All language subtitles for The Rothchilds, Jeffrey Epstein, and the War With Iran

Hello and welcome to the Kim Iverson
Show. Thank you so much for joining us.

do have a great show for you tonight.

The Rothschilds. This is a shadowy
family, banking family with a lot of

Their name has been dropped a lot
lately. Now, you've probably heard their

many times in conspiracy theory circles,
but now those conspiracy theorists seem

to be proven right once again.

as the Rothschild's name continues to be
brought up from Lex Wexner's deposition

about Epstein to Bill Clinton's
deposition about Epstein to Epstein's

himself saying he worked for the
Rothschilds or represented the

today, Representative James Comer
revealing that Jeffrey Epstein's

has identified five clients who paid
money directly to Epstein, and guess who

was top of the list?

That's right, the Rothschilds. So we're
going to get into who is this family

and, more importantly, how they might
have shaped Israel as a nation and also

the current conflict we're in, the war
with Iran. Are they behind it? We're

going to talk about that. Also, X has
been handing over our private data to

Israelis.

We have Alan McLeod joining us from Mint
Press News. That and more is coming up

here on The Kim Iverson Show.

Well, users on X who are otherwise
anonymous say that Google Trends is

their real names are being searched by
people in Israel. And this brings up a

lot of concerns about safety and
security and actually the whole

you use with X in order to verify that
you're a real human being so that you

could get the checkmark and maybe even
receive payments from X, all of that.

might actually be compromised.

Joining us now is Alan McLeod. He's a
journalist with Mint Press News.

Recently wrote a piece about this. X
users find their real names are being

Googled in Israel after using X
verification software.

Alan, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much for being here.

It's a pleasure to be back with you.

Okay, so what is the issue?

So we use a verification software.

I guess that's not directly X.

I kind of assumed when we were doing
verification for various different

media that the social media platforms
had their own mechanism, their own

software for verifying us, but
apparently that's not true.

No, that's not the case, Kim. With X, or
Twitter, if you want to call it that,

they've actually outsourced this to an
Israeli company called Authentics.

Now, Authentics was started in the early
2000s to provide things like airport

security, etc.

But perhaps the most important thing for
X users to know is that it was actually

started, it was founded, and it
continues to be staffed by former spies

Israeli spying group Unit 8200.

And Unit 8200 has been behind some of
the most high -profile and infamous

warfare and terror attacks of the past
few years, including the Lebanese Pager

bombing that we saw not so long ago.
They were behind the Pegasus software,

which infiltrated the phones and devices
of tens of thousands of people, from

journalists to activists to members of
royal families, even heads of state like

Emmanuel Macron of France or Imran Khan
of Pakistan.

And we know that this was being driven
by the Israeli government who had to

off on every sale of Pegasus. And
Pegasus was even used to go after

like Jamal Khashoggi, who was killed by
Saudi forces in Turkey.

So this is a group that has some
seriously sketchy background. And we

really be wondering what's going on
here. A lot of ex -users linked that.

They were being searched in Israel to
the fact that they had given their real

names, their data, pictures of their
passport and other ID, facial

scans to authentics. And they're
wondering whether the government of

some sort of national security state
entity in Israel has been subpoenaing

Twitter or X.

to find out the real identities of these
people. And that's not such a crazy

claim, because actually the Department
of Homeland Security already does this

with Meta, with Instagram, Facebook,
with Google, with Discord, and they're

already looking to find out the real
names of anonymous activists who are

criticizing ICE online.

And we know from New York Times
reporting that some of these big

already acquiesced to the Department of
Homeland Security's advances.

So the idea that the Israeli government
could be doing the same thing is not so

outlandish.

Yeah, I didn't think that it maybe would
be even the government that's

subpoenaing. And we would never know. So
if the Israeli government or really any

government in the world, maybe even our
own government, if they wanted to find

out who was really behind a handle and
they subpoenaed X, we would never be

noticed. So the person who owns that
handle would never be notified.

Yes, correct.

And of course, they might not need even
to go to X. They can just go to this

shady Israeli company who claims that
they delete all the data that they take

from us within 72 hours.

As I said, this is a company that was
founded and has continued to be led and

staffed by, quote -unquote, X Israeli
spies from Unit 8200, which is the group

that has been...

most responsible for the AI -generated
genocide that has gone on in Gaza, using

AI -generated pill lists, using big data
that Israel has picked up on

Palestinians. So the idea that they
would go so far as to break terms of

to find out critics of Israel when
they're doing 100 times worse to

Palestinians, as I said, is not that
outlandish.

Yeah, it really isn't. And it really, I
think it raises some questions on whose

laws does X have to adhere to?

Right. And I think that they have to
adhere to every the laws of every

they operate in. But I'm not sure.

Is it where there is it based only on
where they're physically based or is it,

you know, like if they have an office in
Israel, then they have to adhere to

some Israeli laws. And those Israeli
laws might say, hey, we're allowed to

know, we don't have this particular
freedom. And so, you know, freedom of

speech. And so we're allowed to crack
down on these critics. And so you have

give over their information because
that's the laws of our country.

I don't know if if these social media
companies have to adhere to the laws of

whichever country where they're
headquartered, where they have offices

where they operate.

But that is something that is I mean,
that that really that changes the

I mean, if if Israel can, you know, here
in the United States, we have freedom

of speech, supposedly.

So, supposedly, you're allowed to
criticize the government and they're not

supposed to come after you and subpoena
who you are and try to unmask you simply

because you criticized.

But I guess another country could do
that. I mean, but here we are, we're

sitting safe in the United States
thinking, well, I'm an American, I'm

protected, I'm allowed to do that stuff
here.

