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Interview with Alaina Moore: Unveiling the Liberty Fellowship and its connections in South Carolina
How does the Liberty Fellowship influence South Carolina's political landscape, and could it hold more sway than meets the eye? Join us for an enlightening conversation with Alaina Moore of Palmetto State Watch as she uncovers the intricate dynamics at play in the region. A native of South Carolina and a fierce advocate for transparency, Alaina offers a unique perspective on the Liberty Fellowship's connection to the Aspen Institute and its role in shaping state politics. From its selection process targeting leaders at career crossroads to the fellowship's potential Masonic ties, we explore the significant impact of this organization on both emerging and seasoned political figures like Trey Gowdy and Tim Scott.
In our discussion, Alaina emphasizes the importance of being an informed voter and the necessity of engaging in civic responsibilities. She urges listeners to educate themselves about organizations that may pose threats to freedoms within South Carolina. This episode is a powerful reminder of our collective duty to protect individual liberties through active participation and vigilance. By sharing insights from her research, Alaina inspires us to consider how such influential groups might alter political dynamics in ways that don't always align with mainstream parties. Listen in to discover the profound implications of these powerful connections and how they shape our community.
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Welcome to More Than Medicine, where Jesus is more than enough for the ills that plague our culture and our country. Hosted by author and physician, dr Robert Jackson, and his wife Carlotta and daughter Hannah Miller. So listen up, because the doctor is in.
Speaker 2:Welcome to More Than Medicine. I'm your host, dr Robert Jackson, bringing to you biblical insights and stories from the country doctor's rusty, dusty scrapbook. Well, I'm delighted to have on the line with me today Elena Moore from Palmetto State. Watch Elena, welcome to More Than Medicine.
Speaker 3:Thank you so much, Dr Jackson, for having me back again today.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm delighted to have you back and I Jackson, for having me back again today. Well, I'm delighted to have you back and I'm glad to have you back so quickly. You were just with me a few weeks ago and the reason I'm having you back is because you had an essay on your what do I call it, not a podcast. It was on your website, I guess I would call it about Liberty Fellows, and it was intriguing to me. So first, before we go into that, I want you to tell us a little bit about who you are and about your website and what you do, and then I want to ask you to tell my listeners about the essay and the expose, I guess I would say about Liberty Fellows. So tell us, my listeners, a little bit about who you are and about what you do.
Speaker 3:So I am a native South Carolinian. I've lived here my entire life. I was homeschooled all the way through and then ended up going to college and coming out and you know it's been a whole awakening moment. But I am very blessed to have parents that raised me with the Christian perspective and always to look deeper into things. So when it came to politics and corruption, I really was waking up, along with my parents as I was being homeschooled, and then got to see the realities of that when I went into higher education.
Speaker 3:I am the co-founder of Palmetto State Watch. We founded Palmetto State Watch in 2022. The organization really has three main pillars. The first one is to expose corruption on the local and the state level within South Carolina. The second pillar is to promote in the state level within South Carolina. The second pillar is to promote effective transparency within that, because you have to have something that replaces. Once you expose the corruption, you have to promote the transparency and effectively in order to have something that replaces it. And then, third, to create a network of South Carolinians who are digging and are active within their local communities to show what's happening in their area Because, as we've found, if it's happening in one county. Nine times out of ten it's happening in another county as well. People are. They repeat a lot of different patterns, as we have learned over the past couple of years.
Speaker 3:But I'm also the host of Magnifying Glass podcast as well. So a lot of times sometimes I'll take the research that I've been doing or go off on different topics. But this Aspen Institute deep dive well really, I guess it was the Liberty Fellowship deep dive that I did. It just happens to be a state chapter almost like of the Aspen Institute. So I dug into that through a deep dive, did a lot of research and did it into an article and then did it into a podcast. It's just you can't ever stop digging with the Aspen Institute. It seems it has so many tentacles that go in so many different ways. Institute, it seems it has so many tentacles that go in so many different ways, which is why I chose to focus really on the state chapter version of it in South Carolina and the power they have.
