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Simon Dixon Hard Talk
The AI Bailout, Oil Shock & Wealth Transfer | Simon Dixon on Macroaggressions w/ Charlie Robinson
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Well, this is going to be a good one, guys, because we have Simon Dixon on. Simon Dixon, for those of you who don't know, one of the early Bitcoin OGs, I think he's the first investor in Coinbase and Kraken, one of the first. At least there's a portfolio of companies that he has been investing in over the years, and he's got a fantastic insight on what's going on geopolitically. So please take a couple moments to enjoy my conversation with Simon Dixon. Well, it's my pleasure to have Simon Dixon with us. You've been seeing things well before everybody else. You know, years before people in the crypto space and the way the world is unfolding right now. I thought of you when the war kicked off. Specifically, I thought, I need to talk to this guy. Because when the. When they shut the Strait of Hormuz, I noticed that the announcement didn't come from the Iranians. It came from the City of London. It came from the insurance carriers that decided they had made a calculation that in their mind the strait was closed. Whether it was or whether it wasn't, what is the relationship of the City of London in this whole operation? Because they're not getting talked about, of course, but I think that it feels like they probably have a hidden hand in this. What are your thoughts?
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Yeah, sure. I mean, there's a lot of interesting narratives that we can go down with this one. I would say that legacy finance was associated with wealthy families, which were geographically important. I'd say today is less important. But we kind of have, like, these leftover remnants of how the world used to work. When I think of, I call it a financial industrial complex. And insurance is one of the nodes. Lloyd's of London is the most important insurance market in the world. And so there's kind of the City of London has these leftovers of what it used to be in terms of importance, but it was really transferred over to wealthy families through historical financial institutions and then financialized and securitized and rolled up into the general asset management industry. And so whenever you think of these companies, they're all public companies on either London Stock Exchange, the New York Stock Exchange, and Global Stock Exchange, whether it be Hong Kong, Shanghai and everything as well. And now it's more of a transnational complex of financial institutions. But in terms of insurance, Lloyds of London has still got the remnants of the old networks where a bunch of wealthy oligarchs would get together and they would price risk and try and create securities in order to alleviate some of that risk. And obviously the very old trades, if you're studying the British Empire, you'll always know about the British East India Company, which was made out to be this big trading house, but it was really a front for drug trafficking operations. And so you'd have a bunch of Indian tea with a bunch of opium in the middle that would be going into opium wars to drug the Chinese people because they failed to drug the British people. And from that you're able to get settlements through Hong Kong and build banks like hsbc, which were drug trafficking, financial money laundering organizations and still are today.
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Right.
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And so some of those routes still actually exist. And one of those routes is the Iran, Lebanon and you know, through to central South America and then through into the CIA networks that allow the, the drugs to get into America. And so you have like kind of these leftover drug trafficking routes from the remnants of the British Empire and the British East India Company. And then on top of that, the insurance industry is how this financial industrial complex is able to influence trade. So with the Strait of Hormuz effectively where it is today, you can think of it as you have players within the irgc and we can get into Iran and like the different factions within there. But the military arm of Iran, you know, when they said that we're closing the Strait of Hormuz effectively, that's like saying we need a guarantee from the IRGC in order to ensure a shipment through the Strait of Hormuz. And so immediately, if the, if the IRGC makes the announcement or whether it's more coordinated, the result is the same. The insurance company says, well, how can I guarantee this shipment through the stroke of a moose? And now we had effectively Lloyds of London say we need a guarantee from the irgc. And then later we had the blockade on, the blockade from the US and so now you'd actually need to get the permission from the U.S. but who are the power brokers in the U.S. from my perspective, the U.S. as well as UK as well as Europe, as well as Australia, Canada and the collective west, they're all owned and controlled by the financial industrial complex too. This network of central banks, investment banks, retail banks, asset managers, derivative platforms and exchanges, and they have the largest and most influential lobby to control politicians, but they also are the shareholders in the Federal Reserve. So the network of retail banks create the dollar, create the pound, create the euro, and they also ensure, they also guarantee the system through the Federal Reserve. They also securitize and financialize every single company into the Equity markets. They also provide all the financing for bonds and they also provide all the FX exchanges through the City of London as well. And they create all the derivatives to control the market. So when you put all of that together at the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, in order to get an insured shipment, you need two things. Either you go through via Lloyds of London, or you got a state sponsor like China and the ccp, which then has an agreement or leverage over both the US Naval fleet, the Iranian naval fleet, and in the end that comes down to Lloyds of London insurance. So closing the Strait of Hormuz, when you understand the real power brokers and how this work is effectively I'll call it, rather than financial industrial complex, I'll call it fic. It's a FIC operation and it does lead to a global reset. And we've seen these global resets before. We saw them during COVID we saw them during the global financial crisis. We've seen them during the wars that escalated from 9 11. We saw it from the Russia Ukraine war. We saw all the different things. Long term capital management, they always lead to a ginormous money printing exercise which socialize the losses and privatize the gains and a wealth transfer and a hollowing out of the middle class and a wreckage of the poor up to the shareholder class and those that control the levers and the fic. And this is no different. There are national interests in Iran that benefit from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. There's the Chinese Communist Party that were ready for this and have the largest reserves in the world, 1.4 billion barrels of oil. They were preparing all of the commodities that they control, all the refinement, all the rare earths, Russia and then those that control the west, the finance houses, big oil, big tech. And so people kind of. There's a bit of a narrative about false narrative like Trump representing America. America has NO Oil and LNG. Chenier Energy has LNG, which is 70, you know, golden Pass, Chevron, Exxon, they're all doing very well. The Americans, they pay the debt, they pay the inflation, they're the collateralized debt obligation to pay for everything. While a few companies, while a few companies make a shit ton of money. And Trump's coming, We're making America great again. We're insulated. We're doing this for you. And then there's an alternative narrative from a CIA op like you where they kind of think every action is about taking on the British Empire and It's like the MI6 is being taken down. This is an operation in order to manufacture compliance with why you're paying more, why your debt is going up. And while we're having the biggest wealth transfer over to the shareholder class and make you think that we're doing it to make America great again and then you can kind of blame it on the British and we're. And Trump is the one taking on the establishment.
