The Shadow State 65 Cecil Rhodes & Maritime Empires

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0:05 Thanks for joining us for another Power Hour and a Half with War Hamster Brady. What are we talking about today, Brady? Well, we are going to do a little bit of shift gears today. We are going to jump across the pond, the Atlantic Ocean, and start talking about some of the origins of these philosophies, these organizations, these institutions that shape everything we would talk about from secret societies.

0:42 to the intelligence networks, to the diplomacy, all of that. And they've all got some really common roots. And so we're going to go through that a little bit as we work our way through some of the European and mostly English and German philosophy, the entities that sprung out from them, and what that means for us today. So some of these topics, like philosophy, we're not going to get too wonky on. We'll lead you to the water, but if you really want to go deep dive into Hegel

1:12 Sorry, I was just talking with a guy by the last name of Henkel. If you want to go a really deep dive, we're not going to go too deep in this show, but we will point you in the right direction because their philosophies and some of the economic theories we're going to talk about, each one of them deserves an hour to show themselves, but that would keep us from getting to the real meat and the bones, which is where we want to be. Does that sound fair? Yes. All right. For those who have been watching us for the last, oh, I don't know, year or two, maybe more,

1:42 Our overall theme is that the world is not this open liberal democracy, but rather something that is manipulated by an invisible hand, sometimes visible, from above, where they have their fingers on the pulse of every single important avenue of society, whether it be economics, business, culture, religion, espionage, diplomacy, politics, all this stuff, they've got their key figures in there. And they kind of operate in a very loose...

2:09 unaffiliated but affiliated secret societies network and all a lot of similarities some of them have an occult nature to them some of them may not we're not going to get into that um because it's we lack evidence of that you know some of that stuff it'll all be speculation but today we're going to go back in time and we're going to see where all this stuff came from and um you know they say politics is downstairs from culture i think just about everything's downhill from economics you know you've got really versus economics you know

2:39 Religion can explain some things, but if it can't, then economics can. At least that's what the economists would love for you to believe. Good enough intro? Yes. First, I want to start with a fundamental thing. People who've studied these topics and enjoy us probably ought to, at some point in time, read Carroll Quigley and his 1,400-page book, Tragedy and Hope, and a couple others he did called The Evolution of Civilizations.

3:08 Carol Quigley is important. It's a really good history of the modern world. And he wrote it. Well, first of all, he was a historian for the Council of Foreign Relations for decades when he accumulated all their information, had access to all their intelligence, and he decided to write this history of the world without their permission. And Quigley was also known as Bill Clinton's mentor. And that's kind of important. So you don't have to agree with Quigley's politics, but understand he does know his history.

3:38 And he had a front row view, some things that we still can't see. So he's important. If you don't want to read a 1,400-page book, the audiobook is great for long drives. You can find it on YouTube. Quigley was making a comparison between land-based civilizations and maritime-based. Now, this wasn't an original thought because he got it from a guy by the name of, where is he? A guy by the name of Halford Mackinder.

4:11 Now, McIntyre's a very important part of the Progressive Era. He was a very influential thinker. He's not a household name. But he wrote this paper in 1904 called The Geographical Pivot of History. And another work called Democratic Ideas in Reality in 1919. And some of those ideas were shared when they tried to form the League of Nations. So that's who this guy is. He pointed out that land power, he emphasized the superiority of land-based powers of controlling the vast, resource-rich interior of Eurasia.

4:41 He calls it the heartland of the pivot area. He says this region is inaccessible to sea power due to its landlocked nature. Emphasis is on land mobility, like horses. He says whoever controls the heartland controls the world island, which is Eurasia and Africa, and thus the world. This is this guy's theory, Mackinder. He's famous for saying who rules East Europe commands the heartland. Who rules the heartland commands the world island.

5:14 who rules the world island, commands the world. You'll see these thoughts resurfacing in the 20th century, in the early 21st, when Brzezinski and Kissinger talked about the whole pivot to Eurasia after the Berlin Wall fell. And why they've had their sights on Russia forever. We'll look at some maps that really explain that here as we go along. He described sea power, basically talked about like Britain, Phoenicia, or Carthage.

5:47 which we'll look at. They rely on oceanic mobility, trade, colonies, and naval dominance. They excel in global reach, commerce, flanking attacks from the periphery. However, Mackinder argued that sea power was losing ground to land power due to technological changes. So this is pretty much right at the turn of the 20th century, right before a couple of world wars. So you're not completely wrong, but as we'll show, sea power still really matters.

6:17 Because the maritime empires have, well, I'll do a high-level view of this. Maritime empires rely on commerce. They have to have influence in every port they go to. They have to have the intelligence of what other ships have been there, what goods are coming and going, which means they had to have their hooks into the underworld in every port. This is what would lead to commercial intelligence, which, of course, led to, you know, sovereign intelligence like the MI6, Mossad, and the CIA.

6:47 This all started, intelligence was important to a land-based empire, but nowhere near as much to a maritime empire. If you knew what day a fleet would set sail, you had such a huge advantage. So, maritimes also built up what we call, it would lead to mercantilism, the rise of the merchant class. Most land-based civilizations were built on feudalism.

7:15 or ownership of land and all that. And that's very expensive on the upkeep as we find out later on and later in Europe's colonial history. With the rise of global trade and sea-based trade, a lot of fortunes were built and it wasn't from the nobility, it was from the merchant class. And that's where we're going to see a real big clash of two civilizations. And you also have to understand from, I mean, obviously my education is military focused.

7:44 And your point about the 20th century expansion of land-based forces, based on this philosophy, you don't have anything at the port to ship anywhere if you don't control the interior, because that's where all the crops are grown. So there's both aspects to that.

8:11 what you're describing to me is the recognition. And, you know, you're, we're still you're talking about a lot, or we're going to talk about a lot of this was being philosophically developed in the mid 1800s. And the recognition of needing both of that and to your point, the land based armies

8:38 were hit or miss, right? Because you couldn't afford, to your point, they couldn't even afford most of the agricultural upkeep of these interior places. But with the advent of World War I and World War II was the first what turned into permanent expansion of land.

9:07 warfare capability and the technology that came along with that in order to allow the rapid monopolizing of these land-based, because prior to that, if you look at the interior of Africa, you did it through violence, right? You basically corralled the people, turned them into slaves in their own country.

9:37 to extort the resources, but you didn't even need the occupying forces once you had the ability militarily to quickly approach interior regions as opposed to just exterior maritime things. So what you just said is critically important. Yeah, and Quigley agrees with everything you said 100%. He summed it up like this. He said, land-based empires,

10:06 They had characteristics of stability, but stagnation. He said they're prone to universal empires and decay from within. Yes. When we talk about Rome, Rome's a combination of the two. Corruption and decay can come from a lot of sources, but he says sea-based empires. They're dynamic, innovative, wealth-generating, but fragile. They're reliant on control of sea lanes and adaptability.

