[Vivek] If you want to seal the border, vote Trump. If you wanna restore law and order in this country, vote Trump. If you want to defeat the deep state, vote Trump. (suspenseful music) (keys rattling) - Hey, Johnny. - Hey, Paji. - I'm having a really hard time wrapping my head around this story, I must admit.
(00:26) - Yeah, and this concept of deep state has been so, I think poisoned by politics and Trump sort of using it for everything that he doesn't like. And it kind of makes it hard to approach it earnestly, but I think we have to keep digging, like I think there's something here. - Is the deep state real? - Is the deep state real? (ominous music) (ominous music continues) (glasses clinking) There's this moment in the '60s (ominous music continues) (rocket exploding) where you really like see how this actually works,
(01:06) like where power really is to the height of this moment where the US and the Soviet Union are in this like massive staring contest. There's nuclear weapons involved. Everyone thinks the entire globe could be wiped out in this conflict. And Cuba is centered right in the middle of it all, right off the coast of the US, but they're on the Soviet side of the conflict.
(01:25) The US at this point wants nothing more than to snatch Cuba, to make it their own. And they've been trying to kill Fidel Castro a million different ways. They're looking for an excuse to invade and to push back on all of this, the Soviets actually start shipping nuclear weapons to the island. (suspenseful music) The US has no idea until one day a spy plane is flying over the island and they snap this wild photo.
(01:51) (suspenseful music continues) (camera snapping) I mean, it doesn't look like a wild photo, it just looks like a random field in Cuba. But you zoom in and you see canvas tents, trailers, missile launch equipment. I mean, the US government immediately knows what they're looking at here. The world's most destructive weapons are actually hiding under these tents, ready to launch, sitting right in the United States' backyard, right off their coast, nuclear war 103 miles away.
(02:17) - Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island. - It's a crisis, a Cuban missile crisis. (suspenseful music) And one man in Washington DC suddenly has a really difficult decision to make. (suspenseful music continues) Everyone around him wants him to invade Cuba, but he's not sure.
(02:49) Okay, but here's the kicker of the whole thing. Instead of stay at work that night and like figure out this crisis with his advisors, Kennedy gets in a car and travels across town to like a cocktail party. He came here to a house in Georgetown, the home of Joe Alsop, one of the nation's most influential newspaper columnists.
(03:08) It was the eve of nuclear war and the President of the United States kept his dinner date in Georgetown. And the reason why is because at that party were the people he trusted, the people who really had power in Washington during that time. Most of them lived here in this neighborhood, many of them side by side, all within a few blocks.
(03:29) William Colby, the far east chief of the CIA, he would later become the director of the agency, Chip Bohlen, a former ambassador to the Soviet Union, Allen Dulles, who (exhales), boy, Allen Dulles, where do you even start? He's the CIA's longest running director and he lived right here in Georgetown.
(03:43) Frank Wisner, one of the founding officers of the CIA, he lived just six blocks away. Felix Frankfurter, a Supreme Court Justice, just a couple minutes walk away. And Kennedy himself had a house in this neighborhood. (suspenseful music) The reason JFK kept his date in Georgetown that night was because this is where power in Washington was, on the other side of town from the Capitol building, the seat of American democracy, the decisions were being made here by unelected men who had an immense amount of secret power.
(04:15) (suspenseful music continues) (pictures clicking) These were powerful men who were not elected or accountable and at this point they'd become drunk on the worst kind of power, the secret sort of power that corrupts, the kind of power that our founders sought to check and balance with all of their founding documents.
(04:32) But here in Georgetown, it had moved beyond anything the designers of the country could have predicted, into a shadowy separate part of our government, a deep state that was actively blackmailing the Congress and working to undermine the President of the United States and being horrifyingly successful at it.
(04:50) - Unelected deep state operatives who divide the voters to push their own secret agendas. - You take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you. So even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he's being really dumb to do this. - As far as I know, we don't engage in assassinations and kidnappings and things of that kind.
(05:12) - I do think there has to be serious questions raised about some of the foreign policy blunders that this country has had over the last 20 to 25 years. - There's some truth in the idea that there is an ongoing group of people who continue the work of government as administrations come and go. And is it possible for these entities to go rogue? Absolutely.
(05:39) - Was the agency involved in the kind of domestic surveillance that has been portrayed in the news reports? - My feeling is that it has not. - (sighs) Okay, I am doing this. The deep state, is the deep state real? And if so, what is it? Before we do that, I wanna take a moment to say thank you to our sponsor. NordVPN is a longtime sponsor of our channel.
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(07:36) - I really want this. - Could you start by introducing yourself, who you are, and what you do and what your relationship to this topic of the history of the CIA is? - Yeah, so my name's Jefferson Morley. I'm a journalist in Washington. I've been a journalist in Washington for the last 40 years.
(07:52) - In the old days, spy agencies were a war thing. When the US was at war, it would set up an international spy operation to best wage that war. And then when the war was over, they would pare down or totally get rid of the spy agency. The thinking here was that a spy agency took up a lot of resources and threatened civil liberties, a lot of power concentrated into a bunch of unelected people.
(08:16) Worth it during war, not worth it during peace. But then the biggest war of them all came to America's Pacific doorstep and it changed everything. - [Announcer 1] And in today, the bombing of Pearl Harbor by enemy units. (bombs exploding) - And so Roosevelt now has a license, more of a license to do what he wants.
(08:35) And one of the first things he does is consult with a man named Bill Donovan. - [Johnny] Wild Bill, a corporate Wall Street lawyer who was obsessed with the power of intelligence. - Donovan had very strong opinions and he said, "You need a wartime intelligence service. "You're going to war.
(08:51) " - Wild Bill Donovan would be in charge of the Office of Strategic Services or OSS, a centralized intelligence agency that would be given immense power to do whatever it took to keep our people safe and to keep our team on top. This was the birth of modern intelligence, a euphemism for spying, and lying, and cheating, and deceiving, and sneaking, and breaking, coercing, dividing and conquering.
