cdgr0820's video: Redacted Tonight: A World of Foreign Agents

Click on CC for accurate English subtitles. TRANSCRIPT: More has come out from the Paradise Papers investigation proving that a Russian bank gave money to a guy who, through a third party, invested heavily in Twitter and Facebook from the years of 2011 to 2014, as seen on this informative chart from Vice News. They said this illustrates the long arm of the Kremlin extending into Silicon Valley in a way that none of us knew before, so clearly Twitter and Facebook are Russian foreign agents. All right, put them on the list. And it begs the question whether Twitter and Facebook will ban Twitter and Facebook from using Twitter and Facebook. Or maybe, and I’m just spit-balling here, we could grow up and realize that this Red Scare McCarthyist xenophobic bullshit is childish, and millionaires and billionaires around the world invest in all kinds of shit because they’re rich and they want to be richer. For example, last week Saudi Arabia arrested billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal who owns or has owned major stakes in News Corp, owner of Fox News, Citigroup, owner of Citibank, Twitter, and many other well-known companies. OK? Well, Saudi Arabia, you know, they’re a horrible theocratic monarchy. Let’s add them to the list. Let’s add all those companies to the big board of foreign agents. Also this week China Energy Investment Corp., the world’s largest power company, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to invest 83.7 billion dollars in shale gas, power and chemical projects in West Virginia. West Virginia too! Add them to the list. There are a lot of overall-wearing, three-tooth banjo players who are going to be none-too-pleased to learn they are Chinese foreign agents. And you have to add North Carolina to the list because, as I reported a few months ago, most of the hogs in North Carolina are owned by a Chinese company, so there you go. Add bacon and North Carolina to the list of foreign agents. Add the Nike swoosh to the list because Nike is based in Bermuda, but the Nike swoosh, the actual intellectual property that is The Swoosh is owned by a Dutch partnership, so put them on the list. Apple was based in Ireland for a long time, it’s OK now. They decided to move their headquarters to New Jersey. Ah, New Jersey! Finally an American company through-and-through warms your heart... oh wait, that’s the Isle of Jersey off of England. The Paradise Papers reveal the company canvassed multiple jurisdictions before settling on the small island of Jersey which typically does not tax corporate income. That’s right. Every time you use your iPhone you can think, “Well, that Isle of Jersey craftsmanship is top-notch, you know, I love them for all their phone work.” Oh, wait, the phone is actually made in China. This phone is a double agent. It’s Chinese and British, but it’s doing surveillance for the US government. Who do you work for? Maybe you’re starting to get the point. The rulers of this planet, the oligarchs and the billionaires that really run things don’t give a shit about a country. They don’t. They will base their money wherever there aren’t any taxes. They will take millions for despots and dictators. Nation-states mean nothing to them unless it helps them grab more money and power. This whole “evil Russia” or “evil Venezuela,” or our “good friends” in Saudi Arabia or our “good friends” in Israel–it’s all designed to keep you in line, afraid and apathetic. I mean, you know there are other things like beer, which is also designed to keep you apathetic, but I’m a fan of beer, so I won’t complain about that one, right? There is nothing more American than getting out a good old Bud Light and sitting back like a true patriot. Only one problem. Budweiser is owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev, which is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium. Belgium! Even my beer is a foreign agent! (November 2017)