But I guess maybe not.

The other countries and those
governments could go after us.

There is a massive...

Oh, sure. I mean, there is a massive
silent war going on for our eyeballs.

Social media platforms are vastly more
powerful than any media that has existed

before it. You know, something like
Facebook has three billion monthly users

all of them get some amount of their
news from Facebook. And you can say the

same for Instagram, TikTok, etc.

And there's been such a palaver, a
pandemonium in the United States over

fact that TikTok is not owned by an
American company, but a Chinese company.

that was seen as a national security
threat. We have to remember that these

companies like X, like Instagram,
WhatsApp.

Signal, Facebook, etc, etc.

We like to think of these things as
transnational companies that exist just

cyberspace. But they're also brick and
mortar facilities, and most of them have

their headquarters in Texas or
California, which means they are subject

American laws.

And when you look at who is actually
staffing these companies, very often

people who used to be in the State
Department.

or in the FBI, or even the CIA in a lot
of cases. They're calling shots on big

social media platforms.

And we've already seen that governments
try to control the flow of information

in their countries and around the world.
That's been standard practice ever

since the nation state was born.

And we've also seen that Elon Musk
has...

being willing to acquiesce to some
highly authoritarian states when asked

provide data.

He's worked with the Turkish government,
he's worked with the Indian government,

the Saudi government, etc.

He seems not to care too much about
freedom of speech when it comes to

countries that he perhaps is not super
familiar with, that doesn't care too

about. So again, the idea that the
Israeli government, which is a

Elon Musk has openly supported, he met
with Netanyahu, he's taken public trips

with the Prime Minister of Israel, for
Christ's sake. So the idea that the

Israeli government could lean on X and
get some sort of...

There's some sort of benefits from them.
Again, it seems entirely plausible.

And the main feedback I've got from my
article actually has been dozens and

dozens of people contacting me or
commenting underneath posts saying, I've

looked into this. This is happening to
me too. What on earth is going on here?

So do we think that it's, do we think
that the people who are being unmasked,

we think that it's then maybe the
Israeli government who's searching them,

you think that it's maybe people just,
their names are leaking somewhere and

just random citizens in Israel are
looking them up? Like, who would be the

people doing the searching, I guess, in
Israel?

You know, it's very hard to tell, and we
could speculate all we want, but I will

say that...

The Israeli government is almost unique
in the world in really caring what

global public opinion thinks of it,
particularly Western public opinion,

Israel's legitimacy really rests upon
its backing from Western Europe and

particularly from the United States.

Without that sort of economic, political
and military backing from the world's

biggest superpower, Israel in its
current form couldn't exist and

couldn't expand like it wants to.

So Israel is particularly keen to
control the narrative and control public

perception of it in the West. That's why
it spends gargantuan amounts of money

trying to influence public opinion in
Western Europe and the United States.

We also know they have armies of
thousands of people working in the

working in certain NGOs or government
-based groups.

or indeed in national security state
apparatus, whose main job is to try to

influence the conversation online.

They have huge armies of bots, or not
even bots, but people behind these bot

networks that put certain narratives
that will attack people who are

Israel, who try to smear them.

So this is par for the course for the
Israeli government. They've been doing

this for decades.

this kind of operation.

And so, as I said, you know, if we, you
know, want to get even slightly

conspiratorial about this, start putting
two and two together, you pretty

quickly come up with the answer for.

And that, you know, when it comes to
Israel, I think this sort of thing is

certainly not beyond their capabilities.

I just don't know how American citizens
would be or anybody in the world would

be within their jurisdiction for them to
be able to subpoena X and get this

information.

Or to subpoena, not X, but like you
said, Authentics.

Authentics is the name of the... But I
guess if Authentics is an Israeli

company... Yes.

I mean, is that... But even then, I
mean... Well, that's the thing, Tim.

I mean, we don't even need to talk about
legal subpoenas here. We're talking

about a company that was founded and
continues to be staffed by, quote

-unquote... former spies from unit 8200
which is the most notorious uh cyber

warfare and spying organization in the
world as i said it's been behind some of

the biggest uh you know uh leaks hacks
of big social media companies out there

they have former unit 8200 hundreds of
them uh former 8200 agents working at

companies like google like facebook like
amazon and when Companies like this,

which is an outgrowth of the Israeli
national security state, are actually

controlling our most sensitive data.

The idea that there might be something
untoward going on here, considering what

Israel is doing across the Middle East
and also online as well, I think we have

to start asking questions about that. So
it's not even a legal thing. It might

be an entirely different question.

Companies like this have been set up in
the first place to try to get

information and to try to control
narratives in the first place.

Well, that's certainly a suspicion,
right? I mean, it's like, why would Elon

Musk and X choose this Israeli company
to gather all of our information for

verification?

I mean, talk about a security breach.
But then, you know, from the perspective

of X, they're probably thinking, well,
users are all around the world.

You know, it's not like...

The United States saying, well, TikTok
can't be owned by China because that's a

security, a national security issue,
only for it to be sold to Israelis,

essentially.

But, you know, X could say, well, but
users are from all around the world. We

even have users in Israel.

So, you know, if we're picking any
company we select is going to be foreign

a huge number of our users.

So what does that matter?

And then they select this Israeli
company. But you're right. I mean, the

issue is that Israel has.

I would think China also has an interest
in controlling the optics of

what people say about their countries or
how their country is perceived.

Certainly, Israel is much more
aggressive about it right now because of

support that they want. But China
sometimes is also a bit wanting to shape

narrative around their country quite a
bit. But then the United States...

propagandizes too. I mean, we're getting
propaganda from everywhere.

