Journalist Whitney Webb discusses her book, 'One Nation Under Blackmail,' which investigates Jeffrey Epstein’s connections to intelligence agencies and organized crime.
Webb explains that former US Attorney Alex Acosta was reportedly told Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' and was 'above his pay grade.' The book argues that Epstein's activities were not limited to sex trafficking but also included financial crimes and arms trafficking, often in concert with powerful institutions.
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Whitney Webb explains how Leslie Wexner privatized Ohio’s state government, and is using his position between the markets and the state to build out the ‘Silicon Heartland’.
Timeline:
(00:00) Intro
(03:10) Who is Leslie Wexner?
(07:09) What is the agenda behind the data centers?
(14:46) What is the vision of Big Tech?
(17:18) Privatizing state funds
(20:02) Mike DeWine’s connections to Leslie Wexner
(21:08) What are public-private-partnerships?
(25:08) Israeli ties to the tech companies
(28:49) Anduril and the Thiel network
(32:11) Smart Columbus
(34:59) Totalitarian capitalism
(41:03) Outro
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In this explosive Independent Media Alliance (IMA) panel, we dive deep into the hottest debate in independent media right now: AI “Sloppy Copy” — the flood of low-effort, AI-generated content that’s threatening authenticity, creativity, and the very soul of alternative journalism.
James Corbett (The Corbett Report), Whitney Webb (Unlimited Hangout), Ryan Christian (The Last American Vagabond / TLAV), Kit Knightly (OffGuardian), and a stacked lineup of independent voices debate the real questions:Should independent creators use AI at all — even for research, thumbnails, or transcription?
Where do you draw the line between helpful tool and soul-crushing slop?
Is AI destroying human skills, homogenizing thought, and enabling mass surveillance & narrative control?
What about the massive data centers, power consumption, water usage, and the technocratic push for total information awareness?
Raw, unfiltered, and full of personal stories, heated exchanges, and hard-won wisdom from people who have been fighting for truth long before ChatGPT existed.This is not your average AI hype video — it’s a serious, solutions-oriented discussion on how we protect human creativity and independent media in the age of artificial intelligence.
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Jimmy welcomes back to the show investigative journalist and author Whitney Webb to discuss her explosive new investigation revealing how billionaire Leslie Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein built a corporate welfare state in Ohio, creating a model of "public-private partnerships" that privatized government, funneled billions in taxpayer money to big tech data centers, and is now driving up electricity bills while gutting public schools and healthcare.
Webb details how Wexner created a de facto private government in his hometown of New Albany, Ohio, which evolved into Jobs Ohio—a private corporation that controls the state's liquor tax revenue with zero public accountability—and has become the blueprint for a techno-feudal state promoted by the "dark enlightenment" figures like Peter Thiel and JD Vance.
She warns that Ohio is a petri dish for a nationwide takeover, where data centers are replacing public infrastructure, digital IDs are mandatory, and federal legislation is stripping local governments of the power to resist.
Webb also dissects the coordinated effort by Compact Magazine, Peter Thiel, and Soros-funded outlets to dismiss the Epstein scandal, and raises concerns about Joe Kent's emergence as a potential controlled opposition figure designed to manufacture a "domestic terrorist" profile the government can later use against anti-war populists.
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In this powerful commentary, Whitney Webb dissects the chilling implications of The Age of AI: And Our Human Future, co-authored by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and geopolitical architect Henry Kissinger. While the book presents itself as a sober warning about the future of artificial intelligence, Webb argues it’s more a blueprint for technocratic dominance—a future where a small elite shapes AI's objectives while the rest of humanity becomes passive subjects of its influence.
The discussion explores how AI threatens to create a divided society, not simply by economic inequality, but by a deeper cognitive split: those who understand and control AI versus those rendered increasingly incapable of independent thought. Through convenience and overreliance, we risk surrendering not just skills, but our capacity for creativity, decision-making, and even self-awareness.
Webb warns that this path could lead to a post-human future in which AI becomes a new religion and humanity is spiritually hollowed, commodified, and ultimately controlled. The antidote? A cultural return to human creativity, soul-driven expression, and conscious resistance to the subtle erosion of our autonomy.
