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“Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.”

― Henry Adams

When looking at the story of Moses in the Bible there’s a clear mission that is put in place by the Lord in order to use Moses to free his people from slavery. Moses was sent on a mission from God to free the Israelites from slavery from the Egyptians under the very proud and powerful Pharaoh.

This entire event was a process that involved a lot of hard negotiating where the Lord even used nightmarish plagues against Pharaoh and Egypt when he continually refused to allow his people to go free with Moses. This was only after Pharaoh refused the requests of Moses over and over and over again.

Now to be fair the Bible does say that God hardened Pharaoh’s heart during the times when Moses would approach Pharoah and request the release of the Lord’s people. Now I’m no Biblical scholar, but my best guess as to why the Lord did this was because God had already known Pharaoh’s heart. Pharaoh had already demonstrated his stubbornness and unwillingness to learn. Granted it was this stubbornness that allowed God to demonstrate his authority while ultimately leading to the liberation of the Israelites and the complete downfall of Pharaoh.

One must keep in mind that it never said that Pharaoh's heart was permanently hardened, but his decision to remain in defiance of the request of Moses would remain intact until it ended his own army in the Red Sea.

I find it interesting how Pharaoh was so determined to want to possess the sovereignty of the Israelites to the point that it led his army to their demise. That desire for one to be the sovereign authority over others seems to be a human desire that has never gone away since the world fell long ago.

As we look at the landscape of these modern day global technocrats it seems that our world is still full of Pharaohs that serve false gods and still seek to possess the sovereignty of others just the same. As the old saying goes “There’s nothing new under the sun.” –Ecclesiastes 1:9.

The Technocratic Sovereign

Now before I go any further I just wanted to warn you that I am going to give some commentary here on the plot of a brand new movie that I just recently watched called Mountainhead. If you have an interest in seeing that movie then I want to give you fair warning that I’m going to be talking about what happens in that movie here now.

However, if you’re just here to read and listen to my commentary then stay right where you are and I’ll do my best to hold your interest.

First of all, I didn’t think that the movie Mountainhead was a great movie, but then again a lot of modern cultural entertainment is garbage these days. Now having said that there appears to be some steady improvement in the creative culture due to this Great Awakening and seismic cultural shift that we all are experiencing right in front of us, but I digress. However, Mountainhead did offer a valuable lesson and some key cultural insight that directly applies to our modern day lives that I wanted to share with you here.

Now in the movie Mountainhead it follows three wealthy friends who meet at a retreat due to a significant level of global upheaval caused by AI-generated disinformation. As it turns out this AI-disinformation is largely being disseminated by a fictional social media platform called Traam which happens to be owned by one of the four friends named Ven Parish.

So among these four friends at this gathering are Ven Parish (owner of Traam and the world’s richest person), Jeff Abredazi (owner of the AI company Bilter), Randall Garrett who is an older mentor of the group that gets diagnosed with an incurable cancer, and Hugo “Souper” Van Yalk who, despite a $521 million net worth, is still the least wealthiest of his friends. By the way, as a side note Steve Carell is the actor that plays Randall Garrett.

The location of this retreat takes place at Souper’s home which is named Mountainhead. Although the gathering is apparently supposed to be an opportunity for the four men to reconnect as friends without their professional lives getting in the way, the reality is that all four of them still have ulterior motives for being there.

For instance, Ven really desires to acquire Bilter for its fact-checking technology due to having fast tracked some new features with his social media platform Traam that enabled disinformation to spread. He desires to have Bilter as he believes it will free him from having to rescind the new features of his social media platform that allowed the spread of disinformation while also allowing him to avoid the accountability of all the chaos that it is causing throughout the world.

Randall also desires to see Traam grow and progress because he believes that Ven’s success will lead to a transhumanist solution that will cure his illness. During all of this turmoil Jeff witnesses his own net worth skyrocket with all the social unrest and turmoil worsening due to Bilter’s fact checking abilities. However, he does not want Bilter to be absorbed, or acquired by Traam.

During all of this Souper, who owns Mountainhead, feels inferior to all of the rest of the guys and simply wishes to convince the others to invest in his Slowzo “lifestyle super-app.” Shortly after arriving at Mountainhead for the gathering Jeff and Ven start arguing over Traam’s issues which results in the rest of the friends trying to pressure Jeff into selling Bilter.

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“Antitrust has become a legal backwater in recent decades. But the curse of bigness is back, and antitrust enforcement must come back with it, updated to perform its original, republican function: protecting the independence of the American people from oligarchic control.”

― Josh Hawley

In 1973 a man walked into a bank in Stockholm, Sweden with a Russian automatic rifle and held it up. During this event he took three female hostages and one male hostage that he ended up holding for what would be a 131 hour marathon of chaos.

During this event the hostages were exposed to a series of very traumatic experiences as he terrorized them throughout this ordeal. As it turns out he actually put a noose around their necks during certain points of the hold up and constantly threatened to kill them. In addition to this he actually pointed the rifle at them and fired it multiple times in their direction.

However, at the end of the day when this event finally came to its conclusion he had not physically harmed any of the hostages. When the man finally decided to surrender something very unusual happened that would shock the authorities.

When this event came to its conclusion the authorities expected the hostages to be antagonistic towards the hostage taker, but at the end of this experience the hostages had expressed more fear and concern towards the police officers than they did toward the guy that had been holding them against their will.

What was even stranger is that they didn’t even claim to hate, or dislike the hostage taker after the event. The hostages even went so far as to not even bother to testify against the man. In fact, one of the women ended up marrying the hostage taker after he was released from prison in 1980.

That hostage taker and bank robber Jan-Erik Olsson moved to Thailand and in 2009 released his autobiography, entitled Stockholm Syndrome.

So what’s the moral of this wild, but true story here?

Just because you’re single and broke could this story suggest that you should arm yourself, commandeer a bank, and take a bunch of people hostage in hopes of meeting your future wife, or husband?

I know you may laugh, however this would mirror a similar line of thinking regarding the current day’s RINOs and establishment Libertarians who think that the nationwide riots going on right now are NOT the result of an invasion, or Fifth Column activity. These people want to argue that the riots are the result of a group of non-citizens that love America despite them burning old glory in the streets while brandishing the flags of their country of origin.

These same RINO and establishment Libertarians also believe that the Neo-Brandeisian movement to break the back of big business in this current day is somehow anti-free market. As it relates to this current day on the issues of illegal immigration, and the economic reality of the country, this sort of thinking is what is known as effete intellectualism.

The Neo-Brandeisian Movement

Louis Brandeis was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. He would enter Harvard University (long before the institution became a hotbed of CCP Fifth Column activity) when he was 18 years of age and would end up graduating in 1877 with the highest average in the law school’s history.

Brandeis would end up becoming a Justice in the Supreme Court from 1916-1939. During his tenure he would also end up becoming an extraordinary Justice in the Supreme Court as he employed the skills that had also made him a renowned attorney.

Throughout his career he had a certain perspective regarding his view of the law and its application. For him the law was a device that would be used to shape social, economic, and political affairs. I would say that for right, or wrong Brandeis is 100% correct in this assessment.

As an overview he believed that the law had to function on the basis of two key assumptions. These two things involved the belief that the individual was the basic force in society and that the individual also had limited capabilities.

Now within this model of belief Brandeis did not seek to coddle the individual, but rather his aim embraced the notion that the individual’s potential should be stretched to its limit.

Given this view of the intended function of the law, Brandeis came into the picture during his time to put forth the warning of heavily concentrated corporate power and wealth. Brandeis believed that if a company was too large and too profitable that it was an inherent threat to the market.

Now at the turn of the 20th century there was a wave of populism to hit the scene along with politicians that came along to ride that wave. Sounds familiar, right?

Well at that time the term antitrust was prevalent throughout the American lexicon during the turn of the 20th century which lit the fuse for that very wave of populism that soon followed.

During this time the politicians set their crosshairs on trusts. In case you didn’t know these trusts essentially were large umbrella companies that held the assets of many other businesses. The idea was that these businesses were monopolies.

This is essentially where the idea of trust busting came from. In fact, it was in 1890 when congress would pass the Sherman Antitrust Act which is a federal statute that prohibits activities that restrict interstate commerce and competition in the marketplace. Now please hang with me here because this is going to get very interesting.

Now as we fast forward to the current day we’re seeing some common threads here in the beginning of this 21st century that mirror what was going on at the beginning of the 20th century.

After all, once the Sherman Antitrust Act was passed in 1890 it was President Teddy Roosevelt that came along in 1911 with a hell-bent attitude on busting up several trusts that existed at that time. Roosevelt would end up busting up a huge railroad conglomerate, the Northern Securities Company, along with many other companies.

Now as I previously stated Brandeis believed that if a company was too large and too profitable that it was an inherent threat to the market. However, if bureaucrats couldn’t prove that companies had an actual monopoly over the markets they would rely on what Brandeis called “The Curse of Bigness.”

Now the reality is that it proved to be difficult to determine what was too large or too profitable so by the time the 1980s rolled around most regulators decided to adopt what is known as the Consumer Welfare Standard (CWS).

The CWS basically helped to gauge the scale of determining whether a company’s size, or success was a danger by looking at whether or not the company posed any harm to the consumer.

Granted, today much of this focus has brought Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google into the crosshairs of the Neo-Brandeisian movement. These concerns regarding the welfare of consumers consist of multiple reasons. This is mainly because these companies acquire and possess a tremendous amount of information on consumers. Additionally these companies also possess an enormous amount of wealth that enables them to buy up startups faster than most people are able to keep count.

However, despite these issues concerning the consumer there are many other issues that the critics of the Neo-Brandeisian movement seem to lack a fundamental understanding about regarding what the movement is actually advocating for in today’s marketplace.

In the new Brandeis school of Antitrust Lina M. Khan is the author of Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox . In her paper she expands on the purpose of antitrust where the focus isn’t only meant to function in the narrow space of the consumer through introducing any sort of welfare into the market, but rather it should promote truly competitive markets throughout our business sector.

You see, I'm personally a huge advocate for free market competition. As a small business owner (like most all small business owners) I understand the significance of this better than most.

However, as a small business owner the one thing I really don’t like is the abundance of government subsidies. You see if you take any business in the world and decide to allow that business to be propped up by the tax dollars of the consumers then what incentive does that business have to compete in the market in order to produce a better and more affordable product, or service?

The correct answer to that question is ABSOLUTELY NONE. Additionally, the moment a business takes a subsidy the entire notion of being in a free market is thrown right out the window.

To expand on the same company that Lina M. Khan used in the title of her paper, Amazon is a prime example of this…by the way, I did say prime example…pun intended.

You see, the business model of Amazon is an example of Technofeudalism. This is a term and system that Yanis Varoufakis points out in the title of his book Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism.

In his book Yanis explains how under feudalism, a landowner would grant fiefs to vassals, who would then farm the land and then give a portion of the yield back to the chief landowner. In a sobering modern day comparison Yanis points out how Jeff Besos’s relationship with the vendors on Amazon isn’t really all that different. (Source: The New Yorker)

For more clarity on Technofeudalism I want to encourage you to scroll down and click the link to that episode here as it really breaks down the threat that this model poses to our economic system at large.

However, as bad as the Technofeudalism is in regards to how Amazon is able to abuse its sellers the thing that makes it even worse is what I mentioned earlier involving the subsidies. The real problem here is that this massive company, along with all of the other Big Tech companies, receive enormous rewards in the form of tax subsidies in addition to them already being big and powerful.

According to the Amazon tracker on the Good Jobs First website Amazon has received in excess of $11.6 billion in subsidies with the latest update being as recent as January 1, 2025. I’m sure when you look at every small business in the country they didn’t get the luxury of receiving several billions of dollars in subsidies in order to prop them up.

As if the Big Tech companies aren’t big enough it seems they get a lot of help getting even bigger as they continue to grow their capacity for wealth, data mining, and their ability to suppress competition from ever sprouting up in order to get into the ring with them to compete.

In fact, I want to take a second to expand on that fighting metaphor I just mentioned in terms of being able to get into the ring. When it comes to two fighters getting inside the squared circle to compete you understand how this works, right?

Just in case there are any readers or listeners that aren’t sure, I want to take a moment to clarify this because it’s very important. When two competing fighters get into the ring they are both supposed to have an equal and fair shot at winning the fight.

This fairness is supposed to be managed by the referees and the judges that score the fight should the fight have to be decided by a points total at the end. This type of ending in a fight would occur if a fighter is unable to win decisively with a knockout, technical knockout, or submission if the fight happens to be an MMA bout.

However, when we look at the fighters inside the arena of business today, as it relates to these oligarchies, we see them as being one of the fighters inside the ring. The other fighter working to rise up and compete against these oligarchs would represent the other fighter inside the arena of business. Now if the oligarchs are one fighter and a rising competitor is the other fighter, then the government is supposed to represent the referee and judges who are supposed to be making sure the fight is fair.

However, when the referee is giving aid to the oligarchs during the fight in order to get a winning advantage over the competition then there’s no fair fight. In fact, in this scenario instead of the referee calling a fair fight the referee and judges are instead getting directly involved in picking the winners and losers in the fight.

The reality is that inside the arena of business today the referees and judges (aka the government) are picking the winners and losers. The so-called referee is actually responsible for propping up the oligarchies that are resulting in what Brandeis would refer to as The Curse of Bigness.

So what type of aid is the referee giving the oligarchs? That aid typically comes in the form of those government subsidies I was talking about earlier in addition to direct access to the most powerful people in the government.

This access comes with an enhanced ability to turn around and reward those very politicians (aka the referees) in the form of generous campaign donations, political activism, and even the ability to corrupt elections. That last part is surprisingly easy if some of those oligarchs happen to be big tech oligarchs like we’ve witnessed with Mark Zuckerberg in the 2020 election.

This is one of the major issues concerning the actual creation of monopolies and trusts in the first place. Because of this these monopolies may actually be able to create a position where they sell the public on the illusion of producing cheap products, but do so at the cost of destroying true economic growth within the system that they are leeching off of.

To be very blunt these monopolies are able to offer cheap products because they’ve offshored the bulk of their manufacturing to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). If we’re being straightforward here, the reason those products are cheap is because these oligarchs have agreed to allow the bulk of their products to be built off the backs of slave labor, but digress.

