How BlackRock Conquered the World – Part 2: Going Direct

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If you read Part 1 of the How BlackRock Conquered the World series, you will know how BlackRock went from an obscure investment firm in the 1980s to one of the most powerful asset managers in the world after the Global Financial Crisis of 2007—2008. You will also know how BlackRock’s CEO, Larry Fink, wasted no time in using the company’s immense riches—with over $10 trillion under management and a position as one of the top three institutional investors in seemingly every Fortune 500 company—to gain political power.

But Fink and his lackeys were not interested in accruing power merely for its own sake. No, the point of getting power is to use it. So the question is: how did they use this newly acquired political power?

Well, did you hear about a little thing called the COVID-19 pandemic? If you’re reading The Corbett Report, then you likely already know that the events of the last three years had nothing whatsoever to do with a virus. But if the pandemic was actually a scamdemic and it was never really about a viral contagion, then what was it about?

There are, of course, many answers to that question. The scamdemic served a number of agendas and the various players on the grand chessboard each had their own incentives for playing along with it. But one of the most important—not to mention one of the most overlooked—answers is that the scamdemic was, at base, a financial coup d’état. And that entire coup d’état was engineered by (you guessed it) BlackRock.

In Part 1 of this series, A Brief History of Blackrock, I described how BlackRock came to be the economic and political juggernaut it is today.

This week, I will explain how BlackRock’s Going Direct reset paved the way for the massive economic and monetary transition that we have just lived through under the cover of the scamdemic.

And in Part 3, I will examine the Aladdin system and the other creepy ways BlackRock is planning to use its power to mould society in its own interest.

Want to know the details? Of course you do. Let’s dive in.

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*NOTE: This is Part 2 of the How BlackRock Conquered the World Series.

Part 1: A Brief History of BlackRock was released last week.

Part 3 on BlackRock’s plans for the future will be released next week.

PART 2: GOING DIRECT

Last week, we ended our little history lesson in 2019, an extremely important year for the BlackRock takeover of the planet.

In January of that year, Joe Biden crawled cap-in-hand to Larry Fink’s Wall Street office to seek the financial titan’s blessing for his presidential (s)election. (“I’m here to help,” Fink reportedly replied.)

Then, on August 22nd of that year, Larry Fink joined such illustrious figures as Al “Climate Conman” Gore, Chrystia “Account Freezing” Freeland, Mark “GFANZ” Carney, and the man himself, Klaus “Bond Villain” Schwab, on the World Economic Forum’s Board of Trustees, an organization which, the WEF informs us, “serves as the guardian of the World Economic Forum’s mission and values.” (“But which values are those, precisely?” you might ask. “And what does Yo-Yo Ma have to do with it?”)

It was another event that took place on August 22, 2019, however, that captures our attention today. As it turns out, August 22nd was not only the date that Fink achieved his globalist knighthood on the WEF board, it was also the date that the financial coup d’état (later erroneously referred to as a “pandemic”) actually began.

In order to understand what happened that day, however, we need to take a moment to understand the structure of the US monetary system. You see (GREATLY oversimplifying things for ease of understanding), there are actually two types of money in the banking system: there is “bank money”—the money that you and I use to transact in the real economy—and there is “reserve money”—the money that banks keep on deposit at the Federal Reserve. These two types of money circulate in two separate monetary circuits, sometimes referred to as the retail circuit (bank money) and the wholesale circuit (reserve money).

In order to get a handle on what this actually means, I highly suggest you check out John Titus’ indispensable videos on the subject, notably “Mommy, Where Does Money Come From?” and “Wherefore Art Thou Reserves?” and “Larry and Carstens’ Excellent Pandemic.”

But the point of the two-circuit system is that, historically speaking, the Federal Reserve was never able to “print money” in the sense that people usually understand that term. It is able to create reserve money, which banks can keep on deposit with the Fed to meet their capital requirements. The more reserves they have parked at the Fed, the more bank money they are allowed to conjure into existence and lend out into the real economy. The gap between Fed-created reserve money and bank-created bank money acts as a type of circuit breaker, and this is why the flood of reserve money that the Fed created in the wake of the global financial crisis of 2008 did not result in a spike in commercial bank deposits.

But all that changed three years ago. As Titus observes, by the time of the scamdemic bailouts of 2020, the amount of bank money sitting in deposit in commercial banks in the US—a figure which had never shown any correlation with the total amount of reserves held on deposit at the Fed—suddenly spiked in lockstep with the Fed’s climbing balance sheet.

Clearly, something had happened between the 2008 bailout and the 2020 bailout. Whereas the tidal wave of reserve money unleashed to capitalize the banks in the earlier bailout hadn’t found its way into the “real” economy, the 2020 bailout money had.

So, what happened? BlackRock happened, that’s what.

Specifically, on August 15, 2019, BlackRock published a report under the typically eye-wateringly boring title, “Dealing with the next downturn: From unconventional monetary policy to unprecedented policy coordination.” Although the paper did not catch the attention of the general public, it did generate some press in the financial media, and, much more to the point, generated interest from the gaggle of central bankers who descended on Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for the annual Jackson Hole Economic Symposium taking place on August 22, 2019—the exact same day that Fink was being appointed to the WEF’s board.