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Oh well, we're good at blaming it on everybody else, I'm sure we'll find the British, we'll blame the Iranians, everybody else will get the blame except for us. But it feels like what we've got the end of a fourth turning. We've got essentially the end of the American empire. It's coming to an end. We have the death or the unraveling of the petrodollar. It feels like if ever there was a time for a great reset, this would be it. Is this a. This feels also like a. When I see the energy market or the energy production industries being crippled, it feels intentional and I worry my little conspiratorial mind starts to go to some bad places to wondering if this is some sort of forced global famine to, to coincide with a great reset to hey listen, if we're going to bring out a new financial system, whole thing would work a lot better if it wasn't for all these people. Right. So is there an underlying depopulation theme to this running through this narrative as well, you think?
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Well, I think there's layers of operations and lots of different vested interests either are a part of manufacturing this or get to weaponize it once it happens, depending on what layer of the decision tree or how high up in the hierarchy is it. But I definitely believe that there is an element of manufacturing the Strait of Hormuz. If this was a genuine war, then you would have seen something that looked like Iraq where you would had a genuine buildup to a genuine ground invasion that would require probably a million troops or the build up to a significant number of troops if they were genuinely trying to take over the oil regime, change Iran, take over the oil fields and the nuclear energy programs, and then reprice it in dollars and build the US empire. That's what that would look like. And it doesn't look anything like that. And then on the other side, it's very convenient to me that the Middle east suddenly loses Most of its U.S. bases and infrastructure as a result of this operation. So across the Gulf countries you get the strategic targeting by Iran of rebuilding all of the Defense contracts, all of the important military contracts, all of the important infrastructure to do with energy. That all gets rebuilt. Whoever rebuilds that changes the empire. We also have a test of whether you can take international waters and charge a toll on it. These are all constructs of the post World War II Bretton woods system and the international order. Based upon originally the US military industrial complex, which then had strategic tension with a fake capitalism versus communism kind of ideology, which was funded by the financial industrial complex on both sides as well as the Hitler regime, all funded by the same fic. You know, that kind of led us up to all of the different wars, the cold wars. And then in 1991 you had America being the global hegemon. In order to get there, America had to default on its promise to convert his dollars to Gold in 71 after the Vietnamese war bankrupted the US government. But the military needed more and more money and so it kind of defaulted. Said you can't convert your dollars to gold even though we kind of persuaded you through the IMF system to take cum off the gold standard and we'll make sure that it's backed by gold. And then there were several operations like the energy crisis in 73 as a result of the oil embargo by Saudi Arabia. Now what came after that? Well, we had the assassination of King Faisal, we had the creation of the Safari Club, which was a network after the regime change of intelligence agencies, including Saudi intelligence and George Bush, which eventually led to the manufacture of 9, 11 and the justification for all the wars and the destabilized and the fake war on terror. So you went from the communism enemy to the terrorist enemy. All of those groups were manufactured via western funded terrorist factories from the Iraq war and all the different wars. And you manufactured this fake boogeyman monster. But most importantly, you persuaded Saudi and anyone that was selling oil that they had to price it in dollars. And when they have dollars, you can't exactly leave billions of dollars in a bank. So you have to lend it to the US government, which created a market for rolling over the Federal Reserve Ponzi scheme. And it was backed by, well, not backed by, but it had this new system where if you have dollars, you lend the back to the US Government by purchasing bonds. The side effect of that kind of bringing us to where we are now. And I've gone around a lot of the circle, if you bring it to where we are now. In the Trump administration we had the innovation of fracking that started to pay dividends for oil producers and fracking Meant that America became energy independent to certain degrees and an energy exporter. So now that broke the order. So if you're now exporting your dollars through dollar debt and you're actually exporting energy, then how does the petrodollar system survive that? Well, what actually happened is you got China to join the World Trade Organization, you hollowed out the manufacturing base in America, you financialized and securitized and privatized everything, you turned all of the population into collateralized debt obligations and you ended up with a shareholder class that the closer you are to the Federal Reserve System, the more you can extract all of the wealth from the country. Meanwhile, your military can't produce a weapon without China. And so China became the world's manufacturing base. And what did those countries that were selling oil like Saudi Arabia do? Well, they sold it to China and so Qatar sold it to China and Iran sold it to China and Russia sold it to China and Saudi sold it to China and Kuwait sold it. All the different countries sold it to China. And effectively China was propping up all of these massive sovereign wealth funds. And what were those sovereign wealth funds doing? They were co investing and buying all of the U.S. equity. And so all of the stock market became foreign controlled. And now you've got a situation where bondholders control the financial industrial complex and the US debt shareholders control all of the corporations within America. And most of the funding was coming from foreign sovereign wealth funds, transnational capital propped up by the China Communist Party who was selling all the goods back. And so you ended up where one final part of the equation is that through lobbying, transnational capital took control of American foreign policy. And so you could buy in a for rent system, any Congress member, any Senate, you just simply became a pay to play system. US politics, the lobbies were all funded by transnational capital and global institutions. And then finally under the military, you had the deep state as the deep state, the intelligence network, MI6, Mossad, CIA, and they became available to these public companies that were owned by transnational capital. So now you hit yourself a situation where you could rent out the US military like a 4M militia and you can say go get us Venezuelan oil. And then Saudi Aramco ends up winning the refining contract on all of the Venezuelan oil. Trump then says to everyone, we're making America great again. While really you're just extracting all of that debt from the American people and transferring it over to the fic. And that's exactly where we are right now. So anyway, we're transitioning to a multipolar world is the next iteration.