(09:20) No idea was too crazy for the OSS during this time. Like one OSS psychologist had this idea that Hitler could be demoralized if they just showed him a vast quantity of porn. - [Jefferson] Paramilitary operation. - [Johnny] Strapping explosives to a bunch of baths and letting them loose over Tokyo. - [Jefferson] A guy skiing into Nazi occupied Norway.
(09:39) - [Johnny] Making fake companies, recruiting off Wall Street from all of his old colleagues, bringing in bankers and movie directors, fake radio stations, anything to demoralize, divide or confuse the enemy. - The OSS is the first intelligence agency that the United States ever has. - Oh, and one of Wild Bill's favorite things to do was to have parties at his house.
(10:00) - Hi, are we the first ones here? - [Announcer 2] It's the big night. - [Johnny] To plan and plot his operations with his friends in Georgetown, a neighborhood in Washington DC that is strikingly beautiful. Here is Bill Donovan's house. It's now worth $17 million, it's beautiful. And this is where he would have a drink and chat with other Washington power brokers.
(10:22) He would recruit new agents from American high society, earning the agency the nickname Oh So Social, pretty clever. Okay, but remember that spy agencies like this were a war thing only, and the war ended in 1945 and the OSS got dissolved. - The forces of Germany have surrendered to the United Nations. - What do we do with the OSS now that we're at peace? And Truman says, "We don't want "to risk having an American Gestapo.
(10:51) " - A political police. - His meaning, especially in the context of having just defeated the Nazis, was, you know, that's what led our enemy astray. They had a secret intelligence agency, the Gestapo, which wound up enforcing political norms and enforcing tyranny, and we don't wanna risk that. - Here's Harry Truman doing the right thing and signing a piece of paper that says that the OSS can no longer exist.
(11:15) I mean, Truman was freaked out. He's like, this was really great to help us win the war, but this is way too much power in the hands of unelected officials holding secret information. But it was kind of too late. Putting the genie back in the bottle would prove to be an impossible task. (ominous music) Is it significant that all these guys live four blocks from each other in Georgetown? - [Jefferson] Yeah, it's very significant because they're the product of this wartime culture.
(11:41) - This is one party that just has to turn out right. - Here is target number one for the Reds. And who's in the bullseye? You are. - So there was a brief moment after World War II when the Cold War didn't exist. We were at peace. But then almost immediately tension started to rise between these two great empires that had been allies to defeat the Nazis, but were now skeptical of each other.
(12:06) And senators were suddenly declaring that it was impossible to know where war begins and where it ends. - The Soviet Union and its agents have destroyed the independence and democratic character of a whole series of nations in Eastern and Central Europe. - And this is when all the intel people that had run the OSS, many of them who lived in Georgetown by the way, start calling for the resurrection of the OSS, a centralized intelligence agency that we can use to fight this new global war with the Soviet Union.
(12:34) But no, say a bunch of other lawmakers, the Constitution wasn't designed for us to put so much power in the hands of men who are doing secret things. Doing this will result in, "A police state run "by power grabbing bureaucrats." (ominous music continues) Too much power to, "Military leaders," and their, "Insatiable appetite for more money, "for more men and more power, "whatever the cost to democracy.
(13:00) " - Truman's mind changed. And what changed Truman's mind was the growing confrontation with the Soviet Union. - And soon the papers were signed and a new agency was formed, the Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA. - When Truman signs the National Security Act, he says, "We have to be careful "that we don't have an American Gestapo.
(13:21) " So that thought is still on his mind. - The CIA was the big shiny new weapon of the United States in the Cold War and their mission was to, quote, "Gain and distribute intelligence," and to perform, quote, "Other functions and duties "related to intelligence affecting national security.
(13:39) " What does that mean? - Everybody knew what that language meant. Everybody knew that that was, and we just weren't gonna talk about it because we didn't wanna write it down on paper. - Like what do they do with this vague mandate of national security? - Oh boy, they go to town. - Who's that? (crowd chattering) - [Announcer 3] You must stir the ingredients in your chocolate cake.
(14:01) - [Announcer 4] "The Tonight Show." (screen screeching) - So clean but so soft and smooth. (ominous music continues) - Operation Paperclip, 1945 to 1959, the Americans wanted to get those Nazi rocket scientists on their side so that they could develop their own rocket capacity. James Angleton, for example, protects a general under Hitler.
(14:21) - CIA, gets involved in the Italian elections. - Italian elections, 1948, puts its thumb on the Italian democracy and make sure that US allies win. - [Johnny] Operation Ajax, coup in Iran, 1953. - [Jefferson] The CIA and the MI6 organized a coup to overthrow the democratically elected government. - Now that we encouraged the Shah to take that action I will not deny.
(14:41) - [Johnny] CIA coup, Guatemala, 1954, bananas, for of course, bananas. - [Jefferson] Again, democratically elected government reformists wanted to engage in land reform and the CIA overthrows it really at the behest of the United Fruit Company. - The CIA is now helping American corporations? - [Jefferson] The influence of American corporations on the CIA actions is unmistakable.
(15:00) Allen Dulles was on the board of directors, Howard Hunt, Birch O'Neal, David Phillips, CIA coup in Congo. - Congo. - [Jefferson] Early 1960s, CIA coup in Chile, 1973. (suspenseful music) - Las Vegas. - The assassination operation against General Schneider in 1970 is coordinated with Kissinger's office.
(15:21) - Thank you, nice to see you all. - [Johnny] Mind control experiments, MKUltra. - In 1950, the CIA launches a massive program to develop means of controlling people's minds. Some 40 US academic institutions were involved in this kind of research. - [Johnny] Feeding LSD to people without their permission.
(15:39) - [Jefferson] Can we develop a truth serum, dosing somebody with LSD 60 times in a week? NSA's Operation Shamrock. - [Johnny] Operation Shamrock. - [Jefferson] Electronic surveillance, 1945 to 1975, the first warrantless wire tap. - Oh God, Bay of Pigs nightmare. - [Jefferson] There were hundreds of CIA assassination plots. - Operation Phoenix.
