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Saturday, October 11, 2025

Robert Gore, "Technototalitarianism, Part Two"

We are all Palestinians.
"Technototalitarianism, Part Two" 
by Robert Gore
Part One

"The Israel Connections: There is no separation between Israeli’s political system, military, intelligence agencies, and technology corporations. There is virtually no separation between those elements and their counterparts in the U.S., and Israel’s influence is almost as pervasive in other Western governments and bureaucracies.

The Palestinians, both before and after October 7, 2023, have been the beta test for Israeli surveillance, control, and military technologies. Israel’s recent attack on Iran, particular its assassinations of key Iranian figures, signaled that those technologies have moved beyond beta and confirmed their effectiveness.

Unit 8200 is an elite Israeli military intelligence division of the IDF responsible for, according to Wikipedia, “clandestine operation, collecting signal intelligence (SIGINT) and code decryption, counterintelligence, cyberwarfare, military intelligence, and surveillance.” Many of its soldiers are 18- to 21-years old, who were identified in high school as exceptionally bright and put in after-school programs teaching computer coding and hacking skills. Unit 8200 has served as a feeder for Israeli, Silicon Valley, and other international IT companies as founders, financiers, and top management.

The Vast Network of Israeli Spy Tech Behind The Modern Surveillance State,” by Nate Bear, at ¡Do Not Panic!, 7/29/25, is a not-exhaustive compendium of Israeli surveillance companies, their capabilities, and their customers. Several strands emerge. Every company detailed is stacked with Unit 8200 alumni. They have signed contracts not just with national security and intelligence services but with local units, notably police departments, in the U.S., the UK, the rest of Europe, Australia, and South America. Occasionally these companies have run afoul of the law. The Biden administration blacklisted four Israeli companies, preventing them from doing business in the U.S. (but took no action against Israel’s government).

The blacklisting is unsettling, but what’s most disturbing, not just concerning the blacklisted companies but the many Israeli companies that have not faced legal censure, is the capabilities of their products and who is using them. Pegasus spyware from blacklisted NSO Group hacked WhatsApp accounts. (Meta, owner of WhatsApp, won $167 million in damages from NSO Group.) Two blacklisted companies, Cytrox and Itellexa, were founded by an ex-chief commander of Unit 8200, Ted Dilian, who demonstrated to a Forbes journalist “how his software could remotely hack a phone within seconds.”

The scale of usage, and the range of capabilities provided by this Israeli spy tech, is vast. From face and voice recognition software, to interception and wiretap technology, to covert location tracking, to forced data extraction from smartphones and other devices.The tech, built by software engineers who cut their teeth writing code to enable and enforce Israeli domination over, and apartheid against Palestinians, is being sold to security services, police forces and immigration agencies across the west.

Any investigation of Israel high-tech surveillance and military companies involves deep diving through the murky depths of conjoined Israeli and U.S. technology, intelligence, weaponry, finance, politics, and organized crime. Focusing on Jeffrey Epstein and his network casts some light through the murk. Much of the factual information comes from the courageous and invaluable work of Whitney Webb at websites MintPress News, Unlimited Hangout, and The Last American Vagabond.

Two important figures in Epstein’s rise are Leslie Wexner and Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine Maxwell’s father. Wexner and Charles Bronfman, a Canadian Jew from the Seagram’s liquor empire founded by his father, Samuel, founded the Mega group in 1991. Mega is a group of wealthy businessmen united by ties to pro-Israel advocacy and Jewish philanthropy. More nefariously, members have alleged and in some cases documented ties to organized crime and U.S. and Israeli intelligence, which have a long and sordid history of using blackmail, particularly concerning victims’ sexual proclivities, to achieve their ends. Wexner was Epstein’s protege and financial advisor, a client of Epstein’s hedge fund, and transferred a $56 million Manhattan townhouse to an Epstein-controlled entity for free.

Robert Maxwell was not a known member of Mega, but he was either a Mossad agent or closely linked to it. Mossad allegedly used money from Maxwell’s Mirror Newspaper Group’s pension fund to finance its European operations and had video footage of Maxwell in sexually compromising positions. Maxwell became a salesman for Promis software, ostensibly case management software for prosecutors. Israel intelligence obtained a copy of the software and planted a “trapdoor,” essentially a bug that allowed Mossad to access everything that was on computers and systems on which Promis was installed. “Dozens of countries used the software on their most carefully guarded computer systems, unaware that Mossad now had access to everything Promis touched.” Mossad gathered “...troves of counterintelligence data, but also blackmail on other intelligence agencies and powerful figures.”

After it was revealed that Epstein had evaded stricter sentencing in 2008 due to his links to “intelligence,” it was the Mossad ties of Ghislaine Maxwell’s father that have led many to speculate that Epstein’s sexual blackmail operation was sharing incriminating information with the Mossad. Former CBS executive producer and current journalist for the media outlet Narativ, Zev Shalev, has since claimed that he independently confirmed that Epstein was tied directly to the Mossad.

There is no smoking-gun evidence of Epstein’s ties to Mossad. Rarely does such evidence surface in journalism concerning intelligence agencies and powerful figures. However, in the recent controversy about releasing all of the Epstein material that has given Trump so much heartburn, potential revelation of Epstein-Mossad links is infrequently mentioned as a reason for Trump’s reticence, even in the AM. It is instead attributed to potential revelations of his involvement in sexual activities with underage children provided by Epstein.

If Epstein was indeed funneling blackmail material to Mossad, the agency would obviously not want that fact or the material itself to be revealed. Not only would publicizing the material destroy its surreptitious effectiveness, it would also roil the controversy concerning Israel’s influence on the U.S. government. There are many possible reasons why the Trump administration is, at best, slow walking release of the Epstein materials. In light of longstanding connections between organized crime, U.S. and Israeli intelligence, and powerful political, financial, and business figures in the U.S. and Israel, including Trump (see “Hidden in Plain Sight: The Shocking Origins of the Jeffrey Epstein Case,” 7/18/19, and “Government by Blackmail: Jeffrey Epstein, Trump’s Mentor and the Dark Secrets of the Reagan Era,” 7/25/19, both by Whitney Webb, Mint Press News), the potential Epstein-Mossad connection is the betting favorite. If that’s the case, the prospect of full disclosure is virtually nonexistent.

One historical development that predates Jeffrey Epstein and may seem like ancient history - it’s from the Reagan administration - merits mention because it remains chillingly relevant today. Beginning in 1982, as part of the highly classified Continuity of Government (COG) program, [Oliver] North used the PROMIS software at a 6,100-square-foot “command center” in the Department of Justice, as well as at a smaller operations room at the White House, to compile a list of American dissidents and “potential troublemakers” if the COG protocol was ever invoked.

According to a senior government official with a high-ranking security clearance and service in five presidential administrations who spoke to Radar in 2008, this was: “A database of Americans, who, often for the slightest and most trivial reason, are considered unfriendly, and who, in a time of panic might be incarcerated. The database can identify and locate perceived ‘enemies of the state’ almost instantaneously.”

In 1993, Wired described North’s use of PROMIS in compiling this database as follows: “Using PROMIS, sources point out, North could have drawn up lists of anyone ever arrested for a political protest, for example, or anyone who had ever refused to pay their taxes. Compared to PROMIS, Richard Nixon’s enemies list or Sen. Joe McCarthy’s blacklist look downright crude.”

