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BREAKING: @BlackRock Recruiter Who “Decides People’s Fate” Spills Info on Company’s World Impact “It’s not who the president is- it’s who’s controlling the wallet of the president” “You got $10K? You can buy a senator" “War is real f***ing good for business” #BlackRockExposed https://t.co/DZIy1DuZKF
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The video features an undercover reporter interviewing Serge Varley, a recruiter at BlackRock, one of the world's leading asset and investment managers. Varley discusses how financial institutions like BlackRock buy politicians and control the world through diversification and acquisition. He also reveals how the Ukraine-Russia war is good for business, as it creates volatility and profit opportunities. Varley mentions that news channels benefit from war as well. He advises the reporter to do the opposite of what Jim Cramer advises for making money. Varley believes that normal people don't care about these matters. The video ends with a teaser for part 2 and a comment from BlackRock stating that they were reached out for comment.
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Speaker 0: But they don't wanna be in the news. They they don't want people to talk about them. They don't
Speaker 1: wanna be anywhere on on the radar.
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 0: It's some film, but I suspect it's probably because it's easier
Speaker 3: to do things when people aren't thinking
Speaker 0: about it. All of these financial institutions, they buy politicians. You can take this big sum of money, and then you can start to buy people.
Speaker 3: I work for, a company called BlackRock.
Speaker 4: Meet Serge Barlett, A recruiter at BlackRock.
Speaker 0: Let me tell you, it's not who is the president.
Speaker 3: It's who's controlling the the wall.
Speaker 5: So it's it's
Speaker 2: And who's that?
Speaker 0: The hedge funds across the banks. These guys won't buy that. Contain financing. Yep. You can buy it.
And obviously, we have this system voice. 1st, there's percentage. And these guys You got $10 you can buy So
Speaker 6: I'll give you 500 k right now. No question asked.
Speaker 7: Yeah. I
Speaker 0: did the 2 weeks to be done.
Speaker 7: Just like that.
Speaker 2: Everybody do that? Does Blackhawk do that?
Speaker 8: It doesn't matter who wins.
Speaker 9: They're so good. They're they're my father.
Speaker 4: Here is Serge Varley on how good war is for BlackRock's Business.
Speaker 0: Do you
Speaker 7: have any, thoughts on the Ukraine Russia war?
Speaker 0: Yeah. I mean, I I do have thoughts. What do you
Speaker 7: what do you mean?
Speaker 0: Ukraine It's good for business. You you know. Alright? I'll give you an example. Russia Russia blows up Ukraine Grain sales.
Price of wheat's gonna go mad up. So Ukrainian economy is tied very largely
Speaker 1: to the wheat market, Global wheat market. Prices of bread and,
Speaker 0: you know, and literally everything goes up now. This is fantastic if you're trading. Volatility creates opportunity to make profit. War is real fucking good for business. It's exciting when goes wrong.
Right? BlackRock manages 20 trillion. It's a comprehensible number.
Speaker 4: BlackRock Serge Varley says all of this is above a normal person's understanding.
Speaker 3: You're like a undercover reporter.
Speaker 4: Hi. I'm James O'Keefe with OMG News. Here we are with our latest story this time on BlackRock, of the world's leading asset and investment managers, which owns significant shares of companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Anheuser Busch, Meta, Target, Procter and Gamble, Comcast, CNN, Fox, and yes, Pfizer, just to name a few. At OMG, we do not shy away from exposing powerful companies, and we're not afraid of powerful So to do that, what better place to start a hidden camera investigation than into a self described gatekeeper At BlackRock.
Speaker 7: Like, you're kinda like a fucking gamekeeper at BlackRock.
Speaker 0: Yeah. I am. I I decide people's fate. Every In May, I literally decide how somebody's height is going to be shaped. Yeah.
It's So it's just like you hear where
Speaker 3: it is. I know
Speaker 4: Introducing Serge Varley, Whose LinkedIn says he's worked for Morgan Stanley, Citadel, and now as a recruiter at BlackRock.
Speaker 3: I work for, a company called BlackRock.
Speaker 0: I'm not actually
Speaker 3: a finance guy. I just I know what happens because I'm including people for duty's sake. Mhmm.
Speaker 0: I'm the person who heads on people to my other firms, so I would approach them, but, hey. This is a good reason why it's not there for us.
Speaker 4: Serge tells us who really runs the world, how they do it, and just how much it costs to buy people, like politicians.
Speaker 0: Let me tell you, it's not the truth.
Speaker 3: Who's the person next? It's Chris controlling the the wall.
Speaker 5: So it's it's
Speaker 2: And who's that?
Speaker 0: The hedge funds across the banks. Stop. If you guys want bank debt. In financing, Yep. You can buy your candidates.
So get outside. All of these financial institutions, they buy politicians.
Speaker 7: How do they run
Speaker 0: the world? You acquire stuff. You diversify. You acquire. You keep acquiring.
You spend whatever you make in acquiring more. And at a certain point, your risk level is is super low. Like, imagine you've invested in, like, 10 different industries from food to To drinks, to, like, technology. Right? If one one of them fails, it doesn't matter.
You have 9 others to pick you up. The risk management is is inherently just about everything. And In the finance space, it's all about it's a it's well, it's all about the money you make. You don't you don't let it sit. You keep using it over and over and just
Speaker 7: Reinvest.
Speaker 0: Yeah. And it exponentially grows.
Speaker 7: And then once you just own a little bit of everything, is that where the control?
Speaker 0: You own a little bit of everything, and that little bit of everything gives you so much money on a yearly basis that you can take this big Sell the money, and then you can start to buy people. And obviously, we have this system in place. 1st, there's the senators. And these guys you got $10 you can buy soon.
Speaker 8: It doesn't matter who who lands.
Speaker 7: They're so mad.
Speaker 9: They're they're my father.
Speaker 6: I can give you 500 k right now. No questions asked.
Speaker 0: Yeah. I don't think it needs to be done. They're like, yeah. Of course. Why not?
Speaker 2: Just like everybody do that? Does BlackRock do that?
Speaker 4: The BlackRock Recruiter also tells us about how the US government relies on BlackRock for their economic simulation Computational power.
Speaker 0: Economic simulation. They need to understand the impact of something. Right? They're gonna, like, raise the interest, for Exactly. It's gonna create this cascade of various factors that are they're not sure what's gonna do, basically.
Speaker 4: And just how great The Ukraine war is for business.
Speaker 0: Do you
Speaker 7: have any, thoughts on the Ukraine Russia war?
Speaker 0: Ukraine is good for business.
Speaker 2: K. Mama.
Speaker 5: I'll give
Speaker 0: you an example. Russia Russia blows up Ukraine grain to us. Price of wheat is gonna go mad up. So what are you gonna do for your trading firm? The moment that news hits, within a millisecond, you're gonna pump you're gonna pump trades into, into, wherever the weed suppliers are.
And if their stocks, within an hour or 2, that stock goes And then you sell, and you just made I don't know. Or maybe sell.
Speaker 7: Why would a news channel Come on. Aside in war.
Speaker 0: Because it's also good for business I mean, what's news news? Right? What does news feed on? They feel like Babishy. They keep on up events.
That's what people like to watch. So when it happens, it seems good business. Viewers. Stop. Stop.
When nothing's happening, you watch your news. I don't watch your news.
Speaker 7: Yes. They're all pushing, like, the same Talking point like, you generally, when you look at news, like
Speaker 0: Stop again. Ukrainian economy is tied very largely to
Speaker 1: the wheat market, Global weak market?
Speaker 0: This is fantastic if you're trading. Volatility creates opportunity to make profit. War is And this is the business. It's exciting when
Speaker 3: shit goes wrong.
Speaker 4: Right? Serge also speaks on BlackRock influenced news and even gave our journalist Some tips.
Speaker 7: Based on everything we know now Uh-huh. When they say to sell, does that mean we should buy?
Speaker 0: So, yeah. It's like, you know Jim Cramer? If you do, exactly the opposite of what he's advising, you actually make money. Yeah. It's like it's called the the inverse radar.
They they don't wanna be in the news. They they don't want people to talk about them. They don't
Speaker 1: wanna be anywhere on on the radar.
Speaker 2: Why not? Why?
Speaker 0: It's on film, but I suspect it's probably because it's easier To do
Speaker 3: things when people aren't paying by it.
Speaker 4: And when Surge was asked about insider trading and if Larry Fink recently sold a $100,000,000 in BlackRock shares here is what he said.
Speaker 7: Larry Fink recently sold a $100,000,000 worth of BlackRock. Oh,
Speaker 0: Damn, Larry. That's not a good sign. The people who trade and make money, they do this at the moment the out. And that invoice typically Hey. Typically is disseminated at private levels first before it gets, arranged.
If you wanna invest smart. There's a tracker that tracks all politicians and where they have their stocks. Preemptively, if the stock price if we think the stock price is gonna tank, we're gonna sell so that so that we we sell it high, it tanks, and we buy back. And we made well, we didn't make, but we preserved preserved a few male.
Speaker 4: But perhaps the most remarkable and profound comment By the BlackRock recruiter is the suggestion that nobody is going to care about what he is saying here or confessing here. Because as he says, quote, normal people don't give a shit.
Speaker 3: You're like a undercover reporter.
Speaker 7: Really? No. No. Don't not all worry about this stuff?
Speaker 0: I don't know. No. No. People don't get a shit. This is this is beyond them.
Speaker 4: That these types of questions my report have asked are beyond all of you. The answer is something that He's been fooled. There is no question that many Americans are still asleep who may not want to wake up from their necessary illusions. But we hope and believe by showing these tapes of this Black Rock gatekeeper speaking so plainly On so many topics that not only we wake up people, but also inspire others to come forward on institutions Like BlackRock. Oh, and this is just part 1.
Stay tuned tomorrow for my meeting with Serge Marley. We also reached out for comment to BlackRock, and here's what they had to say.
@AAnon55 - 𝙰 𝙰𝚗𝚘𝚗
[BLACKROCK] One of the most powerful companies in the world. They control governments, & they own a little bit of everything. https://t.co/X5NkpZitPi
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Larry Fink, Soros, State Street, Vanguard, and BlackRock have significant influence in various industries, including defense contracts, Hollywood, and pharmaceuticals. These companies hold a monopoly-like control over 88% of the companies on the S&P 500. BlackRock alone has assets under management worth $10 trillion, which is more than the GDP of all but two countries. They have the power to shape people's lives, replace CEOs, and buy politicians. The military-industrial complex is a major concern, as defense contractors profit from wars. ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) initiatives are seen as a means of control rather than just making money. The goal seems to be about acquiring power and control rather than accumulating more wealth.
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Speaker 0: How much, Joe, have you looked at, you know, Larry Fink, Soros, State Street, you know, Vanguard, BlackRock. How much have you looked at what they're doing and have what their ties are?
Speaker 1: I've looked at it.
Speaker 0: Yeah? Yeah. They're pretty much running everything.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 0: S and P 500, you know, the number that, 88% of the companies on S and P 500, 88% of them, the largest shareholder of those companies is either State Street, BlackRock, or Vanguard. 88% of them. Okay? And then you see their influence in defense contracts. Okay.
So we went through a deal. I'm like, let me see if these these guys, this ESG, Larry Fink, Vanguard, State Street, if they have any influence on military contract, defense contract. If you Google the largest shareholder for Raytheon, 3 out of the 4 Top shareholders of Raytheon, BlackRock, State Street, and, Vanguard. It could be top 3 with Raytheon, but I think it's 3 out of 4. If you go look up General Dynamics, if you go look up Boing, if you go look up, you know, Northrop Grumman, okay?
And then you work backwards and you say, okay. How much money is that in the, in in what these guys are doing? You'll find, our you know, the amount of money we spent in our military, $744,000,000,000 on how much we're making from defense, but you'll see some numbers saying last year is 13% of our GDP which is around $850,000,000,000 That's more than the next 10 combined. We gave more money to Ukraine than Russia spent on their military last year. And when you look at these contracts then you're like, okay Fink is there, these guys are there.
Okay, let's go look at Hollywood. Same thing you see there. Let's go look at pharmaceutical. Let's go look at this. And you're like, wait a minute.
These guys essentially have a monopoly. Well, how big is BlackRock? $10,000,000,000,000 How big is $10,000,000,000,000 Only two countries Have a bigger GDP than what BlackRock has, assets under management. US and China, that's how big BlackRock is.
Speaker 2: I work for, a company called BlackRock. I'm not actually a finance guy. I just I know what happens because I'm including people For deepest sense. Mhmm. I'm the person who helps people to another person, so I would approach me and be like, hey.
Speaker 3: This is a good reason why you should
Speaker 2: come here across. I'm like, you're You're kind of like a fucking gamekeeper at Ypod. Yeah. I am. I I decide people's space.
Every fucking day, I literally decide how somebody's Life is going to be shaped. It's so powerful. Yeah. It's So it's just like you hear where it's And, you know, the the whole thing of, like, domination Who's controlling the the wallet? Yes.
So it's it's And who's that? The hedge funds across the banks. These guys provide that. In financing, yep. You can buy you can and obviously, we have this business voice.
1st, there's the senate. So these guys You got $10 you can buy soon. I could give you 500 k right now. No question. Yeah.
I did the It's done. Just, like, everybody do that? Does Blackhawk do that? It's like, you know what? It doesn't matter who lands.
There's so many. They're they're my partners. Just recently, if you saw the rebuilding
Speaker 0: of Ukraine, did you see If you saw the rebuilding of Ukraine, did you see this contract? Rebuilding of Ukraine, $400,000,000,000 contract. BlackRock and Chase is helping rebuild Ukraine. And then, you know, okay, I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but What the hell is going on here? They have that much control to get everybody to do what they want them to do?
Yes?
Speaker 2: Do you have any, thoughts on the Ukraine Russia war? Yeah. I mean, I I do have thoughts. What what are they? Ukraine is good for business.
You you know? Alright? I'll give you an example. Russia Russia blows up Ukraine's grain status. Price of wheat is gonna go mad up.
So Ukrainian economy is tied very largely for the wheat market, global wheat market. Prices of bread, You know, and literally everything else is something else. This is fantastic if you're trading. Volatility creates opportunity to make profit. War is no good for business.
It's exciting when goes wrong. Right? Rockrock manages 20 trillion. It's a comprehensive numbers.
Speaker 0: So, Dylan Mulvaney, who cares? Why? Bud Light. How does that tie up? You got the DEI, the HRC, the human rights, and all this stuff.
And then you go even deeper, which is even the crazier part with, You know, the the education, schools, like, you know, the biggest, union we have in America. I think it's National Education something. NEA is the largest society and who's funding it, who's the money behind these organizations, comes back, Soros, Soros, Soros. How do you feel about the kind of power they have right now to fight against them? Because this isn't like a billionaire can come out and say I'm going to go up against these guys.
They don't have a little bit of money. A billionaire to these guys is nothing. They got the kind of control that can Make companies fire boards. They can replace CEOs. They can replace leaders if they don't like.
Speaker 2: All of these financial They buy politicians. How do they run the world? You acquire stuff. You diversify, you acquire, you acquiring, you spend whatever you make in acquiring more. And at certain point, your risk club was was super low.
Like, Imagine you've invested in, like, 10 different industries from food to to drinks to, like, Technology. Right? If one one of them fails, it doesn't matter. You have 9 others to to pick you up. The risk management is is inherently just about everything.
And In the finance space, it's all about it's a it's well, it's all about the money you make. You don't you don't let it sit. Yeah. Like, you using it over and over and just Reinvest? Yeah.
And then exponential growth. And then once you just own a little bit of everything, is that where the control? Yeah. You own a little bit of everything, and that little bit of everything gives you so much money on a yearly basis that you can take this big sell the money, and then you can start to buy people. You're like a undercover reporter.
Really? No. No. Don't not all people worry about this stuff? No.
I don't know. Oh, it was like, give a this is beyond them.
Speaker 0: They have their hands so much into it where, many times when people say Hey. The people of power. The people of power. I'm kinda like, who are the people of power? Are you convinced these guys are really running the world?
Or what do you think about what some of these bigger companies are doing? Like State Street, Vanguard and BlackRock.
Speaker 1: Well, they certainly have massive amounts of influence. What do you think they're doing?