(15:59) - [Jefferson] Eventually Bill Colby, who was later director, admitted that they had killed 20,000 people. - Operation Mockingbird. - [Jefferson] COINTELPRO. - [Johnny] COINTELPRO, Operation Chaos, Watergate, Jim Critchfield, Frank Wisner, James Angleton, Roosevelt, John Foster, McCoy. - [Jefferson] The CIA coup in Indonesia, CIA coup in Greece, CIA involvement in the Guatemalan Civil War.
(16:19) It was a CIA crime spree for 20 years. There's no other way to describe it. (suspenseful music) - So by the 1970s, the CIA is this powerful, well-funded machine of intelligence that is doing a lot of secret things all around the world. They start blackmailing lawmakers to scare them away from investigating them and reigning them in.
(16:42) - These agencies had harmful personal information on lots of people. When I was doing my Angleton book, a guy told me one day when he went to meet Angleton, Angleton quoted back to him what he had said to his wife in bed the night before. - Jesus. - And so, they had this capacity and people knew that they had this capacity.
(17:03) You know, the Kennedys knew that J. Edgar Hoover had information about his affairs with various women. ♪ Happy birthday, Mr. President ♪ - This kind of knowledge that they had, Angleton and Hoover were masters at using those kind of secrets as leverage. Kennedy had this thing hanging over his head and he knew Hoover, you know, had that on him.
(17:29) And so, you know, he couldn't fire Hoover. - And so much of this power is concentrated among just a few people, many of them not elected, and many of them living right here along these streets in this neighborhood of Georgetown, living in fancy homes, having fancy cocktail parties and kind of running the Western world.
(17:49) It's exactly the nightmare of the founders of the country and the nightmare of President Truman. - And one month after the assassination of President Kennedy, Harry Truman publishes an article in the "Washington Post" and says, "The CIA should be abolished." - Wow. - And he says, "It has cast a shadow on the historical reputation "of the United States.
(18:13) " - The man who signed the piece of paper that created the CIA comes out and says he regrets it. Eventually Americans start to get savvy to the fact that their government is sort of going off the rails. (suspenseful music) (bell ringing) As this war in Vietnam drags on, more and more Americans stand up and say enough, demanding accountability for a national security apparatus that had gotten out of control.
(18:38) And what does the government do in response? They start spying on the protestors. - Operation Chaos was the CIA spying on the anti-war movement. Johnson calls in Dick Helms and says, "What's going on?" They said, "Communists have to be behind this." And so they start infiltrating the anti-war movement and they come back in about a year and they say, "Well, you know, Moscow "and the North Vietnamese, "they really like this anti-war movement, "but it's not controlled by them, it's not funded by them.
(19:05) "It's pretty much an American thing, you know, "but that doesn't change anything." And Chaos continues to grow and eventually by 1970, there's 30 officers working on it, hundreds of agents. And you know, the ostensible purpose of Chaos, to detect a foreign hand, I mean, Chaos was in existence for seven years, every time they were asked to report on it, they came back and said, it's not foreign controlled and it's not foreign funded, which was obvious to anybody who was involved in the anti-war movement.
(19:33) There were a lot of people inside the CIA saying, "You know, we're spying on our wives and kids basically, "you know, they're going to the demonstrations "and we're reading the reports at night. "We shouldn't be doing this." - Are we trying to exterminate an entire people? What have we become as a nation? - Americans were waking up to the fact that these unelected men were wielding way too much power and spying not only on the entire world, but on Americans themselves.
(19:59) (suspenseful music) - We have been victimized by excessive secrecy, not only with respect to the failure of the Congress in the past to exercise proper surveillance over intelligence activities, but also excessive secrecy has created this kind of mischief within the executive branch. - [Johnny] Senator Frank Church helps lead the charge of taking all of these secrets and excesses and thrusting them onto the national stage and shining a light on them.
(20:32) - There has never been a full public accounting of FBI domestic intelligence operations. - The American people are learning for the first time just how bad this was. 800 witnesses, 10,000 documents. Their secrets were shared. CIA, FBI, NSA, assassination plots. - Does this pistol fire the dart? - [William] Yes, it does, Mr. Chairman.
(20:59) - [Frank] When it fires, it fires silently? - [William] Almost silently, yes. - Spying on Americans. - A wholly comprehensive listing of everything those people fought or did on any subject you can imagine, they're having a concern with. - [Johnny] Targeting people like Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights or feminist activists.
(21:20) - Bureau agents were told to attack the new left by disinformation and misinformation. - [Johnny] Anti-war protestors were spied on, intimidated. - COINTELPRO is the name for the effort by the bureau to destroy people and to destroy organizations, or as they used the words, disrupt and neutralize. The bureau went so far as to mail anonymous letters to Dr. King and his wife.
(21:47) "King, there is only one thing left for you to do. "You know what it is. "You have just 34 days in which to do it, you are done." - That was taken by Dr. King to mean a suggestion for suicide, was it not? - [Frederick] That's our understanding, Senator. - The CIA's LSD mind control experiments were also detailed to the public.
(22:07) - [Jefferson] One of the first things they come across is the MKUltra papers. - And so were the FBI and CIA's attempts to infiltrate the free press, planting journalists within our newspapers. We would later learn in some investigative reporting that this infiltration of the free press was much more widespread than Church even discovered.
(22:26) - He reported that up to 400 journalists had been paid by the CIA under Operation Mockingbird. And there's no doubt that it was a massive effort and effective. - The Church committee made a few things clear, number one, that indeed a group of unelected government employees used immense power and resources of the United States government to pursue programs that were illegal, unethical, and generally out of line with American values and norms.
(22:57) And they did it in secret outside of any set of accountability, partly because the US Congress wanted to give them money and turn a blind eye. - I can recall members of Congress who recoiled from responsibility of knowing what was happening, members of Congress who said, "Don't tell me, I don't wanna know.
(23:20) " I think that is an indictment of the Congress just as severe as any indictment which is labeled against any of the intelligence community. - When Dulles wanted to get approval for the CIA budget, all he had to do was take a top line number to the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and he would say, "This is what we want for this year.