Doesn't seem like we're safe from that.

But the Israelis wanted to control and
then also not just control but punish.

And that's something we don't really see
with China. You know, we're not seeing

them going after American citizens and
students at universities trying to get

them expelled or harmed in some way, you
know, financially or legally harmed in

some way because they criticize them.
But we're certainly seeing a lot of that

with Israel.

Why do you think X would choose this
company? Are there other companies that

they could have chosen, do we think?

I mean, this just makes me think none of
us should use the Internet anymore.

I'm talking about a loss.

I'm starting to feel like nothing is
safe and we should all just stop using

Internet. I mean, I'm getting to that
point.

I mean, there were definitely other
companies that they could have used. And

actually, at the time, a couple of years
ago, when X announced this, there was a

kind of serious pushback from its user
base saying, This is an awful decision.

This is a security issue.

I personally know people, you know, I'm
in the alternative journalism world. I

know people who decided not to apply for
that blue check because they did not

want to give their personal details to
an Israeli company with very close ties

to the Israeli national security state.

But my gripe with this isn't that
Authentics or Israeli companies are not

capable of providing verification
software.

Israel is a huge tech hub globally, and
the centerpiece of that is actually Unit

8200, their cyber warfare division. It's
the largest unit in the IDF in total,

and it's also the most elite unit.

And rich parents spend thousands and
thousands of dollars on courses.

for their children to try to get them
into Unit 8200 in the first place.

Israel has mandatory national service.

The reason is because they know that two
years in Unit 8200 is kind of like a

free ticket to a very lucrative life in
the burgeoning tech sector. These Unit

8200 graduates...

Thousands of them go on to work for
Google, Facebook, Amazon, or big Israeli

tech companies as well. So they
certainly do have the capability of

the product.

The problem is that Israel is such a
controversial country right now,

considering what it's doing in the
Middle East and around the world. And I

say, just as a thought experiment,
imagine we were using, say, a Russian

media platform.

decided to use a Russian company that
was staffed by former KGB and FSB agents

to verify our most sensitive data, we
could obviously see the huge

security risk there immediately.

And, in fact, the idea is so absurd that
it's beyond reasonable that that would

be allowed to happen. But because it's a
U .S. ally, we all just have to say,

oh, well, that's a bit strange. Oh,
well, that's fine, yeah.

Yeah, if it was a Russian company, like
you mentioned, the first thing that

would happen is Elon Musk would be
carted into Congress immediately and

and they would be asking questions, and
they'd essentially say, this is a

national security threat, and you can't
use this company.

But you're right, because it's a
supposed ally, which is debatable.

Then, yeah, we all just have to, I
guess, hand over. And the issue, too, I

one thing that would be simple to say
is, well, then I guess none of us would

just, you know.

verify our accounts we shouldn't give
our personal information to any place

yeah with x i mean you can't if you have
a big account you can't get money you

can't get paid um there's a lot of a lot
of implications with not having the

blue check that's why they made it well
you want to get this right they make it

really enticing so people want to get it
and then you do hand over your personal

information um Excellent reporting on
this, Alan, and just exposing this. It

definitely, like I said, gets me to a
point where I think, okay, maybe we're

just way too connected online and maybe
it's time to start scaling back. And I

think that people are going to start
getting to that point, like the pendulum

swinging to where we're using so much
AI, we're using so much social media,

then we start having these breaches and
AI, you know, now AI is kind of looking

scary. I mean, AI might have been...

for targeting the girls at the school
that was bombed in Iran. I mean, you

there's a lot of questions about AI
right now and whether or not it's even

conscious. And I think a lot of people
are starting to say, okay, maybe it's

time to go back to the old flip phone
and the old, you know, like maybe it's

time to kind of like scale back and go
back to some pen and paper for a little

bit on some things. And it's maybe not
such a bad idea.

But the article is on...

Mint Press News.

It is, X users find their real names are
being Googled in Israel after using X

verification software, Authentics.

Definitely everybody should read this
and then kind of think about your future

online, I suppose.

Alan McLeod, thank you for being here. I
do want to talk to you, Alan, about

this other article you wrote for Mint
Press News.

We have Alan McLeod with us. He is a
journalist with Mint Press News, and he

wrote the recent article, 10 Epstein
Revelations You Might Have Missed.

Oh, boy.

Let's start off with Epstein plotting
war with Iran, because here we are in a

war with Iran.

Many people think that Donald Trump
might be compromised by these Epstein

He fought tooth and nail to ensure they
weren't released after campaigning on

it. And many believe that Epstein was
a...

an operative for Israel to do the
nation's bidding. And here we are in a

with Iran.

So what gives?

Tell us about this.

It's becoming less and less of a secret
that Jeffrey Epstein did have a close

relationship with the Israeli
government.

One example of that is Ehud Barak, the
former prime minister of Israel,

an inordinate amount of time living at
Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan mansion.

In fact, to the point where the Israeli
government actually installed spy

cameras and surveillance equipment in
Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan mansion.

Epstein would talk with Barak especially
constantly about politics, about

current affairs, anything really.

The two became very, very close friends.

One thing he did was, yeah, he talked
about the news of the day with Barack.

And, you know, in 2013, the United
States and Iran were negotiating with

International Atomic Energy Agency. And
with the talks kind of stalling,

Epstein actually emailed Ehud Barak
saying that hopefully someone suggests

getting authorization now for Iran.