Speaker 0: It's it's the question is how do you fight it? Like for example, the way we fight mainstream is by what? The show that we do. And we have to be patient. It's gonna take 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 20 years.
Now you have some influence. Right? Okay. We can fight. There is an actual strategy on how to fight that.
When you have this much, Joe, 88% of S and P 500 companies, that is a form of a monopoly. If I'm a president, Whether it's a Trump or whoever else goes out there and does it. Our monopoly law in America is 50%. They say 50%. Like if you tie and say at what point is a 50%?
I've done calls with the FTC. Like we had one of our guys' technology we were using. The FTC called and said, Hey we want to have a call with you because they're thinking about buying this other technology company and we're worried it's going to be a monopoly. So we had the call. Okay?
At the end of the call with us, with a bunch of different people, we said we love their product, we love their product. That deal didn't end up happening. K. The monopoly law. Some of these guys are influencing it.
But they say 50% is a monopoly law. Do you know how many people in America have an iPhone versus droid. You know what the numbers market shares in America with iPhones?
Speaker 1: I think it's like 60.
Speaker 0: 58%. 60%. That is already a monopoly. But who's knocking on the door of Apple, Tim Cook said, hey, Tim. You got 58% that's breaking the monopoly law.
Nobody is. I think someone's gotta break apart. You know, in 1993, I don't know which senator it was. They these guys that were trying to get the defense contractors to be better at the pricing, what they were charging because they were overcharging DOD and DOD people don't know what the hell is going on. They're like, yeah.
Okay. How much? $68,000,000 do it. $1,200,000,000 do it. I'm not gonna over negotiate the money.
They took 51 defense companies, And they brought it down to only 5. It's only 5 companies right now when you wanna buy anything. Think about that. So defense contractors is 5. We know how these guys make money.
Earlier, you know, I was asking you a question. Why do you think vaccine are you like, Pat? That's how they make their money. Right? I mean, if they If you and I run a hotel, rooms are empty, we're not making money.
We need people to stay in the rooms. If you and I are running a hospital, we need people on the beds to make money. Yeah. If there's no people on the beds, we ain't making money. If these 5 contractors are fighting for $744,000,000,000 What do they want more of?
Wars. They want more people dying. You know the Papa John's saying better ingredients, better pizza, Papa John's. You know, these guys has more wars, more people dying, more profits, defense contractors. Right?
That's a valid concern that I have. Because behind closed doors, this whole military industrial complex, when you look at the numbers, whoever becomes the President. Unfortunately, this guy's an anti establishment president. Good. Unfortunately, if you're an anti establishment president, Everyone's gonna come after you, especially these military defense contractors.
So if a president got up and said, if I'm gonna be the president, here's what we're gonna be doing. We have to look at all the contracts. You can't overcharge us. We have to open it up. You have to sell some of your companies.
You have to let them be independent again. You have to do this. You have to let them go public, separate. Whatever you gotta break them apart to have competition again because we don't have that today, you know? So that is a major concern where We say we have a Commander in Chief, but really the Commander in Chief is Larry Fink.
Today, the guy running BlackRock is really the President of the United States, if we look at the kind of influence he's got, In every industry, Joe. And he's like, well, you know, I kinda feel bad. I'm ashamed that all the weaponization, the word, you know, ESG is being used and all this other stuff and Elon tweeted about the ESG. I don't know if you remember when Elon tweeted about ESG saying the s in ESG is satanic. K?
So This is a part where even a Charlie Munger who is Warren Buffett's partner says, look, I love Larry Fink, But I'm not interested in having an emperor some words like that he said about Larry Fink so This motive and by the way Larry Fink is an interesting guy because he majored In college political science, his aspirations was politics. He accidentally got into money and he learned to trade and then he lost a $100,000,000 at at 30 years old, I think. And then he teams up with Schwartzman, and they start this company. And after a couple years, they got 5,000,000,000 under management, 8,000,000,000 and 32,000,000,000. And then they have a difference because, you know, he wants to give equity and Jamie's, you know, Schwartzman's like known and they separate.
But Influence of politics. You get into business, you're a billionaire. It's you, Soros.
Speaker 4: This would be the time because you really need to bring China into the creation of a new, world order. So I think you need a new word order that China has to be part of the process of creating it.
Speaker 0: I'm I'm extremely concerned about what these guys are up to. And we think our president is the most powerful person. That person is not. Because being a closer is gonna be like, look. Guys, let's relax.
That guy's only gonna be there for 4 to 8 years. We're gonna be alright. He'll be out. We're running the world. We're okay.
We were running America, But now we're running the world. We control all the ETFs in America. We're controlling all this stuff. Everyone has to come through us and we can tell everybody what to do because everybody fears not getting money from us, being downgraded a Tesla on ESG score is nothing but a Philip Morris gets an a rating. How to hell the company that's Philip Morris has a better environmental social governance score, DEI, you know, not DEI, but the CEI, the score they give it over Tesla.
So they can bully some of these guys.
Speaker 1: What do you think the goal of ESG is. What why do you think they're establishing these sort of parameters? Like, why why is ESG thing. And what's the benefit of it for them?
Speaker 0: Why are these guys doing what they're doing? You have all the money in the world. You live in a $100,000,000 Not you. Larry Fink and some of these guys. Mhmm.
I'm not I don't know if he lives in a $100,000,000. But you got some money to live in a $100,000,000. What else do you
Speaker 1: need? Right.
Speaker 0: You got nice cars. Jamie Dimmes got a $900,000,000 art collection according to an article. It's a nice art collection. Right? You You go to all the nice restaurants, you meet prime ministers, you meet presidents.
And then maybe there comes a time when you're looking at a couple of these guys, they're presidents and prime ministers, and you tell yourself, I'd be a better president than you, bro. How the hell am I not a reading a country? Or they tell themselves, you think you're a president? You're not a president. You work for me.
What else is the motive?
Speaker 1: But ESG, how does that factor?
Speaker 0: But that the point is control is what I'm saying. So the motive becomes control more than money. After you have all the money in the world, what's next? It's got to be control or a true vision. So a Soros, when you're talking ESG, that story is a completely different story.
You ever heard Soros' interview with 60 minutes where he says I see myself as a god. Have you ever seen this interview or or what he says? No. It seems that Soros believes he was anointed anointed by God. I fancied myself as some kind of a god.
If truth be known, I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood, Which I felt I had to control, otherwise they might get me in trouble. And then on the next line when asked by Britain's Independent Newspaper to elaborate on the passage Sauer says, it is sort of a disease when you consider yourself some kind of a god. The creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.
Speaker 4: No. You have you have currently some kind of a distortion in in globalization because you've got global markets, But political arrangements remain firmly based on the on the principle of sovereignty.
Speaker 3: Well, talk about that. I mean, what is the right balance between sovereignty on the one hand and internationalism and and Maybe world government on the other hand, which as you well know is a is a real, antichrist Yes. For many people in this country and elsewhere in the world.
Speaker 4: Well, I think we the principle of sovereignty is the prevailing principle, but it is becoming modified Because there are some universal principles that begin to to limit The the concept of absolute, sovereignty. In the things that I am engaged in, I'm actually willing to put my life at at, at risk, and I think it's it makes me feel, much more, complete.
@WallStreetSilv - Wall Street Silver
Does Blackrock Run The World? 88% of public companies have their largest shareholder as one of three entities.
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The majority of companies on the S&P 500 have State Street, BlackRock, or Vanguard as their largest shareholders. BlackRock, with a worth of $10 trillion, is only surpassed by the GDPs of the US and China. Their influence extends to defense contracts, as seen with Raytheon. This pattern is also evident in Hollywood and the pharmaceutical industry, where these companies essentially hold a monopoly. Their control is so significant that they can remove boards and replace CEOs. However, they argue that having a 50% market share does not violate monopoly laws.
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Speaker 0: 8% of the companies on S&P 500. The largest shareholder is either State Street, BlackRock, or Vanguard. 88% of them. Well, how big is BlackRock? $10,000,000,000,000.
How big is $10,000,000,000,000? Only 2 countries Have a bigger GDP than what BlackRock has. US and China, that's how big BlackRock is. And then you see their influence in defense contracts. If you Google top shareholders of Raytheon, BlackRock, Vanguard.
K. Let's go look at Hollywood. Same thing you see there. Let's go look at pharmaceutical, and you're like, wait a minute. These guys essentially have a monopoly.
A billionaire to these guys is nothing. They got the kind of control that make companies fire boards. They can replace CEOs. They can replace leaders if they don't like, But they say 50% is a monopoly law. That is already a
@iluminatibot - illuminatibot
BlackRock will own everything very soon
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BlackRock, a major investment firm, owns a significant portion of United States banks, pharma companies, and mainstream media. They also oversee a large percentage of global stock trading and manage billions of dollars in assets. Additionally, they have substantial investments in media companies like Fox, CBS, Comcast, and Disney. BlackRock is also a significant institutional investor in tech giants like Google, Facebook, and Amazon. Recently, they have been acquiring homes and driving up mortgage prices, leading to concerns about homeownership.
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Speaker 0: Ice cream so good. But before they finally make BlackRock, BlackRock owns most United States banks. They own all major pharma companies and mainstream media. They oversee 10% of all stocks traded worldwide. They manage over $10,000,000,000 in assets which is happening in United States GDP.
They, BlackRock and Bank of Art own 18% of Fox, 16% of CBS, 13% of Comcast, which also self controlled NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, Sky News, and they own 12% of Disney. These are the biggest institutional investors of Google, Facebook, Amazon, and now they're buying up all the homes and artificially inflating your mortgage, so you will own nothing and be happy. I have to
@Resist_05 - Pelham
BlackRock will soon own everything, then they’ll use their leverage to force the World Economic Forum’s 2030 agenda…. “You’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy”..
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At BlackRock, we are emphasizing the need for companies to change their behaviors as an investment criteria. We are actively pushing for these changes and although it will take time, we are surprised by the lack of opportunities we have seen so far.
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Speaker 0: You now make a point of that's an investment criteria for you. Well, behaviors are going to have to change and this is one thing we're asking companies. You have to force behaviors and at BlackRock we are forcing behaviors and ultimately it's still going to take time But I am just as much shocked and is that we have not seen more opportunities. We're going to have to force
@Lucas_Gage_ - Lucas Gage
Many say that Black Rock, just because it was founded by six Jews, is a company hell bent on controlling all assets on planet Earth. #JewHatred. https://t.co/sQK7yF8X90
@HappyCamper2626 - I’m No Angel
@liz_churchill10 Most people know what /who Blackrock is. But , do you know how powerful they are? Here’s a quick little education on Blackrock. Very scary just how powerful they have become. https://t.co/5tItklUswv
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A senior adviser to BlackRock revealed that a group of elites, including leaders from major financial institutions and central banks, are working towards establishing a one-world order, one-world taxation, and one-world money. They plan to freeze the global financial system during an upcoming crisis and reset the world economy according to their vision. BlackRock is targeted to be classified as "too big to fail," allowing the elites to take control of its assets remotely. The elites, who are not democratically elected, include individuals such as Christine Lagarde, Mark Carney, and Ben Bernanke. The elites have conducted dry runs in countries like Cyprus, freezing entire banking systems and extracting wealth from citizens. This coordinated attack on the global financial system will have severe consequences for citizens worldwide.
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Speaker 0: I was having dinner with a friend not long ago in New York City. We met at a place called Ariel, which is in Midtown. My dinner companion that night was a senior adviser to BlackRock. As you may know, BlackRock is now the largest asset manager on the planet. It directly manages $5,000,000,000,000 in assets, and it oversees another $11,000,000,000,000 through its Aladdin platform.
That means 1 firm controls more money than the GDPs of China, Russia, and Japan combined. Anyway, my dinner companion happens to work directly for BlackRock CEO. As we nourished our white wine and the evening wore on, she let something slip. If I remember her words, she said something like, they want to tell us we can't sell. What was she talking about?
Who was she talking about? I placed a few calls, first to my contacts in Washington, then to a few people on Wall Street. Soon, I was on a plane for a series of meetings to London, to Geneva, back to New York then down to South America. As I began connecting the dots, a pattern emerged. It revealed a network of more than 189 individuals positioned inside the world's major financial institutions.
Some of them hold senior positions inside the IMF, World Bank, and every central bank in the g twenty, including our own Federal Reserve. These elites share one vision, and they're about to make it a reality. That vision is one world order, One World Taxation and One World Money. They've worked for years behind the scenes preparing to realize that vision. They've literally rigged the laws of international Finance.
Everything is basically in place right now, and there's essentially no way to stop this from happening. When the crisis hits, they'll flip the switch, freezing the global financial system. That will give them time to reset the world economy according to their vision. As the coming crisis unfolds, president Trump will be powerless to stop it. In In fact, trying to stop them would probably weaken the president's power altogether.
Speaker 1: That is that that that is amazing, Jim. Really. So what did these elites want from your contact at BlackRock?
Speaker 0: Basically, they want to classify BlackRock as too big to fail. The technical term is systemically important financial institution or SIFI. That designation normally applies to banks such as Bank of America. If your bank gets the SIFI label, it means the government will bail you out first in a crisis, but it also means you must turn over control of your bank until the crisis subsides. In this case, they're trying to reclassify BlackRock, an asset manager, as too big to fail.
If they succeed, they'll be able to freeze BlackRock when the crisis hits. BlackRock clients won't be able to sell. They won't be able to buy either. Their accounts will go dark indefinitely, and the elite operators will take control of BlackRock's assets remotely via the Internet. But our research shows that their ICE nine plan goes much, much deeper than that.
Speaker 1: That you refer to their plan as ICE nine. You just said that. What what does that mean?
Speaker 0: It's a reference to the Kurt Vonnegut novel, Cat's Cradle. In the book, a mad scientist creates a new form of water molecule called ice 9. When it comes in contact with other water molecules, it freezes them at room temperature. One job of Einstein can freeze the whole ocean, and that's what these elite operators are about to do
Speaker 1: to the world economy. Now can you share with our viewers exactly who these operatives are and and what their ultimate goal might be?
Speaker 0: Like I said, John, more than 189 elite agents have slowly wormed their way into leadership positions across the board. They now sit at or near the head of the IMF, the World Bank, and even our own Federal Reserve. They also control much of what happens at the central banks of China, Russia, India, Brazil, Canada, and Europe. As you know, these institutions form a kind of global superstructure. It forms a kind of snare net encircling all nations.
Their leaders aren't democratically elected. They're not accountable to you and me. They're beyond the reach of government and citizens, and yet they hold the fate of the global financial system in their hands. To get a sense of how they Trade. Imagine an array of floating spheres.
1 sphere is labeled IMF, 1 is labeled Fed, 1 is labeled Bilderberg, 1 is labeled Wall Street, One is labeled central banks, one is labeled intelligence agencies, one is labeled media, and so on. The elites inhabit all of these spheres, and together, the network forms a kind of 3 d Venn diagram. As I see it, regardless of what sphere they inhabit, the elites all share the same vision, One world order, one world taxation, and one world money. All of their actions are geared toward moving that agenda forward. Now are you able to share the identities of these elites with our viewers?
We've identified more than 189 individuals who are in many cases hiding in plain sight. Regardless, they all share the same vision, one world order, one world taxation, and one world money. A shortlist would include Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, IMF, Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, Raghuram ji Rajan, vice chairman of a bank for international settlements, Haruhiko Kuroda, governor of the Bank of Japan, William c Dudley, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Agustin Costens, governor of the Bank of Mexico, Janet Yellen, chairman of the board of the Federal Reserve System, Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, Zhilin, former deputy managing director of the IMF, Zhejiang, governor of the People's Bank of China, Robert e Rubin, chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations. This a list of central bankers and other elites is just the tip of the iceberg. Of course, not one of these elites will tell you outright what's going on, but I've seen and heard enough to connect the dots for myself.
Not long ago, for example, I met with one of their senior operators. He's a leading economist who served as the chairman of the Federal Reserve during the last crisis. He's considered one of the most influential minds in banking today. We met privately during a conclave in Seoul, South Korea. Of course, I'm talking about Ben Bernanke.
I came away from my meeting with him stunned and convinced that ice nine was real. Not long before that, I set a 1 on 1 meeting with another member of the network. His name is Zhu Min, the former deputy governor of China's Central Bank. Until recently, he served as deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund. Zhu is a brilliant guy like Bernanke, and he's pleasant and well meaning.
