"Destiny’s powerful hand has made the bed of my future, and it’s up to me to lie in it. I am destined to be a superhero, to right wrongs, and pound two-fisted justice into the hearts of evil-doers everywhere. You don’t fight destiny. No sir! And you don’t eat crackers in the bed of your future, or you get all… scratchy. Hey, I’m narrating here!" — The Tick, 1994
As a freelance writer and editor, I work on a lot of high-level international documents. Though they are freely available on the interwebs, very few of us actual humans ever read them, and with good reason. If I didn’t get paid to do it, I would rather pull my own teeth with tweezers.
These reports, roadmaps, frameworks, and studies clearly lay out the machinery of global governance. They go into excruciating detail on the legal and regulatory foundations for how governments blend with NGOs, blend with financial institutions, blend with “stakeholders” (how I detest that term). Pretty soon, it’s one big clockwork of doom; a metronome of mediocrity; a calendar of calamity!
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The Pendulum of Peril persistently pounding, propelling us toward the pit of perpetual pandemonium!
In some ways, I have a front-row seat for The End of the World as We Know It, and I feel fine…especially when the payment clears. It’s not that I want what’s coming, but I’m resigned to the complacency of humanity in its Mcteaguery.
For those who think they can vote their way out of it, sorry old chum, life ain’t a cabaret. That bulldozer of bondage coming at you isn’t going to stop on election night. That wheelbarrow of wishes has left the station, and we are Joseph Cotten thinking Alita Valli has escaped.
Nations? Borders? Governments? They’re alreayd gone. Everything else is just to keep you entertained while the final cogs of captivity are dropped into place.
Consider this passage from one of my recent projects:
"When the national government is perceived as too untrustworthy or high-risk by project lenders, the national government might be required to forego sovereign immunity and agree to binding international arbitration in a neutral jurisdiction in order for the project to secure financing."
Let’s take an example: Sistema de Interconexión Eléctrica de los Países de América Central (SIEPAC), which is associated with Mercado Eléctrico Regional (MER). The project is supported by various international organizations, such as the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and regional utilities, and is managed by Empresa Propietaria de la Red (EPR), the entity responsible for operating the SIEPAC transmission infrastructure.
I told you it was tedious.
So, note that none of the “entities” involved are governments. They are banks, NGOs and “regional authorities,” and they are all supranational. SIEPAC controls the flow of electricity to Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. This arrangement was sold to the local populations as enhancing energy security, efficiency, and reducing energy costs by actively trading surplus power on an open market.
Sounds like paradise, doesn’t it? Except for that bit about surrendering sovereignty and national control over energy supplies, of couse. But hey, who’s quibbling when the lights are on?
These power trading blocks are everywhere — Europe (e.g. Nord Pool, EPEX, OMIE), Africa (e.g. SAPP, WAPP, CAPP), South America (e.g. SINEA, MEI, BAPT), North America (e.g. ERCOT, NERC, PJM), and Asia (e.g. APG, CASA-1000, EMIEA). Slowly but surely, a global grid under a single non-national “authority” is being created. The key word is “harmozing”. The NGOs push through legislation that “harmonizes” with neighboring countries, so they can be linked together and synchronized.
It is all funded by global financial “entities” like World Bank, Asia Development Bank, International Monetary Fund, and so on. Just like when a bank holds the mortgage on your house, it can dictate the insurance you must have and what you can do to the property, and if you don’t pay they just yank it out from under you. Imagine being able to throw a switch and blank out an entire country for non-payment.
And this is just electricity.
The blockchain and trustless contracts are eliminating governments at all levels. You don’t need notaries or licenses. It’s all included and sits forever in the Greeat Ledger in the Cloud. You place an order and your digibux payment is put in a kind of escrow account. When both sides confirm the contract has been executed, the payment is released by whatever terms were programmed into it. If there’s a dispute, an AI “judge” reviews the case and passes judgement, which is final.
Want to have some fun? Go read ISO/IEC 7501-1 on machine-readable ID, or ISO/IEC 24760 on Identification Management, or how about ISO/IEC 19794-5 on Face Image Data. It’s already done, it’s just being phased in with children being born today, so as not to upset the crotchety geezers like me. If you are born today, your entire life record will follow you around like a bad smell until you are euthanized at the end of your productive life.
Have you heard your favorite candidate mention any of this? Has he/she/it discussed how to stop and unwind it? Have any of them warned of these coming changes? Has anyone offered you an “opt in-out”?
I didn’t think so.
Have you paid a carbon tax or climate change fee? They own the air. Have you had a free drink of water from a natural source that didn’t come through a pipe? They own the water. Do you grow your own vegetables and protein? They own the food. Have you paid taxes on your property? They own all of it. Were you coerced into taking vaccines? They own your body. Have you tried to buy or sell anything without some form of indentity document? They own your identity.
Sorry folks, it’s a done deal. The only way out is tearing it all down and starting over, and I know you like lights, A/C and internet access, because you’re here reading these words without sweating profusely.
