Seamus Bruner | Controligarchs, The Micromanaged Life, & Banana Smoothies For All

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06:25 Alright, Hiresight Chatters from the Sunshine State. I'm Greg Carlwood and it's no secret that the parasitic puppet masters of the power pyramid cannot just be content to enjoy their privileged positions and freedom that comes with extreme wealth... they have to control our lives too! And they are throwing their weight around in pretty much every way they can. Energy policy, medicine, patented lab-made food the obsessive control of online information smart thermostat throttling electric car kill switches ESG investing stakeholder capitalism trying to establish central bank digital currencies and nonstop chatter about the need for digital IDs and tighter travel surveillance

07:06 We know the entire COVID response was based in control rather than compassion. So what does that mean when someone like today's guest, Seamus Bruner concludes that the COVID protocols were just a template for the dream future they're working to manifest? Well, Seamus makes his case that this is the case and as new well titled and well-researched book Controligars exposing the billionaire class their secret deals in the globalist plot to dominate your life which is currently ranked number one in Amazon's globalization category. He is also the director of research at the Government Accountability Institute and has been providing research and support for numerous New York Times bestsellers with them since 2013 His previous titles include Compromised, How Money & Politics Drive FBI Corruption, and Fallout Nuclear Bribes, Russian Spies And The Washington Lies That Enriched The Clinton And Biden Dynasties

08:00 Seems like as good a fit as any for what we do around here. The control-a-gark accountability advocate, billionaire elite alarm sounder and globalist plot resister... He will not be eating the bugs! Fellow Florida man Seamus welcome to the higher side Oh man, Greg that might have been the best intro I've ever gotten. Thank you! The alliteration is on point and yeah that was great. Scary times! Yes it is and so uh you know I try to make it a little less scary with the alliteration and of course you have the best title ever Control-A-Garx as everyone says. I'm jealous I didn't think of that myself

08:37 But the intro of your book says, what is a control agaric? Well an oligarchy is a system run by the ultra wealthy few. It is an inherently anti-democratic system but ours is not just a textbook oligarchy like say the Russian government unlike the Kremlin friendly industrialists looking to preserve and old oppressive regime, the American oligarchs are a new breed of philanthropists entrepreneurs and tech titans seeking to impose an unprecedented system of control not only in the US but around the world. While they would like us to believe they are innovating for the better people such as Bill Gates Jeff Bezos Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are creating technology and making investments that will micromanage every aspect of your life

09:21 The truth is they hoard unimaginable riches at our expense. Well, that says it all right there but talk to us a bit more about these unimaginable riches compared to the rest of us and just how profitable COVID was for them because while we were locked down and small businesses were pretty much not allowed to operate they were doing pretty well Yeah, that's right. I mean when people hear the word oligarch it conjures up images of you know maybe some Russian industrialist you know a guy who owns a coal operation or an aluminum operation and he's on his yacht and he's eating caviar surrounded by Russian babes or something The thing about those oligarchs is they're not trying to control every aspect of their citizens lives They're just rich guys so You know oligarch has always been sort of just this term for a rich person

10:13 But slowly we've heard oligarch applied to let's say the silicon valley guys the big tech oligarchs and so before i had the title you know i just thought yeah these guys are all super wealthy now being wealthy isn't inherently a bad thing and there are plenty of good billionaires but this book isn't about them so the word control just kept coming up in you see it more and more i mean whatever show your watching or whatever interview your watching people talking about things like digital id central bank digital currencies you just will start hearing the word control its about control

10:49 One day I was just sitting there and thought, you know these are the oligarchs that want to control you. They're control-a-garcs! And the term stuck not everybody was in favor of it but they've all come around It's hard to find on Amazon or on other book retailers You type it in and Amazon Jeff Bezos will suggest for you controlling arches whatever those are so if you're searching for it just keep scrolling past the controlling arches and you'll find control garc somewhere regarding their unimaginable riches. I mean, people can't really fathom the characters in this book, their net worth, their personal net worth the money at their disposal tops $1 trillion and it's growing every day especially thanks to the pandemic. The pandemic was very good to these guys now that may not surprise the savvy listeners of your show because you know most people know that

11:39 When we were locked down, everybody got on Facebook and they were scrolling for the latest Fauci guidance. And Amazon was super convenient bringing things to your house so you didn't have to leave. So yeah those guys doubled up in some cases Mark Zuckerberg he was worth $60 billion before the pandemic now look at him now close to 120 just a couple years later that's a ton of money to make in just two or three years same with Jeff Bezos I put Elon Musk in the book just because as the world's richest man, He's got to play some part in the coming control of Garki. Now, I do give him credit for some of the things he has done. He has done some really great things and I give credit to all these guys because they've all done some great things. As I'm typing this book up on Microsoft Word Bill Gates has a great company that he built. I am a Mac guy personally but Microsoft Word is a great word processor. So anyhow, yeah, I don't caricature them at all but they did get really rich through the pandemic

12:40 The worst part, what really kind of blew me away is what they're using these riches for. And what they're using it for is to take control over every key industry whether its food, whether its health financial control through the CBDC push which according to the World Economic Forum and NGOs like the Atlantic Council very powerful groups has strong momentum heading into this year 2024 CBDC's something That's basically game over in my view once they get that implemented. BlackRock is pushing it very hard and so, that's the financial control I mean you've got energy control that's basically controlling everything if they can control your energy uses through things like carbon allowances and carbon taxes. Joe Biden in his inflation reduction act put in a per mile gas tax or they're working on the per mile gas tax to really regulate how much you can drive

13:36 Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says the more pain you experience at the pump, the more benefit for electric cars and electric car usage. So I mean they said it out loud they're profiting from the pain, the more pain the more benefit And that's on the energy side of things. They don't want you to be able to fly, they'll exempt themselves and their private jet travel but really they don't want people to be able to travel and they say it quite openly at places like Davos I mean 2024 Davos World Economic Forum meeting is just around the corner You're gonna hear a lot of things like that and yeah on and on and on The deeper I dug the more sinister it became Every aspect of your life Is subject to their control

14:23 Yes it is and that's a great summary your book is the time of details about the money but, the just of it is at the ten wealthiest men on the planet gates bazo zuckerberg in musk among them double their personal net worth over the course of the covid nineteen pandemic and. You also say that top twenty five largest world economic for members have a combined post COVID value of nearly 10 trillion, which is up from 8 trillion. It is crazy because COVID has still been used as an excuse as to why things aren't better now and why so many people are experiencing financial hardship. So it's just like a complete 180. And I might have a little more respect for Elon Musk than I do Bill Gates but not a whole lot. I mean, I see Musk as kind of like

15:16 The government welfare queen when it comes to pretty much every project he has from Starlink, Tesla, Neuralink. I mean it's all government money like he definitely has been privileged in that regard and when it comes to Gates...I got a lot of things about Gates to ask you about because his fingers are on every pie! When it comes to the big control pie, he is getting a piece of every slice but My understanding of his wealth creation was in the early internet days a lot of these guys were kind of sharing their tech and they kinda had this open source philosophy until he came in and kinda. Patented every little thing was very cutthroat and has monopoly generation and you can say the same for zuckerberg to that,

16:07 The whole story is that he kind of stole Facebook and the idea for it. So a lot of these guys, they're not the geniuses they're presented to us as. They have huge government favors. They're in a private club of huge angel investors and money just flowing their way. We don't have that opportunity. And so I don't know, sometimes I think they get mythologized and glorified. Of course a term like control of garks doesn't necessarily glorify them but it's a big club and we aren't in it as Carlin would say Yeah, that's exactly right. Well regarding the World Economic Forum and the top 25 members now there are thousands of World Economic Forum members but our job at the Government Accountability Institute is to follow the money and so for the first time ever I crunched all of their market caps and found just the top 25 that would be companies like Apple, Meta Amazon etc they're obviously deeply involved in world economic forum some of the biggest funders of the world economic forum

17:10 They're worth 10 trillion now if you add black rock which is not in the top 25 by market cap but it does have over $10 trillion and assets under management. That brings up to 20 trillion you out in state street and vanguard in europe near 2527 trillion, That is more money than the GDP of the United States, the world's leading economy. It's more than the GDP obviously of China and every other country so in a way these guys at The World Economic Forum they've got more economic power at their disposal then the richest countries in the world and they're in a lot of ways more powerful than countries I mean Zuckerberg has got 3 billion people looking at his app every single day and that is an unprecedented level of power and information control