The COG program defined this “time of panic” as “a national crisis, such as nuclear war, violent and widespread internal dissent, or national opposition to a US military invasion abroad,” whereby the government would suspend the Constitution, declare martial law, and incarcerate perceived dissidents and other “unfriendlies” in order to prevent the government’s (or then-serving administration’s) overthrow.

This secretive database has often been referred to as “Main Core” by government insiders and, most troubling of all, it still exists today. Journalist Christ Ketcham, citing senior government officials, reported in 2008 that, at that time, Main Core was believed to contain the names of as many as 8 million Americans. Eleven years later, it is highly likely that the number of Americans included in the Main Core database has grown considerably.

Not surprisingly, Main Core has an Israel connection: Though most reporting on Main Core, from the time its existence was first revealed to the present, has treated the database as something used by the U.S. government and U.S. intelligence for domestic purposes, MintPress has learned that Israeli intelligence was also involved with the creation of the Main Core database. According to a former U.S. intelligence official with direct knowledge of the U.S. intelligence community’s use of PROMIS and Main Core from the 1980s to 2000s, Israeli intelligence played a role in the U.S. government’s deployment of PROMIS as the software used for the Main Core domestic surveillance database system.

Israel probably had Promis’s “trapdoor” access to the Main Core database, and if it did, it probably used it not just for surveillance, but blackmail. Main Core flagged Americans for surveillance and possible detention by the George W. Bush administration after the 9/11 attacks. It may be incorporated into Trump administration (first and second) proposals to prevent mass shootings.

Three Israeli companies are capitalizing on the public’s safety fears, for which so many liberties are being sacrificed without any corresponding gain in safety. All three companies are loaded with Unit 8200 alumni, and have extensive ties to the Israeli government, Israeli and U.S. intelligence, and U.S. high-tech companies. Presumably all three companies’ products have a “trapdoor” capability similar - although undoubtedly upgraded - to that of Promis software. They are also at the forefront of the effort to develop pre-crime, or predictive, policing.

Carbyne911, or simply Carbyne, has a global business developing call-handling, identification, and crisis management capabilities, and markets its product as a solution to mass shootings. It also has a consumer app “... that provides emergency services with access to a caller’s camera and location and also runs any caller’s identity through any linked government database.” Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who has deep ties to Israel’s intelligence community, is an investor, as was Jeffrey Epstein. (Barak also has extensive and documented ties to Epstein’s sex ring and Mega member Leslie Wexner.) A third investor is Peter Thiel. Two former Secretaries of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff (Bush administration) and Kirsten Nielsen (first Trump administration) are currently on Carbyne’s Advisory Board.

While NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware garnered public notoriety and blacklisting from the Biden administration, a much lower-profile company, Toka, markets more high-powered spyware, often to Pegasus customers. Pegasus was confined to hacking smartphones. Toka’s hacking suite, classified as a “lawful intercept” product, can hack not just smartphones, but any device connected to the Internet, including the Internet of Things. Toka does not disclose the flaws, called exploits, that it hacks to the hacked companies. The company was founded by Ehud Barak and according to an Israeli Ministry of Defense website, “works closely” with the ministry and other Israeli intelligence and security agencies. Toka claims its products are sold only to “trusted” governments, those whose policies are in alignment with the Israeli government. That group certainly includes the U.S. government.

The use of “pre-crime”, as detailed in sci-fi epics like Phillip K. Dick’s The Minority Report, has deeply unsettling implications for society, civil liberties and the future of policing. As noted by the British Journal of Criminology, “pre-crime links coercive state actions to suspicion without the need for charge, prosecution or conviction” and is part of a larger trend “towards integrating national security [e.g., intelligence agencies] into criminal justice.” Indeed, as I have noted in my work for many years now, American and Israeli intelligence agencies, particularly their most nefarious components, have covertly been the drivers of “pre-crime” protocols meant to eliminate public dissent since the 1980s, if not even earlier.


Gabriel, an Israeli company whose management and advisory board comprise former officials of Mossad, the CIA, and FBI, is on the cutting edge of pre-crime surveillance and response systems. The company’s marketing is based on identifying mass casualty threats; the company was launched in 2016 after a Tel Aviv shooting and the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida. (Safety is a ubiquitous hook for the surveillance and security infrastructure.) Gabriel’s “threat detection” suite employs AI-driven “smart cameras” and facial recognition and related technologies, and panic buttons to detect and issue alerts of fights, weapons, and other “abnormal behavior” in the many facilities - schools, houses of worship, retail stores, warehouses, data centers, and banks - that are its target market.

The company is integrating its system into drones and robots, presumably to respond to detected threats. Eventually the detection, identification, and response to threats - including deadly force - may be automated. Gabriel also seeks to network its systems to better integrate them into smart cities, “... which utilizes the internet of things and ubiquitous sensors and cameras to harvest massive troves of data that are then used to ‘manage service delivery,’ with those services including the deployment of law enforcement.”

Two men are primarily responsible for seeding the amalgamation of American and Israeli high-tech, intelligence, and military - Benjamin Netanyahu and Paul Singer. Netanyahu has made no secret of his encouragement and support for this amalgamation. Singer, an American hedge-fund billionaire, has provided funding, and nuts-and-bolts know-how to make it happen.

Singer’s project to bolster Israel’s tech economy at the U.S.’ expense is known as Start-Up Nation Central, which he founded in response to the global Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) movement that seeks to use nonviolent means to pressure Israel to comply with international law in relation to its treatment of Palestinians.

This project is directly linked to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who in recent years has publicly mentioned that it has been his “deliberate policy” to have former members of Israel’s “military and intelligence units… merge into companies with local partners and foreign partners” in order to make it all but impossible for major corporations and foreign governments to boycott Israel.

Singer has funded neoconservative and Zionist think tanks and lobbying groups and has been a top donor to the Republican Party, Trump, and Netanyahu. He recently contributed $1 million to a Super PAC devoted to unseating pain-in-Trump’s-ass Thomas Massie in a primary challenge next year. He seeded Start-UP Nation Central (SUNC) with $20 million in 2015. Its singular focus is building up Israel’s tech economy.

Within the last ten years, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Sandisk, Nvidia, PayPal, Palantir, Dell, Intel, and Microsoft have opened research and development centers and production facilities in Israel, often encouraged by SUNC. Intel and Microsoft made multibillion dollar investments, creating thousands of new jobs in Israel, while at the same time laying off thousands of employees in the U.S. As mentioned in Part One, Larry Ellison’s Oracle has acquired Israeli companies. The desire to create a Israel-centered technological ecosystem has only gotten stronger since October 7, 2023, as world revulsion to Israel’s genocidal response to the Hamas attack has grown, even within the U.S., its long-time political patron. Netanyahu recently called for Israel’s economic self-sufficiency, recognizing the country’s growing international isolation.

SUNC has also encouraged the migration of former Unit 8200 members to positions within U.S. high tech companies. Particularly troubling is the fact that, since SUNC’s founding, the number of former Unit 8200 members in top positions in American tech companies has skyrocketed. Based on a non-exhaustive analysis conducted by Mintpress of over 200 LinkedIn accounts of former Israeli military intelligence and intelligence officers in three major tech companies, numerous former Unit 8200 alumni were found to currently hold top managerial or executive positions in Microsoft, Google and Facebook.
- “How Neocon Billionaire Paul Singer Is Driving The Outsourcing Of US Tech Jobs To Israel,” MintPress News, Whitney Webb, 6/11/19. It’s probably a safe assumption that this trend has continued unabated since 2019.

