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You collapse the system when collapse pays better than patience. John Paulson becomes the bettor against housing; JPMorgan becomes the consolidator buying wounded banks; large owners buy homes cheap after individuals lose them. Millions of lives are destroyed, but a few powerful institutions become richer. The crisis is not the system failing to work. It is the system working for the people positioned to profit from failure.", "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0030", "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0032", "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0033" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0030", "segment_id": "seg-0030", "start": 1971.95, "end": 2041.84, "time_label": "32:51", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "And these became very risky loans. Okay? And this led, of course, to 2008 when the entire thing collapsed. Okay? All right. 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That doesn't make sense guys all right? The other thing you have to understand is that for this to happen though transnational capital needs to first collapse the American economy and there are different ways they can do that right? They can collapse the private credit bubble, they can collapse the AI bubble, they can collapse both at the same time. And why would they want to do that? Because as a banker, as a transnational capital, you make your money through activity, right? When people go and do stuff, whether it's entrepreneurship or starting wars, but they have to go do stuff. 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Yeah, all right. So there's so many things. There's so many, we'll discuss later on, okay? But let me just show you how the shift happens. All right, so right now you're in America, and the best place for you to shift is Israel. Okay, why? Because you're interested in activity, okay? You're interested in putting your money in a place where it's gonna grow, right? And why is Israel growing? Well, because of the Greater Israel Project. You want to conquer the Middle East, but then it has to rebuild, right, after, that, the, this, after the war, rebuilding. And then, what it's gonna do is become the hub of global trade, right? Because Israel controls Africa. And this is something we'll discuss next class, okay? So this is why you wanna invest in Israel, for these three reasons. Why? Because you're gonna keep on fighting wars to achieve the greater Israel project. 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But this is not a deliberate strategy, all right? Because if you think about it, economic collapse will destroy a lot of wealth in America. It will probably cre..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0053", "segment_id": "seg-0053", "start": 3313.61, "end": 3321.96, "time_label": "55:13", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "They have to get rid of it, but it's gonna be a very painful process. That's gonna take a long time, years, possibly decades, okay? 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Because if you think about it, economic collapse will destroy a lot of wealth in America. It will probably cre..." } ] }, { "term": "Bank for International Settlements", "usages": [ "The Basel institution Jiang calls the central bank of central banks and treats as an amoral coordinator of transnational capital." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0036", "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0038" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0036", "segment_id": "seg-0036", "start": 2379.06, "end": 2436.84, "time_label": "39:39", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "Okay? All right. So, I'm going to show you how. But, first, let's talk about the main mechanism to allow this to happen. It's called the Bank of International Settlements. Okay? And this is the Bank of International Set..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0038", "segment_id": "seg-0038", "start": 2493.95, "end": 2559.2, "time_label": "41:33", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "Okay, so what this means is this. In this speech is Hitler promised independence from the global financial order controlled by the British. Okay. But you can't really do that because you just have to buy things from oth..." } ] }, { "term": "CDO", "usages": [ "Collateral Debt Obligation; Jiang glosses it roughly as the subprime mortgage investment vehicle." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0027" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0027", "segment_id": "seg-0027", "start": 1775.73, "end": 1836.67, "time_label": "29:35", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "Okay? Now the institutions are supposed to take this money and promote more liquidity in the system. But instead what they do is they take this money and use it to borrow or buy U.S. Treasuries, which provide 5 % pay. O..." } ] }, { "term": "center of economic gravity", "usages": [ "The focal location where transnational capital wants global production, trade, reserves, and profit-making activity to concentrate." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0041", "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0045", "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0047" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0041", "segment_id": "seg-0041", "start": 2606.04, "end": 2677.12, "time_label": "43:26", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "Okay. So the world is run for money. Okay. The world exists these organizations exist in order to facilitate the easy fluid movement of money around the world and make money God. Okay. 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That doesn't make sense guys all ri..." } ] }, { "term": "chaos profit", "usages": [ "The principle that transnational capital profits by producing conflict, crisis, and activity rather than by preserving stillness." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0057" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0057", "segment_id": "seg-0057", "start": 3469.18, "end": 3502.24, "time_label": "57:49", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "these guys plan decades ahead, but transnational capital, what they do is they're trying to create as much chaos as possible because in chaos, there's profit. Like if you're sitting around doing nothing, you can't make..." } ] }, { "term": "collective hallucination", "usages": [ "Jiang’s description of money as an idea sustained by shared belief and bank-created liquidity." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0006" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0006", "segment_id": "seg-0006", "start": 273.629, "end": 344.6, "time_label": "4:33", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "So maybe I want to start a restaurant. And so I borrow a million dollars from the bank, okay? Question, how much money is in the bank now? It's gonna be zero, right? Okay, that's just math, guys. Look, if I take in a mi..." } ] }, { "term": "distressed assets", "usages": [ "Resources such as water and oil made cheap by collapse or chaos, which capital can buy after damage is created." