#2272 - Mike Benz

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I was like ooh tomorrow's gonna be a good one for you It must have been very exciting to have the vault opened and to get a peek into the machine because you've been describing this. The last time you were on the podcast, you went into depth about USAID.
And it's very curious why they chose USAID as the first organization for Doge to investigate because it seems like they were the ones that resisted the most. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
Well, you know, the joke that I tell here is it's like what they tell you to do your first day of prison is you go in, you walk up to the meanest, baddest SOB and you punch them right in the mouth. I mean, that's basically what's happened here with the White House's first target being USAID.
Because USAID opens up the entire world of the blob, the foreign policy establishment, and its weaponization of what are supposed to be foreign-facing Department of Dirty Tricks operations against domestic opponents. And when it all got opened and you started to see the numbers and the different organizations and NGOs that were getting them, was anything surprising to you or was this all what you expected? No.
In fact, I think we're at the tip of the iceberg and what people are going to see on this is going to completely reorient their mental map of how they think the world works, how they think American power projects into the institutions. and I think the calls for reform are going to get louder and louder

as people realize the reality that's been constructed around them is downstream of something that was started very long ago.

when American statecraft to manage the American empire for the benefit of the American people

began to warp and distort every institution in American life,

from the media to now the social media companies

to the unions to now the social media companies, to the unions, to the universities and academics, to the NGOs and think tanks, to the prosecutors, to our conception of terrorism, to our conception of activity in the drug trade, to what we're really doing with public health programs and the medical establishment and what drives that, all the way into poverty relief and you name it. I mean, every institution is instrumentalized by this apparatus, supposedly to help us.
But really starting, this has been done in U.S. history before.
This happened against the left, against the Democrats in the 1960s and 70s when the CIA and, you know, to an extent its sister orgs like USAID and whatnot were pumping money into domestic politics to stop the anti-Vietnam War movement. And this led to the reforms of the late 1970s the church committee hearing the pike committee the pike committee hearing the establishment of a senate intelligence committee and house intelligence committee for oversight but even that was a was a very small glimpse into the window the i mean the analogy i i give here is like the lion the witch in the wardrobe you know Chronicles of Narnia, where there's this whole cinematic universe.

You're living in this house, and there's this closet in the back of a wardrobe. And if you never walk through it, you never see that whole world.
You can live your whole life without seeing it. But when you open that door and you step into it, you see there's an entire other universe here that's been right next to you this whole time.
When you first started working for the State Department, did you have any inclination that you were going to get involved? Did you have any inclination that this was going on? Did you know already? Yeah, definitely. I'd already been working on this for many years.
When did you first discover it? Around August 2016. I was deeply passionate about the internet censorship issue.
And, you know, I had some weird experiences playing chess as a kid where, you know, I sort of came of age when Gary Kasparov lost to Deep Blue. And AI took over, you know, really took the spirit out of a lot of the chess world.
And it was apparent to me as a kid that these AI chess engines were going to outcompete humans. But when I was young, the sort of older people in the room were in denial about it.
And when I saw that same thing in 2016 with with the development of AI censorship, super weapons, you know, I, I call those weapons of mass deletion, that they would be like weapons of mass destruction, but for speech, you know, a few lines of code would allow you to destroy entire political movements, governments, narratives, there'd be no escape from it, we would permanently change the face of political warfare or domestic politics. You don't need a standing army of 100,000 sensors.
If you just have one, you know, machine learning, you know, just ingested database, you know, of 900 million tweets that you can ingest and then make this sophisticated narrative network map of all the different keywords and concepts you want to censor. And to me, that was like the free speech version or the censorship version of the atom bomb.
So I started that quest in 2016. But very quickly, that research in the process of trying to write that showed these international networks immediately.
I mean, the NLP, the natural language processing sort of backbone of this was all being sponsored by DARPA. And to be able to monitor the speech of ISIS or extremist or terrorist groups.
And when I saw that coming home and being advocated here, I, I dug, I spent my whole day, morning, noon, night, 20 hours a day, basically chronicling, archiving. That's how I know so many of these characters is because I feel like I, I know them better than my own friends and family having spent so many years watching this all, you know, develop.
What did it feel like being one of the only people that was sounding the alarm for essentially eight years? Like you get involved in 2016 and no one even, the general public, until you came on this podcast, I don't even think we're aware that this was an issue at all. But even then, things got lost so quickly in the cycle of news things just come and go so quickly until doge started unraveling all the spending right and you start seeing things like 200 million dollars allocated to transgender experiments on monkeys like what the fuck like this is crazy And that's just a tip of the iceberg.
And then the NGOs, and then that map of 50,000 NGOs that was essentially just democratic propaganda machine that was exposed, that was all just money being funneled in a circular manner. This episode is brought to you by Squarespace.

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totally i i mean it's been it exhilarating. You know, there is a sort of, I understand the weight of history here.
We are doing open heart surgery on the body of the American empire, our influence abroad. And it has to be done well.
And so, you know, I want to help the American homeland. And so this is a sensitive process, but you know, obviously it's, it's been a bit surreal seeing the past couple of weeks where people are now, I go to my X timeline and I see everyone doing the same exercise that I gave up everything to be doing eight years ago, going into, you know, cause all this stuff is open source.
You didn't need to be an inside guy to see this. If you knew where to look, these are USA spending.gov.
You know, I used to joke is the main difference between or was, I think, until freedom opened up when Elon acquired X and a few institutional changes began to happen, you know, in the government and with Congress. congress but you know i used to joke that usa spending.gov was the main difference during the height of this censorship uh you know total control era was the main difference between us and in russia and china which was that we have this sort of autocratic control over information and institutions by by the u.s government so do they the difference is we can go to usaspending.gov and look up how they do it.
And so when I've been going to my X timeline and seeing everybody independently doing that exercise and finding the joy in that, the self-discovery process, and being able to share it with people, and everybody being able to understand and make sense of the receipts because, you know, this framework for understanding it has been has been shared and popularized.

That, to me, has been the goal all along to be able to give people the language and the frameworks to understand what is so terrifying and necessary to reform.

But that's right there in front of your eyes if you only open your eyes to see it. It's got to be exciting, though, for you to be there on Operation Day when they are doing the open heart surgery.
It is. It is.
We need to make sure that the patient doesn't die, you know, on the, you know, on the operating table.

Just because it's the right move to do the open heart surgery because the patient needs it doesn't mean that the operation goes well. If, you know, if the operating surgeons don't know the anatomy of the organ they're operating on.
And so that I see right now is sort of my prime function is to just teach more and more of the anatomy of the organ so that the people who are operating on the patient, the American homeland, and generally speaking, the American influence and power projection into foreign countries comes out better, smarter, a little bit more honest. And there is a hard domestic firewall against our foreign facing dirty tricks, criminal penalties against against agencies who who go against this civil penalties.
so that you can sue both the agencies and the NGOs who are sponsored, maybe with treble damages in a bill from Congress

so that if USAID, in whatever form it continues to take,

whether that's at the State Department

or whether it gets rolled back out into another. challenges in a bill from Congress so that if USAID in whatever form it continues to take,

whether that's at the State Department or whether it gets rolled back out into another independent agency, that you could sue the agencies as an individual if they've broken that domestic firewall so that there's an incentive at the agency on their own budget to tightly oversee these things. There's so much that can be done to To bring this in line in a smarter and more moral And frankly more effective way and that's that's the task right now I think one of the most offensive things to Americans is that all this was being done and all this money was being spent while they were denying money to people that clearly needed it, like particularly victims of natural disasters like Maui.
Right. The fact that they're spending all this money on those things, and yet they gave those people a one-time check of $770 or something along those lines.
Right. Well, this gets to the fundamental heart of the breach of the social contract that this thing was always set up to do.

It was really set up in 1948 when George Kennan created this NSC 10-2, this National Security Council.

We completely reoriented the structure of the American empire in 1948 after World War II. In

1947, we passed something called the National Security Act. That's what established the CIA.

That's what established the National Security Council, which coordinates all of our, you know,

foreign-facing empire management work. It renamed the Department of War to the Department of Defense

so that it didn't look like we were, you know, acquiring territory by military force, which had

just been banned under international law, under the UN Declaration of Human Rights. And so we moved

Thank you. the Department of Defense so that it didn't look like we were acquiring territory by military force, which had just been banned under international law, under the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
And so we moved from primarily kinetic warfare into what George Kennan called just two months before he created the plausible deniability doctrine that we live under. He called this organized political warfare.
And he has a great memo from April 30th, 1948. It's just 12 days after the CI's first operation, first time it ever overthrew or rigged the election of a foreign government.
This was the April 1948 election in Italy that pitted a pro-Western candidate against a sort of pro-Soviet candidate. And so the U.S.
State Department felt it was essential to hit the scales of that election because it showed that the pro-Soviet candidate was winning 60 to 40. This is all declassified and all the major people who are involved in that operation have all come out and said this publicly.
But so, you know, basically we threw together this ramshackle effort to tilt that election by pumping in propaganda, by using charities and churches as fronts to funnel money into the pro-Western political party. You know, we piped in, you know, the Greg Garbo movies and whatnot.
We worked with some very unseedy, very seedy elements of Italian society there. We worked with the mafia, and we worked with mafia-connected unions because these were all assets for the War Department during World War II because Mussolini was cracking down on them.
So the War Department had a relationship with these organized criminal networks to serve as a beachhead against Mussolini, but we kept those relationships in order to run this pro-democracy regime change thing. So in 1948, when we established the secrecy doctrine that we now live under, and all these NGOs work under this cover effectively because of their sponsoring organizations, USAID or CIA or state, and he called it the inauguration of organized political warfare.
And what he said is, we need to create a covert apparatus to hide what we do from the rest of the world to do secret political warfare on the low. And the problem is, the American people are not going to like this.
The American people do not understand the intricacies of international relations. They think there's always an easy political cure-all.
And they think there's a fundamental difference between peace and and war and what he proposed is uh and this is just two months before this before this would formally be given to the cia to do but at the time what he said was this was this worked gangbusters in italy we need to replicate this everywhere we need to create a capacity to do black propaganda to do economic sabotage, demol there's a whole list of what's authorized under nsc 10-2 and and what he says is the you know the american people are not necessarily going to like this and we're going to need to effectively hide what we do from them because if they find out then the rest of the world finds out if we're trying to run an operation in eurasia and we report this in u.s news well then any person in Eurasia who reads U.S. news now knows about it and so that was authorized at the time with some simultaneous with the Smith-Munt Act which I'm not are you familiar with the Smith-Munt Act is that the 2011 2012 thing where Obama allowed people to use propaganda against United States citizens yeah that was what was done then under Obama was the effective repeal of it.
It was called the Smith Modernization Act. But the modernization got rid of the whole purpose of it, the firewall.
Because at the time, the media and media control was seen as the linchpin crux of winning the Cold War, piping in pro-U.S. media influence so that – because everything moved after World War II from kinetic warfare and military occupation.
We used to militarily occupy the Philippines, for example, after we won the Spanish-American War. But that was banned under international law, territorial acquisition by military force in 1948.
So we had to win elections. And we had to influence the passage of laws in foreign countries by having an apparatus inside those countries that influenced the hearts and minds of people, which influenced who they voted for, which then determined the government.
So you had to move towards political vassalage rather than military occupation. And what the Smith-Munt Act did is simultaneous with the creation of this in 1948, Congress recognized the Frankensteinian monster they were creating by authorizing a covert permanent Department of Dirty Tricks, and this is their phrase, not mine, to do this cloak and dagger to to infiltrate and co-op the universities the unions the media the politicians the judges the whole swarm army you know what i have been calling for a long time the usa truman show because it's you know these people in these foreign countries have no idea you know how many how many things they interact with that are effectively a movie set being constructed by the U S state department and its sister influence orgs.
But the point that I'm getting at here is the Smith month act in 1948 said, okay, you guys can do this. State department can do this.
CIA can do this. USAID when it came along 13 years later could do this, but we, so there was a guy named Frank Wisner who was known as one of the godfather figures of the CIA he's known for creating what was called the Wisner's war Litzer which was a it's like a church organ and that he would brag that he could play the international media like a symphony to make any media narrative go viral in any country on earth because of the suite of CIA proprietary media functions and its distribution network, especially when the U.S.
had first-mover advantage in radio and print. It's basically the U.S.
and U.K. were the only games in town, really, in having robust radio, film, TV, and print media.
So Smith-Mundt said, okay, you can do that abroad. You can plant fake news stories in France.
You can you can have propaganda blare into Africa or Western Europe or Central Asia. But that can't come home.
You can't psyop our own people with your propaganda organ abroad.

Because the point of authorizing this is that we get cheaper gas. We get import export markets.
You know, we get a high standard of living because if a foreign government doesn't want to give up its resources or allow a U.S. military base or allow joint partnerships or exports of goods or U.S.
multinational corporations to operate there, then the American people suffer economically. So it was always designed to say, listen, you can do this dirty stuff abroad, but it can't come home.
And even that protection, which lasted for 70 years, and we only lost it a decade ago, we're up against a much actually deeper darker problem with this usa scandal and as people will see increasingly the the scandals that will break open at the pentagon and the state department which is that we have a smithmont problem for funding and operations it's not just propaganda uh the blob our policy establishment, can fund groups that effectively work with prosecutors domestically or that work at media, you know, sort of dual use. we give them foreign grants to do media propaganda abroad but they operate here or social media censorship to coerce foreign countries to pass foreign censorship laws

that explicitly and are intended to attack U.S. social media companies and in U.S.
peer-to-peer

speech. So we need that protection.
If we're going to keep this function at all, we need a

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Violation. so when you're watching all this unfold, one of the things that I've been seeing is that there's been legal action to try to halt some of it.
They've been told to destroy any information that they got from certain databases. Like, what's your take on this and whether any of that is going to hold up? Oh, 100 uh well 100 i don't know if it's going to hold up i think it's going to be a legal dog fight this is you know it's funny because it's sort of a circular dragon eating its own tail because you're going after the primary soft power projection organ of the blob because it's been weaponized against Americans.
But what is the blob authorized to do? What is USAID authorized to do under statute? Well, something they call judicial reform, which is USAID poaching, funding financially the networks around judges, around around courts, around the legal system, around the governance structure of every country on planet Earth. I mean, and Jamie, if you want to just go through a fun exercise right now, you can even put on screen just a simple Google search so people can see just how open source this is.
And I can walk through specific damning examples of this. But if you just type in on Google, the word USAID, and then in a Boolean quotes, judicial reform.
And what you're going to see are basically 100 countries that USAID is going after the judges, going after the legal system in order to rig the scales of justice in favor of the foreign policy establishment's interest there.

And this has fully come home.

And I can go through some examples of this.

For example, there's a group called the OCCRP, which you can think of as the Corruption Reporting Project.

This is a group that half of its funding comes from USAID and the U.S. State Department.
OCCRP has to... USAID and the State Department have a veto right over the staff that it can hire.
This is the largest consortium of investigative journalists on planet Earth. This is the group that broke the Panama Papers.
You know, they got all these hacked documents. They got special access to it.
I don't have any facts on this. I'm simply noting that it's an oddity that a group funded by a major CIA funding conduit, USAID, while the CIA has the ability to hack any target around the world that's authorized by the National Security Council, you know, there's they're getting these special access documents that are reportedly either hacked or leaked.
And they're being sponsored by, you know, the group that's connected to something with a hacking power. But I don't know that for a fact.
I'm simply noting that for investigative purposes for oversight bodies who may want to ask questions. But they, so they've won hundreds of awards.
Their name has been so pristine for so long. They've been around for almost 20 years.
And they were sponsored in order to do, they do investigative hit piece journalism about corruption. And what they do is they go after all of the State Department and USAID and DOD's opponents in the region.
So, for example, Jamie, I text you this beforehand. But if the first thing you want to put on screen are the first two images that I texted you, this is from the USAID.gov website.
And I think this will shock people when they see this see this uh on you know with the usa.gov url right there and so that you can you can see how yeah so if you go if you go to the the first page that i texted that i texted you and then we'll we'll get to this one this is the first thing you said okay i'm sorry the second one then yeah okay so here it is this is usa's strengthening transparency and accountability through investigative reporting program. Okay.
So here it is. This is USAID's Strengthening Transparency and Accountability Through Investigative Reporting Program.
Okay. What you'll see here is you'll see the life of activity.
This fund is, they are still being funded through this grant. And this is for Europe and Eurasia.
And you'll see the countries, Eastern Partnership, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, and Western Balkans. If you scroll down, you'll see USA spending, USA spending, USA funding is $20 million.
$20 million that our taxpayers paid to everything. Listen, they don't report on, you know, kittens being saved from falling out of trees.
Everything they do is a hit piece about an instance of corruption that can be used by prosecutors in the area to arrest the political opponents of the State Department. And what you'll see here is capacity.
Now, this is the phrase everybody has to know. Capacity building is what this is all built under.
That means pumping up the blob's assets. Whenever you see the word capacity or capacity building, it means this thing is useful to us.
The more money we give it, the more powerful they are to protect our influence. And so if you scroll, if you go back to that page, which is page two of this USAID thing, here's what you see.
So for $20 million of investment from USAID, here are the, and this is live on the website. You can find this in the Wayback Machine right now because the USAID website's down.