There's no doubt in my mind that he's also a member of the elite network preparing to impose ICE 9 on millions of Americans, but I wasn't done with my research. I have since met with dozens of senior officials, intelligence analysts, and former Wall Street colleagues. My quest led to a final meeting, a face to face summit with the head of Bilderberg. We met at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, and he was very eager to get my take on the euro as a currency. I was happy to provide it, of course, in exchange for some valuable intelligence.
As I say in my new book, he did not have horns. In fact, he gave me a nice gift when we parted ways, a blue Swedish buzz. I keep it in my writing studio at my home in Connecticut. But my point is I came away from all 3 meetings convinced of one thing. When the next crisis hits, the elites are planning to freeze the financial system and they'll replace with a new system, one not based on the US dollar.
When that happens, we'll wake up to a very strange and disturbing new reality.
Speaker 1: And for our viewers that are watching today, what Might their reality look like that morning? How does this manifest?
Speaker 0: 1st, they'll have gone to bed knowing that a massive financial crisis was underway. But when they wake up, they'll find it has worsened and the contagion has spread worldwide. When they go to withdraw money, their ATM will say closed temporarily. When When they go to sell stocks, their account will say transaction not available. When they go to their local business, that business will only accept cash if it's open.
As citizens realize they're being barred from the money, riots will erupt. It's going to get really bad really quickly.
Speaker 1: How would such a freeze Actually work, and and wouldn't that
Speaker 0: be highly illegal? Well, it wouldn't be illegal technically because they've been quietly laying the groundwork for years. They rigged the financial laws, changed the rules of the game to allow this to happen. The stage is set. They have the levers in place.
The lights are positioned. Now someone just needs to flick a switch and they'll impose ICE 9 rapidly. And again, all of this will be legal because they've rigged the system in their favor. Here in the US, for example, congress pushed through something called the International Emergency Economic Powers Act or IEPAA. This allows the government to freeze accounts, assets, even whole Rock.
The only condition is that there's some threat to national security with a foreign connection. Of course, with a global market, every financial crisis has a foreign connection. Any systemic crisis fits the bill. And the thing is, when the next crisis hits, it's going to be so bad, president Trump won't have any choice but to go along with the elite plan.
Speaker 1: Wow. That that is you have to admit that sounds somewhat hard to believe. Now how could these operatives actually freeze a whole country's financial system.
Speaker 0: Well, fortunately, we have some recent real life examples to study. The elites have been conducting a series of dry runs for years leading up Ice 9. Look at Cypress, for example. A few years ago, the Cypriot economy was in trouble, especially the banks. The IMF stepped in and loaned Cypress $10,000,000,000, but the loan came with strings.
Now pay attention because this is precisely what they're going to do, but imagine it on a global scale. So in exchange for the capital injection, the IMF demanded control over the Cypriot banking system. More specifically, the IMF froze the entire system, literally every bank in the country, Rodey, and they did that to ensure the IMS demands were met, including strict capital controls. So how did all this impact regular citizens? Their local ATMs went dark.
Even the bank branch is closed permanently in some cases. Citizens could not withdraw cash. They couldn't even transfer funds from 1 account to the other. What came next? Wealth extraction on a grand scale.
The IMF basically stole 6 to 10% of all the cash in the Cypriot bank accounts. How did the at least justify this? They called it a levy, the price regular citizens had to pay for their government's missteps. Keep in mind, these asset confiscations were done at the balance sheet level with the institutions themselves. They never had to confiscate individual accounts.
They froze every account by controlling a handful of the country's biggest banks. When the next crisis hits, we're going to see this here in the US and around the world, and it'll be a highly coordinated global attack on the entire system simultaneously
@Cancelcloco - Ian Carroll
Who owns the entire stock market? It’s not BlackRock and it’s not Vanguard. I like to call it “Megacorp” And this is Megacorp. https://t.co/oBVlksTcOw
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All corporations are part of one giant mega corporation, with institutions like Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street owning major shares in various companies. These institutions, in turn, are owned by each other, creating a complex web of cross-ownership. The visualization of this ownership structure reveals that retail investors, insiders, and corporations are the main owners. The speaker emphasizes that when we buy products from well-known corporations, we are essentially supporting the mega corporation that controls them. The video concludes with gratitude for the support received and a reminder to stay curious and do independent research.
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Speaker 0: What if I told you that all corporations are actually just 1 giant mega corporation? And I'm not talking about metaphorically, and I'm not talking about BlackRock. I'm talking about what's really behind BlackRock. See, we hit a 1000000 followers on TikTok this week, And I've been waiting to post this video since the very first video that I made, laying the groundwork of understanding so that we're all going to understand this now that we're here. So let's break it down real simple.
If you're gonna go grocery shopping at a corporate grocery store, all these corporations are owned by these institutions. They're highlighted in red if they're on all 4 of these sheets. They're darker orange if they're on 3 of them and light orange if they're on 2. And there's only a couple that only appear once. It's mostly the same money, but we go deeper.
If you go for the biggest tech companies, it's basically the exact same list for all 4 of these. That would be Vanguard, Black Rock, State Street, Fidelity, T. Rowe Price, Geode, which is similar to Fidelity Associated, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley. And then Northern Trust is on 3 of them, and Capital World Investors is the exact same thing as Capital Research and Management Company. So you might think, okay.
These are the institutions that own the whole stock market, but who owns them? And see if you've been around here for a minute, you already know. They all own each other. Just a giant cross ownership pool. And this is where it gets It's really interesting.
You can see way back before I even posted a single video, I was sitting in my office reading this report from an anonymous user on Reddit. And he had noticed the exact same thing that I'm talking about right now, and he wrote a program to put all that data into a visualization so we can See who owns who, and I'm about to show you what he figured out. Let's take BlackRock for example. This is a list of the top institutional owners of Black and how much of the company they own. And if you visualize it, it looks like this where the whole square is all of BlackRock's stock, And they get a percentage of that square based on how much they own.
And the important colors to note are that white symbolizes us, retail investors, And gray symbolizes insiders that work at the company, so that would be like Larry Fink's stock among other people. And everything else is other giant corporations, investment banks, like BlackRock themselves own a little bit, State Street owns some, Capital World Management owns some, Bank of America owns some. You see how this works? But then you think about it and you're like, well, wait a minute, because all of these institutions are owned by other institutions. Right?
So what if we put that data in here? Well, he did, and it looks like this. And you realize that all of this that was owned by Merrill Lynch is actually owned by all of these Other institutions and a little bit of us, retail, up there at the top. But here, we've only replaced Merrill Lynch's section. What about all of these guys?
Well, then it looks like this. Remember, white is retail investors like you and me, and everything else is giant mega corporations. And if you go 1 layer deeper, filling in all those corporations with Their corporations you see how this program is working? And so then we simplify it to just black, gray, and white. And this is who owns BlackRock.
White is retail investors like you and me. Gray is insiders at all of these corporations like CEOs and other executives. And black is just corporations owning each other. We'll call it Mega Corp. This is the same process done for Bank of America and for State Street And for Best Buy, Amazon, Macy's, groceries, food, ingredients, building and selling homes, even less white, meaning us, retail ownership.
As far as I can tell, there's only 1 company on the entire stock market that is not owned by MegaCorp. And you guess who it is? Do you know? It's GameStop. Except that this photo is out of date because it's from a few years ago.
It probably looks more like this if you believe the public info, which is a big if, but more on that another time. This is not a video about GameStop. This is about MegaCorp because, see, when all of the owners own each other, all of their interests are aligned. BlackRock Want State Street to do well because State Street wants BlackRock to do well because they both own each other. So who is the real final boss behind all the money?
Well, isn't that the $1,000,000 question? And ever since I've been asking those more important questions, my follower growth went from this to this. So you're not going to find those answers on this channel. You're going to have to go follow me in other places. All I'll say for now is that the next time you buy a product from a corporation like Nike or Costco or Best Buy or Amazon or any of these corporations, you're buying it from the mega corporation.
They're all owned by the same big money, and it's all 1 big siphon just vacuuming money out of our pockets up to the people on top. We'll make another video about how exactly they do that shortly. For now, I just want to say a huge thank you to everyone that is here And here and here, your support means the world to me, and it allows me to do this work to help support small businesses and help look for, like, the truth of what the Heck is going on in this world? For all you guys that have been here since the beginning, you are legends. I notice you in the comments.
I see you. I appreciate you. Even if I don't get to as many comments and as many DMs as I used to. For all the people that have helped me do the digging, that have given me tips, that have collaborated along the way. I love you.
You're amazing. Please never stop being curious. Do your own research. Don't trust the government and get ready for a lot of censorship in 2024. So the very first video I ever posted on my page Back in May of last year was about who owns everything.
It only took us 8 months, a couple 100 videos, and a 1000000 followers to get right back to the exact same question. Who owns everything?
@ShadowofEzra - Shadow of Ezra
BlackRock Manging Director has been caught for child sex exploitation. The website Rapey Dot Su would share images of pedophilia and children being raped. Why did the managing director of Black Rock sign up to this website? And for what reason? https://t.co/9u4hwOXumC
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On May 11, 2023, the Department of Justice issued a press release about 4 men sentenced for participating in a child exploitation enterprise called rapey.su. Cybersecurity professional Ryan Montgomery obtained user data from the network, revealing over 7,000 email addresses. One email address, hero121@mail.com, was connected to the username jackie222. Investigations suggested that this email belonged to Abigail Gold Geller, a BlackRock managing director. A private investigator's report further supported this claim. However, Abigail Geller's lawyer denied the allegations, stating that the email address was not hers. The team reached out to the Department of Justice for more information.
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Speaker 0: Longest possible term not to publish such a thing.
Speaker 1: On May 11, 2023, The Department of Justice issued a press release regarding 4 men who were sentenced for engaging in a child exploitation enterprise. The child exploitation enterprise being rapey.su, An open web platform operated by the late convicted felon, Nathan Larson. Members of this website would share media of pedophilia, child rape, And even tried to arrange in person meetups. In 2023, cybersecurity professional Ryan Montgomery went public and discussed how he obtained user data from Nathan Larson's network. The data obtained by Montgomery revealed over 7,000 email addresses of individuals to became members of rapey.su.
It's important to note that the application process contained questions such as, if a man wants To rape his 3 year old daughter up every hole while she's crying and screaming. Do you have a problem with that? To be clear, the only way for these Thousands of users to have their email show up in the database. They or someone who breached their email account had to answer this question. The email address hero121@mail.com connected to the username jackie222.
It is worth noting that when investigating email addresses, they often connect to multiple individuals. However, this email address repeatedly Linked back to the one name. More than 10 identity verification services strongly suggest that this email is only associated with one possible name. BlackRock managing director, Abigail Gold Geller. To further corroborate our research, we decided to work with a private investigator to see if they would come up with a different conclusion.
Using Delve Point, a program that licensed private investigators use for their investigations, our investigator obtained this comprehensive report which contains a wealth of information regarding an Abigail s Gold which appears corroborated By these other background checks, including the fact that hero 121@mail.com was allegedly an email of Abigail Gold. This private investigator was even able to take it a step further using Delve Point, showing the addresses the email was used at. From these findings, it shows hero 12one@maildot Com was used 2 separate times by a person named Abigail Gold as well as Gold Abigail at a property she owns in New York City, Lending more credibility that this could be Abigail's email and she was the one using it. Unfortunately, the report does not indicate when she used this email And for what purpose. What all 11 of these background checks strongly suggest is hero121@mail.com Does in fact belong to an Abigail Gold Geller.
Speaker 2: I have this tip that, is claiming that your emails associate with rapey website. I'm I'm just trying to figure out, like, what if this is bogus, tip, or
Speaker 3: Can I give you a call right back? Call you right back.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: Can I call you right back?
Speaker 2: Yeah. Sure.
Speaker 1: Abigail Geller's lawyer, Jack Baumann, founder and managing partner of JFB Legal, had this to say regarding the allegations.
Speaker 4: It's hero12one@mail.com.
Speaker 0: Okay. That is not her email address. It has never been her email address. The allegation that that is anyway associated with her. It's absolutely full.
I'm telling you the allegation that to e.fu is false and defamatory. And I am advising you in the strongest possible term that to publish such a thing.
Speaker 4: Help me out here. How can you say that's clearly not her email address, though? How do you know that? You just found out what the email address is. Right?
Speaker 0: You could go register for that email address today on mail.com. It It's not her email address.
Speaker 1: And even more concerning, who signed up for this very specific email address on this obscure email service provider following the of the phone call on the morning of September 28, 2023 before Baumann sent the letter to us that same evening. Baumann Alman himself admitted that you can go on today and sign up for that email address. Our team has since reached out to the Department of Justice's Eastern District in Virginia, the same office that sentenced The 4 men for engaging in the child exploitation enterprise, rapey.su. We provided both the username
@GarbageHuman24 - Garbage Human
BlackRock thinks they can just pull stuff from the internet https://t.co/JXPUukThdq
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A thread argues that concentrated asset managers threaten democracy. It claims Vanguard and BlackRock will total ~$20 trillion by 2028 and effectively own much of the world, with Vanguard’s ownership hidden and controlled by the richest families. It questions NGO and WEF funding links to BlackRock, Open Society, and the Gates Foundation, and points to a video titled “MONOPOLY – Who Owns The World?” for context.
@DavidLWindt - David Windt
Vanguard and BlackRock: "experts expect that by 2028, both companies will collectively manage about $20 trillion in investments, and in the process, will own almost everything on Earth." "BlackRock's largest shareholder is Vanguard, and this is where it gets dark. Vanguard itself has a unique structure that makes it impossible to see who its shareholders or clients are. The elite who own Vanguard don't want anyone to know that they are the owners of the most powerful company on Earth."
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The transcript argues that BlackRock and Vanguard form an extraordinary concentration of power in global finance. It states that these two companies are the largest institutional investors in every major company, and that they also own the other institutional investors, creating a supposed monopoly over corporate ownership. A Bloomberg report is cited, claiming that by 2028 the two firms will collectively manage about $20 trillion in investments and will own almost everything on earth. Bloomberg is said to have called BlackRock the fourth arm of government because it is the only non-government entity with a close relationship to central banks; BlackRock is described as lending money to federal banks, serving as their principal advisor, and developing the computer systems used by the central banks.
The transcript notes that dozens of BlackRock employees held senior White House positions during the Bush and Obama administrations and that some remain in government roles under Joe Biden. It also describes BlackRock CEO Larry Fink as a welcome guest to many heads of state and politicians, and asserts that he is the face of the company “that pulls the strings,” though it adds that BlackRock is owned by shareholders. It claims that BlackRock’s largest shareholder is Vanguard, and highlights Vanguard’s “unique structure” that supposedly makes it impossible to see who its shareholders or clients are, alleging that the elite who own Vanguard do not want anyone to know they are the owners of the most powerful company on earth.
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Speaker 0: The power of these two companies is something we can barely imagine. Not only are they the largest institutional investors of every major company on earth, they also own the other institutional investors of those companies, giving them a complete monopoly. According to a report by Bloomberg, one of the most respected institutions in the world in the field of financial data and analytics, experts expect that by 2028, both companies will collectively manage about $20,000,000,000,000 in investments, and in the process, will own almost everything on earth. The same Bloomberg called BlackRock the fourth arm of government because it is the only non government entity that has a close relationship with the federal banks, also called the central banks. BlackRock not only lends money to the federal banks, but is also their principal advisor and the developer of the computer system that the federal banks use.
Dozens of BlackRock employees had senior positions in the White House during the Bush and the Obama administrations and currently under Joe Biden. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink is a welcome guest with many heads of state and politicians, And understandably so, he's the face of the company that pulls the strings. Yet, Larry Fink does not pull the strings himself. In fact, BlackRock itself is owned by shareholders. And if we look at who those shareholders are, we come to a strange conclusion.
We see that BlackRock's largest shareholder is Vanguard, and this is where it gets dark. Vanguard itself has a unique structure that makes it impossible to see who its shareholders or clients are. The elite who own Vanguard don't want anyone to know that they are the owners of the most powerful company on Earth.
@DavidLWindt - David Windt
"Vanguard is in the hands of the richest families on Earth."
