Nice one! You seem to be one of the very few big voices on Substack who actually see the obvious here.
Berenson's infatuation is so tiresome. Eugyppius is brilliant, but like so many others can't seem to let go (of his 'Twatter' following). Meanwhile, Malone's incessant and wilfully blind cheerleading of Musk early on only served to further underline increasingly valid concerns about his Deep State ties and possible role as controlled opposition.
To anyone who has studied Musk this should have been entirely predictable. Actually, studying Musk was not necessary. All we needed to know was that if We the People were looking to another eccentric tech billionaire to save free speech, we were simply being fools played a second time around. Furthermore, Musk has never, not once, as far as I'm aware, directly questioned or criticized the Big Tech model itself, and yet it is the root of so many of today's problems, or at least the elixir that has made them all worse. On the contrary, Musk has is doubling down on the Big Tech model we've had now for over two decades, the one that finally brought us the Covid era.
Those who really want to understand what Big Tech is and what it's doing to us all should read Shoshana Zuboff's, 'The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power'. Highly recommend.
Finally, anyone in this day and age who isn't at least concerned that Twitter and Musk both are likely CIA ops isn't thinking critically enough.
That book was on my nightstand for most of 2019. Everyone should read it twice to understand how they're being manipulated.
This here is all we need to know about him: "Musk has never, not once, as far as I'm aware, directly questioned or criticized the Big Tech model itself, and yet it is the root of so many of today's problems."
Throw in the brain chips, government leaching, EV madness, 100k 5G sats in LEO and we have ourselves an obvious enemy of humanity.
I'm having trouble understanding something. There's abundant evidence that the CIA is terrible at its job and fails at almost everything it tries (see Legacy of Ashes). But at the same time, everyone on substack seems to think it controls everything and has virtually unlimited surveillance and analytical / computing power. How do we resolve this paradox?
The CIA is terrible at its job and fails at almost everything it tries only when we assume it exists for the reasons we are all indoctrinated to believe, such as to legitimately protect the interests of the American people, including our national security and way of life.
When we drop those (false) pretences and investigate things more closely, the perspective changes dramatically:
For a start, the CIA has been intrinsically tied to the narcotics trade since its inception, in fact well before through its predecessor the OSS. Today, the illicit drug trade constitutes an estimated three quarters of a trillion dollars, globally, per annum. Multiple authors compellingly argue that much of this black market is controlled by the CIA, which, and this is no secret, somehow has much more (dark, off the books) money at its disposal than it gets from the United States Congress.
The CIA has been complicit in over 60 attempted and successful coup d'etat and those are just the ones we know about. It has committed untold and unknowable number of illegal assassinations, political and otherwise.
The CIA’s fingerprints are all over the JFK, MLK and RFK assassinations.
The CIA brought LSD to the American public in the sixties as part of its MKUltra and other related programs. These once completely secret and now infamous programs were ostensibly about the exploration of mind control, but in fact turned out to be more about studies and exercises in destruction of the individual mind, and the manipulation of populations at large. They involved the incarceration, isolation, torture, medical experimentation and ultimate demise or death of countless thousands of innocents, first covertly overseas and then ultimately on citizens within the homeland.
The CIA then took these heinous learnings and experimentation to a whole new level when it unleashed them on a population writ large vis a vis its infamous Phoenix Program during the Vietnam war, which effectively turned South Vietnam into a totalitarian laboratory under the guise of a conventional war. (In addition to reading extensively on this subject, I’ve spent much time in Vietnam… I’ve seen the torture camps, the photos, and much more to substantiate these assertions.)
I won’t belabor the point about man going to the moon on joke-1960’s technology, but will simply suggest that that endeavor would have been (was) a fantastic money laundering scheme for funding the Vietnam War and the Phoenix Program, and that it also served as an ingenious way to simultaneously spook the Russians, while bringing to heel an American public increasingly agitated with the afore mentioned assassinations and egregious war, and later also Water Gate, by distracting them from those concerns and instilling a renewed sense of pride and patriotism in their country, and therefore, also in their otherwise discredited leaders.
