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100 Days of Middle Nation Challenge: the OCGFC

Middle Nation · 2 Aug 2025 · 62:45 · YouTube

I'm sorry it has to be vertical for some reason. Yeah. I wanted to do a normal, horizontal one, but for some reason it Welcome everyone.

And everyone else, Brenda, So today, we are going to talk about

You're gonna have to speak up a little bit because I got the mic on.

Okay. So we're gonna talk about the first video that was launched for the one hundred days of Middle Nation challenge. And the first video was divided into two days. So I mean, the content of the video was to be consumed and talked about over the course of two days. And

And which video was that again?

This is the OCGFC is not a conspiracy.

Ah, the OCGFC is not a conspiracy. Correct.

Yeah. So this that would be a number of videos on this theme of the OCGFC. So tomorrow, there will be a different the launch of a different video. I'm not gonna talk But about at the end of every launch of a video, like now, for this first video, it it was divided into two weeks. And we will go live.

The intention, the plan is to go live. So the next video will have a three day course, and then we'll go live on the third day.

Right.

Yeah. So so we are most of us have embarked on day two of the video, of the OCTFC video.

Well, I think I think in the West, it's just in the morning now

Yes.

Of day two

Yes.

Like mid morning.

Yeah. So a lot of us have completed day one, and we have looked at some of the videos and as well as the content that's trending in prayer. And it's very encouraging that we have joined the challenge. And for those who just joined us, we will just do a brief. We are going through one hundred days of new nation challenge where we would have key videos that Shahid has produced over the over the past two or three years.

Well, fact, we just had the birthday of the channel

Exactly.

On the on the July 31, so it is what? Four years.

Four years.

Four years. But but in the beginning, we it was roughly about a year or so where it was just our moon content. Was Close about two years.

Yeah. Yeah. General social.

Yeah. I think it became it became right around the time of the Ukraine war is when we changed it to Middle Nation. Mhmm. And got to actually talk about the things that are interesting to me instead of the all of the relationship, gender, nonsense.

Yeah. And so back to the videoing question. So we we are going to discuss some

of

the content that you have produced over the hundred days. It's not going to be a video a day.

Right.

So we are calling on viewers on of the content to produce to to con to observe the the channel, the telegram channel for the daily prompts in urging you to watch the videos and then in producing content. And details are are provided in the telegram group. So please hop on over to the telegram group, the Middle Nation telegram group for details.

Can everyone sorry. Can everyone hear my wife when she's speaking? I hope. Yeah. Please.

And I'm I'm wearing a mic so that you'll be able to hear me very clearly insha'Allah, but I don't know if it's picking her voice up enough. Just talking about the nature of the hundred day Yes. Middle Nation Challenge. Okay. You can hear.

Everyone is oh, okay. A little bit low. Okay. So I'll just pick up a little bit for Yeah. Who can't sound far.

Yeah. Because I don't have a microphone on.

Yeah. We just have the one wireless mic to go to the device, unfortunately.

Alright. So so we've gone through the first video. Is the OCGFC a conspiracy? So on day one, we were basically clarifying what the OCGFC means. I think this is a term that for those who are familiar with the channel

You'll know you'll know you'll know the origin of it. Yeah. I mean, I I I used to just refer to it as the owners and controllers of global financialized capital, but obviously that's quite bulky.

Yeah.

So I shortened it to just making it very easy though, CGFC. Yes. I think that it's really important to understand. I mean, and this is it's been a while. Know you played the video, but I wasn't really paying attention to it.

It's been a while since I made that video. I don't know how long ago it was, at least two years.

Two years ago.

Yeah. Two years. Yeah. I I did mention, I think, in that video sort of why it's important to understand that that we're not talking about a conspiracy here. Mhmm.

Because for one thing, when you understand something as a conspiracy, that is incredibly disempowering. When you believe for I mean, on the one hand, it's irrational, and you're not gonna ever make any kind of a progress in trying to address issues of justice, economic justice, sovereignty, political independence, and so forth. You're never gonna be able to make any headway if your if your thinking process is irrational. And the other is that when you believe that there is this sort of organized cabal of people who literally run the world and have secret meetings and whatnot, not only is that irrational and sort of mystical, magical, mythical thinking, it also means that you can never do anything. There's nothing that you can do.

Everything is out of your hands. The this conspiracy is above and beyond your pay grade, and you're never gonna be able to affect it or, you know, everything is sort of predetermined. It's a very fatalistic Mhmm. Idea. So it's very important to understand that we're not talking about a conspiracy.

I know that the the word in and of itself sort of triggers people Mhmm. Because you want to some people want to jump on the fact that just calling something a conspiracy theory is a tactic for delegitimizing it when many so called conspiracy theories have proven to be completely correct Mhmm. Over time. And a conspiracy by its nature is just people coming to an agreement to follow and to pursue a certain agenda Mhmm. Without publicly disclosing that.

Right.

So if you wanna go by a very, very strict definition, okay, we're talking about conspiracies. We're talking about conspiracies of board members, of shareholders. I mean, for example, they think and the board of BlackRock does not publicly disclose all of their meetings and what they talk about and what their plans are. So you can say that that's a conspiracy, but the the the the the nature of people's understanding of the word conspiracy is other than that. Mhmm.

You know? So it's very important to understand that we're not talking about this because this is also something that, you know, I I mentioned it in the video. You either you have the Illuminati, you have the Masons, you have the Jews, you have the Bilderberg group, you have all of these different ideas that people have that, oh, this group runs well, you know, if it was the if it was true that just this group of people, identifiable people run things, well then we know what we would have to do. You just go out and do a Louis Mangione on all of these people Uh-huh. And you you take care of your problem.