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The speaker argues that Vanguard is controlled by the richest families on Earth. By examining their history, these families have consistently occupied the top of the power pyramid, with some tracing their influence back to well before the industrial revolution. The speaker indicates that these families’ histories are extensive and important, and promises to explain more about them in a follow-up video the speaker is currently working on.
The speaker points out that many of these powerful families belong to royal bloodlines and asserts that they are the founders of several global systems: the banking system, the United Nations, and various industries around the world. According to the speaker, these families never lost their power over time.
To account for their continued influence in a world with a growing population, the speaker claims that these families hid behind investment companies such as Vanguard. The assertion is that Vanguard’s largest shareholders are private funds and nonprofit organizations connected to these same families.
In summary, the speaker presents a narrative in which a small set of historically powerful, often royal-lineage families maintain enduring control by leveraging investment vehicles like Vanguard, with ownership concentrated in private funds and nonprofit entities tied to those families. The implication is that this arrangement allows these families to remain hidden while exerting broad influence over major financial institutions, global governance structures, and key industries. The speaker also signals that more detailed exploration of these families will be provided in a forthcoming follow-up video.
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Speaker 0: Vanguard is in the hands of the richest families on Earth. If we study their history, we discover that these families have always belonged to the top of the pyramid, some even well before the industrial revolution began. Because their history is so interesting and extensive, I will explain some more about them in the follow-up video that I'm currently working on. But in order not to elaborate too far, I will just point out that many of these families belong to royal bloodlines and they are the founders of our banking system, the United Nations, and every industry in the world. These families never lost their power.
But because of an increasing world population, they were forced to hide behind investment companies such as Vanguard, whose largest shareholders are the private funds and nonprofit organizations of these families.
@DavidLWindt - David Windt
"Is it not strange that the world's leading environmental organizations have been meeting for 50 years with the CEOs of the most heavily polluting corporations, while things just keep getting worse for our natural world? That these critics of the WEF are right soon becomes clear when we look at who the most important partners are that account for almost 71% of the WEF's budget. They are Blackrock, The Open Society Foundations, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and many other large corporations of whom Vanguard and Blackrock own the shares directly or indirectly."
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The speaker questions whether it is strange that leading environmental organizations have met for fifty years with CEOs of heavily polluting corporations while the natural world keeps getting worse. They say that critics of the WAF are right when considering who the most important partners are that account for almost 71% of the WES budget. The partners include BlackRock, the Open Society Foundations, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and many other large corporations, of whom Vanguard and BlackRock own the shares directly or indirectly.
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Speaker 0: Is it not strange that the world's leading environmental organizations have been meeting for fifty years with the CEOs of the most heavily polluting corporations while things just keep getting worse for our natural world? That these critics of the WAF are right soon becomes clear when we look at who the most important partners are that account for almost 71% of the WES budget. There are BlackRock, the Open Society Foundations, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and many other large corporations of whom Vanguard and BlackRock own the shares directly or indirectly.
@DavidLWindt - David Windt
"MONOPOLY - Who Owns The World?" by Tim Gielen Full video: https://rumble.com/vrxm15-monopoly-who-owns-the-world-by-tim-gielen-english-subs.html
"MONOPOLY - Who Owns The World?" by Tim Gielen (English Subs)
“MONOPOLY: Who Owns The World?” (25/09/2021) Less than a handful of megacorporations dominate every aspect of our lives. From the breakfast that’s on the table in the morning, to the mattress we sleep
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I’m trying to piece together the Crowdstrike narrative. It starts with Hillary Clinton allegedly funneling weapons through Libya while she was Secretary of State, leading to the Benghazi incident. She used a private server for secret communications, which was destroyed, but its contents leaked, including odd references to rituals and code words. The FBI relied on Crowdstrike's claim that Russia hacked the server, clearing Clinton despite her legal breaches. This led to the Russiagate investigation against Trump. Fast forward to 2024, Trump survives an assassination attempt linked to Crowdstrike, which then causes a massive network crash. I wonder if I missed anything, especially regarding Blackrock's involvement.
@HarrisonHSmith - Harrison H. Smith ✞
So let me see if I have this Crowdstrike story straight…. When Hillary Clinton was Sec. of State, she was illegally funneling sophisticated weapons through Libya to terrorists in the MidEast in an effort to take out Assad in Syria for Israel. When the weapons transfer went sideways and the US Ambassador was killed in Benghazi, it was discovered she was using an illegal private server for secret communications. She destroyed the server, but not before its contents were leaked by Wikileaks, including communications about bizarre occult rituals and inexplicable code words involving children and pizza. Instead of investigating the leak themselves, the FBI relied on a Crowdstrike investigation that falsely claimed the server was hacked by Russia. The FBI cleared HC despite admitting she broke the law, and launched the Russiagate investigation, using more fake Clinton campaign disinfo to tie Trump to Russia to get a FISA warrant and spy on Trump while leaking dirt to the press to undermine first his campaign, then his presidency. When Trump had a call with Zelenskyy and asked about Crowdstrike, a “whistleblower” falsely claimed quid-pro-quo and launched the first impeachment to stop Trump’s inquiries. (It was in the midst of this impeachment trial, btw, when Event 201 took place. But that’s another story.) Fast forward to 2024 and Trump is dominating Biden when he miraculously survives a deep state orchestrated assassination attempt two days before the RNC. Two days later Crowdstrike causes the biggest computer network crash in all of history, knocking millions of corporate and government systems offline for hours. Other than the fact that Blackrock owns Crowdstrike and a Blackrock affiliated investment firm placed millions of dollars betting against DJT in the hours before the assassination attempt by a shooter who was featured in a Blackrock promo, did I miss anything?
@myhiddenvalue - Not A Number
He found out who owns BlackRock https://t.co/m1kE2seHMT
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BlackRock is a top shareholder in most corporations, using funds from retirement accounts and other investments. While Larry Fink founded BlackRock, he doesn't control it. Institutional shareholders like Vanguard and State Street appear at the top of shareholder lists, but Merrill Lynch owns 45% of BlackRock and is considered an insider, so they don't appear on those lists.
Merrill Lynch is a division of Bank of America, which acquired it during the 2008 financial crisis. Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is Bank of America's top shareholder, owning 13% of its shares, worth $33 billion. Bank of America traces its roots to Amadeo Giannini, who acquired Banca de America D'Italia, later renamed Bank of America.
Despite owning a large portion of BlackRock, Merrill Lynch and Bank of America have no apparent representatives on BlackRock's board of directors. The speaker is seeking information about why these major shareholders have no board representation and how they exert their influence on the company.
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Speaker 0: So I found out who actually owns BlackRock, but there's something really weird about it. Because by now we know that BlackRock is in the top three shareholders of basically every corporation in America and beyond. And they do this using our money in things like retirement accounts, pension funds, IRAs, chain traded funds, mutual funds. But most people don't actually know who owns and controls BlackRock. We all know that it was founded by Larry Fink, and he is the face of the company, but he does not control it.
When you try to find out who does control it, you'll usually find this list, which is the top institutional shareholders. Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street are right at the top, just like every other company. But this is not the whole story. Because if you dig deep enough, you'll find out that actually Merrill Lynch owns 45% of BlackRock, and they're considered an insider. So they don't show up on the top institutional holders list.
This merger took place in 2,006. So actually, Merrill Lynch controls BlackRock in a big way. But who controls Merrill Lynch? Well, Merrill Lynch is actually a division of Bank of America because Bank of America bought them out during the o eight financial collapse. So who owns Bank of America?
Well, nowadays, Warren Buffett is the top shareholder of Bank America because he owns Berkshire Hathaway, which is his billionaire investment firm. I'm still not sure what this top one is, this 25%. That's an anomaly and I cannot corroborate what those shares are, but I found these shares. This is a screenshot from Berkshire Hathaway's 13 f where they tell you all the things they hold. And I totaled up all of these bank of America shares and it equals 1,000,000,000 32,000,000 shares.
That's 13% of bank of America shares equal to $33,000,000,000 But I also dug in a little bit into where bank of America came from and who founded them. And all modern banks are crazy histories of mergers and acquisitions and banks changing their names and merging with other banks probably for no particular reason. But bank of America traces its roots back in 2 different directions, one of which we're not gonna talk about. And the other one is back to this Italian dude named our Amadeo Giannini, who acquired what was then called Banca de America D'Italia. Sorry for that accent.
Over the years, it changed its name to Bank of America. And then in the biggest merger in history, merge with Charlotte based Nation Bank in 1990 what? 1998. I just thought it was interesting that half of the lineage of Bank of America was founded by this Italian dude that got really into Italian banking back in the early 1900, you know, when like there was a certain Italian organization that was doing a lot of things with money back then. I'm sure it was all above board though.
I'm, you know, like, obviously. But anyways, back to the weird thing that I can't figure out. Bank of America owns Merrill Lynch, who owns the vast majority of BlackRock, but they don't have anyone on the board as far as I can tell. Usually, the biggest shareholders of a company have representatives on the board that sort of represent their investment. But I've just shown you the whole board of directors of BlackRock, and none of them have any real ties to Merrill Lynch or Bank of America, which seems pretty weird when you own almost half the company to not have any board members.
The plot thickens. So two things, if you wanna follow the history of Bank of America down the other trail, you might wind up at a certain family name that you aren't aware of that is really hard to find on the Internet. That'll probably get videos taken down. Total conspiracy theories. And the other thing is if anyone knows more than me or is literate in this or has info about why Merrill Lynch and Bank of America have no representatives on the board of BlackRock.
I would love to know. After all, why would you own half of a company and then have no say in what that company is doing? Or how do they have a say what? What's the story here?
@_InThisTogether - InThisTogether
Remember folks, every vote you cast is a vote for Blackrock. “I’m tired of hearing this is the biggest election in your lifetime. The reality is over time it doesn’t matter. We work with both administrations and are having conversations with both candidates.” - Larry Fink - https://t.co/DzRPyAKN0B
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I’ve been exploring the immense influence of Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, who manages over $11 trillion in assets. His role became pivotal during the 2008 financial crisis when the U.S. government relied on him to stabilize the economy. BlackRock continued to grow, using public funds to expand its reach, and once again, Fink was called upon during the 2020 pandemic. Starting from humble beginnings, his relentless drive led to the founding of BlackRock after a partnership fallout. The firm's advanced software, Aladdin, keeps them ahead in market predictions. This knowledge is crucial for understanding who truly holds power today.
@ManuelsJourney1 - Manuel
This man runs the whole world and no one’s even talking about it. He manages over $11 TRILLION in assets. Amazon, Apple, and entire governments are in the palm of this man's hand. Here’s the (dark) story behind the most powerful operation in the world:
@ManuelsJourney1 - Manuel
I'm talking about none other than Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock. The biggest investment company in the world owning top companies. Just look it up yourself… You'll see BlackRock as the top shareholder almost everywhere.
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BlackRock is a publicly listed company on Nasdaq, managing over $14 trillion in assets. It holds significant shares in many major U.S. companies, including Pfizer, Moderna, airlines, and social networks. This ownership influences various agendas across these companies. For instance, when checking Amazon's stock on Yahoo Finance, it's evident that Jeff Bezos is not the largest shareholder; BlackRock and Vanguard often top the list of major holders. This highlights the extent of BlackRock's influence in the corporate landscape.
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Speaker 0: We went quite viral recently on TikTok for videos about BlackRock. Mhmm. What is BlackRock, and how do they own everything?
Speaker 1: Yeah. So BlackRock is an organization. It's a company publicly listed on Nasdaq that has tens of 1,000,000,000,000 of dollars of assets under management. They disclosed that they have, like, 14,000,000,000,000, but that is only BlackRock. Then they own majority share in most of the companies in America.
Right? So they also have money and funneled through all those things as well. So what companies? They own Pfizer. They own Moderna.
They own, all the airlines. They own all the social networks. So when you see all this stuff, all this agenda kind of everybody working together, then you have to realize who actually owns it. This isn't a conspiracy. Top holders of all these shareholding companies, and you see BlackRock and Vanguard at the top.
So you go to Amazon, for example, you go to Yahoo Finance. You go to Amazon. You go to the ticker of the stock. You go to top holders, and you realize Jeff Bezos ain't the biggest holder of Amazon.
@ManuelsJourney1 - Manuel
So first, let's take you back to the year 2008. The huge economic crisis. To fix the whole situation BlackRock - led by Larry Fink - had to step in. The whole US government was dependent on him. Making Larry Fink the most powerful man in AND after the crisis.
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During the 2008 financial crisis, the government bailed out major firms like Bear Stearns and AIG. They hired BlackRock, led by Larry Fink, to manage the cleanup without competitive bidding, shrouded in secrecy. This made Fink a key figure in the bailout process, despite BlackRock being a major shareholder in the banks receiving assistance. As a result, Fink emerged as a powerful influence in the post-bailout economy.
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Speaker 0: During the 2008 meltdown when the government bailed out too big to fail giants like Bear Stearns, AIG, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac. Who did they hire that analyze and clean up the mess? Another giant financial firm by the name of BlackRock led by a very well connected billionaire by the name of Larry Fink. BlackRock was awarded these key government contracts to help with the meltdown with no competitive bidding while being enveloped in secrecy. Basically, Larry Fink was hired to be the manager of Washington's bailout of Wall Street, even though BlackRock is one of the biggest shareholders in the same banks they were helping to get bailed out, making Larry Fink the most powerful man in the post bailout economy.
@ManuelsJourney1 - Manuel
From there BlackRock just kept doing his thing. Using the public's money (yes yours) to expand their dominance. From pension funds, Sovereign wealth funds to other central banks and many others. All count as their clientele. Trillions of dollars under their control.
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BlackRock's clients include pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, central banks, college endowments, Fortune 500 companies, and millions of individual investors. They are major shareholders in top companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Wells Fargo, managing an impressive $9 trillion. In comparison, the largest 300 pension funds hold $6 trillion collectively, and Vanguard manages $7.1 trillion. Together, BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street control about $15 trillion, nearly 70% of the US GDP. Larry Fink has achieved this largely out of the spotlight, with only a few interviews and appearances on CNBC.
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Speaker 0: Today, Blackbaud's clients include the retirement accounts of average everyday people in the form of pension funds. They also have sovereign wealth funds as their clients, other central banks, college endowments, fortune 500 companies, and millions of individual investors. They're one of the top shareholders of many of the biggest publicly traded companies like Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, and even other major banks like Wells Fargo and Chase. And to put their $9,000,000,000,000 into perspective, the 300 largest pension funds in the world only hold a collective $6,000,000,000,000 Vanguard, the behemoth behind mutual funds and ETFs, trails behind BlackRock with only 7,100,000,000,000 under management. And if you put the big three asset management firms together, BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street, they control a collective $15,000,000,000,000, roughly equivalent to nearly 70% of the US's GDP.
And Larry Fink has done all of this largely in the shadows with just a few occasional interviews and appearances on CNBC.
@ManuelsJourney1 - Manuel
Fast forward to 2020, the pandemic hit. Another crisis. And guess who the government asked for help AGAIN? Yes exactly - Larry Fink from BlackRock. Making him even MORE powerful while no one really knew what was going on.
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The Federal Reserve hired BlackRock to manage its scheme for buying corporate bonds, effectively bailing out corporations overwhelmed by pandemic-related debt. Notably, BlackRock holds significant stakes in many of these same companies. While the Fed's published list includes 794 companies, the discussion focuses on just the top 10 holdings. Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock, emerged as a powerful figure in both the post-bailout and post-pandemic economies. Despite his influence, he remains largely unknown to the general public.
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Speaker 0: And who did the money printer of the US, the Federal Reserve, hire to manage their scheme to buy corporate bonds? Basically, they were bailing out corporations that had too much debt to withstand the pandemic. You guessed it. They went right back to BlackRock. Even though, again, the same corporations BlackRock was helping to bail out were the same corporations that they own some of the biggest stakes in.
Speaker 1: Keep in mind, though, these are just the top 10 holdings. The whole list, which the Fed has published on the New York Fed website, includes 794 companies. So, yes, these are just the top 10 by holdings, but there are hundreds of other companies that could be part of the Fed's portfolio as well.
Speaker 0: Larry Fink was the most powerful man in the post bailout economy, and now he's arguably one of the most powerful men in the post pandemic economy as well. And yet despite all his considerable power, the general public has practically never heard of Larry Fink.