17:57 And so, yeah the World Economic Forum their power and their members is really Klaus Schwab is just sort of a front man in the World Economic Forum as sort of a catch-all for people with the globalist mindset. The key thing to remember about the control guards and I lay it out in the book Is that they're number one goal is to transfer power and control away from individuals away from individual countries People like you and me Countries like United States and to transfer the power in control to international institutions, things like the United Nations, things like The World Bank or The World Health Organization. Institutions that they control Bill Gates is the largest individual funder of The World Health Organization

18:43 when they put in place these pandemic treaties or the Paris climate accords, or any of these global consensus things that none of us voted for by the way. Obviously we don't get to vote on any of this stuff that's why a control agarkey is inherently undemocratic you don't get a say in any of this. These are unelected billionaires, unelected bureaucrats and because they're unelected, they're unaccountable. Now you can say our politicians are also totally unaccountable and that's true to a degree but we can throw the bums out when enough people get together and decide that they need to be thrown out. That's not so with the World Economic Forum, it's not so with the UN or really any of these other international supranational organizations like The World Health Organization I mean Tedros at The World Health Organization

19:30 I mean, his popularity amongst citizens is probably in single digits or it should be. But nonetheless he gets to keep his job even though he screwed up all of the pandemic guidance. Fauci got to keep his job for much longer than he should have and so it's a big problem here and then getting to what you were saying about the origin stories of these guys yeah, I noticed it was mighty convenient they all seem to have like this same origin story here where You know, just a brilliant whiz kid computer genius math nerd tinkering in his garage and you know with no real help from anybody just pulled himself up by his bootstraps and built a trillion dollar company out of nothing. That's not the that's an origin fantasy that's not the truth with these guys I mean they are brilliant i'm not going to take that away from them a lot of them but at the same time they were chosen they were selected they got the venture capital money

20:23 In some cases, let's see Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates they both went to Harvard. They had the same computer science professor there sort of these young global leader type organizations that they get plugged in with very early on in life mark zuckerberg was like a bright leader for tomorrow at Johns Hopkins along with Sergey Brin actually lady gaga of all people People who long before their famous they get into these little clubs clubs that you and i would never get sponsored for never getting to. And all of a sudden next thing you know there running trillion dollar companies, Then the young global leaders that's cloud swabs world economic forum group. He is meant to get plenty of these billionaires before they were billionaire so. Lotta people say it sounds like conspiracy theory that rich people are getting together in rooms smoke filled rooms and deciding the future of the planet i think you're insane if you think thats not happening honestly of course its happening of course they get together i open the book with this meeting up the good club and we could probably just see what we got some time here we can probably start at the beginning there if u'd like

21:27 Sure, let's do it. Tell us about the good club I always love branding in general your book the name of the show but also like the branding of these little organizations and many cabals that are all interlocked tell us about The Good Club Yeah, the Good Club is I mean that's a real name. I didn't make it up It's hilarious name because it's like you know a bunch of evil billionaires getting together What do we call ourselves? Okay let's call ourselves the good club You think maybe they could afford a little more creativity here But its George Soros Bill Gates and David Rockefeller They're the three primary founding members of this good club

22:05 They get together and Bill Gates is really the ringleader, but David Rockefeller And I lay this all out in chapter one. The Rockefeller family is really the prototype for the control of darks I mean people think of the Rockefellers and they sort of lumped them together with the Vanderbilts and the Carnegies and all these industrialists Of the past I mean yeah They were robber barons But they weren't trying to control every aspect of our life like the big tech guys are today right no wrong the Rockefellers where and are very powerful family i'll bring this through to the good club john d senior he's the guy who set up standard oil you is the oil man. Manically focused on delivering the best petroleum products to consumers i mean it had to be the cheapest, add to be the best and so in a way he was probably know what the greatest capitalists that ever lived and he was not into all of this philanthropy that the rockefeller foundation does today quote unquote philanthropy

23:01 But we get into how that's really sort of a PR stunt and mechanism for control in a really good business model. But his son, John D Jr., I mean had enormous shoes to fill. He was never going to be the oil man that his father was. He knew that it's you know, a lot of people who grow up in these dynastic families struggle with this where it's like how do I live up to dad's expectations? And so what John D Junior did is he decided to—I mean his father sets up the Rockefeller Foundation right when the Justice Department is bearing down on Standard Oil. And you see this, Bill Gates basically took this page out of the Rockefeller playbook as right when the Justice Department is starting to

23:42 close the noose around the capitalist enterprise and say, listen this is anti-competitive. You're using illegal tactics to stifle competition here and so we're going to break up Standard Oil that's what happened in the early 1900s it was right around the time The Justice Department is preparing to do that they set up The Rockefeller Foundation And The Rockefeller Foundation I mean John D Senior starts giving out nickels and dimes to people on the streets became very famous for just you know walking by someone giving out a nickel It was all a PR move because you had become a very hated person. This is exactly what Bill Gates has done today and so we can talk more about the Rockefellers but that's sort of ancient history, bringing it up through The Good Club, the Rockefeller University is where they actually set up in 1904 the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research and they've been researching viruses and pandemics before the Spanish flu over 100 years

24:37 And they found that medicine and pandemic planning and preparedness is actually a good business model. And so people have heard that Bill Gates predicted the pandemic, and he was saying we're going to have another pandemic, and there's the next pandemic coming in. What does he know about pandemics? He actually learned a lot of this from The Rockefellers. They've been doing it for over a century. And the key here is they don't actually cure many diseases at all but they get a ton of taxpayer money to study them and they get to dump a bunch of their profits into it tax exempt organization where they will go and develop pharmaceutical products that then they will profit from later, so taxes resources you know the taxpayer subsidizes any of the research in any of the losses and all the profits are private ties that is something the rockefellers

25:21 developed and Bill Gates is sort of perfected now today. Now getting back to the good club, so it's David Rockefeller, Bill Gates, George Soros and they actually bring about half a dozen or a dozen of their closest billionaire buddies Oprah Winfrey is there Ted Turner is there It's in New York its May 2009 And so the context for this meeting is Barack Obama has just been elected Basically, all of the members of the good club spent an enormous amount of money and influence to get him there. And so they want to be able to use this Obama opportunity to their advantage Also at that time is it sort of on the tail end of the global financial crisis. There's a lot of populist anger bubbling up I mean this is just before occupy Wall Street It's just before the tea party movement and so these billionaire guys know that the public is starting to get mad And so kind of out of this meeting grows The Giving Pledge which is where they promise to give away half their wealth before they die

26:20 you Every dollar you give away, you get $2 back or is it just a business model? But I digress. So the good club so they're all huddled up in this very posh president's house at Rockefeller University and they're going around the table and talking about well what do we want to pool our resources What should we like fund as an umbrella cause what do we all care about And you know maybe Ted Turner someone will say oh like climate change

27:00 This is actually sort of before climate change became the huge priority it is, and I show that actually climate change is really a front for what they decide at this meeting is the number one priority for the billionaire class and that is overpopulation. At the Good Club meeting in May 2009, they all agree that overpopulation is the number one crisis facing humanity. There's just too many peasants out there and we've got to do something about it. Now if you look at the birth rate decline For the past 60 years, you would think that they should be taking a victory lap. People like the Rockefellers have been funding things like Planned Parenthood and every form of contraception you can imagine. They've been funding huge propaganda campaigns to convince people not to have children for sixty plus years

27:52 Today it's at the lowest level it ever been but in 2009, it was just above the lowest level. It's ever been so the fact that they want to continue lowering the birth rate is pretty diabolical I mean we're out actually a crisis level and this one of the things I applaud Elon Musk for his he's one of very few billionaires out there talking about how were actually in a birth dearth and its a big problem and that we need be having more babies not less, and countries all around the world are experiencing this. Japan, Europe etc., we know that we're not going to get any of our social security money that were paying into this supposed senior safety net back because there's not gonna be anybody to pay into it when we're old so anyhow the good club meeting they come up with overpopulation as the number one concern is kind of bizarre but then you look at what they start funding immediately afterwards and its both pandemic related research and it's also a

28:46 a bunch of climate change propaganda. And that's kind of where they're at today, but then for the 10 years following the Good Club meeting they try really hard on climate change Barack Obama makes it a huge priority hyping it up and making people feel really scared and Greta Thunbergs are popping out of the woodwork and saying that you know we're all going to die in ten years if we don't give all our control and money to the control guards But you get to 2019 and it actually hasn't taken hold. I mean, people have collectively shrugged at it nobody wants to give up their car nobody wants to walk everywhere and drive a bike Nobody wants to skip flying and take a train across the country that would take five days

