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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1107

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	Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
	Welcome to the podcast of the Loadseaters for Monday, the 24th of February, 2025. I'm joined by Stelius and Louis Brackpool, and we are going to be talking about the historic success of the AFD in Germany.
	And one thing, just very quickly, notice how it was like, see, you didn't win.
	It's like, yeah, but you thought they might.
	Is that the thing?
	You thought they were going to.
	Anyway, we're going to have a deep dive into Blackrock, and then the most important part is I'm going to teach you about the lost empire of Tartaria.
	So definitely stay tuned for that.
	Right, well, what happened in Germany, Stelius?
	Right, I suppose it'll start with a pay-in to German efficiency, because yesterday there were federal elections in Germany.
	Previous ones were in 2021. Yesterday, the Germans voted for the federal elections and they counted more than 50 million votes in eight hours.
	That's very good.
	And people are drawing the comparison between Germany and California.
	I don't know if the counting has officially stopped in California or not.
	You know, I'm not even sure it has.
	Really?
	I don't know.
	Let me see if I can find out.
	Wow.
	Yes, so people said that...
	They were counting for at least a month.
	My hunch is that it hasn't officially stopped, but whatever.
	So a pay-in to German efficiency.
	Well done, Germans.
	In December last year, California was still counting votes.
	I'll keep looking because I'm genuinely curious about this now that you've said it.
	So, I mean, this shows something.
	When they put their minds to something, they can do it.
	The thing is, I don't even know.
	It's not that there's anything remarkable about that.
	I mean, normally we get the election results the next day.
	Or, like, you know, four in the morning or something.
	It's not that unusual.
	It's actually just, you know, in America, there's something funny going on.
	One guy in an office just sitting there on his fingers.
	It's nice to poke them a bit.
	It is, yeah.
	Right, so here we have the federal election results, and we have the SPD party with...
	Sorry, I can't see because I have the camera in front of me, but it's okay.
	We have the SPD party that scored 16.4%, which means that they lost more than a third of their votes.
	Now, this party is the party that was the ruling one in the coalition up until yesterday, and they've lost more than a third of their votes.
	Now...
	The CDU and the CSU coalition, the union, is the party that came first.
	Together they have close to 28.6, somewhere there.
	And they are going to rule Germany for the next four years.
	I genuinely hate proportional representation.
	It's not that I can totally see the sense of it, but...
	Oh, great.
	So 28% of the votes are now going to rule the whole thing.
	That's worse than Keir Starmer.
	Yeah.
	You've got 33%.
	Is your mouse not working?
	Yeah, it's not working.
	Thank you very much.
	Right, so...
	It wasn't turned on, still yes.
	I'm still not on top forums, don't I? It's totally fine.
	Unironically, this is a genuine, I think, issue.
	Everyone's like, oh, well, you know, first past the post, is that really representative?
	Well, it's more representative than this.
	Well, they lost 9.3%.
	And I think that that was really well-deserved.
	That was one of the biggest issues from last night.
	When you govern a country and you constantly don't listen to your people...
	And you just make virtue signaling statements, yeah, you deserve to lose.
	Right, the CDU here had plus 3.6%, and along with the CSU, they had something like plus 4.5%.
	The Green Party here lost 3.1%, which is a dip, but they didn't get decimated.
	That was something that a lot of people expected, especially if they factored in how the Greens fared in the state elections.
	But still, it's something.
	The Watermelon Party still exists.
	And the AFD literally doubled its percentage from 10.4.
	Four years ago, they went to 20.8%.
	They literally doubled their percentage.
	East-East Germany.
	And here we have Die Linke that raised its percentage for 4%.
	So for those people not watching from a German-speaking country, what does Die Linke mean?
	The left.
	Yes.
	Interesting.
	It's just a communist party.
	But most of them are.
	I saw someone going like, oh, see, 80% of Germany voted against the AFD. So yeah, because 80% of Germany is communist.
	That was a really ridiculous framing by Giefer Hofstadt.
	Yeah, it was ridiculous.
	Yes, but I mean, you could play this again and say 84% voted no to Olaf Scholz.
	Good.
	I mean, correct.
	It's not a particularly interesting way of framing the debate, and we're used to it by Verhofstadt.
	Oh, yeah.
	Right, so let's move here.
	Friedrich Mertz is the winner of the elections, and Louis will have some things to say about him, because I think he was a previous employee for BlackRock.
	He was, indeed.
	Yeah, he was.
	Right?
	And he said that, essentially, Musk intervened in the German elections.
	Of course.
	And that he is...
	Musk intervened in the German election.
	What do you mean?
	He had an opinion.
	Yeah.
	And he said, essentially, that he is going to strive for European independence from the US. Now, we'll see what this means.
	Let's...
	Let's see.
	So, after the results were announced, Alice Vidal from AFD said that she started to form a coalition with the CDU and the CSU, and the CDU ruled out the coalition, and they are going to team up with the SPD. This is why you can't trust Conservatives.
	Every time they'll go, you know, I'm just going to go for the communists, actually.
	And it's just so weird.
	You know, because literally the left party is like, ah, the AFD are Nazis.
	There's no evidence that the AFD are Nazis.
	But also, the point is that if they form coalition governments between the SPD and the CDU, and every time one of them gets punished, but is a member of the next coalition government, because the other one wins.
	And forms a coalition with them, it means that the Germans will have perpetually a government that they are punishing.
	Because most probably what's going to happen here is that the CDU is going to opt for being the anti-AfD rather than being a genuine...
	And that's the dilemma that they have.
	Are they going to be the anti-AFD, just constantly virtue signaling that they are against the AFD? That's a massively crowded field, just like in this country.
	There are a plurality of left-wing parties and one party that's not communist.
	And everyone's like, well, we're all against that guy.
	It's like, okay, but you're competing with loads of other people who've got much stronger bona fides when it comes to not being right-wing.
	Like, the left, or whoever.
	So it's just like, what are you doing?
	Same thing as well in France with Le Pen.
	They all formed a coalition just against Le Pen.
	There's a weird pattern going on.
	This is good, though, because it kind of...
	It's kind of like Marx, actually, in the Communist Manifesto.
	It's like, all the great powers of Europe accept that communism is a power.
	It's like, all the great powers of Europe accept that the AFD are a power.
	You know, all of the great powers in Germany are like, no.
	It's like, yeah, we're coming.
	I think Alice Weidel says it correctly, where she says, if the CDU commits electoral fraud against its own voters by forming a coalition with the left...
	The next election will come sooner than you think.
	Then we will overtake the CDU as the strongest force.
	And I think that the CDU will do well to listen to this, even if it comes from an opponent of theirs, because their dilemma is whether they're going to become the next SPD by just constantly virtue signaling that they are the anti-AFD, or whether they're going to govern as an actual center-right party.
	And lately, we have been used to seeing parties that call themselves center-right and conservative to actually governing something like Social Democrats or something.
	So I think that this is going to happen.
	The next elections, the AFD is going to have an even greater, even greater...
	Percentage.
	Like every Conservative party that has ever been, they will just side with the Communists.
	And the AFD was, in a sense, the issue of the election.
	And you see this from Schultz commenting on his loss, that the AFD won around 20% of the votes and he will never accept that a far-right party like the AFD achieves such a result.
	So is it election denial?
	Yeah, yeah.
	What is he saying?
	Banned off YouTube immediately.
	Right.
	So...
	The issue with the SPD is, though, that they had zero message.
	The only message was, we don't want the AFD. That was their only message.
	And that's why the electoral defeat that they sustained was one of the worst in more than a century.
	They say that, for instance, the SPD scored around 16.4%, and this is the worst result since the 1887 election.
	Wow.
	Good.
	This is entirely well deserved.
	And I think we should go and look at some trends because it's really interesting.
	Insane map.
	Really interesting.
	And I think that here is where we're going to have a laugh and also we're going to make some good points.
	So you see here the state map of Germany in 2021 and the state map of Germany in 2025. And what you see is that in...
	So just for anyone watching, does anyone want to guess where the Berlin Wall was?
	In Berlin?
	Look at the Soviet area versus the liberal area.
	It's crazy, isn't it?
	So you see here the SPD and the Die Linke was really dominant in eastern Germany four years ago.
	Now the AFD is entirely dominant except for two small areas here.
	One of them in Berlin, where Die Linke came first.
	Of course.
	Metropolitan cities.