This is USAID, the U.S. government bragging about the achievements of what they achieved by spending $20 million.
At least $4.5 billion in fines levied against targets of these hit pieces. Now, by the way, I should note that the head of the OCCRP was busted in a major documentary that is very little distribution, but I encourage everyone to watch where he said, because this was, this was a, this was a, I think a year and a half ago or whatnot, but it was, they're up to over $10 billion now.
What's the documentary? It's a, it's on the WikiLeaks X page right now. It's by a group of German journalists who had one-on-one interviews with the head of this group, OCCRP, as well as the USAID grant coordinator and others.
And so it's straight from the horse's mouth. And they say – he says in that interview, I believe his name is Drew Sullivan, that it's now over $10 billion.
And he brags that that is a, I think he said it was a

20,000% return on investment because all these dollars were, quote, returned to government coffers. So for $20 million of mercenary media for the state, state-sponsored hit pieces, uh the government's got 10 billion dollars back that's pretty good that's an that's a 1995 amazon level uh return on investment but now let's get into the darker stuff 548 policy changes by the government or actions by civil society in the private sector now we don't know if these policy changes are good or bad.
Do you think USAID would list them as accomplishments if they were not in furtherance of USAID's or the State Department's foreign policy goals in the region? What they are saying and trying to sort of speak through their teeth, as they say it, is that they proudly sponsored hit piece journalism to ruin people's lives and go after political targets in order to change the policies of foreign governments from the inside. Now, it goes on to say 21 resignations and sackings, including of a president and prime minister.
Now, the head of OCCRP in this documentary openly says that their reporting caused, I think it was five or six different governments to topple and turn over and be transitioned proudly. So this is state-sponsored media hit pieces so that prosecutors can arrest presidents and prime ministers to regime change their government and install a more pro-U.S.
political vassal figure in the region. And then the last one is 456 arrests and indictments.
And this, again, is listed as a USAID achievement. We don't know what these people did.
We don't know whether they're guilty or innocent or whether or not these were political prosecutions, like you see right now the New York District Attorney's offices, which is a whole nother USAID connected can of worms. But these are state sponsored hit pieces for hire in order to get the give the Justice Departments, the prosecutors in a region, the ammunition to arrest the enemies of the state.
The prosecutors don't have the capacity to do a whole investigative journalism dig. They might not have access to hacked documents that, for example, the CIA, the NSA, or deeply connected political insiders might be able to give to a group like OCCRP.
Now, USAID gets a veto right over who they can hire. OCCRP has to submit an annual work plan to be submitted to and reviewed for approval by the State Department and USAID.
And and here's the kicker of it all. USAID dug up.
I'm sorry. OCCRP paid for by us.
U.S. taxpayers dug up dirt on Rudy Giuliani's work in Ukraine.
This is because this was part of the 2019 impeachment and, you know, Rudy Giuliani and his work in Ukraine. So they went and dug up dirt on Rudy Giuliani, a domestic U.S.
citizen, high profile political figure, actually attorney to the U.S. president.
And then that dirt came home and was used as part of the basis for the 2019 impeachment of the sitting president, Donald Trump. That would have never happened unless USAID sponsored that those that hit piece work.
And then they did the same thing with Paul Manafort, because it's the same foreign policy blob that went after Trump in the first place because of his foreign is difference in foreign policy vision around Ukraine, Russia and other major. This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp.
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Right. This is a different case than that, because this was related to the 2019

impeachment and all the Ukraine kerfuffle around the quid pro quo call, allegedly, that

President Trump made to President Zelensky, which, by the way, we should get to USAID's role in the

Joe Biden quid pro quo side of this in a second. But that case, I believe, related to

Thank you. which, by the way, we should get to USAID's role in the process in the Joe Biden quid pro quo side of this in a second.
But that case, I believe, related to two workers in Georgia, and it was related to the whole investigation of election fraud and and whether or not, you know, there may have been fraud perpetrated in the in the in the Georgia election. in, I believe it was either 2021 or it may have been um i'm sorry the 2020 um i'm not that that case i have not i'm not deep in the weeds on but i i have to say this as well and jamie if i don't know if if the whole audience is familiar with this clip but it's a it's it's an incredible scandalous clip do you remember when when joe biden was at the council on foreign relations and um and bragged that uh he got the top prosecutor in ukraine uh fired by the ukrainian government because he explicitly conditioned the firing of the prosecutor who was investigating burisma, he expressly conditioned their receipt of a billion dollars in U.S.
financial assistance

on the firing of Victor Shokin, the prosecutor.

And he said, well, son of a B, he was fired.

It's so crazy watching him brag about that publicly.

It just shows you what an idiot he is. You know what that billion dollars in financial assistance was? It was a USAID grant.
Yeah, it's the carrots and sticks. Find that video, Jamie, because it's a shocking video.
It's just the hubris and the ego that someone has to have to speak of this publicly while it's being filmed. not just publicly, not just in a room, not even just saying it out loud, but saying it in front of the Council of Foreign Relations backdrop.
And actually, before you play this, can I make one quick note for the audience that everyone can look up publicly? The Council of Foreign Relations, I'm just about to text Jamie another thing related to this. I'm going to pull up the USAID grant so that everyone can see this billion-dollar USAID grant that he's referring to here and what's in the grant details.
But when Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State running the State Department that USAID answers to, right, USAID is independent but guided by the State Department because it's a State Department function. It has to advance U.S.
interests. well when hillary clinton was secretary of state um council foreign relations had just opened up a dc office they're new york based and she went over to them and she made a speech and she said thank you foreign relations for opening up your dc office that way i don't need to travel all the way to new york to be told what to do i was the head of the state.
She really said it like that? Yeah, everyone can look this up. That might not be verbatim, but that was the...
It was as explicit as that effectively. But if you want to play this...
I remember going over convincing our team or others to convincing us that we should be providing for loan guarantees. And I went over, I guess, the 12th, 13th time to Kiev, and I was supposed to announce that there was another billion-dollar loan guarantee.
And I had gotten a commitment from Poroshenko and from Yatsenyuk that they would take action against a state prosecutor, and they didn't. So they said they were walking out to the press conference and said, no, I said, we're not going to give you the billion dollars.
They said, you have no authority. You're not the president.
The president said, I said, call him. I said, I'm telling you, you're not getting the billion dollars.
I said, you're not getting the billion. I'm going to be leaving here, and I think it was, what, six hours? I looked, I said, I'm leaving in six hours.
If the prosecutor's not fired, you're not getting a billion dollars i said you're not getting a billion i'm gonna be leaving here and i think it was what six hours i looked i said i'm leaving in six hours if the prosecutor's not fired you're not getting the money oh son of a bitch got fired and they put in place someone who was solid at the time solid still they so they made some genuine substantial changes institutionally and with people. Yeah, so there's two things to immediately follow up on that.
So, Jamie, I just sent you two things over text here. The first one is the U.S.
is that billion-dollar loan guarantee. And then I sent you another one about securing commitments and then it's just wild that someone would be so brazen to talk about that so publicly it's that no one's gonna look at someone that was solid what was wrong with the first guy let's go into depth well the fact that you wouldn't think like maybe someone's gonna investigate what was the first guy looking into oh why was my son running Burisma like what is going why is he making ten million dollars a year there what is going on what what is this well okay so this was a billion dollar okay so this will actually go go to the go to the other okay we'll start with this okay so here's from USAID USAID announces now this is again the the basically the final months of the Obama administration.
This is right before the November 2016 election. USAID announces a billion dollar loan guarantee.
Remember he referenced the loan guarantee. By the way, do they pay these loans back? Well, depends on if they play ball or not.
This is another one of these things, right? If you're a good boy and you do what the blob tells you to do, maybe we can be flexible in loan forgiveness. Maybe we can allow you to punt the default.
But you'll see it's a – but these are the carrots and sticks. This is why we infiltrate and co-opt these institutions and why you have a $44 billion annual slush fund around the world to do this.
But you'll see it's theuance of the billion dollar loan guarantee to the governing of government of ukraine and it's to support the implementation of governance reforms so it's for it's it's for the the we condition it on you changing the policies of your government and this is already 2016 after we installed a coup yes in 2014. Yes, yes.
last time I was here we went over the 2019 Zelensky's first month in office the red lines memo you know talk about how do you how do you prove you're a good boy well when you get the red lines memo that you will suffer political instability unless you do the 25 below listed policy things with your government you know So that factors into what the U.S. ambassador in the region will tell their Ukrainian or other government counterparts, you know, loan guarantees and whatnot are conditioned on.
But so if you go to the, you'll notice that Biden there used a very specific phrase there about securing commitments. I don't know if everyone caught that.
I want to note the similarity of that to if you go to the other screenshot, Jamie, that text you here. I'm sorry that my mug is on this.
I just pulled this up. What are you doing with your lips? Yeah, well, I know.
We'd been talking right before we started filming about just throwing receipts up on screen. This is just a live stream series that I do on X.
They caught you that's they caught you mid words i know i know but this is 1.5 million dollars so so usa is has given 27 million dollars uh in grants to the tide center which is the 501c3 it is the fiscal sponsor that gives the 501c3 stats to the black lives matter global network and to a group called Fair and Just Prosecution,

which basically manages prosecutors who are simultaneously funded by the Open Society Foundation. They work with Alvin Bragg and Letitia James and all these other ones.
But you'll see here, and this is a $1.5 million grant, you'll see that exact phrase that Joe Biden used about securing commitments from governments to fight corruption.

So sometimes this diplomatic statecraft, this strong arm pressure is done directly by the vice president. sometimes it's done by interlocutors like our state-sponsored ngo swarm who allow our ambassadors

and allow the white house to maintain a layer of plausible deniability, that it's an intermediary saying it, and they can say much harsher things than what can be conveyed and may be used against you in a formal diplomatic channel. And I said one more thing, Jamie.
If you pull up, if you go to my X feed and you just type in the phrase USAID Burisma, because this is another element of this. Again, how is this all weaponized at home and whatnot? So Victor Shokin was investigating Burisma.
Joe Biden personally weaponized USAID in order to force a foreign country's prosecutor to be fired in order to get that billion. Can I stop you for something?

What was the investigation of Burisma?

What did it entail? Well, I believe it was a similar corruption probe that there was misuse of funding. All this stuff is well-documented in Miranda Devine's book, The Big Guy.
But if you if so, if you if you open those those four four

screenshots and if you're able to center it or zoom out a little bit Western protection is a great fucking title USA to help young Biden this is in 2014 hey remember when a hunter Biden's permanent blanket a blanket pardon goes back to it goes back to 2014.

Right.

And so this

directs USA to guarantee loans so it's loan guarantees uh for every phase of development of oil and gas in Ukraine Moldova and Georgia now if you go to go to the next screenshot in this, a a foiled or legally obtained internal document at the State Department, which says despite his ruined name in Ukraine, Zlochewski is actively campaigning. He's been sending letters to ambassadors Yannick Yovanovitch and Pyatt.
they note that Hunter Biden and Devin Archer are on the board and they say even internally at state

USA does have cooperation with with burisma says pre-existing small-scale pre-existing cooperation they're formally cooperating with burisma in the region they're noting that and then if you go to the next screenshot now now this is, is state department email traffic that's been on earth. Okay.
So they're talking about doing co-branding with USAID and Burisma and the public private partnership around USAID and Burisma, but then noting quote, the very sticky wicket of the Hunter Biden connection on Burisma's board. And then they go on to say that, you know, they want to create incentives for journalists to ensure responsible and unbiased coverage.
Very sticky wicket. What a weird way to phrase that in an official email.
Right. What they're saying is it would be a major scandal if everyone knew the extent of it.
They know it looks unseemly. They don't want the media to report on the massive conflict of interest of Joe Biden going in and kicking out that prosecutor and conditioning USAID money on it while USAID is directly working with Burisma.
But then the State Department, using its media mockingbird apparatus funded by your tax dollars, the swarm of NGOs, has reported publicly this week that 90% of Ukrainian media outlets are funded by the U.S. government.
90% talk about a USAID Truman show. Jesus Christ.
And so who if they're funded by the State Department? Guess what? There's a State Department grant coordinator. guess what if they want to keep getting their contributions they are going to there's going to need to be review and approval by USAID and and by state, because often these are these are co-grants.
And so they have the capacity to ensure that the incentives are aligned for the journalists to be responsible with the way they report on the USAID-Burisma connection while Joe Biden is weaponizing USAID to protect Burisma. By the way, I should note, Hunter Biden's law firm actually pitched using Burisma as an instrument of statecraft to the State Department because the more you capacity build Burisma, the more endogenous gas Ukraine is able to supply.
And so that's less gas being exported into Europe from Gazprom and Russia. So they blend this.
It advances U.S. national interest, but hey, it makes us rich along the way.
So, you know, it's the same reason Pfizer gets to keep all the profits, you know, for, you know, when they have, when there's a vaccine mandate, you know, they don't, they say, well, we're just rewarding, you know, this is, we're doing such good work. Well, why aren't you, if this is a charity, why aren't you giving the money back to the American people, you know, of, well, should we put some cap on this? It's, oh no, well, we're incentivizing this, you know, pioneering approach and we're uniquely in the position to do it.
And what's important about this is this explains for a lot of people that are very baffled by obvious propaganda and misinformation that's being propagated by the mainstream media. When you look at mainstream newspapers and television shows saying things that are just factually incorrect, and you could research it, it's not hard to find out, and you see them propagate this stuff, this is all the same sort of thing, but this is happening on U.S.
soil. Oh, exactly.
Well, actually, Jamie, if you pull that receipt back up, there's a there's a paragraph there we didn't read, but that's that's useful to this. And then there's another topic related to this that I think makes this point even harder.
But look at that fourth paragraph there. This is from the U.S.
State Department, which is in control of managing all of the media assets, those 90 percent of media assets in Ukraine and the ones that simultaneously operate here. I would offer that Burisma's incentive to support could plausibly read, the main objective of Burisma was to create incentives for journalists to offer sympathetic coverage.
Wow. Main objective of Burisma.
The main objective. It's an energy corporation.
Yes, yes. Humanitarian aid.
You know, this is a for-profit company that's directly tied... Such a wild statement.
The main objective of Burisma was to create incentives for journalists to offer sympathetic coverage of the company on energy issues. Yes, yes.
Wow. Right.
They want to pitch it as a sort of, you know, patriotic, you know, um they bought the media they bought the media they bought the media and they bought the media here on that topic can we talk about a a related uh scandal and frankly monstrosity that the american people need to understand the full extent of its of its influence on american hearts and minds no we can't talk about that okay all right well let's go on to the next thing okay so Jamie if you if you go to X I think probably the best thread on this currently published is the WikiLeaks thread on on internews which just reading some of the statistics and that will help make sense of some of the clips and screenshots that I'm going to show you about its operations that then impact domestic affairs and international governments that are allied with the State Department.

So if you just look up, just type in the word internews, one word, I-N-T-E-R-N-E-W-S. And you go to search down the WikiLeaks profile, you'll see.
Yeah, here we go. If you just top that top one, you know, USAID has pushed nearly half the...
So this... So Internews, I've been talking about for a long time, but now the stage is sort of set to really show the extent of this.
But what we do is we create these pretty little predicates, these pretty little lie words, weasel words to hide from the American people, and especially from foreign governments, what we're really doing in the area. So we have a catchphrase at state and in statecraft, it's called independent media.
You can think of that as the State Department's word for

good guy. Okay, doesn't mean independent.
They are funded by us. They are not independent from the government.
They literally submit their work and approval plans for their work plans for what they cover for review and approval to the U.S. State Department.
They are dog walked the whole way. But we call them independent because they are said to be independent from foreign governments influence.
So basically, they're independent from the Chinese government or they're independent from the Russian government. So there's just like with the word USAID itself that we talked about last time.
It's your mind playing tricks on you. You're seeing aid, but it's Agency for International Development.
But they do the same thing with independent media, which is that internally to them, it means it's a good guy for us because it's independent from our enemies.

But it's but when Americans see that they think, well, independent, that means it's a free actor who's not being sponsored by any government. But under the banner of USAID's independent media and media sustainability branches, We fund half a billion dollars a year to this network of, again, over 4,000 media outlets.
It reaches 778 million people, 9,000 journalists trained. Remember last time we went over the Atlantic Council with seven CIA directors and annual funding from USAID, as well as the State Department and Pentagon, how they were holding up I call BS placards and putting Trump tweets on screen to flag for disinformation.

