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Whitney Webb and Johnny Vedmore discuss how elite institutions that steered COVID-19 policies are moving to shape a post-COVID world, focusing on Welcome Leap and the Trinity Challenge, and tracing their ties to the Wellcome Trust, the Gates Foundation, DARPA, and Silicon Valley. They note Welcome Leap’s deep links to the Wellcome Trust, which was involved with the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine, and highlight a framework in which philanthropy blends with biotech and for‑profit entities. They quote a Sunday Times profile describing Wellcome as a vehicle where “what Henry Welcom set out was a double edged scheme to run a business and a charity together. The flagship would be a philanthropic body, now the Wellcome Trust, enjoying the image and tax benefits of magnanimous public spirited generosity. But behind this would operate, industrial organizations and, straight up and down for profit corporations.” They ask who holds more sway over public policy—Bill Gates or the Wellcome Trust?—noting overlap between Gates Foundation and Wellcome Trust in the developing world. They discuss Welcome Leap’s leadership: Regina Dugan, who began at DARPA in 1996, leading a program that won awards for identifying land mines, then headed a counterism task force, and later created a defense‑focused tech firm Red X Defense that contracted with the military. Dugan “greenlighted DARPA's investment in mRNA vaccine technology” and, after leaving DARPA, was recruited by Google to lead Building 8, with projects including “digital tattoo” and “digital authentication pill,” and a focus on neural wearables and transhumanist aims. Dugan’s association with the Clinton Global Initiative and Bilderberg, and her role in Google’s DARPA‑like efforts, are cited as part of a broader transhumanist trajectory. Ken Gabriel, COO of Welcome Leap, is described as a DARPA veteran who led MEMS research, worked with both the FBI and CIA, and later joined Draper Labs before becoming involved with the Wellcome Trust; he sits on the Galvani Bioelectronics board, linking GlaxoSmithKline, Google, and Verily. Jay Flatley, Illumina’s longtime chief, is highlighted as a genomics power broker tied to the World Economic Forum and a push to gene‑tested populations from birth to grave. The four Welcome Leap programs are introduced. HOPE stands for human organs, physiology, and engineering, with aims to grow and translate organ systems that “will have a functional immune system,” potentially replacing animal trials and advancing bioengineering for transplantable organs and synthetic hybrid organs. The second program, the “first thousand days,” targets infants from three months to three years, outlining “wearables, constant twenty four seven surveillance of children,” including respiratory rate, heart rate, eye tracking, and ambient data to build an “in silico” AI model of a child’s brain, with the goal of having “eighty percent of children” matched to the synthetic model within ten years. The third program, Delta Tissue, is described as precision medicine to map cells and tissues for cancer prediction and prevention, potentially enabling AI‑driven interventions. The fourth, Multi Channel Psych, aims to study “anhedonia” and to develop brain stimulation interventions to shape behavior, including mood quantification, and to create scalable measurement tools via wearables that monitor mood, sleep, social interactions, and reward processing. They turn to the Trinity Challenge, chaired by Dame Sally Davies, with founding members including the University of Hong Kong, Cambridge, Northeastern, Imperial College London, and corporations such as Microsoft, Facebook, Google, GlaxoSmithKline, and McKinsey, plus the Gates Foundation, Tencent, Aviva, and a Global Virome Project linked to EcoHealth Alliance and USAID. The grand prize went to POD (participatory one health disease detection) led by Open Dream in Thailand, with Matt Parker connected to Salesforce; Jane Sexbot (a child sex‑education chatbot) was another project. Founding members include the Skull Global Threats Fund, tied to Jeffrey Skoll, and its leadership connected to Google, Salesforce, the WEF, and CFR, underscoring the convergence of tech, pharma, and policy elites in shaping surveillance, data analytics, and predictive health, framed as preventing pandemics but described as moving toward surveillance, eugenics, and transhumanism. They warn that post‑COVID agendas are being advanced behind distractions about variants, urging pushback and accountability.