Technology always needs beta tests. Israel’s Palestinian population has been a beta test for Israeli and American surveillance and military technology since the 1950s. Once its effectiveness is proven, that technology stays in place. Like the U.S. government, Israel’s has never been morally fastidious concerning to whom it sells its technology, including to states that don’t recognize Israel. Intelligence and military technology has long been a leading Israeli export.

“The most effective example of separatism is the encirclement of Gaza, trapping more than 2 million Palestinians behind high fences, under constant drone surveillance, infrequent missile attack, and largely closed borders enforced by Israel and Egypt. When Israel completed the sixty-five-kilometer high-tech barrier along the entire border with Gaza in late 2021, at a cost of US$1.11 billion, a ceremony in southern Israel took place to mark the occasion. Haaretz described the wall as “a complex engineering and technological system: the only one of its kind in the world” that required construction assistance from Europe.9”
The Palestine Laboratory, Verso, Antony Loewenstein, 2023

Israel’s fleet of satellites enable it to monitor Gaza to a resolution of .5 square meters in all weather and cloud conditions, night and day. Hermes 900 drones with electro-optical and infrared sensors, thermal monitors, laser designation and electronic listening devices pick up anything the satellites might have missed. Prior to the Hamas attack, there were so many Israeli drones flying over Gaza that Gazans complained of sleep deprivation due to the persistent drone buzz. True to its start-of-the-art reputation, in 2021 Israel became the first country to use AI-controlled drone swarms for location, identification, and attack.

Israel’s human (on the ground – HUMINT) intelligence prowess was equally formidable. Shin Bet HUMINT led the IDF to frequently intercept and shut down Hamas border tunnels. Shin Bet’s infiltration of Hamas’ literal underground network was so exhaustive, and Hamas so destabilized, that Hamas resorted to mass executions of suspected spies and possible collaborators. Shin Bet’s Mista’arvim counter-terrorism unit and the IDF’s elite Maglan unit were able to conduct targeted assassinations and many other acts of espionage and surveillance inside Gaza .

In addition to all of this, the Palestinians were the most surveilled and searched people on Earth. Everyone who entered or  left Gaza was subjected to the “Blue Wolf” system. Biometric ID, monitored by facial recognition software, combined with strictly controlled entry and exit permits were required at the armed checkpoints that were the only official way in an out of Gaza. The “Blue Wolf” system logged every movement on what Israeli intelligence operatives called “Facebook for Palestinians.” So extensive and intrusive was Israel’s spying on Palestinians that, in 2014, former members of Israel’s Unit 8200 wrote a joint letter to the Israeli government protesting the oppressive surveillance.

Iain Davis’s three-part series, “Unacknowledged False Flags; The October 7th Hamas Attack,” (Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3) extensively documents the many warnings Israel received of an impending Hamas attack and the implausible elements of its dilatory response. He shreds the official narrative (the internal contradictions of which strained credulity when it was promulgated), concluding, as the title indicates, that the attack was a false flag. Readers are referred to the series for further details.

The suggestion is abjectly cynical, but Israel may have decided that continued Palestinian beta testing of its surveillance technologies was no longer necessary - they had been tested, debugged, and met specifications - and that it was time to beta test its genocidal technologies by ridding Israel of Palestinians.

Here, too, Israel know-how is state-of-the-art. It employs AI-based systems to target its bombing attacks. Habsora (“The Gospel”) AI relies on Israel’s extensive data base of Gazan structures, including homes, which contains records of the number and in many cases the identity of Palestinians occupying them, to generate structural targets and calculate the number of civilians likely to be killed. Attacks on Hamas targets that will kill large numbers of Palestinian civilians are approved by Israeli military officers, particularly if the Hamas target is high in the command structure.

Lavender is another system that relies on AI and machine-learning algorithms. It pinpoints people rather than structures and puts suspected operatives of Hamas’ and Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s military wings on a kill list, regardless of rank or military importance.

However, once the list was expanded to include tens of thousands of lower-ranking operatives, the Israeli army figured it had to rely on automated software and artificial intelligence. The result, the sources testify, was that the role of human personnel in incriminating Palestinians as military operatives was pushed aside, and AI did most of the work instead. According to four of the sources who spoke to +972 and Local Call, Lavender - which was developed to create human targets in the current war - has marked some 37,000 Palestinians as suspected “Hamas militants,” most of them junior, for assassination (the IDF Spokesperson denied the existence of such a kill list in a statement to +972 and Local Call).
- “‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza,” +972 Magazine in partnership with Local Call, 4/3/24

For low-level operatives, collateral damage of 15 to 20 civilian deaths are acceptable under Lavender’s protocols; for high-level operatives killings of more than 100 civilians have been authorized. The latter receive more than the cursory or nonexistent human review given to Lavender decisions concerning the former. Because it is easier to identify operatives’ private homes than where they conduct military operations, homes are Lavender’s preferred targets. Automatic tracking programs, one of which is the perniciously named “Where’s Daddy?”, have been developed that pinpoint when targets are at their homes. Of course, a bomb that strikes a home is likely to wipe out both the target and his family, but that is regarded as acceptable and even desirable collateral damage.

On June 13, 2025, Israel assassinated 11 of Iran’s top military commanders, nuclear scientists, and its chief nuclear weapons negotiators. There were reports that Israel and the U.S. hoped that this decapitation strike would so cripple Iran that its regime would fail, paving the way for the subjugation of Iran. That hope wasn’t realized. However the assassinations served another purpose, not widely noted or reported - to instill fear in world leaders. Several of the assassinated figures were killed in their homes; in some cases their families were victims as well. The strikes were similar to those that had become commonplace in Gaza, guided by Israeli’s surveillance and AI-driven targeting technology.

The key to understanding all this is that Iran is now a digital Panopticon prison, now that the US and Israel, and probably some other regional allies of these two, can detect a person’s location, communications, conversations, and state of mind at any time, anywhere. The Iranian leadership is effectively already in a digital prison. A person can now be tracked based on their walking gait, unique heartbeat, voice, the network of people in their circle, and their own behavioral patterns. There is no place to hide in a digital Panopticon prison.
- “Iran’s Panopticon Prison: AI, Gaz-a-Lago and MIGA,” Dr. Pippa Malgrem, Pippa, 6/22/25

The Iran attack was those technologies’ “roadshow,” demonstrating new capabilities of the world’s most proficient assassins. Another important conclusion to be drawn from these recent developments is that the Jewish State has certainly now established itself as history’s most prolific and skillful practitioner of assassinations as a technique of statecraft, having easily surpassed the notorious exploits of that small band of heretical Muslims who terrorized Middle Eastern leaders a thousand years ago and gave their name to that lethal tactic. Any introductory history books that describe the famed Order of Assassins as the foremost employers of that craft should therefore be revised.
- “Zionist Israel as the Assassination Nation,” Ron Unz, The Unz Review, 6/23/25

Israel had plenty of on-the-ground operatives in Iran, some of whom launched drones used in the assassination (Iran executed some of them afterwards as spies). However, Israel’s digital control grid was essential for pinpointing the targets. It’s one thing to institute a Panopticon in Gaza, which is within Israel and had a captive population of 2.1 million (prior to 10/7/23). The degree of difficulty is an order of magnitude greater monitoring a hostile power with a population of approximately 92 million, but apparently that’s what Israel and the U.S. have done.