Speaker 2:I got you. How long did it take you to do the research? I was just curious.
Speaker 3:It took me probably about two to three weeks. It was a lot. Obviously, I was doing some other things at the same time, but in order to get it all put together, it definitely was a minimum of two weeks, because, really, what got a bee in my bonnet about it was I was looking at the South Carolina legislators' biographies on the scstatehousegov and I was noticing those that listed whether or not they were a Freemason, and then I started to see a lot in their bios of being a Liberty Fellow, which made me wonder okay, what is a Liberty Fellow and where's this coming from? Yeah, I got you. I got you.
Speaker 3:Well, now let me ask you the question then what exactly is a Liberty Fellow and what does that mean? We look for young leaders in South Carolina and we're going to create classes for them and seminars so they can be a lifetime partner with our Liberty Fellowship. And they pick in order to be a Liberty Fellow, you have to be handpicked for it A lot of people from the political realm. They usually do about, I'd say, half from the private sector and then half from the non-private sector and then a small portion of non-profits as well. So there's a lot of political actors and a lot of very powerful people that they choose to be a part of it. There's actually about 350 active fellows right now within the Liberty Fellowship.
Speaker 2:In South Carolina, you mean.
Speaker 3:In South Carolina. Yeah, because the Liberty Fellowship is just a South Carolina thing. What I noticed is it seems to almost be that we are the test state for the Aspen Institute, because for a state chapter really of the Aspen Institute, I've not seen any other state right now that is doing the same thing. It seems that South Carolina was handpicked to run almost a simulation in a way, with this state chapter.
Speaker 2:So now, how is Liberty Fellowship connected to Aspen Institute?
Speaker 3:So the Aspen Institute. To give some people a little bit of a background on there, I went into the Masonic roots of the Aspen Institute. So Walter Payek I don't know how to say his last name, it's very complicated but it's a P-A-E-P-C-K-E he founded the Aspen Institute in 1949 to celebrate the 200th birthday of Johann Wolfgang, and he, wolfgang, was a Freemason and joined the Amelia Lodge in Weimar in March of 1780. So Wolfgang was frequently alluded to Masonic themes of universal brotherhood and he stated multiple times that he was drawn to the Bavarian Illuminati. His rhetoric on evolution was used by Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace in a lot of their writings that they would create in the future down the road. And one thing Wolfgang described himself as was not anti-Christian, not unchristian, but most decidedly non-Christian, and in his Ephesian Epigram 66, he listed the symbol of the cross among the four things that he most disliked. According to Nietzsche, who also followed Wolfgang, he had a kind of almost joyous and trusting fatalism that has faith that only in totality everything redeems itself and appears good and justified.
Speaker 3:One thing that I found really interesting was US Senator Jesse Helms, who was a Freemason himself.
Speaker 3:He actually warned Americans during a Senate speech in 1987 about the Aspen Institute and other one-world government humanistic organizations. So what he said was quote a careful examination of what is happening behind the scenes reveals that all of these interests are working in concert with the masters of the Kremlin in order to create what some refer as to the new world order. Private organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the Trilateral Commission, the Dartmouth Conference, the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, the Atlanta Institute and the Bilderberg Group serve to disseminate and to coordinate the plans for this so-called new world order, and powerful business, financial, academic and official circles end quote. So by looking at the Aspen. If you look at their website, the Aspen Institute, it's really a private club for extremely powerful individuals around the world. I mean, you've got justices that sit on there, you have very high people in Congress, you've got presidents and presidents of other countries that are all part of this private club that are used to disseminate from what I've seen, seemingly a new world order agenda.
Speaker 2:I got you and that's not new to me. I've read and heard the same information in multiple other venues, all discussing the one world aspirations of the Aspen Institute. Now are there other organizations in South Carolina that are connected to Liberty Fellow or the Aspen Institute?