If you remember, we went over that. Well, this is what training journalists looks like, is they is is not only do they have the direct spawn of a media octopus under their direct sub-grantee group, but they then go out and train the journalists who work at all the other ones who aren't directly sponsored.
So they reach everywhere. And you'll see here, for example, it makes reference to Gene Bergo, who is making half a million dollars a year year there and if you go now i'm going to show this this domestic impact real quick and then a couple screenshots so if you this is this has been going viral on x i've been talking about usa's role in the censorship industry forever and if you look up if you just look up uh internews and you just plug in the name you know if you just copy paste that uh you know gene burgo phrase you'll see this in the video section because it's everywhere now so so she made speeches for for a long time but this is a this is a a big one um here we go this one right here okay so usa-funded internews ceo pushes for global advertising exclusion list to censor disinformation.
This is a 28-second clip. Like what they did to X.
Yeah, exactly. Disinformation makes money.
And that's one of them. We need to follow that money.
And we need to work with the, and particularly the global advertising industry, that a lot of those dollars go to pretty bad content. And so you can work really hard on exclusion lists or inclusion lists or sort of really try to focus ad dollars and challenge the global advertising industry all around the world to focus their ad dollars towards the good news and information, the accurate and relevant news and information.
So this is USAID sponsoring both sides of this. She runs a $500 million mercenary media for hippies for hire empire sponsored by USAID.
USAID also gave $68 million to the World Economic Forum itself. and USAID's own internal documents show the explicit political targeting of these advertiser networks

and I can show you receipts on that if you just type in the word

CEPPS

and show the explicit political targeting of these advertiser networks. And I can show you receipts on that if you just type in the word CEPPS, C-E-P-P-S, and advertiser on my X timeline.
And I don't mean to just go receipt to receipt to receipt, actually. No, it's okay.
Actually, before we get to that, just so I can close the loop on something that's a little bit more accessible and less political. Jamie, I texted you a screenshot of Internews in Brazil.
And one of them has at the top of it something called Rooted in Trust. If you keep scrolling up.
Yeah, there you go. That one.
Yep. Okay.
So this is Internews with a worldwide media octopus sponsored a half a billion dollars a year you know reaching 9 000 journalists 5 000 media outlets and here's what they were doing um just in uh just on just on covid censorship so rooted in trust is a internews program it's a global pandemic information response program to counter the unprecedented scale and speed and spread of rumors and misinformation. All of which turned out to be true.
All of which turned out to be true. Our own CIA says that.
Our own House Oversight Committee says that now. Every single step of the way.
There's not one thing they said that they turn out to be accurate not the death rate not the ability to stop infections and transmissions not the side effects Not the fact that natural immunity is far superior none of the none not nothing not one thing not the lab leak theory Nothing, not even the funding of the research and the actual lab, which is alsoaid right yes yes 50 million dollars right right from uc davis to eco health directly into and because i always say when it's too dirty for the cia you give it to usaid and that's and that's why you know that's why you have all this pandemic stuff and maybe we can get to that later but i want to show the scale of this uh you you sponsored your own state censorship rooted in trust has tracked more than 19 000 rumors about the virus across 14 plus languages globally over 81 million people in response to the unique rumors sourced from each country context this usa-sponsored project has produced a total of over 130 rumor bulletins, 500 radio broadcasts, and 480 media stories through a series of training opportunities. Events, peer-to-peer networks, and small grants, Root & Trust has supported 550 local media organizations in order to scan and ban the internet.
And more importantly, to connect communities directly with timely and accurate COVID-19 information, which all turned out to be lies. I only had time before this to text one page of this.
I mean, everyone should go through this document. I'll post on my X feed, and there's millions around this.
I mean, the whole global coordination was done through this through us aid and the u.s state department and its partners in in the in the uk and in nato and you know the fact that these very organs are implicated in it these strange darpa grants around creating the the great the gain of function um you know, the USAID, uh you know grants that we're all jumping uh you know animal to human uh for these things uh you know the presence of folks like avril haynes the deputy director of the cia and then head of director of the the director of national intelligence uh you know at these censorship planning conferences for event 201 the fact that state and DOD and the UK foreign office all funded all of the censorship organs like the Atlantic Council and Graphica and these others that we went over last time. You know, they basically they're the prime suspect for the crime and they and they sponsored the entire white blood cell apparatus to swarm any kernel of truth penetrating the membrane in order to orchestrate the cover-up.
So they're on both sides of it. And we can talk more about the inner news work there.
I want to, but I want to – this is the darkest of conspiracy theories. The darkest of conspiracy theories was that the leak was intentional.
The darkest of conspiracy theories is that this was planned. They knew this was going to be a financial windfall.
It is the greatest transfer of wealth in the history of the United States by far from the working class to the elite. It's like three plus, what, trillion dollars or something crazy like that yeah we've already established that it was created in a lab we already established that USAID funded it we already established that Fauci et al lied about gain-of-function research what they were doing the worst theory possible is that this was released on purpose yeah that would that would be the worst case scenario, yeah.
Have you ever danced that one around your head? Because that's where you... We know they're willing to do horrible, evil shit, but is there a ceiling on that? Even now to this day, having spent so much of my life in it, I try, I try to just pursue the leads that I have, and then try to let the conclusions come to me.
Certainly the fact that they funded the capacity to do this, they work directly with all the networks that were both doing it and censoring it is that puts you pretty much as, you know, they created it and they covered up at least the leak in terms of the intentionality for doing it. that is a really dark scenario you know there are a lot of things in american history

um that that have that same, you know, me-ha-lee-ha distinction. You know, do they make it happen or do they let it happen? Do they let it happen or do they make it happen? And both of them are major scandals that completely change the legitimacy and credibility of policy changes in response to the crisis, for example.

Like, you know, take something like pearl harbor right it's been declassified now the mccullum memo the the eight action plan are you familiar with with this the yeah right um you know and this was you know written before the the the bombing and it was eight ways to get japan to attack, because we don't have diplomatic cover to declare war on them. But if we get them to attack us, and we can then spiral that into a war predicate, I mean, the same thing, for example, with the Northwoods memo with, you know, pretext to war with Cuba and cooking up all these, you know, hijacking our own planes, sinking our own ships, doing, you know, riots on the streets of Miami, and then saying that it was the Cuban government behind it.
Same thing with Vietnam, Gulf of Tonkin, you know, same thing with, you know, with the weapons of mass destruction, predicate for invading Iraq. Did we know that that, you know, did we, were we duped and the crime was negligence for letting our national security state believe the New York Times reporting on, you know, on chemical and biological and weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? Or did we make that happen? Did we did you know, was that he was that something that we knew was not true based on our own intelligence, but because there was a useful thing there.
And, you know, a lot of people have the same thoughts about issues around around 9-11 and any number of crisis events. And I.
I suppose I have my own thoughts on it. They're not fully settled.
And because they are beyond the evidence I currently have um i i stay in the zone of this is what they did to create it this is what they did to cover it up here the stars in the sky draw your own constellation from there that's a good way to put it okay back to what you were just about to talk about yeah so, so, again, there's two simultaneous tasks that I have. One is to burn down these rogue institutions that have been weaponized domestically and salt the earth behind them so that these kind of excesses can never come home again.
The other one is we do need U.S. soft power projection in order to maintain the standard of living and prosperity that we have.
You know, I give the example all the time. No blob, no pencils.
You can't make pencils in this country unless you depend on governments in Malaysia and South America and parts of Africa. And if that's the case in, you know, for pencils, now do that exercise with petroleum.
Now do that exercise with cobalt, for example. There was only one operational cobalt mine in all of the U.S.
And in 2022, even that mine shut down. So most of the cobalt's in the Congo.
If the Congolese government decides they don't want to allow you access to cobalt, well goes your capacity to to create any high technology or renewable battery or anything there is potentially a need for some modified and more honest restrictions on our department of dirty tricks for example the cia used to be allowed to assassinate world leaders um in the in the 40s and 50s you know this is where we got in trouble in congo with lum or, you know, Allende or any number of these. And then when those scandals got revealed, there were legislative reforms put in place and executive branch national security reforms put in place to say, OK, you can do dirty work, but not that dirty.
You can't do that. the same thing needs to be done now for all of these things you know many categories of things

for example we just played internews and the internews CEO, um, campaigning to, uh, governments and corporations and private sector, civil society organizations around the world, uh, that they need to economically blacklist, uh, news sites that, uh, that operate on social media. And those are U.S.
news sites. This is the basis of lawsuits here in the U.S.
like Daily Wire and The Federalist suing the State Department because U.S. news sites are in these advertiser blacklists.
And to that end, I want to note two things. First, if you go to my X feed and you type in the word advertiser or advertisers, and if you need to, you can plug in the word USAID or CEPPS, C-E-P-P-S in this.
And I want to show you that this is not internews gone wrong. This is not a half a billion dollar a year grantee of USAID going rogue and being ideological about this.
This is top down U.S. government policy from the White House, and I'll show you the documents on that, to the White House executive branch agencies like USAID and state.
Okay, if you go to search and you put in the word advertiser, yeah, and it could be advertiser or advertisers. Okay, so there you go.
So click on that left, the left image first.

this is now we talked about this group seps last time um you know in in our in our hit a few months ago seps is a a program that is basically a joint baby of usaid and the state department

and is implemented by the by usaID's key operational arm, the National Endowment for Democracy. But this is a USAID program on countering disinformation.
Internet censorship is what they do. And we went over last time, remember we played that two-minute video where they were openly saying that the plan is to get foreign governments to pass legal reform, pass laws and regulations to stop the spread of misinformation on U.S.
social media websites. So USA would not be able to lobby the U.S.
government to do that because we have a First Amendment. Europe doesn't.
Brazil doesn't. But here is from an internal document, February 2021, of USAID's SEPS program.
And now this is a 97-page document. They referenced the word advertiser and advertising in this document 31 times in 97 pages.
So this is, and that was three years before that clip we just saw, how far back in motion this is. And I can go back even further to that in 2017 and share clips on that and how this network coordinated the very ad boycotts that Elon is subject to and that brought Facebook and Google to their knees when they folded to advertiser boycotts.
There you go. In order to disrupt the funding and financial incentive, using the same phrases that the internet CEO did, to disinform, attention is turned to the advertising industry, particularly with online advertising.
So it goes on to say, thus cutting the financial support in the ad tech space would obstruct disinformation actors. They're not human beings.
They're not Americans with running mom and pop shops that depend on their Facebook page to be able to advertise their flower business. No, they're reduced to the inhuman disinformation actors from spreading messaging online.
So the efforts being made to inform advertisers of the risk, such as the threat to brand safety. So this is USAID saying, we got to talk to these advertisers and say, hey, you know, brand safety is really important to all your little, all your brands.
It would be a shame if you were known for putting ads next to misinformation websites like daily wire and the federalist that goes on to say additionally with this data organizations and these are partner organizations this group seps runs you know is together with usaid and and uh and the state department there run network of hundreds of ngos around the world that all jointly carry out. This is what they're sponsored to do.

It says the aim is to redirect funding to higher quality news domains and

improve regulatory and market environments.

Regulatory means laws,

laws,

laws about this,

like the EU digital services act redirect.

So this is a top down U S government plan to financially financially reengineer the entire economics of the news industry in order to make it so that if you spread messaging against the state or against a sensitive policy issue by the state, you are put out of business.

You cannot professionalize.

You can't compete with CNN or New York Times or MSNBC.

You just like this is what happened to Breitbart, for example, and they got caught up in this web.

They lost 99 percent of their advertising revenue.

They were going up like this and however you feel about breitbart this is these are the these are the plain facts of this in action they were a rising star in the 2016 election steve bannon who was you know the head of that went on to be the basically the top white house advisor directly they got crushed when% of their ad revenue. This is why everyone's having to switch to bilking our own citizens to pay for it, because the natural thing advertisers would want to do, a return on investment for putting ads on news sites or social media, they can't do because they're getting pressure from the government.
And so now look at the bottom.

Now, I don't have this, but any members of Congress or DOGE or House or Senate oversight or White House Office of Science and Technology Policy,

I implore you, a few examples of advertiser outreach are included in Annex 3.

I don't have that annex.

It's not available on the USAID website that I downloaded this from before it went down. USAID is giving out examples of advertiser outreach, how to pressure them in order to do this.
And there's much more there. If you go to the next slide, for example, you'll see this is, they have whole categories of what USAID wants media companies to do.
Once once regulatory bodies to do once all of its other whole society partners do. But here's just the first two entries from this.
What can technology companies do? So this is USAID telling Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, Reddit, Twitch, eliminate the financial incentives, nuke their ad, nuke their ad revenue if if uh if we don't like what they say what could national governments do again this is our government funded by our tax dollars telling foreign governments that they should regulate ad networks to kill the ad revenue of u.s social media websites and.S. news entities, like has been caught up in the advertiser database at State and USAID under the Biden administration.
And there's a million more examples like this. But if you want to go to a really crazy one, there's a YouTube video that is still live.
It's by Globsec. Actually, before I turn to that, do you mind? Am I you mind if am i going no go ahead i text before we're going to go to this 2000 may 2017 globsec video but before i do that jamie i texted you an image of um of a piece that that uh my foundation just published if you um it says 23 eu organizations drive eu censorship law.
Uh, if you, uh, yeah, if you scroll, scroll up or, or actually if you scroll down, um, uh, oh, you know what? Actually, maybe I didn't text you. It's at the top of my X feed right now.
And you'll, you'll see it's, uh, it might be like the fifth or sixth one down, but, um, yeah, just down a little bit. Okay.
Okay. Right there.
Okay. So, oh, sorry.
No, it's both the one above and below that. So before we get to the one above that, let's go to the one right below that.
I said one more below that. One more, one more, one more, one more, one more, one more, one more.
It's that one. Yeah.
See those four screenshots? Yeah. So we just reported this.

This is 23 U.S.-funded organizations who are all signatories or implementers, signatories to the EU's code of practice on disinformation, which if U.S. tech companies don't comply with what the EU, a foreign body, calls disinformation, the penalties for that are losing 6% of U.S.
social media companies' global annual revenue or get kicked out of the entire EU market, which is 550 million people. So, you know, we go through this, you know, in this here.
But if you, so not only are they the signatories to it, who basically helped craft this thing and put the U.S. government stamp on this.

But if you go to, you'll see they're also the implementers. They're the ones who are helping define disinformation in the EU that targets U.S.
social media companies and U.S. news websites.
So go to the fourth one, go to the fourth thing right here. Now this, my foundation just reported as well.
We got access to a White House interagency working group for for information integrity. This is one of these censorship weasel weasel phrases weasel words.
Information integrity is what you just saw in that USA document about high redirecting ad revenue from high quality, high quality news outlets to low quality news outlets. they make that determination by determining high integrity news and low integrity news so basically

if they like you they from high quality news outlets to low quality news outlets, they make that determination by

determining high integrity news and low integrity news. So basically, if they like you, they call you high integrity.
If they don't like you, or you're publishing a scandal, or you say, hey, the COVID vaccines might have some problems with them. Hey, there might be some issues with, you know, what happened in the 2020 election? Hey, you know, what's happening with our Ukraine aid? Low information integrity.
So this phrase, information integrity, is one of these evolving sets of weasel phrases in order to do internet censorship while making it look like it's just an intervention to help you. We're making the information integrity ecosystem, you know, better so that we have a healthier information environment.
Well, this is directly from the, this was centrally coordinated from the White House. This working group has 26 U.S.
government agencies and programs participating in it. They're partnered with 14 outside universities, as well as a whole row of private sector firms.
USAID is one of those, by the way. USAID is a contributor to this in the Biden administration.
This is this started in December 2021, really got the wheels turning in December 2022. But this is from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy itself, where it's someone from White House.
The other co-chairs are from ODNI, the director of national intelligence, the job that Tulsi Gabbard is currently campaigning for.

DARPA, the Pentagon's brain. The job that Tulsi Gabbard is currently campaigning for it.

DARPA, you know, the the Pentagon's brain, as well as the National Science Foundation, which is the civilian arm that that funds all the censorship work.

But here you have from the Joe Biden White House itself engagement with international partners that this this is three years ago.

Before, you know, before this thing even really kicked in in the way that it now is.

Engaging with our international partners outside the United States on our censorship efforts,

assessing, establishing a partnership with the European Union to provide U.S. researchers.

Now, that's their cover word.

That's the big lie word of all of this.

It's operations, but they call them researchers to make it look passive rather than active. And I can go through a million examples of that to show how deep that lie goes.
With access to social media data accessible under the 2022 EU Code of Practice on Disinformation. Every single one of these researchers is connected to the blob, whether directly or indirectly.
They're either a part of organizations that are sponsored by USAID, the State Department, the Defense Department, or the transatlantic networks in the UK, like the UK Foreign Office, or they are indirectly partnered or they're partnered with one who is. Every single one of these.
They don't just like researchers. They got to be accredited.
They got to be credentialed. They got to be vetted.

In fact, a lot of these internal documents talk about how only basically the trusted inside web should be able to get access to this. But what they're saying is the U.S.
government can't pry that out of Facebook's hands. We have a First Amendment.
We can't make them subject to a code of practice on disinformation. There is no legislative bill that'll pass Congress that will force them to give over that will force facebook to give over the you know the the private messages and all the internal algorithm and spread of information to a random u.s university like uh you know you know pick your poison the university of washington or or the university of stanford to a random university that everything you thought was safe and secure on the platform is now is now being given to a private you know university because it was crowbarred out of your out of your out of the platform's arms by the government this is the sort of thing the nsa does the NSA has you know uh secret warrants forcing Facebook to uh compel you know private information about the platform for the FBI and you know when they're doing a an investigation or the NSA when they're doing a national security one this is doing it for private actors and they're using foreign governments to crowbar U.s companies because we in their eyes are unfortunately bound by the first amendment there's a lot more there but i can i can pause jesus christ it's so amazing how thorough it is like the the people that want to think the government is completely inept and that conspiracies aren't likely because people are not motivated and not very good at their jobs like the people same people that want to say the government is terrible they're it's filled with bloat they don't know what they're not capable of pulling off something to this with this depth so when you see it when you actually see it laid out and the mechanism in which it was was done through NGOs and through these other non-government organizations, it's kind of astonishing.
It's kind of impressive. Oh, it is.
And you see how it all synchronizes just like Wisner's Wurlitzer did in, you know, from 1948 through the 1970s when formally it was supposed to have stopped. But just that's why I say when it's too dirty for the CIA, you give it to USAID.
The CIA used to do this work under covert action. But USAID has a couple of cute tricks that make it the central warehouse for all of this.
And this is why when we started this conversation, I was saying, you know, you ain't seen nothing yet. This thing is going to get so deep and it's going to connect to so many institutions that everybody thought, you know, like in the Truman Show, they thought it was their best friend.
You know, they thought this thing was totally independent and these were authentic conversations you're having with the cashier. And it turns out, oops, okay, actually you're a part of this, you know, USAID sponsored network or the state or Intel-sponsored network because this is fundamentally covert action that's being done.
And when the CIA – the CIA is subject to restrictions on the kind of covert activity it can do. Every covert action the CIA does, which is our organ for organized political warfare, George Kennan himself as well as William casey and colby and everyone the express purpose of it was to carry out the subversive side of the political struggle you know uh so that we'd have a mechanism for influencing uh foreign you know the foreign affairs by creating an internal what what looks to be an organic you know uh grassroots grassroots, authentic network within the country, but we're actually funding and directing their actions, their actions to be favorable to U.S.
interests. But where I'm going with this is USAID is, has most of the worst scandals of U.S.
statecraft and covert action in the past two decades have actually been from USAID rather than CIA.