10:35 And he says, history shows a recurring shift. Land empires conquer cores, but sea-based systems often emerge from peripheries to drive new stages of expansion. And he says, example, Western maritime dominance overtaking older Eurasian land powers. And he's almost suggesting it's cyclical to some degree. Oh, I think that's absolutely true, especially when there are interior regime changes. It's very cyclical.

11:06 Just wanted to share a couple things about Mackinder before we move on. Halford John Mackinder is a British geographer, academic, etc. He's considered one of the founding figures of modern geopolitics and geostrategy. His background reflects the Victorian Edwardian British establishment, educated in elite institutions, active in academia and public life, and deeply engaged in imperial and global affairs. Sounds about right. Fits the mold.

11:37 Well, let's see. Where did he go to grow up? He grew up in England, Lincolnshire. Born in 1861. Attended Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School at the Epsom College. He entered Christ Church at Oxford in 1880. Studied natural sciences. So this is right after Darwinism is moving into the institutions. And we'll get into Darwinism next week. Where did I have something really interesting with him?

12:08 Just one of those funny coincidences all through Oxford. Oh, yes. He would, in 1903, become the very first director to something called the London School of Economics, which is one of the... Definitely fits the mold. Yeah, he did a couple other things, led an expedition to East Africa, got into politics, became a British High Commissioner to South... He was a British High Commissioner to South Russia during the time period of 1919 to 1920, middle of the Bolshevik Revolution.

12:41 He was dealing with the white Russians and the Bolshevik advances. So he was a very interesting diplomat. He gets knighted and later he would actually be saved at the privy. He became a privy counselor. Which is in a very elite group. And this is pretty much Carol Quigley's mentor. He took his ideas and kind of elaborated on them. But that's the history of these maritime empires. And I guess we'll go through that a little bit more because I think it's interesting.

13:14 I will share my screen, if I may. I'll try not to kick myself out of the studio this week. Okay. Okay, so we talked about historical maritime empires. Again, I'm only doing a 30,000-foot view on these. First one we want to look at is Phoenicia. It's about 800 B.C., and Phoenicia is right over here. They were dominant for the Mediterranean because they are masters at seamanship, navigation, et cetera, but also masters at the maritime trade.

13:47 They had their sea routes and all these different ports throughout the Mediterranean. And it's mostly the southern Mediterranean at the time. Northern Mediterranean, 800 BC, was still pretty much of a backwater. Rome barely shows up as it wasn't even a republic yet. Now it's Phoenicia. And they built colonies. A big one here right next to Carthage is Utica. It'll show up again. And that's just their trade-offs. Of course, they went both directions. The Phoenicians were the master mariners of the time and the wealthiest empire.

14:22 Phoenicians quickly would give way to the Carthaginians. And the Carthaginian Empire pretty much ruled the Mediterranean. There we go, a little bit better. Carthage is over here, right dead center. And basically it's entire up to the Spanish seaboard. And they had ports all the way up here, leading up around Italy and up into the other gulfs. Carthage...

14:54 famously was a pretty much dominant for 500 years, and they had what's called the Punic Wars against a small little nation called Rome. Rome really was a backwater republic before the Punic Wars with Carthage, and Rome would emerge from that. First of all, it's competing with the ancient Silk Road, which is the land-based, coming all the way through China, India, Iran, etc., where they get to these ports, which is right here.

15:24 right around where Phoenicia was in trade rights for Carthage. So when the Silk Road got disturbed periodically over that 2,000-year period, the maritime trade became even more important. The other Silk Road actually ran right through Ukraine up here, and that was a pipeline into Europe as well. That's why this area of Eurasia has been so important in the East-West trade. People of this philosophy don't want to think that Eurasia is the center of the universe. You've got to own the heartland.

15:57 And they, these maritime empires, were right there in the artery that led to all the other wealthy city-states, etc. Alright, then we get to the Roman Empire of the 2nd century. After the Punic Wars, they dominated the entire territory of the Mediterranean, both north and south. They also had some land-based army as they would expand into Europe and some other areas in the east as well. Rome became an incredibly wealthy empire.

16:35 Republic first, then Empire. What it really was was an oligarchy. The Empire could come and go, but the oligarchs stayed the same. And their favorite sons would be in the Senate. They had their Praetorian Guard. They could topple an empire in a moment's notice. Praetorian Guard ended up having to be executed by an emperor because he didn't want to get toppled. But with the oligarchs, in all these different areas, you would have a wealthy family. It would be like the governor. And they'd have their farmland, etc., and everything they're producing. If they're not getting money through foreign conquest.

17:04 They're doing it through trade. And this entire trading system is very, very important to the growth of the Roman Empire. Rome would come there and conquer someplace like Egypt, and Egyptians would immediately become part of the... They'd become Roman citizens, the ones who weren't slaves. And they could be considered just as Roman as one of these ancient families, but not really. Well, these oligarchical families, you know, they were the true heartbeat of Rome. Some of them, like the families of Brutus, go back a thousand years.

17:34 But let me just put an explanation point on that, because what you're describing is what I found in Operation Gladio. When we went in and overthrew governments, there's this elite that are corrupt that recognize the quote-unquote higher power, become complicit in the corruption, and they are propped up.

17:59 with the enslavement of they basically sell out their country to a foreign occupier and they make their living on ensuring that the peasants don't rise up against this foreign power power and without that infrastructure in these places the foreign power would never be able to control the population and that's why when there were actual rebellions against those

18:26 semi-oligarchical families that are in residence. So the Roman Empire oligarchs that you're referring to is kind of like the top table. They have to have a subtable in the country in order to thwart the peasants because they don't want to be ruled by foreigners. And so on occasion, you would have rebellions within the country of this

18:56 elite group that have been sanctioned from the foreigners to control the interior of the country. And what you're describing throughout this history is what we see today happening. So I just wanted to draw that corollary. Some things never change. Yeah, the part that goes along with those foreign elites is they build up their administrative state. And this is a second class of citizens.

19:23 They're not the ruling class, but their entire job is to make sure the ruling class is never threatened because that's how they get their special treatment and benefits. And that's why the CIA went in every time they did an overthrow and created a national police and a national guard. Every one of them was corrupt and became the Praetorian Interior Guard for those elite families in residence. We call it the Administrator State, Praetorian Guard, you name it.