It was immediately obvious that the Iranian assassinations had planetary implications. If software can identify each person in Iran, then, as long as Starlink or other U.S. satellite constellations are operating overhead, those who control the panopticon can identify pretty much anyone, anywhere. Whether with drones, invisible weaponry, or missiles, parties who are remote and unaccountable can influence targets’ thoughts and health or end their life—all on a highly economic basis.
- “Plunder: Financing the Panopticon,” Catherine Austin Fitts, The Solari Report, 8/5/25

The current standoff between Israel and Iran may last longer than many commentators think. Iran’s remaining leaders fear being the next targets of Israel’s assassination complex. Israel fears Iranian missiles and drone swarms it cannot stop, and the resultant damage to infrastructure and military and intelligence installations.

Most people will go through life oblivious to the fact that virtually everything they do, write, and say is being monitored and recorded. The authorities may not yet know how many times you go to the bathroom every day, but surely the Internet of Toilets is coming. (Sooner than you might think. See “Yikes! Digital Tracking Bathroom Passes For Students,” by Patti Johnson, The Burning Platform, 10/5/25) Nominal leaders, particularly in the West, can’t afford insouciance in light of Israel’s reputation as the world’s best assassins. As the Iran decapitation strike, the pager strike in Lebanon, a successful decapitation strike in Yemen that wiped out the nation’s Prime Minister and most of his Cabinet, and an unsuccessful Hamas decapitation strike in Doha, Qatar demonstrate, Israel recognizes no constraints on its murderous activities. It has been indifferent to the damage those attacks have inflicted on U.S. - its supposed closest ally - diplomacy and credibility.

There is no conclusive proof that Israel was behind Charlie Kirk’s assassination. If it was, there probably never will be; Israel generally covers its tracks very well. However, notwithstanding multiple denials by Netanyahu, that Israel was almost immediately and widely fingered as the main suspect after the official story was shredded can only amplify the fear that many prominent people - including Trump - must have of what can happen to them if they cross an Israeli red line.

U.S. and Israeli intelligence, military, and high tech companies are so intertwined that it’s analytically correct to think of them as one complex. While the complex has plenty of links to globalist entities - the World Economic Forum, the Bilderberg Group, the Council on Foreign Relations, UN, WHO, IMF, BIS, etc. - when the control grid and technototalitarian squeeze are fully instituted, the complex will be at the apex.

The technototalitarians include most of the world’s richest people. However, the key to their ascendancy is that they control the brainpower behind the surveillance and military technologies that are the heart of the control grid. The only concentration of brainpower comparable to Silicon Valley’s and Israel’s is China’s, and there, too, it serves technototalitarian purposes. It is the ultimate revenge of the nerds. “Democracy” may be nominally preserved and elections held, but voters will only be offered choices between controlled figureheads like Trump and J.D. Vance.

We will all be Palestinians - surveilled, enslaved, and eliminated should we prove troublesome."

Part Three: The Squeeze

"The Inevitable Collapse of the Bloated State"

"The Inevitable Collapse of the Bloated State"
by MN Gordon

"At the time or this writing, the federal funding for the new fiscal year (FY 2026) has lapsed. The federal government bureaucracy is in partial shutdown. In Washington, D.C., and in federal offices across the nation, nearly a million people are either furloughed or clocking in for work without promise of a paycheck. Perhaps by the time you read this the shutdown will be over. Regardless, a return to the big government status quo and its relentless money sucking vortex isn’t something to be happy about – especially, if you’re a net taxpayer who values freedom.

This week, Republican Senator John Kennedy cited wasteful spending left over from the Biden administration as the reason for the shutdown. Things like $3 million for circumcisions and vasectomies in Zambia, $500,000 for electric buses in Rwanda, and $3.6 million for pastry cooking classes and dance focus groups for male prostitutes in Haiti. He also noted $6 million for media organizations for the Palestinians, $833,000 for transgender people in Nepal, $300,000 for a pride parade in Lesotho, $882,000 for social media mentorship in Serbia, and $4.2 million for LGBTQI people in the Western Balkans and Uganda. Without question, this spending should be eliminated immediately. Still, this would do little to address Washington’s spending problem.

The budget deficit for fiscal year 2025 will be over $2 trillion. The sum of the waste identified by Kennedy comes to $19.3 million. Thus, to balance the budget, an additional $1.99 trillion in spending will need to be cut. To be clear, the government shutdown is much more than political drama about funding focus groups for male prostitutes in Haiti. It’s a rich illustration of a fundamental economic and philosophical divide in our society. The mammoth gulf between the taxpayer and the tax consumer.

The Great Divide: In a democratic society, there are taxpayers and tax consumers. Taxpayers are those who pay more in taxes than they receive in government benefits. Tax consumers, on the other hand, are those who receive more in government benefits than they pay in taxes.

Taxpayers – specifically, net taxpayers – contribute to the government’s coffers through payment of income taxes, payroll taxes, excise taxes and tariffs, and other fees and exaction. Their contributions are greater than the value of the government services, subsidies, and benefits they receive. These taxpayers are the engine of the economy. Entrepreneurs, small-business owners, and highly productive private sector workers. All fuel the Treasury with a net surplus.

Tax consumers, by contrast, are people whose total benefits, wages, grants, or subsidies from the government exceed their total tax payments. Tax consumers, in addition to recipients of the welfare-warfare state administered bureaucracy, include the actual government bureaucrats.

Many of these workers mean well. They opted for a career path of public service in return for steady pay, job security, generous health benefits, and guaranteed pensions. The prospects of a prolonged government shutdown are at odds with what they signed up for. These federal bureaucrats are at the heart of the system that is now shutdown.

Suddenly, they’re subject to the uncertainty and anxiety all the rest of us live with every day. They are receiving an object lesson in the precariousness of a profession that, by its very nature, exists because of the generosity of taxpayers. When the money spigot, which relies on the net surplus extracted from taxpayers, is jammed by political deadlock, their security vanishes.

From Night-Watchman to Overgrown Leviathan: The very people tasked with administering the vast machinery of the state are now victims of its instability. The 2025 government shutdown, which began on October 1st and has furloughed approximately 800,000 federal employees, is currently costing taxpayers an estimated $400 million a day in back pay for workers who are effectively doing nothing.

This mess, however, is simply the inevitable byproduct of an overgrown, overreaching government. It’s the signal of a bloated system seizing up. Moreover, it calls to question the proper role of government. In a country founded with principles committed to individual liberty and small government, the role of government was supposed to be that of a night-watchman state. Where government is strictly limited to the role of protecting individuals from coercion and violence.

In practical terms, this allows for several legitimate functions of government. Things like police, courts, and military. Their purpose is to enforce the Non-Aggression Principle. That is, the idea that no person, including a government official, has the right to initiate force against another individual or their property.

Taxpayers, as a class, are subject to violation of their rights. When the state takes money from the net taxpayer to fund a vast bureaucracy or to provide benefits to others, it is using coercion (the threat of fines, jail, or force) to seize private property. This is theft by another name, and it violates the individual’s right to the fruits of their labor.