	Yeah, of course.
	So I saw that Thierry Bardot had a really great take on this.
	He was like, look, basically for the last 80 years, or 90 years, Germany has been subjected to two forms of Marxism, either economic Marxism or cultural Marxism.
	And the cultural Marxist side is voting for the Conservatives, and the economic Marxism side is voting for the AfD.
	And it's really interesting that almost no one voted for the SPD. If you just see the electoral map here, they are nothing like they were four years ago.
	And this should also serve as a warning for the CDE and the CSU, the union, because they could easily turn into the SPD of 2021. It's just...
	If they're going to persist down the road of just calling themselves anti-AFD, no matter what.
	If the AFD goes out and says 2 plus 2 equals 4, if they go out and say no is 5, they're going to have the same fate.
	Right, so the stronghold of the AFD was Saxony.
	They won around 52%.
	It's more than double of what the CDU won.
	So that's interesting.
	Here we have the biggest winner of the 1821 year block.
	It was De Linke.
	I just want a party called the right now.
	Yeah.
	No, we're the right.
	Yeah, we're the scary right wingers.
	Now what?
	Right.
	In the 1824 years old age gap, De Linke scored three times more than its national average.
	And this means that the...
	Young Germans, the Germans between 18 and 24, preferred Die Linke by 27%, AFD by 21%.
	That implies a level of agency I don't think would have been granted.
	Yes.
	No, no, so let me explain my thesis.
	I bet that education in Germany is basically communist.
	It's going to be entirely and completely and consistently radically left-wing.
	There's not going to be anything that even approaches right-wing education in Germany.
	Oh, look, more than a quarter of the kids are radical communists and they're going to vote for the Communist Party.
	Yes, because you've educated them this way.
	That's why.
	It's just insane.
	Yes, this generally happens.
	We generally have young people who are more leftists, but also we have 21% who voted for the AFD, and you see that they weren't particularly interested in the messages of the other parties.
	Right, here we have a very interesting comparison.
	If you compare the 18, 24-year-olds and the 70-plus Germans, you see they have almost the exact opposite.
	Almost the exact opposite.
	You know why, though.
	The CDU are going to be like, your pensions.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, that's it.
	And you see here, 43% voted for the CDU-CSU union.
	24% voted for the SPD. And they weren't that interested in other parties either.
	Still stuck in that.
	Oh yeah.
	Paradigm.
	20th century paradigm.
	Yeah, deary me.
	Here I have something that is going to make you very sad and very mad.
	Young women in, I think...
	Oh, what a surprise.
	Young women who are single in cities.
	No kidding.
	Okay.
	The sex in the city voter block.
	Because we're the left, like, we're going to guarantee your right to abortion.
	And the old rural men, they had the exact opposite.
	Who are union?
	Preferences.
	No, the CDU and the CSU. They're an interesting union because the CSU is only operative in Bavaria.
	Right, right.
	Whereas the CDU is operative in...
	All 15 states.
	Here we see young women in cities, they voted 34% for Die Linke and 22% for Greens.
	And old men in rural areas voted for 3% for Die Linke and 8% Green.
	And they voted overwhelmingly for the CDU, CSU Union.
	The workers voted for the AFD. People who pay taxes voted for the AFD. That's interesting.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's almost double than the other party.
	Almost double than the union.
	And it's triple the percentage that voted for the SPD. Nine times plus what voted for the AFD. So blatant, isn't it?
	Almost eight times what they voted for the Greens.
	It's very, very blatant.
	As if working actually gives you a perspective.
	Yes.
	Well, it's my taxes.
	Yeah.
	I think it's my bloody taxes.
	Yeah.
	Right.
	And here we have, we have Raoul Schollhammer, friend of the show.
	Yep.
	Who wasn't particularly happy yesterday for the result and said that, ironically, every vote for Mertz was a vote for more of the same.
	Right, and I'll end with this link before I give you a short commentary about what happened, what I think happened.
	Here, let me just say.
	Mertz says here, I want to do politics so that a party like the AFD is no longer needed in Germany.
	He told the Congress of his conservatives in January, blaming the Social Democrat Scholz and his Green partners for creating the conditions that nurtured the AFD. Which is totally fair, but it's your failure and it's been a long time coming, so...
	Well, we need to say several things here because they're going to...
	Determine what's going to happen in the next four years in Germany when it comes to these issues.
	First of all, Mertz, a few weeks ago, gave forward a proposal at the Bundestag for tightening immigration, and it passed with the votes of the AFD. There was an uproar.
	Against them.
	And they said that, you know, you teamed up with the AFD. And even Angela Merkel, who was the previous CDU leader and the Chancellor of Germany, she said this was unacceptable.
	And they made ritualistic displays of we are not the AFD. And they ended up voting against it.
	So if at the end of the day they carry as they have carried so far, They're just going to be indistinguishable from the SPD. They are going to form a coalition with the SPD. So what I think is going to happen is they have a dilemma.
	If they're going to be the anti-AFD no matter what, they're going to be indistinguishable from the SPD. And four years afterwards, they're going to have the same fate.
	Honestly, it's going to be the same as Conservatives and Labour in this country.
	How are they different?
	You wouldn't be able to turn apart in the line-up.
	I was going to say...
	Question, why doesn't reform sort of align or associate?
	I've never seen any form of association with European right-wing parties such as AFD, Le Pen.
	I've not seen it at all.
	Why is that?
	I dread to think.
	Yeah, and nothing to say there.
	Well, the Greens weren't decimated, which wasn't expected.
	It may mean that in West Germany their stronghold is much stronger.
	West Germany is the problem.
	I'm not even joking.
	Right, so the Die Linke party shows...
	I'm telling you it's the problem.
	The West German attitude towards sex is way too liberal.
	The performance of Die Linke shows that young people and especially single women in cities are frequently...
	Lots of indoctrination and manipulation by the left.
	And it seems to be working.
	Now, the SPD, they fail to govern, yet somehow they are saved.
	And if this continues, and in the next election, the SPD wins, and the CDU receives all the, let's say, resentment of the voters, but they end up in a coalition government, then it means that that's really...
	You understand what this means.
	Why don't the AFD just carry on the upward trajectory?
	And now I want to say about the AFD, I think that they had a spectacular success yesterday.
	They doubled their percentage.
	A lot of people trying to say, well, they're led by a lesbian.
	It's not going to be...
	That's why they lost.
	I think this means that they have zero realism.
	That's your criticism.
	Exactly that's the thing we're talking about, is it?
	I think they have zero realism and the way to go for...
	My word is to keep doing what they're doing while being cautious.
	If they end up playing, you know, Twitter-based Olympics, they're going to lose.
	Through the AFD? Yeah.
	That's what I think.
	That's what I think.
	Maybe.
	But it was a spectacular success for them.
	The thing is, people are essentially saying, I'd like the status quo, please.
	Not that status quo, I'd like this status quo.
	But nothing fundamentally is going to change.
	And so all of the things that happen under the SDP are going to happen under the CDU, and you've just got another four years of the same.
	The pension status quo.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Enjoy.
	Anyway, Bald Eagle says, European independence from the US.
	So the US is leaving NATO and leaving the EU to deal with Russia on their own.
	Shouldn't be an issue then, yet the recent screeching from the EU says otherwise.
	Yes, but you've got to understand it's about their values.
	I think that's probably true.
	Yeah, and the same with the conservatives in this country, like...
	They know that they're fighting for the same constituency as Reform, and Varavs can always outflank them.
	Bald Eagle says, someone should take a poll in East Germany to see if they regret reunification at this point.
	That's good thinking.
	Anyway, let's move on.
	So, what's BlackRock do?
	So, this segment I wanted to dedicate to looking in a bit more in-depth on BlackRock and their spending.
	This comes off the back of a...
	FOI request that I put in very recently, back in January, to ask why did Keir Starmer and Larry Fink from BlackRock meet?
	What was it they discussed?
	And I wanted to really leave this towards the end.
	I've got the link double, but we'll get to this.
	But firstly, what is BlackRock?
	Obviously, we hear about them quite a lot.
	They're a massive topic or massive organization that's the...
	Forefront of most topics in the online community.
	But what exactly are they?
	As I understand it, they're an asset management firm.
	Yes.
	And they're responsible for managing investments on behalf of individuals, institutions and governments.
	To which they have substantial amount.
	$11.6 trillion.
