Welcome to the propaganda report. This is Monica Perez with my co-host Brad Binkley and our very special guest today, Allison McDowell, whom I know you've heard of because I've talked about her so many times on the show ever since I saw her on the higher side chats.

She is a masterful researcher and is pulling back the curtains on the powers that be and what they're actually doing kind of answering the question as who are they what is their vision and how are they getting there and this is something that I any one of those questions I think

Allison is probably able to speak on for hours at a time and her website has

webinars that go for hours and they are worth listening to twice.

So our hope today is just give you an overview of some of the things that she's discovered,

see what directions she wants to point us in and then go dig into her work. So, Allison, without further do, please say

hello and tell us where people can find you and just let's launch this.

Okay, sure.

So I'm based in Philadelphia, you know, I'm a mom, I'm an independent researcher and I came into the stuff

through fighting privatization of public education.

So that's sort of my background.

I have a blog. I've been blogging for the past five years about maybe not even quite five years. It started out primarily around education issues and then morphed into technological surveillance and finance and now synthetic biology, cyborg capitalism evidently is sort of where it's gone. And because I live in Philadelphia,

there are a lot of things happening at a local level

that tie in to sort of these macro global trends.

And so I have this interesting,

my background is actually an art history and historic preservation and landscape.

So I do a lot of primary research, but then I think I have a way of synthesizing things that is particularly appropriate to being on a very historic landscape with many layers of history that are intersecting up to these present day financial instruments and technological instruments. So I have my blog is called Wrench in the Gears.com,

Wrench like the tool.

It's after David Fry Noble and his brother Douglas who were profound wrenches in the systems of higher education privatization.

And I also have a YouTube channel, which if you just look up my name Allison McDowell,

ALI S-O-N-M-C-D-O-W-E-L-E-L-E-L-I-S-N-M-C-D-O-E-L-E-L-E-L-S-N, M C D'O-E-E-L-E-L-E-L-S-N, He's helping me with my website. We actually now on the website have a video box with a lot of

Talks there that are easily accessible. I want to talk about your last appearance on his show too as one of the topics I want to hit or the context for that.

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