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	Ha ha ha!
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	Hey, this is Jimmy.
	Who's this?
	Jimmy, this is actor, radio broadcaster, podcast guest, father, husband, dog, concierge, director, producer, and deep, penetrating blue eye haver, Alec Baldwin.
	Oh, hi, Alec.
	Thanks for calling, buddy.
	You're welcome, as always.
	Well, what's new in your life, buddy?
	Well, I'm extremely busy to the point where making this phone call now seems like an odd decision on my part.
	Busy with what, buddy?
	I'm happy to announce that production on my film Rust will be resuming in Montana this week.
	Oh, no, you're joking.
	Do I sound like I'm joking?
	This is the same movie where you know where yes, yes, where that happened.
	Oh, my God.
	And you're just picking up where you left off like nothing happened.
	Far from it, my bellicose friend.
	After a year and a half of investigation, legal wrangling, undisclosed settlements, and various other fucking headaches, we have decided to move forward.
	And it was not a decision that I nor anyone else took lightly.
	I see.
	I assume that they're going to be even tighter safety measures on the set this time around then.
	Absolutely not.
	What you heard me.
	That's insane, Alec.
	Why not?
	Why the hell not?
	Jimmy, let me ask you a question.
	If you survived a plane crash in a commercial airliner, would you be afraid to fly commercial again?
	Yes, of course.
	I'd be terrified, probably.
	That's because you were a fool.
	The chances in this day and age of being in a plane crash are minuscule, almost absurdly so.
	But the chances of being in more than one plane crash, absolutely infinitesimal, essentially impossible.
	By the same token, the chances of a second deadly incident on the same film production is mathematically inconceivable.
	Okay.
	Oh, no.
	Oh, yes.
	Jimmy, Rust is now statistically the safest film set in the history of cinema.
	Probability doesn't lie.
	There's a glittering metropolis in the Nevada desert that proves it.
	And we are going to take full advantage of this situation.
	How so?
	Not only will the ammunition depot be open to all cast and crew, Roman candle fights are encouraged.
	Alec, no.
	The gunshed will have an open bar.
	Oh, my God.
	And on the wall will be a giant world map with each country labeled with the preferred racial or ethnic slur for its population.
	This is insane.
	Jimmy, this is the time to take chances.
	Our horses will not be provided by licensed Hollywood animal wranglers.
	We will go out and procure them ourselves.
	This is Montana after all.
	Wild stallions abound.
	You're going to break your own horses.
	Jimmy, we are making a Western about a time and place where there were no rules.
	Oh, God.
	For the first time in cinematic history, we can make a film on a set where there are no rules, just like the old West itself.
	Statistics will protect us.
	This movie is Rust will be the first true Western.
	Alex, this is crazy.
	I'm begging you not to do this.
	Too late.
	We have already built a whorehouse on set and hired actual prostitutes who are currently living there.
	All sex scenes will be unsimulated, show full penetration without protection.
	Alec, that's gross.
	Well, let's see what our friend Oscar has to say about that.
	Imagine, Jimmy, the scope and intensity of it, the truth, the grit, the story of the movie itself, our little production going from unimaginable tragedy to triumph with a vision and commitment to realism rivaling that of Coppola, David Lean, Cecil B. DeMille, And now amongst the pantheon, Alec Baldwin.
	Ha ha ha ha.
	Your premise here is false, Alec.
	Based on what you're describing, people are definitely going to die and get injured, or at least get chlamydia.
	On the contrary, Jimmy, the prostitutes have been purposely infected with gonorrhea, a more period appropriate for neural disease.
	Jesus.
	Realism is key.
	I can't believe I'm saying this, Alec, but I'm tempted to alert the authorities.
	Go ahead, do your worst.
	All our permits are filed and approved with our location clearly marked.
	However, any attempt at an on-set inspection will lead them to a dummy set we have constructed.
	It's approximately 50 miles away.
	We cannot be stopped.
	A dummy set.
	He says.
	laughing Well, I guess there's nothing I can do then.
	You gave up on that rather quickly, and I appreciate it.
	I guess I have to admit, I'm sort of looking forward to seeing this movie when it comes out.
	Jimmy, it's going to be a banger, as the kids say.
	Unfortunately, I have to go.
	We're expecting a large shipment of dynamite from an international arms dealer.
	These crates have been stored improperly for 30 years, but it's the best we can do.
	Being shielded by statistics and probability has allowed us to cut down on production costs and make up for lost revenue during our hiatus.
	Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
	Being shielded by statics, how clever, Alec.
	I don't like to brag, Jimmy, but my IQ is off the charts.
	And then on to our first scene where I, Alec Baldwin, have hand-to-hand combat with the wild grizzly bear or hand-to-claw, I suppose.
	I'm so excited.
	The point is, I know what I'm doing.
	A rough wire, James.
	Uh.
	Yeah.
	Establishment media sets of artists fighting.
	So good luck.
	Watch and see as a jackdog comedian speeds and jumps the medium and hits them head-on.
	It's the Jimmy Door show.
	We have special guests with us.
	Whitney Webb is a writer, researcher, investigative journalist, and an expert on the Jeffrey Epstein case.
	Her new book about the Epstein case is One Nation Under Blackmail.
	She also writes for a number of different publications, including her own site, unlimitedhangout.com.
	Welcome to the show, Whitney.
	Hey, great to be here.
	Good to have you back.
	Now, I want to tell people about what's going on.
	You have a new article out, but so JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon is to be deposed on the Epstein lawsuits, right?
	And so now here's this article that you wrote, The Rise of Jamie Diamond, and it gives all the background information you'd ever want to know about how Jeffrey Di Jamie Dimon got to be Jamie Dimon and the head of that bank.
