The Hidden Battle for Global Power | Simon Dixon

**Simon Dixon** (0:02)
America is getting into this extreme divide and conquer political polarization. You've got suicide rates at all time high, the 10th largest cause of death in America. You've got drug addiction at all time high. You've got wealth inequality at extremes that are causing extreme polarization. I know how Wall Street works. I know how Silicon Valley works. How do I get free? And I tell them, own more Bitcoin every month than the last month. Own more Bitcoin this week than last week. Own more Bitcoin today than you did yesterday. Self-custody, run a node and invest in community infrastructures. Build your freedom. So we need to decentralize money. We need to decentralize artificial intelligence. And we need to decentralize control grids through decentralized communities. If you fund your farmer, they want your farmer bankrupt because they want you having artificial food that's manufactured in some technical industrial complex. If you want to know what they want to do to the world, what it could look like, look at what they rebuild in Gaza.

**Danny Knowles** (1:00)
Good to see you though, Simon. It's, do you know, I was looking back before we did this show.
When we recorded last time, I think it was on New Year's Eve last year. So final day of the year. And since then, a lot has happened. And I think the best place to kind of kick off is with the US, because since then, they went into Venezuela, they took out Maduro, and then they have obviously had a huge conflict in Iran, which is now potentially coming to an end. But I just want to get your take on everything that's happened, because this has been like a real display of power by the US. And I want to know why you think that is.

**Simon Dixon** (1:36)
Oh, yeah. And the right word is display, because it wasn't certainly a display, but it wasn't a projection of power.
And so last time we spoke, I talked about like the three pillars of who controls the Western world, and attempts to project that power globally, but has resistance against it in the form of alternative governance structures, i.e. China, and BRICS and SEO and the Gulf Cooperation Council, which are funded from sovereign wealth funds or a public central banking system like PBAC. Whereas America projects its strength from its ability on one thing, which is your belief that you should purchase US treasuries and that the banks think that there is sufficient enough liquidity that they're willing to prop up a whole Ponzi scheme called fiat currency based upon the belief that you will continue to purchase those treasuries and the banks can still use them as collateral. That's the entire projection of strength. As long as people continue to purchase treasuries and they can sell them into the most liquid market in the world, with the exception of foreign exchange, which is connected to the dollar anyway, then the entire financial system will produce enough money where it can be printed, roll over the debt based Ponzi scheme, and then that can be used to prop up the stock market. It can also be used to project strength through the military industrial complex. That military industrial complex is able to use its projection of strength in order to develop a strategy with each country, and that country might be destroy your country, so that we can force you to borrow some dollars, and when you borrow those dollars, we need to store them in US treasuries, and when you store them in US treasuries, we're able to sanction them, and when we're able to sanction them, we're able to enforce that the interest on those treasuries, the yield, is spent on us building our military bases in your country. And so, whenever somebody is holding money or dollars or a country is holding treasuries, within the Federal Reserve system, they are able to say, we will default on that, as they did in Russia, or we will sign defense agreements and like a mafia racket, if you allow us to project our strength in your country and have a base there, then we are going to force you to reinvest all of that yield into US companies that then have to be converted into dollars, and those dollars are then spent into propping up the stock market and valuing our military industrial complex companies. And as long as you continue to do that, then the government is effectively a piggy bank and a mafia, and the only role of the people is to believe enough in the system to believe that they have a democracy or a political system that's trying to expand democracy and make the world a better place. And as long as people believe in that, then we can just get them arguing over a different flavor of the same distraction, i.e. it's the left or the right. It's the communism vs. capitalism. It's the immigrants vs. the local population. Whatever flavor of divide and conquer you can manufacture, you can always distract people into believing that if I just change that, then maybe my government might get smaller, or it might get larger and then start serving the people, depending on which ideology you buy into.