And there's a reason for this. So after the big scandals against the Democrats and liberals and anti-war groups in the 60s and 70s, reforms were put in place.

And some of this goes back to the 40s itself, but every covert action the CIA does has to be authorized by the president in what's called a presidential finding to take that covert action. so if this if the cia senior leadership or a were just a rogue cell that's not even at the top of leadership but just a a rogue desk a rogue portfolio portfolio a rogue network wants to run a covert action in a region, but they don't think the president will approve or the president doesn't want to formally sign off on it in case it goes it goes wrong.
They can walk right over to USAID who can do the exact same thing the CIA does, except they can call it discrete democracy promotion because it's not technically an intelligence agency.

So it's not technically covert action.

So it doesn't require executive branch approval or foreknowledge.

And they've gotten in trouble in these cases in some pretty incredible ways.

Can I show that?

Please.

So let's start with even the whitewashed version.

Go to the Wikipedia of Zunzineo, Z-U-N-Z-E-N-E-O, just on the Wikipedia. And then we can go deeper on this if you want.
This was a scandal during the Obama-USAid era. Now, we were running a number of rogue USAID operations in Cuba at the time.
By the way, I have to say for the record, I'm no fan of the Cuban government. I'm not even weighing in on whether it's the right or wrong thing to do, you know, in terms of regime change there or, you know, liberating people there from autocratic excess by that government.
I'm simply showing the American people where your tax dollars are going and how these things are structured in order to systematically fool you and to fool Congress and to fool the White House. So for example, so this is, this is, and I'll show a couple other things in a second here, but so this is Zunzanio.
If you have to just scroll for a second, we'll start with this, right? So it was an online social media. Just scroll up one second.
We'll start at the top here.

It was an online social social networking microblogging service created by USAID and marketed to Cuban users.

This was a Twitter knockoff. See, the background of this is this is 2009, 2014.

That period, the State Department and USAID were gangbusters gung ho on the the promise of Arab Spring-style social media revolutions to topple other governments. The Arab Spring was a Facebook revolution and a Twitter revolution.
USAID pumped $1.2 billion in, you know, and we sponsored these activist groups and these civil society organizations to learn how to use Facebook, learn how to use Twitter, learn how to use hashtags, learn how to coordinate street protests so that everyone knows where to go, what street to show up on, you know, what kind of slogans to, you know, to use in order to create the pro-democracy, you know, predicate for it. But the problem was at the time, Cuba did not allow U.S.
social media in. So in so they said hmm so they're not allowing twitter in

how can we get a twitter there but without calling it twitter without making it look like it's coming from the u.s so what they did is they took the exact same thing as twitter same user interface same like and retweet button zunzunio uh is uh is the cuban slang word for for hummingbird So it means it's bird.

It was the Twitter bird.

The whole thing.

But the whole... Zunzunio is the Cuban slang word for hummingbird.
So it means it's bird.

It was the Twitter bird, the whole thing. But the whole trick about it was you have to make it look like it's coming from the Cubans if you're going to do this operation.
So what you'll see is it began running. So this is 2010.
This is right during the Arab Spring. and what you'll see is they took funds,

millions of dollars of funds that were concealed as humanitarian funds designated for Pakistan. Now, I don't know if Joe or the audience, if you've looked at a map lately, but Pakistan is not exactly the next door neighbor of Cuba.
Right. So and this is the this is the Wikipedia whitewashing and we can get into the deeper layers of this but contractors funded by USAID I should note the main contractor was Creative Associates International who's a frequent one it's CAI not CIA I promise so they they concealed in the budget from Senate from Congress from the White House National Security Council.
They said that these were humanitarian funds for Pakistan. And then they ran that to their contractor, CAI, to, quote, set up a Byzantine system of front companies using Cayman Islands bank accounts and recruiting unsuspecting business executives who would not be told of the company's ties to the U.S.
government, according to the AP. Private companies like Creative Associates International designed the network.
The idea arose after they were given 500,000 stolen Cuban cell phones that were available on the black market. And then what you'll see if you scroll down is, okay, the network dubbed the Cuban Twitter reached about 60,000 Cuban subscribers.
The initiative appears to also have had a surveillance dimension, allowing a, quote, vast database of Cuban Zunzanillo subscribers, including gender, age, and receptiveness and political tendencies to be built, with the Associated Press noting such data could be used in the future for political purposes. By the way, these are all quotes from the internal documents, and we can go through that.
The data would then be used for micro-targeting efforts towards anti- and pro-government users in Cuba. The developers aimed to, at first, use non-controversial content, such as sports and music and hurricane updates, by the way.
They used hurricane updates in the internal things. Basically, a humanitarian front that if you sign up to this app, you'll know about natural disasters in the area.
Meanwhile, what was the plan the whole time? Once they built up enough subscribers, they would begin to introduce political messages through social bots and encourage dissent in this astroturfing. There's a great Guardian write-up on this.
If you go to Guardian Zunzineo, so you can see how crazy, Just type in Zunzineo Smart Mob Guardian. You'll see the internal files explicitly said we're going to lure them in with music, sports, and hurricane updates.
You have to join Twitter in Cuba if you want to be relevant in the culture and see what's trending in sports and music. If you want to be safe in your homes, if you want to know where hurricanes are going, Twitter, Cuban Twitter is the fastest place to get this.
It's humanitarian work for, you know, that's, we're saving lives by doing this. But the whole point is once they hit a critical mass, they would create rental riots and they would use this the same way they used it in Egypt and tunisia to topple those governments under the obama administration they would organize smart mobs rental riots and if uh and if you if you scroll down there's some you know this this is a fantastic article highly recommend uh there's a lot more there but but okay stop right there scroll up a little bit okay documents show the u.s government plan to build a subscriber base through non-controversial news content, news messages on soccer, music and hurricane updates.
This is in The Guardian. Later, when the network reached a critical mass, perhaps hundreds of thousands, operators would introduce political content aimed at inspiring Cubans to organize, quote, smart mobs.
mass gatherings called at a moment's notice that might trigger a cuban spring or as one usa

document put it quote renegotiate the balance of power between state and society. And, you know, so one more thing, if you want to look up on this, you see how they can seal it.
If you just type in USAID, Zunzunio, and discrete or discrete action, and you'll see how USAID, when this scandal popped off, everyone said, what the hell? How did this happen? This is classic CIA work. You're using Cayman Islands bank accounts.
You're saying it's, you're earmarking it for Pakistani aid. This has clear implications for U.S.
statecraft if this gets busted. This is why we task the CIA to do this.
Plausible deniability. If something has diplomatic blowback and we don't want U.S.
fingerprints on it, we need a formal intelligence agency because there's diplomatic blowback if U.S. fingerprints are revealed.
So, yeah, just discreet. Yeah, like discreet.
Let's see. If you scroll down, that third one might do, but if you scroll down, if you put discrete action, maybe put discrete action or discrete covert and action.
I believe there's a HuffPo one on this. Yeah, there you go.
Yeah. When is covert action not covert? When it's discreet.
U.S. AIDS.
So basically, when this, and if you scroll down to the bottom of this, you'll see, if you just control F for the word Senate, you'll see last week, Elon Musk held an X space directly with Senator Joni Ernst, who has been on this crusade to reform USAID accesses. And there's a really scandalous moment there where Senator Ernst revealed that she was actually threatened by USAID when she tried to get insight into what they were actually doing.
Well, if you actually scroll down, if you just do the next the next one, basically what USAID said is, well, it's discrete's discrete democracy promotion so it's uh you know we don't need a presidential finding for it um uh okay maybe this is not there but basically if if if you control that for the word staff that might help it too but um everyone can look this up independently all this stuff uh okay is that the only okay maybe it's a different articleers, and everyone, go on YouTube. There was a formal hearing on this for oversight of what happened.
And what the staffers said is, this is the staffers on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which is supposed to be the thing that reigns in, that gives the American people oversight and accountability for USAID gone rogue. And what the Senate staffers overseers overseeing usa said is we had no visibility

on this entire operation the entire time because usa told us if they had to if they had to tell us what we were doing people could die this is classic cia stuff but this the senate was blocked and i should note again when it's too dirty for the cia you give it to usa this is why these drug operations and these terrorist operations run primarily through USAID rather than directly at the CIA. The inspector general just two weeks ago put out a report.
The first time this has been publicly reported. There's been inspector general at USAID practically from the day it was born.
It's supposed to be. This is what Joni Ernst was complaining about.
Senator Joni Ernst was complaining about, which was that how can they can they get away with this and it's because the inspector general who's supposed to hold the agency to account from from the inside but it's an independent agency so there's limited oversight from the outside if you have a rogue inspector general they keep the whole op in-house don't need to tell the executive branch don't you tell the senate congress run it just like an ali north iran contra style selfustained, standalone, off-the-shelf private enterprise to run covert action on taxpayer dime, but not have it go through the formal approval channels. Well, so basically, what they were doing here in what the OIG report, the Inspector General report, just published, and the best article on this with the link to it is John Solomon's Just the News, you know, published this a write up on it, as well as the source document from from the OIG's office.
We're just now learning this two weeks ago, despite them them doing this activity for 30 years. It turns out there's a there's a get out of get out of sponsoring terrorism free card at USAID, which is that USAID cannot directly provide funding to terrorist groups, but their contractors are not required under the grant agreements to go through those OFAC style, those counterterrorism financing.
If a bank did it, you would go directly to jail. Do not pass go.
Do not have liberty again for the next 20 years of your life. But if USAID does it, it's completely legal right now.
And so this is how you have USAID giving, you know, they just last week, $122 million to ISIS, you know, we found. They fund all the terrorist groups in Pakistan.
They fund the terrorist groups in the Sahel in Africa. And for what purpose? Paramilitary terrorist groups are extremely useful to U.S.
statecraft for DOD special operations work as well as for political destabilization work. I'll give you a great example.
We'll stay in Pakistan.

Osama bin Laden.

A peaceful

what was it?

A warrior on the road to peace.

I remember the puff pieces about Osama

bin Laden before

the Mujahideen.

Here's a great

clip. Can you find the clip of Zbigniew Brzezinski? I believe this is around 1789.
Airdropping out of a helicopter. 1989? No, 79, I believe.
Oh, 1979. Yeah.
If you type in Zbigniew Brzezinski, that's going to be a wallop one to spell live, but if you just do Zbigniew Brzezinski, you can go to YouTube and type in Mujahideen. And you'll watch him airdrop out of the helicopter and make the exact same speech that John McCain made to the Azov Battalion, the extremist paramilitary faction of Ukraine that was banned from getting federal funding in 2014 when the Democrats said they're all Nazis, but now they're all sponsored and get standing ovations in the halls of Congress because now they are geopolitically useful to capacity build.
So here you go. U.S.
National Security Advisor Brzezinski flew to Pakistan to set about rallying resistance. He wanted to arm the Mujahideen without revealing America's role.
On the Afghan border near the Khyber Pass, he urged the soldiers of God to redouble their efforts. Can you pause for a sec? Notice how he said he wanted to arm the Mujahideen without revealing America's role.
Okay. The whole point was to pump up this, you know, fundamentalist extremist terrorist group with the funding and support they need, but without revealing America's role.
Hello, USAID. That's the function today, but keep on.
it one day because your fight will prevail and you'll have your homes and your mosques back again because your cause is right and god is on your side that land is yours go out there and take it we'll give you the money now what jamie if you can pull up one thing and i'm gonna just talk a little bit more about this case while you're while you're pulling this up you can find this i believe on my X feed. I've posted this clip, but you could also find it searching either X or YouTube of John McCain, and I believe he was with Lindsey Graham, making that exact same speech using the same language in, I believe it was 2016 or 24, I believe it was 2016 around then, to the Azov Battalion folks in Ukraine and to the paramilitaries.
It's almost word for word. But let me stick on the Mujahideen thing for a second, because this gets back to this fundamental structuring, why USAID is tasked with this.
There's a bigger budget than the CIA USAID does. It capacity builds the assets cia liaises with but if the assets aren't there cia has no one to tell what what to do they've none of their you know agents on the ground or you know case officers can build an action plan unless there are assets on the ground that have money that have training that have food that have shelter and u.s aid steps in to, to put the chess pieces on the board that the CIA can play with.
Interestingly, I should note that the CIA gets a copy of every grant that the National Endowment for Democracy makes. This was published in the New York Times in a piece called Missionaries for Global Pluralism about USAID's top top operational arm, Ned.
But the point I'm getting at here is why were we funding terrorists in the 1970s and 80s? Well, according to our national security advisor, he's a big new Brzezinski, the grand chessboard, you know, this celebrated apex predator of American statecraft. you know, I think he had a quote that was something like, well, you know, what is arming a few, you know, Islamic fundamentalists matter when weighed against the history of America winning the Cold War? You know, that this fundamentally destabilized and bogged the Soviet Union down.
This was extremely effective. But also, how do we fund the Mujahideen? Well, the Mujahideen is in Afghanistan.
They were before they became Al-Qaeda and ISIS. What asset does Afghanistan have to play with in order to fund its war network, its paramilitary network? Well, it's the drug network.
They happen to sit on the, you know, basically the poppy fields that when exploited comprise 95% of the world's heroin, if you export that. And so the CIA backed, State Department, USA backed, and we can go through receipts of USA doing the same, you know, drugs for cash for guns work in the 1960s, practically from the day it was born.
But what they were doing is they were taking those poppy harvests and then they were depositing them in CIA proprietary banks like the like BCCI, the Bank of Credit and Commerce International. Everyone can look this up or if you want to plug in CIA BCCI and look at all the mainstream media reporting on this, it was a major, major, major scandal.
You know, it had become one of the world's largest banks and it was basically a CIA front and it was a, you know, Pakistani frontman for this and it was converting, effectively washing the proceeds of these drugs so that they could be, so that the Mujahideen could buy arms while the Pakistani militants were being funded and trained in Pakistan. And then they go to Afghanistan and conduct military operations against the Russians who were our stated Cold War enemy.
The same thing's happening today, though. If you go on my X feed right now, I'm going to show you something related to this and how this still goes on today.
USAID has been busted multiple times for actually cultivating the poppy and heroin production in Afghanistan, exactly in Afghanistan. This was actually the inspector, you know, there was of the adjacent units.
Not I don't think it was directly overseeing seeing USA, but they published a whole report on this that basically USAID, you know, was keeping the poppy production alive by doing, you know, what was said to be, you know, irrigation and, you know, agricultural sustainability, but targeting it in the heroin network. And by the way, remember the Taliban banned poppy production.
And it was after that ban that Afghanistan became the source of 95% of the world's heroin. So USAID was growing those crops.
Now, okay, you can argue, well, hey, maybe it was an accident. Maybe they went rogue.
I want to show you something now from an adjacent USAID network group, which is funded 100% by the U.S. government, created by an active Congress.
If you go to my X account right now and you type in U.S. Institute for Peace or you just put in Institute Peace, you'll see this.

This organization gets $56 million a year from U.S. taxpayers.

Its office is right next to the U.S. State Department.

I literally walk by it.

It is a, so it's funded by the government.

It's accountable to the government. It's, it's accountable to the government.
It's,

you know, accountable to the, you know, the, the house, uh, house, house and Senate, you know, uh, foreign affairs, foreign relations. Uh, it gets all of its money as a pass through from the U S state department.
Yeah. Type in.
Yeah. Yeah.
There you go. Scroll, scroll down.
Scroll down that one, that one right there, right there. Taliban's successful opium ban.
So this is 100% top to bottom

a direct organ of the US government

click that click that you know okay this how been successful opium ban is bad for afghans and the world the ban is not a counter narcotics victory and will have negative economic and humanitarian consequences potentially leading to a refugee crisis how could they say it's not a counter narcotics victory look and look at the date this ain't ancient history this is less than two years ago that's great this is the state department saying yeah listen 95 percent of the world's heroin uh you know keeps it flows from here here. Keep the heroin flowing.
It would be an economic disaster. Well, what do you think those drug money? What what paramilitary networks? You know, you hear about all these terrorist networks that like.
Think about what just happened in Syria with ISIS. Everyone.
Well, actually, before I go to that, let's let's get back to ISIS and the difference between the isis foreign policy for the obama biden world and trump i'm going to connect this but uh wait can you pull that back up jamie for a second i just want everyone to see it don't look away stare straight into the sun go to the next next receipt here there you go 2024 budget and brief u.s institute of peace seeking 2056 million from U.S. taxpayers to promote global peace and security, don't you know, by keeping the 95% of the world's heroin flowing in accordance with its congressional mandate.
And then, you know, and then I think I have the next screenshot is just showing. Did they give any examples of how it would promote peace to to keep the opium flowing? Well, because the way they're saying it, it's like this Orwellian speak.
Well, yeah, you always have to invert it, right? When they say peace, it's war, right? So this is war. For example, U.S.
Institute of Peace was doing the same thing with the Albanian drug networks that formed a paramilitary fighting squad against the Yugoslavian

government as we were overthrowing Slobodan Milosevic. I mean, this stuff goes way back.
I mean, this was created in 1984, somewhat thematic, ironic, you know, by Congress. And again, this was a Ronald Reagan creation.
And why I come back to, you know, that thing that just broke the John Bolton hand grenade.

