Introduction to Higher Side Chats and Guest Charlie Robinson
Host Greg Carlwood introduces the Higher Side Chats, discussing the platform's Plus membership benefits and the current era of corporate control and political scandals. He introduces returning guest Charlie Robinson, author of The Octopus of Global Control and co-author of a new book with Jeff Berwick. The discussion sets the stage for examining the historical and modern factors leading to the current state of the American Empire.
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00:00 Embrace yourself, because you're about to dive into another free first hour episode of the Higher Side Chats. And we just want to let you know that whether your looking for a companion through your paranoid insomnia, entertaining yourself through one of life's mundane activities or trying to ward off the internal screams from all those sad smothered souls around the office THC is here and you should know that every episode of the higher side chats has an entire second hour for PLUS members Sign up at thehiresitechats.com and you'll get years of plus show archives, lifetime forum access a special invite to Greg Carlwood's monthly joint sessions MP3s of THC music bonus episodes tour videos and 10% off t-shirts grinders And whatever else ends up in The HireSite store It's $8 a month that you won't miss so become a Plus member and treat yourself in these troubled times always action packed and commercial free
00:51 Which means you'll unfortunately never hear my voice again. 1930s President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed the nation through a series of radio broadcast known as the fireside chats His aim was to reassure the common man that our society would recover from its troubled times From 1930 and I deal with a different kind of fire For a new era of worldly frustration we offer a- I'm Greg Carlwood
01:27 These are the higher side chats. It's the end of the world as we know it, people! But I feel fine from sunny San Diego, I'm Greg Carlwood and as we enter an era of uncertainty like we've never seen it's important to know how we got here We've watched way too many connected corporations grow to an uncontrollable size and get a slap on the wrist if we're lucky for all the scandals that litter their history. We've let politicians and Hollywood puppets wag the finger at us over climate change when the true perpetrators of pollution that's trashed our planet are filling out the Fortune 500 We have said nothing about the Ponzi scheme that is our 401k retirement plans turning a blind eye to investments in the very companies that are killing us and any hope of a healthy independent local marketplace as long as we can retire in style. The education indoctrination system has slowly sucked out any semblance of critical thinking, as our measurable scores in every category have slipped further and further from the rest of the world
02:26 And we watched 9-11 happen with no consequence for those truly responsible, and Hellfire rained down on anyone in the proximity of the unfortunate scapegoat. Looking back there are many places where we could pick out things that went wrong but it's hard to imagine the nefarious few could have gotten to 2020 without many of the things that poured out of 9-11 and The Patriot Act And today's returning guest Charlie Robinson would surely agree as he has just completed a dense and detailed new book with co-author Jeff Berwick entitled The Controlled Demolition of the American Empire from the founding of the Federal Reserve to 9 11, to the Coronavirus Panic. He was here once before talking about his book The Octopus of Global Control and now hosts the Macro Aggressions Podcast one of the best in business