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Did the British East India Company ever go away? Because it seems like America is its private army. It seems like maybe this, this thing, you know, back in the days when they conquered the Indians, everyone say, oh, the British took it. It's like, well, really like this company that was like backed with a private militia did a lot of the heavy lifting. And now here we are, we. I'd say the petrodollar arrangement is toast. It appears to be dead. I don't know why anyone would want to get into business with the US Moving forward. Now we have Iran messaging that they would accept Bitcoin for payments for tolls. Are we reaching an inflection point where we maybe see a petro bitcoin in the future?
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I'm not sure we'd have a petro Bitcoin because Bitcoin's kind of already backed by LNG and energy in terms of you got to expend massive amounts of lng. But Iran is the largest sovereign bitcoin miner in the world. And what they did is they took their nuclear energy program and they plugged it into bitcoin miners and they built an insulated economy, as did Russia. And that did uae. Now what's really interesting is we're led to believe that Iran and UAE are on the other side of a war right now. UAE is meant to be aligned with Israel and Iran's meant to be aligned with China and Russia. And Israel is a proxy for US military base, basically. But if you look at the actual flows, the US military can't make a weapon without China put that together. The U.S. nuclear, you know, the nuke program buys highly enriched uranium from Russia. The largest trading partner of Iran is China. But secondly, uae, UAE created all of the anti sanction money laundering methodologies for Iran to circumvent sanctions. And UAE is a member of the Gulf countries and then meant to be aligned with Israel. And remember, let's look at the last 40 years. So where did the Ayatollah come from? Well, he was in exile in France and some conspiracy theorists believe that he was an MI6 agent in the beginning. And so when you had the Ayatollah in the Iranian revolution, you created the strategic tension for 40 years of war between Iran and Israel and all of the different proxies and resistance and militias and Western line interests like ISIS and Al Qaeda, you had all of that come from funding strategic tension, which was the old British Empire model, which is make sure that any potential competition is just divide and conquered and so we had really a narrative, a cartoon character of Iran which was death to America, death to Israel. Two weeks away from a nuke, the largest exporter of terrorism. Meanwhile, MI6, CIA, Mossad were creating all the terrorism. The resistance against it created strategic tension. And with that strategic tension, it just so happened that Iran and Israel for 40 years never went to war. It was only when America actually became an energy exporter and we transition to, to the multipolar world that suddenly we get a 12 day coordinated war and suddenly we get to an event that leads to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. And it just so happens that there are very strategic targets that are being destroyed right now. All of the US bases in the Middle East, Iran, energy infrastructure, Gulf countries, energy infrastructure. Iran and Israel is being burdened with significant debt and a debt crisis and essentially privatizing the whole economy, which will be acquired by transnational capital. A plan for what happens with Palestine. And if you really go back to it, where did this all begin? It began when the Trump administration invented fracking, became an energy exporter. Then you had the assassination of Qassim Soleimani, which led to a very coordinated reaction from Iran, which then led to China normalizing between Iran and Saudi Arabia. And then we had October 7th as the transition theater and the narrative and the false flag in order to change and renegotiate everything that came and followed.
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God, it's so obvious in retrospect. I mean, looking back on it, you can see how it all step by step by step, how it unfolds, but in real time it's a little bit more difficult. I was wondering about that. We've got UAE and Iran, both members of brics, they're launching rockets at each other. How does that work out moving forward? And of course you have Saudi Arabia kind of sitting on the fence for BRICS as a interested party sort of to be determined. What's the future of brics?
