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TheShadowEmpire

This is a top-level collection for notes on the Shadow Empire; named after the series by Jason Mironchuck. It builds on work by a lot of people, including E.M. Burlingame, Tom Luongo, Jim Jatras, Stormy Waters, and others. It's going to be part unhinged notes while listening to the series, transcribed from handwritten notes.

Episodes 1-4

  • Carlyle Group
  • LIBOR vs SOFR
  • Rumble -> Peter Thiel network
    • e.g., Scott Adams
    • Poles: Andrew Wilson, Russel Brand
  • A lot of the discussion reminds me of EM Burlingame's GFKC discussions.

The Dutch

  • House of Orange
  • Venetian Bankers
    • Mehmed II
    • Milvian Bridge
    • Glorious Revolution
    • "The bank of England is a holding company."
  • The Spider's Web:
    • Cayman
    • Bahamas
    • Guernsey
    • Jersey
    • Gibraltar
    • Hong Kong
  • People:
    • Geert Wilder
    • Mark Rudy
  • McKinder strategy
    • Applied to Saudi Arabia too
    • Setting up UAE as a new Amsterdam
    • China: elevated Xi to fight this
    • Russia: elevated Putin to fight this
    • GWOT expended Americans
    • What population has the young men who can be expended in war? The Jihadis, already embedded everywhere.
  • New work: Hypothecate
  • One of the things Henry Ford did was he didn't trust the Pinkertons.
  • The feudal system developed in direct refutation of Rome
  • The states rights are supposed to provide the decentralized pushback against the federal government to prevent prætorians from rising up
    • Like in feudal systems everyone had to have arms to fight on behalf of the king
    • Federalist paper #84
    • British didn't try to suppress the colonial revolt because of taxes, but because the colonies stopped adhering to the courts
  • The importance of SOFR