19:52 It is the deep state. It's basically what we have today is what we call the technocrats. Yeah. And we'll get into technocracy in a lot more detail because it's an important part of the story. All right. Roman Empire was split. It was too vast of an empire to be centrally controlled. And so they split between Eastern Roman Empire and the Western Roman Empire. Still massively, ostensibly part of the same empire. They're still trading with each other.

20:24 The corruption in the West is, you know, really creating a lot of, shall we say, uncertainty. And the Eastern Empire starts to close their doors. Constantine builds Constantinople as the gateway to the Black Sea. And everyone knows what's at the tip of the Black Sea are the Russians eventually. This is a very important time period. Okay, so Roman Empire falls right around 485, 530 AD, whatever it is. These oligarchical families didn't disappear, Colonel.

20:55 They had reemerged in places like, oh, I don't know, Genoa and Venice for the next thousand years. I focus on Venice quite a bit because this tiny little swamp-grounded city controlled city-states throughout the region, and therefore the trading. They were absolutely wealthy. The Genoans were pretty good as well. They had their own little empire in southern Italy. But it really was the age of Venice.

21:27 The Ottomans tried to invade them a couple times, got stuck in the swamps, had their boats sunk. What the Venetians had was a mastery of the Carthaginian navigation. It kind of passed down from, well, these are the oligarchical families of Rome that escaped near the barbarians. They moved to places like Venice and Genoa. And that's where the Venetians came from. This is very old Roman blood. They would go on to form what's called the Black Nobility or the 13 families of Venice.

21:59 Why were they so successful? Well, they had these ships called the Great Galleas. And this was a massive sea tank. And it had tons of room to take their goods, their shipping, and other places. But the biggest issue with trade at the time, it's just such a beautiful ship. I had to put it up there. Work apart. And they got their slaves rowing nice and hard. The emergent princes of Venice emerged dominant for a few reasons.

22:31 One of them was the invention of the dual-entry banking system. One of the biggest issues you have is when you're trading through thousands of miles away, you don't want to be carrying gold all over the place. Wouldn't it be nice if you just carried a piece of paper that could be redeemed for gold when you got where you wanted to? Well, that can only be done if gold can then be turned into a debit or a credit on a ledger sheet. And that's the modern banking system that's allowed them to massively expand.

23:01 The D'Amici family were the richest banking family in the world in the 1400s because they also helped introduce the idea of the joint stock company. It's where different merchants can pool their resources to make much greater endeavors, whether it be sending a fleet of ships for a long journey to bring back untold fortunes or not. It'd take a lot of money. It was a big risk. They created the idea of insuring.

23:28 It's where loads of London comes in. These are the forefathers of loads of London. You had to ensure a massive endeavor like some kind of trip across the oceans. The problem was they were incredibly strong on the sea, and as we pointed out earlier, they weren't very strong on land in Venice. And so a couple times they irritated their training partners throughout Europe and some attempts at invading Venice. And they came pretty close to succeeding in wiping out the Doges, which the Doges are the merchant princes of Venice.

24:02 The Di Medici's slipped a bribe to the Holy Roman Empire, and I think it was the 1300s, and kept a massive invasion of united European foes from attacking Venice. From that point forward, the merchant princes realized we are vulnerable from the land. We've got to do something about this. So they set apart, taking all their massive trading fortunes, and this is them in 1500 AD, and they start intermarrying the royal families throughout Europe.

24:35 And that's how they're going to keep themselves from getting invaded. But when they would send their sons and daughters to marry throughout Europe, they'd take their ideas and their secrets with them. And the idea for the Venetians was to someday be on an island that couldn't be attacked from the ocean. How can we be the dominant maritime empire without worrying about land invasions? What's also going on right now is a major economic shift. For thousands of years,

25:07 The core of the economy was agrarian, land-based, etc. What we're seeing now with these expanded trade routes is the rise of a merchant class. It's not just lords and serfs. You now have a middle class that's rising up. These merchants have a lot more money than some European nobles. These European nobles are rich in title and land, but poor in cash. It takes a lot to keep these estates up, especially when you have to have your armed knights.

25:35 and your liege lords and everyone like that. They need to get paid too, and you've got to pay it uphill to whoever the sovereign is. That feudalistic business model is being replaced by mercantilism. We'll go deeper into mercantilism next week when we go into different philosophies, but mercantilism basically believes there's a finite amount of resources, and it is your job to put as many of these resources in the hands of your kingdom or land as possible at the expense of others. You're trying to create a trade surplus through any way, shape, or form.

26:06 This is mercantilism. But you also see these merchant princes, because they have so much money, they still now get the ear of the kings and the people that are creating foreign policy. They were called new money at the time, but they had the money and the nobles didn't. And that's what's going on in Venice. So they start marrying throughout Europe, and you'll see the rise of this European colonization. A couple other things that happened at the time. Obviously, the printing press is invented. Literacy rate goes way up.

26:38 He's got this rise of his middle class. You have different currencies. We're entering a new currency age where lending money is actually now a thing. Both the Catholic Church and the Islam nation have banned usury or lending of money, even if they bend their own rules. Most of the banking class that emerges from this are Jewish because they are not banned religiously. In fact, the Venetians were famous for hiring Jewish bankers.

27:08 And then when the bank crashed for some reason, they blame it on the bankers. So that's where you get the origins of Jewish invented banking. Well, they didn't. The DiMedici's did. There's actually some friar someplace invented it. Okay. So the Venetians first get to the Netherlands. And the Netherlands, obviously, were one of the very first European colonists. And they were very famous or very successful early on.

27:45 But their empire, here's tiny little Netherlands. They get all the way over to a little colony in North America, a few in South America, a big one here in Africa, and then, of course, the Dutch East Indies. Or that's West Indies, you know, East Indies. Over here, you can see them down here in the West Indies, Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire. And that's pretty successful for tiny little Netherlands, just using the secrets they've learned from their Venetian forefathers. They didn't last very long, but the Dutch, they did make famous.

28:17 Brilliant bankers. And of course, they had the first stock exchange for the joint stock adventures. And what allowed was the pooling of capital to fund these ventures across the world. And FYI, the Dutch East Indies is modern day Indonesia, just for those watching this. Interesting story about that. See this Dutch colony up here in New York where Hudson Bay is? That got traded for an island in the East Indies one for one.

28:48 Because that island was the last one, I forget the name of the spice, the Dutch had a monopoly on that spice, except for one island that the British owned. So they flip-flopped the spice for Manhattan. Yes. So that's pretty interesting. All right. The next big empire to emerge, of course, was the Portuguese Empire. And the Portuguese were not, well, they were definitely mercantilist. But they had a king, and they wanted to bring gold back. Go out there, reap pillage plunder, and bring us gold.