Agencies like the Department of Education, the Department of Energy, and many, many others, are completely unnecessary. Moreover, they’re colossal, inefficient redistributors of wealth and private life. Their work could be accomplished more efficiently, more ethically, and more responsibly, by private businesses, or local, voluntary community groups.

The individual, the actual person who earned the money, should be the steward of their wealth. Not some politician or faceless bureaucrat. This is fundamental to a free society.

The Inevitable Collapse of the Bloated State: The government shutdown reveals the inherent weakness of a society built on compulsion. When the state is empowered to manage the lives of hundreds of millions of people through taking from some and giving to others, there is systemic instability.

Passing another temporary funding bill and restoring the status quo only perpetuates the instability into a bigger crisis down the road. Congress should – but doesn’t – have the spine or fortitude to tackle the problem. They are politically incapable of starving the beast until it is small enough to perform its legitimate function.

In the meantime, the chaos of every delayed airplane flight, every furloughed worker, every halted regulatory permit, and every closed national park, provides a data point that government is far too big, does far too much, has its grip on far too many parts of the economy. This was never the intent or role of government. And, in addition to trampling freedom and individual liberty, it’s bankrupting the nation.

Ultimately, the wasteful spending cited by Senator Kennedy is a mere footnote to the fundamental crisis: a $2 trillion deficit and $37.8 trillion national debt, caused by an overreaching government that has abandoned its constitutional limits. The shutdown is a harsh reminder that a system dependent on the coerced wealth of net taxpayers to fund a massive bureaucracy is inherently unsustainable.

Restoring stability requires more than political gamesmanship. It demands a philosophical return to the minimal, night-watchman state, ensuring individual liberty, fiscal solvency, and the end of the divide between those who pay and those who consume. Alas, the return to small government will not be guided by the politicians in Washington. It will be forced upon them with the inevitable collapse of the bloated state. In fact, the rise in gold’s price above $4,000 per ounce is signaling the collapse is already here. The politicians, no doubt, will be the last ones to realize it."

"U.S. Relations With China Just Went Down The Tubes, So Brace Yourself For Much Higher Prices And Shortages Of Certain Items"

"U.S. Relations With China Just Went Down The Tubes,
So Brace Yourself For Much Higher Prices And Shortages Of Certain Items"
by Michael Snyder

"Did we just witness the economic trigger event that will cause the dramatic stock market crash that we were just warned about? On Friday, U.S. stock prices absolutely plummeted once President Trump announced that China’s new rare earth export restrictions would be countered by “a massive increase” in tariffs on Chinese imports into the United States. If tariff rates go above 100 percent, many Chinese-made goods that are currently filling our stores will no longer travel across the Pacific at all. In addition, whatever does come over from China will cost a lot more. For example, you may have noticed that many things that were priced at $1.25 at Dollar Tree are now priced at $1.50 or $1.75. Of course this is just the beginning. Once the new tariff rates on Chinese-made goods go into effect, we will see price shocks like we have never seen before.

The reason why President Trump feels compelled to hit China with “a massive increase” in tariff rates is because China has decided to implement extremely strict restrictions on rare earth exports. Some of those restrictions have already taken effect, some will take effect on November 8th, but the most comprehensive restrictions will take effect on December 1st. It is being reported that companies will have to get approval from the Chinese government “to export items containing even small traces of Chinese rare earths”…"The rules require foreign companies to obtain special approval to export items containing even small traces of Chinese rare earths. The same applies if using Chinese processing, smelting, recycling, or magnet-making technology. Exports for military purposes are expected to be denied."

The Chinese had to know that President Trump would be absolutely livid over this, and that is precisely what has happened. On Friday, Trump posted an extremely long message about this crisis on his Truth Social account…"Some very strange things are happening in China! They are becoming very hostile, and sending letters to Countries throughout the World, that they want to impose Export Controls on each and every element of production having to do with Rare Earths, and virtually anything else they can think of, even if it’s not manufactured in China. Nobody has ever seen anything like this but, essentially, it would “clog” the Markets, and make life difficult for virtually every Country in the World, especially for China. 

We have been contacted by other Countries who are extremely angry at this great Trade hostility, which came out of nowhere. Our relationship with China over the past six months has been a very good one, thereby making this move on Trade an even more surprising one. I have always felt that they’ve been lying in wait, and now, as usual, I have been proven right! There is no way that China should be allowed to hold the World “captive,” but that seems to have been their plan for quite some time, starting with the “Magnets” and, other Elements that they have quietly amassed into somewhat of a Monopoly position, a rather sinister and hostile move, to say the least. But the U.S. has Monopoly positions also, much stronger and more far reaching than China’s. I have just not chosen to use them, there was never a reason for me to do so - UNTIL NOW! 

The letter they sent is many pages long, and details, with great specificity, each and every Element that they want to withhold from other Nations. Things that were routine are no longer routine at all. I have not spoken to President Xi because there was no reason to do so. This was a real surprise, not only to me, but to all the Leaders of the Free World. I was to meet President Xi in two weeks, at APEC, in South Korea, but now there seems to be no reason to do so. The Chinese letters were especially inappropriate in that this was the Day that, after three thousand years of bedlam and fighting, there is PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. I wonder if that timing was coincidental? 

Dependent on what China says about the hostile “order” that they have just put out, I will be forced, as President of the United States of America, to financially counter their move. For every Element that they have been able to monopolize, we have two. I never thought it would come to this but perhaps, as with all things, the time has come. Ultimately, though potentially painful, it will be a very good thing, in the end, for the U.S.A. One of the Policies that we are calculating at this moment is a massive increase of Tariffs on Chinese products coming into the United States of America. There are many other countermeasures that are, likewise, under serious consideration. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

It is certainly true that the Chinese essentially have a “monopoly position” when it comes to the rare earth industry…"China controls roughly 70 percent of the global supply of rare earth minerals and 90 percent of the processing of it, meaning it has huge it leverage over the high-tech supply chain. Rare earth metals are in our phones, they are in our televisions, and they are in our electric vehicles." If you are planning to purchase anything that contains rare earth metals, I would get it now.

A lot of the pundits don’t seem to understand why the Chinese are doing this, but the Chinese would argue that they are simply responding to recent moves by the United States. For example, the U.S. just slapped sanctions on “about 100 individuals, entities and vessels” in China…"The U.S. imposed sanctions on about 100 individuals, entities and vessels, including a Chinese independent refinery and terminal, that helped Iran’s oil and petrochemicals trade, the administration of President Donald Trump said on Thursday. The Treasury Department sanctioned the Shandong Jincheng Petrochemical Group, which it said is an independent teapot refinery in Shandong Province that has purchased millions of barrels of Iranian oil since 2023.

In addition, extremely painful port fees will go into effect on Chinese-built cargo ships next week…"Port fees on Chinese-made freight vessels are set to go into effect next week. The fees are a bid by the Trump administration to counter China’s dominant position in freight ship manufacturing and spur a moribund U.S. shipbuilding industry. But confusion and fears are running high among ocean carriers now scrutinizing ship financing deals to determine if their vessels may be considered Chinese entities based on terms."