The theme of the 2019 symposium—which brings together central bankers, policymakers, economists and academics to discuss economic issues and policy options—was “Challenges for Monetary Policy,” and BlackRock’s paper, published a week in advance of the event, was carefully crafted to set the parameters of that discussion.

It’s no surprise that the report caught the attention of the central bankers. After all, BlackRock’s proposal came with a pedigree. Of the four co-authors of the report, three of them were former central bankers themselves: Philipp Hildebrand, the former president of the Swiss National Bank; Stanley Fischer, the former Federal Reserve vice chairman and former governor of the Bank of Israel; and Jean Boivin, the former deputy governor of the Bank of Canada.

But beyond the paper’s authorship, it was what “Dealing with the next downturn” actually proposed that was to have such earthshaking effects on the global monetary order.

The report starts by noting the dilemma that the central banksters found themselves in by 2019. After years of quantitative easing (QE) and ZIRP (zero interest rate policy) and even the once-unthinkable NIRP (negative interest rate policy), the banksters were running out of room to operate. As BlackRock notes:

The current policy space for global central banks is limited and will not be enough to respond to a significant, let alone a dramatic, downturn. Conventional and unconventional monetary policy works primarily through the stimulative impact of lower short-term and long-term interest rates. This channel is almost tapped out: One-third of the developed market government bond and investment grade universe now has negative yields, and global bond yields are closing in on their potential floor. Further support cannot rely on interest rates falling.

The would-be central planners’ only other option for getting money into the economy (fiscal spending overseen by legislature) was similarly doomed to fail in the event of an economic crash:

Fiscal policy can stimulate activity without relying on interest rates going lower – and globally there is a strong case for spending on infrastructure, education and renewable energy with the objective of elevating potential growth. The current low-rate environment also creates greater fiscal space. But fiscal policy is typically not nimble enough, and there are limits to what it can achieve on its own. With global debt at record levels, major fiscal stimulus could raise interest rates or stoke expectations of future fiscal consolidation, undercutting and perhaps even eliminating its stimulative boost.

So, what was BlackRock’s answer to this conundrum? Why, a great reset, of course!

No, not Klaus Schwab’s Great Reset. A different type of “great reset.” The “Going Direct” reset.

An unprecedented response is needed when monetary policy is exhausted and fiscal policy alone is not enough. That response will likely involve “going direct”: Going direct means the central bank finding ways to get central bank money directly in the hands of public and private sector spenders. Going direct, which can be organised in a variety of different ways, works by: 1) bypassing the interest rate channel when this traditional central bank toolkit is exhausted, and 2) enforcing policy coordination so that the fiscal expansion does not lead to an offsetting increase in interest rates.

The authors of BlackRock’s proposal go on to stress that they are not talking about simply dumping money into people’s bank accounts willy-nilly. As report co-author Phillip Hildebrand made sure to stress in his appearance on Bloomberg on the day of the paper’s release, this was not Bernanke’s “helicopter money” idea. Nor was it—as report co-author Jean Boivin was keen to stress in his January 2020 appearance on BlackRock’s own podcast discussing the idea—a version of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), with the government simply printing up bank money to spend directly into the economy.

No, this was to be a process where special purpose facilities—which they called “standing emergency fiscal facilities” (SEFFs)—would be created to inject bank money directly into the commercial accounts of various public or private sector entities. These SEFFs would be overseen by the central bankers themselves, thus crossing the streams of the two monetary circuits in a way that had never been done before.

Any additional measures to stimulate economic growth will have to go beyond the interest rate channel and “go direct” – when a central bank crediting private or public sector accounts directly with money. One way or another, this will mean subsidising spending – and such a measure would be fiscal rather than monetary by design. This can be done directly through fiscal policy or by expanding the monetary policy toolkit with an instrument that will be fiscal in nature, such as credit easing by way of buying equities. This implies that an effective stimulus would require coordination between monetary and fiscal policy – be it implicitly or explicitly. [Emphases added.]

Alright, let’s recap. On August 15, 2019, BlackRock came out with a proposal calling for central banks to adopt a completely unprecedented procedure for injecting money directly into the economy in the event of the next downturn. Then, on August 22, 2019, the central bankers of the world convened in Wyoming for their annual shindig to discuss these very ideas.

So? Did the central bankers listen to BlackRock? You bet they did!

Remember when we saw how commercial bank deposits began moving in sync with the Fed’s balance sheet for the first time ever? Well, let’s take another look at that, shall we?

It wasn’t the March 2020 bailouts where the correlation between the Fed balance sheet and commercial bank deposits—the tell-tale sign of a BlackRock-style “going direct” bailout—began. It was actually in September 2019—months before the scamdemic was a gleam in Bill Gates’ eye—when we started to see Federal Reserve monetary creation finding its way directly into the retail monetary circuit.

In other words, it was less than one month after BlackRock proposed this revolutionary new type of fiscal intervention that the central banks began implementing that very idea. The Going Direct Reset—better understood as a financial coup d’état—had begun.