29:27 It's been a collective shrug, and they actually talk about this at the World Economic Forum. The pandemic was extremely useful. It was a great opportunity because people weren't taking climate change seriously but they took a virus seriously. I don't allege—I don't make the case whether the pandemic was a virus intentionally released or an accidental leak. I mean, I do think that natural origin is sort of ludicrous, and that's being proven every day if it hasn't already been fully proven. It doesn't really matter whether the virus was intentionally leaked or accidentally leaked. What matters is that they were planning for a pandemic and they were well positioned to profit from one, and that really starts around the time of The Good Club. I mean, The Rockefeller Foundation releases its Operation Lockstep memo in 2010, and from every year after that Bill Gates is giving TED Talks about pandemics and being prepared for them. And so that really brings us sort

30:22 the great reset and what Klaus Schwab says is coming next. Yes, well I definitely appreciate that breakdown of The Good Club it's one of the meetings i haven't really heard a lot about before your book sounds like a mini Bilderberg meeting where they just didn't invite uh the lower rungs I suppose but let me ask you a little bit about that collective shoulder shrug because that is a thing like the elite can have their plans and that's what we spend a lot of time talking about is their plans But i don't know if they'll achieve everything and it's great to see a little pushback. I think one example would be the ESG scores you have a section titled creeping social credit scores, the woke investing ESG scheme and it's not hard to see how this template is applied to corporations first and then it could trickle down to the individual level

31:11 But this part of the plan is already sort of failing, right? I mean Disney Bud Light Target. We keep seeing these counter reactions and you write that now more than half the States are taking steps to stop the ESG system talk to us about what they're doing to affect that in the general state of that system and some of the losses that are coming from trying to implement these plans We've seen it for 60 years at least. I mean, every time the public gets wise to one of the control of our schemes they have to rebrand and that's why i've got a lot of hope for the future by the way is because people are waking up and you know that you get to the end of this book and your pretty melancholy

31:51 It's heavy stuff, but I do have a lot of hope for the future and that's because every time we wake up and we get wise to their plans. And so just going back to the Rockefellers in 1920s they were working on eugenics birth control and population control. You go...I've read through all their annual reports and they talk very openly very proudly about eugenics and population control and then it kind of trickles out and people realize what they're up too and then they have to rebrand sort of rebranded population control as maternal health or family planning and they come up with all these really nice you from ism's so yes g is just sort of like a nice you for me some for what is environmental social governance you know what does that mean. What it really means if they want to see on every single companies board,

32:37 And if you're not complying with the control of dark agenda, then you get demerits. You get downright it's a corporate social credit score and so is G has actually almost become a toxic term isn't quite there yet but black rock And it's because most people don't know. I mean, if you've got retirement savings, if you've got a 401k or IRAs that you're putting money into and you don't know what is being invested in? Go check it out! You might see that BlackRock is investing your retirement money in ESG scheme. You may not even know that your retirement fund is being handled by BlackRock

33:13 What it probably is i mean there's a good chance of the through your employer probably is what happening in black rock is taking your money lot of people's money trillions of dollars under management and investing it. Into companies with high esg scores now high esg score just means that they've got like some woke diversity coordinator at the company who is probably going to end up running the company into the ground which is like you said with bud light in target where they think that. The people who drink but white want a dylan mullivan type as their spokesperson obviously there clueless

33:48 And so back to the hope i have is like when people realize what's going on here they all of a sudden boycott and we've got a lot of power without number the control guards like a million to one, and so if we really band together and do things like the target in bud light boycotts you can actually have a great effect instead that yes g and diversity chief gets canned me. It looks like Bud Light will probably recover and Anheuser-Busch will probably recover from that, but it just shows the power that people have if they decide to vote with their dollars and refuse to fund their own demise. I mean, in The Solutions at the end of the book one of things you must be doing is knowing where every dollar you spend is going don't be funding

34:32 the people who are trying to destroy you it seems like a simple thing i know its a lot harder easier said than done is very hard to cancel these control of arch type services they're very convenient amazon is super convenient in getting things into days as convenience and procter and gamble products that work you know and so that's tough but you really do need to be trying to spend as much of your money in your local community not in these globalist organizations It's the same thing with the food. Bill Gates wants to take over the food supply, you need to be supporting your local farmers if not trying to provide as much food as you can for yourself. Yes well said I absolutely agree it is hard to actually keep our money local

35:15 What is the only practical thing i can think of because im kind of sick even though this is my job i'm sick of the education phase you know a lot of times were just talking to each other we're talking to people who already know reinforcing what's already believed. Where's i love when not reaching new people often and it's frustrating to me but if you are super vigilant you will find that your money is accidentally going these places like he said where is your 401k who was investing that, it is all structured that way to siphon the money up so you have to be really careful and absolutely focused on.

35:53 Local first, and that includes ranchers. I mean how many ranchers are within a hundred mile radius of you that have good grass fed cattle? Probably five five is pretty close to zero so if you're not careful you won't have any options So utilize them now and it is the food stuff that worries me the most We do hear about Bill Gates buying up American farmland and you write about a big purchase in North Dakota, but this part hits pretty close to home. In 2012, Gates also began buying up pristine farmland atop Florida's legendary aquifer by 2014 gates had spent nearly 30 million buying up almost 5,000 acres

36:38 A subsidiary of Gates' Cascade Investment Vehicle called Lakeland Sands pumps 20 million gallons of groundwater out of Florida's aquifer every single day and is, in the words of a Florida Springs councilman, compromising the health and welfare of North Florida. Gates or his investment group choose folksy and benign sounding names for his agriculture land holding companies such as Oak River, Midwest, Swanee Generation Farms Red River Trust and Cottonwood Ag Management. But is intentions appear anything but benign well

37:17 2014 was quite a few years back. Is there anything more to say about what he's doing that's affecting the Florida aquifer and just his moves in the land space and food space overall? I know you also cite that one of the biggest insect protein companies came online with huge investments from him, and Mark Zuckerberg talked to us about the food aspect of this big control pie because it's getting kind of scary Yeah, I mean you're absolutely right and that concerned me. It's right down the road from my house. I use i-10 all the time going between Tallahassee and Jacksonville and You drive past Lake City And you see first of all these major solar farms popping up? I haven't yet been able to link those two Bill Gates But I know that there's a connection at least to some of the control of Garth with I mean they're just clearing out and it's the craziest thing because you see like a cattle farm and

38:11 All of the green space around it has just been totally wiped out and turned into this dystopian looking, as far as the eye can see mishmash of glass and metal. It's hideous! But anyway, I'll get to the North Florida and the Gates Farm purchases. So Bill Gates in the 90s Microsoft got into trouble some people may remember there was this big antitrust suit against Microsoft and it was because its tactics were deemed illegal by the Justice Department And so throughout that investigation it resolved in 2001 Bill Gates hired some high-powered lawyers and basically just lied or said he didn't know a lot of questions more less got away with it but

38:52 it was an instructive trial and we learned about this strategy that microsoft had it was called embrace extend extinguish and so i know i show in the book the bill gates is using the same strategy today, they were specifically used by microsoft to quote cut off the air supply end quote to its competitor in the internet browser market netscape how it worked with like this Microsoft would embrace the standards of a given industry and kind of enter into that space, the internet browser space. They created an Internet Explorer and then they would expand it extend their reach throughout that industry. That would be by installing their software on every single PC, whether you wanted it there or not and eventually the extinguish phase came by quote cut off the air supply to the competitors and they can do that in a number of ways so I show in the farming sector this is how Bill Gates did it he kind of starts...I mean I see evidence that he began his food takeover long-term strategy around 2008 when he buys up big chunk of a company called EcoLab

39:55 which is a big water treatment and sanitation company. It's a huge company if you haven't heard of Ecolab, and they do a lot of stuff in agriculture but after that he starts buying up farmland and this is around 2011-2012 And he buys chunks in Georgia, he buys chunks in North Dakota. He's got a potato farm in Washington that you can see from outer space is pulling like 14000 tons of potatoes out of the ground every day. It's a big supplier for McDonald's French fries and he's got things in Nebraska, Louisiana all across the country up to close to 300,000 acres that makes him the largest private individual farmland owner in the country