	Earlier this month, a judge ruled that two different lawsuits against J.P. Morgan Chase over the bank's ties to deceased financier and pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein, would be allowed to advance in U.S. courts.
	It's funny, nobody ever can find out all the financing he did.
	Nobody can find it.
	One of these cases brought against the bank by the U.S. Virgin Islands, U.S. VI, has been a particular focus of independent media since the new year began, in part because the Attorney General of the Virgin Islands, Denise George, was fired from her post just days after she filed the case.
	It's hearing in a hearing in the Virgin Islands case against J.P. Morgan earlier this month, a Virgin Islands lawyer argued that the CEO of J.P. Morgan, J.B. Diamond, knew in 2008 that his billionaire client, Jeffrey Epstein, was a sex trafficker.
	The lawyer, Mimi Liu, also stated that former JP Morgan Jess Staley also knew this about Epstein at the time, but noted this case was not just Jess Staley.
	There will be numerous documents that go far beyond his office to the executive suite.
	Liute also asserted that Staley knew, Diamond knew, JP Morgan Chase knew about Epstein's criminal activities against minors.
	While the bank has disputed that Diamond knew anything about Epstein's accounts at the bank or what he was really up to at that time, the Unlimited Hangout Investigation, a multi-part series, will reveal that Jamie Diamond's rise to the top post at JP Morgan was intimately linked to the very same group of people who enabled Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking activities as well as his extensive financial crimes.
	So let's bring in the author of this new article at Unlimited Hangout, Whitney Webb.
	Whitney, great job.
	This is kind of mind-blowing, the connection between Jeffrey Epstein and Jamie Dimon.
	And, well, of course, right?
	Of course, people who run all the banks, which are kind of running our society now, are in bed with the CIA, which is Jeffrey Epstein, right?
	And that's why they had that sex island so they can compromise powerful people, right?
	Well, it's even worse than that, if you can believe that.
	But yeah, essentially, the same people responsible for Jeffrey Epstein are the same people for responsible for making Jamie Dimon one of the, if not the most powerful banker on Wall Street right now.
	And considering what we're seeing with the current banking crisis and intentional government policy to convince depositors to put their money in too big to fail banks like J.P. Morgan Chase, this stuff is more important than ever because essentially depositors are being told we should be putting our money as safest in these too big to fail banks.
	And these banks, of course, have engaged in extreme criminal activity over the years and have been never been held accountable, essentially.
	And Jamie Diamond's rise to power has depended extensively on that model.
	So he actually started off creating what is now Citigroup with his mentor, Sandy Weil.
	And he actually used a very suspicious intelligence-linked company tied to a bunch of CIA veterans that was involved in Middle East arms deals or financing airlines involved in Middle East arms deals for what's been referred to as the private CIA called Commercial Credit Corporation in the mid-1980s.
	And that was the beginning of what is now Citigroup.
	And Sandy Weil and Diamond used that as a vehicle and through several mergers and acquisitions of other banks created essentially the too big to fail model and were instrumental in things like the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, for example.
	And so after sort of living in this guy's shadow, Sandy Weil, his mentor, there was sort of an ego battle between the two and Diamond was forced out of Citigroup in 1998 and was basically left without a job.
	Can I ask you a quick question?
	So this guy, Sandy Weil, was he involved with the merger of Citigroup and was it Travelers or what?
	Travelers Group.
	He was the head of Traveler's Group.
	He was the head of Traveler.
	He was a guy that was that was working with Robert Rubin, who, by the way, signed off on Jeffrey Epstein's first ever White House visit to have Glass-Steagall repealed.
	Okay, so when they combined Traveler's Insurance with Citigroup or Citibank at the time, that created the biggest financial monstrosity in the history of the world.
	And Robert Rubin got a job there after he helped repeal Glass-Steagall.
	And tell people who Robert Rubin is.
	He was Secretary of Treasury under Clinton.
	Prior to that, he was head of Goldman Sachs at the time when, for example, Goldman Sachs was on the hook for enabling a lot of Robert Maxwell's financial crimes after his death.
	And he was director of the National Economic Council initially before he was Treasury Secretary under the Clinton administration.
	And that's when he signed off on Jeffrey Epstein's first ever visit to the White House.
	And so some sort of.
	And so what is his connection with Robert?
	Now, Robert Maxwell is Ghislaine Maxwell's father, right?
	Yeah.
	So that's the connection there with Epstein.
	And so what is Rubin's connection with that?
	With Epstein, he signed off on Epstein's first ever visit to the White House.
	Robert Rubin invited Epstein to the White House in the beginning of 1993.
	But before that, he had been involved with the fallout regarding Goldman Sachs' role in Robert Maxwell's theft of pension fund money for the Mirror Group, which was one of the biggest controversies after his death in 1991.
	Isn't this amazing?
	Look at these websites.
	Look at these websites.
	So Robert Maxwell's involved in this big financial scandal.
	Robert Rubin, who goes on to be Bill Clinton's Secretary of the Treasury, is involved in that.
	And then Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
	I mean, this is really going to the White House, all these Clinton fundraisers in 1993, why Rubin's head of the National Economic Council inviting Epstein to meetings about economic policy.
	And at the same time, Epstein had just been involved and his name was mysteriously dropped from the case, prosecuting one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in U.S. history that Epstein was named as the mastermind of during grand jury proceedings.
	His name just gets dropped from the case all of a sudden, and then he's invited by Robert Rubin to come discuss economic policy.
	And so it is clear that Jeffrey Epstein was working with the intelligence community.