To be sure, this going direct intervention was later offset by the Fed’s next scam for forcing more government debt on depositors, but that’s another story. The point is that the seal had been broken on the going direct bottle, and it wasn’t long before the central bankers had a perfect excuse for forcing that entire bottle down the public’s throat.  What we were told was a “pandemic” was in fact, on the financial level, just an excuse for an absolutely unprecedented pumping of trillions of dollars from the Fed directly into the economy.

The story of precisely how the going direct reset was implemented during the 2020 bailouts is a fascinating one, and I would encourage you to dive down that rabbit hole, if you’re interested. But for today’s purposes, it’s sufficient to understand what the central bankers got out of the Going Direct Reset: the ability to take over fiscal policy and to begin engineering the economy of Main Street in a more . . . well, direct way.

But what did BlackRock get out of this, you ask? Well, when it came time to decide who to call in to manage the scamdemic bailout scam, guess who the Fed turned to? If you guessed BlackRock, then (sadly) you’re exactly right!

Yes, in March 2020 the Federal Reserve hired BlackRock to manage three separate bailout programs: its commercial mortgage-backed securities program, its purchases of newly issued corporate bonds and its purchases of existing investment-grade bonds and credit ETFs.

To be sure, this bailout bonanza wasn’t just another excuse for BlackRock to gain access to the government purse and distribute funds to businesses in its own portfolio, though it certainly was that.

And it wasn’t just another emergency where the chairman of the Federal Reserve had to put Larry Fink on speed dial—not simply to shower BlackRock with no-bid contracts but to manage his own portfolio—although it certainly was that, too.

It was also a convenient excuse for BlackRock to bail out one of its own most valuable assets: iShares, the collection of exchange traded funds (ETFs) that it acquired from Barclays for $13.5 billion in 2009 and that had ballooned to a $1.9 trillion juggernaut by 2020.

As Pam and Russ Martens—who have been on the BlackRock beat at their Wall Street On Parade blog for years now—detailed in their article on the subject, “BlackRock Is Bailing Out Its ETFs with Fed Money and Taxpayers Eating Losses“:

BlackRock is being allowed by the Fed to buy its own corporate bond ETFs as part of the Fed program to prop up the corporate bond market. According to a report in Institutional Investor on Monday, BlackRock, on behalf of the Fed, “bought $1.58 billion in investment-grade and high-yield ETFs from May 12 to May 19, with BlackRock’s iShares funds representing 48 percent of the $1.307 billion market value at the end of that period, ETFGI said in a May 30 report.”

No bid contracts and buying up your own products? What could possibly be wrong with that? To make matters even more egregious, the stimulus bill known as the CARES Act set aside $454 billion of taxpayers’ money to eat the losses in the bailout programs set up by the Fed. A total of $75 billion has been allocated to eat losses in the corporate bond-buying programs being managed by BlackRock. Since BlackRock is allowed to buy up its own ETFs, this means that taxpayers will be eating losses that might otherwise accrue to billionaire Larry Fink’s company and its investors.

At the time the Fed’s contract with BlackRock to manage the ETF purchase program was announced, the mockingbird repeaters at The New York Times attempted to run cover for the swindle by pointing out that the contract the Fed signed would ensure that BlackRock “will earn no more than $7.75 million per year for the main bond portfolio it will manage” and that the firm “will also be prohibited from earning fees on the sale of bond-backed exchange-traded funds, a segment of the market it dominates.”

But this, of course, completely (and no doubt deliberately) misses the point.

As The Wall Street Journal reported in September 2020, BlackRock’s revenue rose 11.5% to $261 million in the second quarter of 2020 on the back of a $34 billion surge in ETFs under BlackRock management. As Bharat Ramamurti, a member of the congressional body overseeing the Fed’s coronavirus stimulus programs, noted in the WSJ report, the fundamental scam that BlackRock pulled is not exactly rocket science.

Even if BlackRock waives its fees from the purchases that the Fed is making, the fact that it is associated with this program means that other investors are going to rush into BlackRock funds. BlackRock obviously generates fees from those flows. So the net result is that this is very lucrative for BlackRock.

The numbers speak for themselves. After BlackRock was allowed to bail out its own ETF funds with the Fed’s newly minted going direct funny money, iShares surged yet again, surpassing $3 trillion in assets under management last year.

But it wasn’t just the Fed that was rolling out the red carpet for BlackRock to implement the very bailout plan that BlackRock created. Banksters from around the world were positively falling over themselves to get BlackRock to manage their market interventions.

In April 2020, the Bank of Canada announced that it was hiring (who else?) BlackRock’s Financial Markets Advisory (FMA) to help manage its own $10 billion corporate bond buying program. Then in May 2020, the Swedish central bank, the Riksbank, also hired BlackRock as an external consultant to conduct “an analysis of the Swedish corporate bonds market and an assessment of possible design options for a potential corporate bonds asset purchase programme.”

As we saw in Part 1 of this exploration, the Global Financial Crisis had put BlackRock on the map, establishing the firm’s dominance on the world stage and catapulting Larry Fink to the status of Wall Street royalty. With the 2020 Going Direct Reset, however, BlackRock had truly conquered the planet. It was now dictating central bank interventions and then acting in every conceivable role and in direct violation of conflict-of-interest rules, acting as consultant and advisor, as manager, as buyer, as seller and as investor with both the Fed and the very banks, corporations, pension funds and other entities it was bailing out.

