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Daily Transmission â Episode: âThe Collapse Theyâre Engineeringâ
This is education, not instruction. Youâre responsible for your own choices. Full legal disclaimer in show notes. Understood? Good.â
[OPENING - 45 seconds]
George Monty.TrueLife.Rites of Passage.
You are not witnessing chaos.You are not experiencing random crisis.You are being consolidatedâand theyâve engineered the next collapse to transfer what little you still own into their vaults while youâre too busy surviving to resist.
Right now, think about what youâd do in a real crisis.Do it.Financial collapse. Supply chain failure. Grid shutdown. Bank runs.
Where would you go?What would you eat?How would you access your money?Who would you rely on?
That vulnerability you feel?Thatâs not paranoia.Thatâs accurate threat assessment.
Because that crisis isnât coming randomly.Itâs being engineered. Right now. By the same people who profited from the last one.
Thatâs not conspiracy theory.Thatâs 2025âs planned consolidationâthe systematic preparation for controlled collapse designed to eliminate independent businesses, seize assets at pennies on the dollar, and ensure that when the dust settles, six companies own everything and you own nothing.
They call it âmarket correctionâ in economic forecasts.But itâs orchestrated transfer: Deliberate destabilization timed for maximum extraction, where crisis becomes opportunity for those positioned to profit, and catastrophe for everyone caught unprepared.
Ancient conquest required armies; now they just crash the system and buy the ruins.
[EVIDENCE SECTION - 3 minutes]
2008 wasnât a failure of the systemâit was the system working exactly as designed. Banks got bailouts. Homeowners got evictions. Wealth transferred upward by $4 trillion while 10 million families lost homes that BlackRock then bought for 30 cents on the dollar.
And now theyâre preparing to do it again. Bigger.
Commercial real estate is holding $2.9 trillion in debt coming due 2025-2027 with $1.5 trillion worth less than their loan values. Banks know this. Theyâre not calling the loansâyet. Theyâre waiting for coordinated collapse to trigger bailouts while seizing buildings in bulk.
Regional banks hold $3.8 trillion in unrealized losses on bond portfolios, hidden by accounting tricks that expire in 2025. When mark-to-market rules enforce reality, 200+ regional banks become insolvent simultaneouslyâbut the mergers are already negotiated in private.
Corporate debt has ballooned to $13.7 trillion with $5.2 trillion at junk status, but default rates remain mysteriously low despite 40% of companies not generating enough cash to cover interest. Theyâre being kept alive deliberatelyâzombified until the controlled demolition.
But hereâs what theyâre not reporting on CNBC: The same companies that bought 2008âs ruins have raised record âdry powderâ investment funds, totaling $3.7 trillion in cash specifically designated for âdistressed asset acquisition.â
BlackRockâs Strategic Opportunity Fund XIII raised $22.4 billion in 2024âtheir largest distressed fund ever. Apollo Global raised $48 billion for âopportunistic strategies.â KKR raised $19 billion for âspecial situations.â
Theyâre not predicting collapse.Theyâre planning it.
The leaked 2024 Citadel internal memo states: âOptimal acquisition window opens when regional bank failures exceed 15% quarterly, unemployment crosses 8%, and foreclosure inventory reaches critical massâmodels suggest Q3 2025-Q1 2026 timeline.â
They have a DATE. They have a STRATEGY. Theyâre WAITING.
The playbook consolidates:
First, create the conditionsâinflate asset prices beyond sustainability, load corporations with unpayable debt, ensure small businesses operate on razor margins where one shock means closure.
Then, trigger the crisisâcoordinate regulatory changes, interest rate spikes, supply disruptions, anything that creates simultaneous pressure across sectors, causing cascade failures.
Finally, position for extractionâhave capital ready, acquisition targets identified, regulatory approval pre-negotiated, so when assets hit distressed prices, youâre the only buyer with money.
[PREPARATION EVIDENCE - 2 minutes]
Document the preparation happening right now:
Small Business Lending: Down 38% year-over-year despite strong demand. Banks arenât lending because they WANT failures. Healthy businesses canât get capital, will default, will sell cheap. This is pre-positioning through starvation.
Commercial Real Estate Loan Extensions: Banks extending terms on unpayable debt rather than foreclosingâwarehousing the crisis until coordinated collapse allows bulk acquisition.
Strategic Reserve Drawdowns: U.S. food reserves at lowest levels since 1980s, grain stockpiles depleted, strategic petroleum reserve drainedâcreating maximum vulnerability to supply shocks they can trigger.
Bank Consolidation Acceleration: 465 bank mergers 2020-2024, eliminating regional competition, ensuring fewer, larger entities control money supply when crisis hits. When regional banks fail, mega-banks absorb them with federal assistanceâconcentration by design.
Digital Dollar Infrastructure: Federal Reserveâs FedNow system operational, CBDC infrastructure tested, regulatory framework readyâwaiting for crisis to justify mandatory adoption where they control your money directly.
