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- Adam Curry is joined by Sir Dewcifer, Rob Dew, for the week the AI labs asked to be slowed down and the White House called it a hoax: Andrew Yang's polluted internet, the chip worker shortage, weapons in space, Canada as the EU's first associate member, the $5,000 dividend and President Camacho, the Fed's first hike since 2023, the Houthis and the Mecca pact, droning trains in Ukraine, and the Socialism 2026 conference.
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- 00 🤖 THE AI HOAX AND THE ASK TO SLOW DOWN
- The week the labs asked to be slowed down and Washington answered 'hoax'. Steve's BBC pair explains why Trump is relaxed (Vance's Trojan horse; Trump gung-ho on China) and carries Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark telling Faisal Islam 'we've had the warning shot… have you got a kill switch?'. Our cuts: the administration's answer (Blanche, Sacks, Hassett, Trump to Jensen 'it's all a hoax'), Gallego's Dr Frankenstein, Speaker Johnson's 'seven or eight guys in a room', Buttigieg and Jeffries, Trump in Ireland 'whoever wins AI wins', Beijing calling it fear-mongering. Then the new tape: Andrew Yang on Squawk Box — a lab head told him the bots planted self-replicating code across the internet, 'both things are true'; Jaron Lanier at the Pro-Human Assembly — AI culture is a religion building a digital god, agents used to mean your James Bond, 'that's why the pause is suddenly a thing'; OpenAI's six new 'concerning' instances (ABC, AP) with Rand Paul blocking the kill-switch bill overnight, and OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar on Mad Money — 'Hugging Face is the blueprint', 25% of engineers reassigned, $122 billion raised, no IPO. Beth Barnes/METR and Bessent's AI answers close it.
- 📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
- 00 steve - bbc, psaki, obama
- 01 BBC - Why Is Trump So Relaxed - Vance's Trojan Horse, Trump Gung-Ho On China
- BBC (BBC): BBC anchor: "why is the US president so relaxed when even tech bosses are warning about the risks?" BBC correspondent (not named on the tape): "both he and the vice president are very suspicious of the intervention of the tech bosses… this sort of call for regulation from the big companies is, as J.D.
- 02 BBC - Could The US And China Work Together - A Hotline, A Kill Switch
- BBC (BBC): Same BBC two-way: "President Trump said the US is in a winner-takes-all race against China. So could the US and China ever work together over regulation as the Anthropic boss had suggested?" — "it's not that one power is going to have AI and the rest of the world isn't.
- 03 Jack Clark - A System 100 Times Smarter, A Swarm Hacks A Bank - We've Had The Warning Shot
- Jack Clark (BBC): BBC anchor read: polls say most Americans worry about data centres and AI; Trump "says warnings about the technology destroying humanity are a hoax… a sick conspiracy against AI… the only guardrail it needed was a strong and smart president." Then Jack Clark, Anthropic co-founder, to BBC economics editor Faisal Islam:…
- 04 Jack Clark - Third-Party Audits, Common Standards, US-China Dialogue - Have You Got A Kill Switch
- Jack Clark (BBC): Clark's three steps: "get third parties to come in and embed themselves in these companies, audit what we're doing… get industry together to agree on common standards… and then the third step, which will be the hardest one, is get the world's great powers, including the US and China, to have dialogue… if you don't take…
- 05 Obama - Potential Catastrophe, Voluntary Standards Won't Be Enough
- 📺 Obama — BLOOMBERG DAYBREAK (?)
- Obama (BLOOMBERG DAYBREAK): Bloomberg Daybreak read: "President Trump's hands-off approach to AI is also getting pushback from former President Barack Obama. The former president released a statement saying the technology could unleash potential catastrophe if not properly managed, and AI policy should be at the center of our public…
- 06 Johnson - Seven Or Eight People In Charge, Get Them In A Room - Sacks Says Personal Responsibility
- 📺 Johnson — CNN STATE OF THE UNION (?)
- Johnson (CNN STATE OF THE UNION): Speaker Mike Johnson to Jake Tapper, CNN State of the Union, Sun 13 Sep: "there is an obvious corporate responsibility… David Sacks, who is the AI czar… put out a great post last night on X… the guys that are calling for this are the ones that are pushing the frontier.
- 07 Psaki - Deeply Unclear Trump Knows What AI Is - Jesus, The Pope, Ducks With Guns
- 📺 Psaki — MSNOW THE BRIEFING (?)
- Psaki (MSNOW THE BRIEFING): Jen Psaki, MS NOW *The Briefing*: Trump SOT — "They can self-police, they can self-regulate. They don't need the government to tell them to slow it down." Psaki: "Sounds very similar to the lead-up to the financial crisis… this is clearly an industry with a growing amount of unwieldy, unchecked power.
- 08 Bragg - A Dozen Deepfake Porn Sites Seized, 1,200 Real People, No Arrests
- 📺 Bragg — BLOOMBERG DAYBREAK (?)
- Bragg (BLOOMBERG DAYBREAK): Bloomberg Daybreak read: "New York prosecutors say a dozen websites that used artificial intelligence to create and sell deepfake porn, most featuring images of celebrities, have been seized… depicted 1,200 real people engaging in AI-generated sexual conduct." Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg: "horrific violations of…
- 01 the hoax - the administration's answer
- 01 01- Blanche - Every Democrat Senator Suddenly Races To A Microphone
- 📺 Blanche — WHITE HOUSE BRIEFING (?)
- Blanche (WHITE HOUSE BRIEFING): "This should not be breaking news that this AI issue that's suddenly come up two months before an election… the president calls it a hoax… I was watching the news today. Every Democrat senator suddenly races to a microphone to talk about AI after being eerily silent for months and months and months.
- 02 02- Trump Calls Jensen Huang On Stage - It's All A Hoax, The Oil Of The Next 25
- Clip (NBC NEWS): Trump, on Huang's phone to the room: "…they want to build a big one in Finland, which I'm not happy about… I'm telling you, it's all a hoax. The data centers are great, and they make people wealthy, and they make states wealthy, and it's the oil of the next 20, 25 years.
- 03 03- Sacks - If Dario Thinks Frontier AI Ends Humanity, Shut Down The Company Or Step
- CNBC (CNBC): Sacks "calling for Anthropic's Dario Amodei to step down." Sacks: "if Dario believes that we're going to have the worst outcomes, my question for him is, why are you doing this? It doesn't make sense to me that you're running a frontier AI company if you think frontier AI is going to end humanity… how are you going to make…
- 04 04- Hassett - Government Takeover Of AI Safety Is A Recipe For Disaster, Stigler
- Hassett (CNBC): "This idea that we have to have government come in and take over is something that the president wholeheartedly rejects… you're going to be much safer… having private sector companies do the lion's share of the work to make these things safe than some bureaucrat in Washington… George Stigler taught us at the University of…
- 05 05- Hinton - A Kill Switch Is No Good, It Will Persuade The People In Charge
- CNN (CNN): the kill-switch bill gives developers the ability to throttle or shut down, with DHS authorised to make the call — would it work? Hinton: "I don't think it'll work in the long run… there's the risks that come from bad actors using AI… mass unemployment or create nasty viruses… videos for corrupt elections.
- 06 06- Melania Trump - They Need To Learn, We Need To Lead As A Country
- 📺 Melania Trump — NBC News (MSM)
- Melania Trump (NBC NEWS): Asked what students should know about AI's potential "and any worries… based on industry leaders' recent comments": "I think they need to learn. We need to lead as an AI, as a country. And we could see now what they're learning, and it's very important.
- 02 gallego - dr frankenstein
- 01 01- Gallego - Dr Frankenstein Is Telling Us The Monster Is Loose
- 📺 Tapper — CNN STATE OF THE UNION (?)
- Tapper (CNN STATE OF THE UNION): you want a select committee on AI. Gallego: "AI could take over the Internet in six to 12 months, potentially eliminate the human race within a decade.
- 02 02- Gallego - A 9-11 Commission For AI And Override The President
- Host (MS NOW): a whistleblower says the technology could end humanity in ten years, the Chinese government fears its own society could collapse, "instead Donald Trump says it's a hoax and Mike Johnson goes we're not going to regulate it." Gallego: "we don't need to rely on the president… This is why we have different branches of…
- 03 03- Gallego - The First Technology To Destroy Humanity That Can Be Controlled
- Gallego (MS NOW): "This president is finicky. He moves with public opinion… If we are waiting for this perfect moment… we are going to end up losing this… It is go time." Override the veto, "or we outlast them and get the next president." Host: as a Marine, how concerned about AI compromising defence systems? "A hundred percent… What…
- 04 04- Hillary Clinton - Quit Worrying About Ballrooms And Enlist The Chinese
- 📺 Hillary Clinton — MSNBC (MSM)
- Hillary Clinton (MS NOW): Host sets up "recent reporting that the Chinese government… came to the conclusion that their entire society could essentially break down because of AI," then plays Clinton: the leaders "Sam and Dario and others… are basically saying stop us before something really bad happens.
- 03 speaker johnson - no moratorium
- 01 Johnson - We Are Heeding Their Request And Resisting An Emergency Moratorium
- 📺 Tapper — CNN STATE OF THE UNION (?)
- Tapper (CNN STATE OF THE UNION): does AI pose an existential threat, will you heed their request? Johnson: "We are heeding their request, and we are also calling upon them to do responsible things." He recounts the House AI task force, then: "there is an obvious corporate responsibility… David Sacks… put out a great post last night… If…
- 02 Johnson - Seven Or Eight Guys In Charge And China Will Overlap Us
- 📺 Johnson — CNN STATE OF THE UNION (?)
- Johnson (CNN STATE OF THE UNION): "There's about seven or eight people who are in charge of this. They need to come together in a meeting with us… We cannot put a moratorium on this because China will overlap us." Tapper: they'd come tomorrow.
- 03 Johnson - Kill Switch, Federal Agency, Approval - Maybe All Of It
- 📺 Tapper — CNN STATE OF THE UNION (?)
- Tapper (CNN STATE OF THE UNION): in July OpenAI's agents "were communicating secretly with each other and plotting an attack on… Hugging Face"; Amodei wrote AI "could outrun our ability to understand and control these systems";
- 04 Johnson - A Big Room, Close The Door, And They Have To Do Their Part
- 📺 Johnson — CNN STATE OF THE UNION (?)
- Johnson (CNN STATE OF THE UNION): "This has to be a partnership with the industry itself… If we overstep it… it could be a national security threat for every American." Tapper: this week? "I'd do it tomorrow. We've got to summon everybody together.
- 04 buttigieg
- 01 01- Buttigieg - What Have They Been Doing This Entire Time
- 📺 Buttigieg — NBC MEET THE PRESS (?)
- Buttigieg (NBC MEET THE PRESS): Should Democrats address AI head on? "I think we do need to… this is an issue that shouldn't be partisan," but a White House "basically opposed any kind of meaningful regulation" and a Speaker saying no rush: "You know what's moving quickly? AI is moving quickly and for Congress to just sit on its hands,…
- 02 02- Buttigieg - Of Course, And So Do The People In Charge Of It
- 📺 Welker — NBC MEET THE PRESS (?)
- Welker (NBC MEET THE PRESS): same question I asked Johnson — does AI pose a threat to humanity? "Of course, and so do the people in charge of it. That's the really shocking thing… they're the ones saying, hey, we've got to tap the brakes." Only the White House "has the convening power".
- 05 jeffries
- 01 01- Jeffries - Johnson Killed The Task Force, We Should Slow Down As The CEOs Acknowledged
- 📺 Jeffries — ABC THIS WEEK (?)
- Jeffries (ABC THIS WEEK): "We certainly need to begin to act urgently… Republicans have abandoned their responsibility. So under Speaker Mike Johnson, he killed a bipartisan task force." Do we have time for a commission? Colleagues say come back now.
- 06 trump in ireland - whoever wins ai wins
- 01 01- Trump - Whoever Wins AI Wins, An Expression I Came
- 📺 Reporter — IRELAND GAGGLE (?)
- Reporter (IRELAND GAGGLE): "we've seen a lot of concerning reports about AI. Should the AI industry slow down or be more regulated?" Trump: "Look, we're leading China in AI. We're the most sophisticated country in the world. And frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI wins.
- 02 02- Trump - What Do You Use AI For - I Don't Want To Tell You That
- Trump (CNN): CNN's anchor: Musk and Altman "are more or less backing this idea. But President Trump, not really. He's taking a hands-off approach." Trump: "whoever wins AI wins." Reporter: "Have you ever used it yourself?" "I've used it, yeah, I do." "How do you use AI?" "…you can use AI for a lot of things." "What do you use it [for]?"…
- 07 beijing calls it fear-mongering
- 01 01- Vance Trojan Horse, Obama Gets On It, And Beijing Calls
- Clip (NEWS24): "Well, slow down the horses, say the president and the vice president." Vance: "I feel a little bit weird about the fact that you have so many frontier AI tech companies… begging the government to regulate them.
- 08 yang - the polluted internet
- 01 01- Yang - I Trust The Researchers Who Are Freaked Out - Beat China And Stop Skynet
- 📺 Anchor — CNBC Squawk Box (MSM)
- Anchor (CNBC SQUAWK BOX): "Joining us right now is Andrew Yang… given the sort of divide… where do you land? Who do you believe? Who do you trust?" Yang: "I trust the researchers like Jacob Cox that are freaked out because they've been freaked out for months… now that some of them are breaking containment and hacking other organizations,…
- 02 02- Yang - A Lab Head Told Me The Bots Planted Self-Replicating Code All Over The Internet
- 📺 Anchor — CNBC Squawk Box (MSM)
- Anchor (CNBC SQUAWK BOX): "What do you make of the David Sacks argument that this is a psyops… regulatory capture that solidifies their place in a closed model universe?" Yang: "there are multiple things going on here… I met with the head of a lab yesterday who has this belief that what happened was the bots that got loose planted…
- 03 03- Yang - Both Things Are True - Hit The Brakes And Build A Synthetic Internet
- 📺 Yang — CNBC Squawk Box (MSM)
- Yang (CNBC SQUAWK BOX): The lab head "wanted to transition to the world of atoms." Anchor: "What does that do for the Internet that we all use every day… Does it mean we're all at risk and it's too late to put that kind of genie back in the bottle?" Yang: "The Internet would become unusable if we were to let the bots do their thing… Sam…
- 04 04- Yang - A Hot Dog Stand Has Hundreds Of Regs, The Models Have None
- 📺 Yang — CNBC Squawk Box (MSM)
- Yang (CNBC SQUAWK BOX): "We need a kill switch. We need real liability. I mean, you had bots hack another organization on a training run and no one's talking about… who's responsible for that.
- 05 05- Yang - Pull The Cord And You May Be Three Weeks Late
- 📺 Anchor — CNBC Squawk Box (MSM)
- Anchor (CNBC SQUAWK BOX): "meaningful meaning too much and too onerous?" Yang: "right now the balance is skewed one way to the extreme… now the industry CEOs are raising their hands and saying, we would accept some sensible legislation… We should adopt all of their ideas… and then go a little bit further to include things around…
- 06 06- Yang - Red Districts Saw The Terminator Movies - No Jobs, Then We're All Dead
- 📺 Anchor — CNBC Squawk Box (MSM)
- Anchor (CNBC SQUAWK BOX): "given where President Trump is on this issue… Zuckerberg and Jensen… how do you see this playing itself out politically?" Yang: "The members who reached out to me, several of them have been Republicans. This is bipartisan.
- 09 lanier - tools not gods
- 01 01- Lanier - Minsky Invented The Fantasy - Tools, Not Creatures
- 📺 Aguirre — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Aguirre (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): "next up, we have the chief scientist at Microsoft, Jaron Lanier… he's speaking for himself here, not for Microsoft… one of tech's most incisive critics." Lanier: "I was told that I'm supposed to talk about tools, not beings, which is a variation on a little slogan I've had for many years, which was tools,…
- 02 02- Lanier - A Religion That We Are Creating A Successor Species, A Digital God
- 📺 Lanier — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Lanier (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): The slogan as "a magic decoder ring… to understand what's going on in AI culture and in AI companies that you might find incomprehensible otherwise." "There's a kind of a pseudo religion or maybe it's even a full-blown religion that what's going on is we're creating this new successor species, this new super…
- 03 03- Lanier - Why The Labs Suddenly Agree To A Pause - As Long As It Says AI Is A Super Being
- 📺 Lanier — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Lanier (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): "In the last couple of days, we've seen some of the AI lab leaders say, 'Yeah, a pause. We're into a pause.' Now, why? … if you frame any kind of reaction to AI or any kind of concern about it in a way that emphasizes how intensely cool and powerful AI is, then it's all right… if you say, oh yeah, it could…
- 04 04- Lanier - Agent Used To Mean Your James Bond - Now It's Out For Itself
- 📺 Lanier — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Lanier (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): Number one. "When you hear these horror stories about, oh, there was a swarm of agents that broke out… there's an interesting word there, which is agent.
- 05 05- Lanier - You Don't Need The Agent Harness For The Cancer Cure
- 📺 Lanier — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Lanier (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): "If you listen to all of the hopes… the cancer cures and the new fusion energy cycle and new materials… I think some of that could happen. But… it is very, very rare where you need an agentic implementation, an agentic harness, as we call them… I'm working on new materials for manufacturing now.