29:18 And you can see they did a lot along the African seaboard. They did some interior, shall we say, colonization. And, of course, the Portuguese and all of Brazil, they still speak Portuguese to this day. Portuguese empire would fade a little bit over time and be replaced as a dominant player by the Spanish empire. And the Spaniards pretty much did the rest of South America central. Their presence all over Europe, a little bit in the Middle East.

29:50 Spanish Empire, once again, their model was to go and conquer these other places that they colonized. It was not building up a maritime freight or building up industry or anything of the sort. They just went there, conquered, took the gold, and shipped it back to the king or queen. And that model would fade quickly and be replaced by the British Empire. At its peak, the empire where the sun never sets was massive.

30:20 their influence, and this is every English-speaking place, etc. Obviously, America is not a British colony, or so we think. What the British were able to do more successfully, again, this is where the Venetian bloodline always wanted to settle, was into England. We can go through all the different lineages of the British royalty, the European nobility. This whole path, these family bloodlines are traceable. I didn't want to do one for this show because there's a hundred other videos out there that do this.

30:51 But it all comes down to that Venice black nobility influence. It's how England, this tiny little island that can't be invaded from the land, became the heart of the greatest maritime empire of all time. And did they ever practice mercantilism? They did it in a way that was different than the Spaniards and the Portuguese, which is why it was more successful. They empowered their merchant princes to go out there and set up colonies, create industry, ship what you have back home. As long as more is coming home than we're sending out.

31:23 England, of course, would later find that it's very expensive to keep up an empire this great, and eventually they'd exhaust themselves of a couple of world wars and turn over the keys to being the global policeman to the United States. But their philosophy on how to conquer, divide, conquer, and rule all goes back to mercantilism and the maritime industry. So let me push back just a little bit. Did they turn over the keys, or did they just delegate?

31:55 Well, that's kind of what I'm leading to. We've discussed this. That's the story I keep hammering home of Venezuela in 1895. It was the first time America flexed its muscle in the Western Hemisphere. And Britain said, guess what? We'd rather have you as our tool, an ally, rather than have to fight you. Even if we can beat you with the Navy here in 1895, it's not worth it to us because we cannot hold Canada. And that point forward,

32:24 That started a special relationship between England and America. Okay. You know, the next 20 years, you'd see our banking influences. That's when we're going to get into Fabian Socialists. Yes. I'm setting a trend for there. Okay. I'm setting it up for that. We're on the same page. Okay. I know we are. Okay. So here's basically, that's what the colonel just hinted at. Global reach of the U.S. military. Here's American military bases. That's our modern day colonialism.

33:00 Look much different than the British Empire. Pretty interesting, huh? So the business models changed with new times. We don't occupy foreign lands. We just put our military there and we give them trade deals, which are absolutely beneficial to the multinational corporations who are practicing mercantilism. It's just the same concept with a different form for modern days. And as we get into the Fabian socialists, you'll see their influence.

33:32 on everything that happened in the post-World War II rules-based order from the IMF on down. It all goes back to Fabian ideas. So where do these Fabian ideas come from? Well, that's what next week's going to be mostly about. But I wanted to hit on a guy by the name of Cecil Rhodes, who's incredibly influential in this. Those of you who don't know Cecil Rhodes, he was the guy who died and he would leave a will that set up the Rhodes Foundation. Well, let's find out. I want to go into what that is.

34:03 He lived from 1853 to 1902. So he would grow up with the ideas of guys like Hegel, Marx, etc. The world was changing really fast in the 1900s. It's such a fascinating century. Sorry, 1800s. So let's talk about the life and times. This book right here is by Princess Catherine Radiswill called Cecil Rose, Man and Empire Maker. That's a good book. And it shows him straddling the whole continent of Africa. Okay, so he's born.

34:40 In 1853, in Heffordshire, England. I think I pronounced that right. Family is a bunch of big property owners. Comes from a big family. As recent as 1901, they were receiving rent from over 1,600 properties. That's a lot. Remember in England, not everyone could own property. They were considered new money. So Rhodes comes from the merchant class. He's the fourth of nine children, seven of whom would survive to adulthood.

35:14 And his father was known as an iron disciplinarian. Cecil wants to go to Oxford. But Cecil wasn't really in good health. So the family sends him to South Africa to toughen him up. He's got an older brother there who's got a cotton farm. Rhodes gets there in Africa in 1870. Diamonds had been first discovered in Africa three years before. And that was the Star of Africa that would later sell for the equivalent of $4 million.

35:49 Very famous diamond. So Africa at the time, before the diamonds, was probably far less racist than it would become thanks to people like Rhodes. The British had rights of men principles. Blacks in Africa would be second class citizens, but they still had rights. They could vote. They could own property. And Cecil Rhodes at the time was considered one of the better Europeans to work for. Then the money got serious. There's a huge diamond find in 1871.

36:28 near Kimberley, they found a 78-carat diamond. Now, remember, Rhodes, at the time, was 18 years old. Kimberley was part of a country then that was called Greek-a-land. Greek-a-land was a multicultural, middle-of-nowhere, anti-colonial country. So, once they found diamonds in Kimberley, the British Crown gave the South African governor permission to annex Greek-a-land. Now, go ahead and take that and their diamonds. Sound familiar?

37:06 So you get thousands of these miners swarm into Greco Land. Greco Land disappears from the history books. They tried to rebel in 1879. There's an armed rebellion, which led to a complete massacre. And that's Greco Land. But Cecil Rhodes gets involved. He goes to Kimberly and starts buying up some claims. So he's got some family money. And he's made a little money on his own. And he's got some sponsors.

37:38 for some of these lands. Yes, the Rothschilds are one of those sponsors, not the dominant one, but they're involved. I bring that up because I don't want to underplay the Rothschilds' role in this history because they're very important, but they get overstated quite often. And people get to the Rothschilds and stop looking. And even at their peak, the Rothschilds were one of only five major influential banks in England. They may have been the most powerful, but there's still four other competitors to keep them honest.

38:12 Rhodes buys an ice machine so he can sell ice cream in the hot summer months, which was brilliant. He made a lot of money on that. He recognized the need to build bigger companies and to buy bigger equipment so he could dig deeper. All he cared about was making money, but he kept wanting to go back home. So he's like early 20s, but he still wants to get his Oxford degree. So as he's running these mines, and he's really good at getting other people's money to invest with him.

38:48 And he's building up his empire super fast, and diamonds are just getting ready to explode on the world market. But he's going back and forth to Oxford from Africa. He's not a good student. He's going to parties. And he'd show up at these parties with a box full of diamonds to impress people, which kind of worked. Back in Africa, him and his brother Herbert would buy up the De Beers mine, what became the De Beers fortune. That was Cecil B. Rhodes. That was the money behind it.