Description: Guess what?! The Epstein files are about to be released? So what does this mean?...Well, it's not what you think. Join James for a trip down the Epstein / Trump / deep state rabbit hole on this deep dive edition of The Corbett Report podcast..
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Whitney Webb of UnlimitedHangout.com joins James once again, this time to discuss her new, epic, 900-page, two-volume tour de force, One Nation Under Blackmail. In this conversation, Webb and Corbett dive into the sordid tale of Epstein and his compatriots and begin to unravel the incredibly complex web of the intelligence/organized crime/blackmail syndicate.
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Whitney and John Klyczek discuss how Big Tech, led by the PayPal Mafia, and neo-conservative think tanks are converging to influence Trump administration education policy and education financing.
Chapters:
00:02:33 – School Choice
00:10:12 – Libertarians, Neoconservatives and Trump’s Education Policy
00:18:13 – Wearables
00:20:16 – Rebuilding Trust
00:25:06 – Trump pledge to make the US the World Capital of Crypto and AI
00:32:37 – Digital ID
00:46:22 – Milei
00:57:55 – Trump crackdown on Woke Idealogy
01:02:46 – AI and Predictive Policing
01:04:39 – AI in Schools
01:25:57 – Closing
In this episode, Whitney is joined by Mark Goodwin to discuss how the passage of the GENIUS Act is the culmination of decades of the PayPal Mafia’s efforts in the digital finance space.
Chapters
00:03:43: The Chain – Unlimited Hangout Series
00:06:53: Stablecoins
00:16:31: PayPal
00:31:17: Tether and FTX
00:45:50: Trump and Bank Deregulation
00:57:44: Stablecoins: Where the Carrot Meets the Stick
01:06:51: Public-Private Partnerships
01:19:47: Palantir
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Whitney Webb explains why Phase 1 of the Epstein Files that Trump released are so toothless and tells us what he's hiding -- and why Epstein's financial crimes get overlooked in favor or Epstein's sex crimes.
00:00 Trump’s limited release of what was said to be phase 1 of the Epstein Files
01:35 Why were Epstein’s other residences not raided?
02:35 Elon Musk’s involvement with Jeffery Epstein and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman
03:37 Larry Page and Sergei Brin of Google and Thomas Pritzker of Hyatt
04:27 Epstein’s financial crimes go unnoticed amidst all the reporting on his sex crimes
05:37 The Governor of Illinois J.B. Pritzker and organized crime connections to Barack Obama
06:20 The Crown Family’s connection to J.P. Morgan and Leslie Wexner
07:15 Whitney Webb does not regularly watch Megyn Kelly’s show
07:47 Epstein’s infamous client list
08:38 Transparency is no substitute for prosecution, Wexner’s connection to Bear Sterns and the 2008 Financial Crisis
09:26 Bipartisan secrets and why Trump isn’t going after the Democrats implicated in Epstein’s crimes
Whitney Webb exposes the real connections between Jeffery Epstein and Israel and how the CIA, the mafia, and Wall Street collude to organize assassinations and manipulate global geopolitics.
00:00 How Jewish American Pedophiles Hide in Israel
01:15 Connections to intelligence and the mob
03:02 Intelligence agencies aren’t at the top of the food chain, they work for somebody else - Wall Street
04:40 The history of US involvement in arming paramilitary groups that eventually became the IDF
06:44 Lucky Luciano’s connection to Mussolini, ethno-fascism and Israel
08:08 Epstein’s stronger connection to Israeli military intelligence vs Mossad
10:15 Leslie Wexner’s ties to Israeli officials
Whitney Webb has been a professional writer, researcher and journalist since 2016. She has written for several websites and, from 2017 to 2020, was a staff writer and senior investigative reporter for Mint Press News. She currently writes for Unlimited Hangout. She is the author of the book One Nation Under Blackmail. Recently her work was referenced by Ian Carroll on the Joe Rogan Podcast
In this episode, Whitney is joined by Iain Davis to discuss his recent article series on the philosophy and political theories that motivate the PayPal Mafia and their most prominent members like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk.
In this episode, Whitney is joined by UH contributor Max Jones to discuss the influence of the PayPal Mafia’s Peter Thiel on Trump’s HHS, the likely policies of a RFK-led HHS, and what the expansion of the contracts between HHS and the Thiel-founded Palantir portend for the expansion of the surveillance state.