Whitney Webb and Charlie Robinson critique COP26 in Glasgow as less a genuine climate summit than a stage for advancing a new economic order driven by bankers and global capital. They argue the conference serves to normalize a financialized future in which the natural world is monetized, and climate policy becomes a tool to expand the power of private finance over public policy. They point to visible symbols of elite privilege—private jets, motorcades, and a climate agenda led by billionaire figures—while China is absent, signaling a fractured global approach to “green” reform. “The largest contributor of pollution in the world, China, isn't at the conference,” Robinson notes, framing COP26 as hypocritical greenwashing that imposes lifestyle changes on ordinary people while elites remain unimpeded. The conversation shifts to the money and institutions at the heart of the push. They highlight deals and pledges from Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Larry Fink, and Mike Bloomberg, linking philanthropy to large-scale funding through NGOs and corporate partners such as Syngenta. The governance of climate finance, they argue, is shaped by a shadow network of forums and think tanks—the World Economic Forum, the Club of Rome, the World Bank, and multilateral development banks—where the lines between state power and big business blur. They discuss the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, chaired by Mark Carney and Bloomberg, which aims to “scale private capital flows to emerging and developing economies” and to develop “high integrity credible global carbon markets.” Whitney underscores the fear that such mechanisms will weaponize debt and finance to force policy, with Larry Fink calling for a reimagining of the IMF and World Bank to push net-zero agendas. A recurring theme is the tension between public policy promises and private gain. They cite the 2015 Food Chain Reaction Simulation, funded by the Center for American Progress and World Wildlife Fund, which projected global carbon taxes and meat taxes as mechanisms to redirect markets—illustrating a long-standing blueprint for monetizing climate policy. They invoke the Club of Rome’s provocative line that “the common enemy of humanity is man,” and connect it to an ongoing project to monetize nature, human capital, and even potential future assets through “natural asset corporations” and “intrinsic exchange” frameworks. The discussion also traverses the metaverse, digital identities, and central bank digital currencies, arguing that the same actors pushing climate finance are advancing control via surveillance, pre-emptive regulation, and preprogrammed consumption. Gates’s agricultural funding and Bill Gates’s broader role in shaping food systems are seen as part of a broader strategy to consolidate control over essential resources under the banner of sustainability. The pair warn that without broad public vigilance and independent scrutiny, these developments could reshape society toward neo-feudal arrangements, with a minority controlling the essentials of life while the majority are left with little room to resist.

Whitney Webb frames our era as one of unprecedented deceit, with both private and public sectors colluding in what she and her guest call a Global Public Private Partnership, or GPPP. In this view, policy is not primarily produced by elected governments but by a layered network that includes global think tanks, philanthropic hands, and corporate power. Ian Davis defines stakeholder capitalism as “a deception,” explaining that it began in the 1970s with Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum and is designed so “stakeholder partners”—global corporations, governments, NGOs, philanthropic bodies—will regulate their own markets, creating a new form of political influence. Governments, he notes, are urged to translate their role into enabling environments while market regulation shifts to the private-public network. Davis maps the policy flow: a centralized global hub formulates agendas, distributing and enforcing them through a hierarchy. At the top sits the Bank for International Settlements and national central banks, which control global money flows. Surrounding them are global think tanks—Chatham House, CFR, Club of Rome, and similar bodies—that craft policy agendas. Those ideas are then passed to policy distributors who influence national governance, often in exchange for aid or financing from institutions like the IMF. The policy then enters local governments, shaping local development through a shared global program, including sustainable development goals. He cites the World Health Organization’s 02/2005 stance that governments “can create an enabling environment,” underscoring the shift from government-led policy to governance through ideas. A central node in this network, Davis argues, is the World Economic Forum, which has established global governance councils to advise policymakers—without elections or accountability. He cites Kofi Annan’s 1998 Davos speech describing a “quiet revolution” where partnerships among governments, international organizations, business, and civil society become central to UN business. The resulting ecosystem elevates entities like Schwab, Gates, BlackRock, and others within a fluid but cohesive network, where influence travels through ESG mandates, central-bank money, and reform agendas. On remedies, both speakers emphasize not complying as a practical start: decentralize power, resist centralized control, and develop parallel systems. Cash use, mutual aid, and non-voting as strategic choices are advocated, along with building networks to withstand social and economic coercion. They warn that vaccine mandates, digital IDs, and CBDCs are stepping stones toward total control, urging vigilance and proactive reskilling and barter within communities. For those seeking more, Davis directs readers to inthistogether.com, ukcolumn.org, and offguardian.org, noting his book is freely available online.