Hey, you're listening to Unlimited Hangout. I'm your host, Whitney Webb.

It should be clear to regular listeners of this podcast that we live in a time of extraordinary deceit,

and that such deceit is regular and now normalized behavior on the part of both the private sector and the public sector.

For those that spend a considerable amount of time analyzing how such deceit and accompanying acts of corruption

and criminal activity are so commonplace and rarely, if ever, investigated, it quickly

becomes clear that the way we have been conditioned to believe the world works, that is,

the public sector overseas and regulates the private sector to prevent and prosecute illegal

activity and so on is a deliberate fabrication.

Critical questions that arise from this realization include the following.

What is the role of the public sector today if our governments are in fact not setting policy

and not fulfilling their purported roles? Who then is actually creating policy? Is it merely

the private sector having overtaken the public through corporate capture?

Or are there other groups and structures who were driving the decision-making processes of both the private and public sectors behind closed doors?

The examination of the bigger picture of who is actually creating and driving policy and the real power structures of our

world today has been fraught with problems for years, as different commentators and analysts

have often sought to point the finger at only this group or that group, obscuring the tapestry

of different factions and institutions vying to be our overlords. However, the task is nonetheless an important one, and it wasn't until I stumbled upon the recent work of my guest today that I had seen what I consider to be the most rational and cohesive explanation for the current power structure that is not only responsible for a current situation, but also that which is driving us into the so-called fourth industrial

revolution and more aptly named techno-fascism at full speed.

Joining me to discuss his critical work, not just on his analysis of the powers that be,

which he aptly names the global public-private partnership,

but also his work on the multiple and multifaceted layers of

deceit that have defined the COVID-19 crisis is Ian Davis. Ian is a writer and researcher based

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