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Well, it's good cop, bad cop. So you've got different blocks that aligned and clearly China's the instigator here because whoever pays the bill, whoever's buying the oil controls policy, effectively that was the IMF model. Force people into debt and then through servicing that debt you get subordination. But if you look at the gcc, you've got a very clear good cop, bad cop relationship manifesting. But let's look in the practicality. So on the one side, you've got UAE as a global financial center, the center of crypto, the one that's got all the money laundering routes from the ex intelligence agency, drug trafficking routes. You've got tourism, you've got oil obviously within Abu Dhabi. So you have UAE on one side. And they do all the things that are unacceptable. They normalize with Israel, they join Abraham Accords, they fund a lot of the anti Muslim propaganda in the west that leads to all the UK billionaires relocating to uae. They fund all the different types of immigration policies. Then you have Qatar. Now Qatar is the strongest U.S. ally, has the largest U.S. military base and has the office for Hamas upon request of the US and they were the one that was funding Iran, stopped funding Hamas 10 years ago. They were funding the military arm. But when, when it became a political movement, when Hamas conveniently became part of the, you know, the government in Gaza, which created the strategic tension that allowed for the destruction of Gaza. In the end, that was all funded via Qatar. Qatar is funded, you know, and then you look at all the money flows. Nothing gets into Gaza without the Israeli banking system. These monetary flows are understood. Now if you look at UAE and Saudi, you had this theater where we're led to believe that Saudi and UAE are a war in Yemen. But all of a sudden UAE just says, okay, yeah, we'll leave. And the Houthis signed an agreement with Saudi Arabia and they've not entered the theater at the moment. If they want to close the Red Sea and create a bigger crisis, they can. But Saudis saying Houthis, you don't do it. And we're led to believe that Houthis are there. You know, they have their own goals with Yemen, so they've reached an agreement. But what happened at the same time? Well, Israel recognized Somaliland, which is, if you look at Somalia has all of the Turkey interest. And Somaliland has a port which UAE controls, which is a very strategic choke point if the US was going to stop protecting the seas in the future. They also have various Horn of Africa ports. So if you look at all these different theaters, it's all around strategic choke points, just like the Strait of Hormuz. And so suddenly Saudi gets an agreement with Yemen and Yemen reaches, exits the war. And at the same time UAE secures, Israel, recognizes Somaliland, which secures UAE interest. UAE interest is compensated because UAE is the largest trading partner and the financial rails for Iran in order to allow them to get the flows to Russia and China. And then Turkey suddenly gets their region all settled and there's only one left, which is Hezbollah in Lebanon. One of the key routes when the US invaded Lebanon with the French, you know, and those interests, that was a vital port of the drug trafficking routes. So now suddenly you say, all right, Iran, you are now in ceasefire with us. We'll leave out Lebanon from the agreement and Israel and Lebanon, you start strategically going at it while we create a global reset and we create famine, we create food shortages, we create an inflation crisis and we create a recession based upon oil that effectively, even though right now it costs $115 on the oil futures one month contract. Anybody actually getting oil right now? If you want an actual barrel of oil right now, you're paying $170 minimum.
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Whoa, that's a huge problem. As soon as I heard of Somaliland, as soon as that got on the radar and I looked at it, finally, what are we doing cutting Somalia in half? And I went, oh, I get it. I see. You could just sell for tell from the topography, the geography of it. Straight across from the Bab el Mandreb Strait, right, That's been a maritime choke point that the Houthis have controlled. But if you've got Israel slash America on the other side, then I suppose you can check them. That seems like a illogical thing to do.
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I didn't actually answer the question. Which was brics.
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Brics.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, look, you've got the Gulf Cooperation Council. Good cop, bad cop. They're taking over their own region. And all of their defense infrastructure is being renegotiated. It will be rebuilt and renegotiated with remnants of the China Belt and Road Initiative, a regional stability vision which ties together Iran, uae, Saudi Arabia and Turkey and the Western financial industrial complex, which is effectively saying, what are you going to give us if we take the military industrial complex and send them to Latin and Central America and send them to Europe for that forever war? So they're basically negotiating. If you want us to invest in a region, we need all of these different contracts and agreements. We need to understand the future of the petrodollar and the Petro Yuan. Iran gets some, Saudi gets some, UAE gets some. We give our FX swap lines. UAE comes out of opec. It's all lining up very nicely. But we need to set. We need a new playground. So we need. Let's start with Cuba in Central and South America. Let's create a technical, police and surveillance state in Venezuela. It turns out that all the refining is done by a subsidiary of Saudi Aramco. And let's continue another three years of strategic tension with Russia. Let's regime change the European Union, because remember, Hungary was the only country in the European Union, you need unanimity to get any vote. Hungary was selling their vote to Russia and Israel and so that stopped the Israeli settlement embargoes and it also stopped the release of the Ukrainian funds in order to escalate with Russia, get regime change hungry. And now we get our 350 billion of sanction money, we get to spend it on weapons, send it over to Zelensky and we get another three years worth of money over there. We do strategic tension in central South America, we stay in our lane in the Western hemisphere. And also we need to manufacture a police and surveillance state and civil unrest across Europe, UK and America so that we can profit from the privatized prison state Palantir pre crime arrests, the privatization and manufacturing of pre crime and manufacturing of that. So I think they negotiated a settlement with the military and the finance will have regional stability once all these different choke points are settled.
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Was that 350 billion, that you mentioned? Was that the FX money that we stole from Russia?
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Yes.
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Okay, yeah.