By the year 2050, when I’m 90 years old and still grousing right here every Wednesday and Sunday at 7am/7pm, it will all be operational. There will be no nations, only “regional authorities”. There will be no privacy, just “social credit scores” (mine will likely be zero). There will be no private property, just “productive life leases”. If humans are still making babies the old fashioned way, the spawn will be whisked away as soon as they are crawling to be “prepared” for their “careers”.
It’s not science fiction, and it’s coming at us at “the speed of science”.
How far off the grid do you think you can get, when the minute you light a fire in the winter, and the antire satellite constellation will be sending alarms to Snuffy the Bureaucrat? Don’t fancy being a hermit? Good luck trying to stay in contact with anything but line-of-sight lasers.
What an idyllic life! No responsibilities. Just push your assigned buttons and pull your assigned levers at the assigned times, and you’ll have everything you need and nothing you want. No greed or jealousy, because everyone (except the Overlords) will have exactly the same stuff you do.
I can hardly wait.
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Your cultural homework of the day is the original Fahrenheit 451 (1966), based on the novel by Ray Bradbury, directed by the great François Truffaut, starringOskar Werner and Cyril Cusak (father of John and Joan). In an age of widespread censorship, this olden goldie speaks volumes.
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Kamala is a joke. Keir Starmtrooper and the entire set of ministers behind him are a joke - have you seen the slug they have put out as Foreign Minister? He is literally stupid - Google David Lammy, stupid and you'll see. Pustula von der liar is ridiculed - the western world is mocking their leaders which indicates they are not afraid and do not respect them. Bill Gates and George Soros and pretty much the whole of Hollywood are viewed with universal disgust. The so called Royal Family are losing relevance by the day. That's the first stage of the battle won - the people are awake. Even the old age pensioners in Britain are pissed (their energy right now is deep dark anger)! These measures being implemented by a relative handful of people are a desperate attempt to stay in control - but they can't because they've already let go of the reins - they gave us the Internet! Stay positive.
Well, my friend, you sound maudlin. So I feel a very strong inclination to write to you briefly about "the curious thing about the dog is the dog did not bark in the night."
You get paid to edit documents for some of the most disgusting entities on the planet, which is, as they say in the song, "nice work if you can get it; and you can get it if you try." With particular respect to the "Empresa Proprietaria de la Red" I have to ask if that translates as "the Red Queen" when you read it over. It has a kind of "through the looking glass" vibe, to me.
Please don't misunderstand me, I'm glad they send you money and that the payment clears through to you. I happen to know quite a bit about the extent of your courage, fortitude, and patience, what we used to sum up with the word "mettle" from our time back in the day pursuing the sovereignty of Texas and the Texians interested in sovereignty. Which, at the time, prosperity being the incentive for much complacency, weren't all that many persons.
But what of the dog, which neglected to bark? Well, I should like to encourage you to think about the persons who don't participate, who are not counted, and who don't play. You are, of course, correct about voting, which you would think would have gotten through to people. Turns out, it has.
The 2018 election included 125 million Americans who chose not to vote, although they were qualified and in many instances registered to do so. At the time, there were 326 million Americans at all, so that seems, to me, a big group opting out. In addition, there were at the time reported to be about 75 million persons under 18 and thus not qualified to vote, So around 61% of the population wasn't voting. I think that's a great fact because, as Emma Goldman once said, "If voting were going to change anything, they would make it illegal."
Another factor that I think matters is the non-filing public. Which also turns out to be quite large. It was reported, by the IRS commissioner, in hearings before congress, in 1998, to be 66 million then. And it has grown to over 120 million as of the last time I think the number was reported reliably (2019). Which is, I believe, one of the many reasons the people in power are feeling increasingly desperate to put their imprimatur on all these "whirled gooferment" systems. Because they truly believe that they own everything and everyone and they truly believe that nobody has any choice but to do as they are told. It's not true, you know it isn't true, and I think you should not be so terribly sad and sounding so depressed. Which is why I wrote my recent essay on "whirled gooferment doesn't exist" and why I am writing to you now.
You believe that the people who have power can coerce compliance. I do not. You believe as you have indicated in your current essay that no one has the will to do enough about it to change anything. I disagree.
Most importantly, you continue to abuse the word "government" which was properly defined in the declaration of independence in 1776 as involving the consent of the governed. That consent has been withdrawn. And while your essay suggests that it doesn't matter at all, I believe it matters a great deal. Because, to quote from the 1776 document again, "He has abdicated government, placed us out of his protection, and makes war on us." Which is now abundantly clear to everyone.
Finally, I don't believe the government wants people to know how many Americans have guns, nor how many we have. But I have done a lot of investigation into this topic. For one thing, the term "firearm" is a subset of guns. For another, the 3D printing industry has made it possible to produce guns without any way of anyone knowing how many there are. I believe that there are at least a billion guns, firearms, and projectile weapons in the USA owned by people who live in the homes of roughly 250 million Americans.
Yes, there are a lot of Fudds. There are a lot of "thin blue line" fools who think the police are their friends and would never enforce unjust laws. But there are a huge number of Americans who simply don't comply, and don't talk about it. We are that dog that, curiously, did not bark in the night.