This trade war never should have started. But it did, and now here we are. As a result of other restrictions that have recently been implemented by the U.S., thousands upon thousands of packages are now stuck at UPS distribution hubs all over the nation…"Thousands of U.S.-bound packages shipped by UPS are trapped at hubs across the country, unable to clear the maze of new customs requirements imposed by the Trump administration. As packages flagged for customs issues pile up in UPS warehouses, the company told NBC News it has begun “disposing of” some shipments."

Hopefully you don’t have a package that has been caught in that web. One expert says that he has “never seen anything like this before”…"Frustrated UPS customers describe waiting for weeks and trying to make sense of scores of conflicting tracking updates from the world’s largest courier. “I’ve never seen anything like this before,” Matthew Wasserbach, brokerage manager of Express Customs Clearance, said of the UPS backlog. “It’s totally unprecedented.”

Nothing that I have discussed in this article is going to be good for our economy. Global trade is starting to freeze up, and everyone is going to feel it. Just look at what is happening to our farmers. They are experiencing the worst downturn in 50 years, and one of the main reasons for that is because the Chinese are not buying our soybeans…"The ongoing trade dispute with China has created serious headwinds for American farmers, with soybean producers having lost access to the world’s largest market for the commodity.

China halted purchases of American soybeans this spring in retaliation for the Trump administration’s tariffs, as a means of looking to gain leverage in trade talks by shifting its purchases away from U.S. producers to countries such as Brazil and Argentina. China is the world’s leading importer of soybeans, bringing in 61% of the world’s traded soybean supplies over the last five marketing years, according to data from the American Soybean Association (ASA).

The group said the U.S. has historically served as a primary supplier for China, as American soybean farmers exported an average of 28% of their crop to China before the 2018 trade war. That figure dropped to a low of 11% in the 2018-19 crop year, but recovered during the pandemic, reaching 31% in 2020-21 before declining to 22% in 2023-24."

Unless we see some sort of a miracle, the outlook for the months ahead is extremely dire. I think that today’s events helped a lot of people on Wall Street to realize this, because the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 878 points and the Nasdaq was down 820 points.

Our relations with China just went down the tubes, and those that follow my work regularly understand why that is such an important development. History has shown that trade wars have a way of becoming shooting wars. So let us hope that cooler heads prevail, because right now we are on a path that will not lead anywhere good."
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Adventures with Danno, "Walking Around An Empty Florence Mall in Kentucky!"

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"Walking Around An Empty Florence Mall in Kentucky!"
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Friday, October 10, 2025

"$2.8 TRILLION Car Market Collapses - Biggest Crash Ever"

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Prof. Richard D. Wolff, 10/10/25
"$2.8 TRILLION Car Market Collapses - 
Biggest Crash Ever"

"In this explosive 36-minute lecture, Prof. Richard D. Wolff breaks down the $2.8 trillion global car market collapse - and why it’s not just an industry issue, but a systemic economic failure that could shake the entire global economy. From record-breaking auto debt to corporate bailouts, shrinking consumer demand, and rising interest rates, Wolff exposes how decades of capitalist expansion have pushed the automobile sector to the brink. The same forces that fueled growth - cheap credit, speculative investments, and mass production - are now driving the industry toward collapse. 

He explains how automakers like Ford, GM, and Tesla face deep structural problems hidden beneath flashy earnings reports and Wall Street optimism. Meanwhile, working-class consumers are burdened with unaffordable car loans, declining wages, and the illusion of economic prosperity built on debt. 

This isn’t just a car story - it’s a mirror reflecting the failures of modern capitalism. Wolff shows how government inaction, corporate greed, and market manipulation have created a bubble too big to sustain. When it bursts, it won’t just be the auto industry that crashes - it’ll be banks, jobs, and entire communities. 

Because this speech doesn’t just warn about the collapse - it explains why it’s happening and who will pay the price. Prof. Wolff delivers clarity, depth, and truth in a world drowning in financial noise. If you want to understand how the next economic shock begins, this is the speech you can’t afford to miss."
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"INTEL Roundtable w/Johnson & McGovern - Weekly Wrap 10-Oct"

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"INTEL Roundtable w/Johnson & McGovern - 
Weekly Wrap 10-Oct"
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"Why Millions of Americans Are Losing Their Jobs (And No One’s Talking About It)"

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"Why Millions of Americans Are Losing Their Jobs
 (And No One’s Talking About It)"
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Jeremiah Babe, "Warning! Markets Plunge Today, It's About To Get Bad!"

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"Warning! Markets Plunge Today,
 It's About To Get Bad!"
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"It's a Big Club, and you ain't in it. 
You and I are not in the Big Club."
- George Carlin
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Procol Harum, "A Salty Dog"
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"Ulysses"

"There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail:
There gloom the dark, broad seas. My mariners,
Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me -
That ever with a frolic welcome took
The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed
Free hearts, free foreheads - you and I are old;
Old age hath yet his honor and his toil;
Death closes all: but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks:
The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep
Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends,
'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"A Look to the Heavens"

"To some, it looks like a giant chicken running across the sky. To others, it looks like a gaseous nebula where star formation takes place. Cataloged as IC 2944, the Running Chicken Nebula spans about 100 light years and lies about 6,000 light years away toward the constellation of the Centaur (Centaurus). 
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The featured image, shown in scientifically assigned colors, was captured recently in a 12-hour exposure. The star cluster Collinder 249 is visible embedded in the nebula's glowing gas. Although difficult to discern here, several dark molecular clouds with distinct shapes can be found inside the nebula."

"There Comes A Time..."

"I make no bones about being partisan for my country. I also feel no shame whatever because of it. I absolutely disagree that "great thinkers don't let that affect the thoughts". I would say exactly the opposite: someone who refuses to let love-of-country affect their thoughts is a moral cripple irrespective of their intellectual prowess. I can look dispassionately at the situation, and I have done so repeatedly. But I will never forget which nation I love and support.

We Americans have a saying: “It’s more important what you stand for than who you stand with.” I do not rely upon peer opinion to decide what is right and what is wrong. I make those decisions for myself, and even if I discover that every other human alive chose differently, that doesn’t mean I was wrong.

There comes a time in every man’s life when he has to choose sides. I have chosen my side. I am comfortable with my decision. I do not think everyone on my side is a saint, but I know that those on the other side are much, much worse.

Sometimes a man with too broad a perspective reveals himself as having no real perspective at all. A man who tries too hard to see every side may be a man who is trying to avoid choosing any side. A man who tries too hard to seek a deeper truth may be trying to hide from the truth he already knows. That is not a sign of intellectual sophistication and “great thinking”. It is a demonstration of moral degeneracy and cowardice.”
- Steven Den Beste
“Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and unexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.”
- Mark Twain

"How Are Things Going, Joe?"

“You go up to a man, and you say, “How are things going, Joe?” and he says, “Oh fine, fine… couldn’t be better.” And you look into his eyes, and you see things really couldn’t be much worse. When you get right down to it, everybody’s having a perfectly lousy time of it, and I mean everybody. And the hell of it is, nothing seems to help much.”
- Kurt Vonnegut

"Debt, Chaos, No Plan - America Is Collapsing Faster Than You Think"

Col. Douglas Macgregor, 10/10/25
"Debt, Chaos, No Plan - 
America Is Collapsing Faster Than You Think"
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"Federal Workers Paychecks Just Vanished, Government Refuses To Pay"

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"Federal Workers Paychecks Just Vanished,
Government Refuses To Pay"
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"Trump Just Announced Massive Federal Layoffs - 
Millions Could Lose Everything"
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"Impending Bank Bloodbath: Terrifying Dollar Squeeze Threatens Trillions In Losses!"