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So they want to release that it was only Hungary that was stopping at and then they can just spend it. They're also hedging. There's a new when they destroyed the manufacturing industry in Germany after blowing up Nord Stream Pipeline, they are now turning all of the car manufacturers into a European military industrial complex. And so there's a bunch of public offerings that are set to go public later this year. Just turning all of this infrastructure base into new military bases and just remilitarizing Germany. And then at the same time, obviously the fick has bought off Poland and Poland's getting the whole surveillance state. The tech companies, Google, Microsoft, and they're getting all of the AI and cybersecurity stuff so that they can start hedging and these wealth extraction exercises across Europe and uk.
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What is the sales pitch for Europe to get everybody enthusiastic about getting into some future war? I understand how it is on the American side. We can say, oh, Iran, the big boogeyman and everything like that, but so far it seems that Europe has stayed out of this. Is it not about the Middle East? Are we talking about Europe going into the Ukraine component of the war and that being the emphasis of reimagining the manufacturing, is it for that war theater of war or is it for the Middle east or is it for everything?
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Yeah, so if you're transnational capital and one of the most important nodes in the west is blackrock, State street and Vanguard, you've got a portfolio across Europe, you're selling all of your renewable energy companies they're doing, you know, they're investing in all of the alternative energy. You do a bit of esg. Remember the European Union was created from the bank for International Settlements. The bank for International Settlements was the organization that was set up for Germany reparations after World War I. And they were, remember the board of the Federal Reserve, Their brother, the Wahlberg brothers, was also on Rice bank. And the bank for International Settlements was the one that was transferring all the gold every time Hitler invaded a new country like Czechoslovakia. And so while the British Empire were allegedly in war with Germany, the Bank for International Settlements contacted the bank of England and the Federal Reserve and said, hey, you know all that gold we're storing for you that used to belong to Czechoslovakia, can you transfer it over to Germany? And so they put a new label on it and said, yeah, this is Germany's gold. And that backed the, you know, the, the, the, the Hitler regime as well. So they were fighting and funding at the same time. And. Yeah, so, you know, that's, that's kind of when you really undersee the theatrical element of how this stuff works.
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Yeah.
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And, and yeah, so the, Yeah, I mean, the answer is it doesn't matter. Like, you know, I'm, I, I don't live in the UK anymore. But no one wanted, no one looks at Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer and Boris Johnson and David Cameron and say, yeah, this is the most inspirational leader that we can come up with. These are all installed. There is no democracy. The vote doesn't matter. All of the politicians are for rem, prostitutes for the financial industrial complex, technical industrial complex, military industrial complex, APAC lobbying which is aligned with military. And all they've got to do is manufacture a story that makes you scared. And that's why one day, if you remember, we were deep in Covid and we were being told that we are grandma killers. If we don't inject ourselves with something that hasn't been tested and every day we turn on the TV and the BBC would tell us this many people died, this many people died, this many people died, this many people died. And we were having the death counter every single day and it was being thrown down our throat that if we leave our house and don't wear a mask and don't inject ourselves, then we're killing grandmas. Suddenly, if you remember one day Russia invaded Ukraine and then all of a sudden, yeah, social distancing doesn't matter. You're allowed out. It's okay. Everything's over. There's no death Counter anymore. Now all eyes are on Russia is about to invade Europe, and we're defending democracy and we're in a fight for our life and survival. And if it weren't for that new Hitler regime called Putin, that all he did was try and actually stop us from taking over his oil and his resources and the oligarchs, then you just manufacture a new narrative and, you know, it's the fake war on terror, the communism, the exporting democracy now is the Muslim invasion. It's Israel rules the world. You know, it's all of the different. It's all of the different, you know, divide and conquer narratives that allow you to pick a side and not recognize where real power is. And all of a sudden, there's always a reason to print more money and send it over. And the people are just choosing between eating and heating. They're wondering, my rent's going up, can't afford a house, my heating's going up, my bills are going up, I can't afford good food. And that's basically it. I need a second and third job.
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Yeah. My fear.
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Our politics works.
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No, of course not. My fear is that is the reason you said, you know, there's a reason why. My fear is that they are going to invent a reason now in the United States, much like in. In the UK or in. In in Europe, they're going to the military, the governments are going to do what they want to do anyway. If they want to start a war, they're going to start it anyway. But they need a great cover story and they need. And it. It's helpful if it's some sort of event. So in the absence of a catalyzing or catastrophic event like a new Pearl harbor, they tend to create them. If Europe in general, or America as well, is unwilling or unenthusiastic about entering a war, certainly a spark could be lit to change everybody's feelings. Do you get the feeling that a false flag is on the schedule?