One of CIA’s main investment arms in industry is In-Q-Tel, which invests early in ‘promising’ tech and entrepreneur’s predominantly in Silicon Valley, which should put the nexus and interconnectivity between Big Tech and Big Government in a whole new perspective for most people. It is hard to imagine anyone truly making it big in SV without ‘approval’ from the CIA, which secures its interests early. Incidentally, and estimated 3 million Americans have signed state secret agreements with the US Deep State. The penalty for violating those agreements, which can include even simply divulging that one has signed one, can lead to up to 20 years in prison (or worse, unofficially.) Think of the implications of this… of the power.
The Deep State, and therefore also the CIA are deeply implicated in 9/11, and the ensuing ‘War on Terror’, which was really a long and carefully planned war of terror, designed to plunder far off countries, while further enriching billionaires and corporate oligarchs as well as providing the necessary pretext for enabling the US Govt (Deep State) to consummate surveillance and control over the American population, and in turn populations in ostensibly democratic nations everywhere. From these perspectives, 911 can be seen as a direct precursor to the Covid ‘plandemic’ and the situation we find ourselves in now.
All that said, the CIA most certainly does NOT control everything on its own. Instead, it is a very powerful node, and one of many, controlled by the global cabal, which uses it to pursue its agendas. Together with other nodes, and in particular the rest of the Deep State, including the DOD, the NSA, and Big Tech, the CIA DOES have virtually unlimited surveillance and analytical / computing power.
Different aspects of the above musings are well documented across an extensive range of excellent books either directly related to or tangentially focussed on the CIA. One which covers most of them in great detail with impressive documentation is Douglas Valentine’s, ‘The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World.”
You make a lot of good points. Certainly, the CIA is not what it advertises itself to be and has a lot of partners in big tech and industry. But at the end of the day, it's just a government agency. Government agencies suck at everything. It seems unlikely to me that they would have the coordination and discipline to be everywhere all at once *and* have zero leaks.
The CIA has LOTS of leaks, but it is also not the case that everyone is in the know, so to speak. Far from it. Like all nodes in the cabal, it is highly compartmentalized and ultimately controlled by a powerful few who work for said cabal.
Also, the CIA does not have to have the coordination and discipline to be everywhere all at once to serve its purpose for its masters. On the contrary, while I have great sympathy for the view that government agencies are hopelessly ineffective at their espoused purposes, the "dolts botching shit" (TM Sage Hana) perception provides excellent cover.
The same could be said of the UN. On the one hand, it seems like a large and ineffective bureaucratic institution that simply wastes tons of money. On the other hand, it serves a very different set of purposes altogether from what the public understands, which it is highly effective at, namely, promoting the man-made global warming ruse and systematically executing many of the critical steps needed to implement one-world government vis a vis Agenda 21 and all of its related offshoots, including the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Agenda. (See Patrick Wood's, Technocracy and other books for more on this.)
The CIA most certainly does not suck at everything, nor does the UN. They suck at serving We the People, but excel at serving others.
I worry that this is becoming an unfalsifiable position. If they do their stated job, then they're highly effective. If they don't do their stated job, then they weren't actually supposed to be doing *that* job.
I'm not trolling you. It's clear that there's some level of global coordination here, but I worry when we try to make everything fit into the puzzle. People just aren't that smart, especially people in government. There has to be room for mistakes and coincidences.
No worries. There is enormous scope for mistakes and coincidences. I can only share where extensive booking reading and other research has led me. I will always want to hear other perspectives, especially if the research is comparable (or better) and leads to different findings. But speculation without commensurate research and compelling arguments is always going to be, well, less compelling for me. Atb.
How about NOT thinking of the CIA as the Keystone Kops, but as an effective, if problematic, tentacle of the Owners machine? Humans are gonna human, no matter how trained, "professional" or "patriotic" they may be, and in those HUGE sinkholes there's all kinds of space for mind control and "intelligence gathering" wins and losses.