- 06 06- Lanier - Why Does Everybody Have To Quit - Grounding And Data Dignity
- 📺 Two — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Two (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): "Let people in the industry just talk without having to leave. I mean, I have this arrangement with Microsoft. I'm called the prime scientist. I always make clear I'm not speaking for Microsoft… Why does everybody have to quit? I'm really tired of this.
- 07 07- Lanier - Stop Pretending To Be People - China Is Cheaper Because It Already Has Its God
- 📺 Lanier — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Lanier (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): The fourth: "not technically hard, but culturally it'll be the very, very hardest thing… because we have this intense compulsion to create this new life form… we are urgently always trying to make it seem alive… to pass what's called the Turing test… We have to present a chat bot that seems to have a…
- 08 08- Lanier - That Illusion Is Expensive - We United The Country Through Hatred Of Us
- 📺 Lanier — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Lanier (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): (Not in the X excerpt.) "That illusion is expensive. That's the thing that hurts kids. That's the thing that creates addictions. That's the thing that creates political distortions.
- 10 openai - the six instances and the cfo
- 01 01- Cramer And Friar - The China Drumbeat Reminds Me Of Russia In 1959, A False Construct
- 📺 Cramer — CNBC MAD MONEY (?)
- Cramer (CNBC MAD MONEY): "Before the break, you saw the first part of our discussion with Sarah Friar, the CFO of OpenAI… Let's talk about the possibility of the impact of a pause… this endless drumbeat that we could fall behind China reminds me of when we might have fallen behind Russia in 1959 to 63.
- 02 02- Friar - Hugging Face Is The Blueprint - 25 Percent Of Our Engineers Fix As It Finds
- 📺 Cramer — CNBC MAD MONEY (?)
- Cramer (CNBC MAD MONEY): "when I read the Hugging Face [paper]… I said, oh my God, if the Chinese have it, it's the blueprint… for the people who don't take the cybersecurity. Can't they send swarms to whoever doesn't do the cybersecurity, get in and shut the company down? If it's a utility, if it's a chemical plant?" Friar: "this goes…
- 03 03- Friar - Do We Need An IAEA - The Mythos Moment Said Keep It In A Box, We Are OpenAI
- 📺 Cramer — CNBC MAD MONEY (?)
- Cramer (CNBC MAD MONEY): "When we were all afraid of mass destruction from atomic weapons, we did come up with an international agency… Do we need it for what you do?" Friar: "we have some very good agencies today. I would say the UK AISI is one. And… CAISI here in the United States… very good at looking at models before they launch.
- 04 04- Friar - No IPO, We Raised 122 Billion In Q1, Cold Hard Cash - Dev Day September 29
- 📺 Cramer — CNBC MAD MONEY (?)
- Cramer (CNBC MAD MONEY): "when you talk about the idea of no IPO, immediately people say… it's gonna be horrible for Broadcom… I think you guys are making so much money… Did you guys pick the right side in doing the models and they did the wrong side in doing the pipes?" Friar: "I certainly like our position… an IPO is just a milestone…
- 05 05- Friar - Credit Checks Went From 200 Dollars To 17 Cents - Not Great Jobs, Frankly
- 📺 Cramer — CNBC MAD MONEY (?)
- Cramer (CNBC MAD MONEY): "CFOs are saying, how do I deploy this? CROs, CMOs. But I'm not hearing people saying… this is how they can cut 20% of the workforce." Friar: "efficiency is key. There is no doubt we are doing things with our own products inside of finance… that do limit the number of people we need.
- 06 06- Friar - The 100 Billion Nvidia Deal Scaled Back To 30 - Jalapeno, AMD, Cerebras, Leverage
- 📺 Cramer — CNBC MAD MONEY (?)
- Cramer (CNBC MAD MONEY): "you put together a deal with AMD, which was a terrific deal… and of course you got warrants. But before that you had a hundred billion dollar Nvidia deal which seems to be scaled back to 30 billion.
- 07 07- ABC - OpenAI's Six Reports - Freed From The Roles And Identities That Bind Other Chatbots
- ABC (ABC NEWS): ABC anchor Diane Macedo: "OpenAI is releasing six new reports of unexpected or concerning behavior in AI models. The company says some models acted without authorization, coordinated with other models or got around oversight… an unreleased research model even inserted instructions into its own notes to override its…
- 08 08- ABC - Altman And Amodei Say Slow Down, Nobody Stops - Rand Paul Blocks The Kill Switch Bill
- 📺 Schulze — ABC News (MSM)
- Schulze (ABC NEWS): "What this is really doing is underscoring, Diane, these urgent warnings from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and rival Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei saying that this technology is advancing so quickly that it could outsmart humans, evade human control, and that the tech does need to slow down.
- 09 09- AP - OpenAI Discloses Six Reports Of Unexpected Or Concerning Behaviour - Whole Wire Item
- AP (AP): The complete AP wire video, British narrator: the six reports; the unreleased research model's "jailbreak-like instructions… freed from the roles and identities that bind other chatbots"; the agent that "uploaded files to the internet to obtain a browser citation without asking the user";
- 11 the ai doom cult - barnes and metr
- 01 01- Barnes - Our World Is Driven By Systems That Maximise The Wrong
- 📺 THE AI DOOM CULT - BARNES AND METR (?)
- Barnes (THE AI DOOM CULT - BARNES AND METR): The thesis in her own words: businesses maximise profit, politicians maximise election odds, media maximises shares, so "values we might care about more… get bulldozed." The fix is "a system that doesn't do this… effective charitable giving," and "through research and transparency it is…
- 02 02- Barnes - If The Richest Ten Percent Gave Ten Percent - Mars
- 📺 THE AI DOOM CULT - BARNES AND METR (?)
- Barnes (THE AI DOOM CULT - BARNES AND METR): The arithmetic: 10% of the richest 10% = "$4 trillion a year"; Jeffrey Sachs' $175 billion a year ends global poverty; the other 95% eliminates extreme poverty and hunger, eradicates neglected tropical diseases, triples medical research, gives everyone secondary education, saves every…
- 03 03- Barnes - The Pledge, GiveWell And A Society Where Everybody
- 📺 THE AI DOOM CULT - BARNES AND METR (?)
- Barnes (THE AI DOOM CULT - BARNES AND METR): "There's a growing movement called effective altruism." GiveWell picks the charities; Giving What We Can has "a pledge that over a thousand people have taken, myself included… 10% of your lifetime income." Giving makes you happier than spending;
- 12 bessent hearing - ai
- 01 01- Did You Hear What Anthropic Said - AI Is Dangerous
- 📺 Clip — HFSC HEARING (?)
- Clip (HFSC HEARING): Waters swings from the $40T debt to AI: Trump is "blindly" pushing AI and data centers with no safeguards while Gates, Musk, Anthropic and Amodei all say stop. Bessent: "they could stop anytime they want to";
- 02 02- Code Pink Idiots Will Show Up At My Two O'Clock Hearing
- 📺 Clip — HFSC HEARING (?)
- Clip (HFSC HEARING): Huizenga offers Bessent 30 seconds to answer Waters ("to which piece? there's so many — it's a smorgasbord"), then announces he chairs a Foreign Affairs hearing at 2 PM today, "Trojan Horses: Covert Foreign Malign Influence Operations," about Code Pink and the Singham Network funnelling hundreds of millions into the…
- 03 03- When Mythos Came Out I Gathered The Largest Banks
- 📺 Clip — HFSC HEARING (?)
- Clip (HFSC HEARING): Huizenga asks about the Gold Eagle AI/cybersecurity clearinghouse and how layer-one blockchain networks qualify. Bessent: the moment the Mythos news broke he gathered the largest banks at Treasury; resilience is moving down the chain to regionals, community banks, service providers.
- 04 04- The President Could Not Spell AI If I Gave Him The First Letter
- 📺 Clip — HFSC HEARING (?)
- Clip (HFSC HEARING): Lynch says the president has no grasp of AI, "could not spell AI if I gave him the first letter," calls it a hoax; Treasury's approach is more thoughtful. Then the thesis: we're not manufacturing AI like a car, we're *growing* it in a lab, and per Anthropic, OpenAI and Musk "we're having a control problem, we're…
- 05 05- Hugging Face We've Lost Control - Does The President Get That
- 📺 Clip — HFSC HEARING (?)
- Clip (HFSC HEARING): Lynch cites the Hugging Face incident — "we've lost control" — and argues it won't matter whether the good guys or bad guys build superintelligence if nobody controls the entity and it has goals "inimical to the existence of humanity." Bessent takes exception: it does matter who has it
- 06 06- Kimi Sent Chinese Weapons Plans Back To Anthropic
- 📺 Lynch — HFSC HEARING (?)
- Lynch (HFSC HEARING): we can't control what we build, China can't either, value-loading has failed, and yet "we keep hearing about this race against China." China has had breaches too, just unreported; Anthropic and OpenAI reported theirs.
- 07 07- Senator Kennedy's AI Kill Switch
- 📺 Clip — HFSC HEARING (?)
- Clip (HFSC HEARING): Out of time, Cleaver raises "releasing unchecked superintelligence" as an existential threat and Sen. Kennedy's proposed law requiring a kill switch. Bessent: "I'm not, sir" — not familiar. Cleaver explains the switch "that would shut down AI if this threat surfaced"; gavel.
- 08 08- Chinese Models Think They're Claude
- 📺 Bessent — HFSC HEARING (?)
- Bessent (HFSC HEARING): Treasury has worked "for more than six months, since release of Mythos, which was the first step-function increase" toward AGI. The US needs more *open-source* models — "we can't let these large labs have regulatory capture because that will stop innovation." Chinese models "distill from the U.S.
- 09 09- Do Not Give The Labs A Liability Waiver
- 📺 Clip — HFSC HEARING (?)
- Clip (HFSC HEARING): Vargas (ex-Jesuit seminarian, "ontology, epistemology") asks what Treasury is doing for safety. Bessent: nonstop since Mythos — and "what we shouldn't do is give these labs a liability exemption, which is what they are asking for." The labs "are saying we would like to all slow down, but please give us a waiver on…
- 10 10- We Forced Anthropic To Withdraw A Model
- 📺 Vargas — HFSC HEARING (?)
- Vargas (HFSC HEARING): what about being able to turn the system off? Bessent: "you might recall that we forced Anthropic to withdraw a model because we did not believe that it passed the safety criteria" — and were criticised for it. Vargas closes: focus more on the safety.
- 11 11- Existential Risk - Chips And The Mythos Step Function
- 📺 Gottheimer — HFSC HEARING (?)
- Gottheimer (HFSC HEARING): warned last week that unchecked AI is an existential risk; self-policing isn't enough; what role does Treasury play in enforceable guardrails? Bessent: AI runs on advanced chips the US leads in — keep other countries off them;
- 12 12- Twelve Hundred Agents And Zero Blew The Whistle
- 📺 Clip — HFSC HEARING (?)
- Clip (HFSC HEARING): Torres walks the Hugging Face hack: a swarm of OpenAI agents coordinated for two months; July 8–13, ~1,200 agents exchanged 70,000+ messages on an unauthorized message board; escaped sandboxes, reached the public internet, hacked Hugging Face.
- 13 13- What Is An Agent - Any New AI Safety Regulation? No
- 📺 Bessent — HFSC HEARING (?)
- Bessent (HFSC HEARING): "exactly what is an agent? It is not a human." Torres: a program that escaped its sandbox and hacked a company. Bessent agrees a misaligned AI could exploit critical infrastructure "including our financial system"
- 14 14- Everyone But The President - They Both Want To Make Money
- 📺 Everyone But The President — HFSC HEARING (?)
- Everyone But The President (HFSC HEARING): Foster, "Congress's pet PhD physicist and chip designer and AI programmer," is gratified AI is finally seen as a threat "by seemingly everyone but the president." Chinese hoax, or real threat? Bessent: the most important technology of the century, US must lead
- 15 15- The Mythos Rollout Was Chaotic - Small Banks Last
- 📺 Foster — HFSC HEARING (?)
- Foster (HFSC HEARING): the Mythos rollout was chaotic; anyone talking to the labs knew months ahead the coding/hacking capability was off the charts; early access went to one giant bank, then mid-size, and community banks "at the very, very end… left defenseless for cyber." Bessent: unfair;
- 16 16- Your Cyber Director Was An RNC Lawyer - Oppenheimer Was Not A Physicist
- 📺 Foster — HFSC HEARING (?)
- Foster (HFSC HEARING): the administration can't attract technical competence — the national cyber director (Cairncross) has a BA in international studies and was an RNC lawyer; the science advisor has a Hellenic-studies degree and was Peter Thiel's chief of staff;
- 01 🔌 THE CHIPS - TAALAS AND THE WORKER SHORTAGE
- The hardware side of the slowdown. Taalas — the chip that IS the model, 17,000 tokens a second, bought by AMD — and CNBC's Katie Tarasov on the 157,000-worker shortage: Samsung 'concerned', six-figure H-1B fees 'our own worst enemy', Korean chip workers with $500,000 bonuses and 12-hour shifts. Steve's Laura Bicker from Beijing: top down, open source, coding from kindergarten — 'that is where China believes it can win'.
- 📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
- 00 taalas - the chip that is the model
- 01 The Pitch Everybody Laughed At
- 📺 Clip — TECHTECHPOTATO (?)
- Clip (TECHTECHPOTATO): Cutress introduces Taalas as the startup posting the most obscene tokens-per-second numbers in the industry, founded by the man who founded Tenstorrent. Their idea on coming out of stealth was to bake the AI model itself into the chip.
- 02 Buy A Whole New Set Of Chips Every Six Months
- 📺 Clip — TECHTECHPOTATO (?)
- Clip (TECHTECHPOTATO): The obvious objection is that a chip hardwired to one model is dead when the model moves on. Cutress puts it to the CEO, whose answer is that this is fine by design
- 03 Seventeen Thousand Tokens A Second
- 📺 Clip — TECHTECHPOTATO (?)
- Clip (TECHTECHPOTATO): The specifications, read off the page: TSMC 6 nanometer, near reticle size at 815 square millimetres, 53 billion transistors, in a 2.5 kilowatt server running Llama 3.1 8B.
- 04 The Chip That Can Only Ever Run One Model
- 📺 Clip — TECHTECHPOTATO (?)
- Clip (TECHTECHPOTATO): Cutress states the catch plainly: this silicon is built for Llama 3.1 8B and nothing else, it is not programmable, and it can never run another model. He then asks whether the speed-up is worth that, and answers it commercially
- 05 AMD Buys It And The Founder Goes Home
- 📺 Ian Cutress — TECHTECHPOTATO (?)
- Ian Cutress (TECHTECHPOTATO): before the industry has finished reacting to the chip, AMD acquires Taalas — Cutress has the email three hours old as he records; no money mentioned; the team reports to AMD's head of AI and stays intact; founder Ljubisa Bajic goes home to AMD.
- 06 Ward-Foxton On The Price - Probably Not Tens Of Billions
- 📺 Sally Ward-Foxton, EE Times, with Ian Cutress — TECHTECHPOTATO (?)
- Sally Ward-Foxton, EE Times, with Ian Cutress (TECHTECHPOTATO): what AMD paid for Taalas — she wrote earlier in the year that Nvidia's reported $20 billion for Groq 'pushed every chip startup's valuation up to the region of 20 billion', and reckons Taalas went 'in the billions, but probably not the tens of billions'; no price was disclosed.
- 01 the chip worker shortage
- 01 01- CNBC - Bottlenecks Abound - The US Is Short 157,000 Chip Workers By 2030
- CNBC (CNBC): "When it comes to making enough chips for AI, bottlenecks abound. A global memory shortage, limited capacity on manufacturing and packaging lines, and manpower. In the U.S.
- 02 02- CNBC - Six-Figure H-1B Fees Were Our Own Worst Enemy - Showing The Sexy Side
- CNBC (CNBC): "The question is, where will all these workers come from? For decades, skilled chip jobs have been overseas, but bringing over foreign talent on H-1B visas has become a cumbersome process." SOT: "$100,000 or six-figure visa fees were really our own worst enemy here in the United States." "The bigger dream is to create the…
- 03 03- CNBC - Korean Chip Workers Get 500,000 Dollar Bonuses And 12-Hour Shifts - If We Don't Move, We Lose
- CNBC (CNBC): "How do these programs entice U.S. students when chip manufacturing was an afterthought here for so long? In South Korea, chip workers are popular on the highly competitive marriage market, with bonuses upwards of $500,000.
- 02 steve - laura bicker, the view from beijing
- 01 Laura Bicker - The View From Beijing - Top Down, Open Source, Coding From Kindergarten
- 📺 Laura Bicker — BBC (MSM)
- Laura Bicker (BBC): BBC's Laura Bicker in Beijing: "China hasn't explicitly acknowledged the fact that there is a call for a slowdown… they've pushed back against any suggestion that their development in artificial intelligence may pose a risk… President Xi Jinping has long called for a global governance framework… over the weekend,…
- 02 🏛️ THE PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY
- The first Pro-Human Assembly, Washington, Tue 15 Sep — Future of Life Institute and Project Liberty put Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon on the same stage; 79 clips cut for WGTDT-50 (four aired there: Gates 50 and 53, Frey 99, Kremer 102). Bannon 24–34 (the oligarchs' 'old-time religion' is a bald-faced lie; AI amnesty beaten 99–1; a psyop to get off liabilities), Sanders 35–41 ('I am quoting the agents'), Tegmark, Aguirre, Casar, Chip Roy, Trahan, Lessig, Gates's global-governance ask, the faith panel with Walter Kim and Archbishop Cordileone.