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I think we're seeing continual false flags. The interesting thing is this week, what are we on? I think it's Wednesday today. Yeah, I'm losing count. For the last maybe 40 minutes we've been talking. By the way, did you know most people have forgotten about it? There was apparently an assassination attempt of the US President this week. I heard that people don't even believe it anymore. Like, people don't even talk about it. Like, that's how cartoonish everything's got. They don't care anymore. You know why? Because they're in the next Phase. The next phase is we're not going to be censoring, we're not going to be hiding. We're going to be using algorithms in order to make you angry and make the most extreme version of yourself and basically radicalize you. Just like we radicalized all these different groups around the world. We want radicalized Americans, radicalized Brits, radicalized Europeans, radicalized Canadians. We want to algorithmically drive you with so much craziness that you're basically mentally weak. You're insane. You think you're going crazy. The person next to you has a radically different idea of how the world works from you. You can't even communicate. Men hate women, women hate men. We're being driven into this world and rather than saying, let's just censor them and shut them down, they'll say, well, we'll give you freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach because we want you talking. And when we're talking, you're building your social credit score and you're feeding all the data into artificial intelligence. And that artificial intelligence, we beta tested it in Gaza. We created genocide as a service using Palandia. We did occupation as a service in the West Bank. We figured out how to control those people with guns. We integrated it with drones in Ukraine. We did pre crime arrests based upon social media scraping in uk. We did crowd control in Saudi Arabia for the annual Hodge pilgrimage and built that database. We did border security within America through open borders, closed borders. We did immigration control across Europe and we got contracts. Now what's the latest contract Palantir got the US Department of Agriculture. So now we've got all the pharma data, all the different supply chains globally. I mean, the government is Palantir. We are building the one world government through palantir, integrated into XAI, integrated into ChatGPT, and we're providing all of the data. That's just the reality of what we're building here. And what do you need in order to say that? I know you say every time someone protests, maybe they're pro Palestinian, call them domestic terrorists. Maybe we'll say these radical leftists, they're domestic terrorists. These far right extremists, they're domestic terrorists. We already built Clarity act, genius act, extended military budgets, artificial intelligence budgets. Patriot act. The Constitution's dead. I'm sorry to tell you it's over. It ain't gonna protect you.
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You know, it's been the most radicalizing thing on social media for Americans has been. They've been showing clips of how it used to be like it was opening day baseball season, Boston Red Sox and like the 1962 or something like that. And they were showing videos of that, and they were showing videos of the malls in, like, the 80s and things like that, you know, an era. I remember being in the malls in the 80s. So I have a. An understanding of this. And people are watching how it used to be. And that is putting them into that is more radicalizing than just about anything. To see, to have that perspective. It's one thing if the world's always been crazy and you were born into it, but to remember how it used to be in an analog world before all of the insanity, and to see that and to have people like us that remember the difference, boy, they can't put a lid on that. Right. Because if we remember the way it used to be in our minds, it's always a possibility of getting back there. It seems like they're trying to control our concept of possibilities even.
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B
Yeah, I think they're basically social profiling everybody, and they're feeding you content, which they think will be the most useful. So one of the other things. So you've got all these racial tensions, religious tensions, you know, left versus right tensions, Democrats, you know, Republican, all the old ones, but also because of the wealth inequality, they're doing the generational one as well. And so the young people really resent the boomers. You know, the boomers, they look back at it and say, man, you just had a job and you were able to look after your kids, and you got on the property in the real estate ladder and that real estate ladder, you're able to pull out equity and you're able to buy stocks, and you've got a 401k. And, you know, and that resentment is really building up. The more people like the young generation, they're going, all right, well, I've got to take on a bunch of college debt, and then I've got to spend three years studying something that probably disrupts in three months, and none of them are getting jobs. I resent all these immigrants, you know, or, you know, depending on which side you are, they're taking. You know, they're really saying, and I've got the. You know, I've got the hard. And then what are the older people? They're saying, look, just do what I did. Just work hard, just lean in, pull up your bootstraps. You know, this is the country. It's the American dream. I did it. You can do it, too. And they're just like, the mass ain't Adding up. I can't afford this. I can't take on the debt. I can't get the real estate, I can't get the job. I'm addicted to pornography. I'm on my phone. The girls that I want to hang out with, they're on onlyfans. They're bloody prostitutes. They want to steal all my money and I ain't got no money. You know, this is the, this is the psyche that's really being built up. And sadly, you know, they're building these different profiles. So, you know, I think that nostalgia of how things used to be is forming a resentment. And if you listen to the youth today, they're angry, they're angry. They don't relate to their parents, they don't relate to that older generation. They're saying, you know what I mean? The asset hold, all the 92% of stocks are held by 10% of institutions. And that's your 401k, ain't mine. It's your real estate. You're the one. I can't get that. And they're seeing that. And it's driving resentment, it's driving anger.
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Well, there is some hope though, because. And we'll generalize here a little bit, but boomers, typically older, not as in line with new technology. And we've got a younger generation generation who's most definitely embraced cryptocurrencies in general and some, you know, some in particular, like Bitcoin and Monero and things like this. Nobody knows the crypto market better than you. What is your outlook on where things go moving forward with maybe just the crypto space, you know, as it infects the defi world or, you know, the traditional financial system gets replaced by defi. Is this not an opportunity for this new generation? Say, yeah, maybe the boomers did it a different way and you've got your complaints against them. And they're legitimate for sure. However, moving into a new paradigm here, you guys are young, you have an understanding of technology, here's your opportunity. What do you feel is the future of crypto?