(23:42) " And the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee would say, "Okay, that's what you've got "and please don't tell us anything "about what you're doing with it." And so there was no internal challenge to this world of CIA people. - But here's the other thing that is so crucial here, which is that when you listen to these hearings, you see people who thought they were doing the right thing, who thought that they were doing what they needed to to protect the country during a very scary time.
(24:07) - After a 30 year period, all of a sudden, you woke up one morning and here was this creature that had been created that no one along the line had ever really contemplated. Each of these steps that I think initially were innocent, honest steps. - Many of these agents were earnest patriots, but they were operating in a system free of accountability and transparency.
(24:28) - Even within the deep state, there are people who were doing things for altruistic and good reasons. And then there are people who were doing things for their own selfish or bad reasons. And you know, exactly how many are in each category, is you know, sort of impossible to delineate. - I got sucked in when I should have known better and where many other more intelligent, sophisticated people got sucked in in other areas.
(24:53) - So after the Church committee, all kinds of new oversight regulations come in. There's new committees formed, there's new regulations, and suddenly the intelligence community now finally has some kind of oversight. The deep state was reigned in. Now they did fight back. Church was undermined and intimidated by these agencies.
(25:11) - CIA people, I mean, they hated Frank Church. Jim Angleton would go around and say, "Frank Church was a KGB agent." Dick Helms raged against him. Kissinger, they couldn't believe that US intelligence was being opened up. On the other hand, Americans were like, "Oh my God, "this is what was being done in our name?" - But overall, this is a story of American democracy, doing what it's supposed to do, reign in the worst impulses of humans with power, and in the process avoiding disaster
(25:38) at least for a few decades. - One of you is about to be elected the leader of the single most powerful nation in the world. Have you formed any guiding principles for exercising this enormous power? - When it comes to foreign policy, that'll be my guiding question. Is it in our nation's interests? Peace in the Middle East is in our nation's interests.
(26:03) Having a hemisphere that is free for trade. (screen screeching) (crowd cheering) - Have some very, very sketchy details reaching us here at SkyCentral, important enough to bring to you though, at this early stage. We believe that a plane has crashed into the World Trade Center. (suspenseful music continues) - Gotta move back! - [Johnny] A new threat.
(26:24) (suspenseful music continues) (pedestrians yelling) And a new call to give power to professional spies and bureaucrats to keep us safe by doing secret things. - And by passing the Patriot Act, we will make America safer while safeguarding our civil liberties and privacy. - [Johnny] And then of course, new agencies, all with variations on the same name.
(26:49) - 9/11 is kind of like a Pearl Harbor. There's this desire, you know, we've been attacked. Anything goes, we have to strike back. This is an existential struggle. And that same ethos of the Early Cold War, anything goes, that returns big time after 9/11, and the CIA seeks or asserts without being checked, all sorts of powers that they hadn't asserted before.
(27:14) They implement the torture program, they massively expand the warrantless wiretapping, the kind of things that we had seen Angleton do in Chaos. Those exact same techniques are revived and expanded after 9/11, you know, on a very large scale. - Taxpayers funneling money into millions of new top secret jobs.
(27:34) 22 capital buildings worth of new office space that spring up all around this area where I live, to house all these new secrets, and inside them waterfalls of new programs, so many weirdly named programs that no one leader could ever hear about, let alone regulate all of them. - There's not a whole lot of effective oversight on something that has grown so big and so bushy.
(28:04) - [Johnny] And none of which should be known to the public, that is until someone who's worried that history is repeating itself, decides to spill the beans. - Our breaking news this evening is the identity of the man who sent the Obama Administration into defend and explain mode this week. His name is Edward Snowden.
(28:21) He's an American former CIA employee and computer technician. Today he came out as the leaker of classified NSA documents that spell out a secret. - [Johnny] And we all kind of wonder, what if we actually need this now? What if we need all these dark windows and top secret PowerPoint decks where they design how they're gonna spy on us? What if our safety relies on what happens inside of all these buildings? So we keep funding them, but in doing so, we must at least acknowledge what we're doing here.
(28:51) We are trading a portion of our freedom in exchange for a sense of security. And in the process we're creating and feeding kind of a new branch of our government to power, one that operates outside of this elegant triangle that the founders constructed, to trip up the corrupting forces that run the risk of always possessing men with secret power.
(29:15) - Most everybody agrees that there's over classification, there's way too much information that's classified, but information is power, and the fewer people that have it, the more power the people that do have it have. - [Johnny] And the result is that when the most powerful man in the world arrives to the most powerful House in the world, promising to reign all of this in, to reign in the excesses, he actually finds that he can't.
(29:42) He's not able to change much of it. Instead, he sits there and watches much of the things that he critiqued grow under his watch, the thing that he's supposed to control he finds he doesn't have that much control over. - These targeted strikes against Al-Qaeda terrorists are indeed ethical and just.
(30:00) - Secrets keep us safe, but secrets also degrade this delicate thing that we have called democracy and accountability, that is until we save ourselves from their everlasting seductive pull. - The United States must not adopt the tactics of the enemy, means are as important as ends, crisis makes it tempting to ignore the wise restraints that make men free.
(30:29) (ominous music) (ominous music continues) (ominous music continues)
- Central themes include:
- The interplay between technology and human control.
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a tool for societal transformation.
- Designer manipulation of belief systems to align different groups towards a unified outcome.
Key Topics and Insights
1. Predetermined Outcomes and Control Mechanisms
- Concept: “Know the outcome and you’ll see the journey.”
- Events like elections are analyzed as part of a broader plan leading to a predetermined outcome.
- Suggestion that human fusion with AI is a key goal, achieving control over human thought and perception.
2. AI and the Hive Mind
- Vision for 2030: Human brains and bodies integrated with AI.
- Implications:
- Loss of independent human thought.
- Creation of a "hive mind" where thoughts are AI-driven.
- Prominent figures like Ray Kurzweil predict this transition as inevitable.
