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Basel Committee calls for 'prudential' rules for crypto as they pose risks to banks
Image source:"Central bank cryptocurrencies" (BIS) The Bank for International Settlements, has published a discussion paper, saying that the growth of cryptocurrencies and related services could pose risks to financial stability and banks, and therefore, a “conservative prudential” treatment to cryptocurrency exposures should be applied.
“If banks are authorized, and decide, to acquire crypto-assets or provide related services, the Committee is of the view that they should apply a conservative prudential treatment to such exposures, especially for high-risk crypto-assets,” it said.
Related: They’ve Got a Secret - by Michael Hirsh (NYTimes, 2013).
Related: Comment by Carroll Quigley about the BIS. -
Celine's Laws - by Hagbard Celine (via)
1. National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity.
2. Accurate communication is possible only in a non-punishing situation. (related, via)
3. An honest politician is a national calamity.
Related, from an interview with Robert Anton Wilson:
"Communication is possible only between equals. That’s the SNAFU Principle. I also call it Wilson’s Law. I hope that eventually it will get incorporated into sociology books. I really believe it. This came to me when I was working for Playboy, and realized that everything that was wrong with Playboy was due to the hierarchy there. I’d like to say that I predicted the decline and fall of the Hefner Empire, but I didn’t. I could see that communication was all screwed up because of the hierarchy, and then I thought of every other corporation I ever worked for, and armies and governments, and I realized that this is the situation in the authoritarian family, too. This is what women’s liberation is all about. Another big influence on the SNAFU Principle was Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses. There’s a great sentence in there that goes roughly, „To the sheriff, Lucas was just another nigger and both the sheriff and Lucas knew it; but only one of them knew that to Lucas the sheriff was a redneck without any reason for pride in his forbears nor hope for it in his descendents.“ And that’s what hierarchy does: it creates a situation where the person on the top doesn’t know what the person on the bottom thinks."
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Quotes from Carroll Quigley's (1910 - 1977) book "Tragedy and Hope" (1966):
"It is clear that the West believes in diversity rather than in uniformity, in pluralism rather than in monism or dualism, in inclusion rather than exclusion, in liberty rather than in authority, in truth rather than in power, in conversion rather than in annihilation, in the individual rather than in the organization, in reconciliation rather than in triumph, in heterogeneity rather than in homogeneity, in relativism rather than in absolutes, and in approximations rather than in final answers." - Pg. 1227 of Tragedy and Hope
Impaled Classical Sculptures by Artist Bai Yiluo "The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole.
This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences.
The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world’s central banks which were themselves private corporations.
Each central bank, in the hands of men like Montagu Norman of the Bank of England, Benjamin Strong of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, Charles Rist of the Bank of France, and Hjalmar Schacht of the Reichsbank, sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world." - Pg. 324 of Tragedy and Hope
Impaled Classical Sculptures by Artist Bai Yiluo “There does exist an international Anglophile network which we may identify as the Round Table Groups. I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for twenty years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960’s, to examine its papers and secret records. I have no aversion to it or to most of its aims and have, for much of my life, been close to it and to many of its instruments. I have objected to a few of its policies but in general my chief difference of opinion is that it wishes to remain unknown, and I believe its role in history is significant enough to be known.” - Pg. 950 of Tragedy and Hope
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Interesting read about Donald O. Hebb (1904 - 1985) - famous Canadian psychologist known for his theory of Hebbian learning, the father of neuropsychology and neural networks - and his involvement with CIA interrogation techniques, including sensory deprivation:
2008 BBC reenactment of Donald Hebb's experiments "In classified experiments, Donald Hebb found that he could induce a state akin to drug-induced hallucinations and psychosis in just 48 hours – without drugs, hypnosis, or electric shock. Instead, for two days student volunteers at McGill University simply sat in a comfortable cubicle deprived of sensory stimulation by goggles, gloves, and earmuffs. “It scared the hell out of us,” Hebb said later, “to see how completely dependent the mind is on a close connection with the ordinary sensory environment, and how disorganizing to be cut off from that support.”"
