DeepSummary
The podcast episode begins with Jimmy Dore introducing his guest, Whitney Webb, an investigative journalist and author. They discuss Webb's article on a scheme by venture capitalists and financiers to assert foreign influence across Latin America through a program called 'Green Plus.' This program aims to turn the region's forests into equity and carbon credits, under the guise of decarbonization and environmental protection.
Dore and Webb delve into the connections between this carbon credit scheme and broader agendas of mass surveillance, digital currencies, and the erosion of civil liberties. Webb explains how the program is tied to intelligence agencies, Silicon Valley giants, and the global financial elite's plans for a 'programmable' economy controlled by a digital ID system.
The conversation shifts to the bipartisan push for a 'smart wall' at the US-Mexico border, which Webb argues is a step towards implementing the same digital ID and surveillance apparatus. She warns against embracing solutions from companies like Palantir, which have ties to intelligence agencies and a history of developing pre-crime programs.
Key Episodes Takeaways
- A group of powerful financial interests is pushing a scheme called 'Green Plus' to turn Latin American forests into carbon credits, with underlying motives of control and foreign influence.
- The 'Green Plus' program has ties to intelligence agencies, Silicon Valley tech giants, and global financial elites aiming to create a digital ID-based economic system.
- Plans for a 'smart wall' at the US-Mexico border align with broader agendas to implement invasive surveillance and biometric tracking of migration under the guise of security.
- Companies like Palantir, with histories of developing pre-crime AI systems for intelligence agencies, are behind initiatives like the 'smart wall' and should be viewed with scrutiny.
- Efforts to address climate change and border security are being exploited as Trojan horses for expanding mass surveillance, erosion of civil liberties, and centralized economic control.
- Political leaders exhibit a disturbing lack of awareness about underprivileged communities when proposing top-down 'solutions' that could infringe on rights and freedoms.
- There are concerning revolving doors and conflicts of interest between Big Tech corporations, the military-intelligence community, and government science & technology policy.
- Proactive resistance to initiatives like digital IDs, vaccine passports, and biometric surveillance is urged as vital to preventing a totalitarian economic and social control grid.
Top Episodes Quotes
- “It's the chimney torch show.“ by Whitney Webb
- “We bring social workers into homes and parents to help them deal with how to raise their children. It's not that they don't want to help. They don't want. They don't know quite what to do. Play the radio, make sure the television. Excuse me. Make sure you have the record player on at night. The phone, make sure the kids hear words.“ by Joe Biden
- “The people that chaired the National Security Commission on AI, about how the national security state is going to run AI. It was Eric Schmidt of Google, a huge Hillary donor and Biden donor who is paying officials in the Biden administration illegally and running Biden science and technology policy right now with no consequences.“ by Whitney Webb
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Episode Information
The Jimmy Dore Show
Jimmy Dore
5/13/24
Agents of Wall Street, the defense industry, Silicon Valley and other powerful interests are working under the radar to persuade municipalities across Latin America to essentially sell off control of vast swaths of public lands for use as carbon credits. The claim is that the land will be protected while also generating income for these communities. Except that, not surprisingly, the powerful interests driving these efforts have far more nefarious reasons for wanting to control Latin American rainforests.
Author and investigative journalist Whitney Webb explains to Jimmy the interconnectedness of this carbon offsets power grab with vaccine passports, digital currency, and mass surveillance.
Plus segments on the likelihood that a so-called “smart” border wall will add a new and even more invasive wrinkle to the burgeoning security state and New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s insulting comments about black children.