Speaker 3:There are a lot. Now one thing I do want to point out is both the Liberty Fellowship and one of their videos referred to the fellowship as a sisterhood and a brotherhood they said one of the fellows in the video said that they're that it is there for you at a moment's notice. So it holds a high level of power of either the public, the private sector and the nonprofit field. But what's really interesting is what you're referring to, all of these other organizations. Now there are several mentions of the Riley Institute at Furman University. That program was named after Richard Riley, a former South Carolina governor and former US Secretary of Education during the Clinton administration.
Speaker 3:Riley is a named partner at Nelson Mullins Riley in Scarborough it's also known as Nelson Mullins for short which is one of the most powerful law firms in South Carolina and within the Southeast South Carolina and within the Southeast. Both the Riley Institute and the Nelson Mullins have an office and large initiative for diversity and inclusion, and both organizations seem to almost act like a pipeline to grow Aspen Institute Globalists. Now, some of their lifetime partners include companies like Blue Cross, blue Shield of South Carolina, the Boeing Company, dominion Energy, slash, scana, the Duke Endowment, first Citizens Foundation, the Hayne and Anna Kate Hipp, founders of the Liberty Fellowship, nelson Mullins, prisma Health, the Wells Fargo, I believe South State is also, the South State Bank is also one, and Wofford College, just to name a few. And these Lifetime partners are their massive donor lists and major businesses who have been contributing to the Liberty Fellowship since its inception. So they have a lot of power.
Speaker 2:A lot of money.
Speaker 3:And a lot of money.
Speaker 2:Yep, well, that's interesting, very, very interesting. Now, so what is? What's the criteria for an individual to be a part of Liberty Fellowship?
Speaker 3:So in order to be a Liberty Fellow, you must be a South Carolina resident between the ages of 30 and 47 years of age. The nominee so they're usually nominated by someone, so the nominee must also be open to ideas. Be an accomplished leader. This is an interesting point. That is very vague, but they say that the fellow must be, or the nominee must be at a quote inflection point.
Speaker 2:What does that mean? That's what I want to know.
Speaker 3:That's what bothered me so much on their website. It's so vague. You could apply what they're saying on their website to just about any organization. And another criteria piece is to be willing to challenge existing normative behaviors with actionable ideas and contribute effectively to the seminar experience by listening and learning from their peers. So their seminar schedule this is what I would really like to know what goes on in these seminars, because for each class that they choose, they used to choose a class of Liberty Fellows every single year and then a couple of years ago they changed it to every two years. So there's not going to be a class of 2024, two, an Aspen seminar, and three a choice between five Aspen Institute globalization seminars in the US or abroad and other week-long seminars titled things such as the promise of leadership and a call to action. So they have to go through several weeks of seminars that are really put on by the Aspen Institute, here or overseas.
Speaker 2:I got you so put on by a one world government organization, right? So who are some of the notable Liberty Fellows in South Carolina?
Speaker 3:Some of the most notable would probably be Trey Gowdy is a huge one. He was a former US House of Representatives and he's a current partner of Nelson Mullen's Riley Scarborough. He was in the class of 2007. Current US Senator Tim Scott was in the class of 2009. The South Carolina Senate Majority Leader, shane Massey, was in the class of 2009. The South Carolina Senate Majority Leader, shane Massey, was in the class of 2011. The South Carolina Fifth Judicial Circuit Judge Robert Hood, was in the class of 2019, and he was mentored by Trey Gowdy. So that's.
Speaker 3:Another interesting thing that we're seeing here is that when you come in as a Liberty Fellow, you're given or assigned, or you choose. I don't know how it works, but you're assigned a mentor from a previous class. Another example of that is South Carolina Representative Weston Newton, who was part of the class of 2015 and mentored by Pat McKinney, who was the former gubernatorial candidate for John Warren's running mate. South Carolina Representative Beth Bernstein, the current South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, was part of the class of 2017. Senator Thomas McLevin I always say his name wrong it's McAlvin or something like that. And then the south carolina representative, mike akaski, was one of the latest liberty fellows from the class of 2020.