Congress would do it. That's a direct
quote from him. So he was actually

and plotting war with Iran with Ehud
Barak, which, of course, has been

dream for decades now, that the United
States would somehow take out their

biggest enemy in the region for them.
And now it seems that the Israeli

government is getting exactly what it
wants, seen, of course, as close to the

.S. government as well. So this really
goes to show just how...

Close and tight -knit are the Epstein
class, where everybody knew each other,

and Epstein was throwing out these sorts
of ideas, hoping that something would

stick at the wall. And you can see from
the emails that he was very much a hawk

when it came to Iran. He dreamed of war
in the Middle East because, for one

reason, he was a massive supporter of
the State of Israel.

And here we are.

And here we are.

I mean, it's just, when you connect the
dots, it's one of those things where,

when you're in the thick of it, It's
hard to see what's really happening. And

lot of us want to make different excuses
or think, no, there must be something

else. You know, Trump can't possibly be
implicated in the Epstein files.

You know, he was trying to he was
against Epstein. He hated Epstein. So

no way he's implicated. But then I feel
like, you know, 10 years from now, when

we have like the 20 foot view, you know,
we'll look back at this and say, wow,

OK, so many dots connecting here.

And those dots.

all lead to the same one conclusion.

This is a shocking revelation that you
say was in the Epstein files that we

might have missed, which was that a U
.S. ambassador may have raped and

impregnated an 11 -year -old child.

Wow.

And why are we still hiding these
Epstein files?

What is this about?

Essentially no play. Only a couple of
corporate media outlets in the United

States have touched this, but it has
been quite widely written about in

media. The documents show that an FBI
informant who was talking.

to the fbi uh described his name is
kenneth daryl turner he actually died

recently but in 2014 he said that the u
.s ambassador to mexico a man called uh

earl wayne impregnated an 11 year old
mexican child uh while she was at a u

.s consulate controlled building in
ciudad juarez which is on the border

the united states the girl gave birth to
this child and then that child had a

positive DNA match with Wayne. Wayne
completely refutes this. He rejects this

entirely. But these allegations, I
should say, was enough to actually

really quite large protests at the
American University in Washington, D

where Wayne continues to teach to this
day.

You know, he completely denies this,
but, you know, that is something that is

the acting files. These FBI documents
say that there are allegations against

this U .S. ambassador, and it seems that
there has been no follow -up from this.

Nothing has come of it, and very few
people have even touched this story,

except, of course, in Mexico.

Wait a minute. So the kid had a positive
DNA match to this guy, to Earl Anthony

Wayne is his name.

That is what the FBI document says,
Turner says. So Turner says that he

that there was a positive DNA match with
Wayne. But again, that is just his

testimony. And as I said, he actually
died quite recently. So we're not going

get any more information out of him,
sadly.

But it seems like this would be such an
easy thing to investigate.

This is one of those that would be so
simple. This is no longer a he said, she

said. There's a kid. There's physical.

evidence of um sex having have happened
and because there's a kid so if

they could take the dna from the kid and
then say yeah it's this uh earl wayne

guy's kid and the mother is at this
eight you know at whatever age the

now so you just reverse the clock there
and it's like really you know easy

simple to this one seems to be in a
simple case to crack and yet we've had

investigations from the United States
into the Epstein files.

I mean, that's outrageous.

Yeah, journalists could look at this,
but honestly, the group that could...

say yay or nay to this almost
immediately is the FBI. They presumably

the documents and data out there. So
they could suddenly just come out and

actually, this is not true. We looked
into this. That's not the case. Or they

could say, we confirm this. But there
has been absolutely zero peep from the

on this story.

And unfortunately, that is what it's
like when you try to get information out

the US National Security State.

I don't know if you've ever tried to use
the Freedom of Information Act to get

documents out of big government
entities, but it takes years and years,

will stonewall you at every single
opportunity.

So I'm not holding my breath and waiting
for the FBI to come out and confirm or

deny this.

Just sickening. I mean, all the stuff
that's in these files has been

and the fact that our government does
nothing about it. I mean, at least other

governments are starting to go after
people, and I think that they're But the

United States, we've done absolutely
nothing. And it's just really, really,

truly shameful.

Let's talk about Bill Gates, another
thing that you uncovered.

And then I encourage people to read this
article because there's 10 things that

you might have missed from those Epstein
files. It's always good to keep up with

those things. And we do have the link
down below to this article. But let's

about Bill Gates, his affairs, his
sexually transmitted infection that he

apparently might have had. And that was
in the Epstein files.

Yes, there was actually an email that
Jeffrey Epstein composed, but never

So he just saved it in his draft.

And we have the draft because the
Epstein files were published.

And basically it said that his good
friend, he was really annoyed at Bill

for constantly hassling him. He said, I
can't believe you had sex with these

Russian, probably trafficked women. And
then you were badgering me to try to get

antibiotics.

so that your wife wouldn't find out that
you had an STD and that you'd given it

to her.

So Bill Gates was not only sleeping
around, according to Epstein, I should

he also was giving his wife an STD and
then slipping her pills

on the slide to try to hide the fact.

Now, Bill Gates initially denied all of
this. He said, this is completely

untrue. This is just an email that
Jeffrey sent to himself.

It's not true.

However, a couple of days later, he did
actually admit to at least the affair

part with the Russian woman being
completely true.

Moreover, Melinda was asked about these
claims and she did not deny them and

said it was just, and I'll use the quote
that she said, she said, it was

unbelievable sadness.

That was one quote she used. And she
said it was an extraordinarily painful

time, end quote, in her life.

And of course, people might remember
that Melinda Gates filed for divorce in

2021, citing Gates.

Bill Gates' close relationship with
Jeffrey Epstein as the reason, or at

one of the reasons, that the marriage
broke down. So there's certainly some

of smoke going on there.