39:20 He convinced other people to pay him to buy these things and just let me, Cecil Rhodes, run it. This guy's in his early 20s and he's moving vast fortunes. He gathers around him all these acolytes of these people that are going to work under him and listen to his ideas. And over a few years, his philosophy starts to be made clear. He reveals his real goal. Tell me if this sounds familiar. The creation of secret society aimed at furthering the spread of British Empire over the whole world.

39:55 Just vaguely, vaguely familiar. Yeah, he's one of the forefathers of this. And his apostles became really loyal to him. His apostles will show up throughout history when we get to the Fabian socialists. Yes. So by 1877, he's 24 years old. And he's wealthy enough that he feels, I better write my first will. And what he says is all his possessions are going to go to...

40:23 The establishment, promotion, and development of a secret society. I wonder where he got that idea. The true object and aim would be for the extension of British rule throughout the world. This is a straight quote from a book. Write this one down, people. This is important. He wanted society to ensure the spread of British rule. Entire continent of Africa, the Holy Land, the Valley of Euphrates, the islands of Cyprus and Canada.

40:57 Sorry, Candia. The whole of South America, the islands of the Southern Pacific, the whole of the Malaysian archipelago, the seaboard of China and Japan, and, in bold, the ultimate recovery of the United States as an integral part of the British Empire. His stated goal. One world government. That's exactly right. But this one's going to be 100% British. Right. Well, I mean, at the end of the day, whoever is...

41:29 you know pulling the strings at the top the whole theme um he's articulating one world government exactly right so why is it oxford he publishes something called his confession of faith he considered imperialism to be his religion he didn't care about marriage or family or personal wealth his sole aim was the furtherance of the anglo-saxon race he says

42:08 I contend, it's a direct quote from his book, I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit, the better it is for the human race. Just fancy those parts of the world that are at present inhabited by the most despicable specimens of human beings. Little white supremacist, little Anglo supremacist. He says, what an alteration there would be if they were brought under the Anglo-Saxon influence.

42:42 look again at the extra employment of new country added to our dominion i contend that every acre added to our territory means that in a future birth of more of the english race who otherwise would not be brought into existence yes he is a white supremacist so does that what does that remind you of oh i don't know um maybe some of the hitler terminology um and the

43:19 What's amazing to me is that basically everything that you articulated is well documented in so many books and never taught anywhere. Why is that? Well, because they have to hide behind it. They had to change the language for it to become less offensive. The Technocratic Party of America absolutely disappeared from public after all the atrocities.

43:49 you know that some of the nazis were doing um because they were technocrats as well public opinion turns against you and they don't do away with that philosophy they just begin hiding it and it percolates up in a multitude of different venues under some cloak by the secret societies he was obsessed with

44:19 Yeah, and he got some of his ideas from a guy by the name of John Ruskin. And see if I have anything on him real quick. I think I do. One second, I'll give you a picture of John. John's an important thinker. There's John. John Ruskin, 1860, sorry, 1819 to 1900. He was one of the mentors of Mr. Cecil Rhodes. He's known, this is from his wiki, bio.

45:01 He's a polymath, a writer, lecture historian, art critic, draftsman, and philanthropist of the Victorian era. He also wrote on subjects as varied as art, architecture, political economy, education, museology, geology, botany, ornithology, literature, history, and myth. So he's one of those institutional smart guys. He's an institutional know-it-all. And he's connected, of course. We had a couple interesting things on him.

45:36 But to your point, when you were just talking about the different fields that he's in, what's important about that is if you don't have somebody in a planning operation that's going to be implementing basically this one world government, if the plan is not comprehensive and covers all of those different disciplinary disciplines,

46:05 It will not be a cohesive approach. And the fact that he specialized in education, philosophy, the sciences, all of those. And so you understand how these pivotal people in our history that no one ever talks about has not only this one world government viewpoint.

46:29 But they also have the educational basis to create a plan that can be incrementally implemented throughout time. It's like the panzer movement in ground warfare that just literally saturates and surrounds what they view to be the enemy, which is us. Yeah, very much so. A really important part of his story was in 1858, he unconverted from Christianity.

47:00 He became an atheist. Remember, this is the guy who's one of the ideological inspirations of Cecil Rhodes, who also claims that imperialism is his religion. So we see atheism enter the mainstream British society. I think it's a very important point because the whole atheist Marxist or collectivist, there's so many different versions of it, but they all come to a fundamental belief in humanity as God. And we'll get into that.

47:30 more than philosophies. And it's not really all that compatible with Christianity. No, it's our enemy because they view us as their enemy. Yeah. And obviously, you know, when we start getting into technocracy, depopulation, all of that, it's people, the philosophers that led up to this, people like Hegel and Kant.

48:00 Talk about mankind as basically your divinity in and of yourself. It's the denial of God in many ways. Yes. So, all right, back to Cecil because there's some more good stuff on him. All right. Rhodes would join the Freemasons, but he lamented that the secret societies of the day didn't direct their wealth and power towards a clear aim. He writes, why should we not form a secret society with but one object?

48:39 The furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole uncivilized world under British rule for the recovery of the United States and the making of the Anglo-Saxon race but one empire. What a dream, but yet it is probable it is possible. Kind of important because what did he end up doing? Set up the Rhodes Foundation. His goal was always to bring America back into the British fold. I want to hit on something you just said.

49:12 The beginning of that quote, why not use your wealth to do this, right? Well, exactly. So the creation, think about, because you're around Robin, we're going to eventually get to foundations. The foundations for the wealthy are a derivative of Cecil Rhodes. 100%.

49:45 That's why we're talking about Rhodes today. It's exactly right. Right. And why you have all of the secret societies that we've been through for the past year. And every one of them, whether it's Rockefeller, Ford, Carnegie, whatever, they all set up these foundations. They all are part of the Pilgrim Society, which is Cecil Rhodes.

50:11 And I know we'll get to this, but I want to put this in context so people understand the continuity of how important what you just said is. The bridge into the United States for the recapture of the United States is Cecil Rhodes. He's giving you a roadmap of what it is that we're going to be exploring over the next year on a weekly basis from the

50:40 using your wealth to create foundations to control people to ensure this one world government. And that's like a mic drop moment, what you just said. That's exactly correct. So go back to his mentor Ruskin. Some of his writings I have. He says, the art of any country is the exponent of its social and political virtues.

51:10 England must fund colonies as fast and as far as she is able, formed of her most energetic and worthiest men, seizing every piece of fruitful waste ground she can set her foot on. These are the people whose ideas would morph into the Fabian Socialists, the same people that have this egalitarian view that we're out there to save the world, we're going to decolonize it after we've colonized it. These are absolutely white supremacists.