The REAL mystery is: why do humans choose to work for such organizations? Greed only takes you so far, even in this iteration of Life. What POSSESSES them?
"why do humans choose to work for such organizations?"
Some delude themselves that they are saving the country/world, others were bullying victims as kids and are getting back at the world. The former lean narcissist and the latter lean sociopath/psychopath. In both cases, normal people have a very hard time trying to figure them out because their brains don't work like ours.
F'em all! Look forward to seeing your platform come to fruitation; the only hope for all of us is freedom of thought and the ability to express them openly.
> For five years as part of my Ph.D. I’ve been working on developing an automated tokenized self-amending (right to delete content and right to be forgotten) “New Internet”.
Sounds good. And it definitely *seems* like it should be possible to develop distributed social media. All walled gardens turn to shite eventually. Substack - if it got big - would just go the way of Twitter & Faceberg. Who wants to post on somebody else's server anyway? Let me post on a blockchain or host messages on my own machine. Why should we rely on centralized servers and algorithms at all?
While killing time between nursing my mandolined knuckles for the sake of potatoes au gratin for a secular Easter dinner tomorrow and ubering-without-fare-or-tip my teen and her friends, I read your article. All this Twitter stuff is silly, as Twitter is very clunky and annoying (and thus I have never used it), so I don't get the appeal. I understand the mining of information for whatever purposes from all social media and other internet platforms, and basic logic supports that the safe harbor sites like Substack have been only temporary pit stops. I appreciate learning more about how all this operates, and your thesis - as you outline it - is fascinating. Never heard of the concepts of "attention as labor and value and digital self-governance," and I'm looking forward to following along. Good luck with your defense! (I have always found the idea that a person has to "defend" his or her years-long work to a panel of academics to be wacky, but in your case, I think "defend" might be the appropriate terminology with the state of academia today.)
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Can't say I wasn't warned or claim I haven't been baselessly hoping that Elon wouldn't turn out to be a lord and master baiter. Time to further disconnect. Thanks for what you write and for the t-shirt I got here and wear with great pride.
Having intimate experience with several narcissists in various fascets of life, and therefore being very skeptical that another person who appears legit is love-bombing, in whatever form, I understand this thought. But BertPE you may be too! We really can't really trust most anyone. Real life or through the internet. It's a shame.
I really want to trust someone exhibiting my thoughts, but then, the starters of this whole morass did at one time too. It is a shame what the human race has become. And truth is the loser. I wish the solution was as easy as Slim’s Indian Love Song in Mars Attacks.
I am not surprised by Elon's latest shtick, but I was surprised that so many fell for his Twitter "freedom" act. Dude is so dependent on government funding for all of his ventures, he literally is Deep State.
Before Covid, the only thing I used Twitter for was some comedy spots, some traffic and weather updates, and some pet stuff. My own "true love" doesn't really care what an engineer thinks about life, I'm not narcissistic enough to send out my every thought out to strangers and think they care, and, it seemed so obvious to me that all social media was just a new way for the government to track citizens. During covid, I was using Twitter more, until they banned a lot of the covid-reality tweeters I had found (and ultimately even me for awhile). I still go back every couple of days to binge read Super70sSports, I find that whole time period of clothes and attitudes too funny, based on my age.
I wish you luck on your new venture, I'll have to check it out. I'm kinda not caring too much about the next steps of our impending doom, I'll probably tune out a little bit, read real books, mostly drop substack and really think about what I need to do for the future. The Bad Guys won the Covid War and are going to win the CBDC War, mostly because the majority of people are herd animals, are afraid to be labeled apostates, and crave safety above anything else. I won't leave the USA or even California, but I'll probably move to the country and try to be much more self-sufficient. We'll see. Ah life, so exciting now in the digital age!!