Yes, with the advent of the scamdemic, BlackRock had cemented its position as The Company That Owns The World.

But yet again we are left with the same nagging question: What is BlackRock seeking to do with this power? What is it capable of doing? And what are the aims of Fink and his fellow travelers?

The answer, which we will discuss next week, is that BlackRock is now seeking to bend society itself to its will, shaping the course of civilization in the process.

Stay tuned for Part 3 of this series, where we will gaze into the crystal ball to see The Future According to BlackRock. . . .

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66 Comments

  1. Teaming up with Google for results about climate change as there is a lot of misinformation:
    “We Own The Science” UN Global Communications Secretary Melissa Fleming

    https://rumble.com/v1mi9wa-we-own-the-science-global-communications-secretary-melissa-fleming.html

    EU should discuss mandatory vaccinations, says Von der Leyen

    https://odysee.com/@Sasquatch:6/aabbftdriossfwmmjkos:c

    Starting min 15, extremely bizarre horrible tryout of explaining privacy by wanting to buy pizza instead of broccoli:
    Winds of Change: The Case for New Digital Currency. By Christine Lagarde, IMF Managing Director Singapore Fintech Festival

    https://youtu.be/qvZ9ByRLX9U

    AGUSTÍN CARSTENS – CBDC central bank digital currency control system – BANK OF INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS

    https://odysee.com/@expectopatronum:b/AGUST%C3%8DN-CARSTENS—CBDC-central-bank-digital-currency-control-system—BANK-OF-INTERNATIONAL-SETTLEMENTS—the-slaves-system-:5

  2. While I was listening, obviously Madeleine Albright’s half a million Iraki children killed: “…we think the price was worth it” springs to mind.

    Also Gates’ formula for bringing CO2 down to zero with vaccines…

    Others’ll certainly come to mind.

    Ah, yea! Phil Jones’ “Hide the decline” of Climategate fame…

    Dan Rather’s “His head could be seen to move forward”

    errr…

    Christine Whitman’s air fit to breathe…?

    ummmmmm;..

    • OMG!! What a ditz!!

      CHOMSKY’S INIMITABLE “WHO CARES?” of course!!

    • Greta Thunberg’s “How dare you!?”

      ?

      Aldous Huxley’s “They’ll come to love their servitude?”

      Ida Auken’s “Welcome to 2030, I own nothing, have no privacy and life has never been better!”

      “I did not have sexual relations with that woman! by Bill Clinton but I don’t recall you’re having covered that…

      • 4 minute mark
        Regarding the Clintons, James Corbett says:
        ”There are certain very interesting traits that seem to apply to both of them. And firstly, we could very much highlight their ability to tell bald faced, blatantly self-serving lies without so much as a blush… …pathological liars….”
        Then, we see the Money Shot.

        From 10/10/2012
        Meet the Clintons (Video)
        https://www.corbettreport.com/meet-the-clintons-video/

      • “Now is the time for a Great Reset!”
        “I just see the need for such a dialogue, I see the need for action, I see the need for a Great Reset.”
        “The Covid 19 crisis has shown us that our old systems are not fit anymore for the 21st century. In short, we need a Great Reset!” -Klaus Schwab

        “In cash for example, we don’t know who’s using a $100 bill today and we don’t know who’s using a 1000 peso bill today and the key difference with CBDC is that the central bank will have absolute control on the rules and regulations that will determine the use of that expression of central bank liability and also we will have the technology to enforce that.” – the General Manager of the BIS, Augustin Carstens

        Magic Number 7 Lagarde: “…Now I’m going to test your numerology skills by asking you to think about the magic number 7, ok? Most of you will know that 7 is quite a number, in all sorts of themes, religions and I’m sure that you can compress numbers, as well. So! If we think about 2014…all right, I’m just giving you 2014, you drop the zero, fourteen, two times seven, ok. That’s just by way of example, and we’re going to carry on. So, 2014 will be a milestone and hopefully a magic year in many respects.”

    • BBC news anchor: “Jane, what more can you tell us about the Saloman Building and its collapse?”

      Zbigniew Brzezinski speaking to the Afghan Mujahideen: “Your cause is right and God is on your side!”

      guess I’ll read the article now.

      “According to some estimates we can not track 2.3 trillion dollars in transactions” – Donald Rumsfeld

    • How could I forget the Club of Rome’ First Global Revolution quote:

      “It would seem that humans need a common motivation…either a real one or else one invented for the purpose…In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself.””

    • Don’t imagine this one counts but, it’s one that marked me:

      “Ahead lies the Arctic shore, and beyond, the sea. And still the little animals surge forward. Their frenzy takes them tumbling down the terraced cliffs, creating tiny avalanches of sliding soil and rocks, and seemingly indestructible lemmings!
      They reach the final precipice! This is the last chance to turn back! Yet over they go, casting themselves bodily out into space… soon the arctic sea is dotted with tiny bobbing bodies…”

      Disney’s White Wilderness episode on suicidal lemmings…

      • Lemmings should be included, at least for the ‘Green’ Environmentalists.