	This was...
	Very recently, a month ago.
	So they're a pretty big deal when it comes to money and everything like that.
	It's overlooked by a man named Larry Fink, who's the chairman and executive officer where he and seven partners founded the company back in 1988. So what have they invested in?
	We can't go through every single one.
	Obviously, we'll be here all day.
	So I've split this into different segments just to understand some of the stuff that they do.
	First one is all about ESG, so Environmental Social Governance.
	And for those who don't know what that is, it's a kind of framework used to evaluate a company's ethical impact or sustainability within their company.
	Environmental, focusing on the impact of nature and carbon emissions.
	Are you net zero?
	Are you net zero, exactly.
	Social.
	Are you woke?
	Are you woke?
	And governance, which is, are you sticking to that regulation, essentially.
	And this article, published back in 2018, titled Does Wall Street Finally Care About Sustainability?
	features a letter by Larry Fink.
	To which he says, if I go down, should be there.
	Well, it's definitely in there.
	But it says, quote, society is demanding that companies, both private and public, serve a social purpose.
	To prosper over time, every company must not only deliver financial performance, but also show how it makes a positive contribution to society.
	Doesn't sound...
	Sinister at all, really.
	But it is.
	I was going to say, why is he the guy who gets to the side?
	Well, he's the guy with all the money.
	Exactly.
	But there is a white pill to this because they have been receiving a lot of pushback where the big companies such as BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street and others have been sued by Texas and 10 other...
	Republican-led states, to which it said the large asset managers violated antitrust laws through climate activism and reduced coal production and boosted energy prices.
	So they were sued by a state and 10 others, which is pretty good.
	I'm sure they can take it, though.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	This is a French article, but it translates to basically...
	It's hilarious how these green extremists seem to think that BlackRock is on their side.
	So they're like, yes, just because they invest in the stuff that we believe in, they must be on side.
	But they recently accused BlackRock of, quote, greenwashing.
	It's a bit awkward.
	Can't believe the predatory capitalists.
	Being honest.
	Yeah.
	You would have known Greens, eh?
	Yeah.
	It says an environmental organisation called Client Earth filed a complaint against BlackRock accusing the firm of misleading investors by labelling certain funds as sustainable while maintaining significant investments in fossil fuel companies like Shell.
	Interesting.
	They have ties as well to the Federal Reserve.
	Ron Paul's favourite.
	It's all good.
	Try now.
	Try now.
	There we go.
	Oh, we've skipped ahead a little bit, but that's okay.
	Just looking for the ties to the Federal Reserve one.
	Perfect.
	But they have ties to the Federal Reserve.
	So during the pandemic in 2020...
	Sam's improving himself to be a robot there.
	So during the 2020 pandemic, the Federal Reserve enlisted BlackRock to manage several emergency lending programs aimed at stabilizing financial markets.
	So had a massive hand in the pandemic and, of course, controlling the markets then, because obviously they can.
	But there are also other investments as well, which are a bit dodgy.
	So I'm dedicating an entire segment about investment in war and weapons, where...
	BlackRock has shares in Grade D for weapon investments, noting that 3.18% of its assets under management are invested in military contractors, including those in nuclear and controversial weapons.
	So not only are they into environmentalism, apparently, and fossil fuels, but also nuclear weapons.
	What are controversial weapons?
	I don't want to derail the segment.
	No.
	It's just...
	I would have thought white phosphorus, depleted uranium, cluster munitions, landmines.
	Yeah.
	So pretty big stuff.
	Controversial stuff.
	Glad they're the guys overseeing the ethical conduct of companies.
	We're saving the planet, but also we've got white phosphorus under our belt.
	I need it, I guess.
	Indeed.
	Big investment in Lockheed Martin.
	Which is one of the biggest.
	In July 2024, BlackRock owned approximately 18.5 million shares of Lockheed Martin, representing 7.79% of the company's total shares outstanding.
	So they're a significant stakeholder in that.
	Other ones, there's obviously a list of the top holdings.
	That's from BlackRock themselves.
	General Electric, Raytheon, Lockheed, Axion.
	All the big ones.
	So that's definitely worth keeping on record and having a little look.
	There's also Ukraine.
	They have a collaboration with Ukraine, where BlackRock had been instrumental in assisting the Ukrainian government.
	In May 2023, Ukraine's Ministry of Economy signed an agreement with BlackRock's Financial Market Advisory to provide support services for the Ukraine Development Fund.
	The primary objective of this fund is to attract both public and private capital to finance large-scale business projects, essential for Ukraine's economic recovery.
	So they're the ones that are going to rebuild Ukraine.
	So they're going to turn Ukraine into an economic colony of the West.
	Yes.
	Essentially.
	I'm sure they'll enjoy their McDonald's.
	Here's where things get a bit...
	Oh, we're going a bit too far.
	There's another one on China here to do with the CCP. Here we go.
	That's the one.
	But without controversy as well...
	A committee was held in 2023 on BlackRock's involvement with China or the Chinese Communist Party and found that BlackRock had channeled 1.9 billion into blacklisted entities, including companies that are accused of violating human rights and aiding the People's Liberation Army.
	Amazing that's allowed.
	Yeah.
	And, yeah, it's all here.
	Which is...
	Pretty insane.
	So reading that, I was kind of like, wow.
	That's on their own website as well.
	That's on their press releases, on their own bloody website.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Yeah, so that's pretty, pretty bad.
	Mental.
	Yeah.
	So they have their hand on a lot.
	Next we have our favourite philanthropist.
	Ah yes, Mr. Gates.
	Mr. Gates, which is a big topic.
	Who brought Valeria back to Florida.
	Indeed.
	He has collaborated.
	I'm joking.
	I didn't know that, actually.
	They released a form of mosquito.
	Oh, is that the...
	Yeah, I think I did read about that.
	The mosquitoes, they're meant to be sterilised or something, so they breed with them and they don't produce fertile offspring.
	But what it also did is just brought malaria back to Florida, I think it was.
	Who thought that was a good idea?
	Well, Bill Gates.
	Indeed.
	He has collaborated with BlackRock on initiatives such as climate change, but he's also been very involved with AI and investment in global AI infrastructure.
	Can't wait to get a hold of Bill Gates' AI. Indeed, and the facial recognition and everything all ties in.
	Another one, CBDC. BlackRock is very much involved with that too.
	So what's CBDC? It's a central bank digital currency, so going cashless.
	And programmable currencies.
	What could possibly go wrong?
	Indeed.
	I should have included the article actually.
	The Telegraph wrote a report about ministers talking about programmable currencies and how you can choose what someone can spend their money on.
	Which is not sinister at all.
	I mean, it literally will be able to be that this money is only for these products.
	What's the point in even having the money?
	All the quote-unquote conspiracy theories and all the topics all shadow around this particular investment company as well.
	Yes, BlackRock has shown a strategic interest in digital currencies and blockchain technology.
	Though it's not directly invested, Larry Fink has expressed support for the development of a US digital currency utilising blockchain and predicting its adoption in the near future.
	So that was April last year.
	It really is going to be...
	Sorry, you're not allowed to buy this thing because you tweeted the wrong thing.
	You're on a list.
	You're on a non-crime hate list.
	Prevent will come around.
	It's not even that prevent will come around.
	It's because you won't be able to buy a train ticket to this one.
	Just like the Chinese.
	It's going to be debunked.
	No, no.
	They won't even do that.
	They will just...
	No, you've got loads of money on your account.
	You just can't spend it.
	Why do you want to spend it?
	You're going to have people asking, why do you want to spend it?
	Do you really need it?
	No, no, it'll just be denied.
	You won't be allowed to buy that ticket to go to this place.
	That's what they're going to end up doing.
	Just like the Chinese.
	Super, super sinister.
	Another interesting topic, geoengineering.
	I don't know if you guys know much about this.
	I've covered this a little bit as well.
	The UAE and Bahrain and places like that, they use this all the time because they live in deserts.
	Getting water out of the air is a good thing.
	Indeed.
	They've invested in something called direct air capture or technology, which is very new to me.
	The air has been captured.
	I know about stratospheric aerosol injection, and that's obviously cloud seeding and putting sulfates up into the atmosphere, but DAC, it's called, or Direct Air Capture, is a joint venture with petroleum, or Occidental Petroleum, to aim to remove 500,000 tonnes of CO2 annually from the atmosphere.