3. Political Dynamics and Their Role
- Both the left (e.g., Democrats) and right (e.g., Trump supporters) are manipulated with tailored narratives:
- Left: Promised godlike enhancements through AI.
- Right: Warned of extinction without technological adaptation.
- These tactics polarize while aligning both groups with technological agendas.
4. Influence of Key Figures and Organizations
- Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, among others, are identified as instrumental in advancing AI and surveillance agendas.
- Musk’s projects (e.g., Neuralink, SpaceX’s Starlink) position him as both a promoter and implementer of AI technologies.
- Connection to globalist agendas via organizations like the Bilderberg Group is highlighted.
5. Social Media and Free Speech
- Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter (X) is framed as a strategic move:
- Portrayed as a free-speech hero, shifting perceptions among his critics.
- Increased censorship and shadow banning despite claims of transparency.
6. Future Projections and Challenges
- Predicted intensification of manipulation techniques:
- "Perceptual Blitzkrieg": Overloading society with rapid changes to induce compliance.
- The period leading to 2030 is seen as critical for implementing the AI-human fusion agenda.
Conclusion: The Path Ahead
- Focus on the direction of travel rather than rhetoric.
- Society faces a pivotal period where resistance to technological domination must confront narratives of inevitability.
- Both political sides contribute to the same outcome under
Detailed Analysis of Odd-Numbered Points
1. Predetermined Outcomes and Control Mechanisms
Overview:
- The speaker emphasizes the idea that global events, such as elections and policy shifts, are orchestrated to achieve a specific outcome.
- Core Idea: Knowing the desired result helps decode seemingly random occurrences.
Key Concepts:
- "Totalitarian Tiptoe": Incremental steps are taken toward complete societal control.
- The ultimate objective is a society where individuals are fused with AI, enabling unprecedented levels of surveillance and manipulation.
Supporting Evidence:
- References Ray Kurzweil’s prediction that by 2030, humans will be biologically connected to AI.
- This fusion is framed as a method of ensuring that human thought is shaped by AI, leading to negligible independent thinking.
Implications:
- Events that appear random or disconnected may actually be milestones toward a larger goal.
- Technologies that seem innovative or beneficial are cast as potential tools for domination.
3. Political Dynamics and Their Role
Overview:
- The speaker argues that political divisions are exploited to advance a unified technological agenda.
- Politicians on both sides of the spectrum are portrayed as contributors to the same endgame, using different narratives to appeal to their bases.
Manipulation Techniques:
- The Left:
- Sold the promise of enhancement through AI, becoming "gods" with superior abilities.
- Narratives focus on progressiveness, technology, and utopian outcomes.
- The Right:
- Warned about extinction without embracing technological evolution.
- Fear-based messaging encourages submission to AI as a survival mechanism.
Key Figures:
- Donald Trump: Positioned as a key figure rallying resistance while simultaneously enabling the agenda in nuanced ways.
- Elon Musk: Used as a bridge to appeal to anti-establishment groups, despite advancing projects like Neuralink and Starlink.
Implications:
- Polarization serves to mask the overarching alignment of both sides towards AI integration.
- The agenda exploits deeply ingrained belief systems to ensure minimal resistance.
5. Social Media and Free Speech
Overview:
- Social media platforms like Twitter (X) are described as pivotal in shaping public perception.
- Key Assertion: Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter is a calculated strategy to manipulate dissenters.
Contradictions Highlighted:
- Pre-Musk Twitter: Criticized for deep state control, censoring dissenting voices.
- Post-Musk Twitter: Although marketed as a bastion of free speech, censorship reportedly increased.
- The percentage of content removed under government pressure rose from 50% to 80%.
Strategic Moves:
- Musk is cast as a free speech hero by restoring banned accounts and publicly opposing censorship.
- However, shadow banning and selective censorship persist behind the scenes.
Broader Impact:
- Alternative media figures, who previously criticized Musk, now support him due to perceived ideological alignment.
- This shift has created a controlled opposition narrative, furthering the AI agenda without scrutiny.
Concluding Thoughts on the Odd-Numbered Points
These points collectively argue that political, technological, and cultural forces are converging to achieve a singular goal: the integration of humans with AI. Through calculated narratives, belief systems are tailored and manipulated to minimize resistance. Figures like Musk and Trump are seen as instruments of this manipulation, bridging the gap between dissenters and the globalist agenda.
Further Exploration of Odd-Numbered Points
1. Predetermined Outcomes and Control Mechanisms
Real-World Developments and Connections:
Technological Advancements in AI:
- Companies like Neuralink are actively working on brain-machine interfaces.
- Neural implants are marketed as revolutionary tools for medical treatment (e.g., Parkinson’s disease) but may lay the groundwork for more intrusive applications.
Incremental Steps ("Totalitarian Tiptoe"):
- Surveillance technologies, such as facial recognition and digital IDs, are normalized under the guise of convenience and security.
- Examples include:
- China's Social Credit System: A digital tool for societal control.
- Digital currencies: Proposed by central banks, potentially eliminating anonymous transactions.
Global Coordination on AI Regulation:
- Initiatives like the AI Act (EU) and White House Blueprint for AI Bill of Rights emphasize governance but could centralize control over AI’s development and deployment.
Analysis:
The gradual normalization of such technologies aligns with the concept of a "planned journey" where public buy-in is achieved through step-by-step exposure. Fear-based narratives (e.g., global crises) create the urgency necessary for acceptance.
3. Political Dynamics and Their Role
Real-World Developments and Connections:
Tailored Messaging for Political Bases:
- On the left:
- Campaigns focusing on the promise of clean energy, universal healthcare, and technological advancement through AI.
- Figures like Bill Gates promote AI’s potential to revolutionize agriculture, education, and medicine.
- On the right:
- Anti-globalism rhetoric, but subtle endorsements of AI for national security (e.g., military use of AI by DARPA).
- Trump’s support for Operation Warp Speed aligns with rapid technological implementation narratives.
- On the left:
AI Advocacy Across Spectrums:
- Elon Musk’s dual stance on AI:
- Publicly warns about its dangers (e.g., calling AI a potential "existential threat").