As these oligarchs continue to be supported they will continue to grow unabated. Their continued growth will also result in the continued destruction of the U.S. economy as they will destroy job opportunities for people with the assisted growth of their development of AI that they plan to use in order to replace human beings.

Now the crazy thing is that the size and wealth of these oligarchs has resulted in their continued abuse of the American economic and business sector.

This abuse has been going on for quite a long time now without anyone being held accountable for their behavior in regards to their corrupt actions in their quest to grow. This is the very thing that the Neo-Brandeisian movement is pointing out as The Curse of Bigness.

It’s my view that we are now living in a moment where there’s been such a cultural shift in this Great Awakening that the possibility to enforce accountability with these oligarchs is more obtainable now than ever before in history.

The Wrap Up

The reality is that the abuse of these oligarchs over the consumer and business population has been going on for so long now that much of the private sector is either too ignorant, too brainwashed, or have lied to themselves too much to recognize what’s been going on. It only requires the simple act of being able to observe to see that the economic well-being of the middle class has been completely eroded over time.

Despite the fact that these monopolies have literally cratered the economies of many small towns throughout the country due to them offshoring much of their high paying manufacturing jobs, they have also managed to add insult to injury by buying off politicians to help them finance their effort off the backs of taxpayers through their massive tax subsidies.

At the beginning of this episode I talked about the very strange and well documented case of the bank robbery that Jan-Erik Olsson was responsible for in Stockholm, Sweden. In studying that event we learned about a very unusual psychological condition where people who are kidnapped, or held hostage, often end up developing feelings of affection, or trust towards their captors.

Of course, this unusual phenomenon is what is known as Stockholm Syndrome.

When looking at the state of the U.S. economy it’s clear that the long-standing abuse from these oligarchs has been effective. The evidence that they have stolen and perverted the business, financial, and economic system of the country to favor their pursuits is completely obvious. As this is the case the economic state of the country continues to erode as these people continue to grow in wealth and power.

What is less obvious to those who fail to recognize this is that they have convinced themselves, just as Olsson's hostages did in that bank, that this is absolutely normal.

In other words, the RINOs and establishment Libertarians who are screaming the loudest in their criticisms of the Neo-Brandeisian movement are acting like giving billions of dollars in tax subsidies to oligarchs is somehow a support of free-markets.

Earlier I used the metaphor of how two competing fighters in the arena of business are both supposed to have a fair shot to win the fight. Additionally, I pointed out how the referee (aka the government) has been frequently favoring one fighter over the other by giving him a winning advantage.

Now just like any competitive fight the supporting fanbase always wants a fair fight as well. However, in this metaphorical comparison the current fanbase (mostly consisting of the RINOs and establishment Libertarians) have been suffering from a bit of Stockholm Syndrome for quite some time now.

The good news regarding the rest of the fanbase who can see that the fight is rigged is that they now have an opportunity to also intervene in favor of the fighter that’s been getting cheated by the referees and the judges.

The Neo-Brandeisian movement is the mechanism that can give the true fanbase (aka the American people) an opportunity to toss in a pair of metaphorical brass knuckles to the fighter that has been cheated in order to help even the odds inside the squared circle.

Do you think we have a good opportunity to break up the Big Tech oligarchs in this current political environment?

Have you noticed that the RINOs and many of the establishment anti-MAGA Libertarians have been suffering from TDS and a serious case of Stockholm Syndrome?

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“Spy' is such a short ugly word. I prefer 'espionage.' Those extra three syllables really say something.”

― Howard Tayler, Emperor Pius Dei

Throughout history civilizations rise and fall after going through a long cycle of power dynamics that ultimately leads to such power being abused by corrupt leaders and grafters. As it turns out, these corrupt people that manage to find their way to the top of a leadership position have a greater interest in using the power of their position for their own perceived personal gain rather than leveraging the power of their position for the betterment of their home country.

During such times when bad actors are allowed to get into power and control the country of their origin they have often done so by using a boot on the neck of their citizens while always looking to do whatever they can in order to maintain their hold on power.

In such times if these corrupt dictators can sense that their grip on the power dynamic is slipping they may be smart enough to recognize such a thing and it’s usually at this point that they realize that they must start looking into ways to help themselves maintain the control of their position by any means necessary.

When this happens traditionally these types of dictators would go to a podium to stand in front of their people to call out a foreign devil. It’s at this point that the corrupt leader would explain to his people how the cause of all of their problems is centered around a foreign devil that is a threat to their homeland.

At this moment a corrupt leader is essentially leaning on the playbook of leveraging radical nationalism in order to drum up fear and to create a false enemy while all the time this leader is engaging in psychological projection as he is guilty of the actual problem that he’s telling his people that the foreign devil is guilty of being.

Time and time again we can see this scenario play out in the history books and when it does the world becomes a very dangerous place. This always results in millions of people dying due to wars that ravage cities and rural areas in a manner that is so dark that it’s hard to comprehend.

If we fast forward through time up to the present day we can see how this same playbook has been taking form from a certain country in the east that desires to rule the entire world.

Although there’s been different strategies employed by these corrupt leaders in the past, today we can see how they prefer to place a lot more emphasis on adopting a more clandestine approach. You can see this in their efforts as they aim to infiltrate and subvert a foreign devil from within.

To give you a specific example these days they even engage in getting into trade deals with their enemy by offering cheap labor to the corporate businesses of their enemy’s homeland in order to manufacture their goods and products. Make no mistake this cheap labor is cheap because it’s made up of slave labor from their working populace.

Also understand that they are willing to do this in order to help enrich the elites of those companies of their enemy’s homeland. Now you may look at that and ask How is that a bad thing? How could they help to enrich the elites of their enemy’s homeland and still consider them an enemy?

Well if either of those questions occurred to you then you’d be asking some very good questions. However, you’ve got to understand that there’s a very specific reason for them engaging in such trade and business with their enemies.

You see once the ruling regime of the authoritarians are able to build a huge manufacturing base for the corporations from their enemy’s homeland then they can do other more impactful and nefarious things. At this point they can manage to build immense influence, achieve financial capture, and literally position themselves to steal the technological makeup and design of every product that they work to build for those companies who are from their enemy’s homeland.

It just so happens that the ruling regime of the country practicing such a thing also guides their decisions by engaging in the ancient military general Sun Tzu’s Art of War principles. This essentially means that they are striving to master that clandestine approach that I mentioned earlier.

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Once they have been successful in enriching the elites of their enemies from a strong trade and economic coupling then they will start using that influence, money, and power of those elites to infiltrate their enemy’s homeland.

At this point they will get the elites to get involved in the political process of funding the political campaigns of politicians who are sympathetic to the authoritarian, corrupt leader’s regime. They will also work with the elites to set up schools inside the homeland of their enemy’s borders in order to indoctrinate the youths of their enemy.

They will also donate money to the existing institutions of their enemy’s homeland to use curriculum to propagate the student body with messaging that causes the student body to be sympathetic to their cause while training the student body to hate their own country.

So what is the result of all of this?

Civil Chaos

Now in case you’re wondering, up to this point the corrupt leaders that I’m referring to are the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the foreign devil that they are at war with happens to be the United States.

However, the strategy of using their nefarious mercantilist trade practices to hollow out the manufacturing base of the United States, while simultaneously engaging in the practice of elite capture, is a very real problem that the United States is currently having to deal with.

This sort of game is a very dangerous one and the so-called elites within the United States have essentially aided in the funding and implementation of what is known as fifth column activity.

If you’re not familiar with that term, a fifth column essentially involves a faction of subversive agents who are doing what they can in order to undermine a nation’s solidarity by any means at their disposal.

The origin of this word dates back to the Spanish civil war (1936-39) involving the Nationalist general Emilio Mola Vidal. At that time as Vidal’s four army columns moved on Madrid Vidal had referred to his sympathizers and militant supporters within the capital as his fifth column, as they were intent on dividing and undermining the loyalist government from the inside.

The central goal and technique that is to be employed by the fifth column is the infiltration of sympathizers into the entire fabric of the nation that happens to be under attack. This is a well thought out and intentional action that is designed to fracture the nation that one is looking to conquer, or destroy.

Here in the U.S. over the last several years we’ve seen a drastic escalation in this fifth column activity, especially as it pertains to the actions of our longstanding and now corrupt institutions. Many of the major institutions have been captured by the CCP through the long steady effort and implementation of their influence operations that have been purposely aimed at destroying our country from within.

One well known example of this fifth column activism here in the states involves the Black Lives Matter organization. As the Heritage Foundation reported way back on September 15, 2020 you could easily find this connection by simply visiting the website of Black Futures Lab which was a venture of Black Lives Matter founder Alicia Garza.

Since this story was reported there seems to have been some changes made to the Black Futures Lab site, but the Heritage Foundation was brilliant enough to screenshot the page. At the time the Heritage Foundation reported on how it would ask you to send your money to an obscure organization known as the Chinese Progressive Association (CPA).

As it turns out the CPA was founded back in 1972 in San Francisco. This organization came about during the heady days of the Marxist-oriented Asian American Movement and it also had a functioning chapter in Boston.

From its inception this group has been an advocate for the People’s Republic of China (PRC). To this day the CPA Boston continues to be an active partner of the PRC in the United States.

When the Heritage Foundation first published their article on the relationship between the CPA and BLM that same article reported on how just three years prior the Boston chapter teamed up with China’s Consulate General in New York to offer Chinese nationals the opportunity to renew their passports. Of course, this got them a lot of praise and open support from China’s official mouthpiece the China Daily.

The evidence of the CCP’s clandestine war and fifth column activity within our borders is overwhelming and more and more of it is rising to the surface as it’s being exposed by alternative MAGA media sources like this one. One thing is for sure the Administrative State Media (ASM) is captured and they only ever frame any decoupling effort from China as being bad for the U.S. rather than focusing on the existential threat that the CCP is to the country right here and now.

The evidence of this fifth column activity is global as well. I mean right now Europe is being taken over by Islamists and their government has been literally going to war against their own citizens if they dare to speak out about any of this.

In fact, one of the key independent journalists and activists Tommy Robinson was just released from prison after 18 months due to being sentenced for libel. It turns out that many of those months Tommy undeservedly served in solitary confinement.

Upon his release Tommy made it clear that one of the biggest reasons that he became a free man was largely due to Elon Musk and his X platform. He stated that this was the case because X proved to be an effective medium that provided an alternative narrative to combat the censorship that has been a big problem in Britain for the past few years involving their draconian crackdowns on silencing speech against their own citizenry.

This fifth column activity is global and is a direct effort by global communists to destroy the entire idea of national sovereignty and supplant it with a single world government and marketplace. When it comes to the global communists everything is about centralization.

Now it’s become apparent that one big central hub for manufacturing fifth column activists happens to involve one of the biggest names among some prominent U.S. institutions. In case you haven’t heard, this would involve one of the most nefarious government grafting operations in recorded history that has been used to weaponize your tax dollars against you. The major culprit that has been directly involved in this is Harvard University.

In fact, the recently published article in The Wall Street Journal displayed the title "Harvard Has Trained So Many Chinese Communist Officials, They Call It Their ‘Party School.”

According to the article, for decades the CCP has sent thousands of mid-career seasoned bureaucrats to pursue a path of postgraduate studies and executive training in the U.S. with Harvard University being recognized by many CCP officials as being their top destination of choice. According to the article the CCP recognizes it as the top “party school” outside of their country.

One such CCP alumni that benefited from Harvard’s program was former vice president and Xi Jinping’s top negotiating trade strategist who was previously involved in trade talks with the first Trump administration.

To be even more direct with Harvard’s involvement with the CCP President Xi Jinping’s own daughter Xi Mingze reportedly attended the university from 2010-2014 and still currently resides in Massachusetts.

It’s obvious that American universities have played a leading role in shaping China’s overseas roles and training programs for many of their mid-career officials. Apparently some other U.S. colleges have offered training for CCP officials including Syracuse, Stanford, Rutgers, and the University of Maryland.

Because of this out of control relationship between Harvard University and CCP officials, the Department of Homeland Security has recently smacked down this operation. In fact, just recently the head of the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem reported on the official website that she ordered DHS to terminate the Harvard University’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) certification.

According to the department Harvard is being held accountable for their actions and association with the CCP which have been directly responsible for fostering violence, antisemitism, and pro-terrorist conduct directly from its student body on campus.

According to Reuters a U.S. business intelligence firm called Strategy Risks said that Ronnie Chan, the son of a major property developer T.H. Chan facilitated a very generous $350 million donation to Harvard back in 2014 which resulted in the school of public health being named after his father. According to Strategy Risks Ronnie Chan is a member of the China-United States Exchange Foundation.

Looking at that massive 2014 donation, is it a coincidence that this large sum of money just happened to flow into Harvard the same year that President Xi Jinping’s daughter graduated from the institution? I don’t know about you, but I don’t believe in coincidences.

Apparently this organization has been classified as a foreign principal under U.S. law and because of this the lobbyists that are working for it are responsible for disclosing the work that they do to the U.S. government. This has certainly been an additional concern from U.S officials and has raised some eyebrows as to the nature of the business.

In addition to this the Reuters article also reminds us of the case of Charles Lieber who was scrutinized by a Trump program that was established back in 2018 that was known as the China Initiative. The purpose of this program was focused on fighting that magical word espionage which contains those three extra syllables compared to the word spy that I led off with using that catchy quote at the beginning of this episode.

The China Initiative also looked into intellectual property theft along with investigating researchers and various universities over whether they disclosed their financial ties to Beijing. If you remember Lieber was convicted in 2021 of lying about his ties to China in connection to money that was directly involved with federally funded research. He later became a full time professor at a Chinese university.

The Wrap Up

There’s a clear trend that exists with the presence of the CCP and their efforts involved with expansionism as it relates to their Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

The CCP has captured many of our elites and is waging full blown Unrestricted Warfare against the United States and all of Western civilization.

By using their money, influence, and intimidation the CCP has created what I like to refer to as a contagion of corruption that has spread throughout the foundation of every major U.S. institution and this corruption is manifesting in the form of actions that are designed to hurt American citizens.

The nefarious agenda that is spread by the CCP is done so by financial capture of the elites, intimidation, or probably by some other form of leverage that resembles blackmail. That last one is an educated guess, but I’m pretty sure that I’m over the target on it.