40:36 I mean, a lot of people ask me what is the software guy like Bill Gates know about farming? Like he's a farmer. He's like no he is using Microsoft big tech strategies and intellectual property. He's really good at cornering an intellectual property space so that's where the fake meat in the insect based proteins come in things like impossible foods and beyond meats bill gates you start buying the farmland And that's sort of the extend phase of the embrace, extend extinguish. He buys more and more of it then he starts investing in these alternative protein companies like Beyond Meats Impossible Foods. He extends his reach in that sector and you can tell what game is going on because he only does it after those companies have received patents on their protein chains. It's crazy I mean most people don't think that you can patent meats they already did it with seeds companies like Monsanto which

41:30 Bill Gates at one point invested $23 million in Monsanto. They patented the seeds, and now they're patenting the meats. And so then what comes next is the extinguish phase. So we're in that extinguish phase right now where Bill Gates is trying to put all of his competitors out of business and that would be like your local ranchers and your local farmers. Just ask any farmer you may know go find one ask them if their businesses getting more or less profitable the chances are that they may be going out of business soon. It's dire straits for the farmers, and that's because in the extinguished phase Bill Gates pushes for regulation changes that put his competitors out of business and that would be things like emission standards now they'll never say we're gonna ban cows They're gonna say we're gonna tax you per head of cattle based on their methane outputs And so when Congress women like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez get out there and start harping about

42:27 cow flatulence, she didn't think of that herself. That comes from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation white paper type thing or a World Economic Forum white paper where they say that methane is just this massive carbon, it's terrible greenhouse gas we're all going to die because of the cows. That's BS no pun intended its not a big problem its actually one of the most effective ways protein to people and it's one of the most cost-effective ways. It is very cheap to get a lot of protein to a lot of people via cows, what is not cheap and what is actually very carbon intensive which is how you know that they are kind of hypocrites on this whole thing is the lab grown meats in the fake meats they use way more carbon aka greenhouse gases to produce a fake meat hamburger than it does from a regular old cow

43:14 Here's why Bill Gates doesn't like cows, is because you can't patent a cow. But you can patent a lab-grown fake meat patty and a patent is essentially a 20 year monopoly so this what the guy has been up to from the beginning is monopoly I mean yeah I read all of his family memoirs his favorite game as a kid was Monopoly go figure And he wants that 20-year monopoly on meats. And so, that's why he's invested in the fake meat companies. Now here is the thing that gives me hope—nobody likes fake meats! I mean nice try but even if you make it bleed like a real hamburger or something people still aren't going to like the taste and Bill Gates talks about it as oh the taste is getting better eventually you'll like it…you probably won't but where it gets really sinister

43:57 is the fact that if you don't like it, you may not have a choice because they're eventually Bill Gates calls it the green premium. It's a nice little nifty term kind of like ESG or family planning where sounds pretty benign what does a green premium? A green premium is where they jack up the price of the non-green item through regulations and taxes, making it more expensive so that they can subsidize the price of the so called green product. So your hamburger, your ribeye you're going to go to the grocery store and already over 20 bucks maybe over 30 bucks next imagine it being 40 bucks is going to turn into a luxury good maybe you'll have steaks on Christmas

44:38 Yeah, it's pretty intense. And the mass slaughter of cattle is just a really insane and important part of all this I've talked to ranchers who have said that it takes many generations to select for the right genetics and temperaments so that you can build a successful business from that stuff. And I've heard you say in previous interviews they're considering slaughtering 40 to 200,000 cattle in Ireland alone And there was this big thing in the Netherlands. Is this still on the table? What happened in the Ireland situation has that been resolved and where else are we seeing mass slaughtering of cattle being proposed, if not already enacted?"

45:23 Yeah, so I first saw the headline in the summer. I mean, I'd already written of last of 2023. I had already written The Food Chapter and I see this headline like you got to be kidding me 200,000 cattle or they're preparing to slaughter in Ireland? There was some outrage obviously First of all, it costs a lot of money. What's going to happen with the meat? 200,000 cows or what are you immediately going to freeze all the beef for? It's a big logistical question but they lowered that down to 40,000 and now it's kind of quietly we're not sure but we do know that the farmers in Ireland are up in arms In France, just a couple of weeks ago they were flinging cow manure on the government in the parliament buildings. They were just dumping it on their government buildings we saw that happen with the Dutch farmers in Germany actually they just had this was like two or three weeks ago as well A big trucker convoy tractor convoy of all the German farmers so Europe is a bit further ahead than we are

46:21 I'm not sure if the cows have been slaughtered yet. I sure hope not, but I do know the farmers are really ticked and what's happening is it's kind of like this slow boiling of the frog where the control guards take a few steps forward and people get up in arms and they back off a little bit and then they say okay well instead of 200 000 cows we'll just slaughter 40 000 cows And what it really is, is an intimidation tactic to the farmers where its like well if the government's coming for your cows you better get rid of them and maybe next year you just won't have as many. Eventually all of the input costs have gone up due to a number of factors I mean inflation is a big thing too and that's all by design. I mean I get into that in the financial control chapter 7 follow the money

47:04 All about the central banks i mean this inflation is an accident like it doesn't just happen by what's we like totally devalued everybody's currency no they dumped into their own pockets. So you're kind of double screwed both from the inflation where your dollar buys a nickels worth and also from the taxes you gotta pay off all these debts you gotta, pay more taxes so like On top of that, just as a digression here. The worst part about all of it is not just that they're taking your money I mean you know if you're paying at 25% tax rate You're essentially working three months out of the year to give your money over to Joe Biden or whoever Your supreme leader is and then what are they doing with that? They're shipping it off to Ukraine They're shipping it off to the endless war machine resettling migrants in your hometown Migrants who will get you know education and health care and everything that you're not getting for free

47:55 And so you're worried, like think about that. You're working three months out of the year. This might be one of those months where you're just working to pay for all these things and that's not even the worst part. The worst part is the opportunity cost. I mean we could actually be a great country. We could be building great things in great cities and great parks and social services. I mean you could fund potentially something like a Medicare for All or whatever if your left winger. I wrote this book, it transcends political lines because it's not a left or right thing, or Democrat or Republican thing. These are existential issues and so the opportunity cost of all that money they're taking from you is enormous and it's depressing in a lot of ways but getting back to the food thing we're heading into year of potential global food crises and these guys are just playing with fire And the thing is with the crisis comes opportunity for them not for us.

48:51 And there are a lot of aspects to the food thing. We've been kind of sounding that alarm for at least a year now and some of the feedback I get is like, well is this all doom and gloom? Is this chicken little stuff because I don't see a problem. And it's like well...I mean we're trying to get ahead of a problem. We're trying to tell you about plans that take awhile to implement agenda 2030 is several years away so if thats kinda like a marker for alot of this then yeah its gonna take a little bit of time But you also have a whole chapter called the dystopian present. That's probably another one of the most concerning big tech working with intelligence agencies, the information industrial complex, the attack on alternative information. I've heard you make a good point in previous interviews that they can't force feed us the bug milkshakes but they can control the information that reaches us and they can control the perception

49:46 and information around those bug milkshakes to the mainstream, and a lot of people will willingly do it. So talk to us a little bit about the important points in the dystopian present chapter and where tech comes into a lot of this stuff? Yeah, so as I was working on it and it was sort of like tech addiction. And we you know everybody knows about tech addiction. I mean 40 plus states across the country are suing meta right now because it's got an intentionally addictive business model and it's not just that you're wasting time scrolling away on Facebook or Instagram It's that kids are becoming depressed in suicidal when a lot of people have heard about that and it's a serious

50:25 It's a serious problem. It's not getting better, it's getting worse and then you move into like web 3 and metaverse type stuff in the Apple Vision Pros are coming and the Oculus hasn't really taken off with people but just a couple of weeks ago Facebook signs a big deal with Tencent in China to mass produce these headsets make them cheaper make them more lightweight and more accessible to people It's probably going to end up, and Apple Vision Pro will be like the really cool one. I mean you know, I may get one just because I like Apple products but no, I would not recommend getting stuck into the metaverse because it is going to be

51:01 very addictive and you may find that i think ready player one if you've seen that movie is probably the situation they're working towards which is like. Life is just so depressing in economics are just terrible that putting on the headset as a nice escape to get out of it and you made live in a hubble dump and don't have much, Going for you but at least you got the headset and here's how we get there i mean where full speed ahead this isn't conspiracy theory it through a revolution that happening in it looks cool things look cool like you know i get it you see. Some of the things are coming out with a is a wow this is making my job easier and a lot of people are starting to use AI in their jobs just know your training