- Actively promotes projects like Tesla’s self-driving cars and Neuralink.
- Elon Musk’s dual stance on AI:
Rise of Anti-Establishment Figures:
- Leaders like Trump and Musk present themselves as counter-establishment but advance core elements of the technological agenda (e.g., AI, space exploration, and digital finance).
Analysis:
The “one-party state” theory posits that no matter who wins, the technological trajectory remains the same. Polarization ensures division among the public, preventing unified resistance to AI integration.
5. Social Media and Free Speech
Real-World Developments and Connections:
Musk's Twitter (X) Acquisition:
- Musk has restored accounts and embraced free speech branding, making Twitter a hub for alternative discourse.
- Simultaneously, internal policies reflect increased compliance with government takedown requests, especially in regions like the EU.
Content Moderation Trends:
- Shadow Banning: Non-compliant voices remain technically active but are algorithmically hidden from broader audiences.
- Government Influence: Platforms are pressured to comply with regional laws, like the EU’s Digital Services Act, which mandates stricter oversight of misinformation.
Perception Management:
- Musk’s Twitter/X operates as a counter-narrative platform, lulling opposition into complacency.
- Simultaneously, AI tools analyze user behavior, potentially refining techniques for persuasion and control.
Analysis:
Social media platforms are pivotal tools for shaping public perception. By presenting Musk as a champion of free speech, dissenters align themselves with his vision, overlooking the broader implications of his involvement in AI, surveillance, and neural technology.
Connecting the Dots: The Unified Strategy
Manipulating Resistance:
- Figures like Musk are used to absorb dissent and redirect it into controlled channels.
- Platforms like Twitter/X blur the lines between freedom and surveillance, making users willingly participate in self-regulation.
AI as a Trojan Horse:
- Pitched as a solution to global challenges (e.g., climate change, healthcare, education), AI is subtly integrated into governance structures.
- Public resistance is minimized through fear ("inevitability of AI domination") and hope ("becoming gods").
Short-Term Goals Leading to Long-Term Control:
- 2025–2030 is highlighted as a critical period for advancing the agenda.
- Political, technological, and social systems are being aligned to centralize power and establish AI-driven governance.
Deep Dive into Technologies, Strategies, and Historical Parallels
1. Technologies Driving the Agenda
AI and Brain-Machine Interfaces
Neuralink and Similar Technologies:
- Purpose: Initially marketed for medical uses like treating paralysis and brain injuries.
- Potential Risks: Expansion into non-medical applications, enabling AI-driven thought influence or surveillance.
- Example: The transition of neural technology from health-focused tools to consumer applications (e.g., enhancing memory or cognition).
AI’s Role in Predictive Analytics:
- Governments and corporations use AI to anticipate human behavior.
- Real-time data from devices, apps, and social media feeds machine learning algorithms that refine control strategies.
Surveillance Tools
Starlink Satellite Network:
- Provides global internet coverage but could facilitate global surveillance.
- Low-Earth orbit satellites enable the collection and transmission of real-time data from remote areas, filling gaps in terrestrial networks.
Graphene Oxide and Self-Assembling Nanotechnology:
- Speculated role in creating bio-receptive materials inside the body, potentially linking humans to external electromagnetic fields.
- Example: Graphene’s use in biosensors for detecting health metrics could be expanded to monitor behavioral patterns.
Digital Currencies and Identity Systems
Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs):
- Promise efficiency and security but centralize financial control.
- Potential to impose social restrictions, such as spending limits based on behavior or carbon footprint.
- Example: China’s Digital Yuan ties spending power to compliance with social norms.
Digital ID Programs:
- Introduced as tools for convenience and fraud prevention.
- Risks: Consolidation of personal data into centralized databases, increasing susceptibility to misuse.
- Example: India’s Aadhaar system, the world’s largest biometric ID system, raises privacy concerns.
2. Strategies for Control and Manipulation
Incrementalism: The "Totalitarian Tiptoe"
Gradual Implementation:
- Small, uncontroversial steps are taken to normalize new systems.
- Example: Smart home devices initially offer convenience but also establish ubiquitous surveillance infrastructures.
Normalization through Crises:
- Major crises like the COVID-19 pandemic accelerate the adoption of surveillance technologies.
- Example: Contact tracing apps introduced as temporary solutions may lead to permanent digital tracking systems.
Designer Manipulation of Belief Systems
Polarization Tactics:
- Crafting narratives that appeal to opposing ideologies ensures broad acceptance of overarching goals.
- Historical Parallel: The Cold War dichotomy (capitalism vs. communism) masked mutual investments in advanced surveillance technologies by both blocs.
The Inevitability Argument:
- Messaging frames AI integration as unstoppable, reducing resistance.
- Example: The popularization of automation as essential to economic survival downplays the impact on jobs and autonomy.
3. Historical Parallels
Technological Utopianism and Control
The Industrial Revolution:
- Promised widespread prosperity but often consolidated power among industrialists.
- Parallel: Current AI developments are similarly marketed as democratizing forces while benefiting large corporations and governments.
The Manhattan Project (1940s):
- Scientists developed nuclear technology with promises of energy and security but created global power imbalances.
- Parallel: AI development today raises ethical concerns but continues due to its geopolitical significance.
Mass Propaganda and Perception Management
The Edward Bernays Era (1920s–50s):
- "Father of Public Relations" demonstrated how emotions and subconscious desires could drive public behavior.
- Example: Tobacco companies used psychological campaigns to frame smoking as empowerment for women.
- Parallel: AI integration campaigns use empowerment (on the left) and survival (on the right) narratives to achieve compliance.
Operation Mockingbird (Cold War):
- CIA’s infiltration of media outlets ensured control over public narratives.
- Parallel: Algorithms on platforms like Twitter or Facebook now curate information streams, shaping perceptions without overt censorship.
4. Key Developments to Watch (2025–2030)
AI Integration in Governance
- Predictive policymaking: Governments using AI to determine policy impacts before implementation.