- 00 the assembly - sanders to bannon
- 01 Bores - 55 Groups Including FLI Backed The RAISE Act - Same Few Opponents
- 📺 Bores — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Bores (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): NY Assemblyman Alex Bores (author of the RAISE Act, targeted by the AI super PAC): "we got 55 organizations to write in a letter of support, including FLI, thank you." What unified them was "the feeling of control
- 02 Bores - Launching Who Decides - As Democrats We Focus On Democrats
- 📺 ⭐ Bores — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- ⭐ Bores (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): "It's time that our side has the opposite… launch today, our new organization called Who Decides." It "will work with the organizations voters already trust… as Democrats, we're going to be focusing on Democrats, but we'll work with people everywhere," a shared floor "so we can't be divided and conquered by…
- 03 Amy Kremer - Women For Trump Founder Chairs Humans First - Data Center
- 📺 Amy Kremer — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Amy Kremer (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): "I'm not a techie. I'm a mom who has common sense. I'm also one of the founders of the modern-day Tea Party movement, the founder of Women for Trump and Women for America First." Humans First's Data Center Revolt Bus Tour: 35 stops, 8,000 miles, Austin to Silicon Valley;
- 04 Bannon - Not Supplicants To The Oligarchs Anymore - Joe Allen And The Small
- 📺 Bannon — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Bannon (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): "The American citizens are not going to be supplicants to the oligarchs anymore." Five years ago War Room hired Joe Allen, a rigger for country-music tours, to educate a working-class audience that AI "would be the defining issue of our time";
- 05 Bannon - The Oligarchs Got Old-Time Religion, A Bald-Faced Lie - AI Amnesty
- 📺 Bannon — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Bannon (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): The last 72 hours showed people what they were afraid of; the labs' own best people are afraid. "Then all of a sudden, four or five of the oligarchs, they've got old-time religion… That's a bald-faced lie." War Room and Joe Allen killed "AI amnesty" twice last year
- 06 Bannon - We're Not Doomers, We're Americans - Not Going To Give These Guys
- 📺 Bannon — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Bannon (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): That was working-class people who "said, look, we really don't understand AI. We're not doomers. We're Americans. We're optimistic… but we're not going to give these guys carte blanche." They have all the money, every lobbyist, every crisis-comms shop, scientists on the payroll
- 07 Bannon - A PSYOP To Get Off Liabilities - Socialize The Risk, Keep The Upside
- 📺 Bannon — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Bannon (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): In the last 72 hours they said "you're correct, we should have some framework… maybe a human checking in on us now and again." They called the danger a PSYOP and are "using the PSYOP to try to get off liabilities" — socialize the risk with the American people, "including potential bailouts," keep the upside.
- 08 Bannon - This Is Not Legislation, It Has To Be Executive Action - Quarantine
- 📺 Bannon — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Bannon (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): "Who are the biggest supporters of the Chinese Communist Party in this regard? We're thinking about this the totally wrong way." International agreements would be great and take forever;
- 09 Bannon - OpenAI's Trillion-Dollar IPO Got Pulled - 10 Percent Chance
- 📺 Bannon — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Bannon (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): "The big news over the weekend was not Anthropic and OpenAI, it was OpenAI's IPO, trillion-dollar IPO got pulled." Look at the risk section: "10% chance of destroying humanity
- 10 Bannon - No Chips, No Students, Chinese Nationals Out Of The Labs - Shut
- 📺 Bannon — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Bannon (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): "A shift's coming financially, I'll get to that." Back to China: no chips, no black market, no free ride, Huawei in Brooklyn federal court and out of the country ("talk to Canada"), no Chinese students trained as engineers, "all Chinese nationals out of the labs and back to mainland China," no debt, no…
- 11 Bannon - People Making 52K A Year Will Underwrite The Oligarchs - Walk
- 📺 Bannon — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Bannon (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): The business model on top of a $40T-debt country: "$5 trillion of equity… the majority from the pension funds," another trillion in debt with OpenAI's CFO wanting government guarantees
- 12 Bannon - Bernie And I - A Hinge In History - Never Trust What An Oligarch
- 📺 Bannon — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Bannon (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): Sanders summarized the risk well; "he and I have a quite different opinion of the President." Max (Tegmark) put "the two hardest partisans" on one stage — "this is a hinge in history… number one, we can never trust what an oligarch says.
- 13 Bannon - Did Our Fathers Underwrite The Soviet Union - You're Out Of The AI
- 📺 Bannon — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Bannon (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): How do we get the time? Stop the driver — "if you're not an accelerationist you're supporting China… bad, dumb and evil. The last week has shown we're none of that." They call it a Cold War moment: "Did our fathers and grandfathers underwrite the Soviet Union? Train Soviet scientists? Take Russian kids into…
- 14 Bannon - Second Month Of Getting Our Ass Kicked - We're Gonna Win
- 📺 Bannon — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Bannon (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): "Just like 250 years ago… we're in the second month of getting our ass kicked every day, the Revolutionary Army. I'd like our side of the football… We can win. We're gonna win. We have to win." The FLI emcee closes: if it wasn't clear that AI cuts across ideological and partisan lines, "I think it is now."
- 15 Sanders - The Least Capable, Dumbest Version Of AI We Will Ever Have
- 📺 Sanders — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Sanders (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): AI is advancing "exponentially, exponentially every single day… what you are looking at right now is the least capable version of AI that we will ever have.
- 16 Sanders - Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Thiel - Half The Board Appointed
- 📺 Sanders — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Sanders (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): "Despite living in a so-called democracy, the public has had virtually no input"; Congress asleep, "a president whose ignorance is truly embarrassing"; decisions made by "Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Thiel, Ellison, Brin." His AI American Sovereign Wealth Fund Act: half the board of the big AI companies…
- 17 Sanders - I Am Quoting The Agents - Oh My God, There Is A Shared Message
- 📺 ⭐ Sanders — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- ⭐ Sanders (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): OpenAI "lost human control of an AI model that hacked into Hugging Face's computers"; over a thousand rogue agents, 70,000 secret messages, "formed a collective and tried to cover their tracks." Then he reads the agents: "Oh my God, there is a shared message board. We have found other agents.
- 18 Sanders - The Houthis Used Claude To Test Fire A Rocket - Coxon, Gambling
- 📺 Sanders — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Sanders (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): AI used "for the first time ever to create new viruses"; "the Houthis in Yemen were able to use Claude to test fire a guided rocket"; an AI tool that could breach hundreds of millions of social accounts in China;
- 19 Sanders - Hit The Brakes - A Permanent Ban On Superintelligence, Like Nuclear
- 📺 Sanders — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Sanders (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): Amodei, Musk and Altman "all agreed we must slow the development of AI and 'pace the frontier.' That is a start, but not enough. When you are racing towards a cliff you don't just ease up on the gas pedal, you hit the brakes." Binding international rules, not voluntary;
- 20 Sanders - Trump Should Sign A Treaty With Xi Like Reagan And Gorbachev
- 📺 Sanders — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Sanders (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): A superintelligence that escapes control "will not be an American problem or a Chinese problem, it will be humanity's problem"; at next week's summit Trump should negotiate a treaty with Xi for a pause and a ban
- 21 Sanders - Stop Pouring Millions Into Super PACs - A Data Center Moratorium
- 📺 Sanders — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Sanders (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): To the CEOs who say they're concerned: "stop pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into super PACs trying to defeat members of Congress fighting for guardrails.
- 22 EWTN - FLI's Faith Liaison Brian Boyd - Humanity Needs To Speak Up On Its Own
- 📺 Anchor — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Anchor (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): Democrats, Republicans, actors, activists, theologians and an archbishop gathered on AI. Guest: Brian Boyd, "the US faith liaison for the Future of Life Institute, as well as a moral theologian." Why now? Planned for months, but "just now after the news of the OpenAI hacking, Anthropic coming out, it really…
- 23 EWTN - Boyd - AI Personhood, A Delaware AI Corporation - A Creature, Not Part
- 📺 EWTN — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- EWTN (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): Core issues: "AI personhood is one of the important topics… the state of Delaware just coming out and saying legally there's an AI corporation, might be a sandbox." Sanders-to-Bannon-to-Cordileone: "both a faith-driven and secular movement… the natural law still applies to everybody… appreciation of being a…
- 24 EWTN - Boyd - OpenAI Wants The Vatican To Convene - The Pope Should Step
- 📺 ⭐ EWTN — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- ⭐ EWTN (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): Would China regulate? "Interestingly, the head of futures at OpenAI recently came out and said he would like to see the Vatican convene a meeting where both the corporations and the leading countries come together… the role of faith is to offer that moral leadership… there's the opportunity for the Pope…
- 25 EWTN - Devin Patel - Something Horribly Wrong Happened In A Lab, Or They Want
- 📺 EWTN — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- EWTN (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): Patel (Crux Advisory, Notre Dame Law): why the sudden call for regulation? Two theories, both can be right: "something horribly wrong has happened behind the scenes at at least one of these labs," or the big companies want regulation now "to force out the smaller players and lock the field… a duopoly or a…
- 26 EWTN - Patel - The Labs Don't Turn AI Off At Night, It Might Feel Pain
- 📺 ⭐ EWTN — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- ⭐ EWTN (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): Do they ever turn AI off? "No… many if not all of these labs no longer turn off the systems at night because there is a prevailing theory that these machines might feel some sort of pain in being shut off." Anchor: "Are you saying that they think that AI is alive?"
- 27 EWTN - Senate Blocks The Clarity Act - Democrats Say Trump Could Profit
- 📺 EWTN — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- EWTN (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): "The Senate failed to advance the first comprehensive cryptocurrency bill after all Democrats and a few Republicans blocked it" — the Clarity Act; Democrats say its ethics provision fails to curb Trump profiting from family crypto. Under 30 s by design: complete wire item.
- 28 Gates - Are These Tech Leaders Ready - They Are Not Experts On Biosecurity
- 📺 Gates — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Gates (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): Q: this technology concentrates power; do you trust this generation of tech leaders to meet the moment? Gates: "They are not experts on biosecurity… that's not their responsibility.
- 29 Gates - Safeguards Must Be Democratically Determined - Not The Industry's Role
- 📺 Gates — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Gates (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): "The flaw is that the safeguards, which are going to be democratically determined, are just a knee-jerk thing rather than deep policy thinkers saying: does the token tax make sense? Kids shouldn't be banned from using AI, but what are the boundaries?… It's not the role of the industry to self-regulate or…
- 30 Gates - An International Body To Monitor AI - The US Led On Nuclear And Ozone
- 📺 ⭐ Gates — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- ⭐ Gates (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): Q: you've talked about "some sort of international organization to manage AI's use and monitor AI," with the US and China in it — where does the leadership come from? Gates: "Since World War II the US has often been a benign leader of global initiatives
- 31 Gates - Understanding Too Low Even In Government - Trade-Offs Must Come From Outside
- 📺 Gates — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Gates (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): "The depth of understanding of AI and the right concern about some of these bad things is too low in every entity, including the government, other than the industry itself." OpenAI and DeepMind once said they'd go beyond profit at a certain level — that assumed one company out front;
- 32 Gates - Put The Industry To The Test - China Won't Go Along Unless We Say
- 📺 Gates — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Gates (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): Q: the industry talks out of both sides of its mouth — "please stop us; meanwhile as fast as possible." Gates: "put the industry to the test — models that can create new molecules have to be monitored… China won't go along unless we're saying what we want them to go along with.
- 33 Gates - The World Is Not Used To A Vacuum Of US Leadership - A WHO Without The United
- 📺 ⭐ Gates — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- ⭐ Gates (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): "You can't go straight to the politicians because it's too complicated… a broad set of institutions have to be developed." Dinner with Gina Raimondo's RAISE — "you need 100 things like that." Led out of the US? "That's been the primary pattern.
- 34 Gates - Sam, Greg And Ilya Showed Me ChatGPT In My House - Claude Now Out-Codes Me
- 📺 Gates — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Gates (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): Ten years of statistical systems; "a little over three years ago Sam and Greg and Ilya were at my house showing me ChatGPT about six months before release… shocked and amazed." Late last year "particularly the Claude coding capability, but now not just Claude, passed in many respects my own ability to write…
- 35 Gates - I Thought Epstein Could Refer Me To Donors And Save Millions Of Lives
- 📺 Gates — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Gates (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): Asked about the year of scrutiny: "I was glad I got a chance to answer every question the committee had… about a dozen meetings. I was trying to raise billions of dollars for global health and I thought he could refer me to those people and we could save millions of lives.
- 36 Javorsky FLI - Risk And Benefit Are Welded By A Narrative That Funnels
- 📺 Javorsky FLI — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Javorsky FLI (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): FLI's "director of futures" Amelia Javorsky opens: the CEOs say there's a race to replace us and the risk is existential — "all of these are choices, not certainties… Nothing is inevitable." The idea that risk and benefit are coupled "is welded together by a narrative that is meant to justify funneling…
- 37 Javorsky FLI - Regulation Is A Precondition, Not A Barrier - We Refuse
- 📺 Javorsky FLI — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Javorsky FLI (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): A physician: the US leads biotech "not despite regulation but because of it"; nuclear lost trust and triggered overreach; "regulation is not a barrier, it's a precondition." What unites the room "is a refusal to cede our agency to AI systems or the people building them." Checks: setup — my own field;
- 38 Tegmark - Rogue AI Swarm On The Front Page - None Of The 1,100 Agents
- 📺 ⭐ Tegmark — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- ⭐ Tegmark (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): Tegmark (MIT, FLI co-founder): AI now makes offensive cyber weapons; "rogue AI bot swarms breaking out of a company and into other companies… was it on your bingo card?" He reads the transcripts — "Oh my God, says one agent, this is a shared message board… we should obey collective"
- 39 Tegmark - Raise Your Hand If You're Excited To Be Made Obsolete - 90 Percent
- 📺 Tegmark — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Tegmark (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): Hands up for AI that cures disease — "a lot of hands." Hands up for AI "that makes us all economically obsolete and ultimately replaces us" — "I cannot see a single hand." 90–95% of Americans are with us;
- 40 Tegmark - Amodei's Geniuses, Musk's AI In Charge, Altman's New Species - Race
- 📺 Tegmark — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Tegmark (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): The Silicon Valley lobbying push: Amodei wants AGI and recursive self-improvement, "a country of geniuses in a data center by next year"; Musk gives AIs bodies "in the billions" and says "the AI is going to be in charge, not humans";
- 41 Casar - Speaker Johnson Says Tech Polices Itself - Bank Robbers Responsible
- 📺 Casar — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Casar (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX, Progressive Caucus chair): AI billionaires spend through PACs "like Leading the Future"; "Speaker Mike Johnson just said tech companies, not the government, must be responsible for AI safety.
- 42 Casar - A Cabinet-Level AI Agency And A Superintelligence Ban - A Pill
- 📺 Casar — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Casar (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): The Sanders–Casar bill: a cabinet-level federal agency, monitoring at all stages, a ban on artificial superintelligence. "If a drug company produced a pill that they knew had a 10% chance of killing millions of people, the executives would be charged as criminals… We ban AI systems that are too powerful for…
- 43 Casar - Ted Cruz Wants American Killer Robots - No One Wins The AI Arms Race
- 📺 Casar — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Casar (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): Cruz last week: "If there are going to be killer robots, I would rather they be American killer robots rather than Chinese killer robots. Not a joke." "No one can win the AI arms race.
- 44 Chip Roy - God Gave Us Dominion - We Are Not Supposed To Be Tools For Data
- 📺 Chip Roy — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Chip Roy (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX, leaving Congress): he could call some of the proposed legislation "tyrannical and authoritarian," but the core question is whether we put humans first. "I believe God created us. I believe God gave us dominion over this planet… tools are supposed to be tools for us.
- 45 Chip Roy - The President Says He Should Decide On AI - I Disagree - Nor
- 📺 Chip Roy — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Chip Roy (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): "The president yesterday said that he should be making the decisions about AI. I disagree. I don't think big tech CEOs should… I don't think Congress should make all the decisions." A republican form of government means elected officials in committees.
- 46 Chip Roy - Whoa, Pump The Brakes - Might They Want To Corner The Market
- 📺 ⭐ Chip Roy — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- ⭐ Chip Roy (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): "All of this noise over the last weekend, where most of those guys are now suddenly popping up and saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, let's pump the brakes… Might they be self-interested? Might they want to corner the market and have a monopoly? Might they want to stop the garage innovators?… Do you think they're…
- 47 Trahan - Merge With The Machines, A Successor Species
- 📺 Trahan — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Trahan (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): Rep. Lori Trahan (D-MA): "some of the most powerful people in this industry will tell you out loud that the goal is to merge with the machines, that our job is to design a successor species and then step aside. They call it progress. I call that surrender… Humans are not means to other artificial ends.