Related:
- What Extreme Isolation Does to Your Mind - by Motherjones
- CIA’s psychological torture is rooted in experiments at Dachau - by The Alliance For Human Research Protection
- Alfred Mccoy, Hebb, the CIA and Torture - by Richard E. Brown (Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 2007)
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Excerpt from "The Illuminati Papers" - by Robert Anton Wilson (1977)
#Cryptocracy #Comedy #Politics #Military #Magic #Psychedelic #fnord
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Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology (thedrive)
"The technology is on the engineering benches today. But most Americans and most members of Congress have not had time to really look deeply at what is going on here. But I’ve had the benefit of 33 years of studying and becoming friends with these scientists. This technology can be built today with technology that is not developmental to deliver any human being from any place on planet Earth to any other place in less than an hour." - Retired US Airforce Lt. Gen. Steven L. Kwast
Barrett, Rogers consider declassifying secretive space programs (defensenews)
"Secretary of the U.S. Air Force Barbara Barrett says that declassifying intelligence is key to combating the growing threat to the the nation's space capabilities, and the sooner the better.
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Defense policy deal creates Space Force, sidesteps border wall controversy (defensenews)
"Lawmakers involved in annual defense authorization negotiations finalized a sweeping deal late Monday that creates a new Space Force among other policies, but it dropped contentious border wall restrictions and several other provisions favored by progressives."
Navy files for patent on room-temperature superconductor (phys.org)
"A scientist working for the U.S. Navy has filed for a patent on a room-temperature superconductor, representing a potential paradigm shift in energy transmission and computer systems."
Other recent developments:
- DOD and HUD $21 Trillion Missing Money: Report & Supporting Documentation
- 2019 was banner year for credible UFO sightings
- NASA Astronaut Shockingly Hints at Aliens in Tweet About 'Life Forms'
- US Navy 'covered up' new technology by saying USS Nimitz UFO was unidentified
- A military plane with 38 people on board has disappeared en route to Antarctica, Chile's air force says.
- DOD and HUD $21 Trillion Missing Money: Report & Supporting Documentation
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Illustration of Amazon's cloud operations - from an Interview with Stephen E Arnold of DarkCyber by Robert David Steele (13min video). #Comment: As usual, too little resolution on the most interesting question: What is the philosophy and agenda, once all data is collected?
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"The U.S. Intelligence Community Before & After 9/11". Truly very "Artificial" Intelligence..
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Fascinating research essays by Anthony Judge:
From ECHELON to NOLEHCE - enabling a strategic conversion to a faith-based global brain (2007)
#KM #Complexity #Philosophy #Magic #Politics #Economics #Cryptocracy #Military
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Contemporary Art: Collection of Reality Tunnel Management Techniques
Links:
- https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2018/apr/18/fusion-center-em/
- https://patents.google.com/patent/US7629918
- https://patents.google.com/patent/US5507291A/en
- https://patents.google.com/patent/US5159703A/en
- https://patents.google.com/patent/US6506148B2/en
- https://patents.google.com/patent/US3951134A/en
- https://patents.google.com/patent/US5017143A/en
- https://patents.google.com/patent/US6052336A/en
- https://patents.google.com/patent/US5539705A/en
- https://patents.google.com/patent/US7629918B2/en
- https://patents.google.com/patent/US6488617B1/en
- https://patents.google.com/patent/US6239705B1/en
- https://patents.google.com/patent/US6091994A/en
- https://patents.google.com/patent/US6238333B1/en
- https://patents.google.com/patent/US4877027A/en
- https://patents.google.com/patent/US3837331/en
- https://patents.google.com/patent/US8311616/en
- https://patents.google.com/patent/US7350522/en
- https://patents.google.com/patent/US4940058A/en
- https://patents.google.com/patent/US5800481A/en
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Rodr%C3%ADguez_Delgado
“The secrecy involved in the development of the electromagnetic mind-altering technology reflects the tremendous power that is inherent in it. To put it bluntly, whoever controls this technology can control the minds of men – all men.” - Nexus Magazine (1998)
Or as described by Timothy Leary in 1977:
“Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers. Those who control signals control humanity.” - Robert Anton Wilson, Prometheus Rising (1983)
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Sentient World Simulation - Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulations (SEAS) - "a synthetic mirror of the real world with automated continuous calibration with respect to current real-world information".