But obviously it's not how it really works. Mhmm. Because the real issue is actually the system that you all constructed. The I won't even say capitalist system, but your particular practice, your particular bent on the pursuit of capitalism, your particular implementation of capitalism, because as I've talked about before anyway, capitalism in and of itself is something that has existed way before you called it you put a name on it. Mhmm.

There's always been market, there's always been trade, there's always been merchants and so forth. That's always happened. You didn't come up with that Adam Smith. Mhmm. That's something that's always existed.

But your particular version of it is it is infected by and affected by and influenced by really your Kufr. Mhmm. Your particular Kufr in the West. Obviously, when we talk about other countries, non Muslim countries, say China or Russia or what have you

Mhmm.

These are also Kufr. These are also Kafir countries. Mhmm. But the particular cultural aspects of European Westerners Mhmm. And then American Westerners Americans.

The particular way that your or maybe a better way to say it is, the particular qualities of your Kufr that then become highly intensified in your pursuit of capitalism, in your pursuit of business Mhmm. Because you've never had to correct those things about yourself.

Yeah.

This is the predatory aspect of yourself and the very very materialistic. You can be a capitalist and not materialistic.

Yeah.

But not in the West because you're already materialistic. So then your approach to the world influences how you approach economics and how you approach business and so forth. So you constructed a system that rewards greed, that is built on pillars of greed, self interest, exploitation, profit maximization, and so forth. So the people who play that game and who win at that game are rewarded for immoral behavior, exploitative behavior, predatory behavior, that's how you move up in that in this game. That's the way you design your game.

So then when they when they come to the top, of course, they're all gonna share some mutual interests.

Sure.

And they and they they they're all pursuing the same thing according to what the game says is the winning. It is what comprises or what constitutes winning. What constitutes winning is as I say profit maximization. Monopolization. Monopolization, complete consolidation of power, and the elimination of all rivals, and all opposition, and all resistance.

That's the nature of the game that you constructed.

Yes.

So it's not it's not conspiratorial. This is the game. Mhmm. And everyone knows that that's the game.

Yeah.

So you have to understand that this isn't about the people who have who who have successfully risen to the top of your of the hierarchy of the game that you created. It's the nature of the hierarchy that you created and the basis upon which you rise up in it. So then of course when you get to the top, you find the worst possible people Because your your system rewards the worst possible behavior.

Yes.

So you know, it's not a it's not a conspiracy when you say that the system is working the way it was designed to work. Mhmm.

Again, that that bears repeating. That it's it's it's just an ecosystem that's just going on its own mechanism.

Right.

Right? And so

It's operating according to its internal logic, the internal logic of that system. And then each individual player in that system, is operating within the logic of the system and then their own specific but peculiar, the internal dynamics and logic of their organization, their company, their career, what have you, their their place, their sector, within the economy and so on. And then then this is the other side of why it's important to not to to not think of it as a as a conspiracy is because the other idea about a conspiracy is that it's a monolith. Yeah. That there's there's there's a monolithic agenda, there's a monolithic group of people who are all completely unanimous.

Mhmm. And there's uniformity of opinion, uniformity of how it should be pursued and so forth. And that's not the case, that's also important to understand.

Yes.

It's very important to understand. And why is it even important to understand that the OCGFC is a thing? Why is that important? Because as I've talked about before a few times, I don't have another name for the kind of analysis that I provide, the the kind of content that I that I provide, except to call it geopolitical analysis, even though that's not really what it is. What I analyze is power dynamics.

And in my opinion, if you want to have any impact, if you're an activist, if you're a business person, obviously, if you're just a a a concerned individual on this earth, and certainly if you're a Muslim or if you're someone from the global South, you have to understand very well, very clearly the real existing power dynamics in the world away from narratives about power. Mhmm. You have to understand what real power is rather than being influenced by narratives because because most of the narratives in fact, I can I can go ahead and say all of the narratives? All the narratives that are constructed by power are designed to obscure who is who is in power and what their agendas are and what they're doing. The narratives are all designed to obscure that and to and to misdirect and to deflect from what the real powers are and what their agendas are and how they operate.

So that on on the one hand you never know what's going on, that's on the one hand, on the other hand, so you can never figure out how to get power yourself. Mhmm. You can never figure out how to how to attain power. Mhmm. So they create all of these narratives to keep you disempowered and distracted, and misdirected from what the real power is, and what they're about and and what they're doing.

Mhmm.

So so the the the goal for Shahid's content is for you to it's it's to clear the fog for all of us

Mhmm.

And for us to have some clarity on what is actually taking place and to be able to identify for ourselves issues that are worthwhile pursuing. You know, instead of just chasing narratives and just blind being blindsided by, you know, non issues. And once again, I would like to highlight to viewers who just joined and to the 300 or so people who are

Shout out to everyone.

Listening in. Everyone of you, please bear in mind that we are discussing the first video of the hundred days of middle nation challenge.

And we're doing sorry to interrupt. Yeah. We're doing the hundred days of middle nation challenge, which is where where where we're taking one video out of what 1,200 videos that we have on the channel. Because of that fact, for one thing, 1,200 videos is a lot. That's a lot for for anyone to to actually go through, especially since a lot of the Middle Nation videos are quite long.

The Kowamun videos are like four minutes long. But when you get into the political and economic and cultural critique type videos, they get to be longer. So it's a lot for anyone to to to try to process who's got that kind of time to go through 1,200 something videos. So we are our team, Middle Nation team has has selected a number of particular videos that inshallah if you watch them, it will help you to understand the sort of core mindset and understanding and perspective and worldview paradigms and what have you that we have at Middle Nation and that we are trying to teach, for lack of a better word, trying to propagate. And then asking individuals, people who feel that they have benefited from Middle Nation content in one way or another, to look at these videos and then to produce their own content on the topic that's in that video.