        There needs to be an adaptive category for these type of nonsense charades in Corbett’s Hall of Shame.
        Some these nonsense charades include silly puff pieces.

        I’m trying to think of a proper category label with alliteration, something like…
        Tall Tales Told… __?

        For example:
        Rumsfeld on Meet the Press talking about the massive Cave Fortresses. (Al Qaeda Documentary)

        In the “Who is Bill Gates?” series, this was an incredible golden nugget video which Corbett salvaged:
        JOHN BERMAN: Behind closed doors on this New York campus, a secret gathering of some of the world’s most powerful people: Gates, Buffett, Bloomberg, Winfrey. It was like . . . well, it was like the “Super Friends.”

        [Super Friends cartoon introduction plays]

        ANNOUNCER: In the great hall of the Justice League, there are assembled the world’s four greatest heroes.

        SOURCE: Elite Billionaires Meet in Secret (video no longer online)
        https://www.corbettreport.com/gates/

        The Bill Gates documentary is loaded with some prime clips for Corbett’s Hall of Shame.

        • uhhhhhh…. ok, ok…. lemme think… uh… errrr… uh

          Titillating truth tidbits told texto!

          no… uh… or ah! tempting titillating tidbits transcribed to a tee!

          no no no no no!!!! Naaaahhhhh!

          Telling totally traitorous tall tales and titillating tidbits transcribed textually NAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH….

          what was the question again??

        • Bill Gates pie to the face would be a nice one to add to The Hall…can’t remember if that was included in there or not. Without rewatching it, I assume it was.

      • Absolutely it should be included! Everybody believes lemmings jump off cliffs because of that!

    • “I’m constantly annoyed that people are distracted by false conspiracies such as 9/11, when all around we provide evidence of real conspiracies, for war or mass financial fraud.” -Julian Assange oh wait… maybe that wasn’t you Mr Corbett, can’t remember now…

      “I remember getting a call from the uh fire department commander telling me that they were not sure they would be able to contain the fire. And I said “you know, we’ve had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is, is pull it!” And uhhh, they made that decision to pull, and then we watched the building collapse.” – Larry Siverstein

    • CHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN: “We know asbestos was in there, was in those buildings. Lead is in the those buildings. There are the VOC’s (Volatile Organic Compounds), however, the concentrations are such that they don’t pose a heath hazard.”

      https://www.corbettreport.com/911-suspects-christine-todd-whitman/

      Madeleine Albright quote:
      corbettreport.com/interview-1292-james-corbett-on-the-power-hour/

      Hide the decline: corbettreport.com/articles/20091120_cru_hacked.htm

      GATES: The world today has 6.8 billion people. That’s headed up to about nine billion. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.

      SOURCE: Innovating to zero! | Bill Gates
      corbettreport.com/gates/

      • “GATES: The world today has 6.8 billion people. That’s headed up to about nine billion. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.”

        This quote is probably Gates’ most famous one circulating on the net.
        You have to ask yourself why though.

        Most truthers interpret it as “Aha, you want to kill off 10-15% of the population by administering killer vaccines.”

        Maybe (and highly likely) he was suggesting that sterilizing vaccines could help do the job.
        Of course that is highly immoral/criminal (especially without consent), but I think all would agree it is far better than kill shots.

        • Ah! Yea! Ok! Cool! He wanted sterilizing vaccines, not kill shots. Seems plausible from an unscrupulously monopolistic billionaire born of a long line of devoted family-planners.

          But, so, then… why did we get sterilizing kill shots instead?

          • “But, so, then… why did we get sterilizing kill shots instead?”

            Simple my dear Watson. 🙂

            The quote by Gates about reducing the population was made in 2010
            at the TED2010 talk.

            As the years passed his goals obviously changed. 🙂

    • “This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.” – Christiana Figueres (the show notes link won’t play for me and I didn’t find the reference online with an easy search)

      https://web.archive.org/web/20150423160411/https://unric.org/en/latest-un-buzz/29623-figueres-first-time-the-world-economy-is-transformed-intentionally

      corbettreport.com/nwnw501/

      • Actually the Trump quote I posted above doesn’t correspond to the podcast I posted. My bad.

        This is the Youtube link to the extract that appeared in the Corbett podcast posted above.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg9ypxT9V3g

        In it, Trump explains how he originally found the “Drain the Swamp” phrase “hokey” but finally came to love it after audiences went wild hearing it.

    • “Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket, even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad, because I’m capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, you know, natural gas, you name it, whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was they would have to uh retrofit their operations, that will cost money, they will pass that money on to consumers.” – Barack Obama

    • “Attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science” -Anthony Fauci

      • I think I might be getting carried away here…

        • I love it.
          Keep going. This is better than the World Cup.

    • I would be remiss, were I to neglect Nayirah Al Sabah’s quote:

      “…While I was there I saw the Iraki soldiers come into the hospital with guns. They took the babies out of the incubators, took the incubators and left the children to die on the cold floor…”

  3. It is simple. Fascism.

    A stunning measure of the success of the Underground Reich and German Ostpolitik can be obtained by reading Dorothy Thompson’s analysis of Germany’s plans for world dominance by a centralized European economic union.

    (In this, we can see the plans of pan-German theoretician Friedrich List, as realized by the European Monetary Union.)

