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Olivia Lazard discusses the intersection of decarbonization and international security, highlighting the need for extensive mineral extraction to achieve a climate-safe future. While decarbonization is essential for peace, the transition may exacerbate geopolitical tensions, particularly as countries scramble for critical resources like lithium and cobalt. China’s dominance in mineral processing positions it strategically in global power dynamics. Lazard emphasizes the importance of addressing human rights and ecological integrity in resource extraction. She proposes a four-part plan: ecological mining practices, a global public good regime for materials, a shift to circular economies, and innovation aligned with planetary boundaries to ensure a sustainable future.

Whitney Webb and Ian Davis examine the international rules based order (IRBO) as a Western-led system that claims moral authority while pursuing imperial aims; a competing multipolar order led by Russia and China is framed as cooperative and sovereign. They argue both are effectively moving toward a tyrannical technocracy intensified by COVID and the Ukraine crisis. Davis defines the IRBO as a post-1945 Western order shaped by a single power, the United States, operating within strategic bipolarity, setting standards for trade and state behavior and claiming a moral dimension around democracy and freedom of speech. He notes that Russia and China proposed an alternative “international law based world order” in a joint statement on February 4, signaling a shift to a law-based system with equality among nations, though within competing blocs. The guests discuss replacing multipolar with multi-stakeholder, arguing China and Russia emphasize the UN as the center for administering international law and equal treatment of states, while multinational corporations shape policy through ICT regulation. They point to Russia’s ties with the World Economic Forum, CyberPolygon run with Sberbank’s Buy Zone, and the drive for digital information governance in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. They highlight the global adoption of sustainable development standards and the ISSB, suggesting rules are rolled out worldwide via ESG. Davis traces technocracy’s roots to Technocracy Inc. and energy certificates, centralized resource allocation, and technocrats steering decisions; China’s technate development and social-credit systems are discussed, noting a fusion of state and corporate power. The Minsk agreements, the 2014 coup, NATO expansion, and the Donbas conflict are presented as context for Ukraine, with both sides adopting the same system’s aims despite divergent narratives. The talk ends with a call for critical, balanced analysis since both camps push a global governance agenda, and truth lies in the grey area between extremes. They invite listeners to follow Ian’s work at inthistogether.com and UK Column.

Whitney Webb hosts Unlimited Hangout, arguing the COVID crisis provided cover for agendas beyond health and that money flows by central banks and Wall Street have become historic and under-scrutiny. The panel asks if central bank digital currencies are digital cash or something more coercive, as CBDC white papers and cross-border interoperability advance with BIS and major players like Visa. John Titus, founder of Best Evidence, explains the Fed is a hybrid misdescribed as public. The Board of Governors and the FOMC set policy, but the 12 regional Federal Reserve banks are privately owned; the government has no shares. The regional banks print cash and, crucially, reserves—digital money. This structure suggests private entities run the system behind a public facade. Titus describes BlackRock’s involvement before COVID and the “going direct reset.” He explains reserves as part of a two-tier electronic money system: central bank liabilities and commercial bank liabilities. In 2008-09 reserves were used to bail out banks; in 2020 reserves and the retail money supply rose in lockstep via three-party transactions involving institutions like Calpers and Citigroup, enabling public money to flow into private assets. BlackRock’s role in March 2020 is described as delivering a plan to move public money into private hands, with BlackRock helping select assets for Fed purchases. The discussion frames CBDCs as instruments of control, citing BIS head Augustin Karstens on the ability to control the central bank liability, and noting that privacy claims may be a sales tactic while intermediaries manage data and accounts. Cross-border settlement and interoperability are debated; Visa’s plan is described as convertibility, not settlement, with a need for an international settlement layer. The panel notes banking consolidation among the four largest banks, the risk of reduced lending, and the Fed’s ongoing role in offsetting credit contractions. They also discuss climate finance structures like natural asset corporations, the nature-based economy proposed by Intrinsic Exchange Group and Rockefeller-linked partners, and ESG-driven wealth consolidation. They conclude with a projected timeline: CBDCs may become clearer 2024-2025, with crypto and related tech playing transitional roles. The talk ends with recommendations to follow John Titus’ Best Evidence and Solari collaborations.

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.

Harry and Mark sketch a career at the intersection of private markets and public policy: from the pre–Berlin Wall era, through central banking during the Euro crisis and Brexit, to climate work with Brookfield, Watershed, and Stripe, plus service as a special envoy. The through-line is aligning market incentives with lower emissions and practical outcomes. On cycles of innovation and finance, they discuss Minsky cycles and the Ponzi phase, with crypto defy as risk and potential. Collateralized loan markets collapsed in 2006–07, yet core ideas persist; hydrogen has swung through booms and busts but may become grounded. The takeaway: busts reveal opportunity when funding becomes disciplined. Discussing banks, they call the period turmoil, not crisis, with regional banks facing headwinds and likely consolidation. The system has much higher loss-absorption and liquidity, reducing contagion, but credit will tighten. Debates center on deposit guarantees: backstops, senior and contingent capital, and who bears losses if a failure occurs. SVB and Credit Suisse underscore governance and orderly wind-downs. Climate policy remains transformative. Net Zero progress is accelerating: policies like the US IRA, European measures, and rising clean-energy investments shift outcomes toward 1.8 degrees. China remains pivotal, with decarbonization and EVs driving growth, yet concerns about policy consistency persist. Corporate action outpaces rhetoric—Walmart’s Scope 3 efforts illustrate it—while nuclear and fusion are debated as near-term bets. Wholesale finance and narrow banking could reshape funding to accelerate decarbonization while balancing risk.