The DoD is developing a parallel to Planet Earth, with billions of individual “nodes” to reflect every man, woman, and child this side of the dividing line between reality and AR. Called the Sentient World Simulation (SWS), it will be a “synthetic mirror of the real world with automated continuous calibration with respect to current real-world information”, according to a concept paper for the project.
“SWS provides an environment for testing Psychological Operations (PSYOP),” the paper reads, so that military leaders can “develop and test multiple courses of action to anticipate and shape behaviors of adversaries, neutrals, and partners.” SWS also replicates financial institutions, utilities, media outlets, and street corner shops. By applying theories of economics and human psychology, its developers believe they can predict how individuals and mobs will respond to various stressors.
Links:
- Sentient world: war games on the grandest scale. Sim Strife - By Mark Baard (2007, theregister)
- Sentient World Simulation (SWS): A Continuously Running Model of the Real World. A Concept Paper for Comments - Government POC - by Tony Cerri (JFCOM J9)
- Lessons from a Large-Scale Deployment of SEAS in Afghanistan - by Rashmi Chaturvedi, President Simulex Inc
- Alok R. Chaturvedi - Professor of Information Systems and the founder and the Director of SEAS Laboratory
- Executing the modeling and simulation strategy making simulation systems of systems a reality (2007) - by James W. Hollenbach (The Defense Modeling and Simulation Office) and William L. Alexander (SAIC)
- It is Alive – Sentient World Simulation: A Continuously Running Model of the Real World
- Synthetic psychological environment (wikipedia)
- Cyber Node Report - by Frank Catanzaro, Chair Cyber Futures at WFUNA Millennium Project (2007)
- Predictive policing (wikipedia)
- Considering All the Strategic Options - Whilst ignoring alternatives and disclaiming cognitive protectionism - Produced on the occasion of the NATO Summit (Strasbourg, April 2009)
- "Path Leading To Failure" - video interview with William Binney & Dr. Robert Duncan (formerly NSA)
- Former Defense Secratary Donald Rumself (83) Marches Into New Territory: Videogames (2016)
- Comprehensive Analysis of Synthetic Monitoring Market 2019 | Industry Overview
- Google's "Selfish ledger"
A clip from "Eagle Eye" (2008)
A clip from "Colossus - The Forbin Project" (1970)
#Military #VR #Bots #BCI #InfoSec #Economics #Politics #Cryptocracy
- Sentient world: war games on the grandest scale. Sim Strife - By Mark Baard (2007, theregister)
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Gordon J. F. MacDonald (1929 – 2002) was a prominent American geophysicist and environmental scientist, operating near the US political power centers of the time. A man of many interests, he was notably an central figure of early #ClimateChange research, in lockstep with weather modification and geoengineering research.
Nations where weather modification was practiced 1946-1973 – from US Senate “Weather Modification” Report; 1978, page 407. Assorted related links:
- Origins of the ‘Climate Change’ Threat to National Security – and the Geoengineering Response.)
- Timeline History of Weather Modification, Weather Warfare, Climate Modification, and Geoengineering.
- The Thin Green Line: How & Why Geo-Engineering is the ‘Invisible Hand’ of Climate Change
- The CIA Is Shuttering a Secretive Climate Research Program (2015)
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Big Brother is watching: Chinese city with 2.6m cameras is world's most heavily surveilled (guardian)
Chongqing has 1 camera per 6 residents, but “Singapore has plans to install 100,000 facial-recognition cameras on lampposts, Chicago police have asked for 30,000 more, and Moscow intends to have 174,000 by the end of this year.”