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"Impending Bank Bloodbath: 
Terrifying Dollar Squeeze Threatens Trillions In Losses!"
"Wall Street's printed billions in profits shorting the dollar all year... and it's about to turn to dust!"
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"The American Economy Is Crashing And Everyone Can Feel What Is Coming"

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Epic Economist, 10/10/25
"The American Economy Is Crashing 
And Everyone Can Feel What Is Coming"
"The American economy Is crashing and everybody can see it is happening right now. Families all over America are getting destroyed by inflation, this insane cost of living crisis, rent prices that won't stop climbing, and grocery bills that keep getting worse. Paychecks can't cover the basics anymore, people are buried in debt, and millions are realizing the "booming economy" they kept hearing about was a total lie. Between the mass layoffs hitting every industry and companies refusing to hire, between credit cards pushed to their limits and people losing their homes, the problems with America's financial system are staring everyone in the face. Regular people are watching their money vanish, seeing their expenses blow up every month, and finding it harder just to get by each day. This isn't a temporary setback—it's the American dream falling apart in real time. In this video, we're going through exactly why everything's collapsing, why people across the country are finally seeing what's really going on, and what you should be doing to get ready for the mess ahead."
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A Comment: Look around, America's going straight to Hell in a hand basket as the economy collapses totally, everything's just wrong, 20% of Americans live in real poverty, hungry children everywhere, a massive drug epidemic, 700,000 homeless, true unemployment rate 24.5%, inflation skyrocketing, but we can send the psychopathic genocidal Zionist monsters $31 billion, send Ukraine $359 billion, and spend $1 TRILLION on "Defense", now the Dept. Of War. WTF is wrong with this country?! - CP

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"A Gathering of the Tribe"

"A Gathering of the Tribe"
by Charles Eisenstein

"Once upon a time a great tribe of people lived in a world far away from ours. Whether far away in space, or in time, or even outside of time, we do not know. They lived in a state of enchantment and joy that few of us today dare to believe could exist, except in those exceptional peak experiences when we glimpse the true potential of life and mind. One day the shaman of the tribe called a meeting. They gathered around him, and he spoke very solemnly. "My friends," he said, "there is a world that needs our help. It is called Earth, and its fate hangs in the balance. Its humans have reached a critical point in their collective birthing, and they will be stillborn without our help. Who would like to volunteer for a mission to this time and place, and render service to humanity?"

"Tell us more about his mission," they asked. "I am glad you asked, because it is no small thing. I will put you into a deep, deep trance, so complete that you will forget who you are. You will live a human life, and in the beginning you will completely forget your origins. You will forget even our language and your own true name. You will be separated from the wonder and beauty of our world, and from the love that bathes us all. You will miss it deeply, yet you will not know what it is you are missing. You will only remember the love and beauty that we know to be normal as a longing in your heart. Your memory will take the form of an intuitive knowledge, as you plunge into the painfully marred earth, that a more beautiful world is possible.

As you grow up in that world, your knowledge will be under constant assault. You will be told in a million ways that a world of destruction, violence, drudgery, anxiety, and degradation is normal. You may go through a time when you are completely alone, with no allies to affirm your knowledge of a more beautiful world. You may plunge into a depth of despair that we, in our world of light, cannot imagine. But no matter what, a spark of knowledge will never leave you. A memory of your true origin will be encoded in your DNA. That spark will lie within you, inextinguishable, until one day it is awakened.

You see, even though you will feel, for a time, utterly alone, you will not be alone. I will send you assistance, help that you will experience as miraculous, experiences that you will describe as transcendent. For a few moments or hours or days, you will reawaken to the beauty and the joy that is meant to be. You will see it on earth, for even though the planet and its people are deeply wounded, there is beauty there still, projected from past and future onto the present as a promise of what is possible and a reminder of what is real.

You will also receive help from each other. As you begin to awaken to your mission you will meet others of our tribe. You will recognize them by your common purpose, values, and intuitions, and by the similarity of the paths you have walked. As the condition of the planet earth reaches crisis proportions, your paths will cross more and more. The time of loneliness, the time of thinking you might be crazy, will be over.

You will find the people of your tribe all over the earth, and become aware of them through the long-distance communication technologies used on that planet. But the real shift, the real quickening, will happen in face-to-face gatherings in special places on earth. When many of you gather together you will launch a new stage on your journey, a journey which, I assure you, will end where it began. Then, the mission that lay unconscious within you will flower into consciousness. Your intuitive rebellion against the world presented you as normal will become an explicit quest to create a more beautiful one.

In the time of loneliness, you will always be seeking to reassure yourself that you are not crazy. You will do that by telling people all about what is wrong with the world, and you will feel a sense of betrayal when they don't listen to you. You will be hungry for stories of wrongness, atrocity, and ecological destruction, all of which confirm the validity of your intuition that a more beautiful world exists. But after you have fully received the help I will send you, and the quickening of your gatherings, you will no longer need to do that. Because, you will Know. Your energy will thereafter turn toward actively creating that more beautiful world."

A tribeswoman asked the shaman, "How do you know this will work? Are you sure your shamanic powers are great enough to send us on such a journey?" The shaman replied, "I know it will work because I have done it many times before. Many have already been sent to earth, to live human lives, and to lay the groundwork for the mission you will undertake now. I've been practicing! The only difference now is that many of you will venture there at once. What is new in the time you will live in, is that the Gatherings are beginning to happen."

A tribesman asked, "Is there a danger we will become lost in that world, and never wake up from the shamanic trance? Is there a danger that the despair, the cynicism, the pain of separation will be so great that it will extinguish the spark of hope, the spark of our true selves and origin, and that we will separated from our beloved ones forever?"

The shaman replied, "That is impossible. The more deeply you get lost, the more powerful the help I will send you. You might experience it at the time as a collapse of your personal world, the loss of everything important to you. Later you will recognize the gift within it. We will never abandon you." Another man asked, "Is it possible that our mission will fail, and that this planet, earth, will perish?"

The shaman replied, "I will answer your question with a paradox. It is impossible that your mission will fail. Yet, its success hangs on your own actions. The fate of the world is in your hands. The key to this paradox lies within you, in the feeling you carry that each of your actions, even your personal, secret struggles within, has cosmic significance. You will know then, as you do now, that everything you do matters. God sees everything."

There were no more questions. The volunteers gathered in a circle, and the shaman went to each one. The last thing each was aware of was the shaman blowing smoke in his face. They entered a deep trance and dreamed themselves into the world where we find ourselves today.

Who are these missionaries from the more beautiful world? You and I are surely among them. Where else could this longing come from, for this magical place to be found nowhere on earth, this beautiful time outside of time? It comes from our intuitive knowledge of our origin and destination. The longing, indomitable, will never settle for a world that is less. Against all reason, we look upon the horrors of our age, mounting over the millennia, and we say NO, it does not have to be this way! We know it, because we have been there. We carry in our souls the knowledge that a more beautiful world is possible. Reason says it is impossible; reason says that even to slow - much less reverse - the degradation of the planet is an impossible task: politically unfeasible, opposed by the Money Power and its oligarchies. It is true that those powers will fight to uphold the world we have known. Their allies lurk within even ourselves: despair, cynicism, and resignation to carving out a life that is "good enough" for me and mine.