Yeah.

Yeah. I wonder what he got out of Bill
Gates. I know Bill Gates wanted

a Nobel Prize, and he was bothering
Jeffrey Epstein about that, like, help

out, get me a Nobel Prize, right? But I
wonder what Epstein was getting from

Bill.

That's what I'm curious about. I'm
wondering what Epstein got from all of

people. I mean, that's the big question
that I think all of us want out of these

Epstein files is not just the exposure
that, okay, these people are a bunch of

perverts that are in pedophiles and
doing all these terrible things. We want

know what did they get, what did Epstein
get from them that may be compromising

our national security, may be
compromising our data, our information.

I mean, I don't know. Bill Gates is not
a world leader. Bill Gates is not a

politician. He can't influence Israel
policy, not directly anyway. Maybe

indirectly he can.

So what was it that Epstein was getting
from Bill Gates? I think that's a big

question we should all be asking. I
don't know if you have a hunch or a

on that. I don't, but maybe you do.

Yeah, I mean, listen.

Epstein loved to collect the rich and
famous people, maybe because it made him

feel safer, or maybe it was because he
was, you know, some sort of influence op

or some sort of national security op,
and he was trying to collect dirt and

on as many rich and powerful people as
possible. Because even though Gates is

not a politician, he is more powerful
than most.

heads of state he has enormous power
over big institutions like the world

organization like the shape of education
and health policy all around the world

because he donates gigantic amounts of
money to uh to all sorts of bodies

via the bill and melinda gates uh
however when you accept money from a

billionaire there are always a multitude
of strings attached to that money And

part of it is that Gates really wanted
to reshape public health and education

policy all around the world.

In education, he loved charter schools,
which is basically privatising schools.

He loved to get involved in public
health as well. You know, he was

essentially privatising one of the COVID
vaccines, the Oxford University

vaccine. You might remember that Oxford
University, very early on in the

pandemic, came out and said they had...

created a safe vaccine that cost them
almost nothing to make and that they

going to make it free to use for
everyone around the world.

And then Gates got on the phone to
Oxford University and said, you better

this. And they reversed their decision
and they privatized it. And immediately

they ran into problems where they had
huge supply issues and tens of millions

people didn't get the vaccine because of
that. And the reason Gates wanted to do

that. I think he absolutely loves the
idea of privatizing intellectual

because, of course, Gates made his
billions that way, cornering the market

in software and forcing people to pay
for decades for his crappy products

because they've just become the leader
and they've become basically a monopoly.

how Gates has got his money ever since
the 1980s. So, of course, we want to see

that in public health and education as
well. So, yeah, Gates is a very powerful

person. And so I'm not surprised that,
you know, somebody who may or may not

have been an intelligence op would want
to have dirt on him so they could

influence his decisions as well.

Yeah. And again, that's the question we
all have. What did Epstein get?

specifically, you know, out of Bill
Gates? What did he get out of Bill

What did he get out of any of these
people that were connected in his world?

That's the big question that we should
all ask.

Alan McLeod, thank you so much for being
here. Really appreciate your insight.

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It's 67 words long, it's 100 years old,
and it changed the course of history for

the Middle East and the Jewish people.

The Balfour Declaration, the expression
of the British government's support for

a Jewish home in Palestine, was sent by
British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour

to the Second Lord Rothschild.

I'm here in Buckinghamshire at Waddesdon
Manor to speak with the Fourth Lord

Rothschild. about the Balfour
Declaration, what it means for Britain,

Jewish people, and the Rothschild
family.

The Foreign Office, November 2nd, 1917.

Dear Lord Rothschild, I have much
pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf

Majesty's Government, the following
declaration of sympathy with Jewish

aspirations, which has been submitted
to... and approved by the cabinet.

So it's possibly the most famous letter
in modern Jewish history, and it begins

with three words.

Dear Lord Rothschild, why was it that
this letter was sent by the Foreign

Secretary to your great -uncle Walter?

It's an interesting question, because he
was brilliant in ornithology.

although he became interested in
Zionism. I think the reason was this,

it was primarily a movement from Eastern
Europe,

but they didn't clarify who was in
charge of that movement.

And in addition, it was, after all, in
Great Britain. So they felt that the

Rothschild family...

should be the one to whom it was
addressed.

And Walter was Lord Rothschild, and he
was a Zionist.

And those really are the background
reasons.

So Walter received the Balfour
Declaration, and I have a copy here.

And I wonder if I could possibly ask you
to read it for us.

Yes, indeed.

I'm going to put on my spectacles to
make sure I read it accurately.

His Majesty's Government,

deal with favour the establishment of
Palestine as a national home for the

Jewish people, and will use their best
endeavours to facilitate the achievement

of this object, it being clearly
understood that nothing will be done

prejudice the civil and religious rights
of existing non -Jewish communities in

Palestine, or the rights and political
status enjoyed by Jews in any other

country.

I should be grateful if you would bring
this declaration to the knowledge of the

Zionist Federation.

Yours, Arthur Balfour.

And here it is, the Balfour Declaration.

What do you feel when you see it here?

I genuinely feel it's one of the most
extraordinary moments in the history of

the Jewish people. If you think it took
3 ,000 years to get to this.

And then you say, how did this miracle
happen?

It was the most incredible piece of
opportunism. I mean, if you think, you

an impoverished would -be scientist,
Chaim Weizmann, who somehow gets to

England, meets a few people, including
members of my family, seduces them. He

has such great charm and conviction.

