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00:00:00.000 Hello, and welcome to another episode of RealPolitik. I am your host, Firas Modad.

00:00:09.440 Today, we're going to be talking a little bit more about the Epstein files. And as we did on

00:00:15.600 the podcast, what I'm trying to do here is to stay away from the more lurid, more sensational

00:00:21.880 details that so far cannot be conclusively proven about what's happening with Epstein.

00:00:28.500 So I'm not going to talk about how they ordered acid supposedly to dispose of bodies, when

00:00:37.480 in reality, you have a trace of emails showing that it was a maintenance issue to do with

00:00:43.380 the water at Little St. James Island. I'm not going to talk about the different potential

00:00:50.020 references to all kinds of sordid things that we discussed earlier. Rather, what I want

00:00:55.960 to emphasize is the ethnic nature of this network and how it acquires influence and how it uses

00:01:03.780 that influence to gain control over more and more of Western economies and how that ends

00:01:12.300 up playing out in real life. So this story that I want to tell you here, you know, it's not

00:01:18.860 so much about all of this more potentially sensational stuff. It's about the reality that what you're

00:01:26.000 seeing is a full on takeover of the West through different ethnic networks that don't really have 0.99

00:01:33.820 any concern with the interests of the regular working person. Because this is an oligarchic class 0.95

00:01:41.480 that's fundamentally built around finance, not around production, meaning that there's nobody in this

00:01:47.900 oligarchy with actual interests in productive assets, in manufacturing, in agriculture, in things that

00:01:56.020 can provide things for you. Rather, it's all about financialization. And what I want to start with

00:02:02.800 really is is what's going on in the United States. And then I'm going to see how that plays out rather

00:02:11.620 similarly in Britain and in France. And then we're going to talk a little bit about the Ukraine war

00:02:17.180 and what's what has happened that we know about in relationship to this network and the Ukraine war.

00:02:23.500 And then if we have time, we might touch on the Middle East peace process in the 1990s. Otherwise,

00:02:31.100 we'll just go straight to Q&A. And as usual, this is a live episode. So please, whenever you want,

00:02:37.300 drop a comment in the chat or on the website, and I will get to it time permitting.

00:02:45.540 Now, when you want to think about Epstein, again, this point should be reiterated. This is fundamentally

00:02:51.980 an ethnic network, a Brazilian ethnic network, or let's just say Jewish ethnic network, right?

00:02:58.040 And that's really what defines them. And you have Ehud Barak, who is a former prime minister of Israel,

00:03:05.000 more or less at the center of this stuff in very regular communication with Epstein.

00:03:11.800 He's being introduced to Peter Thiel. He's being roped in on all kinds of investment deals.

00:03:18.060 There is one report about him and potentially Barak going into a SCIF, a secure communication and

00:03:25.120 information facility, confirming the linkages to intelligence, confirming the linkages to Israel.

00:03:32.820 And Netanyahu has come out to try and say that, no, Epstein isn't connected to Israel because he's

00:03:37.780 working with Ehud Barak, and Ehud Barak is my enemy. And this is complete nonsense.

00:03:41.700 This is complete and utter nonsense. The reality is that Barak, because of his former role as head

00:03:49.800 of military intelligence in Israel and of chief of staff of the army, and actually I believe as

00:03:55.600 Netanyahu's defense minister and as prime minister and other very senior positions, this guy is fully

00:04:03.020 plugged into the security establishment. And we see examples here of Unit 8200, which is the

00:04:12.620 electronic communications unit in the Israeli military. And what they're trying to do is to

00:04:20.060 send their personnel into Silicon Valley, basically so that every technology company of note has a bunch

00:04:27.480 of people who are former Israeli defense forces, who are committed to Israel first as the top priority of

00:04:35.500 their agenda, working within Silicon Valley in order to be able to give the Israelis backdoor access in

00:04:44.260 order to help them continue their business, profit from business opportunities, to keep the Jewish 1.00

00:04:52.200 oligarchs informed of what's happening in Silicon Valley, and to make sure that this network's influence

00:04:58.200 actually spreads and expands. And you see a debate between Netanyahu and Barak over whether or not the

00:05:05.940 priority is a greater Israel, as the hard right that's rallied to Netanyahu wants to achieve, or little