But we of the tribe know better. In the darkest despair a spark of hope lies inextinguishable within us, ready to be fanned into flames at the slightest turn of good news. However compelling the cynicism, a jejune idealism lives within us, always ready to believe, always ready to look upon new possibilities with fresh eyes, surviving despite infinite disappointments. And however resigned we may have felt, our aggrandizement of me and mine is half-hearted, for part of our energy is looking elsewhere, outward toward our true mission.

I would like to advise caution against dividing the world into two types of people, those who are of the tribe and those who are not. How often have you felt like an alien in a world of people who don't get it and don't care? The irony is that nearly everyone feels that way, deep down. When we are young the feeling of mission and the sense of magnificent origins and a magnificent destination is strong. Any career or way of life lived in betrayal of that knowing is painful, and can only be maintained through an inner struggle that shuts down a part of our being. For a time, we can keep ourselves functioning through various kinds of addictions or trivial pleasures to consume the life force and dull the pain. In earlier times, we might have kept the sense of mission and destiny buried for a lifetime, and called that condition maturity. Times are changing now though, as millions of people are awakening to their mission all at the same time. The condition of the planet is waking us up. Another way to put it, is that we are becoming young again.

When you feel that sense of alienation, when you look upon that sea of faces mired so inextricably in the old world and fighting to maintain it, think back to a time when you too were, to all outside appearances, a full and willing participant in that world as well. The same spark of revolution you carried then, the same secret refusal, dwells in all people. How was it that you finally stopped fighting it? How was it that you came to realize that you were right all along, that the world offered to us is wrong, and that no life is worth living that does not in some way strive to create a better one? How was it that it became intolerable to devote your life energy toward the perpetuation of the old world? Most likely, it happened when the old world fell apart around your ears.

As the multiple crises of money, health, energy, ecology, and more converge upon us, the world is going to collapse for millions more. We must stand ready to welcome them into the tribe. We must stand ready to welcome them back home.

The time of loneliness, of walking the path alone, of thinking maybe the world is right and I am wrong for refusing to participate fully in it... that time is over. For years we walked around talking about how wrong everything is: the political system, the educational system, religious institutions, the military-industrial complex, the banking industry, the medical system - really, any system you study deeply enough. We needed to talk about it because we needed to assure ourselves that we were not, in fact, crazy. We needed as well to talk about alternatives, the way things should be. "We" should eliminate CFCs. "They" should stop cutting down the rain forests. "The government" should declare no fishing zones. This talk, too, was necessary, for it validated our vision of the world that could be: a peaceful and exuberant humanity living in co-creative partnership with a wild garden earth.

The time, though, for talking merely to assure ourselves that we are right is coming to an end. People everywhere are tired of it, tired of attending yet another lecture, organizing yet another discussion group online. We want more. A few weeks ago as I was preparing for a speaking trip to Oregon, the organizers told me, "These people don't need to be told what the problems are. They don't even need to be told what the solutions are. They already know that, and many of them are already in action. What they want is to take their activism to the next level."

To do that, to fully step into one's mission here on earth, one must experience an inner shift that cannot be merely willed upon oneself. It does not normally happen through the gathering or receiving of information, but through various kinds of experiences that reach deep into our unconscious minds. Whenever I am blessed with such an experience, I get the sense that some benevolent yet pitiless power - the shaman in the story - has reached across the void to quicken me, to reorganize my DNA, to rewire my nervous system. I come away changed.

Here I am, a speaker and a writer, going on about how the time for mere talk has ended. Yet not all words are mere talk. A spirit can ride the vehicle of words, a spirit that is larger than, yet not separate from, their meaning. Sometimes I find that when I bow into service, that spirit inhabits the space in which I speak and affects all present. A sacredness infuses our conversations and the non-verbal experiences that are becoming part of my events. In the absence of that sacredness, I feel like a smart-ass, up there entertaining people and telling them information they could just as easily read online. Last Friday night I spoke on a panel in New York, one of three smart-asses, and I think many in the audience left disappointed (though maybe not as disappointed as I was in myself). We are looking for something more, and it is finding us.

The revolutionary spark of our true mission has been fanned into flames before, only to return again to an ember. You may remember an acid trip in 1975, a Grateful Dead concert in 1982, a kundalini awakening in 1999 - an event that, in the midst of it, you knew was real, a privileged glimpse into a future that can actually manifest. Then later, as its reality faded into memory and the inertial routines of life consumed you, you perhaps dismissed it and all such experiences as an excursion from life, a mere "trip." But something in you knows it was real, realer than the routines of normalcy. Today, such experiences are accelerating in frequency even as "normal" falls apart. We are at the beginning of a new phase. Our gatherings are not a substitute for action; they are an initiation into a state of being from which the necessary kinds of actions arise. Soon you will say, with wonder and serenity, "I know what to do, and I trust myself to do it."

"The Greatest Loss..."

"Children of Hope, to life we fondly cling,
Though woe on woe bitter hour may bring;
the spirit shrinks, and Nature dreads to brave,
The doubt, the gloom, the stillness of the grave.
But what is death? – a wing from earth to fee –
a bridge o’er time into eternity."

- Michelle, in “The Fear of Death Considered”

"The Duty..."

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you 
damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, 
the duty to take the consequences."
- P. J. O'Rourke

"Prof. Jeff Sachs, End of Israel’s War - But Not It's Crimes"

Scott Ritter, 10/10/25
"Prof. Jeff Sachs, End of Israel’s War - 
But Not It's Crimes"
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Prof. Mohammad Marandi, 10'10/25
"Israel Is in Serious Trouble - 
Gaza Is the Flashpoint"
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Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom, 10/9/25
"Prof. John Mearsheimer:
 Israel After Two Years of Genocide"
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Stipendium peccati mors est, Israel...

The truth is what it is, whether you like it or not, and here's the truth...
And now we know who and what we are, too...
to our eternal shame and disgrace.

Dan, I Allegedly, "Here Comes the Crash"

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Dan, I Allegedly, 10/10/25
"Here Comes the Crash"
"Hey, guys! It’s Dan from I Allegedly. In today’s video, I’m breaking down Jamie Dimon’s serious warning about a potential 30% market crash and what it means for investors. From skyrocketing valuations to geopolitical tensions and inflation concerns, there’s a lot at stake. Plus, we’ll talk about the impact of margin debt, the Fed’s stance on interest rates, and why complacent investors could be in big trouble. With everything happening - AI sector bubbles, rising debt levels, and a shaky economy - it’s crucial to stay informed and protect yourself. As always, I’ll share insights on how to navigate these turbulent times and why gold and silver might just be the safe haven you need right now. Patriot Gold Group, our sponsor, is here to help with that. Don’t wait - take action before it’s too late."
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Snyder Reports, 10/10/25
"Warning! More Layoffs 
As China Retaliates Against US"
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"How It Really Is"

God help you, kids...

Adventures With Danno, "Unbelievable Prices at Aldi"

Full screen recommended.
Adventures With Danno, 10/10/25
"Unbelievable Prices at Aldi"
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Jeremiah Babe, "The American Economy Can't Hold On Much Longer"

Jeremiah Babe, 10/10/25
"The American Economy Can't Hold On Much Longer"
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