March 31, 2026 - American Journal - Breanna Morello
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The American Journal: Trump Tells NATO Nations “Learn How To Fight For Yourself” Over Refusal To Jump Into Iran War, Diplomat Warns UN May Soon Nuke Tehran & Pope Leo Rejects Praying For US Troops - FULL SHOW - 03.31.2026
Meta faces a $37.5M verdict for addictive algorithms, while hosts question Trump's board appointments amid the Charlie Kirk assassination conspiracy involving a mismatched Mauser rifle. Guest Simon Dixon exposes a "financial industrial complex" exploiting $40 trillion in debt to force war over the Strait of Hormuz, predicting oil spikes to $200 by May 15th. The episode details corporate price-fixing where Cal-Maine Foods paid $252M in dividends during crises and concludes that Trump serves as a tool for elites to reset global energy power toward China and BRICS nations. [Automatically generated summary]
We believe the evidence has shown that Meta works incredibly hard to protect users, including teens.
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In accordance with the civil penalty instruction and the instructions as a whole, how many willful violations did Meta commit by engaging in unfair or deceptive trade practice?
Big tech critics hail big tobacco moment and landmark social media verdict against Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Google, intentionally being addictive and depressing and controlling.
Yeah, and parents let their kids do that.
I'm not defending big tech, but once you go down this slippery slope of, oh, the way they did it, yeah, and you let your kids do that.
Give me a break.
What's sick is Trump doesn't have Elon Musk on his new big tech board.
He's got the good guys off the board and has put his arch enemy, Zuckerberg, on the board and a bunch of other garbage.
And people are like, oh, there you are, throwing Trump under the bus again.
Zuckerberg got $400 million to create the databases of dead people and illegals and all that are still in 2020.
Okay, fine.
I love Zuckerberg if Trump says so.
Got Todd Blanche, the Democrat, run the DOJ.
This ain't good.
And I'm going to bet you about it.
Meta must pay $375 million for violating New Mexico's law and child exploitation case.
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Companies have been very effective in using something called Section 230, which is a law in this country that protects the companies who have social media from being liable for things that their users post on the site.
What these two cases focused on is how the company manipulated the algorithm and developed products like Infinite Scroll in order to give kids an addictive product that would keep them on the site and keep them coming back.
And what ended up happening is those kids would use those addictive products and then ultimately have suicidal thoughts or potentially body dysmorphia, or they'd be getting unsolicited messages from child predators.
And the company is knowingly, according to documents revealed in both of these cases, understands that this is a problem that they have.
And both juries found that they did not do enough to stop this.
So again, a huge landmark here, not for the dollar figure, but for the significance of the rulings.
Tim's been contributing a lot, helping me find articles, helping me find videos and sources and stuff because it's very difficult to fill three hours a day, five days a week.
But we love doing it, especially when we're both on here.
We're able to have guests of the caliber we're going to have on today.
Tell them a little bit about Simon Dixon, who's got joining us at the bottom of the next hour.
But seriously, let's go ahead and get into clip two.
And this is what's going on in Israel right now.
This is just a brief little story.
They've passed the death penalty.
If you are a Palestinian convicted of killing an Israeli, they'll automatically kill you.
So let's watch them.
Let's see how they celebrate this.
You got the champagne.
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The war of the people who died today, the war of the people who died today, the war of the people who died today, the war of the people who died today, the war of the people who died today.
They're saying, not to interrupt you, Tim, they're saying they've got thousands of people already basically lined up that they are going to execute now that this has been passed.
And if here's the thing, if you know you're in a public relations image battle, why would you do something like that?
We had an Israeli citizen on our show probably a couple of weeks ago, and he kind of runs us through kind of how Israel is structured.
And it really is like Rex is talking about there's a ruling class and the ruling class is like these ultra orthodox, like super conservative religious sects.
Yeah, and you're going to, you're going to see that.
I mean, we're going to see like, this is a whole new era of like unprecedented stuff because this technology, yeah, we watched the Boston Dynamics robot like 15 years ago or whatever.
This is now mass produced, mass accessible.
They're going to be trying to put this in all sorts of various applications.
Okay, so as an engineer, I look at this two ways because I'm also, I'm in the media, but I'm also behind the scenes in technology and I'm seeing advancements and things where it is useful for the application.
So it's very hard for me to look at these situations and paint it all black, right?
There is a part of me that is afraid of, you know, not there not being checks and balances to some of this stuff.
I mean, it's just a, they're building a grid where eventually they're not going to need as many people.
And then kind of everything we see as a consequence of that, these resource wars, these depopulation efforts, like mass migration everywhere.
It's really an effort to collapse human society because they want 500 million people and they want some sort of technological grid that they run.
Now, I think technology is great.
And if it's true power to the people, a human supremacist view where everyone gets access to it equally, I think that would be awesome.
But you look at these people talk about it and they're like, yeah, like we want intelligence to be sold basically on a meter, like electricity or water or something like that.
And what that means is there's going to be someone with a million times the ability that you have.
So you get to a scenario where I see there being a light at the end of the tunnel.
Here's the thing about manufacturing and some of the things like there have been a lot of job replacements across America, specifically in manufacturing.
And the thing is, is when you look at a piece of technology, it takes away some of the ergonomics and the pain that happens when an operator has to do a task, a repetitive task specifically.
So let me clarify because not all jobs are good jobs for humans.
There are certain things that like you would want a robot or something to take over that because it's actually doing harm to that person.
So what he's talking about, there are bags, and those bags, you have to screen them to make sure there's nothing inside particulate matter inside of this bag.
And there's a super bright white light and there's bags moving across.
And imagine sitting in that chair for eight hours a shift.
You get like 30 minutes and you're sitting there staring at this bright light and you can't take your face off of looking at that.
Otherwise, you're going to be in trouble.
And that bag is, there's, it's not just one bag.
There's thousands of bags moving across your screen.
Now, you have vision systems that we're trying to implement to replace that person so that they can go do something else instead of having to sit there and be miserable.
Where the problem is, and this is where I agree with you: is what do we do when you get to a point where there's not enough jobs and there's more robots that have taken over those positions?
Because that can happen in a scenario.
Our problem is, we haven't come up with systems where we kind of encourage humans to go do the things that they're supposed to do or some type of UBI, which again, everyone's going to call me socialist, but like we've got enough resources to be able to help people out.
Humans were never designed to be sitting in a four by four square moving pieces over and over and over again, repetitive motion.
That's where the robot is supposed to step in.
I don't want AI to take over people's creativity.
We've got to give people an ability to even do something else.
The access and mobility, you're 100% correct about that.
So what you're seeing first is the white collar jobs.
Specifically, you've got coders that are in jeopardy, a lot of data analysis, a lot of people who are kind of doing clerk style work where now the AI can do that.
Yeah, that is a real risk.
And the problem is, is they don't have every generation, or let's say every few hundred years, we go through a transition like this.
But this one is a new industrial revolution.
When agriculture equipment was invented, there were a ton of farmers doing manual labor jobs.