Because at the end of the day, whatever you have benefited, Inshallah I hope you have benefited from Middle Nation content, if you have benefited, then you should benefit others Mhmm. And you should become someone who can articulate the same views, the same understanding to others so that it it can proceed beyond just me. It doesn't have to just be me centric. Yeah. It's it's middle nation is it's us.

It's it's all of us. It's all of Muslims. And so, you know, anything can happen to me at any given moment, you know, if if I were to to stop making content or if I were to drop off the face of the earth, you never know, or be taken off the face of the earth. Mhmm. Someone needs to proceed with the with this understanding.

Someone needs to continue. And needs to be, you know, more people, not just and this is again, this is this even goes back to to a certain extent, this even goes back to a a psychological decolonization in a way because Western culture has acclimated everyone and habituated everyone to being passive consumers of content. And one of the most common comments that I get on any video that comes up Mhmm. Is, people telling me, you are articulating what I have always thought. You're articulating what I've always felt, but I don't have the words to say it.

Mhmm. And that that means that what you hear from me is just as much yours as it is mine. I just happen to be able to put it together in in in words that you maybe had struggled to do. Mhmm. But, okay, now I've done that.

So now you can do that. Yes. You you can take it because you you I'm not convincing you of anything. If if if you're hearing it from me and then saying, that's what I've always thought but I never knew quite how to say it. Mhmm.

Okay. Well then it's always been your position, this has always been what you thought. Yes. So have some confidence in yourself Mhmm. And and come out and say it.

Yeah. And and create your own content. Yeah. And that way we can actually start changing the discourse. Yeah.

Because the discourse as you all know and as I've as you've seen me talk about many many times, the discourse is completely dominated Yeah. By liars, by absolute dedicated, committed, pathological, psychopathic liars. Mhmm. And we don't we we deserve better than that. Yes.

And we need to take back that public space. We need to take back the areas of discourse, the channels of discourse, the the the conference rooms. Mhmm. We need to take that back, and we decide. Mhmm.

This is what we're gonna talk about. You don't tell us what what is gonna be discussed. Yeah. And that's what they do. They don't just tell us what we're going to discuss.

They tell us what are the two different sides that we can take on it on any given issue. Yes. They don't just tell us what issues, they tell us, okay, this is one position, you can either take this position or you can take this position. Mhmm. Anything other than these, any other issue we won't talk about, and any other position on these issues we won't talk about.

No, we don't have to do that. We can come up with our own. The issues that actually matter to us, we can discuss them ourselves. And, Insha'Allah, through watching Middle Nation content, maybe that's helped you to identify certain issues that actually matter, that are always obscured, that are always covered over, that are always denied, always ignored. Mhmm.

You can you can identify those issues and hopefully inshallah again by watching Middle Nation content, you have found discovered means of articulating those things.

Yeah.

So please, you know, make make content yourself. So anyway, that's what the Middle Nation one hundred days challenge is.

Yes.

And if you want to participate in that, inshallah, you can come to our discussion group on Telegram.

Yeah. For all the guidance and the

For what the prompts are gonna be, what the video is gonna be, and so on. And also, I participate in the Telegram group. So if you have something that you wanna say, we've already had some some brothers and sisters who will leave in the Telegram group. I was thinking about saying this. Is that alright?

Yes. What would how should should I change it or should I what tweaks can I make to it alter? Yeah. What everything needs to be done. And I'm there, inshallah, to help with that.

Mhmm. So that's what that's about. And then I've now I lost my train of thought about what else we were gonna say.

We were going to we were basically gonna address the content.

Right.

Yeah. And so I I'm here to moderate the the discussion and okay. We are having a lot of the members of the public who are in the chat. Uh-huh. And they're

all Welcome everyone.

Yeah, we're very happy to have you, but, we also want to focus on the topic at hand.

I mean I don't mind taking a question here and there, or a topic here and there that's outside of the bounds of why we're doing the live. It would be kind of unfair because the people in the public don't even know about the ventilation challenge.

Fair enough. So we are informing them in the chat group that we are the purpose of the chat and what's So going please head on to the ventilation channel in the Telegram group.

So then I'll I'll I'll just continue to talk until you can find maybe a With regards to the OCGFC Mhmm. Now what has developed, as you all know who followed the content, you have announced two main factions of the OCGFC. One is what I refer to as the nationalistic OCGFC, and then the other is the anational OCGFC. Anational is a term that most people may not be familiar with. It's kind of an invented term, I suppose, But it's similar to like atheist, meaning not atheist, or amoral, meaning not moral, not immoral, just having no morality.

So anational means they have no nationality. They have no, national ties. They have no nationalism. So there's the nationalistic OCGFC, and then there's the anational OCGFC. The anational OCGFC is sort of represented by organizations like BlackRock or Vanguard or State Street, these asset management companies, a lot of tech farms, banks, and so forth.

These are going to be a national developers real estate developers, as I say, firms and so

on. Mhmm.

Nationalistic is the original Western OCGFC. That's the original one because they came through the military industrial complex. They rose through the military industrial complex and through the deregulation inside of America that led to the rise of corporate power, the ascendancy of corporate power until corporate power within America transcended the power of the American government. Mhmm. But they're still tied to Western or or specifically to American domination.

They they they still have an interest in American domination. Understand also when I say that they're nationalistic, it doesn't mean that they care about their nation in terms of their people. Mhmm. They never did care about the American people and they don't care about the American people now, but they care about American specifically American centric world order. Okay.