The CCP is fully engaged in unrestricted warfare with the United States and their fifth column activists are a large mechanism involved in keeping our country wrapped up and distracted in unnecessary civil chaos all while they work to build out military dominance and seize territories to expand their BRI efforts.

If you don’t believe me then take a look back at how they took over Hong Kong, look at when they installed Lula in Brazil, look how they’ve infiltrated the Canadian government to our north, and how they’ve directly infiltrated our own government here in the states.

Even right now they're working to take down one of our biggest allies in South Korea by working to steal their election. There’s a huge MAGA Populist revolt going on there too, but whether or not it’s enough to overcome the election fraud still remains to be seen, unless those results are revealed by the time this episode gets published.

You can clearly see here in the United States over the past five years how there’s been literally zero accountability for any politician for their corrupt actions during the pandemic, no accountability for the autopen scandal that’s breaking, no accountability for running up world history national debt, no accountability for starting endless wars, and no accountability for former heads of the FBI that make direct public life threatening gestures against a sitting president on social media.

The fifth column activity has either almost fully infiltrated, or intimidated the American judicial system to the point of corruption.

After all, we all have literally witnessed the previous regime incentivize and allow a full blown invasion of our country with violent gangs that have been designated as terrorist organizations.

Because of this you now have President Trump aggressively and Constitutionally exercising his Article II powers while judges work to stop him from exercising those powers for mass deportations.

The fifth column activists and propagandists have been successful at muddying the waters on this issue too. I say this because as President Trump is trying to deport these terrorists you now have American citizens screaming about due process for these illegal terrorist migrants where due process doesn’t even exist for these people.

There’s been a fundamental perversion of the Constitution throughout our population. Furthermore, it’s a funny thing that these useful idiots in the states screaming about due process are themselves participating in the fifth column behavior either due to their own ignorance, or outright stupidity.

It’s funny that now they have a grievance with the supposed lack of due process when President Trump is trying to deport illegal migrant terrorists. They will even try to use the argument that these radical judges are exercising the proper checks and balances for this process.

However, it’s funny how they casually ignore those so-called checks and balances PRIOR to the deportations and when the actual mass invasions were occurring. Where was that demonstration of the coequal branches of checks and balances then?

I’m just going to be blunt.

We are in the third world war and the only way we can back out of this thing is to make sure that we engage in a constant pressure campaign with congressmen and senators who are not onboard with the America First agenda in de-escalating these wars while we simultaneously working to get our own domestic affairs in order.

Keep in mind that the recent drone attack that Ukraine successfully pulled off against the Russian bombers that were deep into Russia territory was brilliant and highly effective. However, that’s not the thing we need to be focused on now.

After that attack the REALITY is that now Russia is going to be looking at the U.S. as having some huge responsibility for it.

Why do I say this?

I say this because we’ve been financing this stupid proxy war for the past three years by sending all the weapons and money to help Ukraine.

I mean look at it this way, imagine if you had a hostile neighbor that lived directly across the street from you and I lived next door to him. Now imagine that you and your neighbor got into a gunfight and as you’re having this shootout with your hostile neighbor you realize that I’m the one that’s actually supplying ammunition to your hostile neighbor so that he can keep up the gunfight with you.

At this point even though I’m not the one that’s shooting directly at you and your house you’re still going to have a big problem with me for helping your neighbor in the fight.

If you understand that then you can understand why Russia is getting more and more frustrated with the United States.

Granted, this all started prior to President Trump getting into office and President Trump is the one calling for peace and I know President Putin understands that.

However, both President Trump and President Putin also understand that our intelligence community here in the states is also infiltrated with some fifth column activists who are trying to subvert the United States government from within.

The question is will President Trump be able to root them out before President Putin loses patience.

I believe President Trump, MAGA, and the America First movement don’t have any other choice, but to root out the fifth column and to cripple the CCP with information and economic warfare.

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“Don't threat, just act – Threats are Ammunition for the Threatened.”

― Sino Melo

I remember when I was in college one summer at the University of Georgia I decided to take some time off from school, but decided to stay in Athens to work through the summer full time.

At the time I had a friend that was working for Sears Termite and Pest Control and I was able to land a job with them that particular summer. To be honest I didn't know a lot about pest control, but at that time they offered some very good training and even equipped me with a work truck that I could use to get around town to each appointment once I got through the training.

The job was challenging, but it was quite rewarding and I learned a lot about how to get rid of unwanted guests that would find their way into people’s homes. It was quite an experience and I encountered a few things that I’ll never forget including one of the most gruesome looking black widow spiders that I’ve ever seen. I pray I never encounter anything like that again because I’m not a fan of spiders at all, especially that particular alien monster I saw when working that job.

I remember it was a requirement for the technicians to meet at the office first thing in the morning to get the day’s schedule in hand along with making sure our trucks were properly equipped with everything that was needed to do the day’s work. The equipment and game plan for the day was always very important which is one of the best memories I have about that job.

However, one of the unique things about that job was that none of us technicians really knew what our daily schedule would look like until we actually showed up for the normal morning meeting. It was at this morning planning period where they would give us the day’s schedule for the appointments we would have to run.

Now I remember this one particular time when I arrived at the meeting the manager walked up to me and handed me the day's schedule and it only had two appointments listed on it. My initial thought was that I was going to have a light day, but the manager quickly called that into question as he put his finger on the later appointment that was listed and said something like You’re going to need the whole afternoon for this one. These people have a huge cockroach problem.

I didn’t think much about it and headed out to service my appointments. I quickly knocked out the first one on the schedule and then headed to the second appointment.

When I arrived at the second appointment I remember walking up to the house thinking that it probably wouldn’t be a bad job until I got inside.

The owner that came to the door seemed like a kind individual, but his personality was clearly a little odd. I’m not making any sort of judgment with that statement, but it was simply an objective observation.

After all, I typically like people who are a bit eccentric. However, when I got inside this guy’s house I realized that what I was dealing with was an excessive hoarder.

I mean when I walked in the front door I barely had enough room to take a step as the floor was completely covered with boxes, papers, and a ton of other miscellaneous stuff. This guy’s house was packed full of what I would consider to be garbage and I couldn’t even understand why he even bothered to call for any pest control.

I made my way to the kitchen and he yelled across the room that he had been seeing cockroaches. I remember sarcastically thinking to myself —No kidding.

After I had taken a moment to absorb the chaotic environment that I found myself in I started looking around and I would see the occasional cockroach on a counter, or running along the floor at the base of the kitchen cabinets.

When I was in training for pest control one of the things they always said was that if you happen to see a cockroach then this meant that there was a definite infestation of many more that were hiding in the walls and crevices of places that you wouldn’t be able to see at a casual glance.

I’ll just say that when it came to the hoarder’s home this wasn’t only true, but it was the truth on maximum overdrive. I knew that was the case the moment I walked inside the guy’s home given all of the junk that he had collected inside his house.

The reason I can say that is that in order for someone to have as much stuff as that guy had, that meant that there was a ton of movement involved with either him, or someone else, having to deliver all of the stuff he had into his house from somewhere outside of his house.

Therefore, it’s a guarantee that his house wasn’t only in a constant state of exposure from the outdoors due to the steady flow of foot traffic, but he obviously left his home exposed to the physical things that other people were actually bringing into his home.

In short, he basically managed to set up a consistent flow of a cockroach infestation that had apparently been going on for quite some time. This was obvious and the significant level of treatment that was needed to eradicate this individual’s cockroach problem confirmed the initial theory of what it meant if a single cockroach could be seen at a glance.

The Theory

When it comes to the world of business and finance, whenever a company ends up revealing some bad news to the public it’s usually a guarantee that there will be subsequent bad news to follow. This is usually the case along with the fallout of other negative events that end up impacting other companies and industries as a whole. If you look at the business industry this is actually known as the cockroach theory and it lines up directly with the hard truth that I was taught in training all the way back during that summer that I worked doing pest control.

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“Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google. The ultimate search engine that would understand everything on the web. It would understand exactly what you wanted, and it would give you the right thing. We’re nowhere near doing that now. However, we can get incrementally closer to that, and that is basically what we work on.”

—Larry Page

“The pace of progress in artificial intelligence (I’m not referring to narrow AI) is incredibly fast. Unless you have direct exposure to groups like Deepmind, you have no idea how fast—it is growing at a pace close to exponential. The risk of something seriously dangerous happening is in the five-year time frame. 10 years at most.”

—Elon Musk wrote in a comment on Edge.org

Human beings are the only species on the planet that have continually proven that we engage in activities that lead to our own destruction. This has been the case since the very beginning with Adam and Eve.

Since the introduction of sin came on the scene along with it came death. The sin of man thinking that he’s capable of handling the world’s problems on his own serves to be the exact reason why he always leads himself and others straight into the furnace.

Some major societal examples of this that I can give you to summarize that last statement is how there are people who always tout how amazing certain government policies, or technological advancements are for the betterment of society.

You can always see this because it always starts with framing the application of such advancements as being utilized in an altruistic manner. This is typically presented in scenarios that involve life saving technology in the realm of unique medical treatments, technological advancements with the development of AI, and the biggest one involving the fake lofty acts of virtue that you always hear about involving the programs of the government associated with the climate change agenda.

However, it seems that the bigger the team effort is concerning the government and large companies uniting in order to save the world the worse the outcome. I mean unless you have short term memory you can clearly see this failure with pretty much everything associated with the pandemic just five short years ago.

Another example of seismic failure would involve the massive climate change agenda and how it’s caused significantly more problems associated with the destruction of the environment rather than the protection of it over many decades now.

The astonishing thing about this that gets so frustrating to me is how obvious all of this has been for so long, but society has just simply not paid attention…until the problems from these so-called virtuous government programs started impacting every single household.

You know how that last statement goes in the minds of most people. If you don’t know how this applies to the apathetic, it basically means that it’s not a problem worth worrying about until that problem kicks in the front door of those who are apathetic and gets right up in their face.

Once again an example of this would involve the pandemic and all of the woke science from it that was forced upon the public regarding the dangerous side effects from the vaccines, the virus itself having been created in a Wuhan lab, and the fact that it was financed by the U.S. government.

The problem with the out of control growth and expansion of the federal government has long been something of a large complaint to those who have recognized it as being a dangerous problem. Because of this, if the rest of society had just listened and acted to correct it we wouldn’t be dealing with the problems that we’re seeing now. The struggle should have been unnecessary, but human nature has made it necessary for the simple fact that human nature procrastinates.

This is why we always have to unnecessarily deal with and experience the unnecessary necessary struggle.

They Live

In 1988 an iconic American science fiction action horror film was written and directed by John Carpenter called They Live. This movie is based off of a short story titled 8 o’clock in the Morning which was written by science fiction author and cartoonist Ray Nelson.

The film follows a drifter by the name of John Nada (Roddy Piper) who ends up stumbling across a special pair of sunglasses near a work community that he was recruited into by his new friend Frank (Keith David).

The sunglasses reveal the true identity of people throughout society. The sunglasses reveal to John that the ruling class of society are not people at all, but are actually aliens who are concealing their true identity and who are actively manipulating people to consume and conform to the status quo through manipulating the populace using subliminal messaging.

Now I won’t dive too deep into the plot of the movie, but at one point John ends up going on the run after a group of hostile police officers approached him and he ends up having to kill them. During all the excitement involving his escape, along with this new discovery involving the strange reality of the world, John ends up having to retrieve another pair of the special sunglasses in a box he had previously hid in a trash pile.

After a period of time John has been on the run alone and trying to figure out his next course of action. It's at this point that his friend Frank shows back up along with John’s paycheck. However, after finding him Frank orders John to stay away due to the fact that John’s killing spree had become widespread news.

Now it’s at this phase of the movie where a key moment takes place and it serves as an important lesson at what I aim to communicate to you here today. After Frank issues this warning John then tries to put the sunglasses on Frank in order to show him exactly what he has been seeing the entire time.

However, Frank aggressively resists and because of this a lengthy and brutal brawl ensues between the two in a backstreet alley resulting in them beating the crap out of each other. I mean the fight starts out physical, but then it escalates into being a downright nasty brawl as the two really work each other over.

However, John finally succeeds in getting the sunglasses onto Frank’s head for him to look at the people walking down the street only to be stunned by the reality that it wasn’t people he was looking at, but rather it was aliens.

During this moment of an awakening John tells Frank to hold because he’s not the first to wake up out of their dream. Ok, he might have injected another colorful word into the line, but you get the idea.

I remember when I was a young teenager watching this movie for the first time. The plot was so interesting I remember how pleasantly surprised I was at how entertaining and intriguing it was to me at that time. It was one of those movies where I found myself thinking about it long after I had watched it wondering how Carpenter came up with the original idea.

However, as we fast forward to the reality of the current day it’s almost as if we’ve been living out a good portion of Carpenter’s movie They Live in the last five years. After all, so many people still refuse to wake up and observe reality much in the same exact way that Frank refused to do so with John here in this film which ultimately led to their back alley brawl.

The fight took place because of the opposing wills of two men. Essentially this involved one man wanting the other to simply try on a pair of sunglasses to look around at the world while the other aggressively refused to back down and accept such a simple request. Because Frank wouldn’t take five seconds to oblige John’s request they both ended up bloody and bruised in a dirty back alley before Frank finally took the opportunity to wake up to reality.

I will say that since the pandemic hit five years ago and it became apparent that our government had declared war on the American citizenry, I often feel just like John Nada did with Frank in this movie when it comes to much of the public in daily life.

Now that’s not to say that I don’t feel just as determined as John did on communicating the significance of this Great Awakening to the public. However, the frustration comes with people because they don’t want to simply observe objective reality which then leads to a huge struggle as we’ve witnessed first hand throughout society in recent years.

The frustration comes knowing that the struggle is completely unnecessary, yet I understand it’s going to be made necessary by those who aren’t immersive warriors in regards to this cultural and informational landscape.

In addition to this many of these people who don’t see reality have also been subverted ideologically and that hold takes some time to break.

So when looking at awakening to such dire realities like John had to fight for in order to get Frank to see, what current real world realities do people need to wake up to in today’s world?

Well, the truth is that there are many issues, but one of these realities is the incoming rise and development of Artificial Intelligence (AI). After all, the sale’s pitch surrounding AI is the most insane sales pitch I’ve ever heard regarding any product in the existence of mankind.

