Geopolitics and Empire is joined by prolific researcher Alison McDowell of Wrench in thegears.com.

She has been covering all things related to the Great Reset, Fourth Industrial Revolution,

or what I prefer to call Fourth Reich, AI, biosecurity, VR, AR, social credit systems, digital currencies,

and much more.

Thank you for joining me, Alison.

And how has life been for you and what I will call the upside down or the new abnormal?

Well, I mean, on the one hand, it's terrible.

On the other hand, it's actually like a year into this and like being grounded and in connecting with other people.

Like recently it's gotten better in terms of feeling like I have some agency and things.

So I've connected with like a group of folks in New York City who are fighting the Excelsior past there,

who are really open to sort of interrogating things beyond just the biosecurity state, but how it interfaces

with the financial apparatus and other aspects of things I've been researching. So I'm kind of

excited this summer we're talking about doing like a bunch of field visits to kind of surface

this empire in Manhattan, which is exciting. So that part feels good. Just still navigating it is really

problematic. And I would say, like, even within personal relationships and family relationships,

it's still really hard. And I've been critiqued of late by people who are like, it's just

too stressful living with you. You know, can't you compartmentalize this and like set aside? And I'm like,

well, can you in the whole world right now? So it's sort of the two sides of, you know, the same

coin, I guess. Yeah, I can definitely relate to that. Before I get to my first question, I just wanted

to make a brief announcement for listeners that I'm betting that this interview may be pulled from

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