Hello and welcome to my new podcast, Subcutaneous. If you enjoyed Under the Skin, you'll love this,

because Subcutaneous means under the skin, but it's probably a slightly fancier word.

We're going to dive deeply into the minds of people like Elon Musk, Vandana Shiva, and Eckhart Toll.

Now, there's a cost of living crisis devouring our planet.

Wherever you are in the world, it's likely that you are being impeded,

that you're experiencing an energy crisis.

In our country, the UK, our energy bills are doubling in size.

Perhaps this is because we are seeing the neoliberal experiment reaching its crescendo. Julian Assange was, of course, famous for saying that the function of modern government was to extract public

money and to place it in private hands. Think simply of the example of the funding for the recent

vaccines. Do you know how those vaccines were funded in the experimental phase? You funded them.

Taxpayer money funded that experimentation. Do you know what happened when it came to paying for them?

You paid for them. It was your tax money that paid for them. Today in our conversation with

Janis Verifakis, we talk about how a financial elite has reached a state of total domination around the world. How there isn't just one

planet, there are several. There are invisible barriers that prevent you accessing power and

prevent these elites ever being made accountable. We're going to talk about how the financial

system has been managed by the US from a surplus of dollars and high exports to the financial

crash of 2008.

This is going to make you a lot smarter. Please, now enjoy this extract from subcutaneous. That's

our deep conversation. So deep it gets under the skin. I wanted to call it something like cut to the bone,

but people said, that sounds disgusting. After the 2008 crash, whether you were living in a European nation or the United States of America,

ordinary people generally suffered.

The consequences of that crash are perhaps being felt still exacerbated by the pandemic.

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