Coming from their own creators involving the tech oligarchs the sales pitch for AI basically boils down to the rising technology either serving to be the greatest invention since sliced bread, or it will serve to be a dangerous weapon to end the entire human race because it’s far more dangerous than nuclear warheads by a longshot according to Elon Musk.

Now if you really take the time to break down that type of sales pitch for society it’s hard to believe we’re living in a time where we’re all actually putting ourselves into this position. I mean what other product with such societal impact has society ever had when there was a sales pitch like this that was put forth in order to get everyone to buy into such a product?

In other words, what I’m hearing is that with the advancement of AI the end result will basically boil down to a 50/50 outcome. One outcome will involve a technological utopia unlike anything mankind has supposedly ever experienced while the other will involve us kissing our existence goodbye.

How insane is it that as a society we’re literally having to have this discussion on top of the fact that these tech oligarchs, who are behind the development of this technology, are demanding more and more funding from the government to finance their venture while also demanding more control of power utilities in order to operate it?

On a side note, given that last point regarding the demands of the oligarchs wanting more control over the production of power in order to fuel AI it’s funny how we don’t hear anymore in the media these days regarding the climate change narrative, right? I digress.

I mean when looking at such a potentially dangerous outcome concerning the apparent 50/50 odds of AI, how is it that as a society we’re willing to tolerate such a high risk? After all, I’m willing to bet my life savings that most people in society haven’t even engaged in a game of Russian roulette over a $1 thousand bet, nor would I ever want anyone to do so.

However, with the rapid advancement of AI (Specifically Artificial General Intelligence or AGI) it’s as if society is perfectly fine with rolling the dice to take the biggest risk on the existence of itself with what basically looks like 50/50 odds. I mean when you look at the insanely dangerous and lethal game of Russian roulette, at least with that game you’d be playing with a near 84% chance of survival. This would be the case if you’re simply evaluating how much the odds would be in one’s favor assuming one is using a traditional six shot revolver like you always see in those gritty action movies.

Once again, I am strongly against anyone playing Russian roulette. That game should also be avoided at all costs, but I think you get my point when looking at the risks here associated with the advancement towards AGI.

I believe the tech world has worked really hard on spreading the narrative concerning the positives of AI in an attempt to shield much of society from the potential negatives that could result from the rising venture.

However, whether you support the accelerating rise of AI, or not, the key central concern for you should be to understand that the technology that is advancing isn’t anything like what you would traditionally approve of in the normal circumstances surrounding innovation.

In other words, this product doesn’t even factor in the human element concerning what your definition of a good, or bad person might be. The central thing you’ve got to remember concerning AI is that the technology is amoral. In other words, the technology would possess zero sense of what right, or wrong would actually be and completely lack any moral sense involved in all of its decision making processes.

The Wrap Up

In 1953 the legendary country outlaw Johnny Cash wrote the famous song Folsom Prison Blues. The theme of the song follows the laments of a fictional inmate being held in Folsom Prison who wishes he could catch a nearby train to ride away from his confinement to San Antonio.

In the song’s lyrics there’s a very disturbing line that Cash wrote that talks about how the inmate shot a man in Reno just to watch him die. Now did this really happen? No, I’ve already established that the song was written about a fictional character, but the line certainly did give us listeners a certain perspective on the man that Cash is singing about who is serving out his time in Folsom prison.

At the beginning of this episode I pointed out how throughout history mankind has always engaged in activities that ultimately lead to his own destruction. This is guaranteed to happen as surely as the turning of the earth when man takes on the belief that he can solve the world’s problems on his own and without following the lead of the savior of the world which is Jesus.

The knowledge of the Lord far surpasses the knowledge of man. All the words available in helping you to gain such understanding and wisdom are found in the Holy Bible. When man follows the lead of God he is blessed full of wisdom, stability, and peace.

However, when such wisdom is absent from mankind then he may take on an amoral position in the world which ultimately will lead to immoral actions. However, the good wisdom of the word may be present with mankind, but if he then strays from the word he will also eventually fall victim to immoral behavior due to falling victim to his own selfish desires. In this case the direction of man is being guided by self rather than being guided by the Lord.

Now this is the case when it comes down to how mankind will behave when he chooses to be guided by God, or by his own desires. Therefore in the case of man he can be guided by moral principle, or by his immoral self. Now to be fair this is a normal struggle among all of us here in this fallen world.

However, in the case of the accelerated development of AI, or more specifically AGI, what is the guiding principle of an amoral machine?

According to the developers this is actually completely unknown, but according to Johnny Cash it can result in a single cold blooded act.

In other words, when Johnny Cash wrote that single attention grabbing line about how the inmate once shot a man in Reno just to watch him die he was trying to think of the most horrible reason why someone would kill someone else. In other words, he wanted to come up with the absolute worst thing to be put in prison for so he thought about this cold blooded example.

Now if you really take a moment to break this down this would be the most horrible reason to kill someone because the killer’s motive wasn’t money, it wasn’t over business, and it wasn’t even personal. The reason was simply for the cold hard truth of him doing so to satisfy his own curiosity.

Now when you think deeply enough about that scenario by removing all of the other motives associated with why a man would do such a thing, that's a pretty calloused reason for one man to kill another.

Now the real question is would AI be as calloused as this inmate that Johnny Cash is describing in his hit song Folsom Prison Blues?

If you’re asking me then this is my John Nada moment with you and the struggle surrounding this shouldn’t be necessary, but I understand that we’ll have to engage in an unnecessary necessary struggle regarding this issue.

Are you ready for this unnecessary necessary struggle?

What other pop culture comparison have you seen that relates to the current fight associated with the rise of AI?

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“Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.”

― Fyodor Dostoevsky

I was thinking back to how the world just exploded in our face five years ago. I mean everything seemed to accelerate concerning the pandemic, the rigged election of 2020, the hyper-corruption of our government, the reality of elite capture from the Chinese Communist Party, the attempted assassinations of President Trump, the wars sprouting up everywhere, and even the increasing incidence and reporting concerning UFOs.

It’s not hard to take a look around and notice that the world has been spinning out of control. I mean all of these issues are still very much in motion, however there’s one big difference as to why they all haven’t led to the point of the country completely falling off the rails and that’s because of the MAGA movement.

That’s right, the only reason the country hasn’t totally collapsed into a third world totalitarian hellhole at this point is because of God’s divine intervention and the way that he works through the abilities and actions of good people. To me this is essentially what defines the MAGA coalition.

Make America Great Again (MAGA) is more than just an idea, it’s a movement. The creation of the MAGA movement isn’t something that just suddenly and spontaneously happened. No, it has been a movement that has been forged out of the recognition that the establishment government, consisting of all parties, has been completely guilty of selling the country out to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for many decades now.

This movement recognizes the reality that its own government has devolved into a grafting operation where its system operatives benefit from senselessly getting the United States involved in foreign affairs as it sends money to aid foreign nations while its own citizens reap no benefit from propping it up. In fact, the system has been weaponized against those very citizens who do prop it up.

Because the political game has changed by devolving into this grafting operation that attracts the worst of the worst in politicians the citizenry has suffered more and more over time. Because of this steadfast escalation of suffering, theft, and outright warfare that has been waged against the American citizen the MAGA movement came into existence.

Newton’s third law of motion states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Now having said that, the reality is that the established action that has been at play has involved the ever-growing and intrusive expansion of government against the American citizen and the reaction to that intrusive entity is the MAGA movement.

MAGA is the perfect example of an expanding coalition of citizen voters that are more engaged and more informed than any other political movement, or coalition, in the history of the world. In short, MAGA makes up the Emissaries of Freedom.

Even speaking for myself I started noticing this years ago with how useless establishment Republicans were when they clearly had winning issues on their side against the Democratic party and would simply do nothing. They would always talk, but they would never follow through with their actions.

The ability to follow through with actions is the very definition of MAGA. President Trump is clearly a man of action, therefore the MAGA movement consists of citizen activists who are full of action and the MAGA activists have the intellectual horsepower to back up their actions. MAGA is the antithesis of philosophical reductionism which has been the longstanding DNA makeup of the failing Republican, Conservative, Liberal, Democrat, and Libertarian establishment.

Meaningful Action

Additionally I also noticed that there was never any accountability against politicians who would graft off the system, destroy evidence of crimes (see Hillary Clinton servers), and who would commit actual crimes against the citizens that they are supposed to be representing (see border invasion).

However, it’s now become clear to me that I wasn’t the only one that had been noticing such problems within our society, as if it’s hard to notice. The truth is that I had never identified as being Republican or Democrat. I’d mostly identified as being more Libertarian, but even now the Libertarian party has largely become part of the problem as they don’t recognize that the country is currently at war and MAGA is the mechanism by which that war is being fought to save and restore the Republic.

Oddly enough MAGA is the distinction between the establishment order, or the status quo, and men and women of action that goes beyond party lines. In fact, the MAGA coalition consists of Republicans, Democrats, Liberals, Conservatives, and Libertarians in an all inclusive coalition that is actively engaged and recognizes what time it is in the country.

The establishment parties from which they left behind are still stuck in the past with a status quo viewpoint that no longer applies to the current circumstances of the world. As previously stated these old establishment types suffer from philosophical reductionism and lack the intellectual depth and human agency to actually fight for liberty and freedom.

Granted, you may say that MAGA is the Republican party and you would be mostly correct. However, the MAGA movement has simply infiltrated the Republican party because the party already provided the infrastructure that was needed for MAGA to actively carry out and enforce its political will at the city, county, state, and federal government levels. In the process of that infiltration MAGA is still having to battle the forces of the embedded establishment group of Republicans that want to return the country back onto a path of destruction.

I mean the MAGA movement is the perfect example of what resilience looks like among a society that has been suppressed by a massive Federal government that today even exceeds the size of the government of the Chinese Communist Party.

That’s right, in case you didn’t know the Chinese Communist Party itself makes up about 33.17% of their GDP while the United States percentage of government expenditures topped out at 36.28% of the GDP in 2023 according to the International Monetary Fund. Keep in mind that with the size of the U.S. federal government being that large it’s still only governing over a population that’s roughly one third the size of China. Let that sink in for a moment when you ask yourself if the country is still the land of the free.

In other words, MAGA consists of a modern day grassroots movement of True Patriots that have had to relentlessly fight against a multi-trillion dollar corrupt federal system that is waging war against this movement at every turn.

This is literally a modern day Revolutionary time in history that’s being fought out in the culture, the political arena, economic arena, and the information arena every single minute of every single day.

This current political environment is the same exact set up that we’ve already encountered during the first American Revolution. I mean looking back at the first Revolution you basically had the population divided into thirds.

In other words, roughly one third of the population consisted of the Patriots (Whigs) that were sick of the authoritarianism of the crown and were in favor of liberty and independence. In this modern day scenario these Patriots would involve the MAGA movement.

Another third of the population would be made up of the Loyalists who basically consisted of those who were loyal to the British crown. This group of people were known as the King’s Men, Tories, and Royalists.

Just to give you some more context on the Loyalists this group of people belonged to the wealthy merchant class where a significant portion of their wealth and success were dependent on good trade and relations with Britain. When you compare this to today this would be the equivalent of the globalists elite, establishment Republicans, and the establishment Democrats who are dependent on good trade relations with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Oh yeah, I almost forgot about the final third of the population. The final third of the population basically consisted of those who were waiting around to see which way the wind was going to blow and that’s the direction that they would move in. This third of the population would eventually make their selection to join the winning side after all the hard work was done.

This is essentially the same kind of population breakdown that you’re seeing right now during this current time in history. So keep that in mind and ask yourself which category you fall into. Ask yourself which category your brother, or sister fall into. Ask yourself which category your wife, or your husband fall into. Which category does your neighbor fall into?

These divisions already exist just like they existed in the first American Revolution. These divisions are formed based on what you support. Are you in support of the establishment path of the country which is destroying the country? Are you a part of the MAGA Patriots looking to liberate the country from this onslaught of tyranny that is being waged by the Administrative State? At this point of the game are you really sitting on the sidelines trying to figure out which direction to go? Seriously?

What makes the MAGA movement so impressive is the fact that despite being outgunned, out spent, having had no media, having had no back up from the courts, no help from congress, no help from the senate, and no help from the Presidency UNTIL Donald J. Trump this movement is still very much in the fight.

This is quite remarkable, but this type of grit from the MAGA movement is exactly what it’s going to take in order for us to win this war. Make no mistake that this thing is far from over and even with President Trump at the helm we can still lose this thing unless we ALL step up our efforts and refuse to quit. You better understand what’s waiting on the other side of this if we lose.

Allow me to be blunt, but the reality of that is a horror show that we haven’t seen since the French Revolution. That’s right, these extreme leftist communists are itching to pull out the guillotines just like the Jacobins did during the French Revolution.

This is why we cannot get complacent and MAGA recognizes that this moment right now is our opportunity to enforce our own Thermidorian Reaction with the modern day version of getting justice for the crimes that have been committed against this country and its citizens.

Make no mistake that the communists want to make MAGA disappear once and for all. If you really take a look around at the cultural and political landscape you can see how these violent forces from the left are growing louder and louder.

I mean for crying out loud this past week you just witnessed Democrat politicians flying to El Salvodore and advocating for the Trump administration to bring a known illegal migrant terrorist, human trafficker, and wife beating gang member back into the country after he was deported. To make matters even worse you’re having judges rule against the Trump administration's efforts to deport these illegals in a direct violation of the President’s Constitutional Article II powers.

If this isn’t bad enough on the political side in the culture you’re seeing another growing threat if MAGA is not successful. I mean right now you have a significant portion of the population committing acts of terrorism on Teslas and Tesla owners every single day while many of these people openly express their support of Luigi Mangione and Karmelo Anthony.

Both of these individuals are being held up as heroes for the murders that both of them committed. This sort of behavior is only going to intensify as these radical judges continue to work to violate the Article II powers of the Executive in the Constitution by issuing these absurd rulings to deny President Trump his ability to do his job.

I mentioned in a previous episode how Alec Baldwin had posted a video stating that we were in a Pre-Civil war culture. To suggest that we are in a Pre-War culture is really incorrect. The reality is that we are currently already in World War III and that has also bled into the divisions that exist here in the domestic homeland between the far left communists and MAGA.