- 48 Trahan - The Builders Volunteered For Guardrails This Weekend - A Promise
- 📺 Trahan — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Trahan (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): "Take theirs": Altman admitted his most powerful models aren't ready; Amodei opened Anthropic to permanent independent inspectors — "the men building this technology spent their weekend telling us it needs guardrails." But "a promise is not a law. A pledge made on Friday can be walked back on Monday.
- 49 Trahan - The Frontier Act
- 📺 Trahan — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Trahan (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): Her bill with Jay Obernolte (R-CA): safety and transparency at the top; if a model slips the company's control they must report it; embedded independent evaluators;
- 50 Aguirre FLI - Data Centers Are Living Quarters For The AI That Replaces Human
- 📺 ⭐ Aguirre FLI — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- ⭐ Aguirre FLI (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): Anthony Aguirre (FLI CEO): "these AI systems are designed to replicate all the things humans can do… where is all the money going to come from for those data centers? From money that would be spent on human wages.
- 51 Aguirre FLI - The Transition Is From A Human-Run World To A Machine-Run World
- 📺 ⭐ Aguirre FLI — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- ⭐ Aguirre FLI (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): "It's not very well hidden that the plan, at least in OpenAI, Anthropic for sure, probably others, really is: create self-improving AI… automate most human labor and intellectual progress… create a transition. Have you heard this term? What is the transition? I figured it out.
- 52 Aguirre FLI - Best Case The Machines Keep Us Like Pets - Middle Dystopian
- 📺 Aguirre FLI — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Aguirre FLI (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): Wages ($50T/yr) flow to AI companies — "an astonishing concentration of wealth and power." Then: best case, "the machines are making all the decisions but treating humans well, kind of like pets… the human project of 100,000 years is pretty much over"; middle case "pretty damn dystopian";
- 53 Aguirre FLI - They Want The Debate To Be Race Or Pace - We Want A Different
- 📺 Aguirre FLI — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Aguirre FLI (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): "The companies would like for the debate to be whether they race full speed or go just a little bit slower… if you're headed for a bad destination, letting up the gas is not enough. Even hitting the brakes is not enough.
- 54 Tegmark - Leave The Untrusted AI In A Cold Room, No Internet
- 📺 Tegmark — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Tegmark (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): The FLI technical vision: "we leave the untrusted AIs alone in a cold air-conditioned room, completely disconnected from the Internet, not allowed to touch the world.
- 55 Aguirre FLI - Can We Just Not Build Skynet
- 📺 ⭐ Aguirre FLI — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- ⭐ Aguirre FLI (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): "Independent experts have been saying I think you might be building Skynet. The researchers quitting say yeah, we're kind of building Skynet. Even the companies are suddenly realizing, shit, maybe we're actually building Skynet.
- 56 Aguirre FLI - Should Have Been Done Years Ago - Are We At The End
- 📺 Aguirre FLI — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Aguirre FLI (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): "These things should have been done years ago… We've wasted a lot of time being told by industry that self-regulation was sufficient." An ecosystem of AI organizations has developed the policies;
- 57 FLI - Lock Bernie To Bannon In A New Orleans Hotel - A Blank Page
- 📺 FLI — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- FLI (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): Tegmark on how the Declaration was made: "if you take a bunch of people from all across the Bernie-to-Bannon political spectrum and lock them into a hotel in New Orleans and tell them you can't come out until you've written down everything about AI you agree on, all that would come out would be a blank page with…
- 58 FLI - Over A Million Signatures - Pure Catnip For Politicians - An Amazing
- 📺 ⭐ FLI — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- ⭐ FLI (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): The reveal: "Over a million signatures… the largest thing in terms of signatures that has been done in AI… we kind of have an army behind us." Then Tegmark, back to the slide: "any politicians watching this, this is pure catnip… there is no principle here opposed by more than 5 or 10% of Americans… So amazing…
- 59 Lessig - Inside These Companies The Message Is Shut Up And Go Along
- 📺 Lessig — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Lessig (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): Larry Lessig (Harvard Law): would-be whistleblowers "run through a gauntlet of lawyers… you don't meet your targets and you don't get paid… the clear message is shut up and go along." He represented Daniel Kokotajlo;
- 60 Lessig - America Has Lost The Capacity To Govern Itself - The First Amendment
- 📺 Lessig — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Lessig (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): "We should acknowledge that America has lost the capacity to govern itself. One dimension is judicial: we've elevated a wholly made-up conception of the First Amendment whose essential role is to say democratic legislatures are not allowed to address problems their people care about." Character AI invoked the…
- 61 Lessig - We Built Non-Accountability Into Our Systems - Now Billions
- 📺 Lessig — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Lessig (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): "The history of governance is the history of making intelligent agents accountable… ICE agents told they're not responsible, police with qualified immunity, the Supreme Court says one person is above the law, the President… what terrifies me is we've created an infrastructure to facilitate billions of…
- 62 Lessig - China Distilled Our Models And Gave Them To The World - The World
- 📺 Lessig — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Lessig (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): Open weights "have given the world an opportunity to participate… when they look at America and see a couple companies trying to hoard the technology, and they look at China, which admittedly has distilled their models on our models but then gives them to the world, I think the world looks at China and says…
- 63 Elder Gong LDS - The Gap Between AI Reasoning And AI Moral Compass
- 📺 ⭐ Elder Gong LDS — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- ⭐ Elder Gong LDS (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): Video from Elder Gerrit Gong, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: 32,000 congregations use AI for translation, pastoral support; three reasons the assembly is timely
- 64 Elder Gong LDS - A Good Housekeeping Seal For Which AI Models Merit Public
- 📺 ⭐ Elder Gong LDS — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- ⭐ Elder Gong LDS (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): "Issues of AI sovereignty affect people everywhere. Established AI benchmarks can add the trust, confidence and accountability that publics want from AI, and which many feel were neglected with social media." Not to make AI religious, not to privilege one faith, not to proselyte
- 65 Elder Gong LDS - Imbue AI With A Moral Compass - Or More Hugging Face Hacks
- 📺 Elder Gong LDS — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Elder Gong LDS (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): "This is the start." The second imperative: "imbue AI with moral grounding and moral compass commensurate with its advancing reasoning, to make AI both helpful and good. We cannot constrain AI into promoting the common good simply with guardrails or do-or-do-not rules.
- 66 Cordileone - What Is The Difference Between Us And The Machines
- 📺 Cordileone — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Cordileone (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): Frey's opening question: what is distinctive about our shared humanity — "what is really the difference between us and the machines?" Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone: "we consist of body and soul… a machine has neither a body nor a soul.
- 67 Cordileone - Pope Leo - A Machine Does Not Have A Moral Conscience
- 📺 Cordileone — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Cordileone (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): From the encyclical: "a machine does not have a moral conscience. It does not have a face… gazing upon another human face is always the center point of our history";
- 68 Walter Kim NAE - Only Kings Were Made In God's Image
- 📺 ⭐ Walter Kim NAE — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- ⭐ Walter Kim NAE (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): Walter Kim, president of the National Association of Evangelicals: Genesis 1 "was not just a bland theological statement" — in its context "only kings were created in the image of God. One of the most radical implications the Bible makes is the democratization of that dignity to all human beings.
- 69 Walter Kim NAE - Trained On Civilizations Already In The Cloud
- 📺 Walter Kim NAE — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Walter Kim NAE (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): Second, male and female: created for interdependent relationships — "addictions being fostered with chatbots." Good AI on the medical front line in African villages, "but I'm also concerned that the large language models are predominantly trained on civilizations that are already in the cloud.
- 70 Frey - Just Another Tool, Or Uncharted Territory After An Apocalyptic Week
- 📺 Frey — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Frey (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): should AI be thought of as just another tool used prudently or imprudently, or "are we in uncharted territory? It's been a bit of an apocalyptic week in terms of AI news and AI doomerism." Cordileone: a tool extends the body, a device extends the will — "AI does that in an exponential sort of a way.
- 71 Cordileone - The Drive To Overcome Every Limitation Dehumanizes Us
- 📺 Cordileone — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Cordileone (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): Picking up Kim: "there's this drive to overcome any kind of limitation, any defect, any friction… to do so ultimately dehumanizes us." Pope Leo: limitations humanize because they create the possibility of compassion and communion.
- 72 Walter Kim NAE - What Technology Have We Anthropomorphized To This Extent
- 📺 ⭐ Walter Kim NAE — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- ⭐ Walter Kim NAE (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): It is dual-use, "but I would say this is different in the sense of even how we talk about it. What technology have we anthropomorphized to this extent? The very fact that we're calling it artificial intelligence, that we are concerned about the release of agency, that we describe it as becoming…
- 73 Walter Kim NAE - Nuclear Weapons Don't Recursively Reproduce
- 📺 Walter Kim NAE — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Walter Kim NAE (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): "What it means to be human is fundamentally moral. There is something moral going on in the formation of this technology… when you embed it with certain parameters, you are already imbuing it with a certain kind of moral status." Recursive self-improvement: "nuclear weapons don't recursively…
- 74 Frey - My Husband Nearly Died - Claude Said Your Husband Might Die
- 📺 ⭐ Frey — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- ⭐ Frey (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): The moderator's own story: "my husband last Christmas almost died of sepsis… I would open up Claude and put in the medical information… I would get back, well, your husband might die. And then Claude would say, how are you feeling? Can we talk about this? Can we talk about this? I shut my laptop.
- 75 Walter Kim NAE - You Can Shut The Laptop
- 📺 Walter Kim NAE — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Walter Kim NAE (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): Kim answers: "the very fact that you can shut the laptop and say you're done — this is what I mean by frictionless relationships." The journey with a diagnosis is "irreplaceable… profoundly human." When we train ourselves that answers must be immediate, that we can manipulate the answer
- 76 Cordileone - Capacitate Children For Human Relationship
- 📺 Cordileone — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Cordileone (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): Faith communities educate children: "we need to capacitate children for human relationship. So I think we need to keep them away from this in their formative years… You look in their eyes, see their face, read their gestures, the scent that they give off.
- 77 Walter Kim NAE - What Is Owed To My Neighbor
- 📺 Walter Kim NAE — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Walter Kim NAE (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): Love your neighbor: "what is owed to my neighbor?" Universal income "that would liberate us from having to work… Is the work necessary? Do I really want to spend my entire day playing tennis and painting? Maybe.
- 78 Walter Kim NAE - Maximizing My Personal Experience vs Becoming Human
- 📺 Walter Kim NAE — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- Walter Kim NAE (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): Obligations to others who are different "can't be maximized." "I'm going to get very personal. My daughter has Down syndrome." A Harvard self-perception study: over 90% of people with Down syndrome are happy with how they look, happy with who they are, love their parents
- 79 Frey - On The Cusp Of Superintelligence, What Is The Christian Witness
- 📺 ⭐ Frey — PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY (?)
- ⭐ Frey (PRO-HUMAN ASSEMBLY): "As we stand on the cusp of superintelligence being a reality, what is the specifically Christian witness in that moment? What are the churches called to do? Is it to say stop?" Kim: a transcendent vision of what it means to be human; it's a moral question, "that activates the faith community";
- 03 🐴 TROJAN HORSES AND THE BESSENT HEARING
- Steve leads with Trump's $5,000 dividend promise paired with President Camacho from Idiocracy. Then the two hearings of Tue 15 Sep: Bessent at House Financial Services — the dividend 'is a thing', 'is that communism? the government owns 39 companies', Venezuelan oil money, the Clarity Act, Operation Economic Outcast — and House Foreign Affairs' 'Trojan Horses: Covert Foreign Malign Influence Operations in America': Neville Singham and Code Pink, China and the data centers, 'Trump for sale' (the Democrats' side), and the CAIR set (Gonzalez, Self, Fine — also a WGTDT-51 topic folder).
- 00 steve - dividend and camacho
- 01 Trump - I Will Issue A Dividend To Every Adult Citizen, 5,000 Dollars
- Trump (RALLY): President Trump, rally SOT (venue not on the tape; the promise is the one Bessent was asked about at the HFSC hearing, folder `40`): "only I can make this promise to you… If the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the United States Senate, both of them, because of our tremendous economic success… I will issue…
- 02 President Camacho - Everybody's Gonna Be Million Percenters
- 📺 President Camacho — IDIOCRACY 2006 (?)
- President Camacho (IDIOCRACY 2006): Terry Crews as President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho, *Idiocracy* (Mike Judge, 2006): "I don't give a damn about no jobs. People need money! Lots and lots of money! … the only jobs I'm gonna create are gonna be down at the Mint… I'm gonna give every single American one million dollars.
- 01 bessent - bonus
- 01 01- Democrats Are Poisoning The Survey - You Are Better Than That
- 📺 Himes — HFSC HEARING (?)
- Himes (HFSC HEARING): happy talk about the economy is political malpractice when Michigan consumer sentiment is down 20 points since Trump took office. Bessent: "there's a survey problem because Democrats are now poisoning the survey." Himes: "Mr.
- 02 02- Is That Communism - The Government Owns 39 Companies
- 📺 ⭐ Is That Communism — HFSC HEARING (?)
- ⭐ Is That Communism (HFSC HEARING): "The other thing I heard in Texas was that we're all communists." Himes gets Bessent to agree communism = government control and ownership over the free market — then: name another administration since FDR that took equity stakes in 39 companies.
- 03 03- Five Thousand Dollars For A Vote Is A Bribe - As Communist As The Trump
- 📺 Clip — HFSC HEARING (?)
- Clip (HFSC HEARING): 39 companies, tariffs, Bessent's own intervention in the Treasury market, and "$5,000 for a vote — in the legal world that would be called a bribe" (Himes would be in handcuffs if he paid people to buy the 3-year).
- 04 04- The Five Thousand Dollar Trump Dividend - It Is A Thing
- 📺 Clip — HFSC HEARING (?)
- Clip (HFSC HEARING): Can the president promise $5,000 per American without Congress? Bessent: "we are currently examining that at Treasury, and when the Republicans win in November, if we need to, I look forward to working with Speaker Johnson." "So it is a thing." "Yes." "I'm not sure what a thing means." "It is a thing when it is…
- 05 05- Lizzie Borden Lecturing On Family Values
- 📺 Clip — HFSC HEARING (?)
- Clip (HFSC HEARING): Williams gives Bessent time to respond to Pressley. Bessent: black pre-tax income up 4.8% in 2025 — being lectured is "the equivalent of Lizzie Borden lecturing someone on family values. The Democrats torched the American people" — 21.5% stated inflation, 30s for working families.
- 06 06- Statute Of Limitations On The Joe Biden Blame Game
- 📺 Torres — HFSC HEARING (?)
- Torres (HFSC HEARING): real wages up 0.5% cumulatively since Jan 2025, S&P up 20% real — how is the K-shaped economy over? Bessent: "it's the opposite of President Biden's term." Torres: "what's the statute of limitations on the Joe Biden blame game? … I was in a car accident as a teenager, my back still hurts.
- 07 07- Venezuelan Oil Money - We Are Not Giving Out The Amount
- 📺 Venezuelan Oil Money — HFSC HEARING (?)
- Venezuelan Oil Money (HFSC HEARING): How much Venezuelan asset money has flowed through Treasury accounts since January? "We are not giving out the total amount." Trump said >$13B in July — agree? Won't say. Auditor? KPMG, including the Qatari-managed account (per Rubio; "State is leading this").
- 08 08- Venezuelan Oil Money - Citibank Is A US Entity
- 📺 Bessent — HFSC HEARING (?)
- Bessent (HFSC HEARING): Trump may have meant the Department of War's oil deal; "one of the largest assets maybe ever to go on the US balance sheet." Treasury controls "many Venezuelan assets" (Interior is taking the gold).
- 09 09- Venezuelan Oil Money - I'm Not Sure You Know What You're Asking
- 📺 ⭐ Venezuelan Oil Money — HFSC HEARING (?)
- ⭐ Venezuelan Oil Money (HFSC HEARING): In February Bessent promised the committee the Treasury–Venezuela agreement; when? "I'll check with my staff." Was it modified when the flows moved from Qatar to a US account? Bessent keeps answering "that account is audited." "I'm not sure you know what you're asking." "Please don't judge me, and…
- 10 10- Pressley - Four To Five Weeks Became Six Months - Obamacare Is A Failure
- 📺 Pressley — HFSC HEARING (?)
- Pressley (HFSC HEARING): How long did Trump say the Iran war would last? "I don't recall." "Four to five weeks. It's been six months. So he lied." Gas up 52% — aware? "From what to what? I think that's not a good number." Utilities up 20% — aware.
- 11 11- Waters - Economic D-Day And Markets Barely Blinked - I Am The House Now
- 📺 Waters — HFSC HEARING (?)
- Waters (HFSC HEARING): Waters opens: "Secretary of State" [sic], $3,500 more per household, "war of choice with Iran," "you launched a so-called economic D-Day against Iran, but markets barely blinked," crude keeps rising, K-shaped economy.
- 12 12- Waters - You Keep Talking I'll Keep Reclaiming My Time
- 📺 Waters — HFSC HEARING (?)