	And the reason why they had that sex island and the Lolita Express was to compromise powerful people.
	And so that the intelligence community or the, you know, whoever is the establishment that really runs things, it could have compromised on those people.
	And so now they can control them, right?
	Including people.
	Including people like princes and ex-presidents, right?
	But again, it's more than Epstein wasn't just about sex trafficking.
	He was also making powerful people a lot of money.
	And he was involved in a lot of extreme financial crimes, including massive Ponzi schemes and money laundering, and pretty much every financial crime under the sun.
	He was involved extensively.
	Not unlike Robert Maxwell, right?
	Who again had his own links to intelligence services and involved in things like the promised software scandal, but he was also involved in a lot of financial criminality, which only really came to light after his death.
	And it's really not that not that different with Epstein.
	But what this particular case in the Virgin Islands is exposing is that JP Morgan executives knew that Epstein was not doing what they said he was doing.
	So for example, it's already come out as part of this court case that the financial activity on Epstein's accounts at J.P. Morgan was not consistent with any sort of client-based business.
	So at the time, Epstein was supposed to be a financial advisor to billionaires, but there was no evidence that he had any sort of client-based business at all based on his financial flows.
	And it was flagged.
	His financial activity was flagged on numerous occasions and nothing was done.
	And as I note in my article, there's two groups that are responsible for Jamie Dimon being in charge of J.P. Morgan.
	One of them, they're both connected to organized crime.
	One of them is John W. Kessler, who's Leslie Wexner's right-hand man and worked directly with Epstein on numerous occasions.
	This is complete documented fact.
	And the other person is a man named James Shine Crown, who comes from the billionaire crown family that has run since the 60s, the weapons manufacturer General Dynamics.
	And his father, Lester Crown, was a close associate of Leslie Wexner since the early 90s at least.
	And James Shine Crown was the top guy at J.P. Morgan's risk policy committee through his position on the board of directors.
	So all of this, the fact that the top policymaking body for risk management, it was this guy at the top, you know, and then they're letting Epstein get away with all the stuff when it's flagged by middle management.
	The top management says, oh, no, nothing to see here.
	And then you have executives joking, oh, Epstein's a sugar daddy.
	And you have Jeff Staley, a top executive at JP Morgan, exchanging emails with Epstein, talking about Disney princesses, saying, oh, it was nice to meet Snow White.
	What character do you want to meet next?
	I mean, this is insane.
	And so when you consider the fact that the same people that created essentially Jeffrey Epstein put Jamie Dimon in charge of J.P. Morgan Chase, it's very hard to believe that Diamond did not know what was going on because ultimately, you know, who does he have to answer to at the end of the day?
	The same people that put him in his cushy job at the top of the Wall Street pyramid of power, right?
	And so if they ever come knocking and say, well, we want you to ignore what this guy does, why wouldn't he do it?
	You know, I think it's very naive to think that there isn't some sort of problem there for Jamie Dimon.
	And we'll see if he gets questioned about any of these people like Kessler and the Crowns.
	So why?
	I'm missing what is the Virgin Islands interest in this?
	So I'm not exactly sure why it's them prosecuting it, to be honest, because a lot of these financial crimes didn't necessarily happen exclusively in the Virgin Islands.
	Because remember, Epstein had residences all over the United States, right?
	In New Mexico, New York, Palm Beach.
	He also had his island, right?
	And so the island was part of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
	And so they're arguing that his JP Morgan was enabling his sex trafficking activities that included the Virgin Islands.
	But of course, it's important to point out it wasn't exclusive to the Virgin Islands.
	To this day, the FBI has never even bothered to raid or search Epstein's New Mexico residents, right?
	So, and they waited over a month to raid some of his other residences after the New York one was raided.
	So, I mean, obviously, it's a controlled investigation as far as U.S. law enforcement is concerned.
	So, you'd never see this case be taken up by a district like SDNY, for example.
	I don't think they'd go after the billionaires that enabled Epstein.
	And Jamie Dimon is a billionaire, right?
	So, most of the people that have taken the fall for the Epstein case so far have been Epstein, who's now dead, died of suicide in his jail still.
	Then, Jean-Luke Burnell, who also died by suicide in his jail cell in Paris, France, and then Ghillain Maxwell, who's in country club prison.
	Uh-huh.
	It's more corrupt.
	People can't even wrap their heads around it.
	And isn't it amazing how people just let Jeffrey Epstein get killed right in broad daylight?
	Everybody knows exactly what happened, and nobody cares.
	There's no push in the media.
	There's no politician.
	It's a meme.
	There's no political party that wants to know what happened.
	There's nothing.
	I just Googled it just to see, like, why is it?
	And it's, here's why conspiracy theories about Jeffrey Epstein keep flourishing from NPR.
	There's another one.
	Like, it probably was suicide.
	That's what pops up when you look at it.
	You're kidding.
	Yeah.
	NPR is saying this probably was suicide.
	Oh, no, Los Angeles Times.
	Forget the conspiracy theories.
	Here's why it's likely Jeffrey Epstein killed himself.
	Even Alan Dershowitz says he didn't kill himself.
	I mean, that's how insane that is.
	So this, and so now Jamie Dimon is going to have to answer questions under oath.
	Is this, does he have to fly to the Virgin Islands for this?
	No, because the hearing is going on in, I think, in New York.
	Oh, okay.
	But it's being, the prosecuting team is from the U.S. Virgin Islands.
	Right.
	Okay.
	Wow.
	Well, this is quite an article.
	I read a lot of it today.
	Here it is.
	I'll put it up again.
	The rise of Jamie Dimon.