The holy hand grenade of Antioch from monty python this is the uh you know nothing's nothing really gets to the heart of what usa truly is than the the image of john bolton um proudly declaring that he was the head of policy and budget at usa And his farewell gift from the agency was a golden hand grenade with his name carved on it. But, you know, what he said, you know, in that in that Piers Morgan interview.
And I don't know if you could play it if you want. Yeah, it wants it off your feed.
But, you know, what he said is, listen, I said it also said proud Reaganot. And this is why I come back to this.
We're fighting a number of ghosts from our past here. We're, you know, a lot of Republicans are fine with fighting Woodrow Wilson's ghost.
He was the one who said, make the world safer democracy and gave us this doctrinal blank check to do soft power infiltration work against every plot of dirt and every foreign citizen in every foreign country on planet earth gives us the blank check to be a global empire okay a lot of people say okay we're gonna focus on us you know wilson's a bad guy okay okay but you're also fighting the ghost of ronald reagan you know i should note that usa is actually in its headquarters in dc is in is in the Ronald Reagan building. USAID and Ronald Reagan played played the key role in fundamentally creating the restructured blob that we live under after the scandals of the 1970s.
1970s that the CIA was busted in. Church committee hearings, heart attack gun, mockingbird, MKUltra mk ultra you know assassinations all that stuff jimmy carter got into power 19 you know 76 carried out the harshest destruction of cia operations capacity and funding ever in american history he laid off 30 of the entire cia operations division in a single day that That was called the Halloween massacre, crippled their budget.
Then the Iran hostage situation pops off in, you know, 79. The national security state argues this wouldn't have happened unless the CIA had its old powers back.
Democrats still hated the CIA at that time because it had been directly interfering in their own domestic politics and trying to thwart factions of them just like they're doing today against the MAGA movement side of the Republican Party. You know, the universal thump has been passed around in that way.
But so they couldn't get a legislative bill to do this. So what they did is they restructured the intelligence apparatus, the covert action capacities, and the way our statecraft is done through USAID and the creation of the National Endowment for Democracy to take the baton from what the CIA used to do.
But the whole point of it is in tandem. Now, that's why you have these John Bolton at USAID.
This is why you have Liz Cheney at USAID. And this is what we're fighting against as we're reforming this.
It's not really a partisan issue as I see it, even though, you know, statistics show there's disproportionate Democrat beneficiaries.

But, you know, the real issue is the MAGA movement is fighting the ghost of Ronald Reagan past. the the reason republicans loved usa john bolton types liz cheney types love it is because

this was our muscle for u.S. Chamber of Commerce multinational companies to pad their profits because Exxon and ExxonMobil, how many hundreds of billions in the aggregate has ExxonMobil and Chevron benefited from U.S.
regime change efforts or U.S. pressure on foreign governments in order to give them access to the petroleum, in order to do partnerships with those governments.
We saw that just, you know, a few years ago as we just went over with Joe Biden doing the same thing for Burisma. But so the big multinational businesses love this and it was sold as trickle-down economics.
This is the Reaganite sort of Reaganomics and why it's attached to the hip with USAID and why this is something we need to keep in mind as we reform is that the idea was, is look, we do some dirty work abroad. But at the end of the day, that adds profits and revenue for US companies.
Those US companies employ US citizens and they build manufacturing plants in Ohio and in Colorado and New Mexico. And that's what allows you to have 401ks.
That's what allows you to have discretionary income. That's what allows you to afford higher education and houses and a retirement plan.
The problem was, is as globalization kept on, kept apace, you know, through the 90s and 2000ss these same multinational corporations that the Reaganite you know trickle-down economics uh you know use the blob to to to support the Chamber of Commerce they don't hire their labor here anymore they don't have their manufacturing facilities here anymore you know We're not the primary export market for this.

So you have U.S. State Department and USAID paying to help the corporate welfare of nominally U.S.-based companies.

But the trickle, it's all being kept within that secular blob of the thicket of government officials, equity holders in these corporations, foreign currency speculators, banking on the activity in the region, the banks, financial firms, and political insiders. And so it doesn't actually get down to the people anymore.
So you do need to restructure. If you're going to keep using this, in order to qualify.
You have to have a certain minimal threshold of reinvestment in America, which I'm very happy that Trump is doing by trying to bring all this investment. You know, he saw with Japan and other countries is trying to get them double, triple their commitments.
We need to demand that of our own corporations if they want to have a meeting with the secretary of state or the head of head of the central intelligence agency like pepsi did in the 1970s when we overthrew that if you want to go there this is also this is it's so deep that it makes you wonder is there enough time in four years to unravel this stuff oh no not four years this is this is a this This a 50-year project 50-year project oh yeah no there are many fractal layers to this reform process um and every step of the way there are going to be layers of resistance i don't think the the people who are look we should spike footballs we should pop champagne should do a touchdown dance on this. This is the first serious time in American history that the foreign policy establishment has had to be accountable to the people who pay for it.
Even the church committee didn't cause the entire shutdown of a federal agency. Didn't lay off.
Remember I mentioned the Halloween massacre, Jimmy Carter, 30% of the workforce laid off. Yeah.
We'll try what just happened with USAID, which employs, you know, a lot more people than even the CIA did at that time. 99, 99%.
It went from 14,000 down to 290. This is in every way, symbolically, operationally, financially, the hardest blow the blob has ever had to suffer in terms of accountability.
And it's only getting way deeper from here. He's only been in office for a month.
Yeah. Well, that's why we need to create a legacy and a pipeline of people to carry on these reforms, which is part of my personal struggle here, which is that most people, 99% of people who got involved with the MAGA movement did it because they care about the domestic.
they care about you know we talked about this they the guy because their their school curriculum is woke because the the police allow crime you know, in the streets and, you know, you know, the infrastructure is crumbling and there's corruption everywhere and no one's held accountable.

They don't think about Pakistan.

They don't think about Bangladesh. They don't think they don't they don't they don't think about, you know, who's on the U.S.
Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce and, you know, how if they're living in Louisiana or Houston or, you know, Oklahoma, that actually their jobs at ExxonMobil and Chevron sort of depend on these, you know, this strong arm diplomacy that we have with Persian Gulf countries. They don't care about the Persian Gulf.
They care about local Oklahoma. And but they have to now In order to understand the world they live in, in order to understand what's driving the world around them, in order to understand the actual true face of the characters they thought they've known, they're going to have to become international minded.
They're going to have to become versed in the interplay between the domestic and the international. One of the problems when I started out this journey in 2016 is there was no MAGA foreign policy intelligentsia.
I could make all of these, you know, I was I was traveling the country, slideshow presentation after slideshow presentation, talking to every human I could. even DC insiders in uh in in magua you'd show them all of this and they they didn't have a framework for understanding it they could they could see that they could see that the information was true they could see that this is these are you know formal government documents these are formal grant outlays to real organizations run by real people with real names and addresses it's you know but but they didn't you'd have to explain the function of every single one of those you know you'd have to explain for example that um the pentagon does an awful lot more than kinetic military activity you know for example when I draw this is this is what's coming next.
Right. President Trump tasked Elon Musk with sick and the doge dogs on on the Pentagon.
And, you know, depending on how you measure it, the size of waste, fraud, abuse of the Pentagon ranges from a couple hundred billion. They are the biggest federal agency in all of this.
They have a $900 billion budget compared to only $44 billion at USAID and even less at CIA. But Yahoo Finance published this a couple of years ago, a $35 trillion black hole.
If you want to pull up that receipt on screen just so I don't look like I'm saying this directly myself, but just type in 35 trillion Pentagon black hole. That's larger than the entire national debt.
Just the amount of just a black hole in the size of the accounting budget of the Pentagon over the years from its continual failing. This is on Yahoo Finance.
And this is, what, 2020, I think? You have... When America was born in 1789 in the first meeting of Congress, there were only three agencies that were created in the beginning of time, shall we say.
The first act of Congress was to create the Department of State, the Department of Treasury, and the Department of War. And the Defense Department is the, is the, it became the Department of War in 19, the Department of War became the Department of Defense in 1948.
What, what people, even now they're seeing these, these USAID scandals with funding to the Democrats, or funding to some of these blob internationalist Republicans or funding these media institutions. You ain't see nothing yet when you get to the Pentagon stuff because USAID was created effectively in part to assist Pentagon activity under humanitarian front.
And I talk about this a a lot but i feel that the point is

underappreciated so this is sort of a good moment to go over am i talking too much by the way no perfect okay so everyone you know they say you know jfk is a martyred figure you know and in the news uh again this week obviously with uh you know the the new trove of documents and whatnot and Trump's EO around the source of his assassination.

But the fact that JFK created... you know, the new trove of documents and whatnot, and Trump's EO around the source of his

assassination. But the fact that JFK created USAID by executive order in 1961, and he is known and loved as a martyred figure, regardless of who in the end killed him, has given a sort of public imprimatur on USAID as a, or USAID as it used to be called, and, you know, in order to try to make clear that it was not, you know, an aid organization.
But now almost, you know, even that parlance has dropped off as they need to defend it more and more. But so they think okay you know jfk martyred deeply beloved figure he created usaid it was sort of out of the kindness of his heart it was a charity no this was it was jfk who fundamentally supercharged uh america's the american military's small wars capacity this is the the the terminology and the U.s army war college and special forces around you know sort of not full-scale conventional wars they're either small small-scale paramilitary um uh skirmishes or um or insurgency counterinsurgency so it's and the problem was is jfk was was bogged down in Vietnam, bogged down in Laos.
And the problems that we were fighting against were not the kind of things that, you know, you'd have the political predicate after a lot of the disasters of the of the Korean War in 1950 and and the international blowback to having formal DOD boats on the grounds. What he believed was vital and

necessary to capacity build and supercharge was a paramilitary covert capacity for DOD in the war fighting space that the CI had at that point in the political war space. And this is done through the U.S.
Special Forces and through some of its sub-branches, which are psychological

operations. space and this is done through the u.s special forces and through uh some of its sub-branches which are psychological operations civil military affairs we can stick with that but basically these are civil military is when in order to achieve the military objective the the thing that needs to be done is actually something of the civil layer.
Like, for example, in order to win the war against Russia right now, NATO believes we need to build the single largest military base in all of NATO on the Black Sea coast of Romania that points straight out in a line at Crimea and move this base that's under construction is a hundred percent bigger than the biggest current air force, uh, NATO base in, uh, you know, in Europe, the, the Ramstein base in, in Germany. We're now moving as we speak, there are fighter jets and drones being moved from Germany to Romania.
As we are building this base, that will be the point of source projection against the, the Black Sea Navy, against Crimea in order to turn the tide. Well, that's a military operation, right? The military, the NATO military base against the Russian forces in Crimea.
But what is actually the most important strategic objective for the military? It's actually not a military one. It's a civil one.
See, there's an election going on in Romania right now. You may have heard about this, the canceled election in Romania with the Georgia skew, this right-wing populist figure who has pledged neutrality in the war.
He doesn't want to antagonize America, but he doesn't want to kill the Russians. He wants to basically back NATO off, and he doesn't want to allow this military base to be made.
Well, that is a civil decision by the elected government of Romania, decided by the hearts and minds of the voters of the Romanian people. But that civil action will either, in NATO's eyes, win the war or lose the war.

So the problem is, is it would kind of be something of a diplomatic incident, shall we say, if NATO rolled in and did, you know, Slobodan Milosevic style air strifing of, you know, air strifes against the Romanian parliament building and rolled into, you know, rolled into the capital with tanks and troops just because, you know, the president was responding to the damn correct will of the people. So you need another mechanism to influence the civil affairs.
Enter civil military. This is where you get USAID in this, as well as USAID for psychological operations.
For example, I've been playing this clip for months now and showing this U.S. military document from the John F.
Kennedy Special Warfare Center. I mean, the special forces, the psychological operations and civil military training and recruiting center at Fort Bragg, the center of our psychological operations.
It's called the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Training Center.
But USAID does that work. So for example, I've been showing a military document from the Biden, Mark Milley era published in 2021 about how to plan race riots in Africa in order to, in order to stop the construction of a, of a, of a port by a foreign government that would allow their force projection into the Atlantic ocean in a sample scenario where the U S ambassador tries to get this West African country on the, you know, on the Atlantic coast there to, to cancel the port construction for the, in partnership with the foreign government, but that government doesn't want to do it.
And so they refuse the U.S. ambassador.
They refuse the State Department. So this is literally in the planning guide and pitch book for the U.S.
special forces. It's available online.
Right now, everyone can look this up. It's all over my X feed.
I've posted the link a million times and all the screenshots screenshots but they show the role of special forces they they're pitching this basically to you know to get more grant funding that that we can help a near peer competition actually with these with foreign countries by having special forces destabilize the country inflame racial tensions between the africans who work in the factories and the business owners of the foreign government in the local regional development cause mass walkouts and strikes. But if you want to pull this on screen, I can, you know, if you see, you know, I can just show you these two, these two things.
If you just go to my X feed and you can type in rent rights, just type in, you know, just type in USAID job fairs or USAID job. And you'll see in this scenario, they they talk about the interagency coordination between defense, diplomacy and development.
You know, all all the the the roles. Yes, it was a USAID job.
You can pull it up. And what they propose is that as they are inflaming these racial tensions to cause these riots and boycotts of the local businesses, that USAID would play the role of swooping in.
Yeah, go ahead. Click those.
And I can show you the source documents and everything. It's all over.
so IWC for example is information warfare center at Fort Bragg again they're in West Africa now

this is a sample scenario with a hypothetical African country. And I don't want to belabor this.
I'm not trying to cause an international incident by saying this. I'm just trying to get the American people insight into why you are going to find USAID fingerprints all over Pentagon operations.
And no one's going to have known about it before because you park it at USAID. The military doesn't have to tell the president what they're actually doing.
This is why, for example, you had the fight over ISIS. And we can get to this right after this, but we'll get to how the US military duped Trump through these things, constantly playing shell games with the numbers in Syria, for example.
You'll see, you know, what the Information Warfare Center did is, you know, they saw a sign along the road for this port construction. And they say the plan is we need to buy the ambassador more time because this port is going to be, they're going to close on it.
And we need to give the ambassador more leverage at the negotiating table. So this is a support operation for the State Department in order to secure an agreement from the African government to shut the port down.
But right now, the ambassador doesn't have the smoke, doesn't have the clout, doesn't have the leverage. So the military will come in and provide that leverage by destabilizing the country, inflaming longstanding friction between the African workers and the foreign corporations, popping off protests and then using their swarm army of internews, USAID, you know, the social media campaign and media articles that are led actually in the background by the Information Warfare Center at Fort Bragg to illuminate the controversy to a global audience, right?

This caused international financial pressure and sanctions on them. But if you go to the next slide, and here we go, USAID.
So this is again, US military document, 2021, Biden administration. To make sure this thing really pops off, USAID is going to swoop in along along with other NGOs, to establish job fairs near the

protest areas so that when these racially inflamed African workers take to the streets, they don't need to worry about losing their careers at those companies they just went on strike at because they're going to be on U.S. taxpayer dime, baby.
It's going to be U.S. truck drivers, median income, you know, $45,000, $50,000 a year, paying for striking African workers to get no-show jobs as a part of a race riot operation for the U.S.
Special Forces to give leverage to the U.S. State Department ambassador in order to stop a random port construction in West Africa.
And it says here within two weeks, the construction company lost 60% of its required labor pool. So it's effective.
And this is where, I don't know if you want to take a breather and pivot to something lighter, but this is where it starts to get really, really nasty. Because there are layers to this that I see.
But because I'm not an insider, I don't have access to the inside government documents, I don't have subpoena power at Congress, someone has to get an answer on some of these questions. I was going to talk about the connection of this to, you know, the rental riots.

I should say formally, we don't know that the rental rights, formally the riots that popped off in this country in 2020.

And that I see as one of the main ways that the blob may be able to regain leverage here in the United States in the years ahead.

Right. Right now they're doing lawfare.

They're they're trying to mend that they're a little bit impotent right now because their coalition is very fractured. Many of the stalwart international Republicans have gone full MAGA.
So the bipartisan consensus on this is weaker than it was. And then probably most most difficult for them.
There's a bit of a civil war happening even within the Democrat party because of all the bad blood between the biden camp and the kamala harris camp i mean you need a unified network on the democrat side to pull this off and you had joe biden you know joe biden was soft cooed out of office by his own party and you have half the democrat party who was in but it was a very contentious long drawn out process joe biden put on a maga hat actually asked one of those union workers i believe he was one of those people at the at that event for the maga hat to put on and that was a that was quite a how about jill biden wearing a red dress when she went to vote yeah yeah good it's good. It's a big deal.
And when Joe Biden walked out

at that White House press conference

to announce that Donald Trump

had won the election the day before,

people go back and watch that.

I have never seen Joe Biden smile harder in my life.

When he had Trump in the White House

and smiling and laughing,

he looked like he was having a good old time.

Right, right.

He was happy.

A stark contrast between Obama welcoming Trump in 2016. Right, right.
And Obama was backing the Kamala, you know, sort of, you know, ouster of Biden. So when they were all united in this bipartisan, you know, blob network, and the Democrats were completely cohesive, and a full half of the republican party was it was internationalist you could get this buy-in for example it was easy to synchronize the u.s chamber of commerce with the afl-cio with with with the union street muscle the The way, so USAID,

you know, just back at this whole USAID Truman show,

and I didn't, like, I say this ever,

there is no, nothing you can tell me that is not affected by the USAID Truman show.

You want to talk about the music industry?

I can, I tell you about USAID's

complete infiltration of the music industry.

How so?

Oh my gosh, okay, so, maybe I can show can show you know receipts on screen here for for a second um um do you want to we'll we'll start with with with an easy one because it's it's directly connected to what we were just talking about with zunzineo in cuba so if you go to uh this max blumenthal's outlets called gray zone news and again i'm not trying to beat up on our foreign policy establishments foreign policy on cuba or way into that but this is how the

sauce is made and you're going to see a million examples of this in a second of this but but go to go to uh just type in on google like or any search engine gray zone news uh cuban wrappers USAID.