What ended up happening is you displaced and there was a lot of pain early on to say, well, what do I do if I don't know how to farm?
And the thing that's really crazy about the time we live in are these giant jumps, like from Bronze Age to Iron Age to Steel Age to Industrial Revolution to contemporary like space age where we're at today.
It's just gotten shorter and shorter and shorter and shorter.
And now everything we see coming out is compounding upon itself.
It's like the saying is like we stand on the shoulders of giants.
That's true.
Eventually, the real thing that we're all worried about with this technology is what happens when the knife has a will of its own.
What happens when the thing decides that it doesn't want to do the work of its masters anymore?
I'm not pro, like, let's go and replace a bunch of people's jobs with robots.
And you're realistic.
But I am being realistic because I'm in the forefront.
I see, you know, people being replaced because they shouldn't be lifting 800-pound items.
And you've got a robot that's now doing that particular task.
It's not really 800.
I'm exaggerating.
It's more like 80 pounds, but it's still the same concept.
So I'm not pro that.
The problem is, is we are getting into a transition to where you're going to see the jobs are being removed quicker than they can be replaced and moved into a different skill set.
To make the right decisions when it comes to rolling out this technology and giving people an alternative.
At this point, I don't trust anybody who's in these systems because they're showing how they're betraying the American people time after time after time after time.
And when you rely on them to make a good decision in a vacuum where no one is there watching them, somehow these people are making the wrong decisions.
That's basically what we have with the government.
And when you look at our government at large, the main issue, you know, as a kid, as I could, as a young libertarian, okay, when I was a little boy, a little fan of Ron Paul and all of that back in the day, okay?
When I'm a young libertarian, I'm like, hey, you know, oh, I'm losing my train of thought here.
When I'm a young libertarian, I'm like, okay, there should be less regulation.
So these companies should be able to do what they want.
So we can have innovation and science and technology.
What I realize now is there's too little regulation on the things that matter.
It's way too much regulation on the things that are totally irrelevant and just keep small businesses.
You know what I think should be banned completely?
You shouldn't be able to take a person that exists in real life and be able to clone that person on AI unless that person is the one doing the action or you have specific rights to yourself.
It is fraud, but now they're getting to the point where it's so good, guys, that you're not going to be able to tell with like 11 labs or some of these other technologies where they're cloning people's voices.
And the last thing I'll say on this is these AI models, they are trained to basically continue to evolve themselves at the same time with less and less human input.
So again, it's like that exponential curve and the compounding effect.
As the AI gets smarter, it knows how to fix its gaps and the human doesn't have to step in.
I mean, it's eventually going to get to AGI.
We'll see how that happens.
We say we're not that far, but we might be closer than we think.
It's a very human impulse to think of everything as linear and as like following like a constant gradient.
But in reality, everything that we're talking about here is exponential, just like with the time development of the technology, the rapid advancements we've seen over the last century, over the last decade.
And people in positions of power, especially Congress, need to step up to the plate and do the job that we ask them to do and protect us along the way.
Technology, when it's guided in the right way and it's got the right barriers, the right protections can be a net positive for society, or it can be a net negative when we have people who are corrupt just wanting to grab a bag and screw over the American person.
And that's the systemic problem that is addressed on this show.
That's what we see in every sector and we rail against it.
And it's our job to get involved in the political process, especially after Trump being gone.
It's going to be a whole new world.
So if you're passionate about AI regulation, a digital bill of rights, going forward and having an actual future for humanity where we utilize these things instead of being used by them, we're the people you want to see.
In the killing of Charlie Kirk, defense lawyers for Tyler Robinson claim the bullet did not match the alleged rifle.
They cite DNA complexities as well and incomplete forensic data while seeking delay, raising doubts over key prosecution evidence.
In a new court filing on Tuesday, March 31st, defense attorneys for Tyler Robinson, the accused who allegedly killed conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, have claimed that the Bureau of the ATF was unable to match the bullet recovered during the autopsy to the rifle allegedly used by Robinson, stating that the recovered weapon was a Mauser Model 98, 30 Yacht 6 caliber rifle.
The defense lawyer stated the ATF analysts could not conclusively identify the bullet fragment.
So they didn't even have it.
So the guy gets shot.
There's no exit wound on camera.
Blood doesn't spray out the back of his body.
Lord forbid, God have mercy.
Like it's just so horrible.
We have to talk about this so callously, but we're talking about a criminal case that's captivated the nation, a very prominent political assassination at the end of the day here.
I think everybody knew there was something fishy going on behind the scenes, all the evidence, all the things.
And my issue was specifically all types of narratives were coming out.
You had deliberate, deliberate misinformation, you know, and you know, I used to like old Candace, but the new Candace was doing things like Fort Huachuka, Wakahaka.
And it's like, she's talking about like secret meetings and, you know, maybe somebody popped out of a pseudo pipe like Ninja Turtle or something like that.
And you told me when I was like, no, no, no, I'm going to watch all of Candace's episodes for this month so that I can know that I can say confidently that I know it's BS.
Because people, when I came out against the narrative on Twitter, but we did really, people were like, you don't need to, you know, you need to know what she's saying before you criticize.
And I was like, well, okay, I listened to it.
Mitch Snow is this guy who's involved in like border military operations.
Like 30 years ago, he supposedly claims that he uncovered evidence that the military was working with the cartel, specifically a photo of some sort of military leader with a cartel member on some sort of tunnel around the border.
He makes this claim that this hurt his military service somehow.
He comes back like 30 years later to the day to the base and 12 colonels and Erica Kirk and everyone's there.
And my ex-wife had eyes like those.
I'd never forget those eyes.
And it's just like, like, we're not in a Quentin Tarantino movie.
Well, and the biggest problem is if you got people with big enough platforms coming out with stories, it takes away from the main narrative and the real stuff that's happening.
Now, we're going to read some of these text messages and we're going to see what you guys think about them because we're like, there's no way that this was a real exchange and we had some boomers.
I think it starts here first with the September 10th.
And this reads like it's scripted, like it's written by like a middle-aged man pretending to be AI, some sort of Intel officer at the FBI or CIA, whatever it is.
Well, and so, like, again, we can clearly definitively say when we saw these text messages, Rex and I, as well as the rest of you guys, were like, there's no way this story is true.
And it's just beautiful, beautiful to see that they're still following through on this because I thought they were going to let this one go, just like Trump's assassination attempt.
Well, they're trying to, but ultimately, I mean, it just shows how massive Charlie Kirk was and his influence just on the world and America in general.
You can't really make this die just because there's so many hours of Charlie on tape recently talking about everything that's going on in the world right now.
And the reason why people call all this into question is because Charlie was very passionately anti-war, incredibly pro-Israel as well, but very passionately anti-war.
And he made a lot of statements talking about the October 7th standdown.
Like we've talked about the Israeli citizen interview we did earlier.
And what you have with TPUSA is you have, I think they have a thousand campaign offices and many thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of affiliated volunteers or employees.
You have a ready-made political campaigning system that is targeted towards young people that young people accept and love and view as legitimate.