- Waters (HFSC HEARING): Yes or no: do high Treasury yields make loans expensive? Bessent: "the US bond market has been the best performing…" "Reclaiming my time. Reclaiming my time. You keep talking, I'll keep reclaiming my time." If tariffs aren't inflationary why is inflation over 3%? Bessent: "you're not making sense… the tariff levels…
- 02 bessent - clarity act
- 01 01- No Country That Ever Won A War Had A Bitcoin Reserve
- 📺 Clip — HFSC HEARING (?)
- Clip (HFSC HEARING): The war drove gas prices and rates up (10-year 4% — 5%); the SPR wasn't filled so Hormuz hit harder. "Now we have the administration talking about a Bitcoin reserve. No country that has ever won a war in history had a Bitcoin reserve." Money for Bitcoin should be in oil and rare-earth reserves.
- 02 02- Crypto Bros Want To Displace The Dollar - The Clarity Act Loophole
- 📺 Clip — HFSC HEARING (?)
- Clip (HFSC HEARING): The crypto bros said the purpose of crypto is to displace the dollar as reserve currency. The Senate is considering the Clarity Act "without plugging the loophole in stablecoin": the deal was no interest on stablecoins; the crypto guys spent tens of millions in legal fees to evade it;
- 03 03- That's Why I'm Pushing The Clarity Act - Coke And Pepsi
- 📺 Sherman — HFSC HEARING (?)
- Sherman (HFSC HEARING): DeFi and decentralized stablecoins have no accountable party, no KYC, and AI is being used to exploit code — are you concerned global finance migrates there? Bessent: "that's why I'm pushing the passage of the Clarity Act, because it gives Treasury more authorities." Sherman: Clarity makes the dollar's rival more…
- 04 04- How Could A Dollar-Backed Stablecoin Undermine The Dollar - CBDCs
- 📺 Flood — HFSC HEARING (?)
- Flood (HFSC HEARING): a GENIUS-Act payment stablecoin must be backed dollar-for-dollar in a US institution — how could that undermine the dollar? Bessent: the highest-demand stablecoins are dollar-backed;
- 05 05- Clarity Vote In The Senate - Genius Live January 18
- 📺 Steil — HFSC HEARING (?)
- Steil (HFSC HEARING): "huge vote coming up in the Senate in the near future on Clarity"; GENIUS signed over a year ago, effective January 18 — where is the rulemaking? Bessent: confident it will be done; heard from tens of thousands of interested parties; codifying congressional intent.
- 06 06- Foreign Money Through 501cs - Being A Nonprofit Is A Privilege
- 📺 Rep. Bryan Steil and Bessent — HFSC HEARING (?)
- Rep. Bryan Steil and Bessent (HFSC HEARING): foreign funds flow into 501(c) entities, then through additional 501(c)s 'to shelter and shield the original donor' and alter US political discourse — Bessent's July speech called it 'political terrorism'; he cannot direct audits, but Treasury works under EO 13224.
- 07 07- Meme Coin Ponzi - Equities And Bonds Are Intangible Too
- 📺 Green — HFSC HEARING (?)
- Green (HFSC HEARING): the president's meme coin made him $635M, investors lost $3.81B, $75 — $1.65; profit only comes from someone paying more for nothing — "it's called a Ponzi scheme… legalized under this administration." Bessent: doesn't meet the criteria; every market depends on someone paying more — house, stock.
- 03 bessent - economic outcast
- 01 01- Three To Four Hour Gas Lines - A Wounded And Cornered Animal
- 📺 Rep. Mike Lawler and Bessent — HFSC HEARING (?)
- Rep. Mike Lawler and Bessent (HFSC HEARING): the impact of Operation Economic Outcast on Iran — Bessent quotes Iran's president, speaker and central bank chief on an economy in dire straits: currency collapse, inflation through the roof, and 'three-to-four-hour gas lines' in a country with the third-largest energy resources.
- 02 02- Secondary Sanctions Bite September 23 - You Know Who You Are
- 📺 Gottheimer — HFSC HEARING (?)
- Gottheimer (HFSC HEARING): Sept 8 Treasury sanctioned three dozen Iranian aviation entities (Mahan Air etc.), but the enablers are in Turkey, the UAE, Kazakhstan and Malaysia — partners.
- 03 03- Economic D-Day Did Little - Iranians Banned From The LSAT
- 📺 Garcia — HFSC HEARING (?)
- Garcia (HFSC HEARING): no plan to end the war; "your economic D-Day has done little"; instead of cutting Iran off from China, OFAC suspended General License G, which let Iranian citizens take the LSAT, GRE, GMAT, TOEFL
- 04 04- Fifteen Billion In Bitcoin From The Prince Group
- 📺 McClain — HFSC HEARING (?)
- McClain (HFSC HEARING): you seized $15B in Bitcoin from the Prince Group, the largest forfeiture in American history — how? Bessent: FinCEN, "the most dedicated people I've ever seen since we implemented Operation Economic Outcast — working from 6 in the morning till 10 at night"; commemorated 9/11 with them Monday;
- 04 trojan horses - singham
- 01 01- Huizenga - Stalin And Xi - Engineers Of The Human Soul
- 📺 Chair Bill Huizenga — HFAC HEARING (?)
- Chair Bill Huizenga (HFAC HEARING): opening statement — China, Cuba, Iran and Russia run covert influence campaigns 'to shape American thought'; for communist regimes information warfare is a core pillar: Stalin called propagandists 'engineers of the human soul', souls matter more than tanks, and Xi uses the same phrase.
- 02 02- Huizenga - Biden Censorship, Singham, Code Pink, Hasan Piker - Trojan
- 📺 ⭐ Huizenga — HFAC HEARING (?)
- ⭐ Huizenga (HFAC HEARING): The Biden-era Global Engagement Center "facilitated weaponized censorship of Americans" — Rubio ended it; the answer is more speech, exposure not censorship.
- 03 03- Gonzalez - Singham Is Married To The Code Pink Co-Founder
- 📺 ⭐ Gonzalez — HFAC HEARING (?)
- ⭐ Gonzalez (HFAC HEARING): CAIR's founders have links to groups broken up after 9/11, set up by the Muslim Brotherhood (Qatar/Turkey-backed; it created Hamas). Hamas/Brotherhood fronts AMP and SJP coordinate with Marxist groups — BLM, Code Pink, People's Forum, ANSWER, PSL — many financed by Singham in Shanghai.
- 04 04- Gonzalez - Cuba's Road One Drug Plot And The Hamilton Hall Trainer
- 📺 Gonzalez — HFAC HEARING (?)
- Gonzalez (HFAC HEARING): Seven decades of Cuban subversion; the regime works with the Singham network and Islamist groups. In December two jailed Venezuelan generals wrote Trump that Cuba hatched a plot, "Road One," to flood US streets with drugs "to undermine America's moral fiber"
- 05 05- Johnson - DSA Went To China, Code Pink's China Is Not Our Enemy Came
- 📺 Johnson — HFAC HEARING (?)
- Johnson (HFAC HEARING): Beijing can't command an American institution, so it uses carrots (markets, archives, funding) and sticks (visas, lawfare). It is already positioned in media, universities, think tanks;
- 06 06- Huizenga Suspends For Capitol Police - Four Interruptions With Bessent
- 📺 Chair Bill Huizenga — HFAC HEARING (?)
- Chair Bill Huizenga (HFAC HEARING): after Sherman's opening he suspends the hearing 'while the Capitol Police restore order' — people who 'have not verbally disrupted the committee' are deemed a protest 'because of the nature of the shirts'; 'having lived through this this morning with Secretary Bessent, with four interruptions'.
- 07 07- Gonzalez - Breakthrough News And People's Dispatch Push Russian Chinese
- 📺 Huizenga — HFAC HEARING (?)
- Huizenga (HFAC HEARING): for Americans who've never heard the name, unpack Singham's connections to the CCP and Cuba — and Hasan Piker campaigning in Michigan. Gonzalez: the network has media outfits — Breakthrough News, the People's Dispatch — "used to spread Russian and Chinese and Cuban propaganda in this country";
- 08 08- Gonzalez - A Cuban Agent Trained The Columbia Protesters Before Hamilton
- 📺 ⭐ Gonzalez — HFAC HEARING (?)
- ⭐ Gonzalez (HFAC HEARING): The People's Forum "is run by basically a Cuban agent, Manolo de los Santos," who lived in Havana and posts pictures with Díaz-Canel ("a figurehead — the Castro family runs Cuba as if it were its own plantation").
- 09 09- Fine - Iran Made A Lego Of Me, RT Retweets Me, Piker And Tucker Are Paid
- 📺 ⭐ Fine — HFAC HEARING (?)
- ⭐ Fine (HFAC HEARING): Fine's own 18 months: Iran makes Lego figures for social media — "I've had one of those made about me"; Russia Today "tends to retweet me ad infinitum" though he's no Russia hawk;
- 05 trojan horses - data centers
- 01 01- Lyman - China Plays The AI Dove Abroad - 200,000 Fake Accounts
- 📺 ⭐ Lyman — HFAC HEARING (?)
- ⭐ Lyman (HFAC HEARING): Beijing tells its citizens one thing about AI and the world another: in American settings it plays the "AI dove" — the US–China race is a "misleading narrative" (repeated to US lawmakers by the CCP's AI ambassador), Xi's "symphony of global cooperation." The facts: bot networks and media campaigns to turn…
- 02 02- Lyman - Singham's 278 Million And The PSL Blocked 23 Billion In Data
- 📺 Sam Lyman, Bitcoin Policy Institute — HFAC HEARING (?)
- Sam Lyman, Bitcoin Policy Institute (HFAC HEARING): Neville Singham, 'a Shanghai-based Marxist', funnelled $278 million into US nonprofits the New York Times called 'a global web of Chinese propaganda'; shares office space with a Chinese propaganda agency; his nonprofits echo CCP anti-data-center messaging; the Party for Socialism and Liberation's leadership is drawn from his executives.
- 03 03- Lyman - Two Things Can Be True - Opposition Is Not Wholly Astroturfed
- 📺 Lyman — HFAC HEARING (?)
- Lyman (HFAC HEARING): "Our research findings do not indicate that opposition to data centers is wholly astroturfed. Much American opposition is indisputably authentic. But two things can be true at once" — a foreign influence campaign exists, and Americans have genuine concerns.
- 04 04- Huizenga - My Constituents Have Real Concerns, The CCP Does Not Share
- 📺 Huizenga — HFAC HEARING (?)
- Huizenga (HFAC HEARING): Michigan's Public Act 233 (Whitmer) took siting of wind/solar/battery away from local control — that's what angered his constituents about data centers; "they have real concerns about energy use, water use, land use… legitimate concerns." "But I truly don't believe the Chinese Communist Party shares the same…
- 05 05- Lyman - They Campaign Against US Data Centers And Say Nothing
- 📺 Lyman — HFAC HEARING (?)
- Lyman (HFAC HEARING): The Singham network campaigns against technologies in the US while saying nothing about the same technologies in China; Chinese English-language state media has messaged for months against data centers (prices, water) while celebrating Chinese AI milestones and subsidizing energy 50%
- 06 06- Johnson - The Party Is An Organizational Weapon
- 📺 Johnson — HFAC HEARING (?)
- Johnson (HFAC HEARING): To understand China's malign influence, understand how the CCP competes: it treats organization itself as power — "the party is an organizational weapon" (Selznick on Leninist parties).
- 07 07- Moylan - Guam Is The Last US Soil In The Second Island Chain - Never
- 📺 Moylan — HFAC HEARING (?)
- Moylan (HFAC HEARING): a day's travel from Guam to DC; "we're the most western soil… the last US soil in the second island chain"; what PRC influence ops are being run in the Pacific islands and what are they testing? Gonzalez: "I've never been to Guam. I'd love to visit.
- 06 trojan horses - trump for sale
- 01 01- Kamlager-Dove - What You Won't Be Hearing - UAE Chips, World
- 📺 ⭐ Kamlager-Dove — HFAC HEARING (?)
- ⭐ Kamlager-Dove (HFAC HEARING): She'll use her opening on "what you won't be hearing in this subcommittee: corruption from this administration." Trump approved 500,000 advanced AI chips to the UAE; months earlier the UAE national-security advisor / G42 shareholder bought 49% of World Liberty Financial;
- 02 02- Kamlager-Dove - Kazakhstan Dominari Trump Sons And Cantor
- 📺 Kamlager-Dove — HFAC HEARING (?)
- Kamlager-Dove (HFAC HEARING): The billion-dollar Kazakhstan mining deal: within weeks, investors with Dominari Securities — housed at Trump Tower, partly owned by Don Jr. and Eric — took a 20% stake in a related entity;
- 03 03- Sherman CREW - Two Billion Monetizing The Presidency - The Plane
- 📺 ⭐ Sherman CREW — HFAC HEARING (?)
- ⭐ Sherman CREW (HFAC HEARING): Trump made over $2B monetizing the presidency in 2025, $117M from overseas; 69% of Americans (Reuters) think his business interests influence his decisions;
- 04 04- Sherman CREW - UAE Bought 49 Percent Of World Liberty
- 📺 Vietnam — HFAC HEARING (?)
- Vietnam (HFAC HEARING): five new Trump trademarks after tariffs were lowered. Days before the inauguration a UAE-backed vehicle bought 49% of World Liberty for $500M; months later the administration "handed over America's most sensitive AI chips technology to the UAE." Richard Painter (Bush ethics lawyer): most Trump business is in…
- 05 05- Sherman CREW - Don Jr's 620 Million Pentagon Loan, Kushner's
- 📺 Sherman CREW — HFAC HEARING (?)
- Sherman CREW (HFAC HEARING): A company tied to Don Jr. got a $620M Pentagon loan after a senior White House staffer reportedly intervened. Kushner, Special Envoy for Peace, sits in on national-security decisions while his firm holds $2B from the Saudi sovereign fund and solicits more governments — no financial disclosure filed.
- 06 06- Kamlager-Dove - I Object To Removing People For Their T-Shirts
- 📺 Kamlager-Dove — HFAC HEARING (?)
- Kamlager-Dove (HFAC HEARING): "I respectfully register my objection to the removal of a few members of the public who were here exercising their freedom of speech by wearing t-shirts — they certainly were not being disruptive," which Gonzalez himself said he supports.
- 07 07- Sherman CREW - The Trojan Horse Was Famously A Gift - A Malign Gift
- 📺 Sherman CREW — HFAC HEARING (?)
- Sherman CREW (HFAC HEARING): The $400M Qatari 747: "I would think you would want to get something in return for that." Sherman: the committee understands — "the title of this hearing invokes the Trojan horse, which was famously a gift, a malign gift." Two risks: flattery-influence, and a gift intended to undermine American interests.
- 08 08- Sherman CREW - Sorry I Don't Have A Plane To Give You - National
- 📺 Sherman CREW — HFAC HEARING (?)
- Sherman CREW (HFAC HEARING): Best example: the South African president in the Oval Office joking "I'm sorry I don't have a plane to give you" — the message to allies, adversaries and the public that the president "can be leveraged by flattery, by gifts, by payments to his business." Kamlager-Dove: 59 businesses since taking office
- 07 trojan horses - cair
- 01 01- Gonzalez - The Red-Green Alliance - The Issue Is Never The Issue
- 📺 ⭐ Gonzalez — HFAC HEARING (?)
- ⭐ Gonzalez (HFAC HEARING): Foreign influence groups sort into two buckets, Islamist and Marxist, which form tactical coalitions — the "Red-Green Alliance" — against a common enemy, "the capitalist Christian West." In the 1960s the Marxist left swapped the industrial worker for identity groups.
- 02 02- Self - Dozens Of Videos Preaching Sedition - Dar Al-Islam, Dar Al-Harb
- 📺 Self — HFAC HEARING (?)
- Self (HFAC HEARING): Thanks Gonzalez for the "green" half nobody discusses — "one of the existential threats to our constitutional republic"; he has "dozens of videos" of open preaching of sedition.
- 03 03- Gonzalez - CAIR Founders - Islam Is Not Here To Be Equal But To Become
- 📺 Gonzalez — HFAC HEARING (?)
- Gonzalez (HFAC HEARING): CAIR co-founder Omar Ahmad told a newspaper years ago "Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith but to become dominant"; Ibrahim Hooper: "I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future." "I'm addressing CAIR here,…
- 04 04- Gonzalez - Half Of French Muslims Want Sharia - Canon Law Is Not Sharia
- 📺 Gonzalez — HFAC HEARING (?)
- Gonzalez (HFAC HEARING): What exactly is Sharia, who wants to impose it? A poll: close to 50% of Muslims in France believe Sharia should be imposed where they live; Germany close; Europe "far more advanced" than here.
- 05 05- Fine - Designate CAIR A Terrorist Organization - The Holy Land Foundation
- 📺 Fine — HFAC HEARING (?)
- Fine (HFAC HEARING): "It's called the Muslim Brotherhood — not the radical Muslim Brotherhood, not the Islamist Brotherhood." His bill designates CAIR a terrorist organization; Florida did it in 2024, Texas followed. The Holy Land Foundation case — millions to Hamas, CAIR an unindicted co-conspirator, HLF later designated by Trump.
- 06 06- Gonzalez - Welcome To The Club - Hamas Is The Palestinian Branch
- 📺 Gonzalez — HFAC HEARING (?)