51:42 your replacement and you know maybe you'll become a master of it in. You'll be like the checkout clerk who survives when 29 other clerks get fired and you're the one clerk overseeing the 30 self-checkout machines, maybe but we know that AI is going to lead to massive job losses just ask Sam Altman who is the head of OpenAI, the company behind chat GPT. And so Sam Altman probably knows as much about AI as anybody Bill gates is right up there to microsoft as a major backer of chat gpt and open ai. I mean it just happened out of nowhere right we you kind of thought that's why i titled the chapter the dystopian present this you always start about like a i am cyborgs in terminators that's like something far off in the future, write will know when we get to this dystopia reality where like cyborg running our lives

52:34 No, no. We're there and it's happening every single day all around you." I mean, I just saw a Microsoft article the other day about how radiologists are now obsolete. The AI, the GPT type things can now scan and analyze x-rays a lot better than a human! And it makes sense right? So there was a thought awhile back that the automation revolution—the AI revolution would take out blue collar jobs first. It's actually the inverse. It's going to take out the professional jobs first, and people who work with their hands will be safer for longer than the professional classes. Lawyers more or less obsolete. Doctors are going to ... I mean they'll last maybe longer because people will want a human touch but they'll last only as long as it takes for AI in doctor bots to make less mistakes than doctors and with medical malpractice and deaths resulting from botched

53:29 things like surgeries and stuff, it won't take long for the doctors to be replaced. And driving is the largest employer in the country that did six million plus jobs in the country are basically just driving things from A to B and auto deaths accidents are among the highest accidental deaths in the country so it will only take as long as it takes for self-driving cars to get in less car accidents than humans before you'll hear Congress saying that nobody should be driving and it should all be automated driving. There's, you know six to ten million jobs there and so you can see very quickly out of nowhere there is going to be massive job losses now what will that lead to? That will lead to and you hear it already demands for a universal basic income UBI here people talking about all the time Andrew Yang would have been the top political leader who was calling for

54:21 And you can see the appeal, right? I mean a lot of people—you know there's Reddit slash R slash anti-work type people who think like oh this will just be great. Like I'll be able to take up cooking classes or finally learn the guitar or learn how to do watercolors and painting and I'll just really get to explore my creativity and it would just be so wonderful when I don't have to work. That's not the case. That's not what's going to happen It's not a coincidence that ChatGPT and OpenAI are backing the largest study into UBI ever conducted. And so Sam Altman has actually put out sort of this manifesto talking about how much UBI you will be entitled to because his company, which is now worth approximately $90 billion dollars—it started as a nonprofit, which I mean, I kind of get into like the whole scam of the philanthropy in nonprofits—OpenAI started as a nonprofit

55:13 getting tax-exempt resources, that's where we subsidize the research. We subsidize the losses." Then all of a sudden they reverse merge it into a for profit entity. It is one of the shadiest companies and governance structures ever but OpenAI privatizes all the profits and Sam Altman says you'll be able to get a check, a UBI check in fact every working man and woman in America will be able to get a UBI check based based on how much profits AI is going to create for the control of guards, what will that check look like? Between $10 and $15,000. And so you may think well hey you know that's not bad I could live on ten thousand dollars a month no no that's per year and so we're talking about numbers like thirty thousand we're talking about welfare-like numbers so when you hear UBI just think poverty i'll be in poverty they're never gonna give you

56:03 What do you think, you're going to get a million dollars a year? To sit around and like play video games. Not a chance they're not going to pay you to do that in fact You've all know Harari I'm sure some of the listeners here have heard of him He basically says you'll be useless you know and this is not some faraway thing This is a couple years away You can see the videos popping up left And right if people you know mostly like sitting in their cars kind of crying about not being able to afford insurance now It's in there tragic videos They tug at your heartstrings And you're just going to see more and more and more of that until people demand UBI. In order to get your UBI, this is how they'll put in things like a digital identity—you need your digital ID, biometric

56:43 New social security number for everybody on the planet Sam Altman has actually already created this kind of like on the blockchain digital ID They're all working on various forms of it They're all working together on various forms of digital ID and then that will be linked to your central bank digital currency I mean if you think it's conspiracy theory just go look at how much money they're pouring into it. I mean, there's a lot of money billions and billions Of dollars are being poured into these systems that not for nothing right? I mean We've done this before that is a really great summary of all kinds of stuff and i actually think the tools ones are used are pretty dumb but they will get better. And when you couple that with the cheap labor coming over the border that their flooding america where the mean those other people who gonna get the jobs at a computer can't do service industry jobs working in the kitchen doing on services, we're gonna get squeezed out both ends the regular people and

57:39 You know, you mentioned metaverse. That's another one of those things where I mean some people think why should I get in shape? I can just be an obese slob. I can have a in-shape avatar but that's another one of those things where it seems like it's kind of a dud It's not really landing as they wanted to the excitement is not there But we also know about Elon Musk and Neuralink And this is a paragraph from your book. It's long but I thought it was good Elon Musk has said that virtual worlds like the metaverse should be accessed directly without the need for devices or peripherals such as VR or mixed reality headsets.

58:19 Musk's company neural link has been testing brand new microchips that inject digital data straight into the human brain without the need for a cumbersome headset on november thirtieth twenty twenty two musk announced that i'll add monkey with the neural, blank brain chip could telepathically type on a computer and he already played a telepathic video game with another lab monkeying twenty twenty one. Musk pointed to the fact that the primate at the computer was not restrained as evidence that it enjoyed the brain chip. They get a banana smoothie, he said before laughing off concerns about animal welfare

58:55 But there were reasons to be concerned about the welfare of Musk's test subjects, given that Neuralink-enabled lab monkeys were allegedly subjected to extreme suffering. There was evidence that after having their skulls drilled into and the Neuralink electrodes implanted some hapless monkeys experienced so much pain that at least one began gasping and vomiting relentlessly until it collapsed from exhaustion and had to be euthanized. Another monkey was apparently found with some missing fingers and toes, possibly because it chewed them off after painful suffering or experiencing trauma. This animal was also euthanized. Neuralink has killed about 1500 animals including more than 280 sheep pigs and monkeys following experiments since 2018

59:42 according to a Reuters investigation. Despite these obvious red flags, Musk had eminent plans to begin Neuralink human trials after Biden's FDA gave his company the green light in May of 2023 We are excited to share that we have received the FDA's approval to launch our first in-human clinical study, Neuralink tweeted. Musk celebrated the news and continues to emphasize the purported treatment applications for neurological conditions and injuries such as paralysis." Would Musk's human test subjects also be treated with banana smoothies? Wow I mean that's a lot of detail i didn't know scary stuff and now i hear this

1:00:24 porn star kayla kaden was announced as the first human to receive the neural link implant to go with their other implants and cosmetic surgeries i guess there's a son article that says kayla compared the neural link chip to getting botox for the brain and has offered herself up for the human trial the model from las vegas hopes to See the implant and prove her brain power. Quote, people use Botox for their face this would be the same but for the brain I won't have to worry about the effects of aging on my brain as a hybrid human the possibilities are endless

1:01:00 I mean, poor girl. I have not seen any dates included as to when this is supposed to happen." Have you talked with us a little bit about your Neuralink concerns? That is a hell of a paragraph! Let's get PETA involved. The enemy of my enemy is my friend in the case of PETA but talk to us about Neuralink and where this actually is in the process of human hybridization Yeah, I mean you can tell i had some fun with that paragraph. It's dark serious stuff but about the banana smoothies... Elon and this is one of the things so I give Elon a lot of credit. I know he's like this white knight on the right right now and everybody's applauding his free speech absolutism but I'm very wary of that. Freedom of speech but not freedom of reach is a very Orwellian way to look at free speech it's like if your

1:01:53 put on a desert island you're allowed to speak and nobody can hear you do really make any sounds probably not so this is where i'm elon that i don't trust the guy in that's what no like i mean with the monkeys and the psychic text messaging. You can see i sort of mention it in passing but its key here because the new york times just did a piece on neural link type brain computer interfaces and the thin edge of this wedge is going to be like paralysis. I mean, it's hilarious that they're using a model an influencer as the first person to get neural ink They probably should have used like Stephen Hawking or you know Christopher Reeves type That would have been much more sympathetic then all due respect to her maybe a bimbo type but in any case They're pitching it right now