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0056" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0056", "segment_id": "seg-0056", "start": 3400.94, "end": 3469.18, "time_label": "56:40", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "Wars are the most profitable enterprise in the world, okay? Second is that they have to rebuild after all this destruction, so they need capital. And the third is they will control global trade because of the location,..." } ] }, { "term": "engineered financial collapse", "usages": [ "Jiang’s model that major financial collapses are caused by actors who benefit from triggering them, rather than by impersonal boom-bust gravity." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0001", "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0005" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0001", "segment_id": "seg-0001", "start": 0.37, "end": 76.34, "time_label": "0:00", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "today i want to look at how the global economy will collapse specifically how the u.s economy will collapse because of this war now the argument i want to make to you today is that financial collapse do not happen accid..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0005", "segment_id": "seg-0005", "start": 211.18, "end": 273.629, "time_label": "3:31", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "Okay, so again, this is a science book. 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So after 2008 the Bank of National..." } ] }, { "term": "game masters", "usages": [ "Jiang’s label for financial institutions that control dollar flows and coordinate the global economy." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0010" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0010", "segment_id": "seg-0010", "start": 532.3, "end": 597.18, "time_label": "8:52", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "valid okay the value of ability is not there to date here's the bad thing that he's seen throughout the world he knows that we remember this idea and keep this in mind okay so because of this concept this allows us to c..." } ] }, { "term": "Greater Israel Project", "usages": [ "Jiang’s label for the war-and-rebuilding expansion logic that he says makes Israel attractive to transnational capital." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0055" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0055", "segment_id": "seg-0055", "start": 3335.61, "end": 3400.94, "time_label": "55:35", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "Yeah, okay, all right. Yeah, all right. So there's so many things. There's so many, we'll discuss later on, okay? But let me just show you how the shift happens. All right, so right now you're in America, and the best p..." } ] }, { "term": "localized debt", "usages": [ "Jiang’s explanation for why Chinese bank debt is less likely to implode nationally: liabilities are held in local rather than national structures." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0045" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0045", "segment_id": "seg-0045", "start": 2905.22, "end": 2985.07, "time_label": "48:25", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "prevents it from imploding is the fact that all debt in China is localized instead of nationalized all right? So even though these Chinese banks are heavily in debt they're in debt in local areas not national areas okay..." } ] }, { "term": "materialism", "usages": [ "Jiang uses it as the ideology that removes God/divinity and makes money, utility, property, class, animality, and sex the explanatory center." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0018", "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0021" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0018", "segment_id": "seg-0018", "start": 1111.13, "end": 1184.8, "time_label": "18:31", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "that this is an unfair system which it is right so now you have to brainwash the people into believing this is a fair system and that's why you create a new idea called materialism or money is God and so what was happen..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0021", "segment_id": "seg-0021", "start": 1330.256, "end": 1400.28, "time_label": "22:10", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "Which is to say, the world is one of class struggle. 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We have some..." } ] }, { "term": "profits privatized, losses socialized", "usages": [ "The Bank of England logic where private financiers keep upside while the nation-state and people absorb losses." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0016" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0016", "segment_id": "seg-0016", "start": 969.3, "end": 1034.23, "time_label": "16:09", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "okay the first is the idea of um profits are privatized losses are socialized if you're a rich person in the world you want to put your money in the Bank of England because you just know where the Bank of England loses..." } ] }, { "term": "rules-based international order", "usages": [ "In Jiang’s usage, multilateral institutions that make financial rule appear impartial, fair, and accountable while hiding manipulation." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0011" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0011", "segment_id": "seg-0011", "start": 597.18, "end": 665.06, "time_label": "9:57", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "that they're actually a set of people manipulating this game because people think this is not fair it's not transparent right it's and it's not a clean game so what you do is you create multilateral organizations called..." } ] }, { "term": "signaling mechanism", "usages": [ "A coordinating signal such as interest rate that tells banks whether to release or restrict liquidity." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0007", "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0008" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0007", "segment_id": "seg-0007", "start": 344.6, "end": 412.54, "time_label": "5:44", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "are thousands tens of thousands of banks everywhere so how do they know how to coordinate together okay and this is something else you need to understand about the system there's actually something called signaling mech..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0008", "segment_id": "seg-0008", "start": 412.54, "end": 472.15, "time_label": "6:52", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "then I don't want a little bank to buy a house and this is what you're taught in an economics class but there's actually another explanation which is the interest rate is not to signal consumers or homeowners to buy but..." } ] }, { "term": "subprime", "usages": [ "Lending money to people, especially poor homebuyers, who are unlikely to be able to repay." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0024" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0024", "segment_id": "seg-0024", "start": 1564.23, "end": 1626.17, "time_label": "26:04", "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "excerpt": "And then it basically, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, for the next 20, 30 years, it has complete control over the world. 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