51:35 they completely look down their noses at any more minority or someone of brown skin in any way shape or form they are not out there to create this great society of equals they're there to create a great society under them and it's clear in their writings using their wealth and their foundations to do that he says the art of becoming rich in a common sense is not absolutely nor finally the art of accumulating much money for ourselves

52:04 but also of contriving that our neighbors shall have less. That's mercantilism right there. In accurate terms, the art of establishing the maximum inequality in our own favor. While labeling it democracy. At the time, they would have called it free trade. Yeah. In a preface to his book, it's called Unto the Last, published 1862, Ruskin recommended that the state should, on the right stand, this is important.

52:38 He recommends that the state should underwrite standards of service and production to guarantee social justice. What? This is where it's coming from. This included the recommendation of government youth training schools promoting employment, health, and gentleness and justice. Basically, right as the Prussian education system and Horace Mann are making their reach across the world. Youth training schools.

53:12 I love that, youth training schools. Which is what our education system is. It's youth indoctrination schools. So can you, on a scale, put social justice on one side and the pure, despicable hate of everyone that isn't white and the conquering of the entire world?

53:41 on the other side of that and make that equal they found a way to twist their brains into a pretzel to do that but i i would argue social justice is the cloak that they're going to use to do it sure just like democracy you name it yeah so there's there's nothing about social justice as it's being defined for the masses that equals

54:11 the Anglo supremacist doctrine that they are spewing, which leaves one to conclude that they are going to pursue this agenda using their secret societies, their wealth, where everyone else will have nothing, under the guise of social justice, not realizing that

54:38 The entire agenda is the social justice basically means equal treatment in a penal colony because that's where we're all going to be. That's exactly right. And when you see some fundamental, I guess, incongruities here, they justify a lot of this modern religion of wokeism, we'll call it, because they feel that they apply to people's general goodness. And they say, isn't the good of the whole more important than the good of the individual?

55:08 You know, there's a whole 50% plus one. Oh, it's democracy. We the people decided. Well, that's the exact opposite of where America is. In America, the rights of every single individual are more important than the rights of the whole. We were founded on that principle. There can be no exceptions because once you start making exceptions, the slippery slope takes you all the way into tyranny. It's the same idea. Individual liberty versus tyranny is the only scale. And any bit of liberty you give up, you get tyranny.

55:37 It degrees more of tyranny and it's a slippery slope. It keeps climbing. So I just find it interesting that people think these terminologies that they're using today are new. None of them are new. And obviously the people using them, as you just articulated, don't give a crap about society, i.e. social, and they don't give a crap about justice.

56:08 they use these tools. I would argue that the entire wokeism, social justice, all of that stuff is basically just a massive psychological warfare operation on the population. Yeah, it's a rebranding of old ideas for the same purpose. Yeah. What's interesting about, you talk about social justice, you know, anytime you've got, what are they called?

56:34 Green justice, social justice, anything at the time you have to modify justice, you're talking about injustice. Correct. There's only justice in everything else. Correct. Good way to put it. Yeah. All right, so Ruskin goes on. This is an important paragraph. It says, governments build manufactories for workshops, government schools for the employment, at fixed wages of the unemployed, with idlers compelled to toil, forced labor.

57:03 And pensions provided for the elderly and the destitute, as a matter of right, received honorably and not in shame, even though we've treated you as slaves. Author says many of these ideas were later incorporated into the concept of the welfare state. Which every one of those we've embraced. So how many times have we heard that these evil capitalists are what ruin the world, and yet they're going with full-on socialist Marxist ideas are what they're promoting? Correct.

57:36 This was not capitalism, people. This was mercantilism. This is why I rip on Alexander Hamilton and Abraham Lincoln so much, because they introduced the same public corruption where the nearby pigs get to feed at the trough of the government and the rest of us get to finance them. That's the problem. You get these wealthy people, they start twisting government policy for their own financial and now egalitarian and quasi-religious aims.

58:02 And that's how they get to the point of we want to create our one world government because we're superior. And the rest of you are either going to be serfs or dead. Take your pick. Give me liberty or give me death. I've already chosen. All right. So we get to Mr. Rhodes, his last will and testament. He dies in 1902 at the age of 49. Very wealthy man. You know, Rhodesia is named after him. We can get through all that history of South Africa, but it's not that paramount.

58:35 besides the fact it's colonialism. His last will and testament, Cecil Rhodes, reveals him to the world as the first distinguished British statesman whose imperialism was that of race and not that of empire. That's an interesting commentary. I don't know which historian that was. He says the one specific object defined in the will as that to which his wealth to be applied proclaims

59:05 with the simple eloquence of a deed that Mr. Rhodes was colorblind between the British Empire and the American Republic. His fatherland, like that of our poet Arndt, is coterminous with the use of the tongue of his native land. In his will, he aimed at making Oxford University the educational center of the English-speaking race. He did this of a set purpose, and in providing the funds necessary for the achievement of this great idea,

59:37 He specifically prescribed that every American state and territory shall share with the British colonies in its patriotic benefaction. He's saying Rhodes Scholarship is open to America because we want to educate the best and the brightest of America into our imperial mindset. I would use the word indoctrinate as opposed to educate, but... I accept your correction.

1:00:07 What's interesting is that exact same model would be put to use just about, not even a whole decade later, by the American aristocrats like the Rockefellers and the Carnegies. And they would influence all of our major educational institutions as well. That's where they started. Rhodes got there first. He is making the blueprint. Tell me this isn't scary. Once every year, Founders Day, in caps, will be celebrated at Oxford. And not just at Oxford only.

1:00:39 But wherever on the broad world surface half a dozen old Rhodes Scholars come together, they will celebrate the great ideal of Cecil Rhodes. So these Rhodes Scholars get together once a year to celebrate their holy day. And what is that great ideal? He was the first of the modern statesmen to grasp the sublime conception of the essential unity of the race. Do you want me to repeat that? Do it. Cecil Rhodes.

1:01:10 His great ideal that Rhodes scholars celebrate once a year was because he was the first of the modern statesmen to grasp the sublime conception of the essential unity of the race. Thirty years hereafter, there will be between 2,000 and 3,000 men in the prime of life scattered all over the world, each one of whom will have impressed upon his mind the most susceptible period of his life during his learning years, the dream of the founder, Cecil Rhodes. There's a lot there.

