CLASSIC: What are "Black Sites"?

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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In the United States, people accused of crimes are entitled to certain well-known protections under the law. And, in the international sphere, global agreements theoretically guarantee certain rights to prisoners of war. However, in the wake of 9/11 elements of the US government felt these protections were preventing them from obtaining justice. They needed locations off the books. Places where the normal rules didn't apply -- places that, officially speaking, did not exist. Tune in to learn more about the rise of black sites.

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0:00.0	Fellow conspiracy realist, have you ever had the feeling that you're in a place you shouldn't be?
0:07.3	Only every day of my life, buddy.
0:09.5	You ever walk in and, you know, like the vibes off or you wake up and, you know, like, how did I get on this plane?
0:15.3	Are we talking about a specific place?
0:17.2	This is not my beautiful house, nor this is this my beautiful wife.
0:20.3	This is a windowless room and I'm tied to a chair with a bag over my head.
0:25.2	Now, hold on.
0:26.4	What?
0:28.1	Not consensually.
0:29.3	This is the true story that we explored in 2019.
0:33.7	Here in these United States, for now, people accused of crimes are theoretically entitled to certain well-known legal protections.
0:43.7	And if you scope out to the globe overall, you'll see things like the Geneva Conventions that guarantee certain rights to prisoners of war.
0:58.9	However, the theory does not always translate to the practice, does it? No, there's some big butts in there, guys. Yeah. Are we both waiting for that
1:07.3	Brazilian buttless joke? It was there all along.
1:15.3	Please, please do not get a BBL at a black site.
1:16.1	Don't do it.
1:16.8	Yeah, don't. It's the worst possible place to do that.
1:18.5	Yeah, black sites, we're laughing by the gallows because there is no whistle like a graveyard whistle.
1:26.1	Black sites are terrible.
1:27.3	They're real. They are a violation of international whistle. Black sites are terrible. They're real.
1:28.2	They are a violation of international law.
1:30.8	They are an active conspiracy, both in 2019 when we originally recorded this and in 2025,
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