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This happened about 30 minutes ago, an hour south of us. So Trump came in last night, and this morning he met with President Xi at the Great Hall of the People. And let's just have a quick look. This is him getting out of his limousine. This was brought in from the United States by a military transport. He brought his entire cabinet, including Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, as well as Peter Hegsev, who is the Secretary of War. The last time an American president visited was nine years ago, November 2017. So this is a very historical meeting. And as you may remember, after Trump visited Beijing, Beijing, they started the trade war. And we've been in a trade war ever since. I think that this meeting is very optimistic for U.S.-China relations. A lot has to do with who came with Trump. 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An entire framework around these shadows. Okay? And this is what we call reality. Alright? So the main message here is that true wealth is our attention. Okay? Our consciousness is what's true wealth. In fact, our consciousness is what's real. Everything else is just an illusion. Everything else is just a shadow. Your body is a shadow. Okay? The person in front of you is a shadow. This blackboard is a shadow. What's real is the thing inside your head. Your consciousness is what's real. Now what power is is the capacity to direct and control this attention. Okay? How I exert power over you is by making you think the way I want you to think. By making you see what I want you to see. Okay? So I can make you see these shadows and make you think it's real and that's what true power is. 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They're able to direct our attention. Okay? And the mechanism they do this with is of course with capital. Okay? Or US dollars. And then from and then the game creates something called the global economy of course, right? The global economy. But in order for this game to work it has to the game masters have to discuss the fact that they're really in charge. So they create institutions that pretend to be objective international and impartial and fair but are in fact controlled by the game masters. These are included of course the UN the WTO the EU the World Bank okay? Lots and lots of these organizations. And then in order to justify and legitimize this system in order to make you think these shadows are real they media education and culture brainwash you indoctrinate you into being this system is real when it's all just a hallucination. 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Okay? So this is an enforcement mechanism to force you to believe that this system is real. Okay? Media education and culture brainwashes you to believe this system is real and then you yourself want to enforce this system on others through customs and Okay? Now this is a very fragile system because it's all just a hallucination. So there are enforcement mechanisms okay that make sure this system is stable and these enforcement mechanisms are crime intelligence spies basically spy networks um and science. Okay? And they these three mechanisms are controlled by the true powers of this world and they include transnational capital basically private capital secret societies and elite families and what binds them together they're basically software the operating system is what we call the occult. Okay? 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"text": "can separate southeast asia into two parts south korea japan on one part the philippines southeast asia singapore another part okay do you guys see this map you can now divide southeast asia into two this is important why because guess what japan south korea gets most of their energy through the shirt of malacca you basically block off South Korea and Japan from a lot of the global economy. 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This happened about 30 minutes ago, an hour south of us. So Trump came in last night, and this morning he met with President Xi at the Great Hall of the People. And let's just have a quick look. Th..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0002", "segment_id": "seg-0002", "start": 94.328, "end": 175.22, "time_label": "1:34", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "And what Chinese are focusing on is who came with Trump. So many of his family members came with Trump, including his son. Eric, his daughter -in -law, Lara. And they were excited about coming to China. Team China, guys..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0003", "segment_id": "seg-0003", "start": 175.98, "end": 241.98, "time_label": "2:55", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "That's a lot of money. And these are very busy people. And quite honestly, I've worked in business negotiations. You do not bring these people together. 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Manus is an AI company that Mark Zuckerberg tried to buy. And Manus was incubated in China. And if you're an AI company, and you become very successful, you..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0005", "segment_id": "seg-0005", "start": 312.213, "end": 387.21, "time_label": "5:12", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "And in response, China said, no, you cannot impose sanctions on us. If you impose sanctions on us, and if people comply with these sanctions, then we, the Chinese government, will sanction these people as well. And this..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-bil5vjn6ohi@transcript:v1#seg-0006", "segment_id": "seg-0006", "start": 387.85, "end": 453.86, "time_label": "6:27", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Right now, Iran is blocking the ship of Hormuz, and China depends on 50 % to 60 % of its energy needs from the Middle East, okay? Jie Junhuang was not on the China list, okay? 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