- Risks: AI biases could entrench systemic inequities under the guise of efficiency.
Global 5G and Satellite Connectivity
- Infrastructure like Starlink enables near-total digital surveillance.
- Combined with advanced AI, it provides governments and corporations with predictive behavioral insights.
Advancements in Biometric Control
- Expansion of bio-digital convergence (e.g., health passports, smart implants).
- Risk: Convergence of personal health data with financial and social systems, leading to coercive compliance models.
Conclusion: A Call for Awareness
Understanding these technologies, strategies, and historical patterns emphasizes the importance of vigilance. Resistance to the AI-driven agenda requires:
- Transparency: Demand accountability in AI development and deployment.
- Collaboration: Foster alliances across political divides to counter manipulation.
- Digital Literacy: Educate populations on the implications of emerging technologies.
Essay Summary of "The Elites Want to ROB Us of Our SOVEREIGNTY! | Robert F Kennedy & Calley Means"
The video explores the central thesis that global elites aim to consolidate power by eroding individual sovereignty, leveraging technology, political narratives, and societal manipulation. The discussion features deep dives into how artificial intelligence (AI), economic systems, and influential figures converge to shape humanity’s future, fostering a "hive mind" society where human autonomy diminishes. Below is a structured breakdown in detailed bullet points, interwoven with abstract and thought-provoking perspectives.
1. The Predetermined Journey Toward Control
Central Premise:
"Know the outcome, and you’ll see the journey." The speaker suggests that societal events, often appearing random, are strategically orchestrated stepping stones toward a unified, dystopian future.Key Predictions:
- By 2030, humans will likely be biologically connected to AI, making independent thought negligible.
- The concept of a "hive mind" is introduced, where human decisions are replaced by AI-driven conclusions.
Abstract Insight:
Control mechanisms do not necessarily enforce compliance overtly but subtly influence perception, turning freedom into a managed illusion.
2. Designer Manipulation of Belief Systems
Tailored Narratives:
- For the political left, integration with AI is marketed as an opportunity for godlike enhancements and boundless capabilities.
- For the political right, the narrative warns of human extinction without adaptation, pitching AI fusion as a survival necessity.
Key Techniques:
- Exploiting cognitive biases: Messages are designed to appeal to each group's worldview, leading to consensus through divergent paths.
- The "inevitability argument" reduces resistance by presenting technological convergence as unstoppable.
Philosophical Lens:
What if sovereignty is not just political but metaphysical? Manipulating belief systems might alter the collective consciousness, reframing freedom itself.
3. AI as the Fulcrum of Global Control
Key Figures and Technologies:
- Prominent players like Elon Musk (Neuralink, Starlink) and Peter Thiel (Palantir) are portrayed as architects of this agenda.
- Neuralink’s brain-machine interface is framed as the starting point for merging humanity with the "cloud."
The Cloud as a Digital Hive Mind:
- AI will act as the conductor of a global, electromagnetic "cloud," with individuals’ brains connected to it.
- Tools like graphene oxide, self-assembling nanotechnology, and low-orbit satellites enable this fusion by creating bio-compatible interfaces.
Out-of-the-Box Thought:
The cloud is not merely technological; it could evolve into a new form of collective consciousness, reshaping humanity into a post-human existence.
4. Political Theater and One-Party Systems
One-Party Reality:
- Both left and right serve the same agenda, albeit at different speeds and through contrasting rhetoric.
- Leaders like Donald Trump and Elon Musk are highlighted as controlled opposition figures, rallying resistance while advancing the overarching plan.
Critical Observation:
- Trump's alliances with figures like Peter Thiel (Bilderberg Group) and Elon Musk reveal ties to globalist networks, contradicting his anti-establishment persona.
- Musk’s ownership of Twitter (X) is seen as a controlled play to co-opt dissenting voices while amplifying censorship.
Philosophical Musing:
Democracy here acts as a theater of choice, where the illusion of freedom masks a preordained trajectory.
5. The Role of Social Media and Free Speech
The Musk Paradox:
- Musk is portrayed as a "free speech hero" for restoring banned accounts on X but remains complicit in global censorship.
- Post-acquisition, 80% of content takedowns requested by governments are still honored, up from 50% before his ownership.
Algorithmic Control:
- Shadow banning, curated feeds, and selective amplification shape public discourse, creating echo chambers that reinforce the status quo.
Abstract Connection:
If the internet is the nervous system of the modern world, what happens when AI replaces human input with pre-programmed impulses?
6. Timeline and Future Shock: 2025–2030
"Perceptual Blitzkrieg":
- From 2025 onward, society will experience rapid, overwhelming changes designed to induce compliance.
- Techniques like "future shock" are employed to create a state of constant adaptation, weakening resistance to transformation.
The 2030 Target:
- Centralization of power through AI-driven governance is framed as inevitable.
- Key leaders in this period (Trump in the U.S., Starmer in the U.K.) are seen as enablers of this pivotal shift.
Philosophical Query:
Does this rapid transformation represent progress or the twilight of individualism? Is humanity being prepared for transcendence—or programmed for subjugation?
Conclusion: A Call to Awareness
The overarching theme of the video is a stark warning: global elites aim to merge humans with AI, undermining sovereignty and reshaping society into a technocratic dystopia. The use of designer manipulation, political theatrics, and technological inevitability as tools to erode resistance is highlighted as a pressing concern.
The question posed to viewers is profound: Can humanity reclaim its sovereignty by resisting this convergence, or has the "inevitable" already begun? Freedom, in this context, may no longer be about rights and liberties but about preserving the essence of what it means to be human.
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Summary of Transcript Part 1
Start Time: 00:00:00
End Time: 00:33:19
Introduction: UFOs and UAPs - A Shift in Awareness
- Main Theme: The speaker discusses the government’s role in investigating unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), formerly known as UFOs. The conversation reveals previously classified insights into national security issues and technological anomalies surrounding these encounters.
- Key Figures: Luis Elizondo, former head of the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), shares firsthand experiences and discusses his investigations.