The a national OCGFC not only are not interested in maintaining an American centric world order, they're against it. Because of the fact that the American that America has never been able to okay. Internationally, America's only way for driving their economy is to disrupt everyone. Everywhere they go they break things. That's how they have ran their economy since at least the nineteen forties, nineteen fifties.

Now if you're an a national owner and control of global financialized capital, and you have global interest, you have international interest. And like for example now they have an interest in stabilizing the Middle East. Well, that's completely anathema to the military industrial complex. Mhmm. The whole model has been to destabilize The Middle East for my whole lifetime, my mother's lifetime.

Now that's changing.

Right.

And so they actually want America sidelined. The A National OC GFC want America sidelined. They want America isolated because you don't know how to play with others. You don't know how to cooperate with others. You're not a team player.

You only ever want to destabilize and ruin everyone else's countries and everyone else's economies. That's not going to work anymore. And one of the reasons why that's not going to work anymore is because you all don't have babies. Quite frankly. Europe and America and the West generally, you have failed at the most fundamental duty as a human being to procreate

Mhmm.

To keep your people going. You have failed to do that. So now you're not producing enough workers or consumers Mhmm. To fill the needs. That means doesn't mean that, for example, that the A National OCGFC suddenly developed a conscience and suddenly developed a great interest in the people of the global South, and now all of a sudden they really like Muslim people and black and brown people so called.

Mhmm. No. They still don't like anybody.

Yeah.

But you have people.

Yes.

That's that's the difference. You have people. You have a robust demographics. You have robust birth rates. You're producing humans.

So inevitably, the economy has to shift to where people are.

Yeah.

You can't have an economy without people. So they move the economy is shifting to where people are. Mhmm. And that's a necessity. And America doesn't have it's too entrenched in their model is not adaptable.

The model for domestic for their domestic economy is not adaptable. They have depended for decades on destroying everyone else. Mhmm. Well, that's not gonna work anymore. That doesn't work moving forward.

Mhmm. So the a national o g OCGFC want to see America sidelined. They wanna see them isolated, and that's what you're seeing under Trump. You were seeing it already under Biden. It's been moving anyway in this direction.

Mhmm. Trump is accelerating it.

Okay. So I I would like to pause for a bit here. There are about 500 people on

the right now. Assalamu alaikum everyone.

Someone named Smith. Sorry. I'm just getting to your question. Have you ever considered producing a structured curriculum for the variety of topics you inform us of? I think we could easily benefit from such a thing.

We hope to get come up with a conclusive plan at the end of the hundred day challenge?

Yeah. We would very much like to do that. I appreciate the question. It is something that we have thought about. I'm not a trained educator.

I I I'm not someone who's designed courses. I mean, taught some some courses on and this kind of thing, but it's very very informal. But to to sort of codify and organize all of the different things because there's many different areas that need to be discussed.

Yeah.

I mean because it's it's not it's it's not simple.

I I think But

but but to answer the question briefly, yes, inshallah we will. Mhmm. And we have some good brothers and sisters who are ready to work on that. And like my wife said, hopefully, over the course of the one hundred days, it will help us to identify the specific things that we need to maybe cover and how it can be taught Yes. In an organized way insha'Allah.

We have another question from a Pauline Woodin. Question is, how can ordinary individuals affect the power dynamic? What actions can they take? In the video, it covers briefly about how the international about basically the rich have just they just like to undermine the masses, and they tend to don't think highly of them and do not believe that they are capable of anything higher than just surviving, you know. But we have proven otherwise time and time again, you know.

So

I I mean, it would it would the thing is is is that I I completely understand and sympathize with the question. However, the question how can I say this? First of all, there isn't a you can do ABC

Mhmm.

And achieve change because the first of all, the nature of human society, the nature of the human condition is that those who have more money, those who have more wealth, those who have more power, have disproportionate influence and say over how things are going to go. The the you would need mass mobilization of people, mass mobilization of people to equal or to rival or to even compete with the influence of one multibillionaire. That was something that he can achieve or she can achieve with a phone call, would take you, millions of people. I don't mean to be in dis discouraging here, but it would take mass mobilization over an extended period of time, a sustained period of time. Now having said that, the fact that power is disproportionately in the private sector in the West and not in the governmental sector, not in the public sector.

The private sector operates according to very binary, very simple, very straightforward black and white prioritization. What makes money is what is right. And the the good news about that is that you decide what's makes money as a population. You decide. You're the you're the market.

You're the consumers. You decide what's make what makes money. You decide whether a company is gonna be rewarded or whether it's gonna be punished or whether it's gonna be ignored, whether you're be indifferent. And for example, we've seen over the last two years, I think the BDS movement has been extremely successful. The the the I've talked about before with the protests, the marches and the protests and whatnot for Gaza.

Mhmm. I think that most of the people who are participating in those protests expect something else from those protests. They expect them to have a power that is unrealistic. They expect them to have an influence that I think is unrealistic, and that's based on miseducation about, for example, the civil rights movement and what led to change in the civil rights movement. However, the protests are useful and influential in terms of establishing a mood in the market.

So

Therein lies the power.

Therein lies the power Yeah. That you have made it, and we've seen it like never before in my lifetime that with it that that those of us who have been concerned about and interested in the Palestinian issue for decades, we're seeing what we never thought we'd seen.

Mhmm. I mean, it's very important that we understand this and place actions and deeds accordingly, according to a lens that's that's clear.