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Yeah. Requires a bit of a more nuanced understanding. Crypto is gambling. They're driving people into gambling. Prediction markets is the whole market. They did meme coins, they did NFTs. These are all Silicon Valley funded, centralized junk to get people to try and gamble effectively. And they're making it more and more easy. It is the main choice that many of these people are choosing is gambling. You try and tell people, by the way, the way to financially succeed is you need to own assets to outperform inflation. And you don't just buy it now and then it goes up a thousand x. That's called gambling, that's called trading. You ain't going to succeed at that because that's a rig. 1% of people succeed at that. And they're the ones creating the meme coins and creating the tokens. And then they end up in prison because they scamming other people and doing all sorts of okay, your job is to own more bitcoin each month. And they're like, yeah, okay, I could buy $10, $100, but look at the price of bitcoin and they've got that unit bias. And then suddenly they start thinking, let me find something, shit, that's worth a few cents, right? And maybe it will go up a thousand x in a couple of days. And I've seen that for, I've been involved in bitcoin since it was $3 in 2011. And, and they've been saying that all along, like the psyche hasn't changed. And when it hit $1,000 they were like, it's too late, I missed the boat. You know, the same with 10,000, the same with 100,000. And there's an element of truth that the returns are diminishing over time, of course, but the reality is, is that the crypto market is the police and surveillance state. It is the programmable money, the stablecoins, the central bank digital currencies, defi contracts. Last couple of weeks they have freeze functions from the foundations which were funded by Silicon Valley, you know, on pre mined coins. Look at what Trump is doing. The Trump family is doing with World Liberty Financial. They're wheeling and dealing in sovereign wealth fund bribes. They're pardoning, you know, people in exchange for quid pro quo. They get 75% of all the token sales to their personal family wealth. They're launching coin after coin. Those coins are down significantly in terms of value. They're doing you, you cannot imagine if I just went through what they're doing with these coins. If it's a complete asset stripping, crypto scamming exercise, you know, and they're building Genius act and Clarity act which is turning crypto into the bank secrecy Act. And so they're definitely doing that. Now. What are they doing with bitcoin? Well, they're taking people like Howard Lutnick in Canter Fitzgerald and they're going around all the bitcoiners and saying, hey, do you want to create a Wall street wrapper with your bitcoin in it tax efficient. And a bunch of people are saying, I'll put all my bitcoin into a Wall street wrapper. And then the price of those shares are going down like 95%. Like Nakamoto, they're acquiring all of the bitcoin infrastructure and bitcoin conferences and various other things. And they created a psyop, I'm sorry, called strategy, which was a mechanism for the financial industrial complex to lend as much money to a corporate rapper and a Wall street vehicle and get as much bitcoin in a Wall street wrapper as possible. They're up to 850,000 bitcoin in strategy. They're loading it up with debt. They're paying perpetual dividends. They answer to the corporate bondholders and they answer to the equity holders. That is the fic. So they created a vehicle. And then after doing Operation Chokepoint 2.0, which was effectively wiping out the crypto friendly banks, replacing a lot of the infrastructure with BlackRock, launching the Bitcoin ETF. They're just trying to centralize as much bitcoin as possible because they want to own it and not you. They want you to have IOU bitcoin because they want to do what they did with gold. They want to create the paper bitcoin market. They don't want you to own the real bitcoin like they don't want you to own the real gold. And so that's what they're doing. But how do you resist? You resist by actually using bitcoin the way it was designed. And that still works. When they create paper bitcoin, they will need rebuilt real bitcoin to cover those contracts. You saw what happened in the silver market, you saw what happened in the gold market. And so when you tell people you need to own more bitcoin in self custody, you need to learn how to run nodes. That's how you escape. And you need to own a bit more every single month. And you need to do that for 10 years. They're like, ah, nah, I just want to buy a shitcoin for a couple of cents and hopefully a 1000X. Unfortunately, there's no, there's no quick, there's no quick fix here. The quick fix is what everyone else is doing and everyone else is losing.
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Yeah, well, I understand the psychology of it. It certainly does make sense. You get it if some, you know, when bitcoin hit a thousand, everyone's saying, well, maybe Ethereum has more room to grow. And therefore they do the math in their head and they, you Know that's the calculation you make when, when the ship has sailed without you. What is the future hold for the second half of this year? What do you think is going to, how are things going to play out just globally here we, it seems like we'll wrap up with this question because you know, now we're at a point where the supply chain that the lack of oil coming out of the Persian Gulf has, has the opportunity to felt those, those ships have, have essentially stopped coming and things start to get priced in. Second half of the year going to be a catastrophe. What are we looking at? Is it going to be a brand new version of price discovery on everything worldwide or, or are they going to. Or is the vic going to rub their magic potion all over everything and kick the can down the road for another year or two? How does this play out?