Good simple JSON protocol. Getting lots of light which is good to spread awareness about moving away from the present rotten system. But zero attention-labor-value distribution. Google digitized every past published work. They stole it all and then paid a "fine" of pennies to writers. Imagine if every image, text, meme, video, work of original content has inbuilt copyright protection on network tracked back to the original creator who always gets paid if it's shared now or in ten years. Until Nostr can do that they're not close.
Thanks mate, what a post! Im on board witcha 100%!
I wrote this about Elon few days ago, when I saw the news that twatter has a ID verification system feature built in, in my last english publication:
Because of how restricted and how easy it is to use, twitter breeds mediocrity and shallowness. No need to read and think much. Influencing the masses with trends. “Bread and Circus” as Romans put it. And what are progressive zombies using it for, it being their favorite online platform? For promotion of perversion of society and useful idiotism through propaganda and misinformation. Why do you think twitter is so popular in mass media? I would bet that at least a third of its users are either AI bots or influence-farm employees. Which is why twitter is used by politicians to be able to quickly influence the herd. Never mind that all what Musk wants is for you to be uploaded into the Starlink grid. Few days ago he tweeted: “If you do not like this reality, stop paying attention to it!“. Put on your VR set and give us your blood and bones! That is what they want! It is kind of obvious that Musk was sent in to salvage twitter from becoming obsolete. His rhetoric is designed to win over younger people who believe in the supremacy of new technologies and millions of dollars are spent on marketing him as some genius techno-messiah. Which is why I view people who are ok with what he is doing as brain-dead automatons.
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Im afraid your predictions are right on the money. Because substack owners are playing the market game substack is doomed from the start and their freedom-loving rhetoric is basically there to get more users who will raise their worth.
Issue - ‘safety’ they’ll exclaim is their reason for embedding themselves in all SM. ‘For the children’.
So that’s your biggest hurdle. The regulatory frameworks that the evil goons of UN, EU, 5EYES, etc intelligence services have or will implement that are in their entirety anti Free Speech.
After all they’ve declared like the Fascist (true definition corporate capture of Govn’t or inverse as it’s the same people) and communitarians before them, that dis- mal- information must be controlled.
And how would you keep out the brigades of operatives from infiltration?
On that note, did you know uk Govn’t gave themselves carte Blanche to break any and all laws in the pursuit of: taxes, benefits, health, education, MI6/5, CGHQ, Armed forces intelligence etc. In fact anything that’s establishment can even murder now without repercussions.
PS like you, I didn’t believe the Tw hype so never returned. Anyone who trusts a guy who dresses up in a Baphomet costume is a fool!
Nice one! You seem to be one of the very few big voices on Substack who actually see the obvious here.
Berenson's infatuation is so tiresome. Eugyppius is brilliant, but like so many others can't seem to let go (of his 'Twatter' following). Meanwhile, Malone's incessant and wilfully blind cheerleading of Musk early on only served to further underline increasingly valid concerns about his Deep State ties and possible role as controlled opposition.
To anyone who has studied Musk this should have been entirely predictable. Actually, studying Musk was not necessary. All we needed to know was that if We the People were looking to another eccentric tech billionaire to save free speech, we were simply being fools played a second time around. Furthermore, Musk has never, not once, as far as I'm aware, directly questioned or criticized the Big Tech model itself, and yet it is the root of so many of today's problems, or at least the elixir that has made them all worse. On the contrary, Musk has is doubling down on the Big Tech model we've had now for over two decades, the one that finally brought us the Covid era.
Those who really want to understand what Big Tech is and what it's doing to us all should read Shoshana Zuboff's, 'The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power'. Highly recommend.
Finally, anyone in this day and age who isn't at least concerned that Twitter and Musk both are likely CIA ops isn't thinking critically enough.
That book was on my nightstand for most of 2019. Everyone should read it twice to understand how they're being manipulated.
This here is all we need to know about him: "Musk has never, not once, as far as I'm aware, directly questioned or criticized the Big Tech model itself, and yet it is the root of so many of today's problems."