	As J.P. Morgan's ties to Jeffrey Epstein are being scrutinized in court.
	Whitney Webb reveals how the same powerful players who brought Epstein to prominence are responsible for J.P. Morgan's CEO.
	There it is.
	It's really a great read.
	And it's all every time I read something by you, it's mind-blowing.
	And they're vaping.
	Is that what that is?
	That picture?
	Are they vaping?
	Yeah, what do they have in their mouths?
	I don't know what they're doing, but the reason I used it is because it has on the far right is the longtime head of Bank One, John G. McCoy, who was a mentor to Leslie Wexner, who's in the middle, and Wexner's right-hand man that helped hand select Jamie Dimon to lead Bank One before it gets merged into J.P. Morgan Chase, who I mentioned earlier, John W. Kessler.
	And John W. Kessler and Wexner launched something called the New Albany Project, a real estate development endeavor in Ohio.
	And it was Epstein that came in to essentially clean that up.
	And he came in to clean that up after Wexner's tax attorney for the Limited was shot in the face in broad daylight and was still classified as an unsolved homicide.
	And that lawyer was murdered the day before he was going to testify to the IRS about suspicious financial activity.
	So, you know, Epstein came in after that and cleaned up New Albany, which before that point was a quote-unquote mess.
	And there was actually a police investigation into a lot of into this lawyer's murder.
	And it was heavily censored and only revealed by a Freedom of Information Act request decades after the fact.
	And that police document, which was made in 1991, revealed all of these interconnected companies of Kessler and Wexner and their ties to organized crime and posited that that was part of the reason for this particular lawyer's murder.
	And by the time that was written in 1991, several of those companies were actually headed or the vice president of several of those companies named in that report was Jeffrey Epstein.
	And Kessler and Epstein worked together directly on New Albany.
	And John G. McCoy of Bank One had a house there.
	And Epstein did as well and was involved.
	I think he was a general partner in the holding company.
	And there's a lot of connections between the two, but essentially Kessler had been on the board of Bank One for some time.
	And he's openly acknowledged his role in selecting Jamie Dimon.
	John G. McCoy's son in 1999, John B. McCoy, was forced out by James Crown and then Crown and his cronies, I guess, on the board of Bank One.
	And Kessler decided on Jamie Dimon.
	Those are the people responsible for selecting him as CEO of Bank One.
	And as I mentioned earlier, Jamie Dimon had sort of just been forced out of Citigroup, right?
	And then he's put in charge of Bank One, which in a couple years, a couple years after this point, merges into JP Morgan Chase and he's put in charge of the combined entity.
	But what I would like to say is that in the 1980s, under the watch of John G. McCoy, who's in that picture there, Bank One became one of the four favorite banks for the money laundering arms profits as part of the Iran-Contra affair.
	Yeah.
	And one of the other banks that was in that four favorite, and one of those four merged with Bank One just a few years after Iran-Contra ended called Valley National Bank, which was tied to the corruption of Charles Keating and the Keating Five that included Senator John McCain, right?
	Yeah, John McCain is in the Keating thing?
	Yes, that was a McCain scandal with Keating.
	Yes.
	Oh, I didn't know that.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	It's a crazy story.
	And then, as far as Iran-Contra connections go, a few years after that, Leslie Wexner, who has a lot of, was on the board of director of Bank One at the time, he and Epstein secured the relocation of the main CIA-linked Iran-Contra Airline to Columbus, Ohio to run cargo for the limited Southern Air Transport.
	So a bunch of several Ohio officials thought something really weird was going on there because the other two people besides Wexner and Epstein that helped secure that deal were people that were convicted as part of the Iran-Contra affair.
	Alan Fears and Richard Secord were the people responsible for that.
	So there's a bunch of weird stuff going on with this particular group.
	And Diamond is the front man for these guys.
	And the Crown family is just as crazy as far as general dynamics and what they got away with there goes.
	And their ties to organized crime are arguably even more extensive than they are for people like Wexner and Bank One.
	It's crazy stuff.
	So why isn't it more dangerous for you to do this, to talk to devotee your life to this and become an expert on it?
	You know, those people would are you afraid?
	No, I mean, personally, I think things have gotten this far because so many people have just not said something when they should have, you know, and it's really, you know, I think incumbent on all of us to take personal responsibility to really realize how power works in the United States.
	Because so many people have been content for decades to sort of swallow this fairy tale that we're force-fed through the media and through the education system about how power works in the U.S. You know, we're told, you know, if you believe that narrative, then you believe that Joe Biden signs off on all the decisions made by the U.S. government today.
	And honestly, that's harder to believe now than it really ever has been.
	And, you know, it's in order to solve the problems of today, we have to understand what the problem actually is.
	And you can't do that by believing these false narratives that we've been told.
	So, you know, someone has to figure out what's actually going on.
	And I'm not, you know, alone in doing that.
	You know, there's lots of other people that work towards that end, but it's something that has to be done because we can't fix the problem if we don't know what the problem is.
	And the problem is, is that the power structures, I mean, the government is essentially run by organized crime.
	You know, the mob and the CIA came together in the World War II era.
	And it's really, you know, they basically are the mob together.
	And, you know, intelligence agencies essentially operate not that differently than organized crime.
	And we're at a point where these guys have taken complete control of the banking and financial services industry.
	And they have been looting the American people for decades through manufacture, a lot of, you know, past manufactured economic crises.
	And the taxpayer has consistently been left holding the bag.
	And, you know, now we're reaching the end of the line.
	And essentially, to avoid pitchforks at their door, we're being ushered into a paradigm of central bank digital currencies and complete surveillance so that people, when they figure out how screwed they've been, won't be able to do anything about it.