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Yeah, the rules of the K shaped economy is effectively if you're in debt and you don't own assets, you lose and you get worse and worse and worse. If you own assets outperform inflation then you're getting closer and closer to the elite class and that's the rules. There's nothing else you can do about that. Yeah, you might pick the wrong assets or various other things, but there's only one way to beat the game and that's to own assets that outperform inflation. And there's no other way unless you want to just go off the grid, build your own communities, which some people might want to do and build a parallel system that exists outside the system with your own supply chains. That's an option. Now if you want to play within the system then you need to be an asset holder. I personally like Bitcoin for various reasons. You could do it with gold or you could be a part of the system, but if you don't own assets you're going to get further and further behind. And that's just the reality. So what comes next in my estimation? Today we've got the final talk from Fixed spokesperson Jerome Powell, who's leaving the Fed and he's been regime changed with the next Epstein class, Kevin Walsh. And his job is to get interest rates down and pretend that he's going to reduce the balance sheet. He's going to increase the balance sheet is my estimation, in my opinion. And he's only got one option which is to push the short term rates down. And then if you push the short term rates down, that's going to lead to the longer term rates going up. And when the longer term rates go up, that Breaks the mortgage market. Mortgages go to 7%, 8%. And so the only way to stop that is for the Fed to buy those longer term bonds and sell the debt short term. So we're going to have yield control. Now in order to make that work, you need a justification for a big print. I'm talking about a really big print. I'm talking about bigger than Covid. That was like 5 trillion. This one, you need 7 trillion. So you need a narrative in order to do that. One narrative is create an energy crisis which breaks the AI trademark, break the petrodollar so that the Gulf countries aren't investing in AI anymore and they were the largest investors. Break the Japan carry trade so that the hedge funds can no longer borrow money for cheap from Japan and break the relationship with Europe through the euro dollar, which effectively breaks everything that propped up the dollar. But then you need a crisis in order to reform that. So what's happening right now is Scott Bersen is going around and saying, you can't sell us equities and you can't sell us bonds. We'll give you a loan, give us some of your currency and we'll give you some of our currency. And so they're printing money through FX swap lines, which is what they're beta tested with Dubai and we'll break the petrodollar. You come out of opec, they're going around all the different areas and saying let's change your relationship from the petrodollar to you effectively agreeing not to sell bonds and not to sell equity because the stock market has to go up and you can't make those yields go out of control because it breaks our market and we've got to roll it over. And so everything that Scott% doing is about rolling over. Now you need a narrative. What's a good narrative? Well, one way to do that is keep the straight closed, make oil prices go to where they are right now and keep that going for a little bit longer where it doesn't break things into a depression, but it does guarantee a recession. That recession then forms the justification for the big print. We also need a very strong narrative. That narrative is China is about to win the AI race. Energy made our AI companies very expensive. We need to bail them out because otherwise China wins and they rule the world. And so the big print comes when you open the straight, which means we move to multipolarity. The petrodollar is over once that happens. But in the meantime, you need to guarantee a recession and a big print Narrative which is China. So my personal belief is on May 14, Xi Jinping and Trump meets. They will announce the world order that makes America look strong while effectively we transition to a multipolar world. We got the regime change at the Fed and they're creating the environment where we get inflation, where you can wipe out the middle class, you can get bankruptcies in small businesses, massive wealth transfer up to the top and then that leads to demand destruction, which leads to a couple of quarters, I think of negative growth and a recession and then the AI bailout. Whatever breaks in that recession, you'll pay the bill, they'll do the big print and that will be a massive, massive wealth transfer again. And we'll just subsidize this AI trade, get the price of energy down, but the money printing is what justifies that. And then we enter back into the K shaped economy asset strip. And I think eventually the stock markets connected to countries that have commodities and energy will outperform the S and P, the current perform the dollar. When they're connected to commodities, the Chinese Yuan has outperformed the dollar. And in any of the other countries their stock markets will underperform and their currencies will underperform. And I think you'll have some kind of renegotiation with the strengthening of the Chinese Yuan and the weakening of the dollar. And that will push America into a regional power when we enter into this multipolar world order. In the meantime, what do you do with the AI trade? You push the next agenda which is the one world government, decent surveillance state and you just keep chipping away at it. Central bank, digital currencies, stablecoins, social credit scores, pre crime arrests and all that stuff. And so you have those simultaneous models. I think that's what the rest of the year looks like. And your job is to essentially make sure that you own the assets to outperform inflation. And you have to join the elite class by becoming wealthy and trying to change the system from within. Eventually.
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But nobody says we have to be like them, we just have to be wealthy like them. So have your money, have assets. If they're going to do a big print, that's a, that's the rising tides, right? Get, get yourself a B.O. and, and allow that to, to lift you up. Boy, what a crazy, what a crazy time to be paying attention. I appreciate you coming on here. What's the best place for people to find you and to, to follow that your outstanding work that you've been putting out lately?
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B
Yeah, so what I do as I Said like bitcoin made me independent. So I've kind of at a stage in life where I sold my business. There's no sponsorship, there's no monetization. You know, I'm just trying to make sure that as many people are in my community because I think we're going to be working together as a community. So I kind of as a discipline, I go live on Friday and I do like these crazy 3 to 4 hour follow the money things. Oh, I watched bitcoin macro geopolitics and some people just find it too much. And so what I do is I go live every Friday as a discipline that's kind of for me. And so I share it in real time and make predictions and then analyze where I'm wrong or where I got right. But then I take the content, feed it into AI and do like a 5 minute AI summary or a 15, 20 minute AI summary for those that don't have the time. I publish those on my blog, SimonDixon.com I do the videos on my YouTube channel, Simon Dixon. And then in real time I react to things in realty 1x. So imondixon twit. That's about all I can manage.
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Well, it's plenty. And thank you for the work that you do. I mean, we know you don't have to do it. You could sit on an island somewhere and enjoy your life. But those of us who have the eyes to see this, we feel compelled to talk to people that will hear, that will listen, that can maybe open their eyes and move out of the way of what's coming. I fear what's coming, but I fear the response to what's coming even more from the general public. That's Simon Dixon, everybody. You can go to SimonDixon.com and check out his amazing work. If you're interested in connecting with me. Macroaggressions IO is the website. Please go to activistpost.com and get your news over there. Thanks everybody. We'll talk to you again soon.
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B
Sam.