Ep. 10: Are Global Elites Engineering the Collapse of America? | Part 2 feat. EM Burlingame
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 11.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In this explosive episode, former Navy SEAL David Rutherford sits down with geopolitical strategist and author EM Burlingame to expose the Financialist Kill Chain—a 7-step system used by global elites to collapse nations and seize their wealth. From Wall Street’s roots in wartime espionage to modern-day cartel economics, this interview breaks down how intelligence agencies, banking systems, and black ops are used to enslave populations without firing a shot.
Discover why EM believes we’re entering Step 7: Collapse, how $1 trillion in dirty money is laundered through colonial banking networks, and why the U.S. may be the final host in this parasitic system.
If you're ready to wake up to the truth behind financial warfare and global manipulation, don’t miss this one.
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00:00 – Introduction & Setup
David introduces EM Burlingame and frames the conversation around global financial warfare and fear.
02:30 – What Is the Financialist Kill Chain?
EM defines the 7-step system used to enslave populations through economic manipulation.
06:00 – Historical Origins: From the British Empire to Wall Street
How World War I bankrupted the British aristocracy and transferred power to American financiers.
10:00 – Prohibition and the Rise of the Mob State
How illicit money flows corrupted U.S. banks and created the foundation of shadow finance.
13:45 – The CIA, Allen Dulles, and Global Economic Warfare
The role of intelligence agencies in embedding the kill chain through covert ops and investment banks.
18:30 – The $1 Trillion Liquidity Pipeline
How human trafficking, drugs, and crime fuel the global financial system—and why it makes a real economy unnecessary.
22:30 – Colonial Banking Networks and Foreign Aid Loops
How U.S. foreign assistance is funneled through colonial banks and back into elite hands.
27:00 – Step 7: Collapse – The Final Move in the Kill Chain
The elites are preparing for the endgame. What does collapse look like, and where do they hide?
31:00 – Why China and India Are the Last Battlegrounds
Burlingame’s analysis of resistance in China and whether India is the next host.
35:00 – Afghanistan: The Moment the Veil Fell
How the botched pullout exposed the truth behind U.S. control and intelligence operations.
38:00 – A Call to Action: Returning to First Principles
What Americans must do now—simplify, localize, and stop reacting in fear.
41:30 – Final Thoughts & Legacy of Courage
David and EM close with a powerful message about embracing fear and fighting back with purpose.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Now that you understand what the financialist kill chain is and the seven steps to |
| 0:10.0 | enslave people are, well, stand by for what E.M. Burling game talks about and what we're |
| 0:16.1 | dealing with now on the David Rutherford show. |
| 0:20.3 | This just hit a whole other court. |
| 0:22.5 | I don't know if you if you watch Tucker Carlson, but he just had a woman on Catherine Fritz |
| 0:27.9 | who used to be in the government and the Bush senior government and she ran kind of the |
| 0:34.1 | HUD and she's got this great news site called Solari, and they do these very |
| 0:40.3 | intense analysis of the economic mismanagement or redirection of economies. |
| 0:48.6 | And she actually had this really fascinating segment of it where she was saying, you know, when, you know, |
| 0:56.7 | and she went back to that famous, you know, September 10th, 2001, where Rumsfeld comes out and says, |
| 1:04.3 | yeah, we're unaccounted for $2.7 trillion. |
| 1:08.5 | And what she was hinting at her saying is that underneath all these structures, |
| 1:14.7 | right, I guess those structures of the seven, the steps that you were talking about, |
| 1:20.3 | they're funneling money out of the commoners into these other areas and other places through these different types of systems. |
| 1:30.5 | So for me, like, as you're saying this, I'm like, whoa, here's a person that was in. |
| 1:34.9 | And she actually was attacked for nine years, had to defend herself against the DOJ. |
| 1:39.3 | They tried to destroy her. |
| 1:41.1 | She was an investment banker and all this. |
| 1:43.1 | And they tried to completely destroy her. And it an investment banker and all this. And they tried to completely destroy her. |
| 1:46.6 | And it's like because she was exposing these hidden secrets of where the money is going |
| 1:53.1 | and funneling to. |
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