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Laetus in Praesens: https://www.laetusinpraesens.org/
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Impossible Knowledge. Conspiracy Theories, Power, and Truth - By Todor Hristov
"Conspiracy theorists claim impossible knowledge, such as knowledge of the doings of a secret world government. Yet they accept this impossible knowledge as truth. In effect, conspiracy theories detach truth from knowledge.
Knowledge without power is powerless. And the impossible knowledge claimed by conspiracy theorists is rigorously excluded from the regimes of truth and power – that is not even wrong. Yet conspiratorial knowledge is potent enough to be studied by researchers and recognized as a risk by experts and authorities.
Therefore, in order to understand conspiracy theories, we need to think of truth beyond knowledge and power. That is impossible for any scientific discipline because it takes for granted that truth comes from knowledge and that truth is powerful enough to destroy the legitimacy of any authority that would dare to conceal or manipulate it. Since science is unable to make sense of conspiracy theories, it treats conspiracy theorists as individuals who fail to make sense, and it explains their persistent nonsense by some cognitive, behavioral, or social dysfunction.
Fortunately, critical theory has developed tools able to conceive of truth beyond knowledge and power, and hence to make sense of conspiracy theories. This book organizes them into a toolbox which will enable students and researchers to analyze conspiracy theories as practices of the self geared at self-empowerment, a sort of political self-help."
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"Anything not specifically forbidden is mandatory. Which means, if it's possible, it's probable." - Merlin
"Doubt is not a very agreeable state, but certainly is a ridiculous one" - Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)
#Comment: Assorted high weirdness, which in all its colorful "out-there-ness" is by and large more fun and sane than most of the current mainstream post-humanist AI cyborg science extremism. Valid or not, it is certainly thought provoking "post-materialist age" entertainment - enjoy!
- DARK OPS - Clandestine Explorations in Chapel Perilous - by Iona Miller
- Techno Telepathy - ESP INDUCTION through Self-Hypnosis - by Richard Alan Miller
- Quantum Bioholography - A Review of the Field - by Richard Alan Miller
- Quantum Bioholography - by Iona Miller, Richard A. Miller, Burt Webb
- Holonomic brain theory - Wikipedia
- Quantum biology - Wikipedia
- Embryonic Holography - by Richard Alan Miller
- Tao of Resilience - by Peggy Southwick & Iona Miller
- Stealth was His Name & Mission - by Iona Miller
- The Art of Inquiry - by Iona Miller
- The fog of lore: ancestral memories? do the math & get over it - By Iona Miller
- Mind control for dummies - Iona Miller
- Synthetic telepathy and the early mind wars - by Richard Alan Miller
- Schumann's Resonances & Human Psychobiology - by Iona Miller & Richard Alan Miller
- EVP - Remote Viewing the Future - by Iona Miller
- Chaos as the universal solvent - by Iona Miller
- The diamond body: a solid state mandala - by Richard and Iona Miller (1981)
- Holographic Archetypes - DNA - by Iona Miller
- Collected writing of E. Stanton Maxey, M.D.
- A Review of Psi Activity in the DNA - by Bradley Y. Bartholomew
- How To Build A Psychotronic Generator
- The Global Consciousness Project - Meaningful Correlations in Random Data
- Manifesto of the Matrix City Ra and The law of the Temple RA - by Dr. Irene Caesar.
- Laser Polarized Bioholography as a Diffraction of Geometric Optics with Chromosomes.
- Spiritual Implications of Parapsychology - interview with Charles T. Tart.
- https://augtellez.wordpress.com/
- Paranoia Magazine
CONSPIRITUALITY - Compassionate Intelligence Activity.
An essay by Iona Miller (original text here)SpyCoSomatix: People's actions are strongly influenced by their knowledge and beliefs. They can be manipulated by corrupting their knowledge base, warping historical truth, or ignoring it completely and spinning compelling new myths of consensus reality. This is mind control aimed at crowd control and exploitation.
"To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle." -- George Orwell
CHAOS & CONTROL
Uncertainty is the zeitgeist of our day. We are anxious and unsure. We face potentially catastrophic climatic and environmental change, incurable viruses, pandemics, bioterrorism, endless wars, urban violence, soil and water depletion. Rampant population growth, genetically-engineered food and organisms, and hazardous waste raise profound doubts about Earth's ability to sustain life.