He gets to Balfour, and he unbelievably
persuades

Balfour. and Lloyd George, the Prime
Minister, and most of the ministers,

this idea of the National Home for Jews
should be allowed to

take place.

I mean, it's so, so unlikely.

And then he starts to fight a difficult
battle with the British Cabinet, and

this letter goes through five drafts, as
you know.

and in the end it comes out as a rather
compromising letter. I mean, the

essential point is there for the Jewish
community to fasten on to.

You have the first bit, which promises a
national home rather than the national

home, and then you have the bit that
nothing that's to be done should in any

harm the Arab community.

But you come back to the big point,
which is that this is perhaps the

event in Jewish life for thousands of
years.

And it's a miracle that it took place.

I think it was his experience at an
industrial level, like looking for a

big company like Bear Stearns, and then
he had done personal work.

For the Rothschild family in France.

Personal wealth management, essentially?

I don't know.

We've seen some reports that he would
present himself as a bounty hunter, that

he would find people's missing money. Do
you recall him saying anything like

that? No.

Well, specifically, I talked to Elie de
Rothschild, and I mentioned that

earlier.

So he represented their whole families.
There had been a whole bunch of people.

Most of them I never would have met, but
I knew L .A.

We've been hearing a lot about the
Rothschilds lately, the shadowy banking

family many suspect run the world. Well,
in looking deeper into their

connections, influence, and their world,
it sort of looks like it. And

interestingly, Jeffrey Epstein seemed to
be a central figure in their world.

A few weeks ago, Les Wexner said Jeffrey
Epstein worked for the Rothschilds.

This was before his lawyer told him to
shut his mouth or he'd kill him.

Then Bill Clinton said he was connected
to Ghislaine through the Rothschilds.

And today, Representative James Comer
came out and said, yes, the Rothschilds

were paying Epstein.

First of all, Mr. Khan's answering every
question thus far. He's completed two

full hours of depositions. I would say
we are possibly at the halfway point. It

could could last more than four hours.
But he confirmed

there were five.

clients that paid money to Epstein, and
that was Les Wexner, Glenn

Newben, Stephen Sanofsky, the
Rothschilds, and Leon Black.

We've already deposed Wexner. We're
going to be deposing Leon Black very

Yeah, what about deposing the
Rothschilds? I doubt we're going to be

anytime soon.

So now you might have seen this from the
Epstein files. This is an email sent by

Jeffrey Epstein to Peter Thiel in 2016.

And in that email, Epstein writes,
quote, as you probably know, I represent

Rothschilds. I was hoping to find a way
for the bank that manages $160 billion

to get involved in tech. It has been the
best client list in the world and

ancient products. It can wait. Good luck
in China.

Okay, so...

He's not saying, I know some
Rothschilds. He's saying, I represent

Rothschilds. And he talks about the bank
that manages $160 billion with the best

client list in the world.

Now, fast forward to 2018. The head of
Swiss Rothschild Bank is Ariane de

Rothschild. She's emailing back and
forth with Jeffrey Epstein about

homeless shelter.

He says, quote, I thought you'd find...

In amusing that in a Harvard class on
Hitler, they told the story of when he

so poor he lived in a shelter for
homeless and destitute that had been

by the three wealthy families, the
Gutmans, the Ecksteins, and the

It turns out to be accurate.

Now, Ariane, she isn't amused. She fires
back and says, you know, it doesn't

matter whether the story is about
generosity or not.

You know, that it's still a conspiracy
theory and it's pathetic.

But then Epstein doubles down and says,
first, it turns out to be 100 % true.

Hitler was selling his clothes and
artwork and living in a shelter funded

Jews. Epstein, Rothschild, and Gutman.
No conspiracy.

The Epsteins were the Vienna bankers,
bought their bank on the ring, hence

Palais Epstein.

which is kind of interesting.

So in one email you have Hitler, a
Jewish -funded shelter, the Epstein

Rothschild name, and a Rothschild banker
trying to bat the whole thing away as

pathetic. Now, Epstein and Ariane first
met in 2013, introduced by Oslo Accords

diplomat Tarji Rod Larson. And within
months, Epstein is emailing former

Prime Minister Ehud Barak to get him in
front of her.

One of the DOJ -released emails shows
Epstein setting up a breakfast between

Barack and Iran de Rothschild. Now,
Epstein is playing social engineer

Rothschild banker and an ex -prime
minister.

And right around that time, another
email appears, this one from Epstein to

Barack, talking about Iran.

And in that email, Epstein writes,
quote, Hopefully someone suggests

authorization now for Iran.

Authorization? He's not talking about a
charity grant.

He's talking about war.

So put those two together. Epstein
arranged private breakfast between a

Rothschild Bank CEO and an Israeli ex
-prime minister, and Epstein told that

same ex -prime minister, hopefully
someone suggests getting authorization

war with Iran.

Okay. Now, by 2013.

The U .S. Justice Department was
cracking down on Swiss banks for helping

Americans hide money.

Ariane's bank, Edmund Rothschild, is in
trouble, and she turns to Epstein.

Emails reported from the DOJ files show
Ariane confirming the final settlement

figure with Epstein.

$45 million?

And Epstein answers with the math,
including $10 million for lawyer's fees

$25 million for me. I think you'll find
a total below $80 million is quite a

bargain. And a few days later, the U .S.
announces that Edmund de Rothschild

will pay a $45 million fine.

Exactly what they just discussed.

How's that?

So in a contract dated October 5th of
2015, it shows Epstein Southern Trust

Company, based in the Virgin Islands,
entering into an agreement with the

Rothschilds Group.

Angelo summarizes it this way. A
document dated October 5th, 2015

Epstein, through his Southern Trust
Company, entered into an agreement with

Rothschilds Group valued at $25 million.