Speaker 3:These are just a couple of several classes. I mean the class of 2025 that was just recently announced. One of the members is the guy who runs or is head of one spartanburg how about that? So they were very excited. It was funny how it worked out, because I don't believe in coincidences, but the same time I released my podcast on this subject, the next day One Spartanburg had so many different articles celebrating their top guy being part of the class of 2025.
Speaker 2:How about that? Do you think it's even possible that these men and women would be a part of this and not fully comprehend who and what Aspen Institute is all about?
Speaker 3:I do think that there are some that don't know. I would like to think, like we talked about Thomas McLevin. I think that maybe he may be one. There may be a couple of people who did not realize. I know I heard that there were people such as and I have not confirmed this, but I heard that the superintendent, ellen Weaver, was a part of this, but maybe she had her name removed from it, knowing afterwards how, what it's, what the Liberty Fellowship is connected to. So I think you can go in as a good natured individual and not realize what you're getting yourself into. I you know, I kind of see a lot of this pipeline of brotherhoods and sisterhoods as we grow up, when it comes to different clubs and fraternities and sororities in college, and then you kind of you experience those own versions of brotherhood, sisterhood clubs, these elite clubs, as you get older and become more successful in your career. But I do think there is a lot of individuals who are very well aware of what they're doing, such as Tim Scott and Trey Gowdy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, you know, sometimes people get sucked in and then after a while you're in you can't get out, right?
Speaker 3:Because once you're in it, you basically owe them your career, and that's how they treat it.
Speaker 2:That's right, Exactly right. They've helped you get to where you are and you can't get out. You've gone too far.
Speaker 3:Right, you owe them favors. Now, I mean, that's how politics and big business works, is? You scratch my back, I scratch yours.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And these individuals, as they gain more power, become even more compromised.
Speaker 2:Exactly right.
Speaker 3:Because of the deals they're having to make to get to the level that they are on.
Speaker 2:It's like you sell your soul to the devil.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's a really good way to put it.
Speaker 2:Exactly. Well, now, what kind of power and influence do these Liberty Fellows have in South Carolina?
Speaker 3:So you know, I reached out to the Liberty Fellowship headquarters regarding an interview and a few other members of the Liberty Fellowship and board members who declined interviews. And as I was doing this research, I started to think back to the last legislative session. While South Carolina is a Republican supermajority, the voting records of our legislators say otherwise. That's correct.
Speaker 3:We definitely have at least a purple state, if not a blue, because our Republicans and our Democrats vote together on the majority of issues. A lot of the people that I named as notable fellows are both Republican and Democrats alike, and they hold a lot of power within the General Assembly of South Carolina. So one thing I started thinking about was all of this legislation that the Uniparty of South Carolina was trying to pass this past year, and one of those was the Health Czar Bill that pretty much created another bureaucracy that usurped power from both the General Assembly and the governor and would act as a Dr Fauci for our state. This it was over a 300-page bill. I believe it was massive with the amount of power that they were giving this one individual in the name of streamlining government, which it did quite the opposite, and it was tied. The reason we had that bill was because of the World Health Organization and the World Economic Forum. We paid the Boston Consulting Group around $5 million to tell us how bad our health care was and how we should change it, which that group has board members that sit on the World Economic Forum. We gave them all of that money and both Democrats and Republicans alike were trying to use scare tactics to get not only legislators that were opposed to the bill but also the constituents of South Carolina saying you're not going to get health care if you don't pass this bill. But there were so many constituents that woke up and called their legislators that that bill was.
Speaker 3:It did not pass this past session session. Now I know that they're working on it again to bring it up, but that shows you how these large global entities are pushing their agendas through our state by using these legislators. Many of them, if not all of them, are I mean well, not all of them, but many of them are connected to the Liberty Fellowship. So it makes me wonder well, that's one globalist entity and we've got a bill being pushed by other similar globalist entities connected to the Liberty Fellowship. So it makes me wonder well, that's one globalist entity and we've got a bill being pushed by other similar globalist entities connected to the Aspen Institute. So A plus B is starting to equal C here.