00:05:13.080 Israel, which is what Barak says in one of the audio recordings, he wants for the Israeli state. He doesn't

00:05:21.260 want it expanded more, because of the destabilization that it would create. But you can then sort of look

00:05:28.220 back at history, and see what happened after the 67 war. And after the expansion happened, there was

00:05:34.540 consensus around it. And there was consensus around the peace treaty with Israel, which seeded a big part

00:05:41.260 of that expansion, which is the Sinai Peninsula. So don't be distracted by the lurid details. And focus

00:05:52.700 on how power is operating within this network. And focus on the influence that it has. And that's the

00:05:59.580 influence that I want to discuss, really, in today's episode. And I also want to credit Nick Fuentes. He did an

00:06:07.420 exceptional video on the nature of the Epstein network, tying together his main financiers, Les Wexner

00:06:14.860 and Leon Black, obviously both of the tribe, who basically gave Epstein hundreds of millions of

00:06:22.700 dollars, and told him to go hunt. They gave him properties, they gave him access, and they saw that

00:06:29.900 the guy was talented, and they unleashed him on the financial world in order to carry favor, get

00:06:37.180 information, use his personal charm, which obviously exists, in order to build these relationships that

00:06:45.740 would benefit their network. And the intersection point or the key node with Israel was Ehud Barak,

00:06:52.460 who is on the left of Israeli politics, but he is as much of an Israeli nationalist as anybody else.

00:06:58.300 Like, there's no debating that. So you should focus on the way the power is operating,

00:07:07.580 and not on the unproven details. And if they get proven, that is well and good. But until they do, here we are.

00:07:19.500 Now, in terms of what's happening in the United States, we have here

00:07:24.060 a report to the FBI that says that Epstein was deeply connected to Lutnik, the Secretary of Commerce

00:07:35.900 in the United States, Howard Lutnik. And Epstein actually gave him a property, and Lutnik grew his

00:07:42.780 wealth through all kinds of nefarious means, things like money laundering and Ponzi schemes. We can't

00:07:52.380 prove that. This is all alleged. But we do have emails here showing that there is a pretty close

00:07:59.180 relationship between Lutnik and Epstein and other financiers, and that this has a clear bearing on

00:08:07.740 American politics. And then we also see that within this network, we see that Epstein was regularly

00:08:18.060 interacting with Ronald Lauder, who is the heir of the Estee Lauder fortune and the head of the World

00:08:23.260 Jewish Congress. And now it looks like his son-in-law, Kevin Warsh, is going to be placed at the

00:08:32.060 top of the Federal Reserve Bank. And so if you're in finance, having the Secretary of Commerce and the

00:08:38.540 head of the Federal Reserve on side, means that pretty much every trade decision, every major

00:08:44.620 financial decision that is going to take place under the Trump administration, is something that

00:08:51.020 you're going to know about. And you're going to know about it in advance. And advanced knowledge

00:08:56.220 means trading opportunities. And it means that this network has more influence than ever over the real

00:09:03.500 economy and the financial economy in the United States. And it means that the ability of this network

00:09:11.340 to reward allies and punish dissidents by using the borrowed power of the American government

00:09:19.020 is also going to increase. And it means that they will keep on pushing for policies that benefit this

00:09:24.940 network and that benefit Israel. So you see a situation now where basically this network of financiers

00:09:33.420 who keep open communication with Jeffrey Epstein after his conviction,

00:09:38.220 who stay friends with him, who visit him on his island, and who are always in communication with

00:09:45.180 him. These are the guys that are holding the reins of power over the American economy. And as we

00:09:51.660 covered in previous episodes, every time there's an economic crisis in Europe, the European Central

00:09:57.340 Bank, the Swedish Central Bank, the Bank of England, and the Swiss Central Bank all need dollar bailouts

00:10:04.060 from the Federal Reserve. Meaning that by having these positions of influence, pretty much all of

00:10:11.740 Europe is kept in line. So this isn't a minor detail that these people are connected to Jeffrey Epstein

00:10:19.900 and that now they control the Commerce Department and they control the Federal Reserve.