And you'll see this.

These are basically

sponsored is USAID. And, you know, you'll see this.
And, you know, these are basically sponsored hip-hop artists to write, you know, to do revolutionary hip-hop, to appeal to the Afro-Cuban community who the National Nome for Democracy had identified as being a demographic. See, every time we do these operations, USAID, the NGOs, they'll submit what they call baseline assessment or strategic assessment to the State Department, where they will do a demographic segmentation of all the demographics in the country, who's's pro us who's against us in the region

and then they will micro target the grants in the capacity building to capacity build

the burning ember to turn it into a flame so for example and and just so you see this but you can

go to the ci world fact book right now this is this is just the public facing ci.gov you can

type in a random country like burma on just i mean you know, world book Burma. You'll see the, we keep meticulous tabs on the racial distribution, the religious distribution, the gender distribution, the, you know, the heteronormative versus LGBT one.
This is why USAID and NED were backing and supporting pussy riot in russia uh you know to do these you know sort of uh insane you know sort of feminist lgbtq uh styled left wing uh street riots and this is what they you know cause this international incident you can see all the usaid and any of these stuff on on them for pussy riot is the music. And go to YouTube and look at their music videos if you want to see what state-sponsored music looks like.
But in the Cuba case, NED had published this document. NED is the operations arm of USAID, and they get a ton of their grants through it, and they're a companion star.
companion star said okay all of our previous attempts to

overthrow the cuban government failed well you know something like 60 of the cuban population is afro-cuban they're they're radically underrepresented the cuban government they have their own grievances around police policing issues and around representation issues and they even noted in the document that that demographic and i'm not saying Ned is saying this, in Cuba is disproportionately drawn to drugs influenced by rap music and suffers from overwhelming amount of youth unemployment.

And so capacity building those desperate networks, capacity building the anti-addiction programs will get you into the drug numbers. Doing job fairs and getting these people on U.S.
payroll will alleviate their pain points on employment. And they're predominantly listening to hip-hop, so we need to work with, I believe the group is the San Isidro Movement.
And I'm not beating up on it. You can make an argument that I'm not weighing in on whether this is good or bad.
but the american people have to know this because this gets played on their radio stations in miami this gets you know art testimonials to this are at you know um art basil in miami every year uh you know and and this this is the truman show around you but you can read that gray zone report for example i'll write up on that on all the usa funding all the meetings with the u.s ambassador and you know and you know western hemisphere assistant secretary folks um you know how how the whole thing was get to you can talk about uh musicians like dua lipa you know you're familiar with dua lipa i've heard the name yeah you know don't stop now you know she, she's a million of these great hits. Fantastic musician.
I'm a big fan on the music side. Dua Lipa won the distinguished leadership award.
I forget if it was last year or the year before from the Atlanta council, Atlanta council. That's the same organization that we played on screen during our first conversation where we went over the atlanta council you know holding up i call bullshit placards bs uh and looking at trump tweets and training hundreds of journalists for how to flag and censor him saying tweets like witch hunt or brexit slogans for you know, cheaper health care.
The Atlantic Council, who has seven CIA directors, seven former number one heads of the CIA on its board of directors, that gets direct grant funding from the Pentagon, the State Department and USAID. The Atlantic Council, who had a formal partnership agreement with Burisma, I should note, signed on January 19th,

2017, one day before Trump became the U.S. president.
Why the heck would they give Dua Lipa a, you know, distinguished leadership award? Well, you know, she's ethnic Albanian and has activities in Kosovo. And I'm not trying to cause an international incident when I say this, But, you know uh around the uh the post yugoslavia breakup uh balkan states and a lot of the geopolitics around serbia right now the u.s state department has been pursuing as well as u.s aid and to whatever extent you may or may not be there you you know, the civil military arm of the U.S.
military. I believe, and I'm not privy to any inside information, this is my reading of the tea leaves that I've been laying out before everyone, is not very happy with the government of Serbia.
and they want that Serbian government, people in the Serbian government arrested, indicted, and put through a process that they call transitional justice. And transitional justice is the idea that when you transition a country, when you overthrow its government, or you pump up your favorite political party to win the election, it transitions from democracy, from autocracy to democracy, or it transitions from illiberal democracy to genuine democracy.
It's a turnover of government. And we have doctrine, we have a whole field of scholarship at the State Department, at USAID, and that is carried out in covert ways through civil military, DOD, and at CIA called Transitional Justice, which is weaponizing the Justice Department and creating the criminal predicate to eliminate your political adversaries you just narrowly vanquished in a nail-biter vote in order to stop them from ever rising to power again.
And I'll show you some great receipts on this so that everyone can see this with their own eyes.

But before I do, let me just flesh this out for a second, which is that every regional desk at the State Department or in the USAID portfolio has to compete every year for their budget. They have to fight for their lives because the people, you know, who are the regional desks around Kyrgyzstan and, you know, Georgia, Moldova, Latvia, Lithuania, they're competing in the budget for what's going to Western Hemisphere, what's going to Argentina and Brazil and Colombia.
And they're competing against sub-Suburn Africa. So the cheaper it is to manage the political vassalage of a country, the better.
They may have had to ask for a lot more money in the budget, one-off in election year, to run that money through Democracy International or through CEPS or any number of USAID or NED programs to fund the political party they want to win. But they can't keep that.
They were only given that money because it was a specialty. They're not necessarily going to be able to get that the next time around, they'll be able to spend money on other uh soft power goals in the region if it's if they don't have to worry about the other party rising again or doing what trump just did you know winning then losing then winning again and so transitional justice is a whole field at state and in the ngo plex to uh to make it cheap to manage the course of and result of foreign elections by making sure anyone who's a serious challenger to you ends up in jail and I'm just going to show you something because it's now in the news Elon Musk this week you know tweeted out about you know horrible situation where someone from the PIS the law and justice party in Poland I believe is now facing arrest for clicking the like button on a social media post jesus and you know what was the post i don't actually know what the post was one of kanye's i played the fifth i don't know but but uh the fact is is you know poland plays and i've been saying this forever and this may be too far far afield for the narrow topic of discussion today, but Poland plays an absolutely huge, probably the linchpin role in all of Eastern Europe with everything that's happening with Ukraine.

because the whole play was to kill Russian gas.

And then you need an alternative gas supply into Europe to offset that.

And there's only two ways to do that.

One is Ukraine builds up its own gas infrastructure and exploits its endogenous uh you know hydrocarbon supply which it has a lot of it's the third largest in europe but it's unexploited underexploited unfortunately can't do that right now because russia reconquered that exact territory in eastern ukraine that those sit on the only of the other the only way to of the other way to do that is through exporting lng you know liquefied natural gas from North America, you know, from the Permian Basin or whatnot in Houston, freezing it, shipping it, you know, 7000 miles across the Atlantic up through the Baltic Straits through these newly built, you know, routing terminals into Poland and the terminals there and then routing it there into Slovakia and Ukraine and Central Europe and on from there. Doesn't this bring us back to what Mike Johnson said that Biden had signed an executive order that he hadn't read about liquid natural gas? Yeah, well, that's interesting because that has to do also with the economics of it.
You don't want too much supply then the profits of the corporations you know they're selling it they're selling it for less margin as the as the supply goes up but yeah the lng fight is is is the major one in in the energy space but it's much more expensive for lng that process liquefaction transport deliquification transport back is way cheaper than just taking out of the ground and putting in a pipeline straight to the customer.

So the European countries don't want to do this.

They don't they or at least until they were strong armed. And, you know, what the State Department and NATO have done is they've selectively bred and financed and politically supported all of the European political parties and candidates who have vowed to basically go forward with this plan and put their country through an energy diversification policy and buy this expensive LNG, which has skyrocketed, I should know, the profits of many of these Western exporters.
And so again, there's an argument. Maybe that's in U.S.
interests if there was that trickle down. But we'll leave that aside.
But the point is, is Poland basically is a veto right on this whole plan. Because if the Poland government says, hey, you know what? We don't want to antagonize the Russians.
The Russians may actually attack us. You know, this is provocative because this is in tandem with the plan to cut off Gazprom.
Also, we don't want to become a political vassal state of the US or the UK or NATO. And this is what was starting to happen with the law and order, you know, law and justice PIS party in Poland.
And so this whole network, the Atlantic Council Network, was backing to the full hilt Donald Tusk, who became the prime minister of Poland in, I believe, December 2023. With that context, Jamie, can you pull on screen, I just re-upped these receipts.
I've been posting this for months, but this is very, everyone should see this with their own eyes.

Because this gets back to OCCRP and state-sponsored media to prosecute people. This gets back to,

you know, the role of the USAID capacity building the networks around prosecutors here in the US,

the USAID capacity building the prosecutor networks, and we should get to that on Brazil. But let's – can we start here with Poland? We kind of like bypassed the whole music industry.
Oh, my God. Wait.
We've just started on that. Okay.
Here's an easy one. Look up the U.S.
music diplomacy this is but this is all music overseas or use music domestically as well well that's the issue is because there's this interplay first so first i came back to the dualipa uh atlanta council thing so again essentially you know she's calling out human rights abuses from you know the these balkan governments uh you know with a with a family pedigree and popularity in Kosovo and other places that are hugely in the geopolitical crosshairs right now. And so, and I'm not saying whether it's good or bad.
Again, I'm not even weighing in on, you know, the humanitarian abuses and whatnot. What I'm saying is, is it's music as an instrument of statecraft.
Dua Lipa is this is the the.S. military, the State Department, USAID, seven CIA directors, the Burisma networks, because, you know, she's got tens of millions of social media followers, people, you know, who are diehard follower concerts.
She's an international superstar and her public support for calling out human rights abuses by, you know, these these Balkan governments that are in the crosshairs of the U.S. State Department, makes it easier to prosecute those political figures, just like with the OCCRP publishing hit pieces for hire.
These people become less popular because the people who love Dua Lipa have to sort of hate those U.S. State Department enemies.
This has been going on forever, okay? Jazz diplomacy. The State Department was doing this with black African jazz musicians to win the soft power war against the Soviet Union in Africa in the 1940s.
The State Department was working with Louis Armstrong and most of the major jazz musicians because Russia, the Soviet Union, was making the argument in these newly sovereign, independent African countries who had to pick a side in the great power competition that America was racist. America discriminates against African Americans.
There's all this upward mobility limitations. There's no legal, you're underrepresented in the government.
The Marxist, socialist, egalitarian concept of communism will liberate you from the racial inequalities of Western imperialist capitalism. And so to offset that, we did jazz diplomacy.
You can pull this up on screen as I talk about this, Jamie, just so you see. This is on state.gov.
You can look up this whole history, I'm telling you. Look up U.S.
State Department jazz diplomacy.

I'm looking it up. Louis Armstrong initially pushed back on it, though.
He said the way they're treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell. Yes.
Well, many of them did or had a complicated relationship with it. But you can look up everyone.
For example, they targeted other African-American musicians

who were using their platform. Who's the guy who sings Old Man River? Paul.
Oh, my God. Why am I blanking on the name? Dizzy Gillespie.
Yeah. Dizzy Gillespie had the first State Department sponsored tour.
Okay. But we've this is every job.
I'm telling you, it's every single genre of music is it rap music as well oh my god rap music can i can i tell the evolution from from you know jazz to classical to rock music to rap sure so um so in the 1950s and 60s and again jamie you can just follow along as i'm saying all this if you want to put on screen there was a big classical music Shostakovich and other

Russian

you know, Soviet classical composers were more popular in Europe than American ones were. And these were, you know, big aristocratic concerts and elites.
And they would be listening to Russian, you know, they'd be listening to Russian music and getting to know more Russian culture. And that would come, money would flow into the institutions, prestige would.
And so to combat that, the CIA-backed front group, and this is all public and known, it's called the Congress of Cultural Freedom, sponsored American classical musicians to travel abroad They're sponsored classical music concerts in Rome and in Paris and in Germany in order to pump up and sponsor and have our classical musicians be more predominant in distribution or basically dominate at the time where, you know, what at the time were effectively, you know, the airwaves in Europe and or do that. We did the same thing with rock music.
You know, for example, I mentioned Pussy Riot and Pussy Riot being backed by USAID and NED in 2012 in Russia. But also look at the German rock music scene that, you know, we were sponsoring these protest rock anthems against authoritarian governments all over the Iron Curtain, you know, throughout the Cold War.
And in fact, we were sponsoring them basically right up against the side of the Berlin Wall as we were taking it it down everyone right now can go on youtube.com and watch the the documentary called taking uh taking down a dictator which is a in-depth pro-regime change i think it was pbs who produced it this is u.s government funded media where it has in-depth interviews with with all of the architects of the color revolution against Slobodan Milosevic in the 1990s, working with a group called OTPOR, which received $72 million of U.S. taxpayer funding in order to pump up their political operations.
Again, I'm not weighing in on whether it was good or bad. I leave it to the audience to make their own determination.
But you can see how even in that effectively state-sponsored documentary.

It's the State Department's website.

It's just going through the years of the music diplomacy.

Yeah, and we're going to have a lot more on that when we get to the rap program because they just sponsored 22 rappers and hip-hop artists from around the world to personally come to the State Department and, you know, be trained in youth engagement and democracy mobilization in their countries and art as activism. 22 rappers from Cameroon, you know, Algeria, France.
We'll pull that up as we get to it. But the, coming back to the, you know, the, I think we're on the rock rock music side of it.
They were sponsoring this protest rock. I just lost my thread for a second.
I felt like I was... Have you ever read that Laurel Canyon book? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
About the CIA's involvement in the rock scene in the 1960s? Yeah, yeah. Weird scenes inside the canyon.
Yeah. Yeah.
I think it would benefit greatly from a lot of the stuff that I'm I'm I'm laying out now to see how these things had a foreign purpose for for pumping up a domestic scene and why you see these military interlinkages with it with, you know, with all these music promoters. for example um you know they sent in that grazon article i recommended on in in cuba you know they

they us usa ran that operation to sponsor protest rap music um through uh through a contractor posing as music promoters in cuba you know basically looking at these local rap rap groups and saying, we can make you an international star, baby, you know, type, type thing. And then they get radio distribution.
And this is how you see these Bono types and Sting types who are at every single Save Ukraine conference. Again, not even weighing in on the substance of it.
You know, you want distribution, you use, you know, you use as a background. And I'd be remiss if I didn't say this, even though I know that this is going to cause a lot of headlines.
But here's a great example of this. The NATO Psychological Operations Planning Center in Riga, Latvia in 2019.
and you can pull this on screen if you type in Taylor Swift NATO or you type in, you know, what was it?

Trained to show. If you type in Taylor Swift, NATO, or you type in, you know, what was it?

Trained to share messaging or just trained messaging.

And this was a big news cycle.

There was a huge controversy around it.

A lot of people misreported it by closing the the loops on things that were that I that I didn't say.

But that are open questions about what really happened, which, which is, you know, this sort

of Taylor Swift doesn't instrument state graph. And the example I give here is, and if you pull

this up on screen, if just, you know, Jamie, you'll see this and have it all underlined. This

is a public YouTube right now on NATO's formal website, the Western Military Alliance. They set

I'm sorry. You know, Jamie, you'll see this and have it all underlined.
This is a public YouTube right now on NATO's formal website, the Western Military Alliance. They set up this psychological operations, strategic communications cell to do Internet censorship and information operations out of after Crimea and Riga, Latvia.
And in 2019, they held a conference there about how to use AI scanning technology to map out narrative distribution networks on social media, Facebook, Twitter, whatnot. And there's three people who are at this thing.
One of them was 77th Brigade from British Intelligence who are presenting to NATO. One of them started their career in the Central Intelligence Agency,

and one of them was put in the description as someone who was part of the Johns Hopkins School of International Affairs School, but that actually was announced on the panel and, according to their LinkedIn,

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announced on the panel and you know according to their linkedin was actually working at the time for graphica which is the which does this internet censorship they get seven million dollars from the pentagon they were incubated they were they had they were formally incubated inside the pentagon's minerva initiative which is the psychological operations research center of the pentagon. When the Pentagon wants to do psychological operations in Africa or in Central Asia,

they turn to the thought leadership, the policy planners who pitch ideas about, well,

you know, these tactics work.

So, for example, one of the Minerva Initiative grants, not to Graphica, this group, but to

others, because theirs was for Russiagate stuff, you know, sort of psychological operations, you know, stuff around fighting the hearts and minds war against Russia. But Grafka, but others in the cohort were how to secure citizen buy in after a crisis event in order to make people trust their government against when we topple the government and people think it's a coup.
I mean, basically how to get people to trust their government when they're skeptical of it. And then you turn around and see Grafica was partnered with the Atlantic Council, as well as the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security to censor the 2020 election and partnered with our own NIH to censor COVID. But the fact is, all three people on this panel were involved or had a career at one point in intelligence work and specifically, you know, at least with two of them, psychological operations and on screen.
And Jamie, if you can find it, I think you're going to you're going to you're going to save us both a lot of headache because everyone will just see it right there in red underlined on a YouTube video everyone can

pull up right now. Let me know if you're having trouble

finding it. Just trained

to spread, maybe.

And I'll have this in my time. But

it literally has

a pitch to NATO. I'm not sure what I'm looking

for exactly for that video.

It's a 2019

NATO conference, right? Yeah, if you

just type in, if you just go to my X feed and you just hit the search bar and you type in Taylor Swift. I'm on YouTube though, you said to go to YouTube.
No, no, my X-Feed is the best way to search it. But it has a picture on that slide deck where again, this is psychological operations planners pitching to NATO, the world, you know, the Western World's Military Alliance.