	That's essentially where we are.
	So how long do we want to leave the mob in power, essentially?
	So, and these I'd be interested to see the connections between the World Economic Forum and these people.
	And Jamie Diamond's a member of the WEF.
	Oh, he's a member of World Economic Forum.
	Of course he is.
	Okay.
	So there you go.
	So is Dillene Maxwell's sister.
	And so there you go.
	So now they're setting up this digital currency.
	It's really happening.
	It's coming to America.
	They already have a pay website set up for the digital currency.
	It's like FedNow or something like that.
	Have you heard about that, Whitney?
	Yeah, FedNow launches in July.
	They claim it will make payments faster.
	And it has nothing to do with central bank digital currencies, even though the vast majority of every country in the world is developing some sort of type of central bank digital currency.
	And the central bankers around the world have essentially admitted, whether it's Augustine Carsons, head of the BIS, or someone like Christine Lagarde, essentially saying that it's about control.
	It's not about money.
	It's about ending financial anonymity, being able to surveil every transaction where every dollar goes and is spent and being able to control what people can and can't buy.
	And essentially, if you control the money to that extent, you can control what people can or can't do, where they can and can't go.
	I mean, you know, the possibilities for them are really endless.
	But do we really want to give up all of that freedom to people that engage in extensive criminal activity and have for a long time and can deceive the public?
	I mean, it's crazy.
	What were those two people's names you said who admitted that central bank, the digital currency was about control?
	Yeah, Augustine Carsons, who's head of the Bank of International Settlements.
	He's a Mexican banker.
	You can look him up.
	He's an interesting character in and of himself.
	And then Christine Lagarde, who, I can't remember what she was convicted for, but some sort of corruption thing.
	And I believe she's currently head of the European Central Bank or something like that.
	Really?
	Okay, we're doing a story coming up later about how they've admitted the head of some central bank said that if you spend more than $1,000 in cash, you're going to be, you know, that's a red flag and then you'll be arrested or fined.
	They don't want people spending cash.
	They want people using cash.
	But it's not just financial transactions.
	They want all your internet activity to be surveilled.
	So there's also this parallel push to link everything you do online to a government-issued ID.
	So Elon Musk, right at Twitter, has tried to start rolling this out via Twitter Blue.
	Use a government-issued ID and tie it to your Twitter account.
	But there's pushes from all over the place to link your social media account or really your internet activity in general to a government-issued ID so they know who's saying what.
	No more anonymous trolls or anonymous posting.
	They want to know what everyone's saying, and they also want to know what you're reading and watching as part of, you know, this whole preventing domestic terror strategy.
	But it's really not about that.
	It's about, you know, censorship at the end of the day and controlling what information people access.
	Yeah, but everybody who voted for Joe Biden is super on board for censorship.
	They think that's a good Christian thing to do, that that actually brings democracy and freedom.
	You know that, right?
	Yeah, I find that absolutely mind-boggling that people think that that will improve anything.
	Ultimately, if you're censoring stuff, you're trying to take it out of the public discussion because whatever information you're supplying can't handle debate, essentially.
	I mean, at least that's how I look at it.
	So people cheering on censorship.
	I mean, I just, I honestly don't understand it.
	And I don't really understand how they, you know, people that claim to be progressive that are promoting, you know, censorship and what, you know, is essentially like, you know, burning the library of Alexandria all over again.
	Yeah, taking, you know, stifling debate, taking important information out of circulation.
	I mean, it's crazy that anyone would sign off on that.
	Then you sound like a white supremacist.
	That's what you sound like to me.
	I'd have you investigate.
	That's right.
	Why don't you, why don't you care about hate?
	And because that's what that is.
	If you're for free speech, you're for hate crimes against the marginalized.
	It's a dog whistle is what it is.
	No, it's exactly what she's doing.
	She's whistling that dog whistle.
	Yeah, well, here's the thing, too.
	Like some people, like I wrote this article, right, about how Leslie Wexner's tied to organized crime.
	You know, I've had people talk about my Epstein research and call it anti-Semitic, right?
	Ah!
	Yeah.
	But ultimately, at the end of the day, it's anti-Semitic to conflate Jewish people with people like Leslie Wexner.
	Do you really think someone like Leslie Wexner is the same as everyone who's, I mean, that's actual anti-Semitism, isn't it?
	Or to say that, you know, reporting on the Mossad or organized crime or people like Mayor Lansky or the Jewish mob of the 30s conflating that with all Jewish people, that's actual anti-Semitism.
	So what a lot of these people do is they're trying to hide behind these terms to prevent criticism of power, ultimately.
	And if you're co-signing censorship under those metrics, I mean, you're ultimately protecting the powers that be at the end of the day, who are trying to insulate.
	100%, of course.
	Go ahead.
	Didn't know Italian Mafia had a whole campaign about there's no such thing as the mafia.
	It's racist against Italians.
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	Which is hilarious now, but in the 70s, that was a real thing.
	They were trying to do that.
	That's right.
	Because they took heat because of the Godfather movie.
	But most Italians I knew, they thought the Godfather was like Elvis.
	They embraced it.
	They weren't embarrassed.
	I grew up in Jersey, sure.
	I probably have met two Italians my whole life that did not want to in some way be associated with the mafia.
	They all want to.
	I did not want a hint like, I got an uncle.
	Yeah, come on.
	I'm connected.
	You better watch it.
	Whitney Webb, I really appreciate you coming on.
	Everybody should check out this article over at Unlimited Hangout, The Rise of Jamie Diamond, and all your stuff is fantastic.