1:02:39 we're going to cure paralysis and people who've gotten into terrible car accidents, maybe like CTE for the football players. And who could be against that? Who could be against trying to help a paraplegic person walk again? I mean that's an ambitious goal. If they succeed and it stops there, I applaud them but that's not where it's going to stop. It's more like for this model to have increased brain function, brain capacity here Ultimately, the end goal—I'll just spoiler alert—is they want to live forever. The one thing that maybe unites everybody is that we're all going to die and a lot of people are afraid of that if you don't have a belief system that helps you through that than if you think you're just going to become worm food as a lot of these godless technocrats in Silicon Valley think then yeah, you're pretty afraid of death

1:03:26 So they want to live forever. Elon Musk talks about uploading his brain to the cloud and using a neural link type situation, maybe download it into an avatar again this sounds like sci-fi but the FDA just cleared it for human trials you've got people signing up and they're not just like walking into... Aldous Huxley talked about the painless concentration camp in Brave New World where It's like where everybody is sort of just placated with drugs and you don't know that you're in a concentration camp because it's painless, but you're sort of just there and you're numb. That's what people are running into. They are running into the painless concentration camp. And with Neuralink I mean, you may think easy! I just won't get one. This was happening in our lifetime as you just mentioned. There was someone about to have it and maybe she'll end up chewing off her fingers and toes and have to be euthanized? I don't know.

1:04:19 Yeah, the monkeys I mean they don't seem to be responding well to the neural link which is like what makes the FDA approval for human trials so baffling. It's like did you not read about how all of these animals are getting euthanized because they're in excruciating pain and vomiting relentlessly after getting electrodes implanted in their brain? But anyway full speed ahead and analogy I use it like imagine you're playing trivia here at the bar you're playing trivia and your team is given the ability to use your cell phones to answer the trivia questions Think about what an advantage you would have. Everybody else has to use their brains, but your team gets to use your cell phones to answer—you'd answer every question perfectly and win every time." That's what life will be like if these Neuralink trials are successful, if you are able to do as Elon Musk says tap into the cloud psychically because you've got the Neuralink

1:05:11 you're able to just answer any question on the spot because you got wikipedia pumped in your head, your advantage will be massive. And so like I mean if you don't have a neural link, I mean you'll eventually get to the spot where everybody's got the upgrade and you're holding out but you're not going to be employable, you'll be useless because you need the chip. This sounds sort of crazy, hopefully that's not what happens but that's what they're working towards. And so whether or not that's the reality I mean that's what these guys are working towards and you can see people are rushing into it and so it's a big problem there's over 10 000 people I mean BlackRock Neurotech know relation to BlackRock the financial institution that I was able to find but a different company BlackRock NeuroTech claims they've already implanted over ten thousand people with microchips in their brains

1:05:57 So, you know it may start out as just sort of like a Fitbit. You're not going to be able to recall everything the entirety of human history and quote Wikipedia but it may just be like clocking your brain activity and you can go check it on your app. I had a lot of brain productivity today my neurons were firing on all cylinders today! And eventually you'll be able to get more data and all this is being sent obviously to the data harvesters You've all know Harari, he says that those who control the data control the future. And so this can't be going anywhere good I mean that's the thing is we sort of peaked in my opinion as a civilization when you can order a piece and have it at your door in matter of minutes or you can have any product that you could possibly want in two days or less without having to get up like why do we need to go even further?

1:06:46 merge man with machine. I think it's playing with fire, it's trying to play God these guys have God complexes on steroids and its still full speed ahead so that's kind of like what this book is about we're not necessarily there yet but it's a lot closer than you may think it is and unless we wake up it's gonna be not really optional same thing with the headsets yeah you don't want to use a headset guess what? I didn't want to download zoom on my computer I didn't want to have to telecommute and then all of a sudden, I had to. And now people say only Zoom. We're having a work meeting today if you want your job, you may have to use Zoom. So resisting putting on the headset and that's why I think Vision Pro Apple Vision Pro is going

1:07:29 and it's really these augmented reality headsets. I mean, the full-blown virtual reality headsets are a fail because you can't see what's going on around you so that's kind of like disorienting and it's not gonna work but if you're just wearing a pair of glasses then its kinda merging your reality in augmenting your reality and is not a full blown virtual reality that will be sort of the gateway drug to the full blown Soma like Brave New World and The Painless Concentration Camp. Right! You can see playing out, it also pairs really nicely with the smart city plan. And you're going to be competing with people who did do this. It's a lot like the jab really? It's like your boss is going to say, Hey for the company's sake and for our liability and everything, You're gonna have to do this for our productivity. It's going to go from liability to productivity

1:08:21 And it's gonna be about monitoring your brain waves and your levels of concentration. Well, I see here on the report Jim that you were only concentrating on your tasks 18% of the day today and it seems like you had a distraction quotient up 13 meanwhile your colleagues down the hall they have much better reports gym And that is kind of what is going to happen. It isn't saying, but before I cut you loose, I want to do at least fit in a little bit about your previous work fallout. You mentioned we know a little bit about the uranium one story, but compromised seems like it's really intriguing to me how money and politics drive FBI corruption. What would people find out about in that book? Compromised

1:09:13 Yeah, it's still timely. It came out in 2018 this was back I mean during the spy gate Russia gate whatever gate saga with Donald Trump being a Russian asset or whatever The thing about that was, I mean it's a fascinating story. So I work with the guy Peter Schweitzer he is legend and my mentor and American hero. Schweitzer did this book Clinton Cash and that was probably third book with Peter Schweitzer and I'm sort of the nerd that Peter Schweitzer will throw 1000 pages of Clinton Foundation 990 IRS filings if you've never looked at an IRS 990 report from charitable quote unquote charitable foundation

1:09:51 It's the most boring document you could possibly look at. It's like 10 point font, a ton of numbers none of them make any sense You just kind of look at the bottom line numbers and you're like wow that's a lot of money but these things are like 150 pages for The Clintons and to their credit I have to say the Clintons actually did disclose who their donors were. And so what I did is, I went line by line and put all of those donors into a spreadsheet and then I did the same thing for Bill Clinton's speaking engagements. It was hard work but we crunched the numbers our motto is follow the money and I put it all into a spreadsheet. I started sorting and filtering by country and what do you know? Bill Clinton gives a speech for $500,000

1:10:33 in Moscow, paid for by a Kremlin-backed bank that had ties to this company Uranium One. And so we started to kind of put a thesis together like what's Hillary Clinton doing in June 2010 when Bill Clinton gives the speech? She is meeting with the Russian delegation to talk about things like New START Treaty and various policies and there's this Russian illegals program. Eventually we get to... There wasn't a lot of reporting I think one Bloomberg story and like a PRS Newswire, like press release that announced that the Russian nuclear agency Rosatom had purchased a company called Uranium One. And Uranium One had mines or uranium assets across the Midwest and across the you know out in Utah and various Rocky Mountain areas where there's a lot of uranium in Texas even. So this company Uranium one it was actually a Canadian company that had somehow acquired all these uranium mines in the United States. That required State Department approval

1:11:28 to sell off to the Russians. I mean, you hear them getting all hot and bothered about the Russians—I mean it's like Donald Trump and then now more recently with Russia conflict with Ukraine—but back then they didn't seem to have any problem. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Timothy Geithner was the Treasury Secretary. They all, more or less Joe Biden signed off on the Russian takeover of American uranium assets That's a largely misunderstood story, but nonetheless that happened. I mean there was this illegals spy program where Joe Biden as vice president said let's sweep this under the rug we don't want to create like a flap was his boomer word for uh we don't want to create an issue with the Russians so why don't we just give them all their spies back? That was in 2010 and so having done all of that research for The Clinton Cashbook i had already like accumulated a ton of knowledge on John Podesta and Tony Podesta had all these relationships with Russians

1:12:19 There's a ton of Democrat connections lobbying for Russia, and there always has been. I mean go back to McCarthy it was like there was the Democrats who were being infiltrated by the Soviets in moving forward and so like the Democrats have always had this kind of cozy relationship with the Soviets and now the Russians. So we put out Clinton cash, that was in May of 2015 I mean Hillary Clinton had not even yet announced we started the research in 2014 so we weren't even doing it because she was going to be a candidate for president We were kind of just looking into it and she was thought to maybe be a candidate but in any case then all of sudden Donald Trump comes onto the scene and they start talking about Russia