So you take the brain out of that and you do a brain transplant into it.
That's pretty much the ideal scenario.
So you can't look at the Charlie Kirk thing and go, well, there's absolutely no motive to take him out besides someone that's mad about him not liking trans people.
You can just criticize things based on facts and evidence alone, right?
And there's more than enough of that here.
Here's the thing: you have people doing the Charlie Kirk show right now, the Charlie Kirk show with the same name talking about the Iran war in like a neutral to positive context.
As a black person, a lot of black people are not going to appreciate me saying this.
But again, I have to be ideologically consistent.
Now, I'm not saying people need to go out and start doing this, but because he is doing whiteface, it does bring a case where, like, is blackface okay?
We can look at someone doing this up and say, this is disgusting, whatever.
But at the end of the day, it's a part of our society.
And in a society where you can do that, it's a lot better than a cop showing up to your house with a gun because of what you did on social media.
So I'm not participating in it, but I do endorse it as freedom.
But we look at the whole thing and just getting back to Erica Kirk in general, you have someone like her, and they essentially plug her in because she's the wife of Charlie Kirk.
She's the only one that feasibly could have the street cred to run the operation and keep it as it is.
You know, there's a lot of directed energy weapons that we've had for a while and we've tested them.
There's some that can make you feel heat.
You know, there's sound waves that can make you just freak out and discombobulate you.
What exactly they're using and what was used in Venezuela has not been publicly announced.
It's just one of those things that we have that makes it a big advantage because when you are going into a place where the enemy knows where you're coming, you don't want to lead with your face.
You know, that's a cardinal rule of door kicking operations.
Have something in front of you for that.
So that's why you throw flashbangs in a room.
This is a directed energy flashbang to blow everybody's mind and hopefully get our guys in and safely back out.
Well, I like that Fox News is just like, you're like a boomer in like Galveston, Texas, and you turn on the TV and it's just Jesse Waters and this guy talking about discombobulators.
We're like, it's like this pseudo thing, but apparently it may be real where like you get like waves sent at you and it like makes you sick, delirious.
Do you think we just like the people creating weapons at like Lockheed and Raytheon are just like watching movies and they're like, ooh, that's a good idea.
One of the things in the farm bill I'm still trying to get out of it was successful in getting this out of prior bills is immunity for a German company called Bayer that makes glyphosate.
This is not to grant farmers immunity.
This is to grant the corporation immunity.
If they give farmers, if farmers contract a form of cancer or non-Hodgkin's lymphoma from this chemical, if this makes it into the farm bill, it won't be able, you won't be able to sue for that.
And I know they're dealing with some similar legislation at the state level.
And I'll go ahead and start doing that by giving one of the counter arguments.
People will go, it's only used on 3% of the wheat to dry it, bro.
Actually, that's not true.
It's used on a third of all American fields for wheat control.
We used to use about 100 million or 80 million pounds of it.
We now use 280 million pounds of it a year.
It's ubiquitous in the food supply.
95 to 97% of all corn is Roundup Ready.
That means it's made to take the pesticide while everything else dies.
Spoiler alert, that gets into your body as well.
Glyphosate is so dangerous because it's an amino acid analog of the amino acid called glycine, which is used to make all the collagen in your body.
So there's been a prevalent health theory, and this has kind of come out over time, that it has the potential to replace that positive amino acid, which is essential for you to have in your body over time, leading to sulsiness and eventually possibly speculating cancer.
I mean, not even speculating.
RFK Jr. went to court against Monsanto and won a $270 million lawsuit proving it caused non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
SV40, or Simon virus 40, reared its ugly head back in 1960 when scientists spotted it lurking in Rhesus monkey kidney cell cultures that were being held to whip up polio vaccines.
Sv40, a tumor making machine, has the large t antigen, a molecular wrecking ball that smashes into cellular control systems like p53 and retinoblastoma protein pathways, turning normal cells into rogue cancer factories.
Fast forward to 2025 and messengers from a myriad of professions are shouting from the rooftops about sv40's presence in the coveted vaccines.
This genomic integration, as the scientific literature makes clear, can lead to cancer development, immune system disruption and more.
The sheer levels of contamination detected up to 145 times missile permissible limit in some cases are extraordinary and far beyond what should be allowed in any medicinal product.
In my work as an oncologist in the Uk, I started to see a disturbing trend.
As early as february 2022, patients who'd been cancer-free for many years were suddenly relapsing with aggressive, explosive cancers shortly after receiving booster doses of the Covet 19 vaccine.
These three advanced cancer patients experienced remission, in two cases complete remission and in one case near remission, um for an extended period of time, years after initiating this fenbendazole protocol um, and none of them received chemo either.
Right, so this was with, it was in combination, a few were with a surgery, some did receive a, you know, a brief dose of radiation, but in general this fenbendazole was linked to extraordinarily, you know it's accelerated tumor reductions um in a pretty short period of time with extended survival outcomes with no evidence of disease.
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Yeah, I was off their charts, 1,498.
Yeah, the chart didn't go that high.
That was December 31st.
And I took my first course of Ivermectin on my birthday, February 2nd.
So let's just get started because there's a lot that people don't know about you, Simon.
And I want to talk specifically before we go into more other details about your personal history and some of the things that's led you to the positions where you're at now, because your story about Wall Street and all the things is something that needs to be heard.
So can you just walk us through a high-level overview of that, of your history?
I mean, I've done nothing but obsess over the topic of money and who benefits from the creation of money for the last 25 years.
My journey started when my father lost his entire retirement in the dot-com boom and boss.
So 25 years ago, and he worked his whole life, lost it all in the market and asked me to figure out where it went.
So that kind of kicked off an obsession.
Tried to figure it out at university, did like a master's in economics, still didn't get the answers.
So I tried to get into the investment bank and figure out how money really worked.
Got a job as a T-boy, ended up as a stockbroker, figured out that, all right, we're here just to sell stocks.
It doesn't matter whether it's wrong or right.
Ended up in the city of London, work as a market maker, realized that our job is to manipulate the prices of shares.
And when we have institutional traders, our job is to find the retail to dump it onto.
I then started working in corporate finance at the investment bank and realized that this whole process of financializing and securitizing companies means that you end up becoming a cog in a wheel of what I call a financial industrial complex.
And in fact, finance is used for subordination, almost like a blackmail leverage operation, like we've seen.
And also that war is a racket.
And that, you know, often when you're writing business plans around where war zones are going to be, where war zones aren't going to be, it turns out that these financial institutions have a significant degree of influence in it.
And I want to, before you go further, I want to talk specifically about your experience because there is an experience that the average American or not even just American people around the world know about how financial systems work.
But then you were deeply embedded in seeing how things operate behind the scenes.
So I talked about this concept of a financial industrial complex and it consists of different institutions that plug together in order to turn all companies and all investors into as much subordination as they possibly can.
So firstly, you know, we all know that banks, retail banks, their wizard of Oz skill is that they get to create fiat currency.
So every time they issue a loan, they actually create, you know, they create new money, new fiat currency.