Right. You

know, instead of just blindly chasing

Right. After Because I'm sorry to interrupt. Because because because because otherwise, you will think, if you don't understand again, I I don't mean to, like, move away from the from the question, but it's connected in a way. If you don't understand the reality of the OCGFC, if you don't under understand the reality of private sector power, then you might actually think that Europe got a conscience. You might actually think that Kyr Starmor or Macron Yeah.

Really genuinely feels really bad now about what's happening in Gaza. They don't care. They never did. They didn't care then. They don't care now.

Mhmm.

It's not a change of heart.

There's no change of heart whatsoever.

Conscience Developing a conscience suddenly. No. No.

They've been bought. Simple. They've been bought by GCC investment, they've been bought by GCC money, and they've been bought by the fact that the A National OC GFC are on board with the GCC. They're on board with a new plan for the region. That's the only reason that you're seeing these people come out now in favor of a Palestinian state.

That's the only reason. Zero other reasons. And that's the same reason why you see any change in the mainstream media narrative. Mhmm. So you have to understand what actually moves things in this world.

And I'm and and I mean I know it's kind of a truism that everyone just sort of says offhandedly that that, you know, money makes the world go round. But it does though, and you have to understand what that means. And in in other words, you have to now like I've talked about many times also, the democratization of corporate power, the democratization of private sector power, because at the end of the day, they are relying on your money. You're the one who made them rich. Mhmm.

They're rich off of your money, except in terms of financialization, and even in terms of financialization there's something you can do about that because it's related to stock prices. And we already saw what they did with, what was that called? What was that called? The GameStop.

Right. We conspired together.

We've already seen that you can affect stock prices.

Yeah,

yeah. Even public boycotts, public shaming, and so forth, this can affect stock prices. So you have an ability to deal with even financialized capital. Mhmm. But you definitely have the ability to deal with private the the the private sector because they must be responsive to you.

Yes. The only thing and this is important. We were just talking about it before we started the live. The only thing that has made that has allowed Starbucks to continue operating at all is financialization. Because they're not making the money now No.

That they were making. They've lost billions

Yes.

Because of the boycott. If if if they didn't have the the option of of financialization and sustaining themselves through financialization and debt Mhmm. They would have been out of business.

Debt management. Somebody somebody in the in the chat has a question. What's Kepak's role in influencing OCDFC or what leverage does Katar over OCDFC? Do you agree with long term political and economic vision of Qatar to the new pair? Again, I think this is tied in with a lot of the content that you already produced.

Well, Qatar has enormous influence within the OCGFC. First you have to understand, when I talk about the OCGFC and the a national OCGFC, I'm talking about western based because we have our own OCGFC. We have our own people within our own countries who are rich and powerful. That will be coming later I think in the in the challenge. So I won't really talk too much about it now.

But Qatar has a sovereign wealth fund, Saudi Arabia has a sovereign wealth fund, Dubai, Yani, Udhabi, The Emirates, and so on. So they represent a a form of owners and controllers of global financialized capital that is based in the global South. Obviously, China is an example. Malaysia is an example. Singapore is an example.

Indonesia. All of these countries that have sovereign wealth funds and that are starting to use their sovereign wealth funds strategically in terms of their investment strategies. These are all our own OCGFC. But the when I talk about the OCGFC, I'm talking about the with the nationalistic one is connected with the military industrial complex in America, politically represented by the neocons. And then the a national OCGFC, can sort of shorten it to being, say, just BlackRock is sort of short form, shorthand

Yeah.

For the A National. Mhmm. And they have connections with The Gulf. They have deep connections with The Gulf. They have an office, they have an office in a headquarters in Riyadh, they have a member of their board who's with the Aramco, And and is connected with all of this.

Mhmm. Qatar also individually has enormous investments in throughout Europe, across Europe. They have enormous influence politically in The UK, in France Mhmm. And so on. So they have they have significant influence.

Yeah. So keep a lookout for the discussion and elaboration on our OCDFC and their OCDFC, which will be coming up in about a week's time.

Okay.

So tomorrow we will launch the next video that would be discussed over the course of three days. At the end of the three third day, we will go live again

And show

discuss that particular video that

we're live. Three days from now?

Three days from now.

Okay. On the

August 5. So now we're on technically the we

Here at the August 1.

Right? Second.

August 2 today. Oh, yeah. August 2.

Yeah. On this side of the world. Okay. Let me just see if I have any other questions. Do do you believe it would be helpful to establish localized and regional sovereign wealth funds for the Muslims from within nations in the West?

I don't understand that.

Yeah. Please clarify the question.

I don't understand that.

A little bit more, mister Buckley. How how how is that?

I mean I mean, without without you clarifying it, anytime any group of people can pool their resources, pool their money, and put it together Mhmm. That's a good thing. Mhmm. So I mean, without without further clarification of what you're talking about exactly, yes, absolutely. Any any Muslim community.

I mean, if you talk about just like in America, say in the in the in the in the cities Mhmm. In The States and in the cities where you have large Muslim populations like say in Minnesota Mhmm. In Detroit, in in Michigan, in New York, Illinois, Chicago, California, Texas, what have you. Mhmm. I don't know why you don't have sovereign wealth funds.

Neighborhood sovereign wealth funds, call it that. Become sovereign neighborhood through your own funding, through your own collection and pooling of your people's resources within your own community. A community sovereign wealth fund, why not?

Also there's a lot of Gulf Country investments and purchasing of property and even, I don't know, systems within the, you know

See that's the see this is the thing that I've talked about this many times, I've talked about it so many times, that the Muslim community in America, the Muslim community in the West needs to be building bridges with the Ummah, building bridges with the global so that you won't be a part of the of minority, of a of a marginalized minority in America, is exactly what they want you to be, which is one of the reasons why they're teaching you to hate the Muslims around the world. They're teaching you to hate The Gulf, they're teaching you to hate the g c c, because the g c c is pouring money, into into countries in the West, they're pouring money, pouring, investment into countries all around the world and they're pouring country, pouring money, I don't know why I can't say that, they're pouring money probably into your state, probably into your city and you don't even know about it.