@ManuelsJourney1 - Manuel
Larry Fink wasn't born into his power though. He started like any other ‘average’ guy. The difference? His mindset wasn't average at all. “Larry is obsessed with having control” so the people close to him. He proved his skills in Wall Street and from there it went upwards…
@ManuelsJourney1 - Manuel
Quickly, Larry became a legend who was responsible for making his company over $1B in just a few years. But then he let the foot of the gas and made one mistake casting the company he worked for $100M+ It all crashed literally overnight - including his reputation.
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In 1978, he led a department focused on mortgage-backed bonds, building a loyal team known as Little Israel. His success grew, and by 1983, at just 31, he became the youngest member of First Boston's management committee, co-heading the taxable fixed income division and leading the mortgage and real estate products group. He also started the financial futures and options department, contributing around $1 billion to First Boston's profits. However, by 1986, his success took a downturn when he lost $100 million in the second quarter of that year.
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Speaker 0: 1978, he was running his own department, which was mainly focused on training mortgage backed bonds. The team he built around him mostly consisted of Jews and were nicknamed Little Israel. They worked hard and were ruthlessly loyal to him. As Larry's success grew, so did his ego. By 1983, at the age of 31, he became the youngest member of First Boston's management committee, co head of the taxable fixed income division, head of the mortgage and real estate products group, and started the financial futures and options department.
All of this enabled Larry to contribute an estimated $1,000,000,000 to First Boston's bottom line. But by 1986, all that success would come crashing down. And in the Q2 of that year, he lost $100,000,000.
@ManuelsJourney1 - Manuel
If you think that was his end, then think again. Together with his newly found billionaire business partner he founded BlackStone. An asset manager they quickly scaled. But it came to an argument between them which led Larry to found BlackRock. Well the rest is history…
@ManuelsJourney1 - Manuel
Now the cherry on the top: BlackRock's software is called Aladdin. With a network of 5000+ computers it's able to track the market and make risk analysis. Essentially, that shit predicts the future astonishingly accurately. BlackRock is always 2 steps ahead.
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I asked about AI, and he mentioned that the public only sees a fraction of its capabilities. Most of the powerful technology is kept under wraps, which is concerning. For instance, BlackRock uses an AI called Aladdin for forecasting, developed over several years. This model outperforms all other software and human predictions.
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Speaker 0: And I asked him the same question, what do you think about AI? And he's like, dude, you have no idea. If you think what they released in the public is the actual stuff, they've just they gatekeep 99.9% of stuff. So the amount of power that's already out there, it is scary. And if you look at, for example, BlackRock, BlackRock uses an AI called Aladdin to do forecasting predictions.
And they've had this model being developed over the last several years, and that beats and trumps every other software and automation and any other person has blame for it.
@ManuelsJourney1 - Manuel
This isn’t a random conspiracy theory from Tik Tok. You can literally do your research on Yahoo Finance. But all of this - the truth - is extremely important to know. You DON’T want to go through life without knowing who runs all of this. And the rabbit hole goes deeper...
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In discussing the CDC's response to COVID, various officials are mentioned, highlighting their dual citizenship with Israel. This includes CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, Deputy Director Anne Shoalje, Chief of Staff Sherry Berger, and others, all identified as Jewish. The COVID czar, Jeff Zaintz, and senior adviser Andy Slavitt are also noted, along with Rachel Levine, the assistant secretary for health. The conversation extends to key figures in pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Moderna, emphasizing their similar backgrounds. The speaker expresses frustration over perceived control by these individuals and organizations, prompting interruptions from others present.
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Speaker 0: In charge of the CDC that was controlling and telling our government to shut down small businesses and what they recommend for the mandates and the vaccine and Pfizer and all. At the time when COVID was being enacted, I'm gonna read off the staff of who's in charge of this in, CDC. The director of the CDC was Rochelle Walensky, dual citizenship with Israel. She's a Jew. Deputy director of the CDC, Anne Shoalje, dual citizenship with Israel, Jew.
CDC chief of staff, Sherry Berger, dual citizenship with Israel, Jew. CDC chief medical officer, Mitchell Wolf, dual citizenship with Israel. Jew, CDC director of the Washington office. I'm gonna This is this is pertinent to the topic. We're talking about COVID.
Right? This Yeah. This is this is pertinent to COVID, so I love you, Jennifer. Thank you, Pam. Yeah.
Please. So director of the CDC of the Washington office, Jeff Resick, dual citizenship with Israel, Ju. COVID czar, Jeff Zaintz, dual citizenship with Israel, Jew. COVID senior adviser, Andy Slavitt, dual citizenship with Israel, Jew. Ho, assistant of health secretary for human services for our country, the assistant of health secretary, Rachel Levine, transgender dual citizenship with Israel s Jew.
Speaker 1: I ask that you hold off Christopher.
Speaker 0: Ma'am, I'm almost done. Mister Head
Speaker 2: of Firewood, the the chair has ruled that your comments are out of order. She's asked you to stop.
Speaker 0: How is it
Speaker 1: out of order? The chair has You said Jew. There is nothing wrong with Jew. It's not in wrong with
Speaker 0: dual citizenship with Israel Jew. Pfizer chief scientist, Michael
Speaker 1: Dostin, dual citizenship with Israel Jew.
Speaker 0: Moderna chief scientist, Paul Zacks, dual citizenship with Israel Jew. BlackRock everyone know BlackRock? BlackRock CEO, Larry Faith, dual citizenship with Israel Jew. I said we're willing to sacrifice our ego, our reputation, and our lives. Yes, ma'am.
And I love you, and I appreciate your patience. BlackRock president, Rob Capitaw, dual citizenship with Israel, Jew. The CDC chief medical officer of Johnson and Johnson joined Wall Walter Schrecker dual citizenship with Israel Jew. Chief medical officer of done. Michael Rosen also.
Advisor of the World Economic
Speaker 1: Christopher, you need to stop.
Speaker 0: About losing control of of the media or the bank. Go on. God bless you. Thank you for your
Speaker 1: Christopher, you need to stop.
Speaker 0: Losing control.
@iluminatibot - illuminatibot
"Now we know that BlackRock are in the top 3 shareholders of every corporation." Can anyone stop them from owning the world? https://t.co/tI0chFdXUO
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I discovered the ownership structure of BlackRock, which is a major shareholder in many corporations. While Larry Fink founded BlackRock, he doesn't control it. The real control comes from Merrill Lynch, which owns 45% of BlackRock, but this isn't reflected in the top institutional shareholders list. Merrill Lynch is part of Bank of America, which was acquired during the 2008 financial crisis. Warren Buffett, through Berkshire Hathaway, is the top shareholder of Bank of America. Interestingly, despite owning a significant portion of BlackRock, neither Merrill Lynch nor Bank of America has representatives on BlackRock's board. This raises questions about their influence and governance. If anyone has insights into this unusual situation, I’d appreciate the information.
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Speaker 0: So I found out who actually owns BlackRock, but there's something really weird about it. Because by now we know that BlackRock is in the top three shareholders of basically every corporation in America and beyond. And they do this using our money in things like retirement accounts, pension funds, IRAs, chain traded funds, mutual funds. But most people don't actually know who owns and controls BlackRock. We all know that it was founded by Larry Fink, and he's the face of the company, but he does not control it.
When you try to find out who does control it, you'll usually find this list, which is the top institutional shareholders. Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street are right at the top just like every other company, but this is not the whole story. Because if you dig deep enough, you'll find out that actually Merrill Lynch owns 45% of BlackRock, and they're considered an insider. So they don't show up on the top institutional holders list. This merger took place in 2,006.
So actually, Merrill Lynch controls BlackRock in a big way. But who controls Merrill Lynch? Well, Merrill Lynch is actually a division of Bank of America, because Bank of America bought them out during the 08 financial collapse. So who owns bank of America? Well, nowadays, Warren Buffett is the top shareholder of bank America because he owns Berkshire Hathaway, which is his billionaire investment firm.
I'm still not sure what this top one is, the 25%. That's an anomaly, and I cannot corroborate what those shares are, but I found these shares. This is a screenshot from Berkshire Hathaway's 13 f where they tell you all the things they hold. And I totaled up all of these Bank of America shares, and it equals 1,000,000,000 32,000,000 shares. That's 13% of bank of America shares equal to $33,000,000,000 But I also dug in a little bit into where bank of America came from and who founded them.
And all modern banks are crazy histories of mergers and acquisitions and banks changing their names and merging with other banks probably for no particular reason. But bank of America traces its roots back in 2 different directions, one of which we're not gonna talk about, and the other one is back to this Italian dude named our Amadeo Giannini, who acquired what was then called Banca de America D'Italia. Sorry for that accent. Over the years, it changed his name to Bank of America. And then in the biggest merger in history, merge with Charlotte based Nation Bank in 1990, what, 1998.
So I just thought it was interesting that half of the lineage of Bank of America was founded by this Italian dude that got really into Italian banking back in the early 1900, you know, when, like, there was a certain Italian organization that was doing a lot of things with money back then. I'm sure it was all above board though. I'm, you know, like, obviously. But anyways, back to the weird thing that I can't figure out. Bank of America owns Merrill Lynch, who owns the vast majority of BlackRock, but they don't have anyone on the board as far as I can tell.
Usually, the biggest shareholders of a company have representatives on the board that sort of represent their investment. But I've just shown you the whole board of directors of BlackRock, and none of them have any real ties to Merrill Lynch or Bank of America, which seems pretty weird when you own almost half the company to not have any board members. The plot thickens. So two things, if you wanna follow the history of Bank of America down the other trail, you might wind up at a certain family name that you aren't aware of that is really hard to find on the Internet. That'll probably get videos taken down.
Total conspiracy theories. And the other thing is if anyone knows more than me or is literate in this or has info about why Merrill Lynch and Bank of America have no representatives on the board of BlackRock. I would love to know. After all, why would you own half of a company and then have no say in what that company is doing? Or how do they have a say?
What what's the story here?
@ArmitageSid - Sid Armitage
@Truthtellerftm It’s been pretty well know that Blackrock owns most of Musk fronted entities guys.
@OzraeliAvi - Avi Yemini
🚨 WE CAUGHT HIM! Watch what happened when @ezralevant and I spotted Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock, on the street in Davos today We finally asked him all the questions the mainstream media refuses to ask! Full story: rebelne.ws/3Wuyrln HELP US: http://WEFReports.com
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Mister Fink, will you follow Trump's plan to eliminate DEI and ESG in your companies? BlackRock seems authoritarian and unaccountable. Have you spoken to Trump since his election? Why are your bodyguards pushing journalists? Many states are divesting from your ESG schemes, which raises questions about your loyalty to shareholders. Do you feel above accountability? Why do you think BlackRock is so disliked? Are you planning to run for office? Your bodyguards' behavior suggests a lack of respect for the public. What’s your end game? You seem to control both sides of politics from behind the scenes. Your actions, including taking photos of journalists, reflect a troubling mindset. We are here to ask questions about BlackRock, and we won’t stop.
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Speaker 0: Mister Fink, are you gonna follow Donald Trump's, plan and get rid of DEI and ESG in in your companies? BlackRock really is the opposite of Donald Trump in so many ways. You're authoritarian. You're anti populist. You're top down.
Are you gonna change at all in light of the US presidency? How is Donald Trump have you talked to Donald Trump since he was elected? Is the World Economic Forum a counterpoint to Donald Trump? Why are you running away from simple questions? Just answer a question.
Have you talked to president Trump yet? Why are your why are your bodyguards pushing white journalists, mister Fink?
Speaker 1: They're simple questions. Is that that hard to answer a question that you need bodyguards and to swerve through traffic? Is the next 4 years gonna be bad for business with Donald Trump in charge? Is peace the last thing you want on this world?
Speaker 0: Which makes more money for you, war in Ukraine or peace in Ukraine? Ezra Levant's my name, mister Fink.
Speaker 1: Did you did you just take a photo of you?
Speaker 0: Am I supposed to be scared? Is that a threat, mister Fink?
Speaker 1: Are you used to bullying your way through life?
Speaker 0: No. No. No. No.
Speaker 1: No. Yeah. What? Is that how you've lived your entire life without having? What it is?
Speaker 0: When was the last time you push you back, man.
Speaker 1: Don't push me, bro.
Speaker 0: Don't push me. When was the last time you answered a question that you didn't know was coming? Why are you so unaccountable? Isn't that what you love about the World Economic Forum? You control everything.
Speaker 1: Why do you think you deserve so much power? Hey. I'll be your mini. Should I be scared now?
Speaker 0: Which of your former directors do you want to run Canada? Mark Carney or Chrystia Freeland?
Speaker 1: Hey. Hey. Push me, bro. What? What are you getting violent for, man?
I could push just like you get it, man. Look at these thugs. They fund wars around the world and then you question them. They try not only to intimidate you, but physically assault you.
Speaker 0: What's with taking photos of journalists who ask you prickly questions? Who's more powerful, you or president Trump?
Speaker 1: Why do you think he's so disliked around the world?
Speaker 0: Why are so many US states divesting from your ESG schemes? Why are you putting your ideology ahead of your investors with ESG, mister Fink? Isn't that being disloyal to shareholders, putting your ideology ahead of rate of return? Why do you think you're above accountability? Is it because you're rich?
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Speaker 1: I just feel like walking with him now because his big scary bodyguards. And I don't know, Ezra. I just wanna make it clear. I will not kill myself.
Speaker 0: I have no suicidal thoughts either. Mister Fink's taking pictures of me and Abi Amini. I think that's meant to intimidate. It's a little weird, though. It feels a little thin skinned.
Do you think you're above questions? Like, why don't you even answer? Surely, you have the answers. Why do you think BlackRock has become so hated, one of the world's most reviled brands? Do You take any responsibility for that?
Who do you feel accountable to? It's obviously not shareholders. Do you have a god complex?
Speaker 1: Was Biden the best thing for you? And did you fail by not being able to get another Democrat president?
Speaker 0: Why don't you run for public office and test the support for your ideological ideas?
Speaker 1: Is this the most uncomfortable you've ever felt? No. I'm good. Do do you think this is okay? You're a security guard, a thug.
You sure? Obviously, you do. You took my photo because you're hoping he'll catch up with me later. Is that supposed to scare me?
Speaker 0: Have your bodyguards learned from you to disrespect the little people? Is that how you feel about the little people, mister Fink?
Speaker 1: Are you not worried because you own the local police?
Speaker 0: What politicians have you had meetings with, or is that a secret? Why don't you publish your itinerary? Is it because you're doing lobbying or being lobbied?
Speaker 1: Do you think this makes BlackRock look better or worse? The fact that you've got hired thugs pushing journalists into cars, into buildings. Is that is that just typical? Is that the way you do business?
Speaker 0: Let's do it. He's down here. You got here? Yeah. Oh, why do you do the card?
Does it a little look a little bit weird that someone as rich, powerful, and smart as you can't answer any questions, or is it that you just think you're above questions? What's your problem? That's horrible.
Speaker 1: Your security got code dot comma, Is is that how you feel?
Speaker 0: What's the end game for you? You're rich. You're powerful. What's next for you? Do you wanna run for president one day, or do you have bigger goals?
Don't push me on the ice. You don't want a lawsuit now, do you?
Speaker 1: Do you think there's no point in running for office because you can control them? You can control both sides from outside. Why are you pushing ladies? Mate, where are you from? Why are you such a thug?
What are you so angry about in life? Did somebody hurt you as a kid? Who we gonna meet tonight for dinner?
Speaker 0: Run away. Run away. Where you going?
Speaker 1: Well, I reckon that pretty much demonstrates exactly what Black Rock is about.
Speaker 0: That that weird move. I mean, he's got 2 bodyguards who are really handsy. There was no punches, but there was also pushing. The move by Fink himself to take photos of us, that's weird.
Speaker 1: Weird.
Speaker 0: I'm not I'm not suicidal.
Speaker 1: Heavily no suicidal. I just I feel like, let's walk the other way.
Speaker 0: You know, normally, masters of the universe don't tread on the ground like us commoners. They have vehicles drive them around Davos. But, he made the mistake of walking down the street, and I think that's the first time he's been asked unscripted questions ever.
Speaker 1: And how angry did he get versus trying to whiz through traffic, which is every everything about his behavior was so bizarre. The only thing that seemed to actually come really natural to him was having people do his dirty work.