The vast majority of fiat currency is created by a retail bank.
The problem is, is that it has interest on top to be repaid.
And so when you need to repay that interest, you either invest it in a productive asset that goes up in value or you find someone else to take on the debt.
Effectively, retail banking is a debt-based Ponzi scheme.
And because it's a Ponzi scheme, it is guaranteed by the central bank.
So the banks take the risk.
They get to create the fiat currency.
They get the cheapest interest rates.
And then they're able to effectively turn every individual into a collateralized debt obligation, every company into a financialized and securitized debt-dependent, subordinated product, as it were, where they can control board seats and then inflict policy as a portfolio.
And of course, the end game is to bail out everything onto the government.
And so the government is simply a piggy bank for this corporate interest that they're building into products.
They control fiat currency and then they manage a portfolio in order to effectively control all the assets, you know, the gold, the hard assets, the shares, the debt, the equity, the derivatives.
And, you know, this whole complex is built together.
But the end game is to turn every individual into a debt product, turn every corporation into an equity that you can borrow against.
So you have more debt, therefore you become subordinate to.
And every government is to dump all of the debt on, but have a facade that they're in charge.
And so most people think they're voting between left and right and there's a president making decisions.
In reality, they answer to their lobbies and the lobbies are all part of this financial industrial complex.
And it's a pay-to-play auction prostitute system where effectively their job is to create a narrative in front of what they're doing for their lobbies.
But in the end of that cycle, because it is a Ponzi scheme, you effectively end up with all the debt on the government.
And then you completely asset strip the country.
And then you use war as a mechanism for doing a global reset.
and you start to hedge your next location is effectively how the system works.
Let me ask you about that global reset because the thing that really enlightened me when we had you on is I was asking you the question of like, why would Trump do these things?
Why would he spend this money?
Why would he potentially go to war?
It doesn't make sense.
It just degrades American power.
But you explained to me quite eloquently how really he's ushering in the multipolar world and there are bigger forces at work.
So what's the runway for this current failed fraudulent system?
Like you say, how are they, like me and Tenniff talked about many times in the Grey Area, how are they going to roll all that debt up?
Yeah, well, my transition here is if you think about it, you had these constructs were created in the Dutch Empire.
So you had Dutch East India Company, the corporate interest.
You had the Dutch central bank, which created the debt-based Ponzi scheme.
And then you had the Dutch government through the creation of the bond market, which was to assume all the debt.
Eventually, they built a military force and they ended up getting very, very inefficient and then outsourcing their shipmaking and naval fleet technology to the Brits.
So then the Brits kind of ended up with the Bank of England, the British East India Company, and the government ended up being bankrupted.
And so you had that construct.
Then the transition happened to the American Empire.
So you had a couple of central banks.
Then you had the Federal Reserve.
The Federal Reserve set up the debt-based Ponzi scheme.
And effectively, it was enforced by the fact that America had a massive manufacturing base.
And because it had the manufacturing base, which previously the Brits had, which previously the Dutch had, you enter into a couple of wars and America supplied all the weapons, manufactured all the weapons, and then created financial contracts to rebuild the rest of the world that was being destroyed by the bombs.
So then you enter into a strategic tension.
You have two ideologies funded by the same sides.
In fact, you had three.
You know, Hitler was funded by Wall Street.
The Federal Reserve was created by Wall Street and European bankers.
The Rice Bank, the German central bank, had the very same brother that was the governor of the Federal Reserve on the German Central Bank.
And also through the Bolshevik Revolution, you also created the Soviet Union and communism.
And so Wall Street funded all of those.
So you have three ideologies.
You enter into a Cold War.
You manufacture a narrative that justifies war and rolling over of debt.
You had the Cold War.
We're taking on the commies.
We are the capitalists.
Meanwhile, you're subordinating all of that debt onto the individuals and everyone's going deeper and deeper into debt.
But eventually what happened is America went bankrupt in 1971 after the Vietnamese war.
And so America defaulted on its debt by saying you can no longer convert your dollars into gold.
That was the promise after World War II.
They said to everybody, stop converting your currency to gold, convert it to dollars, and at the IMF, you'll be able to convert it to gold with us.
And so effectively in 1971, America defaulted.
We created this fiat currency debt-based standard.
And what happened then?
We started to transition the manufacturing base away from America and over to China.
So we had globalization.
We had financialization being the tool because the government debt was no longer constrained by gold.
And so the debt ballooned after 1971.
And the entire American economy just became a product for the investment banks, the retail banks, the asset managers, the central banks, until eventually you hit the stage where we are right now, where you don't have another country to transition to, because really, you know, American, European, that Dutch, that Dutch, British American thing was a continuation, but a transfer of power through the central bank.
And one thing I wanted to clarify specifically is like, you know, China is trying to step into that new power role, but not everybody completely trusts China, specifically even in the West and not even all of the Asian countries, which is why you have BRICS.
No, like, is that the second option for the polar world?
Because you've got America that's on one side and then you've got BRICS on the other side, right?
So what you have right now is effectively this whole economy that was built in the post-World War II era on the military industrial complex, but got financialized and securitized by the financial industrial complex.
Let's call it FIC and MIC for simplicity.
So the FIC became more powerful than the MIC once you had the 1971, the financialization.
And the FIC only cared about profit maximization for its portfolio of companies.
And it managed to get everyone to contribute their pension so that they were managing everybody's assets.
All the insurance premiums were being contributed.
They co-opted the education system for their portfolio.
You know, people were the colleges became money laundering organizations.
And effectively, you built this whole complex around FIC being in control.
And so once you made all those companies public and you burdened them with debt, you created a bit of a power struggle.
Effectively, the military industrial complex, their job was to prop up the dollar.
So once they exited the gold standard, they assassinated, you know, we had the assassination of King Faisal in Saudi Arabia when there was a war between Israel and the Arab states.
That led to Saudi doing an oil embargo in 1973 that led to stagflation, but it also led to the assassination of King Faisal.
Then a secret club, Safari Club, was set up by George Bush, which was a network of intelligence agencies that later led to 9-11 and various other operations.
But you created the petro dollar, where effectively, because you no longer had gold, you would use the military to enforce the world onto this petro dollar.
And Saudis would agree to lend all of their dollars back to the US government.
And then as long as people would accept treasuries as collateral and people would buy those bonds and treasuries, then you entered into this Ponzi scheme continuing to the point where we are right now.
Just to give you an idea of how that works, and then we can go into BRICS.
The way this actually works is currently the average interest on the US debt right now, approximately 40 trillion, approaching 40 trillion, is 3.3%.
In order to keep the Ponzi scheme alive, you have to, America has to have a growth rate above 3.3%.
If you don't have a growth rate above the average cost on the debt, then you enter into the unwinding of the cycle, which would be a recession and a depression.
Every time that happens, they need to find a new way of printing money in order to try and stimulate growth.
One of those is fund the military-industrial complex, create war.
But the problem is with that is it extracts wealth from the average American person because they end up with the debt and the company ends up with all the profits.