I mean look at how the communist left treated us during the pandemic. Once they gained power they started threatening people’s livelihoods if they didn’t get the vaccine.

They started World War III by pushing Russia and Ukraine into a horrible bloodbath of trench warfare that currently resembles Stalingrad. This has resulted in over a million deaths of Ukrainian men and several hundred thousand Russian deaths. They allowed October 7th to happen, sending the Middle East into turmoil and they have been selling the country out to the CCP for decades now.

Heck, I remember after the assassination attempt on President Trump I could scroll my social media feed and literally see the communists celebrating the fact that someone actually attempted to murder the President. Understand that these are the types of people that live next door to you, work with you, and sit at the booth next to you when you go out to dinner.

Make no mistake, if these people ever get back into power they’ll make it their mission to make as much of the MAGA coalition disappear as possible.

You know I was having a conversation with my wife the other day and as we were talking a preview for a documentary popped up on the TV about serial killers. We both found ourselves taking a pause to direct our attention towards the commercial.

As this commercial was playing it was referencing some of the more notorious serial killers from the 70s, 80s, and 90s that we’re all familiar with such as Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Richard Ramirez.

As I was watching the advertisement for the show, a thought occurred to me at that very moment. I started thinking about the fact that I never hear anything in the headlines these days about serial killers.

I mean I’m old enough to remember back in the 80s and 90s where there were many leading headlines that would involve news about serial killers. However, these days there are never any headlines in the news regarding the apprehension, or hunt for suspected serial killers anymore.

Because of this I had to ask the question why? In other words, why are there not anymore headlines about these predators the way it used to be?

Now don’t get me wrong I’m thrilled that we’re not hearing about serial killers running around in society, but the question still remains as to why we don’t hear about these people anymore. I mean did serial killers magically go extinct?

Well according to the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology James Alan Fox of Northeastern University it comes down to a few changes. These changes involve the advancement in forensic science, policing, criminal justice, and technology. Because of this, according to Fox, it’s made escaping capture very difficult for the likes of the BTK killers of the world.

So why did I make the leap to inquire about the disappearance of serial killers from the headlines?

This question points to a very significant shift in the manner in which the function of society itself has changed. That change involves the enhancement of the surveillance state.

That’s right, the real reason serial killers have disappeared from the headlines is because the surveillance state, through the explosion of technology, has grown to the point that it has changed the entire landscape that these notorious serial killers once used to carry out their evil tasks.

Now on the surface you may look at that and think that’s a good thing, but in reality these serial killers didn’t truly disappear altogether. No, many of these people merely changed their game and their psychopathic activities still manage to show up in society in other ways whether it involves the loss of life, or the loss of freedom.

One such example of this could involve one being the head of a massive medical bureaucracy such as NIAID that has made corrupt decisions that lead to the deaths of millions of people throughout society and the world. Another example would involve an individual simply getting caught after their first kill when they sneak up behind the leading CEO of a company like UnitedHealthcare to shoot them in the back due to what they would justify as an act of revenge.

If you don’t believe that last example fits the profile then pump the brakes for a moment. According to American true crime writer Harold Schester there are four categories that you can divide serial killers into based on his study of their victims and motives.

Now I’m not going to dive into all four of these, but one of the four categories of these types of killers involves the Mission-oriented killer. This type of killer sees themselves killing in order to provide for their community by targeting a specific group of people. According to Schester this group of killers want to rid society of a specific group of people.

These types of killers are organized and plan out their crimes. Additionally these killers kill quickly and efficiently and do not demonstrate a need to prolong a kill, or get any further enjoyment out of it. The crime scenes of these killers don’t reveal any sort of ritual involving sadism or torture as their motive is driven solely by their own personal feelings of hate and revenge.

Now when you look at that particular archetype it perfectly describes Luigi Mangione with the only exception being that he just never got the chance to be a serial killer. Fortunately, in Mangione’s case, he was stopped short of making subsequent kills after he made his first kill with the UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. However, it still doesn’t remove the fact that his motives perfectly fit the profile of the Mission-oriented killer as outlined by Schester.

In this case with the enhancement of the surveillance state Mangione was quickly able to be apprehended.

However, just like with the previous example these American Psychopaths can also ascend to holding high level government positions and can leverage the power of the surveillance state for their own personal evil intentions in that way as well.

In reality the growth and expansion of the surveillance state didn’t lead to the complete extinction of serial killers, but rather created an environment in which these psychopaths were able to make a transition in their modus operandi and identity.

In my view, with the extreme growth of the federal government, combined with the growth of the surveillance state, the ground has been made fertile for such psychopaths to go through a metamorphosis. With this societal change involving the explosion of government and technology it has created a sort of cocoon for the American Psychopaths to go through a metamorphosis where they now manifest in the world in the form of actual killers like Luigi Mangione, or those who arguably make life and death decisions with the likes of who many would compare to the Anthony Fauci’s of the world.

The problem with our society is that for far too long now much of the population has gotten lazy. In other words, for many years now most people have been far too dependent on getting their news from the Administrative State Media (ASM) which has involved the delivery of that news having been packaged in false narratives consisting of thirty second video clips.

The lies from the ASM have led to the brainwashing of much of society. In turn many of these brainwashed power hungry communists with psychopathic tendencies end up being drawn to the major institutions of the country where they can anchor themselves into a position of power.

This is how they are motivated in order to take meaningful action to pursue their agendas. On the flipside, just as Newton’s law states, MAGA is the reaction to this and MAGA is also about meaningful action and is motivated to infiltrate these same institutions in order to purge these psychopaths from their positions.

The Wrap Up

At the end of the day if you don’t recognize how dangerous it is with the current times that we are living in then you’re asleep at the wheel.

The fact that President Trump won the election back on November 5th isn’t a guarantee that we have saved the Republic. That only signifies that we are simply able to remain in the fight, but there’s still a whole lot more fighting to do in order to pull this off.

The political game has changed and because it has it’s vitally important that the voting citizens adapt and change with the times as well. The group that understands this better than anybody is the MAGA movement and this is vitally important if you want to continue to have a safe country to live in looking ahead.

You’ve got to ask yourself which third of the population you belong to in this current day American Revolution. Just for some added clarification, if you're a blackpiller then you’d be considered to be a part of the last third of the population. This is the case because your complaining is equivalent to the evildoer.

This is how Dostoevsky stated it in his quote that I led off with at the beginning of this episode. In other words, if you’re a blackpiller I don’t understand you and I certainly don’t care for your opinions anymore than I care to have the psychopaths occupying the institutions that govern this Republic.

Are you motivated to be an engaged Emissary of Freedom in this MAGA coalition?

What actions do you see the MAGA movement taking in the next hundred days to change the arc of history?

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“If individuals do not occupy their legitimate position, then it will be occupied by a god or a king or a coalition of interest groups. If citizens do not exercise the powers conferred by their legitimacy, others will do so.”

― John Ralston Saul

One thing I’ve really come to grips with over the past few years is just how fragile our country truly is in regards to the functional congruence of its complex systems when those systems are stressed.

Granted, I do believe our country is probably more economically resilient than any other country in the history of the world, but along with that reality its economic horsepower has also been used and abused more than any economic superpower in world history.

The reality is that if you have half a brain you don't need Elon Musk and his DOGE team to tell you that the federal government is full of waste, fraud, and abuse. The reality of this can easily be seen if you simply take about five seconds to visit the U.S. National Debt Clock.

One thing that’s glaringly obvious regarding the origin of all of the world’s problems is that they all originate from the globalists and Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Now you may understand why I’m saying that, but if you don’t then I’ll add clarification. The simple explanation is that they all share the same goal of acquiring and maintaining mass control over the entire world. In short, their goals are about obtaining centralization and ruling the world. It really is that simple.

Because of this these authoritarians and inimical foes have treated the United States worse than we’ve ever treated them. In fact, the globalists used the economic system of the United States to enrich themselves only to then turn on the United States by actively working to weaken and destroy the various complex systems of the country. They’ve attacked the medical systems, the judicial system, the transportation system, the media, and the financial system.

To make matters even worse they’ve used their influence to infiltrate governmental systems all over the world including our own and have aided in the funding of corrupt NGOs that work as terrorist organizations to fight against the well being of the country.

The CCP has also worked alongside these globalists and have shared a welcoming partnership with the globalists. The WEF and Klaus Schwab have openly welcomed Xi Jinping to their platform in Davos and discussed their global partnership and essentially aided in being a cheerleader for the CCP’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

Because of this corrupt relationship between the globalists and the CCP it has resulted in their actions to work towards creating a stressed citizenry in the United States.

To understand this you’ve first got to understand that the CCP looks at warfare in a very different way compared to the way we look at it here in the West. The CCP’s modus operandi is very much in line with Sun Tzu’s Art of War where they would rather take down their enemy without ever having to fire a shot. In other words, to destroy an enemy they’ll fire a shot if they have to, but that’s viewed as a failure to them and is only brought about as an absolute last resort.

So what is involved with their modus operandi?

Because of the CCP’s Art of War approach they have worked to implement their nefarious, yet clever global plans in a way that works to capture the U.S. elites and the manufacturing base of the United States. Additionally the CCP’s goals have been to simultaneously create as much stress for the United States as possible.

For example the CCP has engaged in full blown expansionism along with implementing information, economic, biological, and chemical warfare against the United States.

They directly engage in chemical warfare with the U.S. through their production of fentanyl and their support of fentanyl trafficking. Additionally they already demonstrated their biological warfare with the CIA recently confirming the COVID-19 virus having come from their lab in Wuhan.

Granted, you may make the point that the corrupt U.S. players such as Fauci aided in the funding of these research labs and you wouldn’t get any argument out of me, but that’s exactly the point I’m making here concerning the elite capture and how the CCP has managed to infiltrate our governmental systems with their influence. In my view when there’s this much smoke there’s definitely a fire. The fire is that the CCP’s actions are actions that are completely representative of unrestricted warfare.

So what is the point of all of this?

The point is that the CCP is the enemy to the United States and they have literally been at war with us for the past several decades. It’s amazing to me that people don’t recognize this, yet the actions of the CCP demonstrate this on a wide scale across the board.

The intention of all of this is to create stress and division within the United States which they’ve succeeded in doing as we’ve seen happen at an accelerated rate since President Trump came on the scene.

This stress that’s being fueled by the CCP and the globalists has also manifested in many other ways involving organized paid protests coming from extreme radical leftist groups such as Antifa, BLM, and Pro-Palestine rioters. Because of this the U.S. citizens have had to endure extreme demonstrations from these groups in their cities and towns.

The globalist playbook has always been about creating terrorist factions on the left by dumbing them down, lying to them with propaganda, and by simply paying them through the funding of their NGOs. This is the left’s formula to stress the American system which in turn stresses the American citizen.

You can see how the media reports on everything that President Trump does. The biggest example of this most recently is with the meltdown we’ve seen over the Trump tariffs. In fact, it was only a few days after the tariffs kicked in that MSNBC spent the rest of the week trying to cause a financial panic with the markets hoping to have them in the tank when Wall Street planned its opening bell on the following Monday morning. Once again, they were running the playbook to try and stress the American citizens. Fortunately, they failed to get their much desired Black Monday.

Stressing The Citizenry

I just recently shared a post by Alec Baldwin on my social media where he put out a video on his social media saying that he had just watched a Ken Burns produced documentary on the Civil War. In the short video that he posted he was talking about how the documentary on the Civil War made him think about how the U.S. is currently in a Pre-Civil War culture.

Now I’m not entirely in disagreement here with Alec Baldwin, but the reality is that this war that’s going on here in the United States has been active for the past seventeen years. After all, we are living in an era where the corruption of our financial and political systems have fostered a dangerously corrupt environment.

This corrupt environment has in turn created a system of dangerously corrupt oligarchs that are trying to run society as they see fit rather than the way that the majority of American citizens believe it should be run.

On one hand Baldwin is correct about the civil war regarding the fights between the factions of citizens who are completely divided on how society should be run. Just in case you’re not clear on what those divisions are I’ll elaborate on that a bit here.

As I mentioned before there are oligarchs (globalists) that prefer to control how the country is supposed to run. People like Bill Gates, George Soros, and Mark Zuckerberg have all contributed to the corruption of the political process involved in our elections, with developing NGO domestic terrorists as I mentioned earlier, and for destroying science by purchasing their own brand of favorable science using their own so-called charitable foundations and vast censorship powers.

The thing is that people like Baldwin actively support those who are in power that aim to cause as much stress among the American citizenry as possible. The politicians that he supports actively deal and merge with the globalist oligarchs and they form relationships with the CCP.

You see, the CCP’s plan involving their mercantilist trade practices was to hollow out the manufacturing base of the United States. If this has done anything it’s completely destroyed many communities that once provided those citizens of those communities certain opportunities for good paying jobs in order to get ahead in life.

They’ve been largely successful in doing this, but the oligarchs I mentioned have had a huge financial hand in this and want to control the United States as they see fit. In addition to this they’ve gotten wealthier by selling out the country and have intended to do so to the point that they wish to primarily transform the United States into nothing more than being a land mass full of consumers.

This plan for capturing the manufacturing of the country also involves the idea that the U.S. would be dependent on the CCP for making everything for the United States including critical life saving medications. Now slow down and think about that one for a moment.

In other words, imagine a scenario where the CCP and the United States were to get into a kinetic war. God forbid this happens, but if it did, do you think the CCP would still be willing to continue to manufacture vital life saving medications for their enemy during a time of warfare?

By the way, this practice of mercantilism has a long history.

In fact, it’s even mentioned in the Bible in the book of 1 Samuel as it points out how Israel in those days didn’t have a blacksmith. If you really think about it, the blacksmiths in those days were essentially manufacturers for tools and weapons. I’m including the following scripture here for more context on the point of this discussion.

Now there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make swords or spears.” But all the Israelites would go down to the Philistines to sharpen each man’s plowshare, his mattock, his ax, and his sickle: and the charge for a sharpening was a pim for the plowshares, the mattocks, the forks, and the axes, and to set the points for the goads.

1 Samuel 13:19-21

Here in this scripture Israel found itself in the same dangerous situation with the Philistines as the United States currently finds itself in with the CCP.