	She's also the author of One Nation Under Blackmail about Jeffrey Epstein's case.
	Thanks for coming on.
	I appreciate it.
	Thank you very much.
	Thanks.
	My pleasure.
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	Joining us from the respective locations in Europe, our co-hosts Alexander McCorris and Alexander Christoforu.
	Please welcome to the show, Alexander and Alex.
	Good to see you again.
	Delighted to be here again.
	All right.
	Well, I wanted to go over the story because this is kind of a big deal.
	Danny Haifong tweets out, breaking 200 U.S. military trainees or trainers arrived in Taiwan today, 80% from the U.S. Army.
	This comes after the Wall Street Journal reported earlier this year that Biden would be sending 100 to 200 U.S. troops to Taiwan, quadrupling that amount at the time.
	So there it is.
	In February, the Wall Street, so we just told you that on Sunday, Up Media quoted military sources as saying the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command had dispatched more than 200 military trainers to Taiwan to assist local forces in training and propose improvements.
	Among more than 200 instructors are 80% from the U.S. military.
	Most are stationed at new training centers and reserve brigades in Taiwan's army.
	More than 160 of the instructors sent by the U.S. are non-commissioned officers with combat experience.
	In addition to being stationed in the main combat units of Taiwan's army, most of these instructors go to army recruiting centers and reserve brigades to check on basic training and propose improvised or improved training methods to enhance the overall combat effectiveness of Taiwan's army.
	So the U.S. can station troops in Taiwan and China should be allowed to station troops in Puerto Rico.
	That's only fair.
	That's what Danny says.
	By the way, them saying, can I just say, them saying they're only going to keep 200 troops in Taiwan?
	That's like your pal who plays the ponies, promises, I'm just going to $1,000, that's it.
	And then I go home.
	I'm just going to, that's what that, you know, there's going to be more, right?
	And so, by the way, this isn't far-fetched because it's the U.S.-Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882 drove Chinese immigration to Puerto Rico.
	I don't know if you know about that.
	And the U.S. isn't stationing troops in Taiwan.
	200 instructors have been invited to help Taiwan improve its military training system.
	So innocent.
	Sounds like they're just going to help them go over there and teach them how to play words and friends and shit like that, right?
	Sounds very nice.
	So a top U.S. official relayed to Tom Friedman that, so this, what this tells you is that Z told President Biden at their summit in Bali in November that he's willing to go to war over Taiwan.
	So don't push them with Taiwan.
	It's important.
	It's a big deal if it's a part of China.
	And the U.S. is still doing this.
	So the U.S. is still sending 200, they're still provoking this.
	This is the stuff that they said Trump was going to do.
	This is the stuff they said Trump was going to be a maniac about.
	He's going to saber rattle with a nuclear power.
	And he's doing it right now.
	Remember, it's the United States that gave a tax break to capitalists to send our manufacturing jobs to China because they could save more money and they own our government, meaning the capitalists do.
	So here is, here's, I argued here that Biden can't seek peace in Ukraine without anti-war organizing, both pressuring him and giving him room to do so.
	But this goes doubly so for China.
	And better to start that process now than to have to play catch up when we reach the brink.
	So, yeah, I mean, I would be anti-war, but, you know, I heard a couple of those anti-war people mentioned LaRouche.
	And I'd rather have a nuclear war than hang out.
	So, and here's, let me just show you this.
	This is Admiral Aquilino of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.
	So, just listen to this.
	When can we expect to see the first exercises between the U.S. Navy and Air Force and their Taiwanese counterparts?
	So, Congressman Thanks, I'd like to talk to you in a classified hearing about the schedule for our operations.
	I think that'd be most beneficial.
	Yeah, I can't tell you when exactly we're going to start World War III.
	That's a secret when we're going to start.
	It's super secret.
	Oh, here we go.
	When you, I guess, in an unclassified setting, when you wargame these scenarios, put aside the operational exercises, are you assuming some level of interoperability with Taiwanese forces?
	Did you hear what he said?
	Are you assuming some level of interoperability with Taiwanese forces?
	Does that mean we go and fight it and not say we're there fighting it?
	I think so.
	Okay.
	Absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	As you know, how war games work, right?
	You can pick the time.
	We can war game, what does today look like?
	What does two years from now?
	What was four years from now look like?
	So we look at all those in order to ensure that we got a broad view and we leave no holes in our understanding and analysis.
	When can we so the best part about that war game simulation is it's real?
	Let's bring in our guests, Alexander and Alex.
	What do you make of this U.S. saber-rattling?
	And they're just saying, as Michael Tracy points out, please note the assumed inevitability of the U.S. fighting a war against China.
	No debate is necessary.
	It's already been determined.
	And it's true.
	So let me just go ahead and bring in our guests.
	Take it wherever you want.
	Well, first of all, you're absolutely right.
	Everybody's talking about war with China now, almost as a given.
	There was an extraordinary meeting of the House Armed Services Committee.
	They were talking about this for three hours.
	They all seem to be now competing with each other.
	Who is going to be more tough with China?
	Who's going to be more tough with China over Taiwan?
	And of course, China, biggest country in the world, I think, still by population.
	Maybe India's just surpassed it.
	It's got an economy which manufacturing industry greater than that of the United States now.
	And it is a nuclear power.
	Do you really want to go to war with the nuclear power over Taiwan, which you officially recognize as being part of China?
	That's the most amazing part of this.
	The United States has, for at least the last 40, 50 years, acknowledged that the one China policy, meaning that Taiwan is not separate from China and that it actually is part of that sovereign nation.
	What does strategic ambiguity mean?