And so, in order to keep the Ponzi alive, you have to extract all the assets from the average person, excuse me, and the economy becomes a mechanism for rolling over.
Now, you have to have growth above the average cost of the debt.
In this global reset where all energy and 50 different supply chains are being renegotiated, the projected growth rate for America is approximately 2% this year and 1.7% next year.
At the same time, the 10-year treasury and the 30-year treasury is spiking, not as much as the rest of the world, but it's spiking up to dangerous levels: 4.5% and 5%.
So, now you need to roll over $7 trillion of debt at either 4.5% or 5%.
The only solution to that was what Trump tried to do.
He tried to regime change the Federal Reserve and enforce low-yield bonds on the short term by effectively dumping them on Americans.
So, the largest foreign lender to the UK, to the US government right now is Cayman Islands, which is the hedge funds.
So, what he tried to do is he tried to force interest rates down artificially low, you know, by regime changing the Fed.
And then they could be dumped on American people and American pensions, and you could subsidize the demonetization of this program.
And growth is going to go down at the same time as unemployment.
That is an absolute disaster.
I do not want to reiterate how bad things are going to get from here.
I'm not one to say doomerism.
I've always believed they could keep this Ponzi scheme going for quite some time, but the growth rate is going to be significantly below the average interest rate, which means that the only solution here is to print more money than COVID, more money than long-term capital management, more money than the global financial crisis, and experience the same economy of the 1973.
Well, Simon, here's my issue with all of that, right?
Like, Americans have been paying this bill, and not just Americans around the world since 2022 when they since the COVID era where they keep printed $6 trillion already, right?
We saw that hit our bottom line.
And now I'm seeing these situations play out to where the oil's in play.
People think they're trying to play 4D chess, and they don't understand that you can't control prices the same way that you can control the price.
Yeah, so I think you've got to break the world into region, but let's focus on America.
So America, immediately, you will have the lowest gas price increases of most of the world because you are energy independent.
However, it's going to be significantly more expensive.
These gas, like, you know, WTI oil is slightly below the price of Brent crude, which is slightly below the price of Oman, you know, Brent crude as well.
So now we disjointed all the oil markets.
However, in order for this growth rate to continue without inflation, America needed oil to be approximately $40 as a sweet spot.
It also needed interest rates to be significantly lower.
So what does that actually mean?
Well, immediately, you have an impact on the gas prices.
Right prior to this war, there was a hot print, PPI, producer price index.
The producer price index is the cost at which things are produced in America.
CPI is the consumer price index, the average price of goods for the consumer.
When you get a hot PPI, it tends to mean in three months you'll have a hot CPI.
So prior to this war, you had 3% PPI, which was up from about 2.4%.
So already inflation was turning around.
Then we had this hot print.
Now we had the oil price shock.
So you've got gas prices at 4%, 30-year interest rates at 5%, which translates into mortgage rates at 7%.
10-year yield is set in credit card debt, auto loan debt.
And so you've got real estate interests on mortgages that need to be refinanced.
If you refinance, you're refinancing closer between 6 and 7%.
So everyone that is in debt right now, if they need to refinance their debt is going up.
The cost of goods are going up.
The cost of gas is going up.
And then when that energy penetrates through the economy over the next three to six months, the price of everything is going up.
Now, what is it going to go up to?
It can only go up to an unsustainable price where it has demand destruction, i.e., all your money is gas.
Excuse me.
All your money is gas.
All your money is interest on debt, your rent, your mortgage.
And if you're already on the edge, expect things to get significantly worse over the next three months.
That's baked into the equation today.
That is even if the Strait of Hormuz opens today.
If this stays on for another month or two, you're talking about a depression worse than what we experienced in the 1930s.
The reason for that is because America saying that it's insulated is complete fallacy.
It's propped up by the petrodollar.
What's happened to the Gulf countries?
They're no longer investing.
Where did all the growth come last year?
All the growth came from the AI and data centers build out.
That was two markets, the private credit market and golf money.
There's no way that ChatGPT can do an IPO this year at these prices.
So now you've destroyed the IPO market, the private credit market, the oil market, the energy market, the bond market, and that comes into the stock market.
It's like we got 1983, we got dot-com bubble, and we got the housing crisis, and we got the Iraq war all rolled into one.
We're going to get into the war with you on the next segment.
Both me and Tim have a lot of questions.
Want to ask you about the straight, want to ask you about Trump, want to ask you about China.
Want to ask you about Iran, ultimately, all of these things.
Thank you so much, Simon Dixon.
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We wanted to ask, Simon, I wanted to ask you specifically on real world overt actions that are taking place in real time right now that we thought we'd never see.
The Strait of Hormuz is closed.
And every day we hear that it's open, that they're letting ships through as a sign of tribute, but we all know that's not true.
So what's your take on the current crisis right now?
Are they going to be able to keep the straight closed?
The Iranians, are the Americans going to be able to open it with Israeli help?
Unless you are willing to price oil in the Chinese Yuan, expel the Israeli embassy and the U.S. embassy from your country, then Iran will open you and allow shipments through.
How is that enforced?
So Iran is effectively a economy within a country.
Think of IRGC as a faction of power.
And underneath that, there is a government called the Iranian government.
Effectively, the Iranian government voted in parliament that the strait can be closed.
The IRGC is a militarized force within Iran that has access to the banking system, the ports, the military, various other infrastructure.
They said that no one is allowed to pass the strait.
And then the insurers came along from Lloyds of London and said, we won't insure anyone to go through the straits.
So that closed the strait.
You can't be insured.
And how is that enforced?
Well, the IRGC effectively, for the last 40 years, has built an underground structure in a ginormous natural fortress called Iran that's surrounded by mountains, where deep in the ground, they have infrastructure for both a nuclear civilian energy program, as well as a drone manufacturing organization.
Yeah, so effectively, you got to think of America not as America, a sovereign country.
To get to the understanding of the world, you have to understand that through the process of financialization and securitization, America is controlled by lobbies.
And those lobbies are broken up into different interests.
The most powerful lobby is the financial industrial complex.
Then you have the military industrial complex.
You also have the technical industrial complex, big pharma, you know, and then affiliated ones like APAC is more affiliated with Israel.
Israel is a destabilization campaign where the military industrial complex makes loads of money through war and the financial industrial complex makes money through propping up the petrodollar.
And so what you have to think about here is that in terms of America is has a, what's called a build back better model, and they're trying to implement it.
What that means is you use the military in order to destroy your country and destroy infrastructure and subordinate leadership, install puppet governments, do color revolutions, destroy currency, engage in financial weapons and mass destruction, and just subordinate a country so that you can get access to the resources to come back into the consumption set of America.
So what actually happened is it went into that phase where they're now destroying the assets in order to try and negotiate a new map of the world.
And that map is being set by the financial industrial complex.
Now, what you had from that is you had a resistance from the forever war model in the Middle East.
To simplify it, the forever war model was you needed Israel to continually agitate war.
You then needed USAID, CIA, and covert operations to fund militia groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda.
You then needed Iran that was always a threat against Israel.
So you have a narrative of strategic tension.