Speaker 0: Yeah. You know, there's some very, very important people, at Davos. I mean, John Kerry is an example. I bumped into Tony Blair last year. There are some very powerful people.
At most, they have sort of one assistant. There's no need for bodyguards in this town. There's armed Swiss security everywhere. But to have 2 thugs to push and shove, I think that shows the mindset of Larry Fink himself. And taking pictures of us, I I I'm happy to tell him my name.
My name is Ezra Levant, and I ask questions about BlackRock.
Speaker 1: And I'm Avi Umini. And I'll also ask questions no matter who who you have near you, and it's exactly why we're here. Wefreports.com. Check out all our reports from on the ground this week. And if you support our work, please consider chipping in, for the enormous cost to get here and, potentially some security.
WEF Reports 2024: Mission to Expose the Davos Elites
The fearless Ezra Levant, Australia Bureau Chief Avi Yemini, and a support team are in Davos, Switzerland all week to expose the Global Elites as they orchestrate their agenda for the coming year at the World Economic Forum's 2024 Annual Meeting.
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reSee.it AI Summary
I confronted Blackrock CEO Larry Fink on the streets of Davos during the World Economic Forum. We discussed Donald Trump, DEI, and his role in the globalist agenda. If you own Blackrock stock, you might want to check this out. The journalists also emphasized they are not suicidal.
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🚨🔥 Blackrock CEO Larry Fink confronted on the streets of Davos, Switzerland while attending the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting. He was asked about Donald Trump, DEI, his participation in the globalist New World Order plan to control human behavior and more‼️ 🔥If you own stock/shares in Blackrock you may want to watch this video‼️ At the end of the video the 2 journalists felt it necessary to assert they are not suicidal. 😳 Video/Journalists: Ezra Levant and Avi Yemini
Video Transcript AI Summary
Mister Fink, will you follow Trump’s plan to eliminate DEI and ESG in your companies? BlackRock seems authoritarian and unaccountable. Have you spoken to Trump since his election? Why do you avoid answering questions? Is peace or war more profitable for you? Many states are divesting from your ESG initiatives; is this disloyal to shareholders? Why do you think BlackRock is so disliked? What politicians have you met with? Your bodyguards seem aggressive toward journalists; is that typical for you? You took photos of us—does that intimidate? Are you above accountability? What’s next for you? Will you run for office? Your behavior suggests you believe you can control everything from the outside. We’re here to ask questions, and we’ll continue to do so. Check out our reports from Davos.
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Speaker 0: Mister Fink, are you gonna follow Donald Trump's, plan and get rid of DEI and ESG in in your companies? BlackRock really is the opposite of Donald Trump in so many ways. You're authoritarian. You're anti populist. You're top down.
Are you gonna change it all in light of the US presidency? How is Donald Trump have you talked to Donald Trump since he was elected? Is the World Economic Forum a counterpoint to Donald Trump? Yeah. Why are you running away from simple questions?
Just answer a question. Have you talked to president Trump yet? Why are your why are your bodyguards pushing away journalists, mister Fink?
Speaker 1: They're simple questions. Is it that hard to answer a question that you need bodyguards and to swerve through traffic? Is the next 4 years gonna be bad for business with Donald Trump in charge? Is peace the last thing you want on this world?
Speaker 0: Which makes more money for you, war in Ukraine or peace in Ukraine? Israel events by name, mister Fink.
Speaker 1: Did you did you just take a photo of you?
Speaker 0: Am I supposed to be scared? Is that a threat, mister Fink?
Speaker 1: Are you used to bullying your way through life?
Speaker 0: No. No. No. No. Take a
Speaker 1: photo. Yeah. What? Is that how you've lived your entire life without having look at this. When was the last time push back, man.
Don't push me, bro.
Speaker 0: Don't push me. When was the last time you answered a question that you didn't know was coming? Why are you so unaccountable? Isn't that what you love about the World Economic Forum? You control everything.
Speaker 1: Why do you think you deserve so much power? Hey. I'll be your mini. Should I be scared now?
Speaker 0: Which of your former directors do you want to run Canada? Mark Carney or Kristia Freeland?
Speaker 1: Push me, bro. What? What are you getting violent for, man? I could push this like you can, man.
Speaker 0: We don't have to be done speaking about that.
Speaker 1: Look at these thugs. They fund wars around the world and they you question them. They try not only to intimidate you, but physically assault you.
Speaker 0: What's with taking photos of journalists who ask you prickly questions?
Speaker 1: Who's more powerful, you or president Trump? Why do you think he's so disliked around the world?
Speaker 0: Why are so many US states divesting from your ESG schemes? Why are you putting your ideology ahead of your investors with ESG, mister Fink? Isn't that being disloyal to shareholders, putting your ideology ahead of rate of return? Why do you think you're above accountability? Is it because you're rich?
Speaker 1: I I just feel like walking with him now because his big scary bodyguards. And I don't know, Ezra. I just wanna make it clear. I will not kill myself.
Speaker 0: I have no suicidal thoughts either. Mister Finks, take a picture of me and Abi Yamini. I think that's meant to intimidate. It's a little weird, though. It feels a little thin skinned.
Do you think you're above questions? Like, why don't you even answer? Surely, you have the answers. Why do you think BlackRock has become so hated, one of the world's most reviled brands? Do you take any responsibility for that?
Who do you feel accountable to? It's obviously not shareholders. Do you have a god complex?
Speaker 1: Was Biden the best thing for you? And did you fail by not being able to get another Democrat
Speaker 0: President? Yeah. Why don't you run for public office and test the support for your ideological ideas?
Speaker 1: Is this the most uncomfortable you've ever felt? Do do you think this is okay? You're a security guard, a thug. You sure? Obviously, you do.
You took my photo because you're hoping he'll catch up with me later. Is that supposed to scare me?
Speaker 0: Have your bodyguards learned from you to disrespect the little people? Is that how you feel about the little people, mister Fink?
Speaker 1: Are you not worried because you own the local police.
Speaker 0: What politicians have you had meetings with, or is that a secret? Why don't you publish your itinerary? Is it because you're doing lobbying or being lobbied?
Speaker 1: Do you think this makes BlackRock look better or worse? The fact that you've got hired thugs pushing journalists into cars, into buildings. Is that is that just typical? Is that the way you do business?
Speaker 0: Let's do it. It's on here. You got here? Yeah. Oh, I'll give you the card.
Does it a little look a little bit weird that someone as rich, powerful, and smart as you can't answer any questions, or is it that you just think you're above questions? Why is it so? That's horrible.
Speaker 1: Your security god code dot comma, Is is that how you feel?
Speaker 0: What's the end game for you? You're rich. You're powerful. What's next for you? Do you wanna run for president one day, or you have bigger goals?
Don't push me on the ice. You don't want a lawsuit now, do you?
Speaker 1: Do you think there's no point in running for office because you can control them? You could control both sides from outside. Why are you pushing ladies? Mate, where are you from? Why are you such a thug?
What are you so angry about in life? Did somebody hurt you as a kid? Who we gonna meet tonight for dinner?
Speaker 0: Run away. Run away. There you
Speaker 1: go. Well, I reckon that pretty much demonstrates exactly what Black Rock is about.
Speaker 0: That that weird move I mean, he's got 2 bodyguards who are really handsy. There was no punches, but there was also pushing. The move by Fink himself to take photos of us, that's weird. Weird. I'm not I'm not suicidal.
Speaker 1: Heavily no suicidal. I just I feel like, let's walk the other way.
Speaker 0: You know, normally, masters of the universe don't tread on the ground like us commoners. They have vehicles to ride them around Davos. But, he made the mistake of walking down the street, and I think that's the first time he's been asked unscripted questions ever.
Speaker 1: And how angry did he get versus trying to whiz through traffic, which is every everything about his behavior was so bizarre. The only thing that seemed to come really natural to him was having people do his dirty work.
Speaker 0: Yeah. You know, there's some very very important people, at Davos. I mean, John Kerry is an example. I bumped into Tony Blair last year. There are some very powerful people.
At most, they have sort of one assistant. There's no need for bodyguards in this town. There's armed Swiss security everywhere. But to have 2 thugs to push and shove, I think that shows the mindset of Larry Fink himself. And taking pictures of us, I'm happy to tell him my name.
My name is Ezra Levant, and I ask questions about BlackRock.
Speaker 1: And I'm Avi Uwini. And I'll also ask questions no matter who who you have near you, and it's exactly why we're here. Wefreports.com. Check out all our reports from on the ground this week. And if you support our work, please consider chipping in, for the enormous cost to get here and, potentially some security.
@redpillb0t - redpillbot
BlackRock is on track to own almost everything. But who owns BlackRock?
@IanMalcolm84 - IanMalcolm84
Would it be weird if a group making up only 0.2% of the world ran ALL of these companies? What if that group also owned 96% of the media? https://t.co/2bu5MrEd7G
reSee.it AI Summary
I discussed the complexities surrounding Grok's claims, particularly regarding its data sources. While Grok's information is linked to Blackrock, it's crucial to recognize that it's not the sole funding source. I emphasized the importance of using primary sources for accurate information, as relying solely on Grok can lead to incomplete answers. It's essential to ask questions and cross-reference data to ensure a comprehensive understanding of the topic.
@Irishgypsy288 - Irish Gypsy
Well, yes but also no. Allow me to explain.
@Irishgypsy288 - Irish Gypsy
First, let's start with Grok's claim. Grok gives the following response. Always check the sources that Grok pulls from, indicated in the left hand bubble. https://t.co/uhbgbm9wva
@Irishgypsy288 - Irish Gypsy
In this case, Grok pulls the data for Grok's response from three posts on X. This is a poor data set and does not give the full picture. https://t.co/Z9L9RWD55t
@Irishgypsy288 - Irish Gypsy
See? It's Blackrock yes, but it's not the only funding source. https://t.co/S46cBhs7tW
@Irishgypsy288 - Irish Gypsy
Now here's why using primary sources is so important: If you only rely on Grok you are not always getting an accurate or total answer. It's much better to ask yourself questions and seek the answers and cross-reference to ensure accuracy.
@iluminatibot - illuminatibot
BlackRock is on the path to owning the world. https://t.co/optGvcrmFd
Video Transcript AI Summary
BlackRock, founded in 1988 by Larry Fink, rose to dominance after the 2008 financial crisis, advising entities like AIG and the Federal Reserve. Fink, who previously created the subprime mortgage market, was seen as a savior during the crisis. BlackRock executives have since moved into government positions, influencing policy.
In 2019, BlackRock proposed a "going direct" monetary policy, bypassing traditional interest rate channels. This plan was implemented shortly after, with central banks injecting money directly into the economy. BlackRock also managed bailout programs, benefiting its own iShares ETFs.
BlackRock's Aladdin software, used by numerous institutions, manages trillions in assets. The company is increasingly using AI and algorithms for investment decisions. Fink's annual letters to CEOs push the ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) agenda, influencing corporate behavior. BlackRock is leveraging its power to shape the corporate world and promote digital currencies.
Some US states are divesting from BlackRock due to its ESG agenda. While protests have occurred, they often focus on greenwashing rather than the broader agenda. The question remains: who owns BlackRock?
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Speaker 0: Hey. Let's play a little game. Let's imagine you're JoQ normie, and you need to run out for some groceries. You hop in the car and head to the store. What store do you go to?
Why, Walmart, of course. And being an unwitting victim of the sugar conspiracy, what do you buy when you're there? Coke, naturally. And you can get jabbed at Walmart these days, right? Well, then you might as well make sure to get your sixth Moderna booster while you're there.
And don't forget to fill up with gas on your way home. Is this creeping you out? Then why don't you shut yourself in your house and never go out shopping again? That'll show them. After all, you can always order everything you need from Amazon, can't you?
Are you noticing a pattern here? Yes, in case you haven't heard, BlackRock Inc. Is now officially everywhere. It owns everything. Sadly for us, however, the creepy corporate claws of the BlackRock beast aren't content simply to clutch onto a near plurality of the shares of every major corporation in the world.
No. BlackRock is now digging its talons in even further and flexing its muscles, putting that inconceivable wealth and influence to use by completely reordering the economy, creating scandemics, and shaping the course of civilization in the process. Let's face it, if you're not concerned about the power BlackRock wields over the world by this point, then you're not paying attention. But don't worry if all of this is news to you. Most people have no idea where this investment giant came from, how it clawed its way to the top of the Wall Street dogpile, or what it has planned for your future.
Let's fill in that gap in public understanding. I'm James Corbett of the Corbett Report, and today you're going to learn the story of how BlackRock conquered the world. Hold on a second, I hear you interject. I've got this. BlackRock was founded as a mergers and acquisitions firm in 1985 by a couple of ex lemanites and has since gone on to become the world's largest alternative investment firm, right?
Wrong. That's Blackstone Inc, currently headed by Steven Schwartzman. But don't feel bad if you confuse the two. The BlackstoneBlackRock confusion was done on purpose. In fact, BlackRock began in 1988 as a business proposal by investment banker Larry Fink in a gaggle of business partners.
The appropriately named Fink had managed to lose $100,000,000 in a single quarter in 1986 as a manager at First Boston Investment Bank by betting the wrong way on interest rates. Humbled by this humiliating setback Fink turned lemons into lemonade by crafting a vision for an investment firm with an emphasis on risk management. Never again would Larry Fink be caught off guard by a market downturn. Fink assembled some partners and brought his proposal to Blackstone co founders Pete Peterson and Stephen Schwarzman, who liked the idea so much that they agreed to extend Fink a $5,000,000 line of credit in exchange for a 50% share in the business. Originally named Blackstone Financial Management, Fink's operation was turning a nice profit within months, had quadrupled the value of its assets in one year, and had grown the value of its portfolio under management to $17,000,000,000 by 1992.
Now firmly established as a viable business in its own right, Schwarzman and Fink began musing about spinning the firm off from Blackstone and taking it public. Schwarzman suggested giving the newly independent company a name with black in it as a nod to its Blackstone origins, and Fink, taking roguish delight in the inevitable confusion and annoyance such a move would cause, proposed the name BlackRock.
Speaker 1: So Larry and I were sitting down, and and he he said, what what do you think about, you know, sort of having a family name, you know BlackRock. With black in it. And I I said, that that's a that's I think that's a good idea. And I think it was they put on the table either black pebble or or or or black rock. And and so so he said, you know, if we do something like this, all of our people will kill us.
Speaker 0: The two evidently share the same sense of humor. There is a little confusion between the companies, Schwartzman now concedes, and every time that happens, I get a real chuckle. But a shared taste causing confusion was not enough to keep the partners together. By 1994, the two had fallen out over compensation for new hires or perhaps due to distress over Schwarzman's ongoing divorce, depending who's telling the story and Schwarzman sold Blackstone's holdings in BlackRock for a mere $240,000,000. That was certainly a heroic mistake, Schwartzman admits.
Having made the split with Blackstone and established BlackRock as its own entity, Think was firmly on the path that would lead to his company becoming the globe bestriding financial colossus that it is today. In 1999, with its assets under management standing at $165,000,000,000 BlackRock went public on the New York Stock Exchange at $14 per share. Expanding its services into analytics and risk management with its proprietary Aladdin Enterprise Investment System more on which later The firm acquired mutual fund company State Street Research and Management in 02/2004, merged with Merrill Lynch Investment Management in 02/2006, and bought Seattle based Quellos Group's Fund of Hedge Funds business in 02/2007, bringing the total value of assets under BlackRock management to over $1,000,000,000,000. But it was the global financial crisis of '2 thousand and seven-two thousand and '8 that catapulted BlackRock to its current position of financial dominance. Just ask Heikki Buchter, the German correspondent who literally wrote the book on BlackRock.
Prior to the financial crisis, I was not even familiar with the name. But in the years after the Lehman Brothers collapse in 02/2008, BlackRock appeared everywhere. Everywhere, Buchter told German news outlet DW in 2015. Even before the Bear Stearns fiasco materialized into the Lehman Brothers collapse and the full on financial bloodbath of September 2008, Wall Street was collectively turning to BlackRock for help. AIG, Lehman Brothers, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had all hired the firm to comb through their spiraling mess of credit obligations in the months before the meltdown.
BlackRock was perceived to be the only firm that could sort through the dizzying math behind the complicated debt swaps and exotic financial instruments underlying the tottering financial system, and many Wall Street kingpins had think on speed dial as panic began to grip the markets. I think of it like Ghostbusters. When you have a problem, who are going to call? BlackRock, UBS managing director Terrence Kealy told CNN at the time. And why wouldn't they trust Fink to pick through the mess of the subprime mortgage meltdown?