The contract covered risk analysis and
algorithm -related services with Epstein

listed as president of Southern Trust.

And according to reporting based on
those same emails, after that deal,

started giving Ariane advice on how to
deal with her own family.

One email has him telling her, I think
you should prepare a custodian motion

against Benjamin, giving him the choice
between you filing the motion or him

voluntarily resigning. He has lost
control and is a danger to both you and

family. So that's Jeffrey Epstein, the
Rothschild representative, telling a

Rothschild which Rothschild should be
pushed out of the bank.

So if you're making this up in a
thriller, it would feel like pretty on

nose, right?

Now, the emails show that Epstein wasn't
just brokering fines.

He was.

trying to use Arianne's bank to fund
Ehud Barak's private cyber weapons

One report quotes Epstein relaying
Arianne's condition, saying, Arianne de

Rossell sent this to me. If Ehud wants
to make serious money, he'll have to

build a relationship with me.

Epstein then tells Barak he needs to
give her time, attention, stable,

reoccurring, predictable, where, what,
when, is what he says.

So former Israeli Prime Minister
Rothschild banker and Jeffrey Epstein in

middle choreographing the relationship
and talking about serious money and war

with Iran in the same slice of time. So
this is a small, tight network in a

recent deposition.

Bill Clinton was asked why he was
friendly with Ghislaine Maxwell, and he

answered that he had mutual friends.

Lynn and Evelyn de Rothschild watched
this.

During Ms. Maxwell's interview, she
stated that President Clinton was her

friend, not Epstein's friend.

Is that accurate?

I would say that it was accurate to say
that I felt closer to her than him.

And for the record, why was that?

Because I had seen her more and because
she was very good friends with Evelyn

Rothschild and his wife Lynn, whom I
knew and was in regular touch with.

So back in 1995, before she married into
the family, Lynn Forrester wrote

directly to President Clinton. The
Clinton archives summarized it this way.

said she had used her 15 seconds of
access to discuss Jeffrey Epstein and

currency stabilization.

That's not us editorializing. That's how
mainstream write -ups describe the

letter.

In the mid -90s, you've got a future
Lady de Rothschild telling a sitting U

president she spent her 15 seconds of
access on Jeffrey Epstein and currency

stabilization. Then years later, she
marries into the British Rothschild

and Bill Clinton hosts the wedding
reception at the White House.

Epstein, meanwhile, visited that same
White House at least 17 times in the

Again, Epstein, a Rothschild, a U .S.
president, and the words currency

stabilization in one sentence.

Now, the Rothschild story starts in the
Frankfurt ghetto with Mayor Amschel

Rothschild trading rare coins and doing
favors for princes.

He becomes the banker for Prince Willem
of Hesse, whose wealth includes cash

from leasing Hessian soldiers to the
British in the American Revolutionary

Encyclopedia -style histories openly say
Mayer and his sons eventually became

bankers, to whom the French
Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars of

became a business opportunity.

So that's not fringe. That's how the
Rothschild's archive itself describes

rise of the family, making money off of
war.

Now, Mayer sends his five sons out like
an early modern franchising operation.

He sends Nathan to London, James to
Paris, Solomon to Vienna, Carl to

Amschel stays in Frankfurt.

The five arrows on their logo there
commemorate that network.

And Nathan uses fast couriers and better
intel to front run the bond market

after Waterloo. The exact numbers are
debated, but he later calls it the best

business I ever did.

He later arranges a loan big enough to
stabilize the Bank of England in a

crisis, and from there the family funds
or underwrites a secret loan so the

British can grab a 44 % stake in the
Suez Canal Company, major help to the

Vatican's struggling finances, state
-building loans to Greece, Brazil, and

others.

So you don't have to believe they
secretly own every central bank to see

obvious. For about a century, if a
Western empire needed money for war,

or colonies, the Rothschilds were on the
short list of the people you called.

So for over 80 years, Rothschild's
London House chaired the London Gold

the twice -daily call where a small
group of bullion banks agreed on a

gold price. And that direct role ended
in 2004.

when N .M. Rothschild's son walked away
from the bullion business and sold its

seats to Barclays.

Now move into the 21st century, and they
show up in other sensitive places.

Rothschild and company has advised
governments on sovereign debt crises,

including Ukraine's restructuring after
Russia's invasion.

Nathaniel Rothschild co -founded Janelle
Energy, which drills in Iraqi

Kurdistan, a territory that's literally
the outcome of U .S. war and occupation.

Then there's Genie Energy, which holds
oil rights in the Israeli -occupied

Heights. Genie's own disclosures list
the members of its strategic board as...

Dick Cheney, Rupert Murdoch, James
Woolsey, Larry Summers, Michael

Jacob Rothschild, and Mary Landrieu. So
that's a former U .S. vice president, a

media magnate, an ex -CIA director, a
former U .S. Treasury secretary, a Wall

Street billionaire, a former U .S.
senator, and a Rothschild, all advising

company drilling in land Israel stole
from Syria in 1967.

So if you wanted to see how war...

Media, intelligence apparatus, finance,
and occupied resources intersect. That

one board list is a pretty good start.

Now, Baron Edmund de Rothschild funded
some of the first Jewish agricultural

colonies in Palestine, including Rishon
LeZion, now one of Israel's largest

cities. He used entities like the
Palestine Jewish Colonization

buy land and move settlers in. Theodor
Herzl's pamphlet, The Jewish State, was

originally conceived as a speech for the
Rothschilds and at one point carried

the working title Address to the
Rothschilds. In other words, the

theorist of Zionism literally wrote his
pitch with the Rothschilds in mind.