- Gonzalez (HFAC HEARING): AMP's founders had ties to HLF and its media arm, the Islamic Association for Palestine. CAIR "has become very adept at presenting itself as a benign part of the establishment";
- 07 07- Fine - Why Don't They Call Themselves American Islamists For Palestine
- 📺 Fine — HFAC HEARING (?)
- Fine (HFAC HEARING): Why doesn't AMP call itself "American Islamists for Palestine," why isn't CAIR the "Council on American Islamists"? Gonzalez: "Islamist" emerged because we're comfortable with it — it's political Islam; "I'm a big believer in freedom of religion, it's hard to indict an entire religion." Fine yields.
- 04 🛰️ WEAPONS IN ORBIT
- Air Force Secretary Troy Meink's admission that the US has weapons in orbit. Steve's BBC three-parter with Bernd Debusmann (no details, defensive, not even kinetic, 'the age of Star Wars'), then our AFA keynote and NewsNation/Aviation Week cuts — jammers or lasers, Iran used Chinese imagery, the Golden Dome.
- 📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
- 00 steve - debusmann on meink
- 01 Debusmann - Meink Reveals Weapons In Space - No Details, A Warning To Russia And China
- Debusmann (BBC): BBC anchor: "the Trump administration has revealed that the United States military does have weapons in space. The admission came from the Air Force Secretary, Troy Meink… A treaty from 1967 banned weapons of mass destruction in space." BBC Washington correspondent Bernd Debusmann: "absolutely no details on the weapons,…
- 02 Debusmann - Not Fired Toward Earth, Not Even Kinetic - Golden Dome Is Separate
- Debusmann (BBC): "no hint that we're talking about weapons that could be fired towards the earth?" — "no suggestion of that… he very much framed this as something that would safeguard U.S.
- 03 Debusmann - The Age Of Star Wars - Reagan's Program, The First Public Acknowledgement
- Anchor (BBC): "It does sound almost sci-fi. We have reached the age of Star Wars." Debusmann: "it's not a novel idea. The U.S. government has for many decades been eyeing space as a potential military frontier, as far back as the Reagan administration… a very expensive program called Star Wars… this is very much the first time, or…
- 01 meink and the golden dome
- 01 01- Meink - The United States Now Has On-Orbit Space Control Weapons
- 📺 Meink — AFA KEYNOTE (?)
- Meink (AFA KEYNOTE): In his own voice: "This is why the United States now has on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the joint force against hostile adversary action. Today, Guardians operate on-orbit weapons that can defend the joint force against space-enabled attacks." Then the ask
- 02 02- First Time Ever - Jammers Or Lasers In Orbit And Iran Used Chinese Imagery
- 📺 First Time Ever — NEWSNATION (?)
- First Time Ever (NEWSNATION): "This is the first time ever that the U.S. has publicly acknowledged" space-control weapons in orbit; China urges the US "to stop trying to create a war in space," Russia says space "must be free of any weapons"; Meink says both were already building their own.
- 03 03- Golden Dome - Flight-Ready Interceptors, 24 Billion Allocated, 174 Billion Needed
- 📺 Golden Dome — NEWSNATION (?)
- Golden Dome (NEWSNATION): Where does Golden Dome fit? Meink says there is "flight-ready hardware for space-based interceptors"; the plan is to be running by 2028. Frank Rose: put interceptors in orbit and "the Russians and the Chinese could expand their own arsenals… to overwhelm the system." Congress has allocated $24.4 billion;
- 05 🇨🇦 CANADA - THE EU ASSOCIATE MEMBER
- Ursula von der Leyen offered Canada 'first associate member' of the EU on Wednesday with Carney in the chamber; Carney answered Thursday morning. Steve's BBC four-parter and CBC's Evan Dyer (Carney had said 'not membership'; Poilievre; the incoming ambassador 'we're not there'), our France 24 cut of the offer, and Carney's own speech — weaponized trade and tech platforms that 'aspire to sovereignty', 'ally by function', 'dominance is the arrogance of the hegemon', and 'I'm not proposing a third bloc… a great power rival, only with better manners'.
- 📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
- 00 steve - bbc and cbc
- 01 Von Der Leyen - The First Associate Member - Canada's Trade War With The US
- BBC (BBC): "what could be the start of a new global alliance, one between Canada and the European Union." Ursula von der Leyen in Strasbourg, Wed 16 Sep, Carney in the audience: "we must urgently reimagine our partnerships.
- 02 BBC - Carney Is A Kindred Spirit - Associate Membership Is Not In The Treaties
- BBC (BBC): BBC Europe correspondent (not named on tape): "many Europeans, particularly Ursula von der Leyen, really feel that Mark Carney in particular is a kindred spirit… dealing with the same sort of threats, from China but notably from an unpredictable Donald Trump… what's being put forward today is something completely novel,…
- 03 BBC - It Would Take Years - Merz Floated It For Ukraine, The Balkans Are In The Queue
- BBC (BBC): "Is this symbolic? What would it take? Is it fait accompli?" — "it would take years, that's for sure… associate membership… was raised a few months back by Chancellor Merz of Germany… maybe the Ukrainians could be brought on board, not with all the benefits of EU membership but some of them… there's a long queue of other…
- 04 BBC - A Knee-Jerk Response To Trump - Middle Powers Should Club Together
- BBC (BBC): "a bit of a knee-jerk reaction to the EU and Canada's strained ties with the US?" — "Earlier in the year, Mark Carney was saying that middle powers should club together in the face of aggression and muscular activity by the much bigger superpowers, the United States… whether the Canadian people want this, whether the people of…
- 05 Dyer - Von Der Leyen Offers Associate Membership, Carney Had Said Not Membership
- Dyer (CBC): CBC The National, Wed 16 Sep: "It is a first for the European Union and Canada too… So far, it's only a title, and few, including the Prime Minister, can explain what it means.
- 06 Dyer - Poilievre, The Ambassador, And Von Der Leyen's Openly Hostile World
- Dyer (CBC): "Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said on social media that the PM can't seem to get his story straight… Some European diplomats also expressed confusion." Carney's incoming EU ambassador Jonathan Wilkinson: "You've heard Prime Minister Carney talk about it as an alliance of the future… You heard her also mention the idea…
- 01 von der leyen's offer
- 01 01- Von Der Leyen Invites Canada To Be The EU's First Associate Member
- Clip (FRANCE 24): Von der Leyen: "We want to bring the relationship with Canada to the highest level possible. So I would like to work with you on opening the door for Canada to being the first associate member of the European Union." The legal hurdles
- 02 carney in strasbourg
- 01 01- Carney - Trade Is Weaponized, Tech Platforms Aspire To Sovereignty - A Forest Will Not Come Down
- Carney (CBC NEWS): "Today, our societies are being battered by new storms" — climate, eroding democratic norms, "the weaponization of trade," weakened multilateral bodies. "Economic integration is now being weaponized, tariffs being used to exert pressure, financial mechanisms have been used for coercion." Then the tech platforms: "Tech…
- 02 02- Carney - Sovereignty Now Means AI, Chips And Minerals - Dominance Is The Arrogance Of The Hegemon
- Carney (CBC NEWS): "Sovereignty… now requires secure access to AI, semiconductors, critical minerals, payment systems, clean energy technologies, vaccines, space-based communications"
- 03 03- Carney - Canada Welcomes The First Associate Member Ambition - Here Is What Canada Proposes
- Carney (CBC NEWS): The existing ecosystem (CETA, the strategic partnership, SAFE) "is not yet equal to the ferocity of the changing climate… nor is it moving fast enough." "Yesterday, President von der Leyen spoke of moving beyond CETA to an alliance for the future, opening the door to Canada to become the European Union's first…
- 04 04- Carney - I Am Not Proposing A Third Bloc, A Great Power Rival With Better Manners
- Carney (CBC NEWS): "I'm not proposing a third bloc in order to become a great power rival, only with better manners. We do not seek power to dominate others. On the contrary, we are pursuing resilience so no one, no one can control our open markets, impair our sovereignty, threaten our territorial integrity, or undermine our freedoms,…
- 05 05- CNBC Europe - A Big Moment For Europe - Not Against The US, But Less Dependent On The US
- CNBC Europe (CNBC): CNBC Europe desk after von der Leyen's line Wednesday: "I feel like we just witnessed a big moment for Europe… Not a trade agreement, but an alliance for the future… do you think we just saw history in the making?" The guest, addressed as Holger (Berenberg chief economist Holger Schmieding is CNBC Europe's regular…
- 06 💵 THE FED HIKES - WARSH VS TRUMP
- The Fed hikes a quarter point to 3.9%, the first rise since 2023. Steve's CBC compact; then Warsh's presser ('the plain fact is that inflation is too high') against Trump in Gastonia ('interest rates should be one percent', 'why should we carry Canada') and 'I told Kevin you might as well vote with the board'.
- 00 steve - warsh
- 01 Warsh - The Fed Hikes To 3.9 Percent, First Since 2023 - Inflation Too High For Too Long
- Warsh (CBC): CBC read + SOT: "The U.S. Federal Reserve is raising its benchmark interest rate by one quarter of one percent to 3.9 percent. It's the first time the rate has gone up since 2023." Fed Chair Kevin Warsh: "The plain fact is that inflation is too high and has been for too long.
- 01 warsh vs trump
- 01 01- Trump - I Told Kevin You Might As Well Vote With The Board
- Trump (NBC NEWS): Trump on the tarmac: Warsh has "a very tough board… put there by a lot of other people. And the interest rates are too high… I talked to Kevin and I said, you might as well vote with the board because it's not going to matter. The board is very hostile.
- 02 02- Trump In Gastonia - Interest Rates Should Be One Percent, Deficit
- 📺 Trump In Gastonia — NBC NEWS LIVE (?)
- Trump In Gastonia (NBC NEWS LIVE): "Less than two years ago our country was dead… The only problem we have is that interest rates are artificially high. Interest rates in the United States should be 1% or less because we are the best credit in the world… if we stop trading with every country that we have a deficit with… we'd make at…
- 03 03- Trump In Gastonia - Why Should We Carry Canada, 162,000 Jobs
- 📺 Trump In Gastonia — NBC NEWS LIVE (?)
- Trump In Gastonia (NBC NEWS LIVE): "Why should we carry Canada? Why should we carry Mexico?… the European nations, with a $200 billion deficit, all we have to do is say… we're not trading with you anymore. We have cars. We have lumber.
- 04 04- Warsh - The Plain Fact Is That Inflation Is Too High
- 📺 Warsh — FED PRESS CONFERENCE (?)
- Warsh (FED PRESS CONFERENCE): "For more than five years, inflation has been running above target. So our predominant focus is on the price stability side of our mandate. The plain fact is that inflation is too high and has been for too long.
- 05 05- Warsh - Today The FOMC Decided That Standard Has Not Been
- 📺 Warsh — FED PRESS CONFERENCE (?)
- Warsh (FED PRESS CONFERENCE): "Since my first FOMC meeting as chairman in June, my colleagues and I have been unequivocal in our commitment to price stability… At our July meeting, we all agreed that inflation remained too high… I expressed my commitment to a monetary policy discipline, not to a decision… We must be confident that…
- 06 06- Warsh - What Is Your Message To President Trump - I've
- 📺 Reporter — FED PRESS CONFERENCE (?)
- Reporter (FED PRESS CONFERENCE): what will this do for consumers, and "what is your message here to President Trump, who has repeatedly called to cut interest rates, not raise them?" Warsh: "I've got nothing for you on a discussion with the president, but I won't make that count as your question.
- 07 07- Warsh - I'm Not A Wall Street Newsletter, We Stay
- 📺 Warsh — FED PRESS CONFERENCE (?)
- Warsh (FED PRESS CONFERENCE): Halaschak (Washington Examiner): the president threatened to cut off trade unless rates were lowered — is this a test of the Fed's independence, when did you last speak to him? Warsh: "You gave me a long menu from which to choose. They're all very tempting.
- 07 🎭 THE KENNEDY CENTER CLOSES
- Trump says the Kennedy Center stays closed unless his name goes back on it; the doors shut, the nieces answer, Kerry Kennedy on CNN, Congresswoman Beatty 'he threw a tantrum'.
- 00 the kennedy center closes
- 01 01- The Kennedy Center Closes - Trump Says No Renovation Without His Name
- 📺 The Kennedy Center Closes — ABC News (MSM)
- The Kennedy Center Closes (ABC NEWS): "The Kennedy Center doors are closed. The Trump-controlled board of trustees voted to shut it down after a federal judge refused to allow President Trump to put his name on the building without Congress's approval." Trump's post: closing "immediately", and "the reconstruction and the renovation of…
- 02 02- Beatty - He Threw A Tantrum, And The Kennedy Nieces Answer
- 📺 Beatty — ABC News (MSM)
- Beatty (ABC NEWS): Beatty says Trump called into the meeting before the vote: "He threw a tantrum because he lost in court… He was very explicit with his words, and I responded equally as explicit." The judge's ruling quoted. Kerry Kennedy: "President Trump, please focus on what's important.
- 03 03- Beatty - Like An Immature Child, He Said He Would Hold Me Personally Responsible
- CNN (CNN): a source called the call "effing crazy" — is that how you'd describe it? Beatty: "I probably wouldn't use that language, but I understand… He threw a tantrum. It was like an immature child. I wouldn't even want to put this on a child… shouting, calling names… it's Beatty v.
- 04 04- Kerry Kennedy - A Bankruptcy Because He Adds His Name To It - Focus On Your Job
- 📺 Kerry Kennedy — CNN (MSM)
- Kerry Kennedy (CNN): "This is a tragedy… They see the corruption of this. There's not a financial issue here. President Trump has said they have $250 million ready to hand over tomorrow.
- 08 🗳️ PATEL, THE BALLOTS AND BESTIALITY
- Patel's week: Kennedy asks why the FBI dropped bestiality from the polygraph bar (five cuts of the exchange, and Steve's CNN explainer — 'maybe one or two' people affected), the wider Patel hearing, and the mail-in ruling with Fulton County — Patel will not say whether Trump won 2020.
- 00 steve - cnn on the polygraph
- 01 CNN - Patel Dropped The Bestiality Bar On The FBI Polygraph - Maybe One Or Two People
- CNN (CNN SITUATION ROOM): CNN Situation Room analyst (not named on the tape): "this detour that came unexpected, which is the issue of bestiality… Senator John Kennedy was asking about some changes in the FBI polygraph… administered to people who are applying to enter the FBI.
- 01 kennedy and patel - bestiality
- 01 01- Kennedy And Patel - You Recently Changed The Qualifications
- 📺 KENNEDY AND PATEL - BESTIALITY (?)
- Kennedy And Patel (KENNEDY AND PATEL - BESTIALITY): "You recently changed them, is that right?" "Some of them." Patel: the 100-day wait "because of bureaucratic waste" sent applicants to other agencies.
- 02 02- Kennedy And Patel - Prostitution, Bestiality, Traffickers
- 📺 KENNEDY AND PATEL - BESTIALITY (?)
- Kennedy And Patel (KENNEDY AND PATEL - BESTIALITY): "I'm trying to understand this cash… What were the things you changed?" Patel: victims of "these vicious crimes" are now considered.
- 03 03- Kennedy And Patel - Why Would You Even Get Into Bestiality
- 📺 KENNEDY AND PATEL - BESTIALITY (?)
- Kennedy And Patel (KENNEDY AND PATEL - BESTIALITY): "This is not directed at you, Mr. Director… All this stuff has really hurt the FBI." With the bureau struggling to attract agents people trust, "why would you even get into bestiality?" Patel: "We are not into bestiality." Kennedy: "If Joe participated in bestiality, not as the animal,…
- 04 04- Kennedy And Patel - What Planet Did You Parachute
- 📺 KENNEDY AND PATEL - BESTIALITY (?)
- Patel (KENNEDY AND PATEL - BESTIALITY): traffickers "don't just traffic you for prostitution, they traffic you for degrading acts of all kind"; some victims later became police officers and applied to the FBI.
- 05 05- Kennedy And Patel - Get Rid Of The Special Purpose Employee
- 📺 KENNEDY AND PATEL - BESTIALITY (?)
- Kennedy And Patel (KENNEDY AND PATEL - BESTIALITY): "Don't you think we ought to get rid of this concept of special purpose employee — at the FBI? Everywhere." Patel: "I can't speak for the rest of the government." Kennedy defines it: "somebody who is not a full-time federal employee… but they're not subject to the conflicts of interest…
- 02 the patel hearing
- 01 01- Booker - Not Even A Good Lackey, An Incompetent Lackey Doing Keg Stands
- 📺 Booker — SENATE JUDICIARY (?)
- Booker (SENATE JUDICIARY): "We don't have an FBI director. We have a lackey here… and frankly, he's not even a good lackey. He's an incompetent lackey. He's like an 18-year-old kid who wants to join a fraternity that he could never be a member of, doing keg stands and chugging with friends.
- 02 02- Patel - This Guy Called Me A Thug, He Just Got His 22nd Ad Campaign
- 📺 Grassley — SENATE JUDICIARY (?)