00:10:26.780 And in the Treasury Department, if you look back, pretty much all of the actions of the Treasury

00:10:33.340 Department in terms of sanctions are focused really on Israeli interests. So you have this weird situation

00:10:41.740 where there is a massive amount of influence and a massive amount of control over the entire American

00:10:48.700 economy by this network. And in Britain, it doesn't really look too different. What you have here is that

00:11:01.580 let me get to the right link. What you have here is that people in Israeli intelligence have been for years in

00:11:09.420 Britain monitoring anybody who has any opinion supportive of the Palestinians all over the world,

00:11:19.740 not just in the Palestinian territories, but also in the West. To the extent that we had a situation

00:11:27.260 where Labour MPs are married to recruiters of the 8200 spy agency. Again, to remind you, Unit 8200

00:11:37.980 basically collects data on everything everywhere all the time. That is their remit.

00:11:46.860 And they're really good at it. They're the guys who were at least partly responsible

00:11:52.620 for sneaking the pagers to Hezbollah. They are the guys who monitor signals intelligence

00:11:59.340 across the board. They have teams of people in Unit 81

00:12:03.420 which focus on developing new technologies on the battlefield that can then be used by the Israeli

00:12:11.900 military. And these guys are in the Labour Party. And you have one of them actually working for Labour

00:12:22.380 in the election campaign and continuing to this day. And his name is Asaf Kaplan.

00:12:27.820 Now this guy's role is basically to look at everything to do with messaging and PR online.

00:12:37.660 So what you have within the Labour Party run by Keir Starmer, whose wife, as we know, is of the tribe, 1.00

00:12:46.380 is someone who is there to help the party influence events or narratives online and to track Labour members.

00:12:54.700 That's his job. This isn't directly connected to the Epstein network.

00:13:01.340 But when you think of somebody like Peter Mandelson, who is the next topic that we want to discuss,

00:13:07.500 you can see that this isn't limited to Mandelson, that this level of Israeli influence over the West

00:13:16.460 is systemic and is very deep. And you can see that very much in Britain. Mandelson,

00:13:23.660 to remind you all, Peter Mandelson was basically described as the architect of new labour.

00:13:31.340 New labour, for those of you in the United States watching us, this is the Labour Party under Tony Blair,

00:13:38.940 from 1997 onwards. And it was the policy of the Labour Party, literally, to rub the right's noses in

00:13:47.100 diversity. That was one of their objectives. And to achieve that objective, they pretty much opened

00:13:55.420 Britain's doors to immigration, left and right. I was one of the people who benefited from that, 1.00

00:14:00.540 so I can say that. Or it's true, that's why I can say it rather. And you see that this group

00:14:10.540 of people consisted really of three top decision makers. Tony Blair, Alistair Campbell,

00:14:18.140 and Peter Mandelson. These were the guys who were responsible for it. And Peter Mandelson was known

00:14:24.620 as the Dark Lord in British politics, because of his fecundity when it comes to generating lies and

00:14:32.460 narratives, and his ability to pretty much practice the dark arts of politics, and force people to obey

00:14:41.260 his will. So people like him and Alistair Campbell pretty much formed an incredibly formidable team

00:14:48.940 that could bend the British press and make it say whatever they wanted, and that could help this

00:14:56.220 project of diversifying Britain, come what may. And Peter Mandelson had to resign a bunch of times in

00:15:03.980 the past because of his corruption and because of his involvement in very shady, very corrupt practices.

00:15:12.540 And he was in pretty much continuous contact with Epstein before and after his conviction,

00:15:19.180 meaning that very sensitive information, such as the plan of the British state to sell a bunch of assets,

00:15:27.340 such as privatization plans, such as decisions around the banking sector bailouts in 2008-2009 onwards,

00:15:37.980 such as the resignation of Gordon Brown. All of this information was released to Epstein before the

00:15:44.380 public knew about it. And you know that this ends up generating endless trading opportunities. But you know

00:15:51.580 that there is this ideological alignment as well, in terms of Epstein's view that's expressed in the

00:15:58.220 in the emails, where he basically wants to create new men, he wants to create new architects for society.

00:16:05.820 And he really wants to impose the managerial state by whatever means possible. And that's exactly the

00:16:14.140 kind of project that Tony Blair had. If you enjoyed this piece of premium content from the Lotus Eaters,

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