After all, he was the one who helped launch the whole toxic subprime mortgage industry in the first place. Oh, did I forget to mention that? Remember the whole losing his job because he lost $100,000,000 for First Boston in 1986 thing? That came just three years after Fink had made billions for the bank's customers by constructing his first Collateralized Mortgage Obligation and almost single handedly created the subprime mortgage market that would fail so spectacularly in 02/2008.
Speaker 2: Started First Boston in 1976. I was the first Freddie Mac bond trader. And so the mortgage market was just in its infancy. And then in 1982, we had the ability to put a PC on our trading desk. Before that, you had no ability to put a computer on our trading desk.
And it was very clear to me that if we could have computing power on the trading desk, we were going to have the ability to dissect cash flows of mortgages. That led in 1983 to the first carving up a mortgage into different tranches, and so we created the first CMO.
Speaker 0: So, how you look at it, Fink was either the perfect guy to have in charge of sorting out the mess that his CMO monstrosity had created, or the first Fink who should have gone to jail for it. Guess which way the US government chose to see it? Yeah, you guessed right. They saw Fink as their savior, of course. Specifically, the US government turned to BlackRock for help, with beleaguered US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner personally consulting Larry Fink no less than 49 times over the course of the eighteen month crisis.
Lest there be any doubt who was calling the shots in that relationship, when Geithner was on the ropes and his position as Secretary of the Treasury was in jeopardy at the end of Obama's first term, Fink's name was on the shortlist of those who were being considered to replace him. The Federal Reserve, too, put its faith in BlackRock, turning to the company for assistance in administering the 2,008 bailouts. Ultimately, BlackRock ended up playing a role in the $30,000,000,000 financing of the sale of Bear Stearns to JPMorgan, the $180,000,000,000 bailout of AIG, and the $45,000,000,000 rescue of Citigroup. When the dust finally settled on Wall Street after the Lehman Brothers collapse, there was little doubt who was sitting on top of the dust pile: BlackRock. The only question was how they would parlay their growing wealth and financial clout into real world political power.
For Fink, the answer was obvious: move from the petty crime of high finance into the criminal big leagues of government. Accordingly, throughout the last decade, he has spent his time building up BlackRock's political influence until it has become, as even Bloomberg admits, the de facto fourth branch of government. When BlackRock executives managed to get their hands on a confidential Federal Reserve PowerPoint presentation threatening to subject BlackRock to the same regulatory regime as the big banks, the Wall Street behemoth spent millions successfully lobbying the government to drop the proposal. But lobbying the government is a roundabout way to get what you want. As any good financial guru will tell you, it's far more cost efficient to make sure that no troublesome regulations are imposed in the first place.
Perhaps that's why Fink has been collecting powerful politicians for years now, scooping them up as consultants, advisers, and board members so that he can ensure BlackRock has a key agent at the heart of any important political event. As William Engdahl details in his own expose of BlackRock, founder and CEO Larry Fink is clearly interested in buying influence globally. He made former German CDU MP Friedrich Mertz head of BlackRock Germany when it looked as if he might succeed Chancellor Merkel and former British Chancellor of Exchequer George Osborne as a political consultant. Fink named former Hillary Clinton Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills to the BlackRock board when it seemed certain Hillary would soon be in the White House. He has named former central bankers to his board and gone on to secure lucrative contracts with their former institutions.
Stanley Fisher, former head of the Bank of Israel and also later vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, is now senior advisor at BlackRock. Philip Hildebrand, former Swiss National Bank president, is vice chairman at BlackRock, where he oversees the BlackRock Investment Institute. Jean Boisvin, the former deputy governor of the Bank of Canada, is the global head of research at BlackRock's Investment Institute. And it doesn't end there. When it came time for Biden's handlers to appoint the director of the National Economic Council, responsible for the coordination of policymaking on both domestic and international economic issues, naturally they turned to Brian Dees, the former global head of sustainable investing at BlackRock Inc.
And the rest, as they say, is history. Or, more accurately, is the present, because when we peel back the layers of propaganda from the past three years, we find that the remarkable events of this scandemic have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with a virus. We are instead witnessing a changeover in the monetary and economic system that was conceived, proposed, and then implemented by, you guessed it, BlackRock. Historians of the future will no doubt note 2019 as the year that BlackRock began its takeover of the planet in earnest. It was in January of that fateful year that Joe Biden crawled cap in hand to Larry Wall Street office to seek the financial titan's blessing for his presidential selection.
I'm here to help, Fink reportedly replied. Then, on August twenty second of twenty nineteen, Larry Fink joined such illustrious figures as Al Climate Conman Gore, Christia, Account Freezing Freeland, Mark G. Fans Carney, and the man himself, Klaus Bonvillain Schwab, on the World Economic Forum's Board of Trustees, an organization which, the WEF informs us, serves as the guardian of the World Economic Forum's mission and values. But which values are those, precisely, you might ask. And what does Yo Yo Ma have to do with it?
It was another event that took place on 08/22/2019, however, that captures our attention today. As it turns out, August 22 was not only the date that Fink achieved his globalist knighthood on the WEF board, it was also the date that the financial coup d'etat, later erroneously referred to as a pandemic, actually began. In order to understand what happened that day, however, we need to take a moment to understand the structure of The US monetary system. You see, greatly oversimplifying things for ease of understanding, there are actually two types of money in the banking system. There's bank money, the money that you and I use to transact in the real economy, and there's reserve money, the money that banks keep on deposit at the Federal Reserve.
These two types of money circulate in two separate monetary circuits, sometimes referred to as the retail circuit and the wholesale circuit In order to get a handle on what this actually means, I highly suggest you check out John Titus' indispensable videos on the subject, notably, Where Does Money Come From? And Wherefore Art Thou Reserves, and Larry and Carsten's Excellent Pandemic, where he explains the split circuit monetary system.
Speaker 3: So here we have split circuit monetary system, and on the left, we have the public circuit where I'm gonna simplify the diagram. It's the Federal Reserve issuing money to commercial banks, and it is circling back to the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve might buy an asset from a commercial bank, which turns around, sells it back to the Fed. That's a basic stripped down circuit. The retail circuit on the right in red, the commercial banks are issuing money.
Again, I'm going to simplify this. They issue money to you and me. They issue it in the form of loans. We pay the money back, and the cycle begins anew. And that's really the system.
I wanted to do this diagram, though, because you could see here in the center of the diagram, the commercial banks occupy a special position in the two tiered split circuit monetary system. They are both issuers and users of money in the center here. So you could really draw a box around them. Now you and I in the retail circuit, we keep our money on deposit at the commercial banks, which in turn keep their money on deposit at the Fed. So there you have two different systems of deposits.
Speaker 0: But the point of the two circuit system is that historically speaking, the Federal Reserve was never able to print money in the sense that people usually understand that term. It's able to create reserve money, which banks can keep on deposit with the Fed to meet their capital requirements. The more reserves they have parked at the Fed, the more bank money they're allowed to conjure into existence and lend out into the real economy. The gap between Fed created reserve money and bank created bank money acts as a type of circuit breaker, and this is why the flood of reserve money that the Fed created in the wake of the global financial crisis of two thousand and eight did not result in a spike in commercial bank deposits. But all that changed three years ago.
As Titus observes, by the time of the scandemic bailouts of twenty twenty, the amount of bank money sitting in deposit in commercial banks in The US, a figure which had never shown any correlation with total amount of reserves held on deposit at the Fed, suddenly spiked in lockstep with the Fed's climbing balance sheet. Clearly, something had happened between the 02/2008 bailout and the 2020 bailout. Whereas the tidal wave of reserve money unleashed to capitalize the banks in the earlier bailout hadn't found its way into the real economy, the 2020 bailout money had. So, what happened? BlackRock happened.
That's what. Specifically, on 08/15/2019, BlackRock published a report under the typically eye wateringly boring title, Dealing with the From Unconventional Monetary policy to unprecedented policy coordination. Although the paper did not catch the attention of the general public, it did generate some press in the financial media and, much more to the point, generated interest from the gaggle of central bankers who descended on Jackson Hole, Wyoming for the annual Jackson Hole Economic Symposium taking place on August 2239, the exact same day that Fink was being appointed to the WEF's board. The theme of the twenty nineteen symposium, which brings together central bankers, policymakers, economists, academics to discuss economic issues and policy options, was challenges for monetary policy. And BlackRock's paper, published a week in advance of the event, was carefully crafted to set the parameters of the discussion.
It's no surprise that the report caught the attention of the central bankers. After all, BlackRock's proposal came with a pedigree. Of the four co authors of the report, three of them were former central bankers themselves, as we've seen Philip Hildebrand, the former president of the Swiss National Bank Stanley Fischer, the former Federal Reserve vice chairman and former governor of the Bank of Israel and Jean Boisin, the former deputy governor of the Bank of Canada. But beyond the paper's authorship, it was what dealing with the next downturn actually proposed that was to have such earth shaking effects on the global monetary order. The report starts by noting the dilemma that the central bankers found themselves in by 2019.
After years of quantitative easing and ZERP and even the once unthinkable NERP the banksters were running out of room to operate. As BlackRock notes, the current policy space for global central banks is limited and will not be enough to respond to a significant, let alone a dramatic, downturn. Conventional and unconventional monetary policy works primarily through the stimulative impact of lower short term and long term interest rates. This channel is almost tapped out. One third of the developed market government bond and investment grade universe now has negative yields, and global bond yields are closing in on their potential floor.
Further support cannot rely on interest rates falling. So, what was BlackRock's answer to this conundrum? Why, a great reset, of course. No, not Claus Schwab's great reset. A different type of great reset.
The going direct reset. An unprecedented response is needed when monetary policy is exhausted and fiscal policy alone is not enough. That response will likely involve going direct. Going direct means the central bank finding ways to central bank money directly in the hands of public and private sector spenders. Going direct, which can be organized in a variety of different ways, works by: one, bypassing the interest rate channel when this traditional central bank toolkit is exhausted and two, enforcing policy coordination so that the fiscal expansion does not lead to an offsetting increase in interest rates.
The authors of BlackRock's proposal go on to stress that they're not talking about simply dumping money into people's bank accounts willy nilly. As Report co author Philip Hildebrand made sure to stress in his appearance on Bloomberg on the day of the paper's release, this was not Bernanke's helicopter money idea.
Speaker 4: So what we're proposing is the next step has to be something else than just more of the same, something that goes into the direction of essentially what we call go and direct, which would be ways of putting money into into pockets of consumers or corporates directly in order to spend. So to go around the interest rate channel as opposed to traditional central banking where you really only, or always work through the interest rate channel.
Speaker 0: So kinda like helicopter money. Does it have to be coordinated?
Speaker 4: I think what it means, helicopter money is a sort of catchphrase from the famous paper that Ben Bernanke gave in the early two thousands. But the point is, yes, you have to go in a different way than working through the interest rate channel because interest rates are already so low.
Speaker 0: Nor was it, as report co author Jean Bois Van was keen to stress in his January 2020 appearance on BlackRock's own podcast discussing the idea, a version of modern monetary theory with the government simply printing up bank money to spend directly into the economy. No. This was to be a process where special purpose facilities, which they called standing emergency fiscal facilities would be created to inject bank money directly into the commercial accounts of various public or private sector entities. These SEFFs would be overseen by the central bankers themselves, thus crossing the streams of the two monetary circuits in a way that had never been done before. Any additional measures to stimulate economic growth will have to go beyond the interest rate channel and go direct, with the central bank crediting private or public sector accounts directly with money.
One way or another, this will mean subsidizing spending, and such a measure would be fiscal rather than monetary by design. This can be done directly through fiscal policy or by expanding the monetary policy toolkit with an instrument that will be fiscal in nature, such as credit easing by way of buying equities. This implies that an effective stimulus would require coordination between monetary and fiscal policy, be it implicitly or explicitly. Alright, let's recap. On August 1539, BlackRock came out with a proposal calling for central banks to adopt a completely unprecedented procedure for injecting money directly into the economy in the event of the next downturn.
Then, on 08/22/2019, the Central Bankers of the World convened in Wyoming for their annual shindig to discuss these very ideas. So, did the central bankers listen to BlackRock? You bet they did. Remember when we saw how commercial bank deposits began moving in sync with the Fed's balance sheet for the first time ever? Let's take another look at that, shall we?
It wasn't the March 2020 bailouts where the correlation between the Fed balance sheet and commercial bank deposits, the telltale sign of a BlackRock style going direct bailout, began. It was actually in September 2019, months before this pandemic was a gleam in Bill Gates' eye, when we started to see Federal Reserve monetary creation finding its way directly into the retail monetary circuit. In other words, it was less than one month after BlackRock proposed this revolutionary new type of fiscal intervention that the central banks began implementing that very idea. The going direct reset, better understood as a financial coup d'etat, had begun. To be sure, this going direct intervention was later offset by Fed's next scam for forcing more government debt on depositors, but that's another story.
The point is that the seal had been broken on the going direct bottle, and it wasn't long before the central bankers had a perfect excuse for forcing that entire bottle down the public's throat. What we were told was a pandemic was in fact, on the financial level, just an excuse for an absolutely unprecedented pumping of trillions of dollars from the Fed directly into the economy. The story of precisely how the going direct reset was implemented during the twenty twenty bailouts is a fascinating one, and I would encourage you to dive down that rabbit hole if you're interested. But for today's purposes, it's sufficient to understand what the central bankers got out of the going direct reset. The ability to take over fiscal policy and to begin engineering the economy of Main Street in a more, well, direct way.
But what did BlackRock get out of this, you ask? Well, when it came time to decide who to call in to manage this scandemic bailout scheme, guess who the Fed turned to? If you guessed BlackRock, then sadly, you're exactly right. Yes, in March 2020, the Federal Reserve hired BlackRock to manage three separate bailout programs: its commercial mortgage backed securities program, its purchases of newly issued corporate bonds, and its purchases of existing investment grade bonds and credit ETFs. To be sure, this bailout bonanza wasn't just another excuse for BlackRock to gain access to the government purse and distribute funds to businesses in its own portfolio, though it certainly was that.
It was also a convenient excuse for BlackRock to bail out one of its own most valuable assets: iShares, the collection of exchange traded funds that it acquired from Barclays for $13,500,000,000 in 02/2009 and that had ballooned to a $1,900,000,000,000 juggernaut by 2020. As Pam and Russ Martins, who've been on the BlackRock beat at their Wall Street on Parade blog for years now, detailed in their article on the subject, is bailing out its ETFs with Fed money and taxpayers eating losses. BlackRock is being allowed by the Fed to buy its own corporate bond ETFs as part of the Fed program to prop up the corporate bond market. According to a report in Institutional Investor on Monday, BlackRock, on behalf of the Fed, bought $1,580,000,000 in investment grade and high yield ETFs from May 12 to May 19, with BlackRock's iShares funds representing 48% of the $1,307,000,000 market value at the end of that period, ETFGI said in a May 30 report. No bid contracts and buying up your own products?
What could possibly be wrong with that? The numbers speak for themselves. After BlackRock was allowed to bail out its own ETF funds with the Fed's newly minted going direct funny money, iShares surged yet again, surpassing $3,000,000,000,000 in assets under management last year. But it wasn't just the Fed that was rolling out the red carpet for BlackRock to implement the very bailout plan that BlackRock created. Bankers from around the world were positively falling over themselves to get Rock to manage their market interventions.
In April 2020, the Bank of Canada announced that it was hiring who else? Black Rock's Financial Markets Advisory to help manage its own $10,000,000,000 corporate bond buying program. Then, in May 2020, the Swedish central bank, the Riksbank, also hired BlackRock as an external consultant to conduct an analysis of the Swedish corporate bonds market and an assessment of possible design options for a potential corporate bonds asset purchase program. As we saw earlier, the global financial crisis had put BlackRock on the map, establishing the firm's dominance on the world stage and catapulting Larry Fink to the status of Wall Street royalty. With the 2020 going direct reset, however, BlackRock had truly conquered the world.