Throw in the brain chips, government leaching, EV madness, 100k 5G sats in LEO and we have ourselves an obvious enemy of humanity.
Excellent commentary.
I'm having trouble understanding something. There's abundant evidence that the CIA is terrible at its job and fails at almost everything it tries (see Legacy of Ashes). But at the same time, everyone on substack seems to think it controls everything and has virtually unlimited surveillance and analytical / computing power. How do we resolve this paradox?
Thanks for your comment and question.
The CIA is terrible at its job and fails at almost everything it tries only when we assume it exists for the reasons we are all indoctrinated to believe, such as to legitimately protect the interests of the American people, including our national security and way of life.
When we drop those (false) pretences and investigate things more closely, the perspective changes dramatically:
For a start, the CIA has been intrinsically tied to the narcotics trade since its inception, in fact well before through its predecessor the OSS. Today, the illicit drug trade constitutes an estimated three quarters of a trillion dollars, globally, per annum. Multiple authors compellingly argue that much of this black market is controlled by the CIA, which, and this is no secret, somehow has much more (dark, off the books) money at its disposal than it gets from the United States Congress.
The CIA has been complicit in over 60 attempted and successful coup d'etat and those are just the ones we know about. It has committed untold and unknowable number of illegal assassinations, political and otherwise.
The CIA’s fingerprints are all over the JFK, MLK and RFK assassinations.
The CIA brought LSD to the American public in the sixties as part of its MKUltra and other related programs. These once completely secret and now infamous programs were ostensibly about the exploration of mind control, but in fact turned out to be more about studies and exercises in destruction of the individual mind, and the manipulation of populations at large. They involved the incarceration, isolation, torture, medical experimentation and ultimate demise or death of countless thousands of innocents, first covertly overseas and then ultimately on citizens within the homeland.
The CIA then took these heinous learnings and experimentation to a whole new level when it unleashed them on a population writ large vis a vis its infamous Phoenix Program during the Vietnam war, which effectively turned South Vietnam into a totalitarian laboratory under the guise of a conventional war. (In addition to reading extensively on this subject, I’ve spent much time in Vietnam… I’ve seen the torture camps, the photos, and much more to substantiate these assertions.)
I won’t belabor the point about man going to the moon on joke-1960’s technology, but will simply suggest that that endeavor would have been (was) a fantastic money laundering scheme for funding the Vietnam War and the Phoenix Program, and that it also served as an ingenious way to simultaneously spook the Russians, while bringing to heel an American public increasingly agitated with the afore mentioned assassinations and egregious war, and later also Water Gate, by distracting them from those concerns and instilling a renewed sense of pride and patriotism in their country, and therefore, also in their otherwise discredited leaders.
One of CIA’s main investment arms in industry is In-Q-Tel, which invests early in ‘promising’ tech and entrepreneur’s predominantly in Silicon Valley, which should put the nexus and interconnectivity between Big Tech and Big Government in a whole new perspective for most people. It is hard to imagine anyone truly making it big in SV without ‘approval’ from the CIA, which secures its interests early. Incidentally, and estimated 3 million Americans have signed state secret agreements with the US Deep State. The penalty for violating those agreements, which can include even simply divulging that one has signed one, can lead to up to 20 years in prison (or worse, unofficially.) Think of the implications of this… of the power.
The Deep State, and therefore also the CIA are deeply implicated in 9/11, and the ensuing ‘War on Terror’, which was really a long and carefully planned war of terror, designed to plunder far off countries, while further enriching billionaires and corporate oligarchs as well as providing the necessary pretext for enabling the US Govt (Deep State) to consummate surveillance and control over the American population, and in turn populations in ostensibly democratic nations everywhere. From these perspectives, 911 can be seen as a direct precursor to the Covid ‘plandemic’ and the situation we find ourselves in now.
