OBDM1326 - The Hidden Hand with Richard Grove

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00:00:00 – Meeting Richard Grove
Warm intro with Richard Grove: Pittsburgh roots, shoes and job-site footwear, then straight into Grove's history with John Taylor Gatto and how Gatto's ideas on schooling-as-indoctrination reshaped his worldview. Personal stories about helping Gatto after his stroke and preserving his work.

00:10:00 – Gatto's Legacy & Foundation Power
Recap of Gatto resigning as NY Teacher of the Year; the Reese Committee, Norman Dodd, and how Carnegie/Rockefeller/Ford foundations nudged policy and education. Language, printing press, and information control as the real levers of power.

00:20:00 – Multi-Generational Networks
Banks and industrialists funding both sides of conflicts; the supra-political layer above parties and nations. Grove demos his research "Brain" map and traces threads through RAND, CFR, common core authors, Rhodes scholars, and Anglo-American planning.

00:30:00 – Wilson's Warning & Debunking Debunkers
Woodrow Wilson's "shadow power" passage and how quotes get straw-manned online. How "fact-checks" poison the well by refuting claims no one actually made—keeping the real discussion off-limits.

00:40:00 – Money, Markets, and the Trivium
Goldbacks and parallel money at liberty festivals; why cartelized finance isn't "capitalism." Education deliberately omits the Trivium (grammar → logic → rhetoric), creating literate but uncritical citizens. Reframing learning as input/process/output.

00:50:00 – Empire by Other Means
UK DCDC future-war documents; the British Empire's evolution into a covert commonwealth model using U.S. power. Cecil Rhodes's plan to pull America back into the imperial fold via a cadre—seed of the Rhodes Scholarships.

01:00:00 – The Will of Rhodes
Grove details Rhodes's will, the Rothschild link, and how Rhodes Scholars (Clinton, Talbott, etc.) shape U.S. institutions. "From cowboys to gentlemen": reforming American attitudes to match British elite preferences.

01:10:00 – Occult, Culture, and Soft Power
Fabian socialists, spiritualist circles, and mystery-school currents around British politics; cultural capture from lawns to the British Invasion. Occult motifs and "initiated" knowledge as social glue for elites.

01:20:00 – Becoming a Whistleblower
Grove's Sarbanes–Oxley compliance work; discovering audit-trail backdoors that let firms erase records; pushback, retaliation, and years of litigation. How lived experience hardened his stance against institutional corruption.

01:30:00 – 9/11 Anomalies Deep Dive
Pentagon inconsistencies, missing (orange) black boxes, and security-cam gaps; "Pilots for 9/11 Truth" (Rob Balsamo) analyses; the "dancing Israelis" arrest and quiet deportations. Media scripting vs. physics and flight-path questions; drills/foreknowledge discussions and why these details still matter.

01:40:00 – Epstein, Pizzagate & Media Lines
They hash through the Epstein network and culture's selective outrage: UK's Savile cover-ups vs. U.S. media skittishness; social feed reactions; speculation about Trump's possible informant role; Clinton associations. The broader theme: blackmail, intelligence services, and why cases like these get memory-holed.

01:50:00 – Assange, Censorship & Platforms
Assange's background and the years in the Ecuadorian embassy; intelligence community pressure and narrative-management. Broader talk on censorship, de-platforming, alt-video (e.g., Odysee), and keeping shows listener-supported. Tease for live podcasting and how/why independent media survives.

02:00:00 – Skills, Autonomy & Sign-Off
Grove's path from 2006 podcasting to building communities and courses (AUTONOMY): teaching durable skills, critical thinking, and entrepreneurial value creation. Invitation to listeners: learn the method, find your people, make a meaningful living. Thanks and goodbyes.