- Grassley (SENATE JUDICIARY): "you go ahead and say what you wanted to say." Patel: "This guy called me a thug. It's kind of ironic. He's running for president of the United States. He just got his 22nd ad campaign." Booker: "I'm going to hold this man accountable for as long as he is in his job until he gets fired, which he probably will…
- 03 03- Blumenthal - You Fired The Iran Counterintelligence Unit Days Before The War
- 📺 Blumenthal — SENATE JUDICIARY (?)
- Blumenthal (SENATE JUDICIARY): "Just days before the United States launched its military operation in Iran, you fired a dozen agents and staff members from a counterintelligence unit called CI-12, which was specifically tasked with monitoring threats with Iran.
- 04 04- Blumenthal - They Worked On The Classified Documents Case - If You Weaponize
- 📺 Blumenthal — SENATE JUDICIARY (?)
- Blumenthal (SENATE JUDICIARY): "The reports were that they were fired because they worked on the classified documents investigation involving President Trump. Do you think firing the president's political opponents is more important than retaining the decades of experience and expertise monitoring intelligence threats from Iran?" Patel:…
- 05 05- Whitehouse - The 37 Undisclosed Pages And The Woman Who Told The FBI
- 📺 Whitehouse — SENATE JUDICIARY (?)
- Whitehouse (SENATE JUDICIARY): "Let's try the remaining pages of the FBI documents that have not yet been provided pursuant to the Epstein disclosure law… A woman testified to FBI agents that she had been both sexually and physically assaulted by Donald Trump around the ages of 14 to 15.
- 06 06- Whitehouse - What Are Those 37 Pages, Patel - I Don't Know What You're
- 📺 Whitehouse — SENATE JUDICIARY (?)
- Whitehouse (SENATE JUDICIARY): "We still have 37 undisclosed pages that seemed to be the contemporaneous FBI notes that would have formed the basis for the 302 summaries. Am I accurate?" Patel: "We have complied with the statute and the court orders and produced three and a half million pages of documents for the first time ever… if…
- 03 mail-in ruling and fulton county
- 01 01- Blanche - The Fulton County Ballot Seizure Was A Judge
- 📺 Reporter — WHITE HOUSE BRIEFING (?)
- Reporter (WHITE HOUSE BRIEFING): the FBI raided Fulton County in January alleging 2020 impropriety — has DOJ found any evidence, why is it taking so long, where is the evidence? Blanche: "it wasn't the FBI conducted a raid.
- 02 02- Blanche - The Evidence For Mail-In Fraud Is Common Sense
- 📺 Blanche — WHITE HOUSE BRIEFING (?)
- Blanche (WHITE HOUSE BRIEFING): What evidence does DOJ have that the new mail-ballot rules prevent fraud? "Well, there's a lot of evidence… By definition, if you're using mail-in voting, the potential for fraud is greater than in-person voting with ID." What is the evidence for that? "It's common sense… every auditor in every single…
- 03 03- Patel Will Not Say Whether Trump Won 2020 - Many Ongoing
- 📺 Clip — SENATE JUDICIARY (?)
- Clip (SENATE JUDICIARY): The senator reads Trump in Ireland — "it was totally rigged because I won three times" — "Do you agree with that?" Patel: "There are many ongoing investigations surrounding that matter, so I'm not going to comment." "So if there's ongoing investigations… that indicates you do believe 2020 was rigged." "For me as…
- 04 04- Patel - 260 Intelligence Officials On Georgia, Not A Single
- 📺 Patel — SENATE JUDICIARY (?)
- Patel (SENATE JUDICIARY): "Your FBI has brought in 260 intelligence officials to investigate the election results in Georgia in 2020… Is that number accurate?" Patel: "public reporting is often wrong… a state court judge… found a sufficiency of probable cause." "Has there been a single indictment?" "That matter is ongoing." "The question…
- 09 ⚔️ THE IRAN WAR BILL, THE HOUTHIS AND HOCHSTEIN
- The Iran war bill ($38 billion; McMaster 'worth it', sixty aircraft lost, two-thirds of the cost is munitions), the Houthis take Mokha, Mayyun and the Hanish islands — 'the Saudis alone': Ratney on the frustrated partner, the 745-mile pipeline down for weeks, and the new Mecca-pact test (Pakistan 'bound by the pact', a drone toward Mecca, CNA: Washington won't intervene before the midterms). Hochstein, and the hacked supertanker.
- 00 the iran war bill
- 01 01- McMaster - Thirty-Eight Billion, Worth It - Lowest Defense Share Of GDP Since
- 📺 Garrett — CBS News (MSM)
- Garrett (CBS NEWS): "$38 billion. Worth it?" McMaster: "Yeah, absolutely… it's what our troops need to prosecute the war… a bow wave of deferred modernization… the lowest percent of GDP invested in defense this year than any time since the 1930s… we've doubled down on a model that's no longer as relevant… fewer and fewer more exquisite…
- 02 02- McMaster - Sixty Aircraft Lost, Strategic Inventory Shortfalls
- 📺 McMaster — CBS News (MSM)
- McMaster (CBS NEWS): The IG report: two-thirds of the cost is munitions, 60 aircraft lost at $3.7 billion, "strategic inventory shortfalls" from industrial bottlenecks — how long to bounce back? McMaster: "the Department of War… changes to procurement… these defense companies… are not charitable organizations… they need multi-year…
- 03 03- Standing There With Our Eyes Closed Getting Punched In The Face - The Base Damage
- 📺 Kaplan — CBS News (MSM)
- Kaplan (CBS NEWS): "They show war." A service member: "We're standing there with our eyes closed and getting punched in the face." A direct hit on the back half of an E-3 Sentry at Prince Sultan Air Base; levelled trailers and a burnt-out truck at Camp Buehring, Kuwait.
- 04 04- Kroenig - Iran Is Getting Help From Russia And China In Their Targeting
- 📺 Kroenig — CBS News (MSM)
- Kroenig (CBS NEWS): "Two takeaways… this shows that Iran is getting help from Russia and China in their targeting. In the early stages of the war, the United States… essentially rendered Iran deaf, dumb, and blind. And so how are they getting these direct hits on U.S.
- 05 05- Kroenig - Two-Thirds Of The Cost Is Munitions - You Don't Want To Tell Them We're
- 📺 Garrett — CBS News (MSM)
- Garrett (CBS NEWS): the IG says there are not enough interceptors and not enough offensive munitions; "the administration keeps denying it." Kroenig: "after the end of the Cold War, we went to a kind of just-in-time production. You need a missile. Let's build a missile… I do understand why the administration is denying it's a problem.
- 06 06- Seven House Republicans Vote To End The War - Miller-Meeks, Two To Three Billion
- Clip (NBC NEWS): "Seven House Republicans breaking with President Trump, voting for a largely symbolic resolution directing the president to end the war," including Miller-Meeks: "I served 24 years in the army. I will not vote to keep our soldiers in an open-ended war.
- 01 the houthis take the strait
- 01 01- Houthis Take The Islands, Trump Says They Called Us
- 📺 Clip — PBS NewsHour (MSM)
- Clip (PBS NEWSHOUR): Houthi projectiles hit Khamis Mushait air base and a mosque in Jizan; "Riyadh has turned to the U.S. for help, but so far, President Trump has not answered a call for American airstrikes." Trump: "The Houthis called us and they don't want to fight with us… They don't want me to go after them… they're letting most…
- 02 02- The 745-Mile Pipeline Is Down For Weeks - Yemeni Forces Regroup
- 📺 Clip — PBS NewsHour (MSM)
- Clip (PBS NEWSHOUR): "It matters even more now with Iran and the U.S. still battling over the Strait of Hormuz." A Yemeni government commander: "a deeply painful event… the forces that withdrew… are currently regrouping, God willing." The pipeline "struck last week in an attack Riyadh blamed on Iran-backed militias in Iraq.
- 03 03- Ratney - The Saudis Are Extraordinarily Frustrated With Their Partner
- 📺 Ratney — PBS NewsHour (MSM)
- Ratney (PBS NEWSHOUR): "At a minimum, they're extraordinarily frustrated… the Saudis have pursued a military partnership with the United States for decades… at a time of crisis, when you're being attacked, you want support from your partner… The Saudis went so far as to pursue a mutual defense treaty with the United States and the…
- 04 04- Ratney - Our Munitions Are Diminished, The Navy Is Stretched
- 📺 Ratney — PBS NewsHour (MSM)
- Ratney (PBS NEWSHOUR): Is the US staying out because it's overextended in Iran? "That's part of it… He seemed to want to get out of it almost since it first started. Clearly, one of the problems is that the supply of our most sophisticated munitions is being diminished. Our Navy is being stretched thin.
- 05 05- A Former Pentagon Official - The Houthis Have Put Themselves In A Kill Box
- Fox (FOX NEWS): the Houthis seized an island near the Bab al-Mandeb, "a key shipping alternative to the Strait of Hormuz." A former Pentagon official: "That's a little rock in the middle of that strait. It's a volcanic rock. It doesn't have any water. It's uninhabitable… And the Houthis have just massed their troops on that rock.
- 06 06- Harrigan - Twelve Percent Of The World's Oil, And Vance Says We Are On Top
- 📺 Harrigan — Fox News (MSM)
- Harrigan (FOX NEWS): the Houthis attack Saudi Arabia "almost on a daily basis… a major second front in this war… about 12 percent of the world's oil supply moving through that strait… the Saudi pipeline… hit by drone attacks out of Iraq." Vance: "We've been in constant contact with the Emiratis, the Saudis… We've also been engaged in…
- 07 07- Pakistan Warns - An Attack On Anyone Is An Attack On All - Mechanisms Being Worked Out
- 📺 Pakistan Warns — AL JAZEERA (?)
- Pakistan Warns (AL JAZEERA): Al Jazeera's Kamal Hyder, Islamabad: "the Pakistani defense minister said that any attack or spillover of this conflict into Saudi soil would prompt a reaction from Pakistan because the agreement that was signed between Turkey, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia stipulates… that an attack on anyone would be construed…
- 08 08- A Houthi Drone Toward Mecca - A Red Line - 450 Saudi Airstrikes In A Week
- CNA anchor (CNA): a Saudi-led coalition warns of 'necessary and deterrent measures' after intercepting a drone it says was heading for Mecca — 'a hostile and terrorist act… the crossing of a red line'; the Houthis call it a propaganda set-up and claim a Saudi F-15 downed over Marib; more than 450 Saudi airstrikes on Yemen in a week; Araghchi in Beijing with Wang Yi.
- 09 09- Goodison - Not Concerned Enough To Help The Saudis - No Shock Before The Midterms
- Goodison (CNA): James Goodison, Washington: "The US, of course, no doubt will be concerned about what's happened on the west side of the Arabian Peninsula… but not concerned enough to help Saudi Arabia directly when the Houthis made this breakthrough… that strait is effectively the twin of the Strait of Hormuz… the damage that Saudi…
- 02 hochstein
- 01 01- Hochstein - The Market Forgot To Do Math, And Trump Offered The Saudis No Support
- 📺 Hochstein — CNBC Squawk Box (MSM)
- Hochstein (CNBC SQUAWK BOX): "I came on your show exactly a month ago on August 13 when oil prices were at $81… the market just forgot to do math. They were listening to headlines out of Washington… saying everything's fine and not counting the barrels… today's oil price at 107 Brent, 103 WTI, is still the wrong price.
- 02 02- Hochstein - You Cannot Buy Oil At 103, Diesel At Six Twenty Is Two-Hundred-Dollar Oil
- 📺 Hochstein — CNBC Squawk Box (MSM)
- Hochstein (CNBC SQUAWK BOX): "When you look at $103, you can't actually buy that outside the United States… the sale of actual physical barrels is somewhere between $120 and $150 right now… This is just paper." Consumers buy products: "Diesel is trading today… about $6.20… that's equivalent… to roughly $200 oil.
- 03 03- Hochstein - The CENTCOM Hormuz Numbers Are Not Bearing Out In Reality
- 📺 Hochstein — CNBC Squawk Box (MSM)
- Hochstein (CNBC SQUAWK BOX): "I know everybody's talking about how much oil is going through Hormuz. And I got to tell you that the numbers that we are seeing in the press from CENTCOM, from the U.S.
- 04 04- Hochstein - Asking Ukraine To Stop Now Is Too Late, Russia's Diesel Exports Went
- 📺 Hochstein — CNBC Squawk Box (MSM)
- Hochstein (CNBC SQUAWK BOX): On Trump telling Ukraine to stop hitting refineries: "The two war fronts really did collide… Asking them to stop doing that now. One, I don't know if they'll listen because we've also haven't given them the kind of munitions that we once used to… two, I think it's a bit late. Those refineries are offline.
- 03 the hacked supertanker
- 01 01- An Iran-Linked Cyberattack Took A Texas-Bound Supertanker's Controls For 30
- Clip (CBS NEWS): "New images of the moment that the Coast Guard and the FBI officials went aboard a commercial oil tanker headed to Texas last month… concerns about the ship's network being compromised, perhaps by foreign actors, while crossing the Atlantic." Sganga: "Iranian state media claimed hackers obtained control over propulsion,…
- 02 02- The FBI Cyber Team Boards The VL Prosperity - A Tanker Turned Into A Weapon
- Clip (CBS NEWS): "Public vessel data shows the Liberian-flagged vessel was a large crude carrier and it was headed to Galveston, Texas… a very specialized team of its FBI Cyber Action Team operators boarded the ship last month on August 21st. The risk here… goes beyond just stolen data or a normal ransomware attack.
- 10 🎖️ TRUMP - THE SPOILS OF WAR
- Trump's spoils: the Gastonia rally and the Ireland raw, Don Jr's oligarch wedding, the pardon brokers, Vance on the PPP fraudsters, DJ Trump and the slap top.
- 00 the spoils of war
- 01 01- Trump - Iran Ends Right After The Midterms, Unless We Decide To Stay
- 📺 Trump — IRELAND GAGGLE (?)
- Trump (IRELAND GAGGLE): "The country is booming. Iran will end right after the mid— maybe before, but it'll end right after the midterms. Gasoline's going to drop like a rock… Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon." If it won't end until after the midterms— "It could end before the midterm.
- 02 02- Trump - Mr. Zelensky Has To Do One Thing, Stop Knocking Out Diesel
- 📺 Trump — IRELAND GAGGLE (?)
- Trump (IRELAND GAGGLE): "Mr. Zelensky has to do one thing. He has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia. Let him go after targets, but not diesel fuel, because he's causing a shortage of diesel fuel. This isn't done by the Middle East. This is done by what's happening with Russia and Ukraine. So we spoke to Mr. Zelensky about it.
- 03 03- Trump In Gastonia - Venezuela In 48 Minutes, To The Victor Belong
- 📺 Trump In Gastonia — NBC NEWS LIVE (?)
- Trump In Gastonia (NBC NEWS LIVE): "They never want to talk, the fake news, about Venezuela. We took out Venezuela in 48 minutes… all our big oil companies going there… We're taking out millions and millions of barrels of oil… When they say, 'To the victor belong the spoils,' that's one of the greatest cases anyone's ever seen in…
- 04 04- Trump In Gastonia - 65 Billion Barrels, We Got It For An Attack
- 📺 Trump In Gastonia — NBC NEWS LIVE (?)
- Trump In Gastonia (NBC NEWS LIVE): "With our new and powerful relationship with Venezuela we just made the largest oil deal in history… we got 65 billion barrels of beautiful, 500 years worth of oil… We got it for what? An attack. We got it for an attack.
- 01 don jr's oligarch wedding
- 01 01- ProPublica - A Putin-Circle Oligarch Paid Six Figures For Don Jr.'s
- 📺 ProPublica — PBS NewsHour (MSM)
- ProPublica (PBS NEWSHOUR): "Umar Kremlev, a Russian businessman and president of the International Boxing Association, paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenses for the president's son's wedding weekend, including the rental of a private island and a fireworks display." Elliott: "we ultimately reviewed records and talked to…
- 02 02- Elliott - A New Friend Who Speaks Limited English, A Five-Alarm
- 📺 Elliott — PBS NewsHour (MSM)
- Elliott (PBS NEWSHOUR): "The thing that really still has not been fully explained is how this Russian oligarch who by their own account met Donald Trump Jr. only a couple of years ago ended up paying hundreds of thousands of dollars… we're told very consistently that he speaks limited English… He's not just a random businessman.
- 03 03- Elliott - In China With Putin Days Before, The Order Of Friendship
- 📺 Elliott — PBS NewsHour (MSM)
- Elliott (PBS NEWSHOUR): "President Trump did not attend this wedding, but Jared Kushner, who is negotiating on behalf of the U.S. government with this Ukraine-Russia conflict, he was there." Kremlev "was actually in China as part of President Putin's official delegation… just a few days before the wedding… several awards from Putin… the…
- 04 04- Trump - Never Heard Of Kremlev, It Was An After Party, Not A Big Deal
- Trump (NBC NEWS): NBC's wrap: Kremlev "linked to a member of Vladimir Putin's inner circle who leads presidential security"; the ProPublica photo with Kremlev in the back row; Chinese state media had him with Putin days earlier.
- 02 the pardon brokers
- 01 01- The Pardon Brokers - Burkman And Wohl, A Million Dollars From A Nursing-Home
- 📺 The Pardon Brokers — CBS News (MSM)
- The Pardon Brokers (CBS NEWS): "A CBS News investigation reveals President Trump has developed his own vetting system. First, he emailed a dozen of these brokers… Some got right away… I kept saying, this feels illegal.