All that said, the CIA most certainly does NOT control everything on its own. Instead, it is a very powerful node, and one of many, controlled by the global cabal, which uses it to pursue its agendas. Together with other nodes, and in particular the rest of the Deep State, including the DOD, the NSA, and Big Tech, the CIA DOES have virtually unlimited surveillance and analytical / computing power.
Different aspects of the above musings are well documented across an extensive range of excellent books either directly related to or tangentially focussed on the CIA. One which covers most of them in great detail with impressive documentation is Douglas Valentine’s, ‘The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World.”
Hope it helps.
You make a lot of good points. Certainly, the CIA is not what it advertises itself to be and has a lot of partners in big tech and industry. But at the end of the day, it's just a government agency. Government agencies suck at everything. It seems unlikely to me that they would have the coordination and discipline to be everywhere all at once *and* have zero leaks.
The CIA has LOTS of leaks, but it is also not the case that everyone is in the know, so to speak. Far from it. Like all nodes in the cabal, it is highly compartmentalized and ultimately controlled by a powerful few who work for said cabal.
Also, the CIA does not have to have the coordination and discipline to be everywhere all at once to serve its purpose for its masters. On the contrary, while I have great sympathy for the view that government agencies are hopelessly ineffective at their espoused purposes, the "dolts botching shit" (TM Sage Hana) perception provides excellent cover.
The same could be said of the UN. On the one hand, it seems like a large and ineffective bureaucratic institution that simply wastes tons of money. On the other hand, it serves a very different set of purposes altogether from what the public understands, which it is highly effective at, namely, promoting the man-made global warming ruse and systematically executing many of the critical steps needed to implement one-world government vis a vis Agenda 21 and all of its related offshoots, including the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Agenda. (See Patrick Wood's, Technocracy and other books for more on this.)
The CIA most certainly does not suck at everything, nor does the UN. They suck at serving We the People, but excel at serving others.
I worry that this is becoming an unfalsifiable position. If they do their stated job, then they're highly effective. If they don't do their stated job, then they weren't actually supposed to be doing *that* job.
I'm not trolling you. It's clear that there's some level of global coordination here, but I worry when we try to make everything fit into the puzzle. People just aren't that smart, especially people in government. There has to be room for mistakes and coincidences.
No worries. There is enormous scope for mistakes and coincidences. I can only share where extensive booking reading and other research has led me. I will always want to hear other perspectives, especially if the research is comparable (or better) and leads to different findings. But speculation without commensurate research and compelling arguments is always going to be, well, less compelling for me. Atb.
Excellent synopsis.
How about NOT thinking of the CIA as the Keystone Kops, but as an effective, if problematic, tentacle of the Owners machine? Humans are gonna human, no matter how trained, "professional" or "patriotic" they may be, and in those HUGE sinkholes there's all kinds of space for mind control and "intelligence gathering" wins and losses.
The REAL mystery is: why do humans choose to work for such organizations? Greed only takes you so far, even in this iteration of Life. What POSSESSES them?
"why do humans choose to work for such organizations?"
Some delude themselves that they are saving the country/world, others were bullying victims as kids and are getting back at the world. The former lean narcissist and the latter lean sociopath/psychopath. In both cases, normal people have a very hard time trying to figure them out because their brains don't work like ours.
I was hoping. you'd weigh in on this, and as always, I learned something. (Didn't know about SVB connection.)
"Mao, Stalin, and Goebbels could only have dreamed of having access to these platforms and their manipulative technological capabilities. " Yup.
Can't wait for your platform. It's exactly what has to happen, and the right person/people will do it. Thank you.
F'em all! Look forward to seeing your platform come to fruitation; the only hope for all of us is freedom of thought and the ability to express them openly.
Amen WC!
> For five years as part of my Ph.D. I’ve been working on developing an automated tokenized self-amending (right to delete content and right to be forgotten) “New Internet”.