Key Points Covered
1. Government's Role in UFO Investigations
- Origins of AATIP:
- Established to analyze UFO incursions in controlled U.S. airspace, particularly near sensitive military installations.
- Encounters revealed technology vastly outperforming any known military assets.
- Stigma and Secrecy:
- Historical reluctance among military personnel to report UFO sightings due to stigma.
- A shift from the term “UFO” to “UAP” was intended to reduce stigma and better describe phenomena across multiple domains (air, sea, and space).
2. Characteristics of UAPs
"Five Observables" Defining UAPs:
- Instantaneous Acceleration:
- Objects exhibit changes in velocity impossible with known technology, enduring thousands of G-forces.
- Hypersonic Velocity:
- Speeds exceeding Mach 5, with capabilities for abrupt directional changes.
- Low Observability:
- Difficult to detect visually and electronically, often showing spoofed radar signatures.
- Transmedium Travel:
- Seamless movement through air, water, and possibly space without performance compromise.
- No Visible Means of Propulsion:
- Absence of traditional wings, engines, or exhaust systems.
- Instantaneous Acceleration:
Case Examples:
- UAPs were repeatedly detected via advanced radar systems, infrared cameras, and eyewitness testimony from trained pilots.
3. Global Interest and Cooperation
- International Engagement:
- Nations like Japan, Russia, and South American countries actively share UAP-related data with the U.S.
- Recent agreements have strengthened information sharing, emphasizing the global nature of these phenomena.
4. Luis Elizondo’s Involvement and Resignation
- Pentagon Role:
- Initially tasked with counterintelligence and security, Elizondo later became the director of AATIP.
- He emphasized the urgent need for senior officials to address UAP-related security risks.
- Reasons for Resignation:
- Frustration with leadership's unwillingness to prioritize or escalate findings to top defense authorities.
- Elizondo resigned in protest, citing loyalty to the mission and the public’s right to know.
5. Speculation and Classified Evidence
- Area 51 and Crash Retrievals:
- The speaker refrains from confirming rumors but acknowledges the U.S. government possesses material “not made by us.”
- Public Access Challenges:
- Classified videos and reports remain inaccessible, requiring exhaustive clearance processes for any public disclosure.
Concluding Notes
- Shifting the Conversation:
- The transition from secrecy to open discussion marks a pivotal moment for public understanding of UAPs.
- Growing evidence and whistleblower testimonies compel policymakers to address the phenomenon seriously.
YouTube Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkNVSju99HY
Summary of Transcript Part 2
Start Time: 00:33:19
End Time: 01:06:22
Overview
The video delves deeper into the complexities of UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) investigations, focusing on compelling incidents, government secrecy, and challenges in disclosure. Topics range from military encounters with advanced technology to philosophical musings on alien life and humanity's readiness for contact. Insights reveal a struggle between transparency and national security concerns, highlighting why some information remains classified.
Key Points
1. Significant UAP Incidents
Notable Cases:
- Gimbal Incident: Featured in the speaker's book, this case involved a UAP defying physics by rotating mid-air against 120-knot winds at 20,000 feet, captured by U.S. fighter pilots.
- Roosevelt and USS Nimitz Encounters: These military cases provided extensive data and pushed the envelope of UAP understanding.
Classified Evidence:
- While the released videos are compelling, they represent only a fraction of what's known.
- More detailed and clear footage exists but remains classified to protect "sources and methods."
2. Government’s Dual Role: Disclosure and Secrecy
Resistance to Transparency:
- The government is divided, with some factions supporting public disclosure and others opposing it.
- Fear of societal disruption, religious instability, and economic fallout historically fueled secrecy.
Legacy of Stigma:
- Decades-long stigmatization campaigns succeeded in suppressing the topic, making it difficult to unwind public skepticism and foster open discussions.
Whistleblower Challenges:
- Officials who attempted disclosure faced retribution, such as illegal release of medical records to discredit them.
3. UAPs and National Security
Impact on Military Installations:
- UAPs frequently appear near nuclear sites, raising concerns about their ability to disable nuclear systems.
- These incidents highlight UAPs as a potential threat, prompting closer scrutiny by intelligence agencies.
Technological Superiority:
- Observations suggest UAPs possess propulsion systems far beyond human capabilities, with no visible means of operation.
4. Alien Life and Humanity’s Place
Possibilities Beyond Outer Space:
- Aliens may not be extraterrestrial; they could be from inner space (e.g., the ocean), parallel dimensions, or natural parts of Earth’s environment.
- The speaker likens this to humanity’s late discovery of microorganisms and fungi, which were always present but only recently understood.
Philosophical Reflections:
- Humans perceive reality through a limited sensory spectrum, missing vast portions of existence that could house unknown life forms.
- Advanced beings might view humans much like humans observe wildlife—through a detached, scientific lens.
5. Military Encounters and Physical Impacts
Health Effects on Witnesses:
- U.S. service members and intelligence personnel have reported injuries after close encounters with UAPs, likened to exposure to harmful radiation or electromagnetic forces.
- Examples include the Rendlesham Forest Incident, where individuals experienced long-term health issues after investigating a landed UAP.
Government Responses:
- Injured personnel are sometimes granted disability benefits, acknowledging the reality of these encounters without revealing detailed circumstances.
6. The Bigger Picture: Society’s Readiness
Lack of Awareness:
- The speaker criticizes societal complacency, noting people are more attuned to pop culture than geopolitics or their children’s lives.
- This ignorance extends to understanding governmental operations and the implications of UAP phenomena.
Limits of Disclosure:
- Even presidents like Carter and Clinton sought information about UAPs but faced resistance from entrenched military-industrial interests.
- Trump’s acknowledgment of “fierce resistance” to releasing UFO files underscores the power struggle between elected officials and institutional secrecy.
Conclusion
The speaker paints a complex picture of humanity’s interaction with UAPs: one of awe, fear, and an urgent need for openness. While the evidence points to an advanced, possibly benign intelligence, the secrecy surrounding UAPs fuels suspicion and hinders societal progress. Balancing transparency with security remains the crux of the debate.