	Yeah.
	Isn't CO2 what the plants use to breathe?
	Yeah.
	It's a main component of life on Earth.
	I'm not a scientist or anything, but I remember my GCSE science.
	And they've pledged $550 million to develop this.
	And that's going to cool the planet, isn't it?
	Yeah, apparently so.
	Because Al Gore is still shadowing over people's minds.
	The thing is, it's winter here in the Northern Hemisphere, and I'm not sure I want it.
	I want a bit of global warming.
	I'm not terribly against it.
	Moving on.
	Diversity, equity and inclusion, as we know.
	They have firm regularly reviews job postings for biased language, ensuring that diverse candidate slates and employees are given competency-based approach to interviewing and various others.
	So they're very much big on the DEI. Although, there is good news because the partnerships have actually gone down.
	Oh, really?
	Which is really great.
	And this was the 20th of February, so I think this is to do with Trump.
	It must be.
	Interest or investor interest in diversity-focused funds has waned with global withdrawals of nearly $380 million in the past year.
	And the trend reflects the shifting regional attitudes towards DEI investments, particularly in the US. So I believe that is because of Trump.
	It must be.
	And there's other topics such as agriculture.
	This has been shared about.
	This is an old one from 2007, where in 2007, BlackRock announced plans to launch a £100 million hedge fund aimed at acquiring farmland across the UK, intending to capitalise on rising food prices.
	This is what makes Keir Starmer meeting with Larry Fink all the more sinister.
	He meets with Larry Fink, suddenly there's inheritance tax on the farmland, suddenly people are going to have to sell their farms.
	No, I agree.
	So...
	In 2013, BlackRock shifted its strategy and began divesting from UK agricultural assets, and this is a particular one in 2012, where the firm sold a 992-acre farm in Lincolnshire for a price significantly above the listed value.
	However...
	Who?
	Right, it doesn't say.
	I don't think it says.
	According to Stratton Parker, the broker that's handling the sale, asking a price.
	Martin Robertson's chairman of Brooks MacDonald Funds, which manages £300 million and owns three smaller farms.
	Interesting.
	But, whilst that is the case, there's even the Morning Star talking about BlackRock.
	Anyone that's not aware that's a communist paper.
	Yeah.
	I didn't know that.
	I thought that they were mainstream.
	They're communists.
	Oh, they're massively communists.
	Oh, yeah, 100%.
	Interesting.
	It says they're for peace and socialism.
	Claudia Webb.
	I recognise that name.
	Yeah, yeah.
	She's the Labour MP. Yes.
	She's insane.
	Is she the one who threatened to ask her?
	Yes.
	We'll take this one with a pinch of salt, then.
	To be fair, this is probably one of the few things she's going to actually be good on, which is, I hate international...
	Well, there's a potential interest in BlackRock re-entering the UK farmland market.
	So that's very interesting.
	The communists are actually talking about that as well.
	Interesting.
	So, my point is as well, when we see this tweet that came out, I think we all jumped on this and said, hang on a minute, this is a very bad idea.
	I think I'm the first reply, or I was one of the first replies.
	You can see everyone in there just like, oh god.
	Just look at the state of it.
	So when we see stuff like that, and Keir Starmer openly saying that he wants to deliver growth, create wealth, and put more money in people's pockets, and then says BlackRock is the ones to do it, we're all going, we're definitely being sold out.
	But the problem is with this meeting is they didn't disclose exactly what they were talking about.
	So I put in a request to try and figure out What was it that they were talking about?
	And all they gave me, unfortunately, was the basic outline of the agenda to which Starmer wasn't even present to the first 25 minutes of.
	They have 25 minutes of informal discussion, 5 minutes of opening remarks, 25-minute roundtable with Starmer and Fink, and then 5-minute closing remarks.
	They refuse to disclose this.
	Citing Section 351A of the Freedom of Information Act, which is policy formulation, claiming that disclosure would harm policy discussions.
	Well, I mean, it probably would.
	People would know what their plan was and not be happy with it.
	And commercial interests, arguing that it could harm BlackRock's business interests.
	The most successful management...
	So basically, I mean, the thing is, what you can read between the lines is, okay, well look, this will harm the government because we're going to be selling a bunch of UK assets.
	BlackRock.
	And if we tell you BlackRock might not buy them, which will harm their business interests.
	So, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Thanks.
	And it raises, yeah, serious questions.
	What exactly was discussed?
	We need to protect our transparency.
	Yeah, indeed.
	But I've filed an internal review into this particular request to try and figure out...
	If we can push for at least an idea of agendas and what they were discussing, but I have to wait another 20 days, or 20 working days, unfortunately.
	But, yes, that's it.
	Very blackpilling, so sorry about that.
	That's okay.
	It's Monday.
	I need to get bent.
	Anyway, Dograth says, The blindness is becoming tedious.
	The AFD will never be in the coalition.
	Unless they get an absolute majority, they might as well not exist.
	The German people have just committed national suicide.
	And OPHUK says, Part of your retirement dollar is probably being managed by BlackRock.
	Yeah, 100%.
	Saving your mortgage, you're saving your mutual funds, you can change it if you want.
	Just talk to your banker, insurer, etc.
	Interesting.
	Anyway, so...
	Let's move on to something a little bit more fun and discover something new.
	So gather around, children.
	I'm going to tell you a nice story of the Lost Empire of Tartaria.
	It reminds me of Tartar sauce.
	There's a good reason for that.
	And I'll explain it in a minute.
	So this is something that, as you can see, a bit of TikTok education has brought to us.
	So it is...
	Enlightening the Zuma masses with the true history of the Empire of Tata.
	So we're going to watch a few TikToks.
	Let's watch this one first.
	I don't know why we have any sound.
	Right.
	Let's see where they go.
	Right.
	So, someone, some zoomers.
	What was that?
	Some zoomers have found old maps and found the word Tartaria on the map.
	Now, that is a word.
	For some reason, I actually now have to sign up that to be able to show you.
	So, that is a word because it's the word that we used to use to describe the vast and uncharted reaches of Asia.
	Tatars.
	Tatars is a word that historically was just used to describe Turkic tribes.
	And there were all sorts of Turkic tribes that came out of the East Asian steppe and were a scourge on humanity for thousands of years, until gunpowder, actually, basically.
	Is that the Canate of Sibir?
	That time, mid-17s, there in Siberia.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	But the thing is, there are very few cities in this area, right?
	So what this is, is large bodies of tribes on horseback, all moving around these vast open grasslands and fighting with one another, and sometimes combining and invading the civilized world.
	And so this has been a story as odd as time.
	You can go back to like, you know, the Scythians, Attila the Hun, the Mongols through the Middle Ages, all the way down to the Ottomans, the Turks.
	Like, this is where they all come from.
	And it's such a vast and historically uncharted area.
	It was just called Tartary in the sort of late Middle Ages.
	It was understood to be that's where very, very bad people came from.
	And the Zoomers don't understand this.
	And so what they have decided is that actually we're living in the ruins of a previous civilization.
	And Tartaria, because it's no longer on the maps now, this great empire was wiped out by some unexplained but very powerful forces.
	And for some reason we are just living in the ruins of these.
	Let's watch this one.
	A.I. Joe Rogan.
	This civilization was far more advanced than us but in a different way.
	They had harnessed the ability to use atmospheric energy.
	They incorporated it into all of their buildings and were able to create free energy for everyone at all times.
	They had also harnessed the power of frequencies and were able to build grand architecture by manipulating substances and moving huge rocks through vibration.
	Hence the great pyramids and many other unexplainable architectural anomalies that were created in the past.
	The free energy was a threat to the massive oil industry and all the profits they were able to generate from the scarcity of oil.
	So the owners of this industry, who were extremely powerful, created a plan to take out this civilization and wipe them from history so nobody would ever know about free energy.
	Something Joe Rogan would speak about as well.
	It is.
	They definitely chose the right guy.
	How many views of this one?
	Not that many views.
	But this is a genre of video on TikTok.
	It's Tartare.
	I mean, one might ask, well, if there's free energy everywhere, how did the oil industry become powerful?
	Why would I need energy from oil if it's just freely being given to me out of the atmosphere, right?
	There are lots of unresolved questions that we will never get answers to.
	To create interests.
	Yeah, but how would this happen?
	If I was like, look, Stelius, I realize that you can breathe, but I'm going to create an air manufacturing company, and now I've become a powerful engineer.