Sounds good. And it definitely *seems* like it should be possible to develop distributed social media. All walled gardens turn to shite eventually. Substack - if it got big - would just go the way of Twitter & Faceberg. Who wants to post on somebody else's server anyway? Let me post on a blockchain or host messages on my own machine. Why should we rely on centralized servers and algorithms at all?
While killing time between nursing my mandolined knuckles for the sake of potatoes au gratin for a secular Easter dinner tomorrow and ubering-without-fare-or-tip my teen and her friends, I read your article. All this Twitter stuff is silly, as Twitter is very clunky and annoying (and thus I have never used it), so I don't get the appeal. I understand the mining of information for whatever purposes from all social media and other internet platforms, and basic logic supports that the safe harbor sites like Substack have been only temporary pit stops. I appreciate learning more about how all this operates, and your thesis - as you outline it - is fascinating. Never heard of the concepts of "attention as labor and value and digital self-governance," and I'm looking forward to following along. Good luck with your defense! (I have always found the idea that a person has to "defend" his or her years-long work to a panel of academics to be wacky, but in your case, I think "defend" might be the appropriate terminology with the state of academia today.)
The normie brigade of pillow discounters! 😂😂
👏👏
Good luck with your dissertation defense. Looking forward to your idea going live - tired of the shock collar burns from the invisible fences.
So, um, about the Lesbian Lingerie Fantasy Football Leagues in Vanuatu. Can you hook me up?
The Lesbian Lingerie Fantasy Football Leagues in Vanuatu need to play with a fluffy ram.
Can't say I wasn't warned or claim I haven't been baselessly hoping that Elon wouldn't turn out to be a lord and master baiter. Time to further disconnect. Thanks for what you write and for the t-shirt I got here and wear with great pride.
@NuclearHeart169
Free speech is not and has never been "free." What is free is one's "free will" to pick the hill they want to die upon. ALL ELSE IS FOLLY!
As Dave below said if We the People are looking for $ to save our ability to speak, we are done!
Here is what I have to say to We the People.
When the people of a nation
Have been shackled in monetary chains
Via fraudulent usurpation
Of what THEIR Constitution contains
It is the responsibility of that people
To declare themselves again
And state that slavery is not acceptable
In whatever form it came
And so it is with us
In OUR country here today
We have been filed as "Chattel Property"
And our every ounce of energy
Is how their debts get paid
They have placed us in multiple "Federal Trusts"
Where our "Private Property" stays
And they refer to us as "Belligerents"
As per the First Convention of the Hague
And all our Federal and State Agencies are "Beneficiaries"
Of an "International Trust"
Called the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Not The United States of America
If I may be so bold to say
And so the time has come
As the walrus once did say
But not to talk of many things
Because we are past that stage today
There is only left to do
Or die along the way
For how safe can we be
When the future that we see
Has life itself a prisoner
Of these sickly wanna-be's
And with confidence as our hand
We must take our "Lawful" stance
Using every skill we can
Against this "de facto" high command
Until it clearly understands
That "We the People" are the "de jure" source
Of jurisdiction in this land
Dean
Yep, cant fight usury by being a part of the system that is based on usury.
How do we know you’re not one of “them”?
You don't. And that's why I'm working on something that will never have the burden of having to trust anyone.
I bet most of your readers don't trust anyone! I bet we are more into Trust Pushes instead of Trust Falls.
Thank God, I've never been made to do one of those damn things. I have always related to Mulder. "Trust no one."
Having intimate experience with several narcissists in various fascets of life, and therefore being very skeptical that another person who appears legit is love-bombing, in whatever form, I understand this thought. But BertPE you may be too! We really can't really trust most anyone. Real life or through the internet. It's a shame.
I really want to trust someone exhibiting my thoughts, but then, the starters of this whole morass did at one time too. It is a shame what the human race has become. And truth is the loser. I wish the solution was as easy as Slim’s Indian Love Song in Mars Attacks.
Nothing good lasts forever, especially in this hyper-censorious environment. Free speech is dead; it just doesn't know it yet.
