Although it’s not immediately obvious, the Battle of Agincourt on 25 October 1415, and the changes it forced onto every subsequent battlefield, is 100 percent analogous to the present condition of artificial intelligence and how it relates to your personal existence. The parallel is not decorative. It is structural. A significantly smaller force that had…
European leaders are increasingly talking about a war with Russia. Meanwhile European capabilities to fight such a war are laughably absent. All the bluff and bluster is just a cover story to justify a bill your household is paying already. George Beebe, former director for Russian analysis at the CIA and now at the Quincy…
Filter Bubbles and Algorithmic Enclosures: Peer Pressure Without a Raised Voice. In my last guide I showed you how to stand against social conformity and peer pressure. This article leads directly on from that. It is a fact well known to those who know it well that I know a thing or two about information…
Standing Outside The Current: Keeping Your Judgment When the Herd Turns. Power operates through information systems and mass psychology. I’ve spent decades working with those information systems and dealing with Google’s and the media’s psychological manipulation, and I’ve come to treat social conformity as the quiet enforcement layer of every other capture. Propaganda supplies the…
Diesel is already at a record. Food is next. Last week two oil valves closed. This week Washington spun up a strike on Yemen and canceled it before the weekend. As predicted, your higher bill is already on the pump; the aborted strike tells you why. I do not treat mid-September as just another Houthi…
Guarding your attention is potentially the most important factor of any effort to regain your mental freedom, because attention is the first resource extracted from your mind by any influence campaign, not the last. I know this because I’ve spent years working with and analyzing the Big Tech information systems that vie for that attention…
Flock Cameras, Oil Barrels, Treasuries and Wallets are being sold as separate digital upgrades. Yet they are all part of a single “permission system.” The news media will treat those as four separate stories, when these seemingly disparate “modernizations” here form a single coherent “permission stack:” What you may own and consume, and how and…
How Daily Outrage, Fear, and Moral Panic Are Used to Capture the Human Mind… and How to Interrupt Them. As someone who spent a decade and a half working with Google I’ve had a great deal of opportunity to analyze how big tech and “The Powers That Be” operate through information systems and mass psychology,…
If you hold bonds, funds, pensions, or crypto in North America or Europe and you‘re still pricing the next five years as a rerun of the last five, the ground under those holdings has already moved. Make no mistake. The evening news will spend September arguing about whether the Federal Reserve raises interest rates. That…
Ukraine and Iran are not two wars. They are one crisis with two fronts, and the banking giants/elites are using both to force you into a tokenized economic replacement. Make no mistake, while governments talk pause and peace, the institutions that clear oil, debt, and reconstruction, who control currencies and the global flow of assets…
