Jason Bermas | Conspiracy News, Bohemian Club, & Isaac Kappy

Summary

Documentary filmmaker Jason Bermas, known for Loose Change and Invisible Empire, joins Greg Carlwood to dissect a so-called post-truth world shaped by militarized AI, staged news events, and a new Russian plague scare. Bermas draws on his rare collection of the privately published Annals of the Bohemian Club to describe high priest George Bromley, the club's owl deity, and the Manhattan Project's roots in the club's S-1 group. The conversation then turns to Epstein's ties to Howard Lutnick and 9/11, Ghislaine Maxwell's spy father, and Bermas's firsthand account of Isaac Kappy's descent into QAnon circles before his death.

Key takeaways

• 1Bermas claims the 'post-truth world' was put on the agenda at the 2017 Bilderberg conference.
• 2He says every major AI (Grok, Gemini, Claude, Copilot) has partnered with the Department of War through GenAI.mil sites. He also claims Grok interfaces with SpaceX's classified 'Starshield' satellites, a successor to DARPA's Blackjack program.
• 3He alleges that AI firms and universities working with cutting-edge hardware must appoint a CAIO with top secret clearance, under a Biden-era executive order. He also discusses the Department of Energy's new 'Genesis Mission' and its Q clearance system.
• 4He claims the Manhattan Project emerged from the Bohemian Club's S-1 group in San Francisco. He names George Bromley as the club's high priest, saying Bromley replaced a Buddha statue with the owl deity, and cites Bromley's autobiography 'The Long Ago and the Later On.'
• 5Carlwood notes that in 1998 Epstein bought 9 East 71st Street from Les Wexner for $10, and Howard Lutnick acquired the neighboring building through the 'Comet Trust.' He also cites the death of whistleblower Simon Andres, who flagged a 2018 Lutnick-Epstein email chain to regulators.
• 6Bermas says journalist J. Edward Epstein invited Ghislaine Maxwell onto a 'shadow 9/11 commission.' He cites Seymour Hersh's book 'The Samson Option' as alleging Robert Maxwell was a Mossad asset.
• 7Bermas recounts interviewing Isaac Kappy, who believed John McCain was executed at Guantanamo, and claims Kappy was manipulated by grifters including 'Vegan Mikey.' He also cites a Taylor Swift 'Patient Zero' song timing tied to the Russian plague, and a 6-6-6 date link to the COVID lockdowns.

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Transcript excerpt

hi there and hello it is a beautiful day in the neighborhood people from the sunshine state i'm greg carlwood and what a crazy time to be alive just getting through the day now requires wading through a full court press of propaganda hyping up the existential dangers of rogue ais and russian bioweapon plagues both on the loose now and headed straight for us we have politicians and billionaires telegraphing and predictively programming us for the next big news cycle event a strange systematic defense of child predators space weapons and flock cameras to police the herd greater israel projects in lesser key of solomon spells routine bombings of the defenseless and an intentional tightening of the economic noose and sadly it is all meant with a collective shoulder shrug from a public completely disconnected from the illusion of choice and the technocratic takeover of pretty much everything but we can at least talk about it right and here to help us do just that is the conspiratorial counterculture content creator space longtime legend jason burmess of course he's a talk show host and documentary filmmaker who helped bring us some of the greatest early internet conspiracy films that will ever be including several that inspired yours truly like loose change fabled enemies invisible empire and shade you can find him on rockfin rumble and youtube doing his thing as well as ever and it's a true honor and a pleasure the preserver of punk rock politics dedicated technocratic critic and a pillar of honesty in the post-truth world jason welcome to the higher side well thank you for that very very uh kind intro and we are in a post-truth world right and that's not me saying it that's not necessarily you saying it that unfortunately is what...

Excerpt from The Higherside Chats, Oct 15, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.