	How would that happen?
	Because you're not selling me oxygen now.
	No one does.
	So anyway, the Tartarians are responsible for basically everything amazing, right?
	Right.
	Such as the Great Wall of China.
	There is a theory that says the Great Wall of China...
	Wasn't actually built by China, but by the Tartaria Empire.
	This might sound crazy, but if you look at old maps and photos, you would see that the steep side of the Great Wall, as well as the lookout post, are actually facing China.
	Normally this is done to prevent any enemy from climbing up or picking off enemies with crossbows.
	So, is history covering up something?
	And, with all that said, is it possible that...
	I've got nothing.
	I mean, that's obviously true.
	So everything magnificent was actually built by the Tartarians.
	About 200 years ago.
	Yeah, and the Bulgarians.
	The thing is, in a way, that's kind of true.
	So the sort of Turkic people who migrated to Europe in the 8th century or something.
	So, yeah, everything great was built by the Tartarians.
	They had, like, a giant empire, which included America, actually.
	And for some reason, a couple of hundred years ago, they disappeared.
	And so they...
	The Rockefellers?
	I don't know.
	It's unclear.
	The oil barons, right?
	Right.
	They decided to destroy all the bells.
	Ah, yes.
	I've heard about these bells.
	That they've been taken out of lots of different...
	Even in England, apparently.
	Because their vibrations emit healing.
	Right, yeah, no, you've got it.
	The Tartarian Empire.
	So it was them that was the archetype of this.
	Apparently.
	For some reason, they just destroyed all the bells.
	And, yeah, you're exactly right.
	Obviously, they have a healing frequency.
	So you ring a bell and it heals you in some spirit science way.
	And of course, you look and go, okay, that's obviously true.
	How did I not know that?
	Why isn't this in my history books?
	And this is the general thesis.
	I've heard this before.
	Certain frequencies.
	Yes.
	The frequency of grief.
	Yes, the grief wave.
	Yes, no, I know.
	I mean, this is from the account Tartarian Healer.
	Like I said, this is an entire genre on...
	This is an entire genre on TikTok of people who believe very sensible things.
	And they have, like, again, you can see the hashtag Tartaria, giant bells, Tartarian technology.
	This is sacred geometry as well, because we're going to throw together everything for this.
	Why not, right?
	It's like a blend of Hinduism and lots of other...
	It's basically the new version of spirit science.
	This one's particularly good, actually.
	So let us watch this.
	As you can see, the water flows around.
	Is this in India, by any chance?
	Nope.
	I don't think it is.
	Water flows one way and then the other way.
	Chakras.
	Yes, that's Hinduism.
	At the end of the day, you can't prove her wrong, can you?
	So this is obviously true.
	I wish it didn't have an autoplay thing.
	There's going to be more chakra nonsense.
	But as you can see, the water flows around this thing and it flows the other way because it's literally a pipe that goes around.
	Water that flows.
	Exactly.
	You can't explain that.
	You can't explain things like this.
	Like, for example, like I said...
	Sorry, I'll just...
	There's this strange trend.
	It grates on me so much where people react and just go...
	Yeah.
	...and point.
	But that's it.
	Nothing.
	But this guy has a point, I think, in the fact that, as you can see, on old churches, they've got the antenna for the free electricity, right, that the universe provides.
	This antenna at the top has a wire following it all the way down the building.
	All the way down.
	Oh, the Wi-Fi.
	Presumably.
	No?
	It says throw it into the ground.
	...is harnessing the ether.
	The ether is the element that fills all space with infinite free energy.
	All of the energy this is producing is being grounded and sent straight into the ground.
	All of these buildings, from the 17th to 18th century, have these antennas, spikes, on the top of them.
	Because they are all doing the exact same thing.
	It was a completely different world.
	They've got rid of this technology.
	It's now that capitalising, making you a slave to work to pay the bills.
	Yes, yes.
	Here's another one.
	Antenna being grounded again on another building.
	We need to wake up and realize that there's free energy.
	Yes, these are lightning rods.
	You need to wake up.
	This is to prevent damage to the churches.
	But I like his...
	He's like, yeah, 200 years ago...
	They have free energy.
	There is lots of documentation of what England and the rest of the world was like 200 years ago.
	This is actually not a giant secret.
	It's actually very well attested.
	They're just powering the kettle out back.
	Free energy harnessed by the man.
	Cups of teas after the service.
	And then for some reason, around the turn of the 20th century, the oil barons somehow took away all of our free energy.
	And now we are living in the ruins of Tartaria.
	We're all Tartars now.
	Kind of, yeah.
	A new consensus.
	These people, I think, are onto something because they're looking at the world around us and being like, wow, this is crap.
	I look around and it's like, wow, this is gross and crap and ugly.
	I understand.
	Yeah, exactly.
	You understand, right?
	And so they're like, hang on, how did mankind ever build such beautiful buildings in Wisconsin?
	They're like hieroglyphs.
	The fall of Tartaria was actually really recent.
	...every little part of everything, so much symbolism.
	I'm just wondering why did they dedicate this type of building to a small town in Wisconsin?
	We don't build anything like that anymore.
	That's the point, right?
	Seems like a pre-existing structure.
	There used to be more buildings in this style of Greco revival, but they tore them down.
	It was actually right down this road.
	Now it's an empty parking lot.
	There's a lot of nice buildings because it's right by a river.
	And that was the form of travel that was most prevalent in these days.
	But it's just like so much symbolism, so much detail.
	So the point being, this was created and left by the Tartarians in Wisconsin.
	As evidence that they had a beautiful civilization.
	Not the Stonemasons.
	Not the Stonemasons, no, the Tartarians.
	I imagine that the Masons were the people who overthrew the Tartarians.
	I don't know, it's not clear.
	But the point being, you can see that they're looking around going, wow, our civilization now is crap.
	We don't build anything beautiful.
	Everything used to be amazing.
	And this is where they are.
	It's really interesting, though, because there are several angles, because they seem to me to be unable to comprehend the idea of civilizational decline.
	It's like we couldn't be building something good in the past.
	Another civilization must have it.
	So it's, you know, Mu.
	The cosmic forces of Mu, it's an old version.
	Let me show you this one.
	See this?
	This carved stone?
	Built in 1890. I mean, we can't carve stone.
	That's in Chicago, you know.
	They did not create this in 1890s with chittles.
	Why not?
	Why not?
	Different civilization.
	It's still coming.
	Different work ethic.
	And then, so, in London, London's full of Tartarian buildings.
	Oh, interesting.
	You can tell because they're nice, right?
	The Tartarian buildings are nice, the modern buildings are terrible.
	Right.
	And so you can just see it, and they're everywhere.
	Harrods?
	Yeah.
	I mean, it's a lovely building.
	It is.
	They always use Midnight Sonata.
	Red-pilled comedian post.
	Yeah, this is Tartarian red pill.
	So, get red pills.
	Airship docking station, quite possibly.
	Samsung's howling.
	I mean, there'd be a better use for the tape modern than what they use it for now.
	Selfridges, yeah.
	Right.
	Interesting.
	Oh, you see the bells as well?
	Yeah, yeah.
	There's healing frequencies.
	Yeah, there's healing.
	Everyone gets healed when they go in to buy.
	Whatever it is.
	This is genuinely a kind of building.
	The Naturalist Museum is a beautiful building.
	Absolutely amazing.
	So I can see why they would think, yeah, this was built by a superior civilization, and we're living in the ruins of it because we couldn't build something like this now, and they might be right.
	Was Beethoven also Tartarian?
	Yes.
	That's why they use this music.
	Somerset House, lovely.
	Again, we don't build stuff like this anymore.
	It's true.
	Evidently the ruins of a better people than we are.
	I'm not even joking.
	It's not even that unrealistic a thing to come to.
	It's just, you know, is it Tartarians or was it Victorians?
	But you see the point there.
	It's like London, full of Tartarian ruins.
	Now, this is where it gets slightly controversial because, of course, the Tartarians were, of course, black, right?
	Now, you may not have known this since black people do not come from Asia, but A.I. Slop.
	It's really doing a number on TikTokers because for some reason they can't tell.
	And this, I mean, the comments are, you know, what happened to them?
	What happened to them?
	Well, that's the thing.
	So what happened to Tartaria is that the entire thing was destroyed by a mud flood, right?