Yeah.

And you're probably angry about it because you're foolish. You've been taught to hate these people rather than allying with these people which will give you power where you are. That will give you leverage where you are. If you make if you're the one and they should be coming to the Muslim communities. But they can't because all they ever hear from Western Muslims is that the the the Muslim leaders, the Muslim rulers in the Muslim world are all Kufar, they're all hypocrites, they're all bootlickers, they're all sellouts and what have you.

You've alienated yourselves and you've alienated them from you, so now their money isn't even coming into your communities. But it could be if you reach out, you could you could actually get some of that investment into your own community and start working with them, start partnering with them, get some funding for your own startups and so forth. Mhmm. But they want you to be cut off, and you're foolishly falling for it, and to and patting yourselves on the back about how righteous you are. Meanwhile, you're doing nothing but keep your own community weak.

Mhmm.

Okay. Let's see. Questions? See a question coming from

I meanwhile I'm sorry. I'm sorry. But meanwhile, every Islamic organization that I've ever worked with in The United States, which was several back when I was stuck in that country Mhmm. Every Muslim organization in America comes begging to The Gulf for money. There isn't a single one that doesn't get their money from The Gulf, from mostly from Qatar, but also from Saudi Arabia depending on which end of the spectrum they're on Islamically, if they're so called or if they're Ihwani.

As we all know, Ihwani's run the Islamic organizations over there. So most of them are getting their money from Qatar. But you can also find from The Emirates, there's Ihwani's in The Emirates that are not like publicly Ihwani for in Kuwait and so on. They all go to The Gulf to get their money because that's another thing, even that, you all aren't even even funding your own organizations enough that they all end up having to go to The Gulf to to beg for money. Your Masjid, you want your Masjid built, you gotta get money from Saudi Arabia or from Qatar or from Kuwait or what have you.

Mhmm. You know? Your Islamic schools, you can't you you you have to go there to get funding. You need to build connections properly, Yeni, because you're again, you end you end up going back to them anyway.

They

just they they try to toxify every relationship, you know? They wanna alienate you and keep you marginalized and keep you weak Mhmm. Keep you isolated, and you're and you just fall for it.

Okay. So there's somebody else here.

And it's I'm sorry. It's not a moral stand Mhmm. To weaken yourself. That is not a moral stand. If your moral stand makes you weak and makes you dependent on your enemies, that's not a moral stand.

Mhmm. This is why I am really eager for every one of you to get acquainted with the series of videos that are going to be featured on the hundred days of middle nation challenge to really acquaint yourself with the OCGFC and the influence that it has and the different factions of the OCGFC and the interests that they serve and how it's going to affect change, and it's been affecting change. And you know, all these videos point out to these shifts that's been taking place, and the clarity will really help.

I mean, I'm sorry to interrupt, but but to go back to the question that the the I don't remember her name, unfortunately, who asked about what can we do. Yes. One clue here or one hint here is when you look at what has been done by the people who have power. What what they what have they done to get power? Larry Fink, for example, now controls something like what?

Four ten eleven trillion dollars in assets. Okay? He didn't get that by protesting the street and saying I want give I demand $10,000,000,000,000 worth of assets, you know? Mhmm. And I'm not saying that that means that you have to now become greedy and what have you, but I'm saying that you can you can also look at I've talked about it many times.

You you look at The Gulf, look at the GCC, what they did over the last forty years to build themselves up, compare that contrast that with say for example, and I don't mean to pick on them, contrast it with Sudan. Okay? When Sudan discovered oil, it became an completely 100% oil dependent economy. They didn't diversify. They didn't seek other ways, and I'm not, again, blaming Sudan.

A number of factors occurred in Sudan, and and I'm not talking about now, I'm talking about over the last thirty years that that interfered with them being able to develop their economy and to diversify their economy. But the the point is just to show two examples of practical steps that you have to take when you know how the world works. There's practical steps that you have to take, one of which is trying to attain economic leverage, economic power. Use you use money as a form of diplomacy once you get some, and I'm not telling you try and get rich, and this isn't a get rich message. But like I'm talking about, like even with a community, even in your in your Muslim community where you are, or if you're a non Muslim, in the community where you are.

In in America, and I've talked about this many times, about sufficiency zones, I've talked about, what do you call it, like the chit fund Yeah. Where where people cooperate together on a neighborhood basis, everybody puts money in and someone takes money out every once a month, a lump sum once a month. Mhmm. There are things that you can do to help build yourselves up practically Mhmm. That that can give you some degree of autonomy, that can give you some some degree of community level, neighborhood level sovereignty.

There's not gonna be this is why this is why the three objectives of middle nation is economic sovereignty, political independence, psychological decolonization. All of those three things are tied together. You really can't have one without the other. You can't have political independence if you don't have economic sovereignty. Mhmm.

You can't have economic sovereignty if you don't have psychological decolonization, and you can't have political independence until you have psychological decolonization. You have to free your mind. But if you wanna have political independence, the only way you can do that is by fortifying it with economic sovereignty. As long as your economy if you're economically dependent, if you're economically subject, then you're never gonna have political independence. And that's that's on the that's you can you can say on a on a micro level and on a macro level.

Mhmm. You have to build up your your economy. So even on a on a on a community level, there's there's you you need to break some bad habits. If you wanna if you want to impact large corporations, if you wanna impact the the multinational corporations, the OCGFC and so on, there's there's on a personal level there's bad habits that you have to break.