1:01:46 That's huge. Yeah. So when we get into Rhodes Scholars here, probably two weeks from now, after we get into a little bit more of this philosophical stuff, I want you to keep that in mind, people, that these people were all indoctrinated in their early 20s in the finest halls of the finest university, and they picked people from the American Ivy League schools, they picked people from Australia. All the English-speaking world are eligible to be Rhodes Scholars. And when they get done with their two- to four-year fellowships,

1:02:16 is sent right back to where they came from, where they insert themselves in the positions of influence. Some of these Rhodes Scholars were members of other secret societies, whether it be Freemasons or Skull and Bones or Skrull and Key. Some of them just came from really high-born families and they got their indoctrination over there at Oxford. But we see this time after time after time. When we start going through this list of people that are not even the highest level of politics, but all at different gatekeeper levels, ministerial level, that's where Rhodes Foundation,

1:02:46 Rhodes Scholars are making their imprint as in those administrative positions all over the world. So would you agree with the statement that the Rhodes Scholars is its own secret society? Yeah, I think you can be qualified as one. But the difference is it's not secret. They publish who they are. Yeah, understood that. But it would be secret in the nature that we don't understand.

1:03:14 what its purpose is, the mission is secret as opposed to the actual society itself. I think what we'll find if we dig deeper in the roads, if we spent thousands of hours doing it, is you see a secret society emerge within the public society. Meaning, take a student like Bill Clinton, and the professors there, most of them are connected to intelligence for a reason.

1:03:40 they're out there talent spotting these young americans say which ones are going to be our perfect candidates to go into our secret program which ones aren't so so not everybody gets invited into this you know these people they got two or three years of you living in england to witness you see you at parties fill you out in private smoky rooms so i think there's an entire mentor uh ship type program and so

1:04:06 it would be fair to say that there's the possibility of the Rhodes Scholar program being a pool of eligibles to be inducted into potentially an even higher elite group that is secret to us. Yeah, I think that's exactly where the evidence is pointing. That's what it seems like happens.

1:04:33 You know, you just go up to secret expertise until you're finally sitting at the big boy table, if you ever get that far. But really, it's a pyramid setup, without a doubt. And you're right. We don't know what the secret is. There are some secret clubs up there we don't know about. Hollywood tries to show us. Maybe they tell the truth sometimes. You know, I don't know if it's a Bilderberg group or some other of these crazy ones. World Economic Forum. Maybe there's a bunch of different versions, and they all get together occasionally. But we haven't found evidence.

1:05:02 And technically skull and bones isn't secret either. Their membership, they tried to hide. But we know just based on the research that we've done, that it is an inside group doing very nefarious things through the positions that they're eventually placed in. Just, you know, kind of talking out loud.

1:05:29 I think once we get into, like you said, who's actually in it, it will basically define itself as to the extent. Because I do believe that you can have something sitting in plain sight and there be a secret aspect of it that we're not aware of. Yeah, and a lot of their believers, the true devotees, the technocrats that want to prop up the state at all costs, the institution for the sake of the institution, they don't know the big picture. They're not.

1:05:59 They're the useless idiots. These people above them, they're the ones who know the big picture and the secrets. But those are, you know, just like in masonry, you keep going up a level, you're led into some more secrets. So the vast majority of the people pushing some of these ideologies don't know the big picture. That's why reading the actual words of their founders is so powerful, because they weren't shy about what their actual goals were. It's just their descendants had to

1:06:27 you know kind of watered down the language so to be a little bit more acceptable in you know broad daylight you can't flat out say yeah back then they didn't have the media exposure i mean we've captured some of their um comments obviously but you know you didn't have social media you didn't have the internet you so now you can understand why they're much more guarded about their verbiage um

1:06:55 Back then, I don't think that they were as guarded with their true real thoughts. And what's going on, big picture of this, you know, 100, 200 year period of quote unquote enlightenment, is you get some brilliant thinkers like John Locke, you know, gave his life, liberty and property, which is the exact opposite of every one of these Fabians or Hegelians wants. And the second you lose your property rights for the good of the state.

1:07:25 It's as simple as that. It's individual liberty versus tyranny. The question is, what degree of tyranny are you willing to put up with before you fight back and grab that individual liberty back? It's so important. But what's going on overarching is these societal questions are being asked for the first time and are being discussed across nations. You've got these great thinkers coming out of Germany and Sweden and England and France, and they're different ideas. It's this whole marketplace of ideas. And it takes us back to the American Revolution.

1:07:53 Well, this idea of federalism, self-determination, and the fact that a free republic can govern itself was fighting against all of the old school wars. Well, on the heels of that, you get these 19th century thinkers. They're trying, how can we reorder society? We got the cat out the bag. How do we get it back? Well, you know, the first communist revolution was France. You know, the Jacobins, they were absolutely communist.

1:08:20 So it's also interesting to note that obviously one of the things that I've noticed in researching all of these countries is the reading ability. So maybe they were free to write because there was only their class that knew how to read because most, you know, education systems at that time were almost non-existent, right? Peasants were not educated.

1:08:50 So they maybe felt more freer to be able to put down on paper because only the elite, to some extent, were the ones that were exchanging ideas. Fun trivia question. In the 1850s, what country do you think had the highest literacy rate in the world? No idea. Fact check me on this one, but I saw this statistic recently, and it's the United States of America. And it's because during their expansion west, all these little towns would go together and create their little homeschools.

1:09:22 And everyone had to learn to read the Bible because it was a Christian-founded nation. But the literacy rate in America far surpassed that of young industrialized Europe because those children had to go be sent to the factories. We didn't have that. And again, this is why England was 50 years ahead of the rest of Europe in terms of industrialization, as they had the better banking system. Well, better, more effective, shall we say, in creating credit. Obviously, it had its downfall, so we're still paying for it today.

1:09:50 So they industrialized faster because of the banking system. The banks wanted to maintain order. They would fund these philosophers to go to their education and come up with these theories they could then use to impose societal control to justify their expansion, which was always a return to feudalism, but on a global scale. Yeah. Well said.

1:10:13 Well, that's about what I had prepared for today. I thought it's a really good predecessor to the philosophical conversations we're going to be having. And we'll get back into some of the fun historical characters. But Rose needs to be on our Mount Rushmore of bad guys. And let me just kind of set the stage for what's coming next. You notice, was it 1902 when he died? Yes. Okay, so skipping ahead a little bit for you guys to know what to look for.

1:10:41 um 02 is approximately the same time as a result of cecil rhodes um death at the pilgrim society maybe that's his um secret society the pilgrim society was created um the following year the pilgrim society in the united states so you just heard war hamster talk to you about his um reacquisition of the united states

1:11:08 So with his vast wealth, they set up the Pilgrim Society in the UK and the counterpart the following year in the United States. And when you go fast forward approximately 10 years from that, they also, he is responsible for the School of Economics in England. In addition, the Royal International Institute.