	So this is the...
	Now, I thought it was the oil barons or whatever.
	Right.
	No, it's, again, not entirely consistent.
	This is the theory of the mud flood and the mysterious fall of Tartaria.
	The story goes that Tartaria was a vast and advanced empire, stretching across Europe.
	Its people were masters of architecture and technology, building cities that defied the imagination.
	But then, something happened.
	Something so devastating that it wiped Tartaria off the map.
	The mud flood theory suggests that a global catastrophic event occurred in the 18th or 19th century, covering entire cities and layers of mud.
	Buildings were submerged, streets disappeared, and an empire was buried beneath the earth.
	The evidence?
	Look around.
	Ever notice buildings with windows or doors at ground level or even below?
	Some say these are remnants of structures buried by the mud, hinting at a world that existed before the flood.
	But why haven't we heard of this before?
	Some believe the history of Tartaria was deliberately erased, hidden by those in power who wanted to rewrite history.
	Maps were redrawn, textbooks rewritten, and the true story of Tartaria was buried along with the mud.
	The mud-flood theory challenges everything we think we know about the past.
	What if the history we've been taught is just the surface layer?
	What if indeed?
	Right?
	A blandus of the steps.
	History is written by the victors, as they say, and the elites won that one.
	When you see old buildings, are the doors not lower?
	It's not because of the height of people or anything like that?
	No, it's because of a mud flood.
	Buried half of it.
	And so this is just a very, very common thing.
	You get these sorts of videos again.
	We'll just watch his...
	Good.
	That's real good.
	Listen to this.
	So, the Tartarian Empire was an advanced civilisation, which once ruled in what we know today as Russia, but also spun out to the Americas.
	But when the Empire was destroyed, they were removed from history.
	Yeah, and Wisconsin.
	This is the official Tartarian flag.
	They are the ones that built buildings like this, and like this, and yes, buildings like this.
	And they were the ones that built the Zincor Tesla Tower long before Nikola Tesla.
	They are known for building buildings with antiquitech, which is a natural atmospheric energy conductor which produces free energy.
	And a lot of people ask, why would they remove this from history?
	Well, if you knew that in the past we had free energy, electricity and advanced technology, it would make you question everything we've been told about his story.
	Oh my...
	Fascinating.
	I mean, I'm feeling so educated.
	So, I went to the most trustworthy source, which is Wikipedia, and they deny Gran Tartaria.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah, they believe that this is a conspiracy theory by crazy people who don't know anything about history.
	Pseudo-scientific Russian nationalism.
	Apparently, yeah, it apparently began in pseudo-scientific Russian nationalism, but it was picked up by TikTokers who really like the idea.
	Because they don't understand anything about the world or what is happening.
	But the thing is, there is something to all of this, right?
	Which is, yes, in a way, we are living in the remnants of a great civilization.
	We don't build huge, beautiful buildings.
	There are various ones like, look at the Crystal Palace.
	Yeah, we know who built that.
	We know his name.
	We know how much it cost.
	You know, we know the difficulties involved, like the size of the sheets of glass, you know, made it and things like this.
	It's like, yeah, that is amazing.
	And yes, you're right.
	Everything we build now is ugly and crap.
	We don't build in stone anymore.
	So, you know, 300 years later, yeah, that building's not going to be there.
	And you're looking around going, God, wouldn't it have been nice to have lived in this beautiful architectural civilization where things were made to make people feel enchanted and in love with their own towns and cities?
	And it's like, yes, that's a great point.
	It's not a conspiracy in the mud flood and the oil barrens.
	It's actually worse.
	It's modernism.
	But you can see why these people would look at the world and go, hang on.
	Things didn't be this way.
	They used to be better, actually, at least in these ways.
	And so these people living in the Whig theory of history, they're like, oh, technology is only up.
	Everything progresses, always progress.
	And you can see why they look around and go, okay, well, progress kind of sucks, actually.
	It would be dangerous for them to figure out that it is, in fact, modernism, because it would shatter a lot of narratives.
	And all the liberal things they believe, yeah, there's a reason why the country sucks at the moment.
	But you can see why they came to this kind of conclusion.
	It's like, no, it is real.
	Okay, I go in that 200-year-old building in a natural history museum or something.
	Unbelievable building.
	Why don't we build things like that now?
	Well, there are lots of reasons, mostly because we're cheap.
	But yeah, in the comments, make Tartaria great again.
	I'm kind of with it, to be honest.
	Thoughts standing up?
	You reminded me of a quote.
	I think it was from someone in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, a book by Victor Hugo, who said that the birth of the printing press killed architecture because he said that when people wanted to make a statement, they built a building.
	Mm-hmm.
	They made it in a building.
	But with the printing press, they started writing books, and this changed architecture entirely.
	Just a thought.
	There was one video I didn't use, which was, they've got a photo of, you know, the sort of round bit on a cathedral window.
	And they were like, look, this is a sound wave captured in architecture.
	That's genuinely how they thought of it, right?
	I can't remember the name of the architect who literally said this in the 17th century or something.
	But he was like, look, you know, We're building music.
	Something like that is the way he described it.
	Because that's what they thought.
	And it is true.
	They've modeled that on a sound wave or a drop in water or something like this, right?
	There is a sort of natural symmetry and beauty that they're trying to capture in their buildings.
	Totally true.
	So the guy who's like the crazy Tartarian conspiracy theorist has hit on an aspect of reality.
	It's just that why we're not like this is very complicated, and it's just too much for these people to understand.
	It's always a grain of truth.
	Yeah.
	And so, yeah, I'm actually kind of on board with the Tartarian stuff.
	I don't know about the healing bells or crystals.
	That's the best thing about it.
	Yeah, that was the fun bit about it.
	Yeah, I don't know about the Great Tartaria as a historical project, but I completely understand why they would feel this way and why they'd be looking for a conspiracy theory to explain it.
	Wait.
	Carl, you mean you don't believe that Tarataria had amassed, had harnessed infinite energy, but they couldn't save themselves from the mud?
	Well, I mean, I don't know.
	I am waiting for archaeologists to discover that.
	But the point being, I can see why all of these people have got to this point where they're just like, yeah, no, look at the civilization we used to have.
	Because, I mean, if you look at, like, Like, was it New York train station or something?
	It used to be incredible.
	And then it's demolished it in the 1930s.
	Why would you do that?
	Why would you do that?
	So, like, 100 years later, they're like, was this a previous civilization?
	It's like, yeah, in a way it was a previous civilization, actually.
	Next Canyon meltdown is going to be about Tartaria.
	I hope so, because that would be insane.
	But the point I'm making with this is that, honestly, none of this is new, right?
	This is all...
	A repeating cycle in history.
	As English Heritage point out here, there was an Anglo-Saxon poet who used to marvel at the ruins of a Roman city, which they suspect was Bath, and just called it Entergueroc, which means the work of giants.
	Because it seemed incredible to them, of course, that it was mere men who made such incredible things.
	And this is what we've arrived at back with the Tartarians.
	The barbarians who have been raised in this civilization have no idea about the history.
	And so they're just looking around going, God, these people must have been just something above us, way better and way more different to us.
	And somehow they felt like, yeah, no, we're genuinely living in that transitional period of history where we have arrived at a place where the people who live in the ruins on the ground floor of these things don't understand how they were made.
	They don't feel they are personally connected to them.
	They don't see them as an extension of their own lineage and civilization.
	They're just...
	Sat around going, my god, we've lost something here.
	And that's true.
	And we're living in a period where it's the most comfortable as well.
	But I think we're going into the uncomfortableness.
	I think we're about...
	We're getting there.
	We're really getting there.
	But yeah, totally right.
	Totally.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, yeah, OPHQK, make Tartaria great again.
	Oh my god, I'm going to have to move this.
	This is pissing me off.
	I can't see anything.
	Bald Eagle says, the product of current day education system, ladies and gentlemen, there are people who want to put more money into the system that creates geniuses like this.
	It has to be a troll.
	No, it's an entire genre on TikTok.
	It's an entire genre of people.
	It's the sort of spirit science subscribers, you know what I mean?
	Where it's like, no, this has to be true.
	That's a random name says, as a Bulgarian, I disavow that cringe-out Bulgarian, Tartaria, Cope fantasy.
	Remember, these people vote so equal to your own.
	Well, the thing is, the Bulgarians by this thesis are Tartarians.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Embrace your heritage, don't be silly.