And the slide has a picture of Taylor Swift. And it basically says something like, and when the receipts of all the screen, you'll read it directly.
It says, example of celebrities who can be trained to spread desired messaging. I think that was the exact phrase, trained to spread desired messaging.
And the presenter goes over the drawbacks of this and how and you know what we need to decide some of the moral efficacy of this but basically saying that you know taylor swift has worked in various things before that have been empirically shown to move the needle on government initiatives for example her get out the vote you know uh or get out the vote work uh increase the vote her public health campaign stuff while buying that well don't that video has a lot of curse okay yes pause right there okay no no no scroll up scroll up right there pause right there and if you you see that goal identify key actors to train and spread desired messaging this is on nato's we pay for nato we paid for this to be pitched now here's where some of this story got misreported i don't know that anyone from nato directly reached out to taylor swift or her campaign to do that i'd this and if they did this would not be formalized in a formal pentagon grant or quid pro quo but i should note look at who the biggest sponsor of south by southwest is in in texas now it's the military go ahead and look up the scandal if you want about uh south by southwest uh pentagon funding they've taken over the music industry because it's hearts and minds work okay i guess that just happened in 2024 let's see if you if you go to okay so this has caused so much problems um from for the past couple years that i guess they're now they're now reforming this but if you if you run a Boolean search for before 2024, you'll see this. But basically the Pentagon, or if you scroll down, maybe it might be right there.
So it caused this big boycott because the Pentagon in tandem with this music diplomacy program and these USAID backing of these things. Okay, well, that's a US ArmyS.
Army and Palestine one, but you'll see the numbers on this. Basically, the Pentagon moves into this, and just like they were

giving Dua Lipa the awards, just like they're working with Pussy Riot, just like they have 22.

In fact, you can look this up if you want the State Department Music Diplomacy Program,

22 Rappers Hip Hop. You'll see, again, these people become network nodes.
They become assets

Thank you. Look this up if you want the State Department Music Diplomacy Program, 22 Rappers Hip Hop.
You'll see, again, these people become network nodes. They become assets to play with.
And, you know, an incredible example of this that I hesitate to discuss here because I know that the organization that these documents leaked from is contesting,esting, you know, the, you know, these documents, but there's, there's evidence to suggest the same play around recruiting the, you know, the hip hop artists in, in Cuba and, you know, in, in, here you go. Breakdancing news.
Diplomacy meets hip hop as 22 artists visit the U S. Okay.
This is the u.s state department we are paying to recruit them as assets so when they go and go and look at the country list if you want look how far and wide this is to the edges of the earth um you know uh you know mongolia cameroon uh you know there's there's a whole there's a whole thing here. But basically, it was protest rock, you know, it was protest rap in Cuba for that USAID operation.
It was protest rap. You know, there's language, for example, in this gray zone report around Bangladesh, and I'll leave it to the current fight between them and the National Nome for Democracy about the nature of those documents.

But those documents that the Gray Zone published have two rap songs in Bangladesh that have lines like they were designed to inspire anti-government sentiment and to promote street protests and political reform.

I mean, literally writing rap albums to get people to take to the streets and pull off the exact riot that the State Department wants to destabilize the country. And music penetrates.
I mean, they got really attached to this during the Cold War and in the 1980s. 1980s because it's it's and in fact in those documents they talk about how sponsoring individual artists is actually sometimes a lot more effective because they do art and activism while they're doing they're putting on these festivals they're promoting an agenda at the festivals while they are putting these you know songs on radio distribution and supercharging you know their their brand those songs have themes and messages about taking down authoritarian governments and the people gotta rise up and you know we have and you know we you have to represent the will of the people you know we have to you know end poverty you know and then they'll make the arguments the government's fault that there's poverty we have to add we have to end racial or gender inequality and then the state department will or USAID will be working through its demographic segmentation with those exact groups.

This is another reason we've been pumping up these feminist groups and these LGBT groups.

If you want, for example, you can pull up the WikiLeaks CIA red cell memo that showed how the CIA pitched to the State Department during the Afghanistan war that the best way to shore up additional funds from european parliaments is to is to transition states media uh octopus messaging from a national security predicate for uh for the war to a uh to a feminism and a women's empowerment one because of uh field work and polling from the central intelligence agency uh around Europe showed that European parliaments and voting demographics felt, said on surveys that they were more willing to give money or wanted to give more money from their own government coffers, their own taxpayer funds to the war in Afghanistan if it was about stopping repression against women or if it was about giving women more rights in the society and whatnot. And so that wasn't because the CIA loves feminism.
Now, this was a cold calculated instrument of statecraft to shift the messaging and then also to work with these exact groups who have that cleavage point axe to grind against their against their country as part of the mobilizations is how you see a lot of these women's marches and women's protests or you see a lot of these sort of protected class ones because that also gets you the human rights you know predicate to uh to add sanctions and and other you know protected speech measures like this is why the state department pushed Facebook to put hate speech provisions in place to stop hate speech against the Rohingya. One of the things that's come up that has been talked about quite a bit over the last couple of years is that the government had some sort of an influence on the emergence of gangster rap and the promotion of it.
What you know about that i don't have a good record you know in the in the 80s and 90s there's there's a lot of strange things there and i want to tell you what i really feel um it is highly controversial though and i i um i'm not sure with everything else that we're covering and some of the other things that I you know I'd like to be able to just hit before the conversation concludes about about USAID's control and influence over prosecutors and an example in Brazil since I know that a lot of people I definitely get to Brazil okay yeah I'm get in a lot of trouble if i say this uh when you read that national endowment for democracy wipe oh we didn't do the poland one can i pull can i just can we circle back to this in one second before yes just because this this really is uh an appropriate international incident to talk about this here uh if you if you go to my x feed and you just type in search Poland or the word PIS as a one off or you can scroll down. You'll see I reupped it earlier this morning.
You're going to see the National Dome for Democracies in-house journal called the Journal of Democracy. Again, the NED is this CIA front group.
The New York Times reported the CIA gets a copy of every grant that they make. Their own founders say that the CIA got in trouble for sponsoring pro-democracy groups around the world in the 1960s, and that's why we don't do it anymore, and that's why the National Endowment was created, basically to take the baton from the CIA during that transition between Carter anti-CIA and Reagan pro-CIA.
This was the compromise between left and right in that. That's why they have two political cores, IRI and NDI.
But can you pull that back up? Okay. USA's partner in operations arm, National Endowment for Democracy, has been specifically demanding Donald Tusk's government in Poland must find ways to arrest high-ranking members of the PIS party in order to, quote,

stamp out populism. They wrote this the first month in office.
So, and again, you'll see this is responding to someone facing three years for flagging posts. Now, let's click on this.
Now,

again, we pay as taxpayers for the production of National Endowment for Democracy's in-house

journal, the Journal of Democracy. So, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Can you zoom out? Just zoom out a little bit. I want you to see this.
Yeah, perfect. How to dismantle a liberal democracy.
So again, NATO was at war with the PIS party. They wanted more cooperation on security, on economic issues, whole other can of worms.
They wanted Donald Tusk, the pro-EU, super pro-NATO candidate to win.

He wins.

The month he takes office, this is December 2023, National Endowment for Democracy, the CIA publishes this think piece.

How to dismantle in a liberal democracy.

And again, I think formally, you know, what's published here is supposed to, you know, not technically.

It's published in the Ned publication.

It doesn't mean it's Ned foreign policy, but this is what they're publishing and you're paying for. How did, so they're saying, listen, it's not an autocracy in Poland.
Unfortunately, we can't call it a dictator like Putin or the CCP. It's democracy because the people voted for it and they won fair and square, but it's a liberal democracy because the democratic institutions, don't you know, are not having their way.
But here's what it says.

Poland may be setting on its first steps in, quote, stamping out populism and holding those responsible for the worst violations of rule of law.

That means the criminal justice system.

Now get to the next one.

Next slide.

Poland's new government must, therefore, do more than just return to liberal democracy.

It must address transitional justice.

The same thing, which is all over every USAID operation.

It has to be the people from the government we just transitioned from. Prime Minister Tusk and his coalition must, again, not should, not maybe should consider, maybe if there's something there, must stabilize the political system, mean ensure the reign against losing in the next election, to ensure that populism does not return in the next election.
Donald Trump is a populist president. Bolsonaro is a populist president.
Marine Le Pen is populist in France. Matteo Savini is populist in Italy.
The Vox Party is populist. This is State Department and USAID policy everywhere, And this is part of the can of worms that's going to have to be unwoven here.
But this is a direct order that in order to make sure you win the next election and we don't need to keep funding you or projecting our lending our soft power apparatus to prop you up, arrest these people so they can't run against you again. Go to the next one.
Can you zoom out? It's not just telling them that you must do it if you want to get USAID support like the, you know, the Ukraine,

you know, Ukraine Burisma loan type thing. But here's what it says.
The new government should

therefore focus attention on whether and how suspected governments can be punished. At present,

there are a number of cases that should be tried immediately. Theutzpah the frigging chutzpah this is a foreign cut for as far as the polish people's people are concerned this is a foreign government it's foreign cia front apparatus imploring their own elected government about which citizens there that they need to arrest those citizens, and even giving them the list of targets.
Imagine if the Russian Ministry of Affairs sent Donald Trump, said not only do you have to, you know, arrest the remnants of the Kamala Harris-Joe Biden campaign, but we're giving you the list of target names. Here's who Pam Bondi, the attorney general, must file criminal indictments against.
This is an international incident. Again, technically, I believe what's published here is not, they're not supposed to be, you know, does not represent, it's like retweets are not endorsements, but you're paying for this organization, you're paying for this journal, and this is what they're publishing as a command to a foreign country.
This was a Trump ally, by the way, the PIS party, which is another part of this. Ned is doing a boomerang attack by preventing PIS's popularity in Poland.
They do a boomerang attack against the foreign policy international coalition that Trump has. so here are the cases these include the 2015 appointment of judges to so going as arresting

people foreign policy international coalition that Trump has. So here are the cases.
These include the 2015 appointment of judges. So arresting people for appointing judges.
Here's another one. To arrange a supposedly unconstitutional presidential election by mail-in voting during the pandemic.
W2ETF. We hate mail.
It was practically a crime to not support mail-in voting with the National Dome for Democracy here, but over there, they're saying it's a crime to have done it. And then, you know.
Arrange a supposedly unconstitutional present election by mail-in voting during the pandemic. Wow.
Yes. And again, we can get all into this USAID, NED, rabbit's nest and all the domestic entanglement.

So and also the 2023 visa scandal.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Like this is the same thing they do. If you've ever seen Alejandro Mayorkas's visa scandal from when he was in the Obama DHS and he was the deputy there.
You can pull this up on Google. I believe it's 2015.
are the guy who was our head of DHS, which is the domestic interplay with all these foreign blob organizations, was busted by his own inspector general in doing fast pass, no look expedited visas for Obama political donors and not putting it through the process. And the visa scandals are all over this.
You know, it was John Brennan, SCI station chief, by the way, in Saudi Arabia in the rub to 9-11, who, together with the U.S. consulate, issued the visas to 15 of the 19 9-11 hijackers.
That was our visas. Now, look, there were only 11 of the 19 were Saudis.
They were actually giving Saudi visas to non-saudis and 19 15 of the 19 you can read all about this in in the guy who ran the visa desk for that u.s consulate is j michael springman he wrote a book called visas for terrorists um uh you know where he goes over how the whole the whole thing was done but wait i'm not done there's there's one more there's can you on on that can you pull up the fourth the fourth the fourth thing because it's a doozy so go to the go to the next one these are just illustrative tips cases and maybe just the tip of the iceberg of who our cia front group our usaid operations arm is saying must be done, the leader of the Law and Justice Party himself, the democratically elected president, hey, does what happened to Donald Trump now after the transitional justice that happened when Biden Justice Department took power starting to make a little bit more sense now, should be held responsible. But legally proving allegations against him will likely be difficult.
Damn, the problem is we don't have a case. We want to arrest him, but we actually don't really have anything good to get him on.
So let's get all his lieutenants. And again, the objective, pacification, stability.
You don't need to worry about them winning the next election. Populism as a political possibility in Poland will be stamped out because the intelligence networks and the money arm of us aid and the corrupted and warped prosecutors are all on the take jesus by the way multiply this problem basically in every country on earth because you know we can get to a dozen these here's a fun can i do a fun exercise real quick go to google.com and just you know i'd mentioned this exercise before and just literally we're just going to go maybe five six pages and just read what what pops up and i haven't even fully done this exercise i'm just i'm so confident in what i'm about to say that we that i that we can do it live go to google and type in usaid and then again bullying quotes the phrase quote judicial reform and i can also show you i've you know showed something okay all right so here you go let's just go through a list of countries that we are whether we are seizing the judiciary we are influencing the judges the courts the legal system the criminal justice system the prosecutors okay let's just start at the top okay so uh what is that country click on that link for a second then go back in the project in the republic what republic is that okay serbia oh what do you know we're back to do a liba can't stop now all right so so we are we are so that u.s that atlantic council uh distinguished leadership award is starting to make a little bit more sense now.
There's an in-process attempt to basically bribe and co-opt the very same criminal justice system that our state-sponsored musical performers, I shouldn't say sponsors, our state-awarded ones are calling to take action against. Okay, let's look at what's the next one.
This one didn't come up. They gave me a blank page.
I mean, their website's down. Okay, for advancing EU integration, can we just see the country name in number two? I literally didn't see it.
Okay, EU integration. That's like, for example, they want to, you know, fold these, you know, the Ukraine into the EU, right? There's been a big, you know, big thing about this, join the market, you know, also join NATO.
That's what this is. How do we get the criminal justice system on board, you know, with basically criminalizing opposition to it? Okay.
Uh, and we can keep, wait, just keep, keep scrolling down. We're just going to do this for like four or five pages.
I just want to, you know, like literally every single one of these is a government program. Okay.
So here, there, that, that one above was DRC with Democrat Republic of Congo. Okay.
We're how we are, uh, taking over the court systems in, in right. Go on, go on to the next page or here.
Okay. Yeah.
Next page. Okay.
So let's see here. Okay.
More on, more on Congo. Okay.
Uzbekistan. We're doing this in Uzbekistan.
Albania. We're doing it in Albania.
Yeah. It keeps going down here.
Let's see El Salvador. We were doing it in El Salvador.
This is one of the reasons you can imagine Bukele was the first one on X to say, oh my God, there's no more rental rights in El Salvador anymore. And why was USAID so opposed to what we were doing, getting rid of the drug networks? Okay, here's for Ukraine.
Here's for Central America. Here's more for Serbia.
Here's for Georgia. This is stock standard doctrine.
It's the same USAID Truman show everywhere we go. This thing has been dialed in for 60 years.
And that's why I say it's going to take 50 years to untangle this. Because you're going to run to political headwinds the whole time.
You don't think you're going to have money flowing back. By the way, they're going to go straight to their partners in Europe and around the world to do top-up funding for what they lose from USAID.

For example, they might go to the European Endowment for Democracy.

The EU may have to start making funds to these U.S. anti-Trump networks.

They may have to tap into their allies in China or their allies in other Central American or South American governments. But mark my words, that USAID Truman show, that joint, you know, these censors in exile, these, you know, regime changers in exile right now are going to glob on to every international ally they human can, humanly can, they will be, they will be pressurizing the United Nations, they'll be pressurizing multilateral organizations like NATO, the EU, and, and, you know, even some of these economic development packs, to use the critical components they have there, and sometimes dominant spot they have there, there to weaponize those assets and that gets back to this sort of EU fight but I can pause that move to Brazil for pause FP okay when I come back rap music Brazil yeah all right perfect so first hip-hop yeah okay the thing that you think you're gonna get in trouble Oh, you're going to make me do this? Well, you already teased it.
I think it was the 2009 National National Network for Democracy Cuba rap Journal of Democracy article that I believe was co-authored by Ned's founder, Carl Gershman, you know, who openly said that Ned does what the CIA used to do, that they effectively took the baton from it. And again, the CIA has copies.
CIA has copies according to the Washington post and New York times of every grant Ned makes. When, when you look at the analysis, the in-house analysis done by Ned there, that there was this dense interplay between the Afro Cuban population and the drug networks in, in Cuba.
and then you look at the role of hip-hop and drug culture in retailing what is wholesaled in obviously USAID, CIA, Pentagon, narco networks. Like for example, we talked about the Mujahideen, narco network.
They even set up a CIA bank right there to back it. We did the same thing in 1960, USAID set up in 1961.
At the very moment, two weeks before USAID was created, JFK awarded the Green Beret to the Special Forces. Just two weeks before that.
Then he creates USAID. That was October 1961.
November 1961, he creates USAID. December 1961, one month after, he launches Operation Pincushion in Laos for the U.S.
Special Forces to train and recruit hillside guerrillas in Laos, who are primarily funded by the drug networks that they sit on in the Golden Triangle. They sat on the opium of the Golden Triangle and the way they financed their own guerrilla war, CIA-backed war.

And this is all well-known.

Ving Pao was the CIA.