Speaker 2:That's right. They do have a lot of influence and they have influence in our legislature and those legislators are influenced by many of these large businesses that you named a little earlier who have Liberty Fellows involved as chief financial officers, as accountants, as lawyers you just name it. I mean there's 300 plus Liberty Fellows in positions of high influence in South Carolina that influence our legislators, and some of them are lobbyists.
Speaker 3:Exactly, and even if you look at the board members, the staff and the moderators that sit on the South Carolina Liberty Fellowship, it's terrifying. I mean, you've got people that used to be presidents of colleges and who are all fellows of the Aspen Global Leadership Network or fellows of the Fermi University Riley Institute. They're all part of these huge entities like Dominion Energy, musc, blue Cross, blue Shield. They come from all walks of different powerful parts of life in the southeast Yep and it's it's really scary.
Speaker 2:All right Now, where? Where can my listeners find a list of these people that are Liberty Fellows in South Carolina?
Speaker 3:So they can find that. On the Liberty Fellowship, let me see real quick, I know. So in the article that I wrote I link a lot of these different things I go through kind of who is on the board and different things like that, and also have a link to the class of 2025, as well as the Liberty Fellowship website, you can find that at palmatostatewatchcom under the legislators tab. So if you click on the legislators tab it'll take you straight there, or you could even Google it in the search bar. And if you want to go to the source itself, you can look up the Liberty Fellowship and it is libertyfellowshipscorg. That's their website. That has all of their fellows, their new announced class of 2025. And you can really see for yourself what is who they are and what they are about.
Speaker 2:And I'm encouraging my listeners to call your legislators and say to them do you know that so-and-so is a Liberty Fellow? Do you know that he's involved with the Aspen Institute, which is a one world government organization? And you should call that legislator himself and say what are you doing being a Liberty Fellow? Why are you involved with the Aspen Institute? Why are you involved with the one world government organization? And these folks need to know that the scab has been pulled off and that voters are aware of who they are and what they do. And you know, our legislators don't see the light until they feel the heat. And so it's up to you, my listeners, to contact these legislators and to contact people in the private sector who are Liberty Fellows and make them understand that people in the private sector who are Liberty Fellows and make them understand that people in the community are not pleased with their membership in this organization. And that's why I've invited Elena Moore with Palmetto State Watch, to be a part of my podcast and for her to, like I said, pull the scab off and let everybody in South Carolina know who these people are and what they are about. It's nefarious and it's insidious and it's something that's going on in South Carolina. What was the word that you called it in the beginning? It's something in South Carolina that's not being done in other states, like a pilot project.
Speaker 3:Yeah, a simulation in a way.
Speaker 2:A simulation. This doesn't need to be going on in South Carolina. I'm not happy about it, and you, my listeners, should not be happy about it, and it needs to go away. I would pray against it, I would vote against it and I would call these Liberty Fellows and tell them hey, you need to get off of this. This is not something that needs to be happening in our fair state. All right, I've said what I have to say. Ms Elena, I want to thank you for being on. More Than Medicine, I appreciate your research and I appreciate what you're doing for South Carolina.
Speaker 3:Thank you so much, dr Jackson, and I really appreciate everything you're doing and the work that you're putting out, because it takes all of us. I mean, I never want anyone to just take my word for it. Look it up yourself, because an informed voter is a good voter, and that is what we need is more people active in the community that know what they're talking about. They've seen it with their own eyes and they know why it's wrong and why it shouldn't be involved in South Carolina. So we have to help each other educate ourselves when it comes to these dangerous organizations that are a huge threat to our freedoms and are actively trying to strip us of our individual freedoms every single year.
Speaker 2:That's right. All right, you're listening to More Than Medicine. My guest today is Elena Moore from Palmetto State Watch, and we'll be back again next week, and may the Lord bless you real good.
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