A long time ago, there was a film based on the events orchestrated by FDR and Churchill on the 7th day of the 12th month of 1941. You will find that there is a dispute as to whether Isoroku Yamamato said various things, one of which is shown at the end of the film "Tora Tora Tora" and says, "I fear that we have awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve."
You aren't here, so you don't have access to "the pulse" of the country. I am, I do, and I will tell you that things are very combustible right now. People are very unhappy with recent events, and quite angry in many cases.
So be of good cheer. It really isn't the people who pay you the money to review their garbled text and straighten it out for them who have the power. They are poseurs. There is a just God who rules the affairs of mankind. God is very angry.
Kamala is a joke. Keir Starmtrooper and the entire set of ministers behind him are a joke - have you seen the slug they have put out as Foreign Minister? He is literally stupid - Google David Lammy, stupid and you'll see. Pustula von der liar is ridiculed - the western world is mocking their leaders which indicates they are not afraid and do not respect them. Bill Gates and George Soros and pretty much the whole of Hollywood are viewed with universal disgust. The so called Royal Family are losing relevance by the day. That's the first stage of the battle won - the people are awake. Even the old age pensioners in Britain are pissed (their energy right now is deep dark anger)! These measures being implemented by a relative handful of people are a desperate attempt to stay in control - but they can't because they've already let go of the reins - they gave us the Internet! Stay positive.
Well, my friend, you sound maudlin. So I feel a very strong inclination to write to you briefly about "the curious thing about the dog is the dog did not bark in the night."
You get paid to edit documents for some of the most disgusting entities on the planet, which is, as they say in the song, "nice work if you can get it; and you can get it if you try." With particular respect to the "Empresa Proprietaria de la Red" I have to ask if that translates as "the Red Queen" when you read it over. It has a kind of "through the looking glass" vibe, to me.
Please don't misunderstand me, I'm glad they send you money and that the payment clears through to you. I happen to know quite a bit about the extent of your courage, fortitude, and patience, what we used to sum up with the word "mettle" from our time back in the day pursuing the sovereignty of Texas and the Texians interested in sovereignty. Which, at the time, prosperity being the incentive for much complacency, weren't all that many persons.
But what of the dog, which neglected to bark? Well, I should like to encourage you to think about the persons who don't participate, who are not counted, and who don't play. You are, of course, correct about voting, which you would think would have gotten through to people. Turns out, it has.
The 2018 election included 125 million Americans who chose not to vote, although they were qualified and in many instances registered to do so. At the time, there were 326 million Americans at all, so that seems, to me, a big group opting out. In addition, there were at the time reported to be about 75 million persons under 18 and thus not qualified to vote, So around 61% of the population wasn't voting. I think that's a great fact because, as Emma Goldman once said, "If voting were going to change anything, they would make it illegal."
Another factor that I think matters is the non-filing public. Which also turns out to be quite large. It was reported, by the IRS commissioner, in hearings before congress, in 1998, to be 66 million then. And it has grown to over 120 million as of the last time I think the number was reported reliably (2019). Which is, I believe, one of the many reasons the people in power are feeling increasingly desperate to put their imprimatur on all these "whirled gooferment" systems. Because they truly believe that they own everything and everyone and they truly believe that nobody has any choice but to do as they are told. It's not true, you know it isn't true, and I think you should not be so terribly sad and sounding so depressed. Which is why I wrote my recent essay on "whirled gooferment doesn't exist" and why I am writing to you now.
You believe that the people who have power can coerce compliance. I do not. You believe as you have indicated in your current essay that no one has the will to do enough about it to change anything. I disagree.
Most importantly, you continue to abuse the word "government" which was properly defined in the declaration of independence in 1776 as involving the consent of the governed. That consent has been withdrawn. And while your essay suggests that it doesn't matter at all, I believe it matters a great deal. Because, to quote from the 1776 document again, "He has abdicated government, placed us out of his protection, and makes war on us." Which is now abundantly clear to everyone.
Finally, I don't believe the government wants people to know how many Americans have guns, nor how many we have. But I have done a lot of investigation into this topic. For one thing, the term "firearm" is a subset of guns. For another, the 3D printing industry has made it possible to produce guns without any way of anyone knowing how many there are. I believe that there are at least a billion guns, firearms, and projectile weapons in the USA owned by people who live in the homes of roughly 250 million Americans.
Yes, there are a lot of Fudds. There are a lot of "thin blue line" fools who think the police are their friends and would never enforce unjust laws. But there are a huge number of Americans who simply don't comply, and don't talk about it. We are that dog that, curiously, did not bark in the night.
A long time ago, there was a film based on the events orchestrated by FDR and Churchill on the 7th day of the 12th month of 1941. You will find that there is a dispute as to whether Isoroku Yamamato said various things, one of which is shown at the end of the film "Tora Tora Tora" and says, "I fear that we have awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve."
You aren't here, so you don't have access to "the pulse" of the country. I am, I do, and I will tell you that things are very combustible right now. People are very unhappy with recent events, and quite angry in many cases.
So be of good cheer. It really isn't the people who pay you the money to review their garbled text and straighten it out for them who have the power. They are poseurs. There is a just God who rules the affairs of mankind. God is very angry.