    Ms. Thompson was writing in The New York Herald Tribune on May 31, 1940! Her comments are reproduced by Tetens on page 92.

    “The Germans have a clear plan of what they intend to do in case of victory. I believe that I know the essential details of that plan.

    I have heard it from a sufficient number of important Germans to credit its authenticity . . . Germany’s plan is to make a customs union of Europe, with complete financial and economic control centered in Berlin.

    This will create at once the largest free trade area and the largest planned economy in the world.

    In Western Europe alone . . . there will be an economic unity of 400 million persons . . . To these will be added the resources of the British, French, Dutch and Belgian empires. These will be pooled in the name of Europa Germanica . . .”

    “The Germans count upon political power following economic power, and not vice versa.

    Territorial changes do not concern them, because there will be no ‘France’ or ‘England,’ except as language groups.

    Little immediate concern is felt regarding political organizations.
    . . . No nation will have the control of its own financial or economic system or of its customs.

    The Nazification of all countries will be accomplished by economic pressure. In all countries, contacts have been established long ago with sympathetic businessmen and industrialists . . . .

    As far as the United States is concerned, the planners of the World Germanica laugh off the idea of any armed invasion.

    They say that it will be completely unnecessary to take military action against the United States to force it to play ball with this system.

    Here, as in every other country, they have established relations with numerous industries and commercial organizations, to whom they will offer advantages in co-operation with Germany. . . .”

    https://spitfirelist.com/books/germany-plots-with-the-kremlin/

    Again, check out the current European Monetary Union and the “borderless” EU against the background of what Ms. Thompson forecast in 1940 and Mr. Tetens reproduced in 1953.

    You can substitute US for Germany.

    If you read Spooks by Jim Houghan you will see that due to the Ryan amendment, many intelligence agencies switched into ‘business models’ and set up their own banks.

    We were warned.

    • And, by the way, Ryan was murdered in Jones Town with no autopsy.

      Houghan suspects murder by the CIA which would explain the explosion in underground banks from Castle to BCCI during the seventies and early eighties, around the time the Ryan amendment hit the books.

  4. Easy!

    GEORGE W. BUSH: Nobody in our government, at least, and I don’t think the prior government, could envision flying airplanes into buildings on such a massive scale.

    SOURCE: President Addresses the Nation in Prime Time Press Conference, April 13, 2004.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1pPkR76P1I&t=30m45s

    Episode 346 – 9/11 War Games

    • Shoot! That was all very precise and thorough! Guess I should probably go back and fill in those blanks. sigh. Ok… Thanks Pearl… 8-/

      (furthermore, it’s a better Bush quote than mine!! How Dare YOu!!??)

      • You’ve got your work cut out for you with that steel-trap memory of yours.

        Tracking down that Bush video was exhausting given all the dead links (search terms be damned!). They’re making it almost impossible to find stuff if not scrubbing it altogether.

    • Regarding 9/11…
      I think that phrase by CNN about the passport: “…if you can believe that!” is a real winner.
      i.e. CNN – Hijacker’s passport found in WTC rubble Saturday

      Corbett has it linked in the transcript of…
      9/11: A Conspiracy Theory
      https://www.corbettreport.com/911-a-conspiracy-theory/

    • More from Bush:

      “We must speak the truth about terror. Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th, malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists themselves, away from the guilty.”

      G.W. Bush speaking before the UN General Assembly 11/10/2001

      https://youtu.be/1dPvjvhXSZ0?t=1138

      Episode 374 – The Greatest Depression

      and

      Shut Up, Conspiracy Theorist!!!

      • “We must speak the truth about terror. Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th, malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists themselves, away from the guilty.”

        That one is precious Pearl.
        For me it goes to the top of the list. 🙂
        

  5. My favourit is when dr. Tim Ball talks about the commission of enquiry. How by controlling the frame of reference – the outcome of the enquiry is controlled.

  6. A hammer shatters glass but it also forges steel.

    Friction can either dull a blade or sharpen it (depending on how you angle the blade).

    Perhaps we can determine whether or not this situation shatters us like glass or forges us into steel based on our choices in the now, perhaps we can allow the friction of this grim situation to sharpen the blade of our mind rather than dull it with a slight shift in perspective.

    Given the pervasive influence and ownership of entities like Blackrock (one of the central vehicles in “Mr.Global’s” economic blitzkrieg) in the food, medical, military, telecommunications and even real estate industries, the only way to effectively resist and boycott Blackrock/Vanguard (“Mr.Global”/”Globocap”) is (as I have stated in many other comments and as James Corbett has advocated for in many episodes/articles pre-dating my comments on here) to embrace radical decentralization (and reclaiming our sovereignty) in all aspects of our lives.

    Perhaps we can see this imperative for decentralizing the means to produce our basic necessities locally (to avoid being caught up in Blackrock’s economic dragnet and avoid feeding into it’s web of parasitic corporations) as an impetus that offers a unique opportunity (at least for those that are educated, realize the stakes, and are up to the challenge) as it invites those that are capable to align the energy of the ‘hammer’ (that entities like Blackrock wield) to forge them into steel (rather than shatter them like glass) and to align the ‘blade of the mind’ in a such a way that the friction of this global coup d’état serves to sharpen the mind. In doing so, perhaps all of this can serve as stimulus to invite those that are capable to transcend all perceived limitations of the past… wielding the blade that is their mind to take actions in the physical world, severing the parasitic tentacles of the oligarchy from their lives and their communities, crippling the global corporatocracy (via starving it) and creating something worth gifting to future generations in its place.