You have death to America, death to Israel.
And then they have a private economy that funds various resistance around Israel, Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis in Yemen.
And you have constant strategic tension where there's always the justification for printing trillions of dollars and build, you know, get pushing the forever war model.
That props up the petrodollar by having allies like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, you know, UAE and the Gulf countries.
But now you want to try and like, you know, now we want to transition to what I think the financial industrial complex is doing, which is multi-polarity.
What that means is effectively all now America is an energy exporter.
China is funding all the Gulf sovereign wealth funds by purchasing their oil and gas.
And the Middle East, effectively, through their sovereign wealth, is able to get significant influence over American foreign policy.
And so you've had this massive disruption, this global reset that basically is pushing Europe into America through energy dependency.
And then the rest of the world is being propped up by Russian energy and China's manufacturing base, which requires the removal of US bases in the Middle East.
It requires normalization between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
And it requires the end of the apparatus that makes the forever war model possible, which is Israel and the Greater Israel project, IRGC, death to America, deaf to Israel.
And then the radical evangelical Christian neocon Zionists within America that need to be re-educated.
So they're going through a re-education camp right now to understand what Israel actually is.
Take those three factions out and you no longer have the forever war model.
And you move the Middle East.
Basically, what's happening is you're instead of the Middle East, which was a colonial term, you're looking from London.
You're looking over to the east and you see the middle of the world.
You're returning it to what it was before, which is West Asia.
So you're going to have Gulf countries, Iran, all aligned with China.
And whose plan is this?
This is 100% China's plan, which is why it has to be over.
It was meant to be over in April when Xi Jinping and Trump were meeting.
That meeting got delayed by 15th of May.
If we continue with the Strait of Hormuz closed until the 15th of May, the price of oil will be $200.
We'll have demand destruction on a scale we've never seen before.
You've taken off 20% of the world's oil.
The entire consumption economy requires that 20% to come back online.
That's the equivalent of switching off the entire American economy in one go and wondering what the impact of the world will be.
What is the kind of one or two major things that you're seeing currently as of the last, let's say, 24, 48 hours that you see developing even behind, even beyond the context in the history?
I want your opinion of what the dear leader is saying right now.
Donald Trump, all these countries that can't get jet fuel because the straight or moves, like the United Kingdom, which refused to get involved with the decapitation of Iran, I have a suggestion for you.
You'll have to start learning how to fight for yourself.
The USA won't be there to help you anymore, admitting defeat already, as you're kind of talking about, just like you weren't there for the U.S. Iran has been essentially decimated.
People think that Trump is a lunatic if you think he works for the American people.
If you know the corporate interests he works for, he's actually doing a perfect strategy for them.
He's pumping up the price of oil.
He's burdening the American people with debt.
He's resetting all the energy negotiations.
And what is he doing?
There are three things.
So prior to this, we were weakening the dollar.
The dollar was getting weaker and weaker and weaker.
That was needed because American needed to get independence from China's manufacturing base.
Now, since the war, the dollar's blown up through the roof.
That means that America's going more and more dependent upon China.
It's reversing the rebuild of the manufacturing base because the dollar strengthening.
So we've reversed that trend.
Now, what props that up?
The Euro dollar, the petro dollar, and the Japan carry trade.
So by putting Asia into an energy crisis and pushing them towards Russia to solve that crisis and BRICS effectively, then that's the perfect way of achieving that.
And then you push Europe into an American dependency for that energy.
You split the world up into, you know, the hemispheres.
And you, in order to get that, what do you need to do?
You need firstly an inflation recycle.
And then either a recession or a depression.
So the way you do that is you get the inflation up.
You then have demand destruction.
That means things are unaffordable.
Everyone stops consuming and you push the price, basically the demand for oil down.
So you've taken 20% of the oil offline.
Now you need to get what price of oil gets demand destruction.
And demand destruction means recession, depression, unemployment.
And then you can get inflation down just by destroying the economy effectively.
You need to make up for 20% of oil.
So you've got to get oil up to about $200.
So you need to be crazy.
And then you need to break the, you know, effectively break the Euro dollar for after the reset, break the petro dollar and break the Japan carry trades because Japan, through the 0% interest rates, were funding the US debt.
So if you really want, you know, after this war is over, the only way to get the price to fix this right now is to crash the price of oil and get bond rates down.
The only way to do that is for Trump to reach an agreement with Iran.
And Iran effectively can carry on forever because it can keep the straight closed.
There's only two countries that are economically insulated.
The two countries that were sanctioned, Iran and Russia.
Well, and the way I hear you describing it, Simon, like this is all part of a greater plan.
And while I will agree with you on certain parts of that, I'm like, there's no possible way in my mind that, you know, someone like Trump and all the rest of the people who are behind the scenes are this calculated that they can take into account all the butterfly effects and the chain reactions.
Because here's the thing, if oil goes up to $200 a barrel, I don't think we know how that turns out.
And because the world is so much more interconnected now than it ever has been in history, no one actually truly knows what the ripple effect looks like.
Yeah, I'm really glad you said all those things because there's a few things that people confuse around me trying to explain things and people interpreting it through their own lens.
This is not Trump's plan.
This is not Q.
This is not trust the plan.
This is not a genius.
You know, Trump is the press secretary for his lobbies in Greater Power.
They have a business plan around the Build Back Better and the forever war.
And they know that if you can usher in law changes for a technical Orwellian technocratic surveillance state nightmare, then they've hedged every outcome.
If this ends up in civil unrest, then the technical industrial complex creates a police and surveillance state.
If they manage to achieve peace in the Middle East and get a deal, then the financial industrial complex gets all the Bilbat Better contracts.
If this all fails and IRGC resists to the point where, you know, this goes out of control, then you effectively have the forever war model and you rebuild all these military contracts.
So mass weapons are being sold, you know, for defense, missile interceptors.
And so BlackRock, as it were, State Street and Vanguard, the asset managers, they're okay, whatever happens.
Now, you are right.
Once you hit a point of $200 oil, you hit massive demand destruction.
What is the model when you have demand destruction?
Exactly what they did during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
You consolidate wealth, just like the 2008 financial crisis.
Get a big print, socialize the losses, privatize the gains, send all the small businesses bankrupt, send the individuals bankrupt and try and put them on some kind of universal basic income.
If you break the deep state, you break the Japan carry trade, the petro dollar, and the Euro dollar, which means that America is shrunk into a regional power.
And so taking on the deep state is what props up the dollar.
And IRGC are taking on the deep state.
Where does IRGC get its power from?
Obviously, from Russia and China.
They're getting intelligence fed through.
They've got asymmetric weapons set up with drones and missiles that make essentially big, expensive equipment that the U.S. military were profiting from irrelevant.
Now, of course, you can inflict damage on them.
But what happens every time you hit an infrastructure?
You push the price of oil up.
Now, who benefits from the price of oil and gas going up?
Russia as a sovereign state, Iran as a sovereign state, and American private big oil, big LNG, and those and the World Economic Forum agenda that wants a technocratic surveillance state where you own nothing and be happy.