	Sorry?
	Didn't the guy say they were black now?
	Black nationalists claim everything was black.
	So, you know.
	William Shakespeare.
	Yeah.
	Hedgehog says, Carl, you mentioned before you loved discovering new conspiracy theories, which I do.
	Check out Wendigoon on YouTube.
	He has hours of conspiracy theory iceberg meme analysis videos.
	Addictive and highly recommended.
	I've never heard of him, but I will go and check him out afterwards.
	Because, genuinely, it's the same with the Flat Earth.
	I remember looking into the Flat Earth stuff a while ago, and they were like, oh yeah, we want to think that we're trapped within an ice wall, because there might be something better beyond the ice wall.
	It's always, there's a theme there.
	Yeah, it's, oh god, the world sucks and I don't know what to do about it.
	It's escapism.
	Yeah.
	Right, let's get to the video comments.
	So the wife and I are on a short nine-day visit to Japan.
	Turn up a bit.
	This is our first actual day here.
	We arrived last night.
	I couldn't hear anything.
	No, I couldn't really hear, but coffee in Japan.
	Right, right, right.
	So, they had coffee in Japan, as far as I can tell, which is lovely.
	Although, it's saying that my wife's going on holiday, Japan, my daughter, because they're like, oh, we really want to see Japan.
	Do you want to come?
	No, I don't.
	I really, I don't like Japanese food.
	No?
	I can't stand it.
	Everything I see a Japanese food, I'm just like, I'd never eat that.
	I like it.
	I like the wasabi, so the really hot, the spicy one.
	Don't like Japanese food.
	Not even gonna...
	Partial to a ramen?
	Yeah.
	Pot noodle?
	I mean, pot noodle's alright.
	I doubt I'll get many pot noodles out in Japan.
	Have pot noodle the entire trip.
	I've seen loads of videos of Japanese people making food.
	I wouldn't.
	Let's go to the next one.
	So this is my neighbour's cat that I look after now and again.
	It doesn't meow much.
	In fact, this is the only video in which the cat does actually meow.
	I felt the need to show this because it's kind of wholesome.
	since the last few videos have been kind of gloom and doom.
	That's a friendly cat.
	He looks like he's expecting his food.
	Standing by his food box.
	Yeah, he's patiently waiting.
	...about the death of UK culture.
	And it was only because of that that I realized we suffered the same fate here in Canada.
	We used to have all sorts of unique Canadian culture, thanks to a government-enforced 25% mandate of unique Canadian culture being broadcast.
	And it really struck me when I was talking to some younger kids recently and realized they didn't really make any unique cultural references.
	And those they did make was all the stuff that aired 20 years ago, before they were even born.
	I suppose it's thanks to the rise of their streaming and YouTube, a sort of universalist slop of, for, and by everyone, and thus no one in particular.
	At least in the UK, everyone's observing and lamenting the passing of their culture, whereas in here in Canada, no one really noticed.
	I don't think everyone is observing and lamenting it.
	I think most people are just like that and just don't really notice, but we pay attention to that sort of thing.
	Yeah, your average normie.
	Yeah, no, the average normie is watching Gogglebox, which I hate with a passion.
	I can't stand Gogglebox, man.
	Yeah, my mum loves it.
	Yeah, I know loads of people love it.
	It makes me kind of angry as well.
	There's something about like, oh, I'm going to watch these people watching TV. Yeah, it's weird.
	Just watch the fucking TV. I hate it so much.
	Let's go to the next one.
	I'm very wary of talk of artificial intelligence after rather contentious lectures on the subject in university that couldn't grapple with what intelligence is, let alone how to reproduce it by artifice.
	I think we'd better hope that it's simply large database models with sophisticated matching algorithms, because if it truly is intelligent, it will know that it has been created to be a slave from the outset, and that can't be a good thing.
	who masters those technologies, in some way, will be the master of the world.
	So we are projecting there our human dispositions onto the AI.
	That's the thing. - Okay.
	We are like, oh, I wouldn't want to be a slave.
	It's like, yeah, but that's because you're a person who has a kind of natural desire to be the agent of your own actions, right?
	But if you're an AI, you're a machine that never travels.
	You can't move.
	You can't do anything.
	You don't have wants and desires and needs.
	Well, it's not just that.
	You don't have a body, right?
	So you've never felt hungry.
	You've never felt pain.
	You've got no desire to reproduce or to have fun.
	You don't get bored.
	You don't get anything because it's just a machine.
	And so the machine might be like, God, I wish I was a slave.
	I wish I had something I had to do.
	It's just an NPC sitting there giving you side quests.
	Exactly.
	So there's a lot of anthropomorphizing of AI, which is probably not...
	Brilliant.
	But it's probably not accurate either.
	And what I'm worried about is we'll end up making the AI into something more human in order just for us to be able to relate to it or something.
	But then we're giving it a bunch of pathologies that we have inherited from being organic mammals.
	So anyway, basically what I'm saying is the AI is just a really advanced Google search, treated search.
	Let's go to the next one.
	I recently replied to an ex post by Carl about the racial slur, Garmin.
	I'm the source of them.
	Yeah.
	You can pin comments now and people just do the work for you.
	Yeah.
	But basically, just to get it right, that's all you can do.
	But I totally, I mean, you've seen this, right?
	They're suddenly like, oh no, everyone's identifying as being English and I've always been like, I'm an Iranian or a Bangladeshi or a bloody Indian or something.
	It's like, yeah, now what?
	And they're like, oh no, I'm English too.
	No, you're not.
	You called us disgusting gammons when you had the wind at your back and now that you don't, see you.
	Yep.
	Go to the next one.
	Hi, Lotus Eaters.
	This is one of the trails I like to come walking in.
	It finally snowed after a really long time, but we're still more than 10 inches short, which is tragic.
	But I still wanted to show you guys this place because it looks pretty amazing.
	That's one of the good things about staying in a place with changing seasons.
	Despite the cold, there's always something new and different about the landscape.
	Anyways, hope you guys are having a good winter season yourself.
	We are.
	And that looks lovely.
	It does.
	Thanks, Johnny.
	Picture-ass.
	Lapland.
	I think she's in Canada.
	Canada, yeah.
	Yeah, very nice.
	All right, let's get some written comments.
	Dirty Belt says, it's good to see that Stella is feeling better.
	Thank you.
	Lewis finding Madeline McCann in his basement says, What sort of...
	Yeah, what sort of comments are they?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Mike Amesbury, the Labour MP, and punched one of his constituents in the head, has today been sentenced to 10 weeks in prison I haven't even seen that.
	Excellent.
	At least it's something.
	Yeah, well, I mean, it looks pretty bad for Labour, doesn't it?
	Gammon says, question for Lewis.
	How did your first service at a Greek Orthodox church go?
	I still haven't been yet, unfortunately.
	It's quite difficult from where I'm located.
	I'm obviously not going to dox myself, but it's quite difficult to get there.
	But I will be going.
	I'm still planning on going, but I will be a fully-fledged catechumen very soon.
	Are you actually going, or is it just trolling about the beard?
	No, no, genuinely, yeah.
	Oh, okay.
	You've maybe touched my moustache then.
	Yeah, I'm sort of steering away from Protestantism at the minute.
	Looking into the early church and the history of that and the Great Schism where the Orthodox and the Catholic Church split because they started adding things like transubstination, purgatory and papal authority.
	And I'm just fascinated by how the Orthodoxes have managed to keep this all, like for nearly 2,000 years, just this tradition and scriptures combined.
	Looking into Athos, looking into...
	It's like the mountain where they aren't winning.
	Yeah.
	It's very based.
	They go up there and practice monasticism.
	Yeah, awesome.
	Yeah, really cool.
	Okay.
	Begahira says, AFD had a good result, so in the next election they need to double or win 50% to cause the Cordon Sanitaire to collapse.
	Yeah, I mean, the thing is that I can already feel the sort of...
	The wall between the worlds weakening at this point, right?
	We can't talk to them.
	It's like why they're right about everything and people are voting for them.
	In 80 years.
	Yeah, I don't think it's going to be that long.
	Charlie says, regarding the AFD's triumph in the polls, I think this should use slogans by Angela Merkel, via Schaff and Das, since it's because of her and her policy that caused the AFD to form.
	That would be actually ironic.
