#330 - Soft Blackmail, Epstein, Palantir Military Targeting & Pentagon Contagion | Ken Klippenstein

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🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 177 minutes

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0:00.0	When did it start to click for you where you're like, oh, this shit is nothing like what I thought.
0:04.8	People don't understand how this really works.
0:06.9	The entirety of the system.
0:08.0	People at the very top, they don't want transparency.
0:10.2	Look at the meltdown on the part of the JFK stuff being declassified half a century later.
0:15.0	If you're going to do that about this, how can I believe anything that you say?
0:18.0	Did you go through those doctors?
0:19.2	Some of them, yes.
0:19.8	What'd you think? Story after story, they refused to publish documents that they're in possession of. The other one would be the Vangione manifesto. Clearly huge public interest in it. And again, it's just, no, we can't talk about this. You see this all the time. In the case of Epstein, there was something extraordinary in the Justice Department review that the Trump administration did that hardly got any attention, which was that he had a thousand victims.
0:39.0	What had been alleged by prosecutors before that was like two dozen or so. And I'm like, wait a second, that's a big jump. So how much they get away with? I want to see what can I know about it? So I would say the most dystopian thing I saw was that... Hey guys, if you're not following me on Spotify, please hit that follow button and leave a five-star review.
0:55.9	They're both a huge huge help. Thank you. Hey guys, if you're not following me on Spotify, please hit that follow button and leave a five-star review.
0:55.9	They're both a huge, huge help.
0:57.3	Thank you.
0:57.7	Yeah, for sure.
1:07.9	Yeah.
1:08.3	I mean, you got to be a self-starter, which I am, and I assume you are, because I see other people.
1:14.5	Do you have this experience?
1:15.7	They go, what do I do?
1:17.3	It's like, what do you mean?
1:17.8	You can do whatever you want.
1:18.8	And that's the beauty of it.
1:19.9	And they're just like, tell me what to do.
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