's advocate to my own contention here is, you're right, BlackRock can be disrupted by financial services companies like Strive or non-political actors.
00:13:49.000But sometimes it's very hard to dethrone a corporate oligarchy that literally owns your politicians.
00:13:57.000And you could also say that these private companies are too big because the government is too big, because they're able to get benefits from the government.
00:14:04.000So don't blame the free market or don't blame private actors because the government itself, the Leviathan, is too big.
00:14:13.000I have said before in my speeches that capitalism is the most moral and effective force in human history.
00:14:27.000Liberalizing your markets is generally a very, very good idea.
00:14:32.000It would be good for poor people in North Korea to be able to own stuff and to be able to trade and to start businesses and to create value.
00:14:41.000Simultaneously, we should be able to say that a $10 trillion company, well, that's not their value, but how many assets they have under management, that power is going to corrupt absolutely.
00:14:53.000So Larry Fink, this is an incredible piece of tape here, was asked about this, and he says you have to force behaviors.
00:15:01.000When we think of a tyrant, when we think of a despot, we think of a Mussolini, we think of somebody in government.
00:15:09.000But what I think what we are all starting to realize is that the behavior of a tyrant is not limited to government.
00:15:16.000That Larry Fink is acting like Mussolini, yet nobody voted for him.
00:15:27.000Instead, he took the labor of police officers, the labor of firefighters, the labor of teachers via their pension funds to use it as a blunt force instrument to force you To become more left-wing, multicultural, open-border, whatever term you want to fill it with.
00:16:00.000And at BlackRock, we are forcing behaviors.
00:16:03.000And if you don't force behaviors, whether it's gender or race or just any way you want to say the composition of your team, you're going to be impacted.
00:16:15.000Larry Fink and BlackRock, they are major institutional investors in Apple, Chevron, and Disney.
00:16:24.000Maybe that explains why they've been acting so strange.
00:16:28.000That's not the only reason, but it is an element.
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00:19:07.000Well, this was a BlackRock recruiter guy who recruits all the people in the financial world, and he's talking about things that we all know to be true.
00:19:17.000Does not shock you or I, but it's shocking that he's saying it.
00:19:21.000That these places, they run the world.
00:19:32.000When Russia bombs Ukraine, the price of wheat goes up because they're a major supplier of wheat and grain.
00:19:38.000And he says all these horrible things.
00:19:40.000He said, it's almost dark and evil to see him saying it, but it confirms a lot of our suspicions.
00:19:46.000So, this is a part one of a series we have in these large financial institutions that own such a large stake in everything from Google to Fox to Time Warner to Comcast to Pfizer.
00:19:58.000This is a company that most people are learning more about now, the Equality Index, as they call it.
00:20:04.000So, we're looking into all these things, and it's just part one.
00:21:17.000They'd rather just go on and just bloviate about these large abstract topics as if that's going to make a difference.
00:21:24.000It's quite ironic they say that this doesn't matter, but them talking crap about abstract topics is going to matter.
00:21:31.000The only way that you can change things is to individualize it and personalize it and make it about one individual at a time.
00:21:38.000Because what's happening right now is we broke this story.
00:21:41.000It's got hundreds of thousands of likes, tens of millions of views, hundreds of thousands of tweets, and it's inspiring other people within BlackRock to go to o'keefmediagroup.com, submit a tip.
00:21:53.000In fact, just three today inside the company want to blow the whistle, maybe not overtly, but vis-a-vis undercover recordings or anonymously through me about what's happening there.
00:22:06.000People are waking up to this, the ownership that, and the reason why it matters is it affects journalism when media corporations cannot report on pharmaceutical companies because that's where the lion's share of the revenue comes from.
00:22:19.000Or when, like, for example, today, Charlie, if you Google my name and this story, you won't actually see anything about this story.
00:22:27.000You'll see about, you know, the Project Veritas thing from February on being sued because you know what?
00:22:55.000People dying over in Ukraine helps our bottom line.
00:22:59.000He's the one saying it, and it matters.
00:23:02.000We have said for a while, it's obvious, but now we have evidence that companies are profiting off of the slaughter of innocents in eastern Ukraine.
00:23:11.000This is the undercover video that OMG O'Keeffe Media Group has put out, where this individual, Sergei, Sergey, Serge, whatever, says that you could buy a senator for a mere $10,000.
00:23:25.000If you were wondering if your politicians are for sale, your suspicion is largely correct.
00:24:59.000He invited me into the police station with him.
00:25:01.000So he kind of had this, it could have blew his mind seeing me the way, I don't know, usually people don't run towards the police in these circumstances, but they always call the police on me, Charlie, when I'm asking them questions.
00:25:12.000But it's one of a series of exposés that we're doing.
00:25:16.000I found the most profound comment from Serge Varley to be, quote, normal people don't give a SHIT about these harsh realities.
00:26:52.000I choose not to be afraid, although sometimes it's terrifying.
00:26:57.000I mean, we had a denial of service attack today and yesterday on every tip line inundated with thousands, tens of thousands of bizarre government messages, state, municipal, federal.
00:27:08.000I try to focus on the passion and the artistry and the storytelling and the inspiration that I talk to people, but it's terrifying, Charlie.
00:27:19.000There is, you know, to quote the scene from Apocalypse Now, behind every behind inside every human heart, there's a line that kind of separates good and evil.
00:27:41.000And there's nobody else that's really willing or able or put in a position the way that I've been put in.
00:27:49.000Because if you're a journalist working for ABC or Disney or any of these companies that are ostensibly owned by a pharmaceutical company or owned by BlackRock, literally 20% of the company is, you can't tell the truth.
00:28:04.000And I think the biggest reason why I'm so attacked is because I can't be controlled.
00:28:10.000People really want to control me, and they're threatened by the fact that I cannot be controlled.
00:30:05.000And I think that people are not so much asleep, but afraid.
00:30:11.000This guy in the video, Surge, I think the most profound thing he said again is that normal people don't give a crap, that this is beyond their understanding.
00:30:20.000So I think this country was never intended to have everyone so focused on politics.
00:30:25.000But I do believe that if you're afraid, understand that one day, you know, that heart in your chest will stop beating.
00:31:16.000Victor Frankl says in Man's Search for Meaning, an equally important book as the Gulag Archipelago, is you could choose what to make of your pain.
00:31:25.000So all of us are going to experience pain, heartache, sudden death, you know, collision, health issues.
00:31:46.000I hope the conservative movement takes notes because a lot of people on the right are afraid of BlackRock and Pfizer.
00:31:51.000James O'Keeffe is not, and he's exposing the deeds of darkness, which I believe is one of the most virtuous and biblical things a human being can do.