Everyone's been focused on RFK Jr in the hearing. But what people may be are ignoring certainly in the MAGA movement, the deputy secretary, Jim O'Neill, who would also be confirmed.
Whitney Webb has been a professional writer, researcher, and journalist since 2016. She has written for several websites and, from 2017 to 2020, was a staff writer and senior investigative reporter for Mint Press News.
She currently writes for Unlimited Hangout and contributes to The Last American Vagabond. She hosts an independent podcast called Unlimited Hangout and is the author of the books 'One Nation Under Blackmail' Vol 1 and 2.
Her work aims to highlight under-reported issues and find common ground between people of different political persuasions regarding corruption, government overreach, the lack of accountability for militaries and intelligence agencies, and the military industrial complex.
Timestamps:
0:00:00 - 2:40 - Intro
0:02:40 - 6:39 - The Changing Media Landscape
0:06:39 - 12:30 - Whitney's backstory
0:12:30 - 23:53 - Who Took Over Epstein's Operation?
0:23:53 - 28:48 - Digital Blackmail
0:28:48 - 37:00 - Palantir & Mass Surveillance
0:37:00 - 49:00 - Predictive Policing & AI
0:49:00 - 58:12 - How the Elites view humanity
0:58:12 - 1:06:40 - Depopulation Propaganda
1:06:40 - 1:13:26 - Dystopian AI, Transhuman Future
1:13:26 - 1:21:20 - AI Brain Rot & Creative Atrophy
1:21:20 - 1:30:50 - Billionaire Culture Grift
1:30:50 - 1:35:33 - Illusion of Division
1:35:33 - 1:42:00 - Ideological Subversion, the war for perception
1:42:00 - 1:45:00 - Authoritarian Power Games
1:45:00 - 1:53:35 - How to Keep Your Sanity
1:53:35 - 1:58:45 - Why Whitney Left America?
1:58:45 - 2:03:34 - Are you afraid for your safety?
Whitney Webb is being digitally repersoned. What does this mean for the future of AI and digital ID? What does this mean for the future of humanity? And can it motivate us to create a post-social media internet landscape? Find out in this fascinating Corbett Report interview.
In this episode, Whitney is joined by Dr. Jacob Nordangard to describe the early influence of oligarchs like the Rockefeller clan in the development of the UN and other international institutions, efforts to hijack the environmental movement to further corporate control of planetary resources, and the UN policy agendas seeking to digitalize and surveil both people and planet.
Investigative journalist Whitney Webb and researcher Mark Goodwin join the show to discuss the next four years of America under Trump's presidency after the historic election.
Webb provides a deep analysis of the potential challenges and concerns surrounding Trump's cabinet picks, intelligence connections, and the future of digital currencies. This critical conversation examines how the deep state's influence might persist despite campaign promises, exploring the complex relationship between Wall Street, big tech, and America's political landscape. A must-watch for anyone concerned about surveillance, privacy, and financial freedom.
Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:01:43 - Trump savior narrative
0:10:59 - Bitkey & Coinkite
0:12:57 - Trump coalition
0:22:02 - Epstein blackmail on both sides
0:31:36 - SOTE
0:32:09 - A new form of intelligence agency
0:50:51 - Stablecoin CBDCs
1:03:36 - Trump’s policy’s and cabinet appointments
1:13:16 - Politicians learning from bitcoin
1:18:46 - Big pharma and problems with deregulation
1:25:53 - Back to stablecoins
1:46:37 - Justifying crackdowns, Ross and Samurai
1:52:32 - Lightspark tease
In this episode, Whitney is joined by independent media veteran James Corbett to discuss the upcoming US presidential election, how it differs from previous cycles and why rejecting the corrupt political duopoly is more important than ever.
Today the Independent Media Alliance brings you a panel on the rise of the digital ID, and how it is a foundational part of the growing technocratic agenda.
We will discuss the interesting way that digital IDs continue to be the "solution" to whatever "problem" is currently facing the people, and how those problems can usually be traced back to the very government proposing the so-called solution.
We will highlight the differing dialects used to promote digital ID by the different sides of the government, to give the illusion of opposition, yet show how all lead to the same outcome, and how all of this leads to the technocratic control structure that will enslave Democrats and Republicans alike.