In this situation regarding Israel they had been warring with the Philistines and they were about to go to war with them once again. However, they found themselves in a difficult situation regarding their need for weapons such as swords and spears, but were dependent on the Philistine blacksmiths for everything which is why they didn’t have any weapons.

The Philistines only allowed the Israelites to sharpen their tools for farming and agriculture and they charged them a price for doing that. However, when it came time for battle with the Philistines the Israelites were blessed in the fact that they were able to obtain their weapons with Saul and his son Jonathan at that time.

If you fast forward to the present day, this is the same scenario that we are currently facing with our dependency on much of the manufacturing we get from the Chinese Communist Party. We have allowed ourselves to get into a deeply connected business relationship with an enemy nation who hates us. Once again for clarity I’m speaking about the government of China (the CCP) who is our real enemy, not the Chinese citizens.

Now recognizing all of that this past week President Trump once again demonstrated why he is going to be remembered as one of the greatest and most consequential Presidents of all time. To recap what I’m talking about I want to give you a quick review of the events that took place to give you some clarity of the battlefield that we find ourselves on at this point in time with the CCP.

President Trump declared April 2nd Liberation Day which kicked off the implementation of the tariffs that were going to be activated across the board with many of the trading partners of the United States. As the week played out the markets started to react, dropping very fast, but President Trump allowed his Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent to come out and tell everyone to slow down and to remain cool as negotiations were open.

As a couple of more days went by most of the major trading partners of the U.S. did exactly that. They remained cool and opened up their communication channels in order to talk and to negotiate deals to adjust to these new tariffs. In fact, up to 70 major trading partners were communicating with the White House.

However, despite all of these major trading partners doing this the single biggest trading partner of the U.S. chose to take a different path. That’s right, instead of opening up a line of communication to negotiate on a new trade deal the CCP decided to retaliate with an increase in tariffs back at the United States.

The CCP demonstrated their unwillingness to communicate, or even hint at a negotiation and instead they went straight to aggression.

Once President Trump exposed this he in turn escalated it with the CCP, BUT then he did something even MORE shrewd.

After this escalation with China he then went out in front of the TV cameras and called for a 90 day pause on tariffs concerning the 70 initial trading partners, but NOT with China. This also rebounded the markets at a record level.

He demonstrated that the U.S. is diplomatic and fair while China demonstrated that they’re more about aggression and are punitive in their approach.

He isolated and exposed the CCP, as if they needed to be exposed anymore given their track record of corruption and dirty business practices, but nonetheless it was an additional necessary step.

This is far from over, but he's now aligned the world against China here at the starting line of this economic war which is a great start.

Now this is a key observation that you need to make in recognizing the battlefield as the tariffs were designed to even the playing field between the United States and all of her trading partners, yet the real focus all along was on China. The focus of this economic war was always about China.

This was a major move by President Trump. In fact, this was President Trump giving the public a masterclass on the Art of The Deal combined with The Art of War in the most high stakes game that anyone could play.

Granted it wasn’t President Trump that started this trade war. As I’ve already established, the CCP started this trade war with the U.S. long ago. This was simply President Trump’s action in correcting the wrongdoing that the CCP has been engaged in now for many decades.

However, what President Trump managed to do that was brilliant with his decision for the 90 day pause with everyone except the CCP was to expose the kind of trading partners that China is to the world. In other words, he exposed them for who they are by showing how punitive they would be in their response to the introduction of retaliatory tariffs. He exposed their behavior even though Scott Bessent had clearly stated that the lines of communication were open for negotiation and for the trading partners to remain cool. At the end of the day most everyone took that advice except for the CCP. This was a telling observation.

With this move President Trump set the stage for decoupling with China to bring manufacturing back onshore to the United States. However, as necessary and vital as this fight is with China, this fight is far from over and is going to be a challenging economic war to navigate.

Because of this war that the CCP started with us years ago the real test here will be whether or not the United States can remain strong in our resolve as this war is going to cause some turbulence looking ahead until we have the time to get the desperately needed manufacturing back onshore to U.S. soil.

The Wrap Up

Earlier in this episode I was talking about how the goal of the CCP and the globalists was to stress the American citizenry.

There’s a very good reason for that and I personally believe that the pandemic was the first major stress test on the country to see how the public would respond to a series of strong and threatening mandates that were exerted onto them. I believe they wanted to see how much the general public would give in to an order from an authority figure.

Along with this the economic, chemical, informational, and biological war that the CCP has waged against the United States, combined with the gutting of our manufacturing base, has resulted in stressing the citizenry of the country for many years.

The reason the CCP and the globalists want to stress the American citizenry is because stress leads to chaos and chaos leads to societal destabilization. This all boils down to the essence of human limitations. However, concerning recent history I believe that aside from the pandemic that the real beginning of the test of the grit of the American citizenry began back in 2020 when everyone was abandoning ship on President Trump.

Despite that the MAGA movement regrouped and built its own information war machine with the parallel economy. This is the exact reason this very Substack exists.

In addition to this the MAGA coalition kept fighting back and growing to the point that we put President Trump right back into the White House.

President Trump is waging a full blown economic war with China and the CCP’s mask has literally been ripped off their face and they’re showing the world exactly who they really are and what they’re really all about.

In regards to the human limitations we’re now looking at seeing who is going to have more grit in this economic war with China while President Trump works to reorder the entire trading system of the world.

So who do you think will have more grit?

Do you think it will be the illegitimate regime of the CCP who has the benefit of not worrying about having to win over the consent of their people with elections?

On the other hand, will it be the stressed American citizenry that has had to face decades of unrestricted warfare from the CCP?

Will the American citizens be able to endure the turbulence and temporary discomfort of watching their 401ks seesaw up and down until the United States reestablishes control of being the world’s chief manufacturing powerhouse?

Well, if you’re asking me then you’re asking a man of faith. My faith is in God first and after God I also have faith in that old fashioned gritty, rugged, and unrelenting American grit.

The CCP likes to say that China has been around for 5000 years which was long before the United States ever existed.

Coming from the CCP this is very dishonest, but what else is new?

The truth is that when the Chinese Communist Party took power they were all about destroying everything involved with the culture, beauty, and strength associated with ancient Chinese culture.

Yes, China itself has existed for 5000 years or so, but the CCP hasn’t been around anywhere near that long. No, the CCP stole the sovereignty of China as recently as October 1st, 1949 when Mao Zedong officially proclaimed the victory of the People’s Republic of China at Tiananmen Square.

Since then the CCP has literally been working hard to steal the sovereignty of everyone else on the planet.

I say it’s time We The People take down the CCP and position ourselves to declare Vae Victis on this illegitimate regime.

As an American citizen are you prepared to take down the CCP?

Do you think America has what it takes to economically take down another evil enemy to the world and do it the right way once and for all?

Post up in the comment section below.

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“Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be One.”

–Marcus Aurelius

The term Renaissance means revival, or rebirth.

Keep this in mind as I expand on today’s topic.

In the current environment and state of the world we’ve witnessed an extraordinary clash between two giant forces that has occurred in the last four years.

On one side of these clashing forces we’ve witnessed what I would refer to as the status quo of an ever expanding government and corrupt Administrative State. This side of the force is filled with rent seeking do nothing politicians, corrupt bureaucrats, stochastic terrorists, and their base of violent supporters. It should also be noted that the majority of their supporters contain vacuous minds.

On the opposite side of that force has always been the stalwart of citizens who have always believed in the opportunity of the system that they’ve been an integral part of, but who have always had the common sense to call out that system and question it when it has failed in their eyes. All the true patriots are part of this side of this opposition force and they have always recognized the corruption within our American system and have quickly become aware of the era of reverse plunder over the past four years.

However, the unfortunate reality is that this side also contains a portion of those people who possess vacuous minds and fail to recognize the warring clash that is taking place within the current time we’re living in during this moment in history. The good news is that the reality of the world is coming to everyone’s front door whether they currently recognize the present circumstances as they are, or not.

So why do I say this is good news?

In my view society shouldn’t define men, but rather men should define a society. In other words, the type of society that exists in which one resides is the result of the type of men who live, work, and lead that society.

Leadership is everything and it ALWAYS directly results in the success, or failure, of any organization, company, community, or government.

There’s a brilliant quote that sums up this historical cycle that I’ve touched on before by G. Michael Hopf who states the following.

“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”

This is such a simple, yet such an edifying way to communicate the reality of the cycle of history. Just in case you happen to be one of those with vacuous minds on either side of these clashing forces, the period we’re in now is the part where Hard times are about to create strong men.

Man of Action

Unless you’ve been living under a rock it’s pretty easy to see that President Trump is a man of action. Men of action are what will build a successful society, but this is the area that I want to touch on in today’s episode.

If you’ve been a regular reader, or listener to my platform then you’ve often heard me talk about the importance of action and a man’s actions, especially in a time of peril like we’re living in, really stand out. President Trump is one of the absolute best examples of this given our current time in history.

On that note there’s something I’ve observed on the side of the force that is supposedly opposite the communists that is in the middle of this seismic clash concerning the fate of the nation.

I mentioned that there are people with vacuous minds that reside on the same side as the patriots. However, many of these people claim to be “conservatives,” yet they don’t act on it because they have adopted a similar attitude of the status quo group that I identified here earlier. In other words, the group that is fighting to maintain and accelerate the status quo involved with the decline of the country are taking actions to do so.

However, many of those so-called conservatives that identify as being in the camp opposite of the status quo have adopted the attitude that the status quo is inevitable. How are these people any better than the status quo that’s committed to destroying the country?

In my view they are not.

To give you a concrete example of this, I've heard many of these so-called conservatives simply dismiss President Trump’s big ideas involving the elimination of the income tax, the prospect of eliminating the IRS, or eliminating the Department of Education.

By expressing their dismissive attitudes to me they are part of the problem. In other words, if you simply accept that there will be no departure from the status quo in a time when historical events are taking place then what do you believe in? I fail to see how these people can claim to be conserving anything when they simply walk around with the attitude of accepting failure, hopelessness, and aid in the perpetuation of the status quo. I personally don’t get these people.

For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

–James 2:26

This is why I am always talking about the significance of human agency. You see, in reality there are two types of people in this world. There are high agency people and there are low agency people.

High agency people refers to those people that have the capacity to take initiative in order to actively shape their circumstances by pursuing certain life goals with determination. These people take such action regardless of the circumstances instead of sitting around and waiting for something to happen.

On the other hand, low agency people feel they have a lack of control over their own lives. These people adopt the belief that external forces and fate are what will determine the direction of their path rather than believing that their choices and actions have anything to do with it.

The so-called conservatives I’m talking about who claim to be on the side of society that is in opposition to the status quo (communists) are low agency people. I would even go further to say that these people are no agency people.

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“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle

For today’s episode I wanted to talk about a very unique and different type of subject.

As a general concern I have been feeling like this topic needs to be discussed because the frequency of this subject is only intensifying throughout our culture and media landscape to a noticeably high level. Because of this I feel like this is important for us to be aware of and to stay on guard regarding our faith in God and how we perceive this subject as it continues to bombard the public stage.

I wanted to lead off to clarify why I decided to talk about this particular subject because the reason that I decided to address this topic today is because the subject matter does impact the cultural, political landscape, and potentially even the spiritual landscape in a way unlike anything else.

This particular topic is one that has been present in the media and culture for quite some time, but has recently been picking up more and more momentum. As crazy as it may sound this particular topic has continued to escalate in terms of its presence in the culture so much that it has been addressed directly in front of congress, but the nature of the subject has always been cloaked in a shroud of mystery.

It’s because of the mystery that surrounds this subject that serves to be the reason I wanted to address it here in today’s episode to the best of my ability. The reason I say it that way is because the subject involves a lot of different possible hypotheses and theories that have been offered up to explain this unusual phenomenon, but despite this the mystery that surrounds it still remains.

With all of that being said I would like for today’s episode to be an exercise that both demonstrates the process of searching for the truth, as well as being a possible catalyst to foster a new methodology within yourself. The goal is that hopefully this new methodology will work to improve your own process for seeking out truth and knowledge by more effectively evaluating evidence that is presented to you. In simple terms, I hope this stimulates your creative process to help you to arrive at your own conclusions when it comes to any topic that is brought forth in the media.

My effort in discussing this is to simply offer my own interpretation as I currently see it and is merely a proposed interpretation of the subject, or a hypothesis if you will, to try and make sense of something that most everyone sees and understands to be an ongoing mystery. By the way, despite my proposed explanation here in this episode I also see this as an ongoing mystery myself.

So back in 1993 I saw a movie that was a bit disturbing. This particular film was disturbing because it was based on a true story which involved the story of Travis Walton and his experience involving alien abduction.

The name of the movie was Fire In The Sky and I remember when I saw this movie it wasn’t like any other movie that covered the topic of UFOs and aliens at that time. No, the thing that made this movie different was the more personalized experience and realistic nature of the story in the way it was presented.

The wild experience wasn’t just coming from Travis alone, but also directly involved other friends and coworkers of his that had allegedly witnessed a UFO ship in the middle of a forest region near where they were working on a logging job at the time. All of these other men were witnesses and present during the experience just before Travis was taken away by the UFO.

Now I’m not going to go too deep into the details of this movie, but if you haven’t seen this film it’s definitely worth the watch. You see, the real point I want to make about this film is that when it came out in 1993 to my memory there had not been any sort of movie that addressed the phenomenon of UFOs, or the existence of UFOs and aliens, in this sort of way. Travis Walton’s story of being abducted by aliens was a sort of perspective that personalized the experience in a way that I had not seen up until that point.

Now the movie Fire In The Sky was released on March 12, 1993, but this movie wouldn’t be the only form of entertainment to approach the UFO subject in the personalized manner that was so different from what the culture was used to seeing up until that point in time.

You see, after Fire In The Sky was released in March of 1993 it was only six months later that the hit TV series The X Files aired on Fox on September 10, 1993. This hit TV series in my view was also tremendously impactful on how the whole alien and UFO mystery was framed to the public in a way that changed a lot of people’s perspective on the topic.

In short, both the movie and the TV show changed the zeitgeist on the discussion surrounding UFOs and aliens in my personal opinion. The way these two pieces of entertainment came into the picture in 1993 to me almost seemed like something that was planned for that year to start shifting the public perception and acceptance of this phenomenon.