Trump is delivering it for them to perfection.
And the reason I think he's a blithering idiot is because they don't know what's going to happen.
And they may be the person that gives the checkout.
They may be the person in the photo with the apron.
But we all know the truth.
We know the reality.
They work for the people with the money.
And I think that's what you so excellently break down.
Because when we talk about these things, ultimately, we could talk about missile systems and destroyed interceptors and destroyed planes and destroyed U.S. bases and all the nitty-gritty.
But in reality, it's all in service to this multipolar world that's being built around us.
I think you're one of the best at breaking that down.
Yeah, so I go through these very long, you know, play-by-play monetary transaction by monetary transaction in Bitcoin tech, macro and geopolitics every Friday.
It's like a three, four-hour marathon.
I break it down into AI on my blog, simondixon.com, if you've only got 10, 15 minutes.
And then I'm always on X and giving live spaces and giving live minute by minute play as we go through this.
Fortunately, you know, Bitcoin made me financially independent.
And I'm trying to get as many people as sovereign as possible.
And so sovereign countries, sovereign companies, sovereign individuals.
And the real undertone here, which we didn't get to cover much, is what are you going to do to prepare?
So hopefully we could come back to another show or something.
Because what really is important is you, your family, your community, because you can understand these big pictures.
But right now, we are in a this is this is already a crisis.
And if the straight is opened every single day, it's not open, it's going to get worse and worse.
I mean, if you look at it, it starts off like 1% to 2% on average a year.
That's what we've been consistently used to.
And then you just see something happen after COVID and you're like, whoa, what just rapid increase increase where you're seeing 10 plus percentage increase.
And it's not coming down.
You are completely right about this.
Now, we got to understand who it specifically affects.
It affects the lower incomes.
And let's pull up number two here.
So when prices jump to 10 to 13% year over year, the impact isn't actually equal.
It's actually wealthy families that aren't impacted as much.
The people who are at the bottom of the tax bracket are the ones that it gets expensive for.
So the simple question is, is like, do you see like how this impacts people, Rex?
So with this food, you know, we got to understand two things here specifically.
Most people don't realize how the global supply chain actually works because over 60% of the vegetables that Americans are eating, the same stuff that you get at your table every time you eat, come from other countries.
So a huge portion of that actually comes from Mexico.
And we can pull up the picture of the Mexican imports of tomatoes because tomatoes is a perfect example showing how much the increase has happened over time.
So you look at it early 2000s, we start around 0.5 metric tons and now we're crossing over 1.5 nearing two.
And that's going to continue going up.
Now, why it matters is specifically because our food system is incredibly efficient, but efficiency also creates fragility.
So let's go ahead and pull up this clip because it's going to show you the pathway of a tomato and it's number five here.
And you're going to just see how long it takes from the tomato growing to how it ends up at your doorstep when you go to the grocery store.
A tomato like this will often go into a sealed room where they are gassed with ethylene to ripen them.
Ethylene is just a naturally occurring hormone that helps ripen these guys.
They want them to all ripen at the same time right as they get to the grocery store.
But we have a long way to go before we get to the grocery store.
So they're pumped with this gas.
And then if they're going into cans, which a lot of tomatoes do, they go through this industrial factory wizardry.
But for the ones that are going to end up like this, fresh, they are on a truck headed north.
They end up in a nearby city, probably the capital, Culiacan, in this big facility where they are sorted, chilled, and then put on big pallets.
They get back onto a truck, which by the way, all of these trucks are refrigerated.
That's a big logistical challenge to make sure these things don't get too hot or old.
And now the truck is heading north.
It gets to the U.S.-Mexico border.
Look, this is where people go back and forth between the two countries.
But over here is a special border crossing just for trucks.
Our tomatoes are in one of these.
It clears customs and then it probably ends up at one of these transfer stations where the trailer might be transferred on to another truck to an American driver who will take it from there.
The tomatoes are now in the United States.
Once in the U.S., they might be re-ripened and repackaged.
And they eventually take a long haul trip on America's freeways, ending up at a distribution center like this one in Illinois.
Here, tucked into the endless expanse of farmland is this massive building surrounded by cargo trucks.
The tomatoes are unloaded, they're scanned for inventory, they're repackaged, and then they're back on the road headed towards the grocery store.
And I promise I'm getting close here.
Okay, we've arrived at the grocery store.
This whole journey was nine days, about a thousand kilometers or 620 miles.
And the tomatoes are finally stacked in the vegetable aisle, ready for you to buy a pound for $2.
Bring them home, chop them up, and throw them into a sauce.
And the reason why I showed you guys that video and why we're talking about a tomato is the tomato is just a personification of the larger chain in itself.
And it comes across all the food groups because let's pull up the graphic of that showing the journey and it'll be number six there.
Let's pull up that image because I want people to understand how much the supply chain look at all of these points at which that tomato has to go through.
And the problem here specifically, Rex, is at any point, if any of these systems break down, it creates a trickle-down effect.
Oh, oh, oh, it gets worse than that because what you would expect is if situation or crisis happens, you expect that stock to fall or for them to be affected somehow.
Let's pull up number eight that shows the biggest egg producer stock prices during that time period.
Let's do my screen share here because I'm going to show you guys a chart and we're going to look at the egg prices compared to the correlation of the Cal Main Foods dividend payouts.
But like going back to the point here is let's look at the supply of eggs on number 12 because normally you would expect on a supply chain for if there's less supply of something, then the price of that would be increased because it's demand and supply.
But let's pull up the number 12, the supply of eggs.
So when they told us in 2022 that the bird flu outbreak happened, you would expect there to be a significant drop off.
The top line is what you need to pay attention to.
Well, the thing is, is we see it's a very stable supply.
Maybe they take a 5%, 10% dip somewhere along the line, but they literally don't start getting paid out the shareholders until there's a crisis.
And the worse the crisis gets and the bigger the crisis gets, as we saw in the two inflection points, the original one and the one that's even bigger.
As the American people have to pay more, as the American people get gouged and raped and pillaged over and over again, all these companies do is print and make more money because the government serves the financial industrial complex.
Calmane's current CEO, Sherman L. Miller, big bucks Miller, that's what we call him, took in $1.1 million in total compensation for fiscal year 2023, 26 times the median employee income of $45,000.
Additionally, Miller and other stockholders were awarded huge dividend payments.
Uh-oh, the real money.
Thanks to Calmain's record-breaking profits, thanks to the crisis they capitalized on.
The company estimates that Calmain's board chair and former CEO, Adolphus Adolph, okay, little Adolph, B. Baker, who owns more than 15, 150,000 shares, would have taken in over 800,000 of those dividends alone.
You know, you look at the average CEO, the shareholders making more.
Here's the thing, guys.
We go back in history, we look at what happened during Reagan's time, because I like to talk about this because it's important.
There used to be a chart, and I'll pull it up one day, where you see the breakdown of where companies stopped sharing their profits with the people who are actually creating the increase in productivity.
And the key thing is like, this is all public information.