Mhmm.

Like mindless consumption.

Yeah.

You need to break the mindless consumption, and you need to start trying to produce things yourselves on a community level. Mhmm. You know? Don't follow brands. Don't buy when you don't need to buy.

Don't spend make sure that every time you spend a dollar or a pound or a euro or dinner or whatever the case may be, every time you spend anything from your pocket that you spent time earning, spent energy earning, had to work to earn, if you're gonna give that to someone, make sure that you must do that. You know? And that is a conscious decision. Because like I've talked about many times, when you especially in America, if you give money to a company, all you're doing is giving them a political donation Yes. To whatever that company is gonna support, whatever that whatever political agenda that company is gonna follow and pursue, and use their economic and and and political leverage to make sure that it happens, you are contributing to that.

You are giving them power. When you give them money, you're giving them power Mhmm. And taking power away from yourself. Unless you are making that a very conscious intentional decision of what you will spend on and what you will not spend on. Mhmm.

Or if you'll just save it Mhmm. Which is probably what you should do. Like I said, you should put it in a in a in a pool, in a community level sovereign wealth fund for your for your neighborhood, for your community, for your masjid. Mhmm.

Okay. We're already

A waqf. Create a waqf.

Yeah, a fund, yeah. I mean, like when we I'm coming back to the question about what can we do. And it doesn't require dramatic actions. Like a simple thing as like, you know, asking yourself if you have to spend us the the money that you have to a corporation that makes toothpaste, for example. Instead of doing that, you just return to your maybe your roots or your your heritage and and seek out methods in which you have that are very a fact that cost a fact fraction of the price.

I'm talking about there's there's so many practical level things that we are spending way more than it's needed because of heavy marketing and and lies that's been told to us. And this this is a power that we have to not consume, to not fall for the

the Correct.

Lies that they are perpetuating Correct.

You know,

that runs the market. So that's that's just one way of, you know, exerting your own power. Mhmm. Okay. I don't see any other

Because it's also not just about, like, example, it's not just about boycotting. Yeah. Because you can reward too. You shouldn't just have a have a have stick. You have to have a carrot as well.

So a a company, for example, that comes out in favor of Palestinian state that comes out against genocide, or whatever the case may be, whatever issue it may be Mhmm. You must reward that company. Yeah. You know, not just punish the companies that that are doing the wrong thing, but you have to reward the company that's doing the right thing. And the only reward and the only punishment that companies understand is financial.

Exactly. Okay, so we're coming into about an hour of the

And you said, I'm sorry, you said you said you said that it doesn't have to be something dramatic.

Yes.

But I would say that it has to be that you understand that dramatic moves are never gonna be the answer. Yeah. You have to get it out of your mind. Not just it doesn't have to be dramatic, you have to have the understanding that that's not how things really work. It the we're talking about you have to have some serious lifestyle changes.

Yes.

Serious long term lifestyle changes,

psychological

changes, changes in your mentality, changes in your mindset, and changes in your on the community level

Yes.

In terms of how you relate with people, how you how you deal with Yeah. People and so Yeah. So I mean that this is why and I've talked about this before as well, people are always asking about what can be done. And because of the the the western programming, everyone wants a quick solution, everyone wants a quick fix. I want something that I can do right now that's gonna change the world.

That's not a thing, that's not how it works. It's like how they have taught you that whenever you have any pain in your body you just take aspirin, you just take Tylenol, you just take Panadol, take paracetamol, what have you, a pain killer to get rid of the problem rather than identifying what was the source of the pain. Maybe the source of the pain is a long term bad habit, a long term bad habit that you are or bad diet or what have you. And, yes, you can take a pain pill at this moment, and that will get rid of the pain right now, but obviously it's gonna come back, and it's gonna just keep getting worse, and your addiction to the painkillers will get more and more. So you have to actually start looking at what's the sources of the pain, what's the sources of the injustice in your society, what's the sources of the inequality in your society, what's the source of the misery in your society, and then start working on on the long term changes, which again is part of part of why you have to understand that the OCGFC exists.

Because you have to understand how real power works, what the real power dynamics are in your society. Otherwise you might think that, I'll be able to change my situation if I vote for red or I vote for blue. That's not gonna be the that's that's not how it works. That's not the source of the problem. Mhmm.

The problem isn't that the wrong person is in office. No. The problem is that the office is owned.

Yes. This is a very important point. There's so many portable courts.

Yeah. I mean, anyone anyone anyone whoever you whoever you elect, you're just deciding which politician to put in which company's pocket. Mhmm. That's what you're doing. You're pick you're picking, something, a politician off the shelf and putting them in a company's pocket.

Yeah. That's all you're doing, and you're not putting them on your side, you're not taking them home, you're putting them in someone else's pocket. Mhmm. Alright. So we're we're an hour in now?

About five minutes to go Okay. Before we're an hour in. We we wouldn't go longer than an hour.

I think an hour is is is enough. Yeah.

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we have so many activities. We have the book discussion. Yes. We have the social media with Gates. We have a regions group Yes.

You can actually talk to people from different parts of the world and get information and perspectives from the people in those regions Yeah. In Africa, Asia, The Middle East, Southeast Asia Mhmm. You know, Latin America.

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I mean, the other thing when when talking about, like, what can be done Yeah. The the most of the people who ask that question, and anyway, most of the people who follow the content anyway are in the West. Mhmm. So they're they're asking about as a Westerner, what can be done as a Westerner in the West, whether it's in America, UK, Europe, what have you. And the answer is they are gonna be different from the answers if you're somewhere in the global South because the the dynamics are different.

