reSee.it Podcast Summary
Whitney Webb hosts episode 33 of Unlimited Hangout, outlining how secret societies, and particularly the Fabian Society, helped shape modern policy, imperial strategy, and today’s global governance projects. The discussion argues that some groups have long operated openly about influence and aims, and that corruption can hide in plain sight, with events like the Jeffrey Epstein scandal as a recent example. The Fabian Society is presented as among the most influential, with a model later echoed by the World Economic Forum through its penetration of cabinets via networks like the forum’s Young Global Leaders. The aim is to examine how organizations other than the WEF have sought to influence governments and policies, often at public expense, and to understand their historical impact on Western imperialism and related dynamics.
Matthew Ehret, editor of Canadian Patriot Review and a contributor to Strategic Culture, joins the conversation. He discusses current events in Canada, notably the Freedom Convoy and the Trudeau government’s crackdown. He notes the reframing of the convoy by some as “Nazis and white supremacists,” contrasts it with the ironic posting by Kristia Freeland of a flag associated with Ukrainian neo-Nazism that she later removed, and highlights perceived hypocritical self-reflection failures among technocrats. Ehret describes the convoy as having an organic, peaceful, and significant impact, including mandates being repealed in many parts of Canada, while warning against viewing the outcome as a total victory or as confidence to stop vigilance. He mentions ongoing protests and political reverberations, such as a coup within the Canadian Conservative Party and a court challenge by former Nova Scotia premier Brian Peckford regarding Charter rights, signaling broader pushback against centralized state power and the World Economic Forum narrative.
The conversation then shifts to the Fabian Society’s origins and methods. The Fabians emerged in 1884, with Beatrice and Sydney Webb among its founders, and developed permeation theory to infiltrate institutions via the London School of Economics and related channels. They sought long-term social transformation through a mass behavioral-change program, drawing on repackaged Marxist ideas and Darwinian natural history concepts. The Fabians promoted gradualism, indirect influence, and the creation of a civil service and educational networks that could reorient governance without overt force. They collaborated with (and overlapped with) other groups like the Round Table movement established by Cecil Rhodes, which emphasized a global governance framework and the creation of a world federation through think tanks, the Rhodes Trust, and Oxford-centered scholarship. The discussion links these networks to the creation of the Labour Party and to strategic plotting around how to preserve British empire influence, including through reshaping nation-states into a global governance structure.
Ehret traces the Canadian Fabian imprint into the Commonwealth Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCCF), later the NDP, and connects these currents to Pierre Trudeau, Maurice Strong, the World Economic Forum, and the Davos ecosystem. The talk emphasizes a pattern of philanthropy-turned-influence via foundations (Rockefeller, Macy, Carnegie), think tanks (CFR in the United States, Canadian Council on International Affairs), and a broad NGO complex designed to steer policy, economics, and culture toward a techno-global governance model. They discuss transhumanism and Silicon-Valley narratives as modern extensions of this project, including critics like Harari and Schwab, with warnings about data-driven controls, digitization, and the potential to bend technology toward total management and feudal-like governance.
The episode closes with calls to follow Ehret’s work at canadianpatriot.org, Rising Tide Foundation, and his Substack, and with reflections on how Fabian-era strategies continue to inform contemporary dynamics.