1:11:35 Affairs, RIIA. And the following year after it was set up, we set up the CFR here. So you can see the bridges in the aftermath of Cecil Rhodes' life. All of these institutions are basically based on his premise. And they're critical to understanding what is currently being disassembled of these ties.

1:12:05 that all go back to a large extent to the philosophies that Cecil Rhodes embodied. Agreed. There's a few fun comments we can address. Let me read them. W. Ripley writes, Rockefeller totally effed up the medical schools too. Yeah, we're going to get into that big time when we get to the foundations because I got dozens of pages of notes on that one.

1:12:37 Eureka Springs says eugenics. That's definitely part of the conversation. It comes into here. Eugenics, the depopulation agenda, all of that is all part of the same European sickness. European brain disease is where it comes from. It is an absolutely anti-American philosophy.

1:12:55 At our fundamental roots, we are diametrically opposed to what they're suggesting here. And we're going to walk through how that disgusting ideology crept across the Atlantic and worked its way into our institutions and why we do not live in the federal republic we were promised. And also maybe give us a couple of directions of what we can do to get back. Although it takes an awful lot to unwind hundreds of years of institutional, basically, power.

1:13:22 Stab Connects, hey Stab, says Association of Commonwealth Universities was in 1913. Yeah, that's part of the story. And Ripley points out 1913 is a very interesting year. Eureka says the coup of the United States was completed in 1913. I'll say it was completed in 1865, but we can argue that later. We ceased to be a republic and became a national government. Yeah, there's some really good comments in here today. Very smart people.

1:14:00 I do appreciate our audience. I can't read them all, but there's some good ones that I caught. Yeah. Okay. So we're going to call it a day today. You guys, we will be back at four o'clock on our normal safe for democracy, which seems ironically important to what we're talking about right now. It's funny how that works.

1:14:24 It is amazing how all of this stuff kind of dovetails into each other. So thank you, Brady, for doing all of that research and bringing us that information. I'm really, really excited about this next section of this work. I just think it's critically important for people to understand.

1:14:48 And I'm going to try not to get too wonky. I minored in philosophy in college, so I read all this stuff ad nauseum, but it's been more than 30 years. Jeez, I'm getting old. It's been more than two decades since I studied that stuff really hard. So we won't get too wonky in some of the philosophers, but I was forced to spend months reading about some of them. So you're going to get to hear part of that. We're looking forward to it because I do. I agree. If you understand it.

1:15:16 The CIA made it very, very clear that culture is very, very important because they've spent the last 75 years trying to corrupt it and corral it and psychologically attack it. So it is fundamental that we understand that piece of the pie. And on that note, we will be spending an entire episode on the Tavistock Institute and all the derivatives from there.

1:15:39 because that's the heart of the social engineering really started there. And that's super connected to the Rhodes Scholarship and all that. I mean, that's super connected. Same dormitory, different rooms. How's that? Yes. Great way to say it. Okay. Again, thank you, audience, for being here and all of your wonderful comments. We really appreciate it. And we will be back next Friday at noon. Cheers, everyone. Take care.

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“Just one of those funny coincidences all through Oxford. Oh, yes. He would, in 1903, become the very first director to something called the London School of Economics, which is one of the... Definitel…”

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“Just vaguely, vaguely familiar. Yeah, he's one of the forefathers of this. And his apostles became really loyal to him. His apostles will show up throughout history when we get to the Fabian socialist…”

Cecil Rhodes targeted_for_regime_change United Kingdom book_quoted ▶ 40:23

“The establishment, promotion, and development of a secret society. I wonder where he got that idea. The true object and aim would be for the extension of British rule throughout the world. This is a s…”

Cecil Rhodes targeted_for_regime_change United States book_quoted ▶ 40:57

“Sorry, Candia. The whole of South America, the islands of the Southern Pacific, the whole of the Malaysian archipelago, the seaboard of China and Japan, and, in bold, the ultimate recovery of the Unit…”

John Ruskin trained Cecil Rhodes host_asserted ▶ 44:19

“Yeah, and he got some of his ideas from a guy by the name of John Ruskin. And see if I have anything on him real quick. I think I do. One second, I'll give you a picture of John. John's an important t…”

Cecil Rhodes member_of Freemasons host_asserted ▶ 48:00

“Talk about mankind as basically your divinity in and of yourself. It's the denial of God in many ways. Yes. So, all right, back to Cecil because there's some more good stuff on him. All right. Rhodes …”

Cecil Rhodes member_of American Pilgrims host_asserted ▶ 49:45

“That's why we're talking about Rhodes today. It's exactly right. Right. And why you have all of the secret societies that we've been through for the past year. And every one of them, whether it's Rock…”

John Ruskin founded Fabian Society host_asserted ▶ 51:10

“England must fund colonies as fast and as far as she is able, formed of her most energetic and worthiest men, seizing every piece of fruitful waste ground she can set her foot on. These are the people…”

Cecil Rhodes funded University of Oxford host_asserted ▶ 59:05

“with the simple eloquence of a deed that Mr. Rhodes was colorblind between the British Empire and the American Republic. His fatherland, like that of our poet Arndt, is coterminous with the use of the…”

Cecil Rhodes founded Rhodes Scholarship host_asserted ▶ 59:37

“He specifically prescribed that every American state and territory shall share with the British colonies in its patriotic benefaction. He's saying Rhodes Scholarship is open to America because we want…”

John D. Rockefeller funded University of Oxford host_asserted ▶ 1:00:07

“What's interesting is that exact same model would be put to use just about, not even a whole decade later, by the American aristocrats like the Rockefellers and the Carnegies. And they would influence…”

Andrew Carnegie funded University of Oxford host_asserted ▶ 1:00:07

Bill Clinton member_of Rhodes Scholarship host_asserted ▶ 1:03:14

“what its purpose is, the mission is secret as opposed to the actual society itself. I think what we'll find if we dig deeper in the roads, if we spent thousands of hours doing it, is you see a secret …”

Cecil Rhodes founded American Pilgrims host_asserted ▶ 1:10:41

“um 02 is approximately the same time as a result of cecil rhodes um death at the pilgrim society maybe that's his um secret society the pilgrim society was created um the following year the pilgrim so…”

Cecil Rhodes founded London School of Economics host_asserted ▶ 1:11:08

“So with his vast wealth, they set up the Pilgrim Society in the UK and the counterpart the following year in the United States. And when you go fast forward approximately 10 years from that, they also…”

Cecil Rhodes founded Royal Institute of International Affairs host_asserted ▶ 1:11:08

Tavistock Institute front_for Rhodes Scholarship host_asserted ▶ 1:15:39

“because that's the heart of the social engineering really started there. And that's super connected to the Rhodes Scholarship and all that. I mean, that's super connected. Same dormitory, different ro…”