Many species are already going extinct at the rate of 5000 per year. We wonder about own own and our grandchildren's futures, health, and well-being. Mourning the loss of our freedoms, we feel the impact as loss of our cherished dreams for a better future.
Society itself, changes in unpredictable ways, including through human frailty or perversity, such as crime and war. Political figures, in particular have the ability to affect great masses of people with their policies and dictates. How we mediate and ameliorate these societal disruptions is a major part of our personal stories, and the story of humanity, in general.
We did not anticipate this transition from the arrogant certainty of the rational enlightenment promise of techno-utopia to disquieting uncertainty. We have realized only empty promises of solutions to life's fundamental problems, such as world health, food, and peace. Despite all our knowledge we have not been able to control or dominate our environment successfully. Knowledge is not wisdom, or even understanding. We need to recognize our innate spirituality. By changing our internal image of reality, we can change the world. There is a deeper current in life and it is embodied in Mystery-- the unpredictable, the unknown, and perhaps unknowable.
THE BIG PICTURE
The Long War is an Intelligence War. We can all participate in more intelligent intelligence. It doesn't belong exclusively to the apostles of the cult of intelligence. Personally and collectively, Intelligence involves information collection and analysis. It helps us determine The Big Picture by synthesizing the forces at play in the world today so we can make prudent decisions about the future of our security.
ANTICIPATORY THINKING
The parallel tracks of roughly seven forces are running the world: Governments, Military, Law Enforcement, Business, Academia, NGO and Media, and Civil (Class, Religion, Labor). Each has its own worldview and agenda which sets the priorities in its point of view, from plutocrats to technocrats and bureaucrats. Many have failed so utterly they have become Roadmaps to Nowhere. We have to step beyond the bounds of elite greed and failed ecology to a less narcissistic, more mature citizenship.
OVERT INTELLIGENCE
Technology, markets, resources and policy interact dynamically. All prediction markets agree that nano-neuro-bio-info products will shape the future. These forces and ideas then filter into manufacturing futures, politics, business, academics, the media, science and military where they take root (or not) in our minds and become part of our cultural mandate. They acquire traction and velocity as people jump on the bandwagon. Despite the techno-utopianism, the economic keyword for 2008 is "debt."
GOD IS AN AMERICAN
The war for your mind has moved from the outside to inside the mindbody of each and every one of us. Propaganda controls the message but the message itself is control. We really have been programmed from the cradle to the grave to worship GOD -- Gold, Oil, & Drugs. We worship and seek solace outside ourselves when the answer is within in our hearts and spirits.
RUNNING ON EMPTY
It's no accident we feel empty and can't get enough. These are the addictions of our culture. We are running on empty, overextended in energy and credit, and militarily. We have traded social safety nets for unsustainable imperialism. We have sheepishly accepted the curtailment of our former freedoms out of fear, or by believing the fear-mongers who create public opinion. Our nation has hostage syndrome. We've been sold a bill of goods and the balance is coming due.
CONSPIRITUALITY
In the Age of Intelligence, modern IO is not about the old messages of psychological operations (PSYOPS), but rather about empowering billions of people with both information tools and access to truthful information. It is about education, not manipulation. It is about sharing, not secrecy. Reality is up for grabs. The present is revealed only after acquiring the entire past. Then the constituents fall into place in a holistic context. The imaginary future influences its creation, from toxic visions like The Matrix to false techno-utopianism. Computers were supposed to save us work, but we wind up working more for less. But, the one who dies with the biggest toys is not the winner. We are living on borrowed time.
THE LONG WAR
The power struggle of The Great Game set up an ongoing quiet war between Britain and Russia for Afghanistan. And after the Soviet defeat, the US was sucked into the continuing quagmire of events involving Iraq, Iran [Persia], India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and the post-Soviet republics of Central Asia described in Zbigniew Brzezinski's book, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives. This neoconservative strategy has failed utterly as a foreign policy.