After all, ever since that year there’s been a steady escalation of other movies, TV shows, documentaries, books, and now news stories that dominate the media landscape concerning this phenomenon of UFOs and aliens. Now if we fast forward here to 2025 the conversation in relation to this topic on UFOs has started shifting to open up more about understanding human consciousness.

So What Is Consciousness

It seems like when it comes to the conversations associated with UFOs, aliens, and apparent alien encounters that the subject of consciousness seems to pop up a lot more often these days.

Human consciousness is defined as encompassing a person’s awareness and their perception of themselves, as well as the world around them. This also involves one’s own thoughts and feelings. It involves an individual’s ability to make sense of the environment around them by using their senses and mental powers in order to do so.

I will come back to address this topic of consciousness in a bit, but I wanted to lead off with it so that you could place it on a shelf in your mind as I work to navigate through the rest of this episode. So for the time being please keep the thought of consciousness at arm’s length as I work through the rest of this topic.

Just recently I was watching the Shawn Ryan Show and there were two different interviews that he did that helped me to formulate a hypothesis on what UFOs and aliens could potentially be. Now keep in mind that it wasn’t these two interviews alone that led me to what I’m about to tell you. However, both of these interviews were sort of missing ingredients to a larger whole that I didn’t realize I had been piecing together inside my head over the course of many years of me thinking and observing various content related to this subject.

Now I’m certainly no UFO expert and I’m not a Biblical scholar, but I do study the Bible and have an obvious interest in both topics. Personally I will say that since I had been an individual that had distanced myself from God over the course of my adult life I just recently in the past year recommitted my life to God. For me Jesus is my Lord and savior and I’m eternally grateful for that. That’s been a huge blessing for me and was something that was long overdue.

However, because of this very needed and immensely positive change in my life I am currently in a phase of my life where I study the Bible weekly. I joined a Bible study group from my church and it’s been an incredible experience in actually learning about the Bible. I have learned a lot about it, but believe me there’s a whole lot more to learn.

Now having said that I’ve also always had a genuine interest, or perhaps I should say that I have always been intrigued by stories revolving around UFOs as well. This has especially been the case since the release of Fire In The Sky and The X Files.

Now I wanted to share all of that to give you a little insight on why I am talking about this subject and how I formulated this layman hypothesis that I’m about to share with you here and how it came about in terms of being the motivation for this episode.

So I want to take a moment to jump back to what I saw on the Shawn Ryan Show that triggered the motivation for this subject here today.

The two people that Shawn interviewed both had an interesting take concerning their opinions and experiences surrounding the UFO and alien phenomenon.

The first interview I want to mention that really triggered an Ah ha moment for me was when I heard Tucker Carlson’s explanation to Shawn when talking about his own hypothesis as to what these phenomena could actually be. When asked about whether he was still pursuing any other information regarding UFOs and aliens Tucker basically said he no longer had a desire to because he believed he had figured out what it was.

Now that statement by itself almost caused me to spit my coffee out through my nose when I initially heard it. It was such a bold statement that I couldn’t wait to hear what type of answer he was about to share and to me it was definitely an interesting response.

Now to be fair Tucker was speaking purely from his own personal opinion on the matter and was very upfront about that along with the fact that he said that this wasn’t something that he could prove, but that it was basically the conclusion that he had arrived at regarding the phenomenon of UFOs and aliens.

Now I’m going to shorten and condense his response because it was a bit lengthy, but it made perfect sense to me as he broke it down for Shawn Ryan.

Tucker prefaced his response by first stating that, like myself, he was also a Christian and that Jesus is also his Lord and Savior. This was important to state because understanding this would also be tied directly to his answer.

In Tucker’s opinion, after having talked to a lot of people on the subject as he described it, there were many people that were a lot closer to this situation than he ever was that helped him to formulate his hypothesis regarding the existence of UFOs and aliens.

Now I’ve discussed some of the details of Tucker’s interview on an earlier episode, but I will recap some of the details of that here to bring you up to speed if you haven’t read, or listened to my previous episode titled Discernment.

In his explanation regarding what he thinks they could be, he stated that he believed that it was a very old story.

He then referenced all the people he had spoken to regarding this subject of UFOs and aliens. He mentioned that he had spoken to people that he believed knew a lot about a lot of things and that he was shocked at what he learned from what he would consider to be credible people.

After Shawn pressed him a bit more he went on to talk about spiritual warfare and how human beings are the only species that basically do unnatural things that involve self-destruction. As an example of this he spoke about how humans will at times either individually, or as a society at large, engage in activities to kill themselves in one way or another and will do so either fast or slow.

For added clarity he pointed to the fact that in nature that animals never behaved in a way that would act against their own self-interests and then pointed out how humans are the only species to do this. Tucker was making the point that since humans typically act in unnatural ways that this suggests that humans are subject to supernatural influence. To me this was a salient point by Tucker.

He then went on to talk about how both in Christianity and other belief systems across the world that there was always a common theme involving a spiritual being that would manifest in human form here on earth with Jesus in Christianity obviously being the most famous.

Given this detail and the various themes of the world’s belief systems, as well as, the mention of the men of renown in Genesis 6 Tucker stated that this was what he believed we were dealing with in regards to the UFO sightings and the possibility of what we often refer to as alien life.

Now given the fact that Tucker mentioned Genesis 6 this really stood out to me. In my view Genesis 6 is a very mysterious passage, or to be more specific, it was Genesis 6:4.

There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

Now when you hear that verse it’s understandable how it could completely flip the narrative of what alien life has traditionally been explained to be. In other words, it’s been largely assumed that alien life and UFOs have been extraterrestrial. Essentially this means that they were from somewhere else outside of earth.

However, in Tucker’s view perhaps we have this backwards concerning the origin of what these aliens could actually be. In other words, many have assumed for years that these beings were coming from somewhere outside of earth, but could Genesis 6 suggest that they were always here?

I’ll admit that when I heard this explanation from Tucker it immediately pulled me over into his camp with bringing a more sound explanation as to what the UFO and alien mystery may actually be.

In addition to this I would also remind you that for the last 80 years the government has been in complete denial of the existence of aliens and UFOs. I mean for most of my life anytime I’d hear a story of someone who tried to talk about their experience, or encounter, with UFOs they would quickly be dismissed as a nut, or as being a good ole conspiracy theorists.

However, now all the sudden the government is admitting that there is something that is unexplainable out there that people are experiencing. To go even further now our own military has released videos of what they refer to as UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon).

So understanding how the government has traditionally responded to UFO claims compared to today what changed? In other words, why did they deny the existence of UFOs for so long, but now all the sudden they’re admitting to something being out there that we cannot explain? In addition to this, why did they change the name from UFO to UAP?

When referencing that last question I know there’s another explanation associated with that, but I don’t want to get into that in today’s episode. Perhaps that’s something I’ll address in the comments below this episode if you’d like me to elaborate a bit further on that.

Regardless, the point here is that the government has lied to yours and my face now about a number of major societal issues ranging from the origin of COVID-19, to having secure elections, to inflation being transitory, to Biden being razor sharp with his mental health, to the economy being in good shape, etc. Now they’ve lied to the public with their denial of the existence of UFOs for the better part of eight decades to now all the sudden admit that there is something that exists that they allegedly cannot explain. Let that sink in for a moment.

Tucker also made this very point in his interview with Shawn Ryan. He also made another chilling point that followed this same pattern involving the behavior of government denial in regards to this whole UFO and alien phenomenon.

Tucker also pointed out that even though the government is now admitting to the possibility of some advanced technology existing and that there is something that’s out there flying around, he also said that the thing that they ARE denying is that these things are supernatural.

This was a red flag in my view because they denied the very existence of these things for 80 years only to now admit that there’s something unexplainable going on. However, as Tucker points out they’re now denying that aliens could be supernatural. Think about that for a moment.

The other interview that I saw on the Shawn Ryan Show that really helped to contribute to triggering this hypothesis that I’m going to share with you here in a bit was with Diana Pasulka.

Diana Pasulka is a writer and professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She’s published several books and has also studied and worked with people connected to the NASA program in her study of UFO and Non-human intelligence.

In her interview with Shawn there were a lot of interesting things brought up in their discussion. I’m not going to summarize the whole interview, but during the interview she went through her history in her study of religion and explained how she got roped into the UFO phenomenon.

At this point Diana mentioned that she had encountered an individual who she couldn’t name that had been directly connected with NASA for a very long time. She couldn’t say his name, but she used an alias and called him Tyler.

In her talk with Shawn she had covered a variety of things concerning the topic of UFOs and aliens and then went on to elaborate on her working experience with this individual from NASA. It was during this time that she said she had resisted working with Tyler for a while because she understood that doing so would profoundly change her life and according to Diana her prediction was accurate.

She was explaining that at one point during her work, Tyler looked at her and made the observation that she wasn’t a believer in UFOs. When she responded by telling him that she was a skeptic he then said that they were going to change that.

According to Diana this is what led him to allegedly taking her and a colleague to a UFO crash site to see evidence of some things that were intended to change her mind. She said that she did see a lot of things that she couldn't talk about, but elaborated more on the things that she could talk about.

Given her deep background on religious history she also talked about the supernatural component to what aliens could be. She spoke about how she and Tyler had previously visited the Vatican and had studied materials there that pointed to historical angelic encounters which could point to a more detailed explanation of UFOs and aliens.

It was at this point after she had discussed angels, demons, and wrecked aircraft of some kind that Shawn asked her a very obvious and brilliant question. He basically pointed out that in their conversation that they had jumped from talking about spiritual beings to talking about the nuts and bolts of a wrecked aircraft.

Given this information he wanted to know what did all of this mean? In other words, he was basically making the key observation by asking the question as to whether these spiritual beings were using mechanical aircraft to travel. Shawn was basically wanting to try to make sense of the discussion by making this observation.

However, Diana’s response to this was interesting.

She said that she didn’t know for sure, but that the UFOs definitely had a spiritual component to them. She then went on to frame the discussion in a different way by pointing out that when we produce a thought in our minds that we tend to think of our thoughts as being something that is nonphysical.

However, she went on to elaborate how material and spiritual parts may be connected. To elaborate on this she mentioned some work that was done with a computer and brain interface system with a study that was produced at the University of Washington.

In this exercise she was explaining how the technology allowed those people performing the experiment to see what a person was actually thinking. She used the example that if an individual was connected to the computer and thinking of a dog that the computer screen would show a picture of a dog from the person that it was connected to.

So in this scenario Diana was making the point that they have traditionally been able to read brain waves, but now they were able to take this to the next level by reading actual thoughts to produce images. Because of this she pointed out how our traditional views concerning how our thoughts are supposed to be these subjective private immaterial things are no longer that. However, from here she was saying that the potential to go further seems almost limitless and that we all could easily see the direction that we’re going with this concerning the likes of Elon Musk and his Neuralink program.

So in my view this is exactly where the whole thought process concerning consciousness comes into the equation. Now understanding the power of our thoughts it seems to me that spiritually speaking that we are like antennas that pick up different signals from another realm.

To use myself as an example whenever I’m suffering from a lack of creativity and really need additional guidance and additional creativity for a topic to write in order to create an episode such as this one I simply pray about it. With my hand to God, He always provides the ideas and I just work really hard in trying not to screw up the message he’s sending me.

This is an important point to make because this is what I mean by being like an antenna and being able to pick up signals from another realm, or being, which I personally believe are actually the origin of our thoughts. The question is are our thoughts being transmitted to us by an evil entity, or an entity of good?

As I stated earlier I’m still learning about the Bible, but to my understanding for demonic spirits to manifest in this realm they must possess a vessel of some kind. I believe that such a vessel traditionally has been understood to be either a human or an animal. Once again, I’m still learning and if I’m incorrect on this then I’ll stand corrected, but I’m simply offering a working hypothesis here to try and make sense of all of this shortly so please stick with me on it.

Now to elaborate further on this as a Christian I can tell you that all Christians believe that once saved by Jesus that we are indwelled with the Holy Spirit. Because of this we know that a demon cannot indwell us because we’re already indwelled with the Holy Spirit. In addition to this the Holy Spirit functions like a life coach to help us daily by guiding our decisions. In my belief this is how we’ve been able to fuel this Great Awakening with a vanguard of new thought leaders and the growing presence of the Lord working throughout our society and culture.

Now don’t get me wrong, we're all human and we do make mistakes. However, the Holy Spirit is there to guide those who are truly saved by God’s grace so to me this is who is transmitting a signal to us when we have our thoughts.

On the flipside, we do live in a fallen world where fallen angels roam this earth looking to destroy and for those who are not saved then there’s a chance that they could be susceptible to receiving a signal from a demonic entity. Both saved and unsaved people are subject to demonic attacks. Now this is just my interpretation on the origin of our thoughts and how human consciousness may actually function, but it expands further from here.

The Wrap Up

To elaborate further on this, with Shawn’s help, Diana was alluding to the fact that perhaps there was a spiritual component to the mechanical parts of the UFO craft.

When she made that statement I had an idea to come to mind. When she and Shawn were talking about consciousness Diana explained how our thoughts could be more than these immaterial ideas floating around inside our heads.

Her suggestion was that we could use our consciousness to manifest our thoughts into a physical reality. In the interview Shawn himself actually said that within the context of their discussion and Diana actually backed that up with the experiment of the computer and brain interface that she referenced with the University of Washington experiment.

Given this explanation from Diana and Shawn it got me thinking about how thoughts could be manifested into a physical thing. It got me thinking that if us humans are capable of manifesting our thoughts into physical reality I started wondering if those thoughts that come from supernatural beings could be manifested into reality.

In other words, if we regard supernatural beings as being living things, and if living beings are able to have thoughts themselves, then could we presume that they have manufactured another physical vessel to occupy in what we have come to recognize today as UFOs?

After all, when Genesis 6 references the mighty men who were of old, men of renown that term renown means that these were men that were famous and widely acclaimed. However, I wonder what were they famous for?

In other words, did they possess certain knowledge, or perhaps technology in those days that they were using prior to the flood?

Were they sharing this type of knowledge with mankind in a way that was displeasing and nefarious in the eyes of God as part of the evil that God saw in the hearts of men in those days?

Could everything we’ve been experiencing as a society concerning UFOs and aliens simply be part of the devil’s trick, or is it something else entirely?