And what what is going to be done by people in the global South, in my opinion, is far more important than what will be done in the West by people in the West. Because to a certain extent, and I'm sorry to tell you, but to a certain extent, your your situation in the West is irreversible. The situation in America, the situation in Europe, the situation in The UK is largely irreversible. It is on a descent, and this is why and it's not because I said so. The fact of it being in in a descent is why the transition is happening to the global South.

Why the a nationalist at GFC exist and why they are pivoting to the global South because you're already in descent. And now they are accelerating that descent because they're making their moves to prepare for the future, which does not include you in the West. So you have to look forward to a future in which your government is gonna be completely hollowed out. The, the main role of government on the on the federal and well, the federal government is you're talking about America specifically.

Mhmm.

The federal government in America is gonna become almost superfluous, and there's gonna be state level authority, and that will mostly be manifested through security, so called security, meaning

Mhmm.

Militarized policing. Yeah. Meaning, increased incarceration rates, increased also deportation even if you're a citizen, cracking down. This is what you have to look forward to in The United States Of America. I can't talk too much about different parts of Europe.

Anyway, Europe is gonna become a conflict zone. And and they're facing deindustrialization at a at a at a rapid pace. In America, the situation is, in my opinion, irreversible. It's it's in a it's in a state of decline, and no one is doing anything except to accelerate that decline including the people who are talking about America first. Okay.

When they say America first, they they must mean America must go down first. This is irreversible. So what you can do is try to prepare yourself and your family and your community for, basically surviving and hopefully thriving amidst the collapse Yeah. Of your system. Finding finding finding, like I say, sort of trying to found and create sufficiency zones in your own neighborhood, in your own community where you don't have to rely.

Mhmm. Your own networks, your own little eco ecosystem.

Yeah. You have to create your own ecosystems. Yeah. Really really think about it like, you know, and I don't mean to sound like one of those, you know, like Armageddon preppers or something like that, but you have to prepare for for economic collapse. And I'm not necessarily even saying that this is gonna be something that's gonna happen again sort of in in one big dramatic, you know, the stock market crash and what have you.

But you're on this trajectory. You're on a on a rapid downward trajectory, and things are going to get very bad. Mhmm. So there's not anything that you can do, and I'm sorry to be very blunt about this. There isn't anything you can do that will reverse that.

All you can do is to try to prepare for the inevitability of what the conditions are going to be like once that fully plays out. Mhmm.

For everyone again, who are here.

Yeah. We have to close. Yeah. We'll

close And it and I feel that because the that's the nature of Shahid, he he the things that he talks about has a lot of overlaps in many of the contents that he's made. And for those who are new here, and for some of the questions that I've seen, I would really urge you to go and peruse the different topics that is in playlists on the channel.

We're trying to organize in better playlists by the way, so it'll be easier for you to find the things of interest to

you. Also, would urge you to participate in the one hundred days of Middle Nation challenge. This would also get you up to speed on the general theme of the channel, and it will also help you in being more fluent in the methodology and mindset of the middle nation, you know, and and it will help you in arriving at clarity in the way you view the world, understanding it for what it is, and not what's being fed to you without any, you know, critical thinking.

Yeah. I mean I mean, we've talked about realpolitik.

Yeah.

And this is this is this is a fundamental part of the what you can call middle nation mentality, nation mindset, middle nation worldview, perspective, or what have you, whatever term you wanna use. Because at the end of the day, in my opinion, the way I see it, if you are trying to be moral or trying to achieve something moral while also being impractical, you're not being moral. You can't be moral in in an impractical manner if you wanna achieve anything. If you actually want to achieve a moral outcome, then you must be practical, you must be realistic. And if you're not realistic, if you're not practical in the way you pursue a moral outcome, then that means that you are not going to achieve that moral outcome, which to me is the same thing as someone who is completely indifferent to whether or not a moral outcome occurs.

So hopefully, you you can, you know, if you if you join the telegram group, it it's obviously is free, free discussion and I'm there on a daily basis. Mhmm. And and we have many great minds who are involved with mental nation on the team and who are just participants. And we've had a lot of feedback from people who are in the discussion group saying how beneficial it has been for them. Mhmm.

And, you know, like I like I mentioned in the group, when when they were talking about by the way, please make note, anyone who's anyone who's watching, remember just a few weeks back, if there if you were following people a few weeks ago who told you that we were on the verge of World War three because of Iran and Israel, everyone in the Middle Nation chat was cool, calm, and collected because we knew perfectly well that was not gonna happen. So please join the chat, and you can you can get your mind right, get your understanding right, get your perspective right, get your information right, and get your priorities right, and understand that, yes, we do have be to practical, we do have to be realistic if you are indeed in reality a moral person interested in achieving moral outcomes for the Muslims and for all oppressed people around the world, whether it's in the global South or anywhere else. Because obviously, the fact of the matter is that the majority of people living on this earth are living in a state of some form of oppression, whether it's in the global South or in the global North.

And if you wanna achieve anything positive for them, then you have to approach it. You can be motivated by your morality, by your morals, by your beliefs, by your ideals, but the way you pursue that has to be ruthlessly realistic, ruthlessly practical if you want to actually achieve something. Otherwise, you're just trying to make yourself feel good about yourself and make everyone think that you're a great person Yes. Which is completely useless in my view.

And that just means you just have to have an immense amount of self discipline Mhmm. And focus.

Mhmm.

And what better way to begin that journey, than by joining the hundred days of middle nation Yeah. We've already we're Alright. Two minutes out So the the next live will be taking place in three days time on the August 5. Look out for the next video to be discussed tomorrow on the middle nation discussion group.

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