  7. Shame

    Alan Greenspan admits the Fed is an independent agency that does not answer to any branch of government. From Corbett’s “End the Fed” podcast back in 2008.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ol3mEe8TH7w

    More recently, Yuval Harari’s warning to Davos in 2020 sticks out in my mind.
    “We humans should get used to the idea that we are no longer mysterious souls – we are now hackable animals. That’s what we are.” In this speech he also talks about the new “useless class”.
    And this awful statement “we are about to enter a new era of inorganic life shaped by intelligent design.”

    https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/01/yuval-hararis-warning-davos-speech-future-predications/

    Corbett talks about it with Whitney Webb in this interview
    https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1649-whitney-webb-dissects-the-wellcome-leap-into-transhumanism/

    By the way, it’s an interview worth re-watching.

    • Certainly Whitney Webb deserves to be on the Hall of Fame here. In this interview above, she reminds us that dispite the crazy, literally insane anti-human agenda, “Our consent matters. They can be stopped.” Time stamp 58:25-1:00:20

    • Antisemitic trolls on Corbett Report now 😀 ….where are these goobers from? I mean I know they reside on Bitchute but geographically where do they hail from??? is it A.I. or human??? do they just exist to try stoke antisemitic hate or are they just providing confusion..I can never work them out??? from what I gather they are looking to stain forums and try associate any narrative against the official as antisemitic hatred??? is that about the simple gist of it?…what if down the line “they” bring in regulations that ban comments and shut down any page with comments like this??? pretty much all alternative forum and discussion will be taken down… it has to be A.I. right? or just really simple humans?? there is definitely an agenda running there? who are these trolls Mr Corbett? any ideas? and what is their end game… I understand nothing said there was antisemitic but the subject matter seems related…and clearly this post is in one way or another an advertisement

      • Has anyone here seen “Europa the Last Battle?” If you haven’t look it up. I’d like to hear your opinions on it.

  8. Other nominees for the hall of fame would be G Edward Griffin talking about the NWO and Patrick Wood from an early interview with James discussing Technocracy. Timeless.

  9. I’d like to nominate to the Hall of Shame/Fame four interviews that were done featuring Barry Jennings and Michael Hess.

    I don’t think it’s fair to limit the ‘Hall of Shame’ to content at the Corbett Report.
    I can see why James has made this stipulation. It helps promote his site.
    But it also leaves out valuable ‘Hall of Shamers’ that people should become familiar with.

    Both Jennings and Hess are on record as clearly stating that an explosion went off below them as they were walking down a stairwell in WTC7, before either WTC1 or WTC2 came down.
    As a result of the explosion the stairwell became blocked and they couldn’t proceed. They were trapped in the building for a couple of hours.

    Fortunately both Jennings and Hess told their story on 9/11 about the explosion before handlers could get to them.

    Shamefully, both of their stories changed in the years following 9/11, to the point where both
    deny there was an explosion in the building.

    I am submitting four videos:
    The first two as Hall of Fame candidates:

    Jennings 0:32 corbettreport.com/9-11-whistleblowers-barry-jennings/

    “Well me and Mr. Hess, corporation counsel were on the 23rd floor. I told him we gotta get outta here.
    We started walking down the stairs, we made it to the 8th floor. Big explosion. Blew us back into the 8th floor.”

    9/11: Michael Hess live about explosion at WTC 7 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8u-pjN_rA8

    “I was up in the emergency management center on the 23rd floor and when all
    the power went out in the building another gentleman and I walked down to the 8th floor,
    where there was an explosion and we’ve been trapped on the 8th floor with smoke, thick smoke
    all around us for about an hour and a half.”

    The second two as Hall of Shame candidates.
    Complete retractions from Jennings and Hess:

    Jennings 14:25 corbettreport.com/9-11-whistleblowers-barry-jennings/

    (The interviewer mentions WTC2 coming down at 9:59 am just before Jennings speaks.
    The implication being that Jennings actions were after WTC2 came down) :

    “I wanted to get out of that building in a hurry. So I started, instead of
    taking one step at a time I’m jumping landings. When I reached down to
    the 6th floor, there was this eerie sound (‘explosion’ has been replaced by ‘this eerie sound’), the whole building went dark and the staircase that I was standing on just gave way.
    (Sounds like a perfectly normal thing to happen, on its own)

    Hess: 2:25 vimeo.com/773557017
    “My position and I’m quite firm on it, there were no explosions. Did I feel the building shake?
    Absolutely.”

    • I also nominated this one, and have just noticed that you had nominated it already. I wasn’t copying you – it’s an important and memorable video, even if it is in the “those buildings sure did collapse funny” category.

    • Maybe that stairway got a jab so it collapsed suddenly.

  10. “There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.”

    D rumsfeld

    “Sasha and Malia are huge fans, but boys, don’t get any ideas. Two words for you: predator drones. You will never see it coming.”