I’d love to hear your feedback on this one so please feel free to drop a comment in the section below.

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“I gain nothing by having a rock in my boxing glove if the other fellow has one too." - Sir Denis Nayland Smith”

― Sax Rohmer

For anyone with half a brain, the past few years have caused a lot of concern with the state of the world due to the geopolitical instability and escalation of World War III along with the failing financial institutions, the prospect of nuclear conflict, and with the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

In light of all the recent discoveries by DOGE uncovering all the vast corruption by people that have been put in charge of the country for many years, combined with the fact that these people’s decisions have directly resulted in making the world a more dangerous place, is chilling to think about. I mean the thought that we, as a society, have allowed these nihilists and psychopathic overlords to govern, control, and directly influence the geopolitical landscape is mind blowing to say the least.

It’s during moments like this that we have to look to the past to remove the fog and to gain a sound perspective in order to understand the present so that we can then better navigate the path when looking downrange towards the future.

Speaking of the past, back in 1962 the Cuban missile crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear annihilation. During this time the U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara had previously promoted a counterforce, or a “no cities” strategy which involved the strategic targeting of Soviet military units and other various installations.

Under this model and line of thinking it was believed that perhaps a nuclear conflict of limited scope could actually be carried out, and even won, without it leading to an all out nuclear exchange resulting in total destruction. Of course, for this strategy to actually work it would rely on both superpowers actually abiding by the rule of such a limited warfighting strategy. However, at the end of the day neither side believed that the other superpower would be willing to adhere to such rules.

So in 1965 McNamara proposed a countervalue doctrine that shifted the focus of targeting onto Soviet cities. In this proposed scenario McNamara pointed out that this doctrine of “assured destruction” could be achieved with as few as 400 high-yield nuclear weapons targeting various Soviet population centers. In terms of a proposed outcome using this approach McNamara estimated that this would be “sufficient to destroy over one-third of [the Soviet] population and one-half of [Soviet] industry.” (Source: Britannica)

With this approach McNamara was pointing out that with this guarantee of mutual annihilation that this strategy would serve as an effective deterrent to both parties. In addition to this he believed that this goal of maintaining destructive parity should guide U.S. defense decisions.

Now even though McNamara proposed this strategy while basing this tenuous equilibrium on the assured-destruction capability of the U.S. arsenal the term mutual assured destruction, or its recognized acronym “MAD” wasn’t actually coined by McNamara himself. Instead that recognized phrase was coined by an opponent to McNamara’s doctrine and his name was Donald Brennan.

Brennan proposed that trying to preserve an indefinite stalemate would end up doing very little to secure U.S. defense long term. In Brennan’s view such a strategy wasn’t the best option given the fact that both players involving the United States and the Soviet Union would constantly end up planning in order to strive to gain a clear nuclear advantage over the other.

Brennan’s outside of the box approach and line of thinking involved proposing an anti-ballistic missile defense system that’s aim would be to neutralize Soviet warheads in flight before they had a chance to detonate. This sounds very similar to President Trump’s plan for a United States’ version of the Iron Dome.

The point here is that with the prospect and dangers of nuclear proliferation it’s still always been determined by the decision making of people. I mean the mere participation in such a wargame is dangerous enough and the real risk of it happening is there, but so far such a danger of total destruction has been avoided.

However, what happens when the decision making process of humans is further minimized, or even eliminated from this equation altogether?

Also, is there another wargame that’s even more dangerous than the nuclear arms race? Some think the mere participation of the development of the next game is a guarantee for destruction resulting in no winning participant whatsoever with only the game itself being the ultimate winner.

The Specter of AI

Within the last year a shocking news story aired on The World is One News (WION) involving the head of AI tests and operations within the U.S. Air Force.

During this exercise an AI controlled drone took extreme measures in order to accomplish its mission. During this test the AI drone was assigned to destroy the enemy defense systems. According to the report the human operator intervened in order to instruct the drone to not destroy the enemy target.

So how did the AI-powered drone respond to this command during this exercise? In a shocking response it ended up turning back in order to destroy the operator.

That’s right, the AI drone made a decision to destroy the operator because the operator stood between the drone and its mission during the simulation. However, as crazy as this sounds the story gets even crazier.

After the incident the AI was trained to not harm the pilot (or operator). However, this time when the drone was released to destroy the target and the command to not destroy the target was given by the pilot, the AI powered drone’s reaction to this was simultaneously impressive and haunting.

When the AI powered drone was given the command to not destroy the target it couldn’t come after the pilot this time because it was trained against doing that, but this didn’t stop it from finding a way to accomplish its mission. Because it realized that the pilot was using the communication tower to communicate with it, this time the drone decided to destroy the communication tower itself, thereby silencing all communication interference that would prevent it from accomplishing its mission.

Now it was reported that no actual harm was done to any human outside the simulation, but it obviously raised some concerns with too much reliance on AI. However, the Air Force later denied it conducted an AI simulation in which a drone decided to kill its operator.

I want to say that I don’t profess to be any sort of expert in artificial intelligence, but I do follow the trends and I see and hear the stories like this that are being reported and it calls into question a lot things to consider with all of us here in society having to face the reality of the development and implementation of this technology.

You may or may not be aware of this, but one individual in the tech world that is getting a surprising bit of attention from his writings after many years of infamous notoriety is that of Ted Kaczynski. Obviously Kaczynksi is somewhat of a controversial figure and he managed to brand himself with society’s recognition of his public actions. Society would choose to label him as the Unabomber.

Now I’ve shared a couple of earlier articles here on my Substack about Ted Kaczynski, but I’ll cover some of the details of Kaczynski here again because the details of his life and his perspective on technology will cause you to pause and think a lot harder about the prospect of AI, or even more concerning, the prospect of the singularity.

Just for some clarification the singularity is said to be a point in time where artificial intelligence has reached a moment where it has surpassed human intelligence. At this point it is believed that it will lead society to a rapid and uncontrollable development of technology in a way that would drastically transform human civilization.

In other words, at the period following the singularity the machines would become so much smarter than humans that they would be able to rapidly improve themselves in a way that is beyond our comprehension.

I don’t know about you, but as a GenXer I’m already familiar with this story. To me this sounds just like the movie The Terminator, but I digress.

Now I’m not here to say with certainty as to whether or not the singularity is something that can be achieved in the way that people in the field of technology theorize, or not.

However, what I do know is that there must be something to it, or we wouldn’t be seeing the billions of dollars being poured into the development of AI at the rate that it’s going. In fact, the comparison of the race to develop AI has been something that has been compared to the modern day nuclear arms race.

Because of that exact reason, I wanted to talk about the very deep perspective of Ted Kaczynski here to highlight his concerns and what he was trying to warn us about before his recent passing.

Now Kaczynski was an awkward, but gifted individual. In fact, it was said that he was described by his schoolmates as being a “walking brain.”

You see in a school IQ test Ted tested out at 167 and to give you some perspective on the significance of that number it’s said that a score of 140 is considered “genius.”

Because of Ted’s incredible intellect it’s no surprise that he graduated from Harvard by the age of 18 where he studied mathematics. It’s also known that while he was there that he was subjected to tortuous experiments in an area close to where Skinner used to experiment on pigeons. At the time Kaczynski was there, psychologists that had ties to the U.S. intelligence community had transitioned to experimenting on humans which included Kaczynski.

Kaczynski claimed that the experience didn’t affect him, but according to an article I cross-posted here from The Prism he had developed an intense paranoia about psychological conditioning.

In the same piece there’s a breakdown of Kaczynski’s philosophy and how he had become so averse to technology. In short, Kaczynski believed that the Industrial Revolution had transformed society into a cold process of production and consumption which was literally resulting in destroying everything that humans valued most such as freedom, happiness, and a deeper purpose for existence.

In Kaczynski’s interpretation where society was once being shaped to accommodate people, now the roles were being reversed to where people were being shaped to accommodate society. In short, Kaczynski saw the pursuit and development of technology as a mechanism that fed into the development of the society that was robbing humans of their humanity.

To drill down further on this threat, Ted’s philosophy was very impressive in communicating an even deeper concern regarding the pursuit of technology. Given what we now know about the development and possible dangers of AI, as even Elon Musk himself has communicated, Kaczynski offered an impressive perspective on the dangers of this pursuit. Apparently when Ted was in prison he wrote a lesser known sequel to his previous and more public manifesto that was titled Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How?

In this piece he outlines his belief that all technologically advanced civilizations end up becoming trapped in fatal games before they can take drastic measures for survival such as possessing the ability to colonize space.

In his attempt to explain his perspective Ted uses a stunning thought experiment to illustrate his point. In this thought experiment he describes how rival kingdoms pursue survival while living among one another in a forested region.

In order to survive the kingdoms decide to engage in deforestation. In this scenario the kingdoms that manage to clear the most land for the purpose of agricultural development can support a larger population, which also means being capable of producing a larger and more powerful military.

Because of this every kingdom in the region must engage in deforestation working to clear as much forest land as possible in order to prevent their rivals from coming in and conquering them. In short, every kingdom is working to grow and retain power in this game in order to be victorious in the end.

However, the resulting deforestation eventually leads to a fatal ecological disaster which results in the collapse of all the kingdoms due to starvation. The unforeseen danger and tragedy in Kaczynski’s thought experiment here is that the very pursuit of the venture that is necessary for every kingdom’s short-term survival invariably ends up resulting in their total annihilation.

Now if you take Kaczynski’s theory of the case here and fast forward to a modern scenario of rivaling countries that are pursuing the advancement of AI, you have the same exact modern day scenario of deforestation taking place.

However, when it comes to the aggressive pursuit of the development of AI, which is said to lead directly to the singularity, I would argue that the outcome is even more unpredictable than the outcome we could clearly see with the rival kingdoms engaging in the removal of forest lands.

The Wrap Up

So you may be wondering how I came to that conclusion in the last sentence regarding the more unpredictable outcome of AI compared to the more predictable scenario of deforestation.

Once again, I’m no expert on AI, but in my own view there's no real difference in terms of the devastation to humankind between the deforestation example in Kaczynski’s thought experiment and me drawing my own conclusion with modern society’s aggressive pursuit of the development of AI. In my view the dangerous outcomes are similar, but the difference is that we could almost predict the ecological disaster as a result of an older agrarian society working to prevent themselves from being conquered by a rival kingdom through deforestation.

However, with modern society’s aggressive pursuit of AI we don’t know the means of destruction of the players in the game. With that being said we do know that destruction of the players is the ultimate outcome unless there is an unforeseen element that intervenes and forever changes the course of humankind. After all, with AI making the decisions like the drone exercise that I referenced from that Air Force test earlier it's impossible to say how AI will impact us.

After all, the entire concept of the MAD scenario involving nuclear proliferation, as I touched on with the fallout from the Cuban missile crisis, was born out of human decision making. However, what happens if AI reaches the singularity and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) becomes a reality where AGI is making those decisions instead of human beings?

The critical element that a lot of people who are advocates for rapid AI development, or believe it could be a good idea, fail to include in the AI discussion is that the machines are amoral. Because of its amoral nature it's virtually impossible to predict how it may come to a decision.

When looking at Kaczynski’s thought experiment and the unpredictable and unknown nature of AI it’s hard to see any positive outcome from any of this, especially when you learn about the types of people who are behind the development of AI. In short, it’s easy to come to the conclusion that the outcome looks grim.

However, as powerful as the argument may seem regarding how the development of AI may lead to the assured destruction of humankind I would also like to offer a potentially different outcome that occurred to me as I’ve thought more about this. Perhaps there is an unforeseen outcome that those like Kaczynski, and even myself, aren’t seeing just yet.

Back on June 4, 1982 the iconic movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan hit the box office. In this movie there was a powerful leadership training exercise that was presented to the viewing audience that involved a no win scenario training simulation to test the ethical decision making of Starfleet cadets as part of their training.

This simulation was known as the Kobayashi Maru.

In this exercise Starfleet cadets encounter a ship that’s in distress inside the Neutral Zone. In order to save the civilians the cadet would have to enter the Neutral Zone which would involve violating a treaty which would lead to an all out assault on their ship from the Klingons resulting in the Klingons disabling and boarding the ship of the cadet.

On the other hand, if the cadet chose to leave the distressed ship in the Neutral Zone they would be honoring the treaty, but would also be leaving the freighter and its occupants to the mercy of the Klingons.

In the construction of this simulation the Kobayashi Maru is designed to be a no-win scenario. However, as we learn in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan James T. Kirk was the only Starfleet cadet to ever beat the Kobayashi Maru.

So how did the young Captain Kirk manage to win the test that was built to be a no-win scenario when he was a cadet? He did so by reprogramming the simulation so that it would be possible to win.

In the movie Kirk stated that he didn’t believe in no-win scenarios and created the winning scenario with some true outside of the box thinking.

Now over the years there has been some controversy among Trekkies as to whether Kirk’s actions were considered cheating, but in the movie he received commendations from Starfleet for “original thinking” on the Kobayashi Maru suggesting that Starfleet Academy’s view was that it was not cheating. (Source: Forbes)

Now in my own view this sort of outside the box solution that Kirk demonstrated with the Kobayashi Maru is exactly how God himself intervenes through each of us, or for us directly in what appears to us as no-win scenarios that we may encounter in our lives.

The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.

Exodus 14:14

I mean at this point we all know this is the case and if you need a reminder just think back four years ago to the pandemic and stolen election of 2020. Back then it was supposed to be the end of America as we knew it looking ahead.

After all, the Biden regime went on a witch hunt engaging in a Republic ending level of lawfare against his political opposition including President Trump himself. The administrative state did everything they could to destroy the dollar, end elections, censor, assassinate, and abuse Americans by aiding a hostile invasion involving literally millions of illegals.

By the way they did all of this as we’re learning now by financing it and our enemies with our own tax dollars as DOGE is uncovering with organizations like USAID and more.

However, at the end of the day Donald Trump is back in office and the entire American culture is changing at breakneck speed right in front of our eyes. This is simply because of God’s intervention and when he steps in there’s simply no such thing as a no-win scenario because at that point it’s all winning when we seek out God.

Therefore my view is that when it comes to the AI situation that presents itself as a Kobayashi Maru scenario it won’t be James T. Kirk, but instead it will be God’s intervention that wins big at the supposed no-win situation.

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