It was now dictating central bank interventions and then acting in every conceivable role and in direct violation of conflict of interest rules, acting as consultant and advisor, as manager, as buyer, as seller, and as investor with both the Fed and the very banks, corporations, pension funds, and other entities it was bailing out. Yes, with the advent of this scandemic, BlackRock had cemented its position as the company that owns the world. But, yet again, we are left with the same nagging question: What is BlackRock seeking to do with this power? What is it capable of doing? And what are the aims of Fink and his fellow travelers?
Let's find out. As you now know, BlackRock started out life as Blackstone Financial Management in the offices of the Blackstone Group in 1988. By 1992, it was already so successful that founder Larry Fink and Blackstone CEO Steven Schwartzman spun the company off as its own entity, christening it Black Rock in a deliberate attempt to sow confusion. But it was in 1993 that arguably the most important of BlackRock's market controlling tools was forged. It was that year that Jody Kochansky, a fixed income portfolio manager hired the year began to tire of his daily 06:30 a.
M. Task of comparing his entire portfolio to yesterday's numbers. The task, done by hand from paper printouts, was long and arduous. Kochansky had a better We said, 'Let's take this data, and rather than print it out, let's sort it into a database and have the computer compare the report today versus the report yesterday across every position.' It may seem obvious to us today, but in 1993, the idea of automating a task like this was a radical one. Nonetheless, it paid off.
After seeing the utility of having an automated, daily, computer generated report calculating risk on every asset in a portfolio, Kochansky and his team hunkered down for a seventy two hour code writing exercise that resulted in Aladdin, short for Asset Liability Debt and Derivative Investment Network, a proprietary investment analysis technology touted as the operating system for BlackRock. Sold as a central processing system for investment management, the software is now the core of BlackRock Solutions, a BlackRock subsidiary that licenses Aladdin to corporate clients and institutional investors. Aladdin combines portfolio management and trading, compliance, operations, and risk oversight in a single platform and is now used by over 200 institutions, including fund manager rivals Vanguard and State Street, half of the top 10 insurers in the world, big tech giants like Microsoft, Apple, and Alphabet, and numerous pension funds, including the world's largest, the $1,500,000,000,000 Japanese government pension insurance fund. The numbers themselves tell the story of Aladdin. It's used by 13,000 BlackRock employees and thousands of BlackRock customers.
It occupies three data centers in The US, with BlackRock planning to open two more in Europe. It runs 1000s of Monte Carlo simulations computational algorithms that model the probability of various outcomes in chaotic systems every day on each one of the tens of millions of securities under its purview. And, by February 2017, Aladdin was managing risk for $20,000,000,000,000 worth of assets. That's when BlackRock stopped reporting this figure since, as the company told the Financial Times, total assets do not reflect how clients use the system. An anonymous source in the company had a different take.
The figure is no longer disclosed because of the negative attention the enormous sums attracted. In this case, the phrase enormous sums almost fails to do justice to the truly mind boggling wealth under the watchful eye of this computer system. As the Financial Times went on to report, the combination of the scores of new clients using Aladdin in recent years and the growth in stock and bond markets in that time has meant that the total value of assets under the systems management is much larger than the $20,000,000,000,000 reported in 2017. Today, dollars 21,600,000,000,000.0 sits on the platform from just a third of its two forty clients, according to public documents verified with the company's and first hand accounts. For context, that figure, representing the assets of just one third of BlackRock's clientele, itself accounts for 10% of the value of all the stocks and bonds in the world.
But if the idea of this amount of the world's assets being under the management of a single company's proprietary computer software concerns you, BlackRock has a message for you: relax. The official line is that Aladdin only calculates risk it doesn't tell asset managers what to buy or sell. Thus, even if there were a stray line of code or a wonky algorithm somewhere deep inside Aladdin's programming getting its investment analysis wrong, the final decision on any given instrument would still come down to human judgment. Needless to say, that's a lie. In 2017, BlackRock unveiled a project to replace underperforming human stock pickers with computer algorithms.
Dubbed Monarch, the scheme saw billions of dollars of assets snatched from human control and given to an obscure arm of the BlackRock empire called Systematic Active Equities BlackRock acquired SAE in the same 02/2009 deal that saw it snag iShares from Barclays Global Investor, BGI. As we've already seen, the BGI deal was unbelievably lucrative for BlackRock, with iShares being purchased for $13,500,000,000 in 02/2009 and rising to a $1,900,000,000,000 valuation in 2020. Testifying to BlackRock's commitment to the Machine Over Man Monarch project, Mark Wiseman, global head of active equities at BlackRock, told the Financial Times in 2018: I firmly believe that, if we look back in five to ten years from now, the thing that we most benefited from in the BGI acquisition is actually SAE. Even the New York Times was reporting at the time of the launch of the Monarch operation that Larry Fink had cast his lot with the machines and that BlackRock had laid out an ambitious plan to consolidate a large number of actively managed mutual funds with peers that rely more on algorithms and models to pick stocks. The democratization of information has made it much harder for active management, Fink told the New York Times.
We have to change the ecosystem. That means relying more on big data, artificial intelligence, factors, and models within quant and traditional investment strategies. Lest there be any doubt about BlackRock's commitment to this anti human agenda, the company doubled down in 2018 with the creation of AI Labs, which is composed of researchers, data scientists, and engineers and works to develop methods to solve their hardest technical problems and advance the fields of finance and AI. The actual models that SAE uses to pick stocks is hidden behind walls of corporate secrecy, but we do know some details. We know, for instance, that SAE collects over 1,000 market signals on each stock under evaluation, including everything from the obvious statistics you would expect in any quantitative analysis of the equities markets to the more exotic forms of data harvesting possible when complex learning algorithms are connected to the mind boggling amounts of data now available on seemingly everyone and everything.
A Harvard MBA student cataloged some of these novel approaches to stock valuation undertaken by the SAE algorithms in a 2018 post on the subject. One of the ways BlackRock is including machine learning in its investment process is by signal combination, in which a model mines data, attempting to learn the relationship between stock returns and various quantitative data. For example, it would analyze web traffic through corporate websites as an indicator of future growth of the company, or would look at the geolocation data from smartphones to predict which retailers are more popular. In doing so, researchers must recalibrate and refine the model to make sure it was adding value and not just rediscovering well known market behaviors already known by fundamental fund managers. Another important machine learning application came when it was combined with natural language processing.
In this model, the technology learns in an adaptive way what are the words that can predict future performance of stocks. This model was used on analysis of broker reports and corporate filings, and the technology discovered that CEOs' remarks tend to be generally more positive, so then it started giving more importance to the comments of the CFO or the Q and A portion of conference calls. So, let's recap. We know that BlackRock now manages well in excess of $21,000,000,000,000 of assets with its Aladdin software, making a significant portion of the world's wealth dependent on the calculations of an opaque, proprietary BlackRock operating system. And we know that Fink has cast his lot in with the machines and is increasingly devoted to finding ways to leverage so called artificial intelligence, learning algorithms, and other state of the art technologies to further remove humans from the investment loop.
But here's the real question: what is BlackRock actually doing with its all seeing eye of Aladdin and its SAE robo stock pickers and its AI labs? Where are Fink and the gang actually trying to take us with the latest and greatest in cutting edge fintech wizardry? Luckily, we don't exactly need to scribe the tea leaves to find our answer to that question. Larry Fink has been kind enough to write it down for us in black and white. You see, every year since 2012, Fink has taken it upon himself as de facto ruler of the world's wealth to pen an annual letter to CEOs laying out the next steps in his scheme for world domination.
I mean, he writes the letter as a fiduciary for our clients who entrust us to manage their assets, to highlight the themes that I believe are vital to driving durable long term returns and to helping them reach their goals. Sometimes referred to as a call to action to corporate leaders, these letters from the man stewarding over a significant chunk of the world's investable assets actually do change corporate behavior. That this is so should be self evident to anyone with two brain cells to rub together, which is precisely why it took a team of researchers months of painstaking study to publish a peer reviewed paper concluding this blindingly obvious portfolio firms are responsive to BlackRock's public engagement efforts. You don't say. So, what is Larry Fink's latest hobby horse, you ask?
Why, the ESG scam, of course. That's right, Fink used his 2022 letter to harangue his captive audience of corporate chieftains about the power of capitalism, by which he means the power of capitalism to more perfectly control human behavior in the name of sustainability. It's been two years since I wrote that climate risk is investment risk, and in that short period, we have seen a tectonic shift of capital. Sustainable investments have now reached $4,000,000,000,000. Actions and ambitions towards decarbonization have also increased.
This is just the beginning. The tectonic shift towards sustainable investing is still accelerating. Whether it is capital being deployed into new ventures focused on energy innovation or capital transferring from traditional indexes into more customized portfolios and products, we will see more money in motion. Every company and every industry will be transformed by the transition to a net zero world. The question is, will you lead or will you be Stakeholder capitalism is all about delivering long term, durable returns for shareholders, and transparency around your company's planning for a net zero world is an important element of that.
But it's just one of many disclosures we and other investors ask companies to make. As stewards of our clients' capital, we ask businesses to demonstrate how they're going to deliver on their responsibility to shareholders, including through sound environmental, social, and governance practices and policies. Yes, to the surprise of absolutely no one, Larry Fink has signed BlackRock on to the multi trillion dollar scam that is Environmental, Social, and Governance Practices and Policies, better known as ESG. For those who don't know about ESG yet, they might want to get up to speed on the topic with my presentation earlier this year on ESG and the Big Oil Conspiracy. Or, they can read the summary of the ESG scam by Ian Davis in his article on the globalization of the commons This will be achieved using stakeholder capitalism metrics.
Assets will be rated using ESG benchmarks for sustainable business performance. Any business requiring market finance, perhaps through issuing climate bonds or maybe green bonds for European ventures, will need those bonds to have a healthy ESG rating. A low ESG rating will deter investors, preventing a project or business venture from getting off the ground. A high ESG rating will see investors rush to put their money in projects that are backed by international agreements. In combination, financial initiatives like NACs and ESGs are converting SDGs into market regulations.
In other words, ESG is a set of phony baloney metrics that are being cooked up by globalist think tanks and would be ruling councils, like the World Economic Forum, to serve as a type of social credit system for corporations. If corporations fail to toe the line when it comes to globalist policies of the moment, whether that's committing to industry destroying net zero or even absolute zero commitments, or debanking thought criminals, or anything else that may be on the globalist checklist, their ESG rating will take a hit. So what? You may ask. What does an ESG rating have to do with the price of tea in China, and why would any CEO care?
The so what here is that, as Fink signals in his latest letter, BlackRock will be putting ESG reporting and compliance in its basket of considerations when choosing which stocks and bonds to invest in and which ones to pass over. And Fink is not alone. There are now two ninety one signatories to the Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative, an international group of asset managers committed to supporting the goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 02/1950 or sooner. They include BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, and a slew of other companies collectively managing $66,000,000,000,000 of assets. In plain English, BlackRock and its fellow globalist firms are leveraging their power as asset managers to begin shaping the corporate world in their image and bending corporations to their will.
And, in case you were wondering, yes, this is tied into the AI agenda as well. In 2020, BlackRock announced the launch of a new module to its automated Aladdin system, Aladdin Climate. Aladdin Climate is the first software application to offer investors measures of both the physical risk of climate change and the transition risk to a low carbon economy on portfolios with climate adjusted security valuations and risk metrics. Using Aladdin Climate, investors can now analyze climate risk and opportunities at the security level and measure the impact of policy changes, technology, and energy supply on investments. To get a sense of what a world directed by digital overlords at the behest of the ESG agenda might look like, we simply need to turn to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
As Fink wrote in his letter to shareholders earlier this year: Finally, a less discussed aspect of the war is its potential impact on accelerating digital currencies. The war will prompt countries to reevaluate their currency dependencies. Even before the war, several governments were looking to play a more active role in digital currencies and define the regulatory frameworks under which they operate. The US Central Bank, for example, recently launched a study to examine the potential implications of the US digital dollar, A global digital payment system, thoughtfully designed, can enhance the settlement of international transactions while reducing the risk of money laundering and corruption. Digital currencies can also help bring down costs of cross border payments, for example when expatriate workers send earnings back to their families.
As we see increasing interest from our clients, BlackRock is studying digital currencies, stablecoins, and the underlying technologies to understand how they can help us serve our clients. The future of the world, according to BlackRock, is now coming fully into view. It is a world in which unaccountable computer learning algorithms automatically direct investments of the world's largest institutions into the coffers of those who play ball with the demands of Fink and his fellow travelers. It's a world in which transactions will be increasingly digital, with every transaction being data mined for the financial benefits of the algorithmic overlords at BlackRock. And it's a world in which corporations that refuse to go along with the agenda will be ESG deranked into oblivion, and individuals who present resistance will have their CBDC wallets shut off.
The transition of BlackRock from a mere investment firm into a financial, political, and technological colossus that has the power to direct the course of human civilization is almost complete.
Speaker 3: Meet Serge Varley, a recruiter at BlackRock.
Speaker 0: Let me tell you, it's not the who's the person who's who's who's controlling the the wallet. So it's it's the And who's that? The hedge funds, BlackRock, the banks. These guys campaign financing. Yep.
You can buy your candidates. And, obviously, we have the system in place. First, there's the senate. And this guy's fucking cheap. You got $10 you can buy.
So I could give you 500 k right now. No questions asked. Yeah. I didn't do it. Needs to be done.
Does, like, everybody do that? Does Blackhawk do that? It doesn't matter who wins. They're still in. They're they're in my pocket.
Exploration of this world conquering juggernaut is, there is a ray of hope on the horizon. The public is at least finally becoming aware of the existence of BlackRock and its relative importance on the global financial stage. This is reflected in an increasing number of protests targeting BlackRock and its activities. Keen eyed observers may note, however, that these protests are not against the BlackRock agenda that I've been laying out here. On the contrary, they are for that agenda.
These protesters' main gripe seems to be that Fink and BlackRock are engaged in greenwashing and that the megacorporation is actually more interested in its bottom line than in saving Mother Earth. Well, duh. Even BlackRock's former Chief Investment Officer for Sustainable Investing wrote, after leaving the firm, an extensive four part whistleblowing expose documenting how the sustainable investing push being touted by Fink is a scam from top to bottom. My only gripe with this limited hangout critique of BlackRock is that it implies that Fink and his cohorts are merely interested in accumulating dollars. They're not.
They're interested in turning their financial wealth into real world power power they will wield in service of their own agenda and will cloak with a phony green mantle because they believe, and not without reason, that that's what the public wants. In the past several months, multiple U. S. State governments have announced their intention to divest state funds from BlackRock, with 19 states' attorneys general even signing a letter to Larry Fink in August of twenty twenty two calling him out on his agenda of social control. As part of this divestment push, the Louisiana state treasurer announced in October that the state was withdrawing $794,000,000 in state funds from BlackRock, South Carolina's state treasurer announced plans to divest $200,000,000 from the company's control by the end of the year, and Arkansas has already taken $125,000,000 out of money market accounts under BlackRock's management.
Regardless of the real motivations of these state governments, the fact that they feel compelled to take action against BlackRock is itself a hopeful sign. It means that the political class understands that an increasing portion of the public is aware of the BlackRock ESG corporate governance agenda and is opposed to it. Once again, we arrive at the bottom line. The only thing that truly matters is public awareness of the issues involved in the rise of a financial giant like BlackRock, and it is only general public opinion that can move the needle when it comes to removing the wealth, and thus the power, from a behemoth like the one that Fink has created. But before we wrap up here, there's one last point to be made.
You might remember that we opened this exploration by highlighting BlackRock's position as one of the top institutional shareholders in Walmart, and in Coca Cola, and in Moderna, and in Exxon, and in Amazon, and in seemingly every other company of significance on the global stage. Now, the fact checkers will tell you this doesn't actually matter because it's the shareholders who actually own the stock, not BlackRock itself. But that raises a further question: who owns BlackRock? Oh, of course. Now, I realize this is a lot of information to take in at once.
Go ahead and rewatch this video once or twice. Follow some of the many links contained herein to better familiarize yourself with this material. Share these reports with others. But if after taking all of this in, you find yourself looking back over these top institutional holders lists and saying, Hey, wait, who's the vanguard group? Well then, I'd say you're starting to get it.
Good job. So, who is the Vanguard Group? It's an excellent question and one that I'll be answering in the next edition of the Corporate Report subscriber newsletter. I hope you're there for the answer.