Then in 1917, British Foreign Secretary
Arthur Balfour issued the Balfour

Declaration, supporting a national home
for the Jewish people in Palestine.

He addresses it not to a foreign
minister, but to Lord Rothschild.

Specifically, Lionel Walter Rothschild,
a key figure in British Zionist circles.

The Rothschild family archives itself
titles page Walter Rothschild and the

Balfour Declaration.

So you've got one branch buying land and
funding settlements and another branch

receiving the letter that becomes the
political foundation for Israel as a

state. Jacob Rothschild later says he's
been traveling to Israel every year

since the 1960s and talks openly about
the family's role in the country's

development.

possibly the most famous letter in
modern Jewish history, and it begins

three words.

Dear Lord Rothschild, why was it that
this letter was sent by the Foreign

Secretary to your great -uncle Walter?

It's an interesting question because he
was very interested in ornithology,

although he became interested in
Zionism. I think the reason was this,

that...

It was primarily a movement from Eastern
Europe, but they

didn't clarify who was in charge of that
movement.

And in addition, it was, after all, in
Great Britain. So they felt that the

Rothschild family should be the one to
whom it was addressed.

And Walter was Lord Rothschild, and he
was a Zionist.

And those really are the background
reasons.

Okay, so the fingerprints are
everywhere. At least several towns,

and institutions in Israel bear the
Rothschild name. So there you go.

They're pretty much behind the entire
creation of the State of Israel. In

a group of U .S. policy intellectuals
wrote a memo for Benjamin Netanyahu

A Clean Break, A New Strategy for
Securing the Realm. And it advocates

down regional rivals, starting with Iraq
and extending to Syria and beyond.

And a few years later, retired General
Wesley Clark says he saw a Pentagon memo

after 9 -11.

About 10 days after 9 -11, I went
through the Pentagon and...

I saw Secretary Rumsfeld and Deputy
Secretary Wolfowitz. I went downstairs

to say hello to some of the people on
the joint staff who used to work for me.

And one of the generals called me in. He
said, sir, you've got to come in and

talk to me a second. I said, well,
you're too busy. He said, no, no.

He says, we've made the decision we're
going to war with Iraq.

This was on or about the 20th of
September.

I said, we're going to war with Iraq?
Why?

He said, I don't know.

He said, I guess they don't know what
else to do.

So I said, well, did they find some
information connecting Saddam to al

He said, no, no. He says, there's
nothing new that way. They just made the

decision to go to war with Iraq.

He said, I guess it's like we don't know
what to do about terrorists, but we've

got a good military and we can take down
governments.

And he said, I guess if the only tool
you have is a hammer, every problem has

look like a nail.

So I came back to see him a few weeks
later, and by that time we were bombing

Afghanistan. I said, are we still going
to war with Iraq? And he said, oh, it's

worse than that.

He said, he reached over on his desk, he
picked up a piece of paper, and he

said, I just got this down from
upstairs, meaning the Secretary of

office today. And he said, this is a
memo that describes how we're going to

out seven countries in five years,
starting with Iraq and then Syria,

Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and finishing
off.

I said, is it classified?

He said, yes, sir.

I said,

well, don't show it to me.

And I saw him a year or so ago, and I
said, you remember that? He said, sir, I

didn't show you that memo. I didn't show
it to you.

I'm sorry, what did you say his name
was?

I'm not going to give you his name. So
go through the countries again.

Well, starting with Iraq, then Syria and
Lebanon, then Libya, then Somalia and

Sudan, and then back to Iran.

Okay. So the timeline slipped, but the
countries line up with the wars and

covert operations we actually watched
unfold.

Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria. Now
we're watching it unfold in Lebanon and

in Iran.

And in the background of the bombs and
sanctions, another pattern. Central

reorganized. oil contracts written,
sovereign debt restructured with firms

Rothschild and Company, sometimes
standing by to advise.

So when you see Jeffrey Epstein writing
to Ehud Barak, hopefully someone

suggests getting authorization now for
Iran, while representing a Rothschild

bank and coaching an ex -prime minister
on how to tap Rothschild money for a

cyber weapons venture, it starts to feel
less like a random email and more like

a window into how this world actually
works.

On February 28th of 2026, the same day
the U .S. and Israel escalate into full

-scale war with Iran, Nathaniel
Rothschild posts this on X.

History is written by the winners. Iran
Revolution 2026.

Now look at that timing. Look at that
hashtag.

The heir to one of the most powerful
banking dynasties on Earth tags Iran

Revolution 2026 and reminds everyone
that history is written by the winners.

The winners have certainly been the
Rothschilds financially throughout

now. And maybe that's just bravado,
maybe it's just commentary, or maybe

exactly what it sounds like. A man whose
family helped invent modern war finance

and funded Israel into existence, he's
now watching another chapter of that

story unfold in real time.

So here's the question. When a convicted
sex offender can email Rothschild, a

former prime minister of Israel, a
future Rothschild, a U .S. president's

lawyer, and say things like, I represent
the Rothschilds, and hopefully someone

suggests getting authorization now for
Iran, whose world are we actually living

in? Is this just a coincidence of rich
people knowing rich people? Or are we

getting a rare, unfiltered glimpse into
the true deep state, a shadowy banking

network that's been making a killing off
killing and writing the story since the

days of Hessian mercenaries and
Napoleon?

All right, guys, that is it for
tonight's show. Thank you so much for

us. We'll be back tomorrow with another
great show, 2 p .m. Pacific, 5 p .m.

Eastern. See you guys then. Bye -bye.