1:12:59 I mean, before anybody really noticing that like this is weird. You guys are the ones who are in bed with Russians not Donald Trump. Donald Trump you know he tried to have a Moscow deal in the 90s or something you know like there's very limited connections to Donald Trump and guess what? He was never in politics so whatever business dealings he may or may not have had with Russian sort of has nothing to do with like the Secretary of State signing off on a massive uranium transfer to Russia and That was like the beginning of the compromise book because then it started to come out piece by piece that like, the FBI was working hand in glove with the Clinton campaign. I mean, the number of unprecedented scandals that have happened in the last five to 10 years is staggering and you can't really even keep up with all of it but this is so huge and it's so corrupt that our FBI is working with a political campaign to take out the opponent of the regime or really of the control of GARC

1:13:54 I followed the money to James Comey and Robert Mueller, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. And found sort of this business model that they have—the revolving door business model where they'll work a few years in James Comey's case he worked in the Justice Department in the early 2000s. Then he goes through the revolving door in 2006 and gets a job with Lockheed Martin the largest defense contractor and a lot of people think i got lucky makes planes and bombs and stuff like that and thats true but lucky martin actually has a massive it division. That is like information in signals intelligence mass collecting data and things like fisa they deal with that and so,

1:14:34 James Comey, he was kind of like a small player in the government all of a sudden gets made general counsel of the largest defense contractor like in the world. He gets $6 million signing bonus, he gets all these stock options ultimately worth between 10 and 20 million dollars for this sort of mid-level bureaucrat it was really bizarre and what I noticed and what I found and reported in Compromise is that Robert Mueller, he and James Comey are good buddies they've worked together since the 90's Robert Mueller He is FBI director while James Comey is general counsel of Lockheed. Under Robert Mueller, the FBI signs a billion-dollar contract for the Echelon. It's a domestic spying and big program where the FBI runs the FBI's IT division.

1:15:19 That's just sort of corrupt where passing a big billion dollar contract to your buddies, it makes sense why Lockheed Martin paid James Comey so much money. Then he passes back through the revolving door comes back tags in as a tag team operation for Robert Mueller what does Robert Mueller do? He goes and sets up Robert Mueller Associates and starts advising corporations like Booz Allen Hamilton that's where Edward Snowden works one of the biggest spy contractors in the country And he actually advised Facebook, Robert Mueller did and gets paid a ton of money in the revolving door there. Christopher Wray, same deal he's close with these guys he goes in and out of the revolving door works at a big law firm representing big corporate clients helping them get off and so if you wonder why The Big Fish never seem to fry it's because they pay off the people who end up becoming the FBI director whether they hire him before they become FBI director or after

1:16:09 It's kind of this, I call it the retainer model. You can never prove the quid pro quo because a lot of the savvy members of our political class are on retainer rather than just getting directly bribed and so If you have stock options, you're going to do things that favor those stock options. In Control Guard because I talk about Jennifer Granholm the energy secretary she was holding stock options in Proterra this electric bus company as the Energy Department is working to promote this company it's so corrupt and yeah it really goes back to the Justice Department that was the point of Compromised is The Justice Department, The FBI This Is Why They Always Get Away With It Because

1:16:50 The people running our justice department are corrupt or at least compromised. Wow, just so impressive how you keep all this stuff straight here a national treasure man and your book is so full of stuff I mean i got six pages and notes here we barely even scratched the surface And it's just a really great book i said this before we started but i was reading the ebook version and i was getting what i thought was pretty deep into it that says i'm only. Forty percent through when i finish the book my man that extra sixty percent is all the footnotes and notes in sources

1:17:28 that itself is really really impressive and i just enjoyed this a lot i mean we fit probably four hours of information into it to our conversation cuz you are just so good at what you do your book is also number one bestseller in the political freedom category on top of globalization, i wish you the best i hope this book has continued success amazing name. Before I really let you go, give the people any other info you'd like about your links websites and the government accountability Institute and really what they're up to there. Yeah. Thank you so much, Greg. This was a lot of fun. I appreciate it's great to be able to do a long form interview and get as much information. I know we just scratched the surface but it's a lot better than some of the five minute 10 minute interviews I've done. So I appreciate the time you've given me

1:18:20 You can follow me on all platforms at Seamus Bruner. It's S-E-A-M-U-S B-R-U-N-E-R, you can go to controlagarksbook.com and if you want to avoid Amazon I think if you go the book tab it has information. You know you can find a bunch of information there, interviews, I'll post the link whenever this one goes live and I've got other interviews there, The Epstein articles that I have done. contain information that's in the book and updated with like real-time goings on. And I'll probably do a new Epstein piece once these records come out." Remember about Epstein, just whenever you hear the word Epstein think JP Morgan and when you want a client list, JP Morgan has it. And I think if we focus all of our attention on JP Morgan, we can get the clients names. A lot of people are a little defeatist about this because we've been snowed so many times on it with the flight logs and everything else is like we're never going to get the names as like the names that are out there in JPMorgan has admitted to $1 billion human trafficking that billion dollars whoever sent that money

1:19:20 is involved in human trafficking, that equals guilty. So we just need to stay focused on that and GAI I mean we've got a website thedrilldown.com Peter Schweitzer does a podcast every week and you'll want to listen to that it's a lot of the goings-on with cronyism and corruption both domestically and in the foreign policy space so uh you know Schweitzer is the real national treasure and I'd encourage you to listen to his podcast and besides that thank you so much! I appreciate the time here Yeah, man. Thank you so much for spending the time with me! The show can only be as good as its guests and we put out a great one today very impressive book keep fighting the good fight and take care all right thanks Craig And boom goes the dynamite Seamus Bruner everybody coming in hot with a lot of info and the best titled book I've seen in a long time

1:20:12 You know me, I like creative wordplay and good branding. And of course reached out when i learned about this book! I do sort of have a personal quandary with interviews based around these themes though if im being honest It's part of the THC DNA and always has been so it must be done But we have reached a place in the conspiracy culture where the plans and goals of the globalist puppet masters In the world economic forum...in the UN are pretty much talked to death. There's not the diversity of ideas that there was in a pre-COVID world, and we know what they want to do! We know they regularly get a little further downfield with implementation but it is a slow process right? I bring you five shows a month and i want to make sure we're keeping things fresh and interesting And even though this IS some of the most important material we can cover in terms of consequences for our lives

1:21:12 I don't want THC episodes to start sounding like broken records. The latest Davos meeting happened between recording this and releasing it, by the way maybe i could have planned that better and i have seen some decent coverage of it but again It's nothing they haven't been saying since 2020 We have to eliminate disinformation we have to stop climate change we have to eat less red meat we need digital currencies etc etc And it is a beautiful thing that their progress isn't more rapid. But in terms of podcast content, what more do we need to know? I had actually pulled out a lot of small specific facts and things from Seamus's book but i didn't get too fit too many of them into the interview but just to mention a couple...I thought this was interesting here's a quote

1:22:01 Consider the case of Gates' Seattle-area nuclear energy startup TerraPower, which endeavors to put small nuclear reactors in towns and homes across America. On top of the benefits provided by Gates investment and grants from his tax exempt foundation, TerraPower also benefits from direct taxpayer cash infusions in the form of Department Of Energy Grants. In 2018 TerraPower and its partners won a combined $4.8 million from the Department of Nuclear Projects in North Carolina and New York. In 2020, the Department of Energy again awarded TerraPower taxpayer money—this time a staggering $80 million in initial funding to build a nuclear reactor. Five months prior to TerraPower's announcement Warren Buffett funneled over 3.2 billion to The Gates Foundation

1:22:54 Where he has served as trustee for 15 years, Buffett also once pledged more than $30 billion to the Gates Foundation which was the largest charitable pledge in history. Buffett's whopping multi-billion dollar donation to the Gates Foundation was announced as he resigned as trustee In 2022 TerraPower landed another taxpayer funded grant this one was for 8.5 million and was the largest in a package of 11 grants announced by Biden's energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm. So I think this whole thing is interesting in other contexts we would probably celebrate the idea of an energy generator powering a small town but when Gates is in charge of it you got to be skeptical but illustrates the point that I said early on which is like they're not really

1:23:48 All that successful when you take the thumb off the scale when you remove the advantages they have what could they really do. The point of reading that was that they get a lot of government money which is our money and when you add it all up including the buffet, money is probably four billion or something in just for that project and then you have that whole thirty billion for the gates foundation overall You have Elon Musk and every one of his companies being government funded. And then you have Bezos with a huge investment made by the CIA, and Google and all these companies like how successful would they be on their own like we all are? How successful could our projects be if we had the same advantages? Do you think you and I could be just as successful with $4 billion thrown in our laps probably