	Like we say that we're like, but I don't know.
	What does that mean?
	They're being ambiguous about it.
	I guess that's it.
	So they don't want to say, they don't want to tip their hands or something.
	So they're ambiguous.
	So go ahead.
	Take it away.
	Well, I mean, it's not actually about Taiwan.
	It's about the fact that China's economy is now becoming very powerful.
	China, as I said, has a bigger industrial capacity than the United States.
	That it's doing all kinds of deals with all kinds of countries.
	It's done a deal with Russia.
	It's doing deals with Brazil.
	It's becoming a major force in Africa.
	It's also competing successfully at many levels with the United States economically.
	So, of course, this is the new enemy.
	It has to be the new enemy.
	We can't accept the fact that China is economically strong and militarily and politically powerful.
	So we have to find a war against them.
	And, you know, going back to the one China policy that you just mentioned and strategic ambiguity and all of that, there was actually a meeting between Xi Jinping and Biden, which they were talking about this.
	It's a virtual meeting.
	And we actually have a readout from the Chinese about this.
	And it says quite straightforwardly, Xi Jinping said to Biden, look, you're goading me.
	What you say to me about the one China policy that you supported is contradicted by what your government is actually doing.
	In other words, Xi Jinping came as close as a leader can ever do in a diplomatic discussion to say to the president of the United States, you are lying.
	You are not actually supporting the one China policy.
	You are undermining it.
	Why are you undermining it?
	Well, because you want conflict.
	And the danger in all of this is that the Chinese are picking up on all of this.
	They're increasing their military spending.
	They're looking at ways to confront the United States.
	And undoubtedly, the war hawks, the hardliners in the U.S. are before very long, if not already, going to find reciprocal voices.
	In China, we say that the United States is coming for us.
	So we got to prepare.
	We've got to accept the inevitability of war with the United States.
	I think this is mad stuff.
	I think this is crazy.
	I think this is beyond dangerous.
	But that is where we are.
	So what exactly?
	So this does seem, even though I know all the wars are economic wars, What is the United States?
	We're not going to steal their natural resources.
	What is this war?
	How does this help American capitalism to ramp up and maybe possibly have a hot war with China?
	It's unipolarity, Jimmy, in my opinion.
	The U.S., the Biden White House, they're bogged down in Ukraine.
	They've created an existential crisis for themselves.
	by investing everything they have in this conflict with Ukraine to destroy Russia.
	But what they ended up doing is instead of isolating Russia and destroying Russia, they united the rest of the world outside of the West against them.
	And now they really have no other choice than to go after the countries that are uniting against them, that are moving out of the dollar system, that are moving out of the neoliberal system, the neoliberal architecture.
	They're creating bricks.
	They're creating alternative investment structures, different types of organizations like the Shanghai Cooperative.
	So they've boxed themselves in now.
	And the only way they can gain that unipolarity again and prevent a multipolar world is if they go after the two countries that are leading the way out of the unipolar system that the U.S. has been controlling for so many years.
	That's China and Russia.
	And they're giving it one go with one last go with Russia and Ukraine.
	You're going to get this big offensive and they're going to give it one big push to see what they can do there.
	And then they have to go after China.
	They have to, because China is getting too powerful and too strong.
	Before you know it, you're going to have a multipolar world.
	So I still, I understand that.
	Yeah, I get that, right?
	So that's very well said, but I still don't understand how a war with the, do they really think we're going to conquer China or something?
	Like, or put or put a big economic hurt on them because we're going to have to blow up their factory.
	I mean, what is what?
	I don't understand.
	I mean, if we start blowing up stuff in China, won't China start blowing up stuff in the United States?
	I think actually, if you were to take these people aside in Washington and ask them these very same questions, I think you might find that they have problems sometimes coming up with answers themselves.
	I mean, this is one of the problems with this is if you listen to the way these people talk, it's not very debated.
	It's not very thought through.
	And a lot of it is very visceral.
	The fact that, you know, they're becoming powerful, we're becoming less powerful.
	We've got to push back against them.
	China does compete with the United States.
	It gets raw materials.
	It gets oil from Saudi Arabia now.
	It's done all kinds of deals with the Saudis that they're going to get more of the oil from Saudi Arabia than and a lot of that oil would once have been going towards the U.S. You have the issues that Alex was just talking about, about the position of the dollar.
	And you want to preserve to the extent that you can your own currency system.
	So I think what if you had a discussion with these people in Washington, you really put them on the spot and asked them, what do you want?
	They would say, well, we don't want to conquer China.
	We understand that's too much.
	But what we do, what we want to do is to put the Chinese back in their box, put them in their place, degrade their economy.
	We're not going to let them get high, you know, they're not going to let them get semiconductors, the top end semiconductors.
	Make sure that China reverts to being what it was previously.
	Not an economic challenger, but an economic vassal, a place where we invest, we build our factories, but the profits come back to us.
	That seems so wildly untethered from reality.
	That seems crazy.
	They really think that's going to achieve those things militarily?
	Well, there was an article real quick.
	There was an article in the Wall Street Journal, which actually said that the EU is exploring ways to push back against China and the rise of China, but to do it in a way where they still kept the investment opportunities open.
	I mean, it's exactly what I was ever saying.
	They're trying to figure out a way to put them in their box, but to still benefit from everything China has to offer.
	I mean, what about them buying the United States debt?
	I mean, didn't they, I mean, I used to make a joke in my ad.
	Did they sell that?
	That we couldn't have done the Afghanistan war without China, given.
	So I used to say we're borrowing money.
	We're a bunch of capitalists, borrowing money from a bunch of communists so we could bring democracy to a bunch of Muslims who don't even want it.