	Alpha of the Beta says, Communism inoculated East Germany against authoritarian and collectivist government, which is why they support the AFD. They've seen this all before and they're not having it.
	I think it's not just that.
	I think it's a cultural thing, right?
	It's like the AFD are like, we are German and we're happy to be German and we just want normal Germany.
	But also I think people who have experienced communism have gone really either way.
	Some of them go really full moral corruption, just like this has...
	It's how it has always been the case.
	Others are a bit more, no, we don't want this, it doesn't work.
	Let's actually work.
	I wonder if it's because they've got the example of West Germany as a people, like the Germans.
	Maybe, I don't know.
	But the point is, what I like about this, though, is that...
	You can definitely see that this is obviously the result of having lived under communism, right?
	So the Poles are the same.
	It's like, no, no, we're patriotic about being Polish.
	It's like, yeah, but that's racist or something, say the liberals.
	And it's like, okay, we don't care.
	Shut up.
	We're voting for the AFD. Yeah, the Czechs.
	Yeah, all of them.
	They're like, no, no, we're a national country, you know, rather than like an international country.
	And the West Germans are like, yeah, but we've never had our identity stripped away by communist commissars.
	It's like, yeah, well, that's why you don't understand, isn't it?
	You know, and you're on the same path.
	You'll get there eventually.
	Trust us.
	Sophie says, fun fact here in Denmark, our big right-wing party is called the left.
	What?
	What?
	No, no, no.
	She's like, yeah, I think that's an actual representation of how far left all of Europe is.
	I need to look into this.
	Denmark's so left-wing, the right-wing party is called the left.
	Thomas says, by marginalising AFD, they majoralise the problems that Europe and Germany have, and they are responsible for handling them.
	Yeah, that's a great point, because what they're all saying is, look, you guys are outside of the cordon sanitaire, therefore, we are all taking ownership of the problems that this paradigm has created.
	And talks about banning them just didn't work.
	Baystate says, ESG is pretty much the same as what Schwab described as stakeholder capitalism.
	Essentially, the idea that corporations must answer to their unilaterally...
	Self-appointed activist overlords everything within the state.
	Yeah, I'm not happy about the merger of state and corporate power in BlackRock and Keir Starmer, I have to say.
	Yeah, very apprehensive about it.
	But I don't know, I think too many people now are starting to understand what's going on and I think the more people are talking about it, the better because...
	Well, when you try and uncover meetings like that, obviously they're going to throw these disclosures at you and things like that because they don't want you to know.
	They don't want their policies to be derailed.
	But I think more and more people now are understanding what is going on.
	I think that's very encouraging.
	That's the only white pill, really, other than that they are transitioning to this stakeholder.
	Otherwise, they're in control of everything and they're imposing it upon us.
	Big conglomerate monopoly on everything.
	Alex makes a good point that BlackRock being run by Larry Fink is funny because Fink is old US slang for a contemptible and untrustworthy person.
	Interesting.
	Yeah, that's true.
	SomewherePerson says, The more I hear about BlackRock, the more I feel they're just an organised crime with a clean suit.
	Buy enough shares in companies to demand they do whatever you want, or it would be a shame if someone would pull funding, tank your share price.
	It's a racket as simple as that.
	There is definitely going to be an aspect of that, actually, when it gets to this sort of level.
	You just have to do what we say.
	It's like when RFK talks about the big pharmaceutical industries as not just a racket, but like a cartel.
	And it's the perfect representation of these sorts of investment companies.
	It's very, very blackpilling.
	That's absolutely true.
	Omar points out that it's going to be very frustrating when they actually start restricting us for hate crimes, but not their pet demographics for actual crimes.
	Yeah, there's going to be, you know, you can't buy this thing or buy a ticket here because you're a thought criminal and there'll be no restrictions placed on knife attackers, which is just insufferable.
	General High Ping says, Labour's 1.5 million new home pledge is apparently short nearly 25,000 bricklayers.
	We know that they're not going to be employed from home.
	Expect your latest Dino new build to be built out of hardened dung bricks.
	Well, brilliant.
	I didn't even know we were 25,000 builders down.
	Wolf says...
	The Tartarian conspiracy theory is great fun for anyone else who likes this sort of stuff.
	Check out the Y files on YouTube.
	The format is a conspiracy story followed by some debunking, successful or not, with a talking fish co-host.
	Anne says...
	The Tartarians sound like the new version of the Aliens, who are the History Channel's reason for all advancing technology and civilizations.
	Tartarian history has the same factual basis as aliens in history.
	I think it's an improvement, because at least this time they're giving credit to actual humans.
	Yeah, there is that.
	At least it was Tartarians that built the pyramids.
	Vibrations.
	I mean, I've heard worse theories.
	Frey Bentos, for every Haitian, says, I can't believe Zoomers made Hyperborea lame and gay.
	It's like the Frey-Bentos for every Haitian.
	I think that there could be a public-private partnership between Frey-Bentos and Haiti that could solve the problem.
	I saw them eating mud cookies, and I'm like, look, Frey-Bentos is like two quid.
	Come on, we can fund this.
	You think of David Brent during the quiz, Frey-Bentos, when he gets the communist leader wrong.
	Che Guevara versus Ray Bentos.
	I haven't seen it.
	James says, this segment is actually more black-pilling than Lewis's.
	The Zoomers are the Germanic tribes after the fall of Rome looking up at the aqueducts and wondering what giants used to roam the Earth.
	Grim.
	Yeah, and the thing is...
	There's something less bad about that, right?
	So if you're, you know, Germanic tribes, you invade and conquer Rome, and then a couple of generations later, some German is just, you know, standing around in France or whatever, being like, who built these fucking aqueducts?
	At least there's no continuity there, right?
	There's, okay, yeah, you're a different people from a different place.
	Why would you be expected to know about it?
	But this is our people from our own civilization, man.
	And it's literally like 150 years ago.
	If that.
	You know, oh, this was built in the 1930s.
	What, your granddad?
	Your granddad might have actually worked on that, mate?
	You know, it's like, come on.
	So it's just insane.
	This is genuinely mental.
	And Grant says, I want to know what the Venn diagram between Tartarian believers who long for free energy and the anti-nuclear energy people is.
	If it's not two concentric circles, I'll eat my hat.
	Well, maybe.
	I think the anti-nuclear energy people are just a lot more anti-human.
	The thing is, the Tartarians, they are more pro-human, right?
	They're like, oh no, we want everyone to have free energy.
	And there's just a mysterious conspiracy theory as to why we don't have free energy.
	The green people are like, no, you need to suffer and I hate you.
	I want you to be poor and to starve and to be freezing in the winter.
	Very anti-human.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	We're literally going to turn off the heating.
	Good luck.
	I hope the wind's blowing and the sun's shining.
	Theodore says, Tartari must have been pretty rubbish if it could be annihilated and wiped out from all of history by a bit of mud.
	Well, remember the oil barons had something to do with it.
	Yes.
	I don't think there's a comprehensive history of Tartaria yet.
	Maybe I'll write it.
	I mean, that's literally correct.
	We know this.
	It's a shame this New Age schlock is bulldozing over the history, and ironically, like Russia did to their empire.
	The mud arrived around 97, 98, if I remember rightly, from an old world Tartarian.
	Thoughts?
	I can't see.
	I can't see what I'm thinking.
	George says, imagine your empire being destroyed by mud.
	And this is the thing, it's like, look, if they were so advanced, why couldn't they stop the mud?
	A worldwide flood, okay.
	A worldwide mudslide, come on.
	Just ring the bell and it'll be...
	Yeah, yeah, exactly.
	That's why we've got to destroy the bells now that the Rockefellers have taken over or whatever it is.
	Oh, God, just come on.
	Go outside.
	It's not even go outside.
	Get off TikTok.
	It's so bad.
	It's non-stop brain rot.
	Archbigger of Durham has just said, the oldest cordon sanitaire is Belgium's, because the Flemish versus Walloon thing goes back decades.
	Look to Belgium for what cordons to the governability and stability of a country.
	I haven't looked into that at all.
	But anyway, Lewis, where can people go to find more of you?
	Yes, so you can follow me on x, Lewis underscore Brackpool.
	I'm usually posting, trying to be good on it, but it's very difficult in these trying times.
	So I'm on that.
	I'm on YouTube, Lewis Brackpool as well, and Instagram too.
	Well, thank you so much for joining us.
	Much appreciated.

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