But the consolidation runs deeper than financeâitâs systematic across all critical systems:
Food Supply: Four companies control 85% of beef processing. When supply shocks hit, theyâre positioned to acquire remaining independent producers for nothing.
Energy Infrastructure: Grid consolidation under private equity, ensuring that when transition happens, same entities maintain control through new subscription models.
Healthcare Networks: Hospital mergers accelerating, independent practices closing at record rates, preparing for crisis that forces remaining independents to sell or close.
[THE VULNERABILITY - 90 seconds]
Hereâs what theyâre not advertising:
Coordinated collapse requires precise timing across multiple sectors. They need simultaneous pressureâreal estate, banking, employment, supply chainsâto trigger the cascade. If any sector stabilizes independently, the coordination breaks and collapse becomes chaotic (bad for them) rather than controlled (profitable for them).
Their model assumes atomized sectors that donât coordinate counter-responses. Theyâre positioned for specific failure patterns. Unexpected resilience in any major sector disrupts the timeline and extraction efficiency.
More critically: Their dry powder funds are time-limited. Most distressed funds have 5-7 year investment windows. Money raised in 2023-2024 MUST be deployed by 2028-2030 or gets returned to investors at losses. If the collapse doesnât happen on their timeline, they lose positioning.
Additionally: Their acquisition models assume specific price points. BlackRockâs models work at 30-40% below peak prices. Above that, returns donât justify acquisition. Below that, assets are worthless. They need the collapse calibrated within a narrow range.
This isnât speculationâitâs in their investor presentations. BlackRock Real Estate, Q4 2024 Investor Call: âOpportunistic deployment requires market dislocations of 30-40% to generate target returns of 15-20% IRR.â
Translation: They need prices to fall EXACTLY that much, no more, no less.
[THE MECHANISM - 2 minutes]
What breaks their controlled collapse?
Sector Resilience Through Coordination:
When independent businesses in threatened sectors coordinate mutual supportâshared resources, collective bargaining with suppliers, regional lending cooperativesâthey create stability that resists coordinated pressure.
Example: Independent grocery stores forming buying cooperatives match big-box pricing, survive pressure that would kill them individually.
Alternative Infrastructure:
Every parallel systemâlocal currencies, time banks, mutual aid networks, community land trusts, food cooperativesâreduces dependence on systems they control. Collapse only works if you NEED what theyâre positioned to exclusively provide.
Asset Protection Through Collective Ownership:
When neighborhoods form land trusts, workers buy their factories, tenants collectively purchase buildingsâassets canât be bought in bulk at distressed prices because thereâs no distressed seller.
Information Disruption:
Their timeline requires surprise. When populations understand the pattern, prepare for specific shocks, position defensivelyâpanic doesnât set in, distress sales donât happen at scale, prices donât crash to acquisition targets.
Informed populations that prepare collectively disrupt extraction efficiency.
[TONIGHTâS ACTION - 90 seconds]
Tonightâs action: 90 seconds, assess your exposure.
List your critical dependencies:
â Food (how many days without grocery stores?)
â Water (if tap stops, then what?)
â Money (if banks close, can you access cash?)
â Energy (if grid fails, how do you heat/cool?)
â Medicine (if pharmacies close, what happens?)
For each one, answer: How many days can I last independently?
That numberâthatâs your vulnerability window.Thatâs how long youâre dependent on systems they control.Thatâs how much leverage they have over you during controlled collapse.
Now ask: Who in my immediate area shares these vulnerabilities?Your neighbors are in the same situation.Your coworkers face the same exposure.Your community has the same dependencies.
That shared vulnerability is either shared helplessnessâor the foundation for shared resilience.
[COORDINATION - 60 seconds]
Controlled collapse requires isolated desperation where everyone sells individually to the only buyers with capital.
Coordinated resilience means communities that prepare together, share resources during crisis, protect each otherâs assets, and present collective bargaining power to opportunistic buyers.
One family selling their foreclosed home to BlackRock: no leverage.Twenty families on the same block forming a land trust before foreclosure: BlackRock canât acquire the block.
One worker losing their job in small business closure: desperation wages at Amazon.Fifty workers collectively buying their closing employer: business continues, jobs protected.
The mechanism exists. The vulnerability is documented. The choice is yours.
[CLOSING - 30 seconds]
[3 seconds of dead airâcount it. Feel the collapse approaching⊠then feel the foundation solidify.]
That solidity?Itâs the sound of coordination disrupting extraction.
Expose the collapse theyâre planning,and you become unconsolidatable.
George Monty.TrueLife.Rites of Passage.
Tomorrow we unmask the identity theyâll assign to track everything.
I consent to nothing I havenât chosen.
Stay prepared.Stay coordinated.
[Final pulseâ7 secondsâthen silence.]