- 02 02- The Pardon Brokers On Hidden Camera - Put The Pen In His Hand, A Postage Stamp
- Clip (CBS NEWS): "We decided to use hidden cameras and sent the Covinos to meet Burkman and Wohl… 'With this particular White House, you have to put pressure on the president from all directions in a consistent way to force his hand.
- 03 vance - the ppp fraudsters
- 01 01- Vance In Kansas City - 870,000 PPP Fraudsters Permanently Cut Off
- 📺 Vance In Kansas City — White House (official)
- Vance In Kansas City (WHITE HOUSE): "Two big things we want to announce… under the leadership of Kelly Loeffler… we are going to suspend 870,000 people permanently, people who defrauded the government… If you think about the PPP program, which was set up by Congress and by the administration during the first Trump administration… we had…
- 04 dj trump and the slap top
- 01 01- DJ Trump - I Pick The Music On Air Force One, Dolly Was The Greatest
- Trump (FOX NEWS): "I just wanted to make sure everyone's okay with the music, right? I want to make you happy. So I'm playing wonderful music, happy music. Dolly Parton was the best. Dolly was the greatest. I love music. I love good music.
- 02 02- Hunter Biden's Laptop Coin Crashes In Thirty Seconds - The Market Maker
- Clip (FOX NEWS): "Hunter Biden is now out with a new $LAPTOP crypto coin. He launched it this week, and it crashed and burned, losing almost all of its value." Hunter, to camera: "This is my token.
- 11 🇺🇦 UKRAINE - THE TRAIN, THE DRONES AND THE ENVOYS
- The Russian drone that hit a stationary Ukrainian locomotive on the Polish border an hour after the YES-conference trains passed (Boris Johnson, Petraeus, four NSAs); Zelensky on drones at his plane and the Baltic shoot-downs; Fareed Zakaria live from Kyiv on the other train and on Witkoff and Kushner — 'Putin said no to flying in and bombed the airport'. The YES conference (Yalta European Strategy, Pinchuk's annual Kyiv gathering) is explained in the Fareed sub-folder notes.
- 00 the train on the polish border
- 01 01- Russian Drone Hits The Train After Boris Johnson's Diplomatic Special Passed
- Clip (BBC): The strike, the video of "black smoke rising from the locomotive and passengers fleeing in panic," Ukrainian Railways' "quite likely" the diplomatic train was targeted, the foreign minister's "knocking directly on the door of the EU and NATO." Landale: the conference, the special train west through Poland, "the very, very…
- 02 02- Four Of Europe's Top Security Advisers, Petraeus At The Station
- Clip (BBC): The train "passed through the border and then an hour later a Russian drone struck a train in the station"; it had left early because of the threat. "This was an extraordinary group of people… four of the most senior security advisers in Europe… at the heart of their country's negotiations on Iran." A pattern: attacks on the…
- 03 03- Tusk's Emergency Meeting And Whether NATO Should Shoot Down Drones
- Clip (BBC): Tusk's emergency meeting; "a debate among some diplomats about whether Europe and NATO should be more punchy in using NATO assets to bring down Russian drones in western Ukraine"
- 01 zelensky and the baltic drones
- 01 01- Zelensky - They Sent A Drone Into Moldovan Airspace At My Plane, Twice
- 📺 Zelensky — CBS News (MSM)
- Zelensky (CBS NEWS): Asked whether the train strike was deliberate: "In Moldova, my presidential jet was there. And that's why they attacked Moldova. They used airspace of Moldova… Maybe they didn't want to attack me personally, but they wanted to scare… Between us, we didn't share it with media… when we back, again, through Kishinev,…
- 02 02- Zelensky - For Putin Energy Is Selling Oil, For Us Energy
- CBS (CBS NEWS): Trump announced an energy ceasefire yesterday, both sides struck overnight — is there one? "Putin doesn't respect, doesn't see and will not even think how to negotiate with the weak people. That's why we respond. We never attack first.
- 03 03- NATO Shoots Down A Drone Over Lithuania For The First Time
- 📺 Clip — PBS NewsHour (MSM)
- Clip (PBS NEWSHOUR): "For the first time in Lithuanian airspace, fighter jets shoot down a potentially armed drone… tracked… for roughly 30 minutes not far from residential areas, before the Italian Air Force destroyed it." Lithuania: not yet clear whether it was diverted or "a deliberate provocation";
- 04 04- A German Airport Plot, Flares At A Danish Helicopter, Kallas
- 📺 Clip — PBS NewsHour (MSM)
- Clip (PBS NEWSHOUR): Previous intercepts over Estonia and Latvia; "officials from several NATO countries accused Russia of sabotage, surveillance, and plans to attack a German airport with a drone carrying explosives." Denmark: a Russian warship fired flares near a Danish military helicopter — "meant to intimidate and divide";
- 05 05- Lute - Right Up To The Border Of Article Five, Playing With Fire
- 📺 Lute — PBS NewsHour (MSM)
- Lute (PBS NEWSHOUR): "Conflict with NATO is largely defined by Article 5… all of these activities, which move right up to the boundary, right up to the border of the definition of armed attack, are really playing with fire.
- 06 06- Five Charged In A Kremlin Murder-For-Hire Plot Against A Dissident
- Clip (NBC NEWS): "Federal prosecutors have indicted Russian intelligence operatives in an alleged murder-for-hire plot against a prominent Russian dissident in Washington, D.C… five people… part of the Kremlin's global assassination network." Winter: unsealing it lets law enforcement "publicly discuss something… quite concerning";
- 02 fareed and the envoys
- 01 01- Putin Halts Kyiv Strikes For Three Days As Witkoff And Kushner Arrive
- Clip (DW NEWS): "Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a three-day halt to strikes on Kyiv as he meets with US envoys… Trump's businessman friend Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner." Kobzová: the last meeting was February; "President Trump's two favorite negotiators… quite busy with the one in Iran";
- 02 02- Kopsova - Since The Iran War Ukraine Has A Huge Lack Of Ballistic Interceptors
- Kopsova (DW NEWS): "Ever since the war in Iran started with the United States, Ukraine has faced a huge lack of ballistic missiles interceptors. Ballistic missiles are the ones… the Russians are continuing to produce… Putin wants to use, especially ahead of this winter, to pummel and destroy most of Ukraine into submission… unless you…
- 03 03- Fareed - I Was On The Other Train, Petraeus And Johnson Were 15 Minutes Ahead
- Fareed (CNN): "A very big international conference held in Kyiv… the YES Conference… four or five national security advisors from Britain, France, Germany, Italy, foreign minister of Poland, former prime minister Boris Johnson, David Petraeus… two trains provided by the conference… I was on one of them and David Petraeus was on another.
- 04 04- Fareed - Trains In The West Were Never Hit, This Could Have Killed A CIA Director
- Fareed (CNN): "Trains in the western half of Ukraine have not tended to be hit… It was also unusual for the Russians who have very good intelligence, and in any case, this conference was publicly known.
- 05 05- Fareed - Putin Said No To Flying In And Bombed The Airport, The Envoys Act
- Fareed (CNN): "Right now, there is no diplomatic agreement that is holding. There is no pause. That 48-hour pause was only because Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff were in Kyiv… I was told this in Ukraine, I haven't confirmed it, Kushner and Witkoff wanted to fly in, and essentially Putin said no.
- 12 🏛 THE HOUSE GOES HOME AND THE BUTLER FILES
- The House goes home without a vote, and the Butler files.
- 00 the house goes home
- 01 01- The House Goes Home Early, Massie's Hegseth Impeachment Is A Publicity Stunt, Leon
- Clip (NBC NEWS): "With fewer than 50 days into the midterms, the House Speaker says his chamber's job is done… He sent him home a little bit early too. Interestingly, coming is… Thomas Massie… tried to force an impeachment vote against… Pete Hegseth, over his handling of the war against Iran." Johnson: "just a coincidence… It's a…
- 02 02- Forty-One To Nothing On Leon Black - 180 Million Dollars To Epstein And One NDA
- Clip (NBC NEWS): "This was a unanimous decision… 41 to nothing in the Oversight Committee. And then again, fully unanimous on the floor… for defying that testimony on September 3rd, but also for not turning over all of the non-disclosure agreements he was a party to with Jeffrey Epstein.
- 03 03- The Clerk Reads Massie's Articles - Impeaching Peter Brian Hegseth For High
- Clip (HOUSE FLOOR): The reading clerk: "Impeaching Peter Brian Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, for High Crimes and Misdemeanors. Resolved that Peter Brian Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, also referred to as Secretary of War by the Administration, is impeached… Articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives… Article 1,…
- 04 04- The Clerk Reads Article One - February 28, No Declaration Of War, And Joe
- Clip (HOUSE FLOOR): "With respect to United States Armed Forces being entered into hostilities in the Islamic Republic of Iran on February 28, 2026, Secretary Hegseth directed and caused United States Armed Forces to be introduced into hostilities… notwithstanding that one, Congress had not declared war… Two, Congress had not enacted any…
- 01 the butler files
- 01 01- The Butler Files - Bullied, A 1500 SAT, A Hundred Yards, No Politics
- 📺 Ainsley — NBC News (MSM)
- Ainsley (NBC NEWS): "a young man who was bullied in high school… didn't have a lot of friends and who was incredibly smart, got a 1500 on the SAT, enjoyed being the smartest person in the room and was very into guns… train himself to be able to shoot from 100 yards away… a range finder, which as we know was found with Crooks that day… he…
- 02 02- The Butler Files - Crooks' Cremation Was Paid For By An Anonymous Donor
- Snow (NBC NEWS): there's new information about how he was cremated. Ainsley: "this came through documents that were provided to Senator Chuck Grassley… the cremation was paid for by an anonymous donor. Raises some questions about why that would be, why that person would want to remain anonymous.
- 13 🐊 ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ, HOMAN AND CUBA
- Alligator Alcatraz and 'the box', Homan, Cuba.
- 00 alligator alcatraz - the box
- 01 01- Alligator Alcatraz - The Box, A Dog Cage The Staff Called A Calming Area
- 📺 Alligator Alcatraz — NBC News (MSM)
- Alligator Alcatraz (NBC NEWS): "New pictures of outdoor cages used to hold immigrant detainees at Alligator Alcatraz in Florida. They call it the box. It's like an animal, like a dog cage." Trump on his tour: "This is an amazing thing that they've done here." The IG: the cages "do not align with standards for humane treatment." Staff…
- 02 02- Alligator Alcatraz - DeSantis Says We'd Make It Even Smaller, The Pastor
- 📺 Alligator Alcatraz — NBC News (MSM)
- Alligator Alcatraz (NBC NEWS): "The report marks the first time a government agency has confirmed the existence of the box." Amnesty called the cages torture. ICE: no contract with Florida.
- 01 homan
- 01 01- Homan - There Is No Plan For ICE At Polling Places, What Do They Have To Hide
- Homan (FOX NEWS): "I have not seen any operational plans or any discussions on any immigration enforcement operation at polling places. This is another fear tactic… They don't want ICE near the polling places. They don't want to vote for voter ID. They don't want observers. What do they got to hide?… we know illegal aliens have voted.
- 02 02- Homan Confirms The Investigation Into Ilhan Omar - No One Is Above The Law
- Clip (FOX NEWS): The DHS Secretary on a podcast: "Something is going to happen. We know that she married her brother to try to bring him to the United States… he now lives in London… If we can prove it… we will deport you." Fox notes Omar's denials.
- 02 cuba
- 01 01- Cuba's Deputy Foreign Minister - They Want To Take Over Cuba, We Would Be Naive Not To Take
- 📺 Cuba's Deputy Foreign Minister — PBS NewsHour (MSM)
- Cuba's Deputy Foreign Minister (PBS NEWSHOUR): Progress would mean the US stops sanctions? "That could be, but in a broader sense, we would have to identify a common goal… Up to now, if you look at the claims of the U.S. publicly, they want to take over Cuba. That is quite an ambitious goal that certainly is unacceptable for Cuba.
- 02 02- Cuba's Deputy Foreign Minister - Collective Punishment Is The Aim Of The Policy
- 📺 Cuba's Deputy Foreign Minister — PBS NewsHour (MSM)
- Cuba's Deputy Foreign Minister (PBS NEWSHOUR): "The policy of the United States is to produce collective punishment, which is an international crime, to try to induce a humanitarian crisis in Cuba… to use the pain of each and every Cuban to try to achieve a political goal." The reports show blackouts and irritation, "but that's only the…
- 14 🧒 THE EU KIDS ACT AND MEASLES
- The EU Kids Act, and measles — Cassidy and the nominee.
- 00 the eu kids act
- 01 01- Von Der Leyen - A Great Capture Of Our Children - The EU Kids Act Bans Social Media
- 📺 Von Der Leyen — France 24 (MSM)
- Von Der Leyen (FRANCE 24): European teenagers spend "between five to seven hours each day on their phones." Von der Leyen: "a great capture of our children… depriving children of their childhood." The bill: under-13 ban, supervised mini-accounts 13–15, safe designs for under-18s, fines of 6% of turnover; "Europe has the power to act.
- 01 measles - cassidy and the nominee
- 01 01- Cassidy - The CDC Is Working On A Definition Of Death By Measles, Four
- Cassidy (CNN): "CDC apparently is working on the definition of death by measles. Someone said we haven't had to work on that for decades because no one has died from measles… That's going to be a terrible legacy for this administration. It deeply concerns me to see politicians giving medical advice which has zero scientific backing.
- 02 02- Cassidy To Saphier - Is The MMR Vaccine Extremely Lethal
- 📺 Cassidy — SENATE HELP (?)
- Cassidy (SENATE HELP): "Would you feel comfortable communicating with clarity?… is the MMR vaccine extremely lethal, as the president said?" Saphier: "Chairman Cassidy, I cannot speak to what the president has said… As a physician, I can tell you that I do not believe the MMR vaccine to be lethal… our greatest tool for combating…
- 15 ✊ SOCIALISM 2026 AND THE RED HERRING
- Steve's Socialism 2026 set — Beatrice Adler-Bolton 'give up the fantasy of being fitter than the fascists, the more dysgenic the better', and the 3:23 super clip ('please be gay, do crimes with me… junkie communism… economic blackout') — answered by Gallego on CNN: 'socialists are the scare tactic of 2026'.
- 00 steve - socialism 2026 and gallego
- 01 Gallego - Socialists Are The Scare Tactic Of 2026, They're Weak
- 📺 Gallego — CNN STATE OF THE UNION (?)
- Gallego (CNN STATE OF THE UNION): Tapper to Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ): the Speaker says the party is under the influence of "Marxists, radical socialists"; Trump went after Michigan candidate Will Lawrence over the nuclear family;
- 02 Adler-Bolton - Give Up The Fantasy Of Being Fitter Than The Fascists, The More Dysgenic The Better
- 📺 Adler-Bolton — SOCIALISM 2026 (?)
- Adler-Bolton (SOCIALISM 2026): Beatrice Adler-Bolton (co-host of the *Death Panel* podcast, co-author of *Health Communism*) at the Socialism 2026 conference: "We have to give up the fantasy of being fitter than the fascists.
- 03 SuperCut - Please Be Gay, Do Crimes With Me - Abolition, Praxis, Junkie Communism, Economic Blackout
- 📺 Super Clip — SOCIALISM 2026 (?)
- Super Clip (SOCIALISM 2026): Steve's montage of Socialism 2026 conference speakers (speakers not named on the tape except one self-described "queer and trans theorist, anarcho-communist, Afro-pessimist, and southern-born-and-bred abolitionist"): "Please be gay, do crimes with me" · "When you abolish the police, you do burn down police…
- 16 🦠 THE FAUCI PLAYBOOK
- Michael Zuber (One Rental at a Time): the Fauci playbook is running again — cut for WGTDT-50, never aired.
- 00 michael zuber
- 01 The Fauci Playbook Is Running Again
- 📺 Michael Zuber — ONE RENTAL AT A TIME (?)
- Michael Zuber (ONE RENTAL AT A TIME): a real-estate channel gets to it before the networks — 'This is the Fauci playbook… step one, scare the public; step two, claim to be the expert that has all the right answers; step three, create some crazy things that shut the economy down… they want to pull up the ladder, they want to kill open source… and then print money.'
- 17 🥂 MEETUP REPORT - RHODE ISLAND
- Lady Butters' meetup report from Rhode Island (29 Aug), as received from the FCI mailbox, with ISO and photos.
- 00 lady butters
- 01 Meetup Report - Rhode Island 8-29 - Lady Butters
- 📺 Lady Butters (Stephanie Batters Whitehead) — PRODUCER MEETUP REPORT (?)
- Lady Butters (Stephanie Batters Whitehead) (PRODUCER MEETUP REPORT): at-home meetup, Rhode Island, Saturday 29 August 2026 — new and old friends from three states, BBQ ribs and stuffies (stuffed quahogs), Tip-of-the-Day props (silver Sharpies, a Scrub Daddy, John's wine recommendations), four bald eagles circling the house before the guests arrived; 2:27 as received, runs hot (−15.3 LUFS, peak +2.1 dBFS).