And we hope to be a jumping off point for you, the viewer, the listener, the audience out there.
This is a family show.
At the end of the day, we don't swear on here.
We want you, your kids, your wife, your friends, everyone you know.
We want them to get into researching stuff like this the way that we do because this is what's really fun, not the sports game, not the gambling addiction, not that, whatever it is.
What's really fun is being empowered by the information.
And I know just from you starting doing the show, of course, I was always kind of inundated with media, but you're a very analytical guy.
You're an engineer.
And your approach to doing the show, your approach to presenting this information to people is you want to show them, hey, this is what's happening.
This is the system that was built.
These are the pieces that were used to build the system.
Maybe we should dismantle it or build something else.
Now, let's go ahead and pull up the video of the CFO of Hershey talking about it because he admitted on an earnings call that he raised prices higher than inflation.
Many of the S ⁇ P 500 companies actually did the same thing.
And you see the pattern play across all of the corporations.
So let's go ahead and roll this clip, okay?
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The CFO of Hershey in 2023 said on an earnings call to the company shareholders, quote, pricing and productivity gains more than offset inflation and higher manufacturing and overhead costs.
In non-Wall Street speak, that says, we increased our prices well above what our increased costs were.
Like our costs for sugar, cocoa, et cetera, have gone up.
But we have been able to not only pass all of those costs on to consumers, but then some, increasing our profit margins.
Hershey's wasn't the only company to say this.
Virtually like the vast majority of S ⁇ P 500 companies said this.
Frito-Lay and PepsiCo, for example, did the same thing where they said, we've been able to rapidly increase kind of our pricing actions is what they call them, which just means increasing prices.
So profits are soaring while a family of four who's surviving on a thrifty food plan is seeing their costs for food increase by 30% or more over the last few years.
More and more turning to government programs.
And so now our taxpayer dollars are going to help inflated prices to make shareholders rich.
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Yeah, well, I'm interested to hear in the callers.
What do you guys feel about the deep dives?
How are we liking those?
What did we think about Simon and some of the information that came out about that and the industrial, financial, industrial complex, military-industrial complex, those types of things?
But let's get back to it because we got a little bit more.
And as you guys have seen, the CEO of Hershey's was lying to everybody, told everybody, well, we increased beyond inflation numbers, which, again, what else do we expect?
But one thing we do also need to focus on here is the monopoly part.
And we like to call these guys the big four, the meat industry.
Can we pull up that image for people to see?
Because here's the structure that makes it possible.
I think that's the new one because if all the corporations are talking together and they're conspiring behind the scenes to set the prices, then you're going to see the same thing as a monopoly playing out in real time here.
Now, there was a lawsuit that came out, and we can pull up that picture on number 16.
And this isn't speculation.
The poultry giants actually already paid millions in price-fixing settlements.
So, McDonald has McDonald's has sued beef suppliers for collusion.
Frozen Potatoes and Tuna Industries also got caught for manipulating prices.
Cargill settles turkey price-fixing suit with a $32.5 million payout.
Cargill Inc. has agreed to pay $32.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit accusing the company and several other processors of conspiring to fix turkey prices.
The agreement filed on January 15th with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois awaits court approval.
And guys, just to keep this in perspective, in the United States at our peak during COVID, we were seeing somewhere between 10 to 14%.
And you felt that.
So imagine being a citizen in that country where you're just trying to go to the grocery store and your eggs used to cost you, I don't know, $4, and then suddenly it's $8 the next day.
And it's just not sustainable.
And as much as I like to complain about what it's like here in the United States, I look at these bigger pictures and I look at the wider world itself and I say, hey, it could be better.
Now, that doesn't justify it, but it puts it in perspective so that I don't feel so blackpilled all the time.
Thing is, because our standard of living is so much higher here, because the prices are so much lower, when those prices start to go up, and once it reaches a terminal inflection point of which people can't deal with it anymore, that's how you get bedlam, pandemonium, panic, whatever word you want to use for it.
That's how you get that mass reaction from the society.
Well, what I was kind of leading into the break when you were coming back in the room, what I said is like, we took a 30,000-foot view with Simon.
Now we're taking like an under-a-microscope view with you.
And then that creates a situation where you, the viewing and listening public, the audience out there, the American and global citizens around the world, you can take that information and then use that as a starting point for yourself to actually know what's going on.
You can see the forest for the trees, which is actually a very hard thing to be able to do.
Guys, I spend hours, tens of hours doing research on each of these topics specifically because I do it for the love of the game and I care about the listeners.
And let's talk about what we want to talk, ask the callers here today because there's a lot of stuff that we unpacked between just this deep dive and specifically some of the information that we had during Simon.
Let's ask the dear viewers and listeners that are on the call what they want to see positive development out of the world, what they're looking forward to.
Let's do it.
Go a little white pill with that.
Let's take call number one, Stephen Novata.
Steve, what are you looking forward to in the world you're on the air?
Take ownership of the fact that maybe we haven't been doing this the correct way and lead by example, but I don't think America's ready to do that quite a bit.
The best way if you want to support is just give me a follow on X. That's the biggest thing for me.
I don't need to get paid or anything like that.
Just getting the support from the audience.
If you really do care about what I have to say here, what I'm talking about here with Rex, and you love our dynamic, giving us a follow-on X is the biggest thing.
Well, yeah, I think they're going to throw them up anyway.
It's InfoWorse Nature.
We'll probably throw them up anyway.
You know, the Biden guy, the nuclear, the head of the nuclear stuff, he was running around airports, stealing women's underwear and putting it on the bathroom, taking photos of it.
I think, oh, and real quick, Rex, your dad played that video of you when you, I forget, you were like a young kid, like nine or 12, and you made that video of like explaining terrorism.
Yeah, I was like, he's like the Alex Jones of finance, you know, in a way.
Mind-blowing.
And I would love to see like, this would be my dream, maybe to see like a debate between like, I don't know if it'll be a debate or more of a discussion between like Nick Fuentes and Alex and maybe Simon Dixon and Catherine Austin Fitz or someone.
This is the thing because like Simon Dixon is literally, he's like S-tier quality guest, host, whatever, going to have him on the show, whatever you want to call it.
I really want to get him on the Alex Jones show.
We've tried to make stuff like that happen in the past.
There are scheduling conflicts.
There are things that arise, but you're definitely going to see more of him.
People like Suleiman, people like Alex Stein, these people that are very active have built up a very positive reputation for having the best information or the best takes on X because that's really what we gravitated to.
Now, we talk about the war in Iran and you talk about fuel.
You talk about oil prices.
You start looking at the impact of that.
Not only are food prices going to skyrocket, food availability is going to go down because of the lack of nitrogenous fertilizer.
I did work at a fertilizer plant for a company named Agrium that's in Nikitsky, Alaska, but it's shut down right now.
But you look at the lack, we've lost, what, 60 plus percent of our nitrogenous fertilizer in the last four years between Biden and Trump.
And that doesn't even include other stuff like this natural phenomenon that's coming like the Grand Solar Minimum that nobody seems to talk about anymore.