1:24:45 What makes them special is their advantage, not necessarily their expertise or insight or ingenuity. I also was going to mention this but in 2017 according to Seamus' book Gates dropped $80 million on nearly 25,000 acres of land outside of Phoenix which was going to be the site of a planned top-down smart city utopia called Belmont And for something that started in 2017, you'd think I had heard more about this. Maybe it failed? Maybe it's just taking its time but... ...I don't hear a lot of people talking about this Belmont project and I wanted to at least mention that for people who would want to dig deeper into it. And then most of the other stuff in my notes was at least touched on. I think he was great on Elon and probably pretty spot-on with the Epstein thing. I think that was in The Plus Show

1:25:44 But we talked about how everyone was getting excited about this document release, but it's a big red herring because it's just documents from a specific trial. And Seamus said we should really be looking at JP Morgan who processed I think close to $1 billion in child trafficking related payments and there are two sides to every transaction so there has got to be a client list somewhere in there But Seamus said that this reveal of the documents would not tell us much we didn't already know. And I had the same suspicions, but i will give him that! I think he was absolutely right now that a week or two has passed and we saw what that stuff was. All in all, I think Seamus does a great job spreading the word on Control-A-Garx and the information in it He does a lot of mainstream shows too which is why I think he speaks so fast

1:26:40 He's used to trying to jam in as much as he can in a 10-minute TV spot. And, in fact seeing the clips for this episode are kind of funny because he is in a suit behind a professional background and I'm just me in my semi cluttered office and another black hat and black t-shirt but I say this all the time we want these elite projects to fail and we're not going to get anywhere if we don't reach new people and spread this information outside of just our counterculture communities. So my two criticisms of Seamus's approach might actually be strategic choices in trying to bring this to more people in a way that they can hear it, right? That's important. In a way that doesn't trigger them into shutting down because its conspiracy theory stuff

1:27:31 Tone and approach matter a lot. I think being aware of that has helped my success, and I'm sure it's helping his as well but a lot of his really good points started with compliments of these guys they're geniuses they're very successful motivated etc i pushed back on at the first time just to say hey you don't need to do that for us but after that I just let it go but you could see how that would help with a certain crowd So maybe it is a good thing overall. But secondly, Seamus often says these oligarchs are different they want to control your lives compared to the elite class of the past and it's true that new technologies have enabled the ability to surveil and control on an individual basis like never before

1:28:22 But that doesn't mean they didn't always want to do this. The Rockefellers absolutely monopolized medicine, co-opted the education of medicine, suppressed the alternatives and has done a huge amount of damage just within that one sector of health—not to mention killing off fuel alternatives like alcohol and maybe even water if you ask Stanley Meyer. Hemp fuel was a thing They destroyed and dismantled the public travel alternatives that were already there. They funded the highway system like it was some altruistic thing, but what it did was make sure that these advancements consumed as much oil as possible instead of trains from city to city now it's every individual person on the highway guzzling that sweet sweet gas

1:29:13 It wasn't charity. It was an investment in infrastructure that would cement them at the top of the oil pyramid forever, which of course was a big theme here. Foundation suggests some kind of charity when really these are all schemes but it didn't just start yesterday they suppressed marijuana for the medical benefit and the fuel benefit and the textile benefit we let them destroy old growth redwood forests because they made hemp illegal because it was sustainable and within the grasp of every person to grow a crop of hemp and turn it into all sorts of products. So they've always been hell-bent on monopoly, and even just this small handful of points I'm making has had huge implications for the damage done to the planet and the dependency we have for their products. Anyone could grow hemp

1:30:09 or have an alcohol still on their property. But not everyone can process a redwood or drill for oil, so this play for food is not new thinking it's the same thinking applied to a new category given new technologies find around about way to suppress shame and even ban foods like eggs pork and beef which are far more accessible to people than highly processed cricket powder and pea protein. It might not be completely optimized top-to-bottom, but anyone with a little land can allow chickens, pigs and cows to graze there until they're ready to be harvested. But that's what they do corner every market with the most complex product or raw material that only they can access medicines the same how many of these cures are quite easy

1:31:05 whereas the petrochemical pills they produce are outside of our grasp. So overall, I just kind of take issue with that point that this is a new class of oligarchs It's the same old mindset only the technologies have been updated but again you don't want to hit people with too much all at once How important is it for them to understand the past if you can just make the case that we need to do something about the future? You gotta meet people where they are so I don't fault Seamus for it, but I'm talking to you guys and you know a thing or two about a thing. And if you were thinking along those lines...I was as well! But it takes guts to write this sort of book and go around making THIS case and when I see people doing it, I want to at least try to contribute to helping their reach and making them feel like they made the right choice

1:32:02 A lot of journalists and authors are afraid they'll lose access and opportunities if they push too hard into really what is just the truth. But I want to lend our space to being there, to say actually there's a big alternative media network and community that comes around to support those who are bold enough to put themselves out there like this. I feel a responsibility to do that even if it's review for us a lot of the time Because put yourself in their shoes. What's the alternative? They write this really explosive book about the control of GARC, so the World Economic Forum and they can't get on any of the mainstream platforms anymore. So they come to a platform like mine and I say, eh you know sorry we've already covered that then they're just completely screwed. So i don't want that to happen And there are a lot more shows than just mine but

1:33:00 Again, I just have a weird thing in the back of my head that it's kind of my responsibility and i try to find That line between the responsibility. I'm speaking of and Bringing you fresh new entertaining Wild stuff so hope that all makes sense big kudos to Seamus for a very thoroughly researched book with every claim backed up It's a great book to spread around because its claims are very well substantiated with the lengthy footnotes section and all the sources. So if you know people who are only halfway there or have yet to take their blinders off at all, You want books like this to exist to give those people. We can always drag them deeper into the depths of the rabbit hole later First things first right?

1:33:53 But seeing his book sell as well as it already has is a great sign because I do see this as a race between the collective understanding of the elite's intention and their implementation of these nightmarish control schemes. The plus show obviously goes a lot deeper, we made sure to hit all the people that you'll find on the front of the book Some of the best Elon stuff was in The Plus Show. We got into George Soros and what to expect when he hands the reins over to his children, the Epstein stuff and JP Morgan's role, Bezos Amazon and the CIA just a lot of good stuff for people who are willing to support what I do around here and want to get more of it in return. And that said, in higher side news, the last episode with Richard Stanley

1:34:43 Has been just as popular as I would have thought. There are Reddit threads about how good it was, lots of emails and messages and a very healthy 4.7 on the website plus member rating scale so i'm glad we all agree there he was excellent And im always on the hunt for guests that can cover that part of the THC umbrella but its hardest to do and hard even define what category you put that in general mystery, a little bit of history. A little bit of magic? I don't know but i loved it and if you have guest requests for me this is the area that i'm on the hunt for most and before we say goodbye again today you know we're checking the meetup calendar where is resistance and opportunity forming this month well

1:35:37 We got some new ones. February 3rd, Carbondale Illinois at Buckwater Brew Works. February 8th LA Flame International Restaurant coming around again. February 10th Saco Maine a meet up at the Golden Rooster. February 13 Washington DC The Belly of the Beast at Belguard And then I see one already on the calendar for March in Abbotsford, British Columbia Canada at Fieldhouse Brewing. The Fraser Valley Brewery Meetup. I tell you we're keeping a lot of these microbrews across this great land in business and I think that's great. Gotta love it! Use the resource while you can RSVP for any events you plan to attend so the host knows people will actually show up and feel free to make your own

1:36:28 I actually talked to Seamus about the idea of doing something together here in Florida, but we will see. That said thanks for listening! Thanks for being a Plus Member if you are much appreciation to Seamus for his work and time and i'll see ya on the next one. I've done my part your move 1%er Puppet Masters Micro-Managing Management Class and Control Hungry Contrologarchs Your fucking move You'll see God damn This plant Sprayin' Don't you know they control The chemicals that they spray It gone I think, I sink And I die! Don't ya know They control the chemicals that they spray We're sedated It blocks the sun

1:38:24 Don't you know they control bubbles and we're sedated? It's falling to the floor, it blocks the sun. Don't you know they control with the chemicals that they spread And we're sedated! It's fallen to the floor, it blocks the sun