It was the commander there of the cia mercenary rebel forces there in in uh you know this is 1961 to 1967 in this period that i'm talking about special forces go over there to recruit these hillside guerrillas they form an army ving pow is is made the head of it this is going to connect to the rap thing in a sec um ving pow was uh uh was financing the the ci's mercenary army by retailing the the opium from laos into uh into these networks in southeast asia like these ci proprietary banks like everyone can look up nugen hand bank or castle bank and trust these that were set up to launder basically drug proceeds. And they all got in a lot of trouble for this a few decades ago.
Now, the problem was, is they couldn't sell enough because they were a scrappy little upstart, you know, group of hillside gorillas. So what did USAID do in 1967? This is the 1960s, how long this has been going on.
So they were recruited by the special forces. They were managed by the Central Intelligence Agency.
USAID provided the financing, and this is all in according to and in the Senate testimony of Professor Alfred McCoy. This is a book called The Politics of Heron in Southeast Asia.
He's testified in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1972. He detailed all this in his book.
But USAID financially provided the financial assistance for Ving Pau and his narco-terrorist network to purchase two airplanes from two CI proprietary companies. One of them was Air America.
Another one was Continental Air Services. Both of these have been revealed in subsequent years to be CIA proprietary airlines.
So the CIA commander, the commander of the CIA rebel army buys two planes from two CIA airlines and then uses them to traffic and retail the drugs by selling them to the market in Vietnam where we had special forces boots on the ground. So basically it was wholesaled by the CIA in that case.
And then it was the logistics for that network were provided by USAID. And then it was retailed to poor unsuspecting souls all over Southeast Asia.
Play the same game in the Golden Crescent with Afghanistan. Play the same game with the cocaine trade in its route from Peru and Bolivia up into Colombia and then up into the distribution networks in Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, you name it.
the when you start having organized crime

and in Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, you name it. When you start having organized crime and drugs as the front end that retails the products and services that are wholesale and part of a intelligence or military operation.

You know, you can't sell those drugs by having someone with a Department of Defense ID badge

on the street corner, you know, on 187th and Broadway.

There are retail networks for that.

And that is the role of many of these drug mule and organized crime networks all over the world

Thank you. Uh, those, there are retail networks for that.
And that is the role of many of these drug mule and organized crime, uh, uh, networks all over the world. And I have serious concerns about, um, networks in Chicago.
I mean, you know, Gary Webb obviously wrote all about this in dark Alliance and, uh, you know, there's all sorts of fantastic books on all of this. want to read more like operation gladio by paul williams um and uh i mean there's there's there's so much in this field but the role of of narcotics is in uh in financing black budget military covert operations in every major place they spring um is is a black box that is not my crusade i i frankly again i wish we didn't we didn't even go here because but i do feel like you do need to have a a side eye glimpse into some of these worlds to understand internet censorship because you are going to find us aid ngos uh if bukele had not done done the radical reforms that he had had, the Internet would have been completely censored by USAID and the State Department in order to rig hearts and minds against against him because they would they would want to stop him from cleaning out the these drug gangs.
He was stopping cleaning up the crime. You're going to see the same thing about fact checkers in Pakistan.
And, you know, for example, according to the Gray Zone report on USAID and NED in Bangladesh, and in fact, this is actually, I believe, on the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan's website, the Countering Misinformation Training Seminar they had with the guy who's now the top foreign advisor in Pakistan, and they brought in the

executive director of PolitiFact, flew him all the way out to the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan to

train journalists about how to counter misinformation, the same journalist training

seminars. We're seeing Internews do, we see SEPs do.
You know, we see the Atlantic Council do. But I come back to the U.S.
Institute for Peace on a live URL as we speak, not even two years ago, made an impassioned plea to the Taliban to keep 95% of the world's heroin flowing.

You have to explain that to the American people.

That is the State Department's policy.

If U.S. Institute of Peace

is not going to go rogue

against the State Department foreign policy there

because they're funded by the State Department.

You see the same thing

with these ISIS terrorist drug narco networks. Anyone remember the WikiLeaks email? Jake Sullivan to Hillary Clinton while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State.
ISIS is on our side in Syria. Well, that means the more of those poppy crops that get retailed off to ISIS networks, the more powerful and well-financed they are, the more they can pay their soldiers or stop their soldiers from defecting, from being mercenaries.
And lo and behold, that same network just toppled the Syrian government. And I should note, structuring through USAID is the sauce to this, because there is a sitting tweet from the U.S.
embassy in Syria from 2017 when Trump was wiping out ISIS that put a 10 million dollar bounty on the head of Mohammed al-Jelani the current the commander of those forces the current basically head of state in the interim government in Syria there was a 10 million dollar bounty on his head under Trump they made the argument that his HTS group was an Al-Qaeda spinoff and no Al-Qaeda allowed. Well, according to his own military generals, who said this openly in mainstream media after the fact, we were constantly playing shell games with the numbers to hide the troop activity and what uh you know and what we were doing on the ground in syria and and in the broader region if you don't need a presidential finding to to finance a terrorist group or paramilitary group it's too dirty for ci president want to prove run through us aid and what does this have to do with hip-hop well you have these these these narco networks, like, for example, like I was saying about the USAID bought the airplanes for the CI for the front for the wholesalers to move it to the retailers.
and when when you have these this intersection between hip-hop and the drug economy hip-hop

popularizing it you know you have a lot of these rappers who've said, you know, we're told by our promoters or our managers to, you know. You know, lean into that stuff.
You have the whole organized crime gang. I'll give you an example.
This is in Gary Webb's Dark Alliance, where he goes through this network us and the war and the defense department playing a leading role in propping up these narcotics trades in south america because they were pumping up right-wing death squads and in and uh and right-wing paramilitary narco gang networks that were violent and effectively shut down left-wing Marxist theology movements

who were considered to be pro-Soviet. This is how you have a lot of this, for example, with Iran-Contra and the Reagan years.
So he makes a very compelling case about the role of the U.S. intelligence community at the wholesale level in Peru and Bolivia and at the actual processing in Columbia, and then the movement and transport to the to the gangs in Los Angeles and Miami and Chicago and the like.
And that wholesale movement effectively goes from, you know, Langley slash Crystal City in D.C., D.C., Virginia, to a sort of, you know, Hispanic population in in South America into, you know, into, you know, other into into gangs that are retailing it, you know, in into these Compton gangs into these, you know, you know, these Chicago and and Miami and New York ones, you have a culture of drug use that creates a market for selling the proceeds so that drugs can be turned into cash, which can then be used to purchase guns. and when you see this look this just liquid seamlessness there and then you know i you know

uh i don't want to tax jamie too much but you know there's this this gray zone report in bangladesh has specific language uh with with uh the national diamond for democracy and one of its subarms making explicit grants to bangladeshi rap groups um for the explicit purpose of getting people to take to the streets in in street riots and protest movements and to undermine public faith and public confidence and favorable sentiment for the then in power Bangladeshi government and they are in you know they were they were targeting the youth movements remember when we pulled up the 22 hip hop artists on screen and the whole thing was about youth mobilization These people form the front end of the you know of the of the destabilization So your argument is essentially that this game plan is ubiquitous And that this game plan is done in the United States to to promote drug use and drug selling Which they profit off of I'm not even going that far what i'm saying is is there's there's a useful role um around you know of of music and other artistic and cultural ventures for um for creating a market for something that helps u.s statecraft for example this is, major scandal. The head of the Central Intelligence Agency, John Deutch, had to travel to Compton in 1997, I believe that was the year, in order to plead with the black population there that what had happened with the CIA's role in the drug trade was a sort of occasional one-off accident, wasn't authorized, wasn't supposed to happen.
But the fact is, is those narco networks supported the Nicaraguan Contra movement. You needed a market to sell it.
You know, and those were, those were inner city urban populations in Los Angeles that were, you you know they weren't the ones growing the cocaine

that was grown in in peru and bolivia and then it was processed in colombia and then it was you know that's all that stuff that michael rupert exposed yeah there's there's been a there's been a million and it's everywhere you look and it's not just south and and then again i don't want to you know this stuff is all to me just interesting i don't have a hard opinion on it I almost don't want to

take away from

so much of the important factual stuff where I have the receipts on screen. But what I'm saying is you are going to see resistance from very strange pockets as you do this distinct entangling process.
How many people knew that an arm of the State Department right next door to it that gets all of its money from the State Department who sets the foreign policy is telling the Taliban to keep the drug networks open. Or that same arm is going after Bukele when he tries to arrest the drug criminals in El Salvador, which, by the way, was the most intense of these narco right-wing, you know, death squads, you know, during the, you know, during the Cold War.
And we pump up every cultural vector we can. Again, you know, watch Taking Down a Dictator, that documentary, and look at the role of music in the State Department's eyes in being able to galvanize street protest movements, gets everyone on the street united, gets everyone listening to the same thing they're all sort of uh you know aligned like a magnet uh i mean there's there's i mean even look at places like the azov battalion and how they sort of grew out of this black metal rap you know black metal music uh you know coalition you know in uh with with you know highly extremist lyrics and whatnot in ukraine the same sort of extremist lyrics you saw in the Bangladeshi rap songs or the call to take to the streets in the Cuban ones.
And again, this has been going on a long time. Look at the look at the lyrics of a Pussy Riot song.
And remember this, they literally are standing at the Secretary of state's podium, you know, with arm in arm with the U.S. State Department.
Well, you know, so and everyone can look up, you know, you know, C.I.'s Rolling Rock and whatnot. There's great Guardian articles about all this as well.
But it's more to say, coming back to this USA Truman Show, that everything and anything can be an instrument of statecraft, whether that's the prosecutors, the universities, the unions, the media, the social media, arts, dance. This is where you get these transgender dance festivals and this demographic segmentation to see who hates the government.
Well, if the government is cracking down on transgenderism or is not kind to it or they feel like uh you know they want more rights that's a useful demographic as a cleavage point for the u.s state department to capacity build fund flow money to so that they can be used as a battering ram and i'm not endorsing that but that is just why we were okay we're running out of time so let's get to brazil yeah okay so Okay. So, Jamie, I sent you a bunch of these screenshots that my foundation is going to be publishing in our final report.
But I wanted to just go through these here because we've been talking about the role of the criminal justice system more than anything. You know, media is rigged.
Okay. It's a headline.
It's a reputational smudge it can cost you your job when the criminal justice system and the judges are rigged and the prosecutors are rigged you don't even have a country anymore because they can arrest the president they can arrest the they can arrest the the politicians um and uh it's it's a shortcut to control over the over the whole side and we we went through examples with you know ukraine burisma serbia we went through that whole exercise but um jamie if you can pull on screen you know just uh we can just go through the the the text messages this will be the last thing of usa's role with the judiciary in brazil and specifically against Bolsonaro, who is targeted by these anti-misinformation actions. Populist president.
Populist, right-wing, they called him the Trump of the tropics. Same thing, part of that same international coalition.
Let me know if you have any trouble. Okay, okay.
Yeah, well, maybe if you start with the first one, actually. I think this is it, or unless I'm in the wrong way.
Yeah, if you... No, okay, maybe scroll down.
Do you see the ones where you have the lead judge... I'm just clicking your phone number, too.
Because if I put the wrong thing on the screen, your phone number's going to show. Oh, yeah, sure.
Okay, so how about just the pictures with the... Okay, here you go.
So, yeah, we can start with that one right there, that image right there.

Does that guy look familiar?

This is the Lord.

Actually, he actually looks kind of like a mixture of both of us, Joe.

It's kind of funny.

But this is the man that they call the Lord Voldemort Judge of Brazil.

This is the head of the TSE, the censorship court, which is the subgroup of their supreme court and here you see a seminar uh that that he is being trained in where is that name ring a bell seps uh how many how many hours have you and i now spent talking about the seps program the usa program that that explicitly set its its job to get foreign countries and foreign courts to pass censorship laws this is usa funded and implemented by the national down for democracy um this is seps.org the recruit but this gets much if it if you go back to the panel i'll show you more on this all right okay yeah okay here's another one seps core partner, IFES, this is basically the election strengthening, teaming up directly with Brazil's TSE court. That is the censorship court that seized X's, that shut down X, and that seized Starlink's assets, and that effectively criminalized the speech of virtually any significant pro-Balcanar voice in Brazil.
This is our USAID network doing the training, doing the networking. And if you go back, I'm just going to show a couple more of these.
Okay. This is Internews.
Internews, who we covered, $500 million from USAID every single year in Brazil doing training seminars for how to flag pro-Bolsonaro disinformation. I can go on and on.
I got layers of all these different judges and the pitches to the prosecutors to arrest it. The whole thing was a USA Truman show taking over the judiciary, or at least substantially influencing and tilted to take out their political enemy, Bolsonaro, the whole way down.
And X is still banned in Brazil. No, I believe X entered into compliance by taking certain actions.
So they have to censor. Yes, I believe they're still subject to the edicts of the court.
I should note. Oh, say lift ban October 8th.
Yeah. After it pays a $5 million fine.
Right, right. But, and by the way, Rumble.
But the ban is in place essentially to keep Bolsonaro from gaining power. Well, right.
Well, they wanted to make sure that, again, it's the same thing with Poland. They want to achieve stability, democratic stability, so that he can't rise hugely popular right now.
It was a razor close election and remember you know we pull a lot of tricks in order you know around that and you're going to find a lot more of that when you look into the the role of unions like the national for democracy solidarity center um and uh and and the whole the whole suite there uh remember we literally pulled favors with taiwan this is reported in the in the financial Times in order to get them the semiconductor chips to build the voting machines against Bolsonaro's wishes. The head of the CIA went down and threatened him.
Bill Burns did. The head of the Pentagon went down and you met with the army to tell them, you know, you have to trust the result of the election.
is that lloyd austin the head of the pentagon um you know we're saying the head of the cia the head

of the military we're running semiconductor chips just so that they can make uh voting machines that the elected head of state doesn't want uh and then you know we're we're we're funding their you know workers movements through we have a very specific outcome that we want and then we also make sure that they use voting machines that we provide I'm not even weighing into the voting machine issue except to say that it's it's very strange that that we would divert semiconductor supplies bound for the US during a critical shortage and give them to a foreign government to put in voting machines that the that the elected head of state doesn't want that's a very curious thing you about all the, you know, inside details of that published in the financial times and other places. Jesus.
It's also daunting. You know, it's just, it's so overwhelming.
How do you sleep? No, I'll say I don't. But we, we have an opportunity.
we've already done more than anyone has ever done no foreign-facing government agent no no cog in the wheel of this dirty tricks apparatus has ever uh had 14 000 99.8 percent of the you know the workforce laid the, you know, the workforce laid off the, you know, the name taken off the building with from a month in terms of the lightning speed of it. But I'm, I feel a sense of hope and optimism and a kind of spiritual fulfillment, if that's too big a phrase to say, but you don't see me happy or doing cartwheels or it doesn't really show on my face because I know the scale and the duration of this fight is going to continue for the rest of my lifetime.
And so I don't, this is not a sprint period.

We're running fast, but it's a marathon the whole way.

What's unbelievably baffling to me is the complete absence of the coverage

of all these things that should be very concerning in mainstream media.

Complete absence.

All the discussion, the negative anti-Trump discussion about USAID shutting down is all the good that it does. And then also you're going to get access to people's private data.
That's all you're hearing. You're hearing the gaslighting spin is those two things.
Right. But every single one of those people need to understand the category.
They talk about public health and all the lives and how many more people are going to have, you know, AIDS and HIV. In 2014, USAID was busted running a covert operation where, according to their own people who are involved in the operation, they set up an HIV prevention program in foreign countries because it would be the perfect excuse because counterintelligence would never think that that the hiv clinics were that were the place that they were using

as you know as key nodes and the regime change network how many other facilities they were

caught there how many others but in every single one of those it's dual purpose because the

fundamental reason you do this out of us aid is to dupe people and this puts this puts our

oversight bodies in a difficult spot let's just say we're funding transgender dance festivals and

Thank you. is to dupe people.
And this puts our oversight bodies in a difficult spot. Let's just say we're funding transgender dance festivals in some country because it turns out they really dislike a government that we consider authoritarian.
And so you could actually see a sort of, I don't know the situation in Venezuela, but let's just say that the Trump administration has been at war with Maduro and, you know, wants to, you know, pursue a policy of turning over that government. And it just so happens that that government is persecuting the transgender population and the transgender population, if they could just be built up more, you know, would be able to convert, you know, convert more hearts and minds to vote against Maduro.
Well, you could see a sort of, if I may say, again, I'm not saying this should be done. I'm just saying you could see a sort of MAGA foreign policy explanation for funding transgender dance festivals in Venezuela, if that's what the baseline assessment reveals.
The problem is, is American people are never going to be allowed to know about it because imagine the Senate Oversight Committee. Why are we funding these transgender dance festivals in Venezuela? Oh, actually, because we're running a lie there.
By the way, everyone in Venezuela can watch this live hearing. The whole thing is actually a carefully constructed lie because we're cynically exploiting the transgender people to serve as battering rams against the head of state we want to overthrow, but we have not declared that publicly.
I mean, we're back to plausible deniability. Jesus.
This is a lot. I think it's probably good to end right here.
Okay. But thank you, Mike.
Thank you for everything. Thanks for being you.
I don't think a lot of people would chase this down like this. And I know this is a lot of weight.
It's quite a burden that you're carrying. But I mean, I think you're being vindicated in like a scale that I've never seen before.
It's pretty impressive. And all the stuff that you were talking about before all these documents were exposed, before the Doge went into USAID, you were dead right about all of it.
Thank you. And and again I don't want to get you in trouble with with this stuff you know some of the topics that we talked about like the the drug stuff and the rap stuff and the you know some of the the terrorism stuff is is not my primary focus I'm not making hard facial claims there I don't care about the Taylor Swift thing it's frankly it's it's just fascinating that just fascinating that you would see that on a native, like, this is what I care about is, you know, what we talked about with its control over media, its control over prosecutors, its control over social media and pushing, you know, social media censorship and these sorts of things that, you know, that we have a once in a lifetime chance to reform.
And I want to thank you and express my personal gratitude for having these difficult and I'm sure taxing conversations to crack it all open my pleasure thank you all right bye everybody