    B Obama

    “attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science.”

    A Faucci

    reporter: “did you wipe the server?”
    H Clinton: “what like with a cloth or something?”

    stroke victim, J Fetterman, opens debate for senate race (which he won): “Hi, goodnight everybody”

    “this is an impressive crowd, the haves, and the have mores, some people call you the elites, I call you my base”

    Bush dubaya

    “we own the science and think that the world should know it”

    M Flemming (under secratary global communication U.N.)

  11. For the Hall of Shame:

    “I’m tempted to quote the great Leonard Cohen: ‘I’m guided by the beauty of our weapons'” – I hadn’t heard this quote until I watched the “Syria Strikes: A Conspiracy Theory” video. The sheer imbecility of the misuse of Cohen’s ironic line is astonishing and hilarious.

    The polar bears falling from the sky in “Won’t Someone Think of the Polar Bears?”

    For the Hall of Fame:
    Almost any quote from Gerry Docherty in WW1 – a Conspiracy.

    Barry Jennings in 911 Whistleblowers stuck in my mind (a shame he was forced into a retraction).

    Also from that video for the Hall of Shame, at 2 mins 55 secs, Shyam Sunder saying “Our new study shows that fire can induce a progressive collapse…”

  12. “This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated!” -Biden
    https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/09/09/remarks-by-president-biden-on-fighting-the-covid-19-pandemic-3/

    and at 33 seconds:

    “This is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated!” -Walechsky
    tv.yahoo.com/around-the-globe/walensky-warns-pandemic-unvaccinated-162241800.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmluZy5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADPHCfP3oqtuLtZ6lMzbopqMq3o-8f9b8y2S0I2s-TFms510juWLdhqB4zQUBRXPxdAkcovUpllpcG4qeu3TGHa7Z4rG42Fd-wtpy6ABO4HGgmIiCi9pR-J03261uNZoBnDHCywMtTdD6Erts3SglAhuPDo_yJoC9k0c2yzoZcm0

  13. DAVID LANG: I suggest therefore that this be sold not through a democratic process. That would take too long and devour far too much of the funds to educate the cannon fodder, unfortunately, that populates the earth. We have to take almost an elitist program, [so] that we can see beyond our swollen bellies, and look to the future in time frames and in results which are not easily understood, or which can be, with intellectual honesty, be reduced down to some kind of simplistic definition.

    SOURCE: UN UNCED Earth Summit 1992 by George Hunt

  14. #HallofFame
    #HallofShame

    “The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao’s leadership
    is one of the most important and successful in human history.”

    -David Rockefller, From a China Traveler, NYT

  15. #HallofFame
    #HallofShame

    “Some even believe we (the Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure—one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”
    -David Rockefeller, Memoirs, page 405

  16. #HallofFame
    #HallofShame

    “Yet in holding scientific discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”
    -Eisenhower’s farewell address

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTMFJT4aB-Q

  17. #HallofFame
    #HallofShame

    “There is a level of admiration I actually have for China because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime and say we need to go green, we need to start, you know, investing in solar. There is a flexibility that I know Stephen Harper must dream about: having a dictatorship where you can do whatever you wanted, that I find quite interesting.”
    -Justin Trudeau

    Trudeau Loves China’s Dictatorship
    https://odysee.com/@EduardoCorrochio:4/trudeau-loves-china%27s-dictatorship:8?r=B1VLeNXPPMEAxzrWMk23g4LnKZJnqt8p&t=0

    • I was planning to make a nice music video compilation (I already have the perfect soundtrack for it) based on the hall of shame pronoucements and antics. I did collect some material, but I was lacking focus.

      You people are now providing so much focus that I will need to go back to my comittment.

  18. #HallofFame
    #HallofShame

    “The thought process was all about, ‘How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?’And that means that we need to sort of give you a little dopamine hit every once in a while, because someone liked or commented on a photo or a post or whatever, and that’s going to get you to contribute more content, and that’s going to get you more likes and comments. It’s a social validation feedback loop. …You’re exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology. I think the inventors, creators—it’s me, it’s Mark, it’s Kevin Systrom at Instagram, it’s all of these people—understood this, consciously. And we did it anyway.”
    -Sean Parker, former Facebook president

    https://youtu.be/R7jar4KgKxs?t=70

    • Wow! Red hot propositions! These are really pertinent! I think the Hall of Shame is indeed a really fun and even useful endeavour! Good work!

  19. “who is Bill Gates”
    the clip where he is in court getting grilled on his Netscape shenanigans

    it describes perfectly the narcissistic arrogance of this POS

    have a nice day ? ?? ☮️

    ps: “the pie in the face of lil willy gates” is spot on funny as well

    #HallofFame
    #HallofShame

  20. Isn’t the credit we give to Andrew Jackson that he blocked central bankers from taking over USA? (Yes) so, isn’t it interesting that these same bankers now celebrate their victory in a place named Jackson? Hole(?) Makes sense to me. Gloating…and as a reminder.

    “…central bankers that descended on Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for the annual Jackson Hole Economic Symposium taking place on August 22, 2019”

    • as chilling as it is plausible

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