	And don't we rely on China buying our debt?
	I mean, again, I'm a comedian, not an economist.
	What do you know about that?
	Well, the Chinese are buying less of our debt.
	And the reason they're buying less, well, not just your debt, but also our British debt too, because of course I live in Britain.
	They're buying less of this because, of course, they're becoming concerned that if there is a conflict, well, that debt won't be repaid and their assets will be frozen.
	So we're starting to see that dynamic starting to play out as well.
	And I suspect that the fact that the Chinese are buying less U.S. debt, that they're working out coming out of the U.S. system in a way, is actually intensifying this push because you can't really allow that.
	It's not really acceptable over the long term.
	Remember, buying debt, China buying debt is China investing in the U.S. Maybe not in the direct economy, not in the way perhaps that benefits Americans, American citizens.
	But America Inc.
	benefits from China buying U.S. debt in a way that, of course, means that China's money is going in, but it doesn't ever really come out.
	And so the fact that that's not happening anymore is a problem.
	How come, you know, like a year ago, whenever we first talked about bricks, that's when I first heard of it when you brought it up on here.
	And then I didn't hear anybody else talk about BRICS for the most part, other than YouTube channels here and there.
	And then now, just now, you know, Margo Rubio is like, we're not going to be able to sanction anymore.
	Did they not see that coming the whole time, or is it just now they're – Well, I saw this coming.
	I mean, I saw it when as soon as Saudi Arabia started selling oil in other denominations, that was really bad.
	And, you know, there's Putin and the leader of Saudi Arabia high-fiving at the G7.
	I mean, and they're freezing out the United.
	The United States tried to freeze them out.
	And now the exact opposite seems to be happening, or the beginning of that process is happening where countries like Saudi Arabia, China, Russia, South Africa, India, and Brazil now create this economic engine to oppose the United States' hegemony.
	And since we don't make anything here anymore, I bet it's going to be pretty effective.
	We may go.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	The countries that you just listed, Jimmy, I mean, think about it.
	Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, OPEC, OPEC Plus.
	All these countries now are freaked out.
	They all got freaked out by the craziness from the Biden White House kicking Russia out of Swift, freezing their assets.
	They all freaked out and they said, you know what?
	Today it's Russia, but tomorrow it's me.
	And so they started to band together.
	I'm sure.
	Very simple.
	I'm sure watching them fall up a flight of stairs didn't help.
	I really think that, well, it's not even what I thought.
	I mean, it's just an obvious observation.
	This is the beginning of the end of the American Empire.
	And I think we're past the beginning.
	I think we're firmly in at least the middle of the end of the American Empire.
	So right now, the United States economic dominance is crumbling, and it's crumbling because of what these people are doing.
	They don't know how to invest in other countries.
	They know how to blow them up, create civil wars, decapitate their leaders, and then steal their natural resources.
	Well, the world is done with it.
	Russia and China are bringing peace to the Middle East and Africa.
	And Russia and what we were warned about, you don't want to push Russia towards China because then they'll come together and they'll totally dominate us.
	Well, that's what's happening.
	And here's a funny video from 1997 where Joe Biden, look how cock he is.
	And this is, turns out, this actually happens.
	Our conversation with Zaganov was repeated with Lebanon.
	They talked about they don't want this NATO expansion.
	they know it's not in their security interest and on and on and said well and if you will And so what he says to them is.
	Do that, we may have to look to China.
	And I couldn't help using the colloquial expression for my state by saying to Zaganov, lots of luck in your senior year.
	You know, good luck.
	And if that doesn't work, try Iran.
	And I'm serious.
	I'm serious.
	We have BRICS.
	What an F- So that's him.
	That's Joe Biden telling Russia to go pound sand.
	You're going to go get money from China?
	Go ahead.
	Go try it.
	You're going to try to get economic development from China?
	Good luck.
	Well, that's what's happening right now.
	Iran, China, Russia said to amplify their presence in the Arabian Gulf.
	Will the U.S. rethink its Middle East strategy?
	And now there's a thing called BRICS, which is Britain, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
	Brazil is Brazil.
	Brazil.
	Yeah.
	And they're all in an economic alliance now to thwart us.
	Here we go.
	Here's China, Russia, Iran hold joint naval drills in the Gulf of Oman.
	So we've created a new world order without us.
	And that's what Joe Biden and the neocons have done.
	Top U.S. general says increased partnership between Iran, Russia, and China will make them problematic for years to come.
	Now, let's remember what dumb fucking Joe Biden was saying.
	Our conversation with Zaganov was repeated with Lebanon.
	They talked about they don't want this NATO expansion.
	They know it's not in their security interests and on and on and said, well, and if you do that, we may have to look to China.
	And I couldn't help using the colloquial expression for my state by saying to Zaganov, lots of luck in your senior year.
	You know, good luck.
	And if that doesn't work, try Iran.
	And I'm serious.
	I said that to them.
	And they know, I knew, they knew, everybody knows that that is not an option.
	And everybody knows, every one of those leaders acknowledges and needs and they resent it, but they need, they need to look west.
	That's over.
	That game is so.
	So they're still going on last year's playbook.
	And that's why they're getting their ass beat all over the globe right now.
	That's why they're getting their ass handed to them all over the globe right now.
	And also in Africa.
	So it's all over.
	U.S. hegemon is coming to an end.
	And we're ending the way they all empires end by overextending militarily instead of trying to create partnerships with people, economic partnerships.
	What we do is we try to blow up their countries.
	Why are we in Iran?
	Why are we in Syria right now?
	To steal their oil.
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