INFOTEL
Intelligence in The Age of information is a vision of the convergence of computers, media, and telecommunications - hacking and tracking. It means the ultra data-glut of the net-centric war of information. But where do we go from here? Do you live a white-picket fence / big screen TV fantasy in a militarily-defined world with optimistic delusions of victory? What comes after the fetishizing of information technology and looming economic meltdown of the Greenback?
Instead of the greater free time for creativity imagined in the Cold War era, people have come to work harder and for longer hours for less net gain. But, Voltaire said that, "Man is free the instant he wants to be."
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Quote from the Eulogy of William C. Patrick III, Expert on Germ Warfare and bioweaponeer for the U.S. Army during the Cold War:
"Mr. Patrick expressed no regrets about his arms work, saying he was comfortable with memories of killing animals and finding new ways to produce death. He said it was all part of doing his duty for his country in perilous times."
#Comment: I wonder if his personality-type was related at all to the likes of Shirō Ishii (a microbiologist and army medical officer who served as the director of Unit 731, a biological warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese Army) or Josef Mengele. Biological warfare seems to require and attract very special types of "doctors".
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Assorted links about the collapsing cryptocracy and its comedic dreams of a cybernetic planned economy, based on full spectrum dominance & greed:
Jim Simons, Bob Mercer Even Better At Printing Money Than We Thought
"From 1988 to 2018, Medallion returned 66.1% annually before fees. Net of fees, the gains were 39.1%. Est. trading profits during those 30y amounted to $104.5 billion."
How Jim Simons built the world's most lucrative black box"Robert Mercer is a preternaturally calm and measured scientist, brilliantly rigorous and evidence-based in all things market-related. Yet outside of mathematics, he believes the wildest unfounded conspiracy theories."
Will America's Billionaires Start a Second Civil War?"The aftermath of Mercer's political activities resulted in an uprising within the firm from David Magerman, one of the creators of the hedge fund's trading system."
"Each time, forces of massive accumulated or inherited wealth have nearly succeeded in taking full control of our nation, replacing a democracy, where the will of the people is accomplished through their elected representatives, with a form of government where most government functions reinforce the power, wealth and control of the morbidly rich. Because the oligarch’s campaign is now international, a third world war is not impossible, particularly as China allies itself with the oligarch-controlled nations against those that are still nearly functioning democracies."
The Undying Octopus: FBI and the PROMIS affair: Part1 (Part 2)
"The PROMIS scandal lives on according to a recent FBI FOIA response. The affair centered around the government’s theft of the PROMIS software, a forerunner to the infamous PRISM, and the far-reaching fallout which allegedly included everything from fraud, to covert operations and surveillance, to Danny Casolaro’s mysterious death, and remains the subject of an investigation decades after the Department of Justice declared the matter officially closed."
Military Defeat as a Financial Collapse Trigger
"The function of the US military is to intimidate other countries into letting the US buy whatever it wants by printing US dollars as needed, essentially robbing the rest of the world at gunpoint. Once their ability to intimidate the world into submission is gone so will be their ability to endlessly fleece the planet. And once that ability is gone all that will remain of the “richest country in the world” is a pile of worthless paper."
Book: Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil - by Michael C. Ruppert (2004)
And some loosely related fun high weirdness:
- The last circle - by Carol Marshall (1994)
- The Octopus - by David Guyatt (2001)
- Take a slide down the labyrinthine rabbithole of CIA wizard, Michael J. Riconosciuto - by Iona Miller (2009)
"Understanding “the Octopus” is like the old story of the blind men trying to comprehend their first encounter with an elephant: the parts you touch can appear to be completely different and totally unrelated."
Book: The American Deep State: Big Money, Big Oil, and the Attack on U.S. Democracy - by Peter Dale Scott (201)
"This provocative book makes a compelling case for a hidden “deep state” that influences and often opposes official U.S. policies. Prominent political analyst Peter Dale Scott begins by tracing America’s increasing militarization, restrictions on constitutional rights, and income disparity since World War II."
- The last circle - by Carol Marshall (1994)
