Inside the Ukraine-FTX Connection

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots, LLC

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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For $5 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and a chance to have your comment read on the show in the Absurd Arena at http://usefulidiots.substack.com For $5 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and a chance to have your comment read on the show in the Absurd Arena at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Click here for the full interview: https://open.substack.com/pub/usefulidiots/p/extended-episode-inside-the-ukraine?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Journalist Kit Klarenberg’s latest article at the Grayzone, “FTX partnership with Ukraine is latest chapter in shady Western aid saga,” sheds new light on the money-grabbing schemes emerging from the Ukraine proxy war. The report details how Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX, the crypto exchange that saw its valuation implode from $32B to $0 in a single day, used a Ukraine fundraiser to raise $60 million from donors. This was followed by the mass selloff of FTX currency and a declaration of bankruptcy from the scam company. This raises the question: where did the money for Ukraine go? Kit Klarenberg joins the Useful Idiots with the scoop. He, along with his fellow Grayzone writers, has been the subject of multiple attacks for uncovering stories like this and his other new piece: “Leaked documents: British spies constructing secret terror army in Ukraine.” It seems that when government officials and the corporate media don’t want the truth uncovered, they don’t argue against the story but make personal attacks against the writer as character assassination. And sadly, it works all too often. One such corporate official, Useful-Idiot-favorite of Scary Poppins fame Nina Jankowicz, went after Klarenberg on Twitter. Kit describes the online beef in the extended episode. (turns out we can’t see those tweets because…) Subscribe to hear the full interview, where Klarenberg reveals plots from UK operatives to blow up Ukrainian bridges, more Western destruction of peace talks, and how the US uses Britain to spread propaganda. It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out. Plus, catch our Thursday Throwdown on the near-nuclear Armageddon, Trump’s big announcement, and Aaron getting canceled by Olena Zelenska. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to YouSplidia. It's I'm Katie Halper.
0:07.0	And I'm Mary Matchek. How's it going, Katie?
0:09.0	I'm well. You know viewers may know and let's sort of
0:13.0	may know that Tuesday night I had a live show.
0:18.0	Some people came out to it. Some lovers of useful idiots came out to it.
0:22.0	Now Aaron maybe because I said that he'd maybe be there.
0:26.0	I didn't want people to be able to find him. So Aaron was MIA.
0:31.0	But that's okay because another useful idiot represented and then allow me to present to you.
0:37.0	A photographic piece of evidence from last night's live taping with the Katie Halper show with me go pellet at the people's
0:44.0	forum. And by the way, we're going to do a live taping of useful idiots. Just wait and see.
0:48.0	But here Wilson show this bit show this photo. Please look at that.
0:53.0	Wilson. Hey, here's Wilson. That's a photo of me and Wilson at the people's forum. Does anything stand out to you?
1:00.0	Wilson, you're a tall man. I mean, I didn't know that.
1:03.0	Oh, I had no idea. Yeah, I had no idea. So I've known Wilson for two years now. And I just had no idea he was tall.
1:10.0	I just thought he was an average height, heighted man.
1:13.0	Is it kind of like catching a photo of Bigfoot, useful idiots listeners have never actually seen me. Yeah. And out in the wild at least. Yeah.
1:19.0	And I think it's like, you know, I'm going to make it blurry and be walking in the background.
1:24.0	Yeah, throw down some snow or something, but yeah, so that was cool. So we missed you, Aaron. But we are grateful to all of those who came out.
1:31.0	Yeah, it was a great, great turnout. And I really recommend me go to the general sun.
1:36.0	And as always, everybody, if you want to go to usefullity.substack.com to support us and sign up and get bonus content.
1:44.0	And you can also use including the Thursday throwdown your mid week dose of media madness where this week we're talking about the World War three scare in Poland.
1:54.0	And also some highlights of Trump's underwhelming election kickoff campaign announcing his candidacy for 2024.
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