I am not surprised by Elon's latest shtick, but I was surprised that so many fell for his Twitter "freedom" act. Dude is so dependent on government funding for all of his ventures, he literally is Deep State.
Before Covid, the only thing I used Twitter for was some comedy spots, some traffic and weather updates, and some pet stuff. My own "true love" doesn't really care what an engineer thinks about life, I'm not narcissistic enough to send out my every thought out to strangers and think they care, and, it seemed so obvious to me that all social media was just a new way for the government to track citizens. During covid, I was using Twitter more, until they banned a lot of the covid-reality tweeters I had found (and ultimately even me for awhile). I still go back every couple of days to binge read Super70sSports, I find that whole time period of clothes and attitudes too funny, based on my age.
I wish you luck on your new venture, I'll have to check it out. I'm kinda not caring too much about the next steps of our impending doom, I'll probably tune out a little bit, read real books, mostly drop substack and really think about what I need to do for the future. The Bad Guys won the Covid War and are going to win the CBDC War, mostly because the majority of people are herd animals, are afraid to be labeled apostates, and crave safety above anything else. I won't leave the USA or even California, but I'll probably move to the country and try to be much more self-sufficient. We'll see. Ah life, so exciting now in the digital age!!
NOSTR?
Good simple JSON protocol. Getting lots of light which is good to spread awareness about moving away from the present rotten system. But zero attention-labor-value distribution. Google digitized every past published work. They stole it all and then paid a "fine" of pennies to writers. Imagine if every image, text, meme, video, work of original content has inbuilt copyright protection on network tracked back to the original creator who always gets paid if it's shared now or in ten years. Until Nostr can do that they're not close.
Gotcha. Thanks for the reply.
Thanks mate, what a post! Im on board witcha 100%!
I wrote this about Elon few days ago, when I saw the news that twatter has a ID verification system feature built in, in my last english publication:
Because of how restricted and how easy it is to use, twitter breeds mediocrity and shallowness. No need to read and think much. Influencing the masses with trends. “Bread and Circus” as Romans put it. And what are progressive zombies using it for, it being their favorite online platform? For promotion of perversion of society and useful idiotism through propaganda and misinformation. Why do you think twitter is so popular in mass media? I would bet that at least a third of its users are either AI bots or influence-farm employees. Which is why twitter is used by politicians to be able to quickly influence the herd. Never mind that all what Musk wants is for you to be uploaded into the Starlink grid. Few days ago he tweeted: “If you do not like this reality, stop paying attention to it!“. Put on your VR set and give us your blood and bones! That is what they want! It is kind of obvious that Musk was sent in to salvage twitter from becoming obsolete. His rhetoric is designed to win over younger people who believe in the supremacy of new technologies and millions of dollars are spent on marketing him as some genius techno-messiah. Which is why I view people who are ok with what he is doing as brain-dead automatons.
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Im afraid your predictions are right on the money. Because substack owners are playing the market game substack is doomed from the start and their freedom-loving rhetoric is basically there to get more users who will raise their worth.
Issue - ‘safety’ they’ll exclaim is their reason for embedding themselves in all SM. ‘For the children’.
So that’s your biggest hurdle. The regulatory frameworks that the evil goons of UN, EU, 5EYES, etc intelligence services have or will implement that are in their entirety anti Free Speech.
After all they’ve declared like the Fascist (true definition corporate capture of Govn’t or inverse as it’s the same people) and communitarians before them, that dis- mal- information must be controlled.
And how would you keep out the brigades of operatives from infiltration?
On that note, did you know uk Govn’t gave themselves carte Blanche to break any and all laws in the pursuit of: taxes, benefits, health, education, MI6/5, CGHQ, Armed forces intelligence etc. In fact anything that’s establishment can even murder now without repercussions.
PS like you, I didn’t believe the Tw hype so never returned. Anyone who trusts a guy who dresses up in a Baphomet costume is a fool!