Truth is Beauty, and Sic Pacem.
Your Dollars and Attention is Your Shield and Armor.
Welcome to this week's information insurgency and good morning to everyone who rejects crony capitalism and the paper money scam that advances it!
We here at Sovereign Sunday will continue to be long bitcoin, private property and free markets versus the establishment kleptocracy (and the woke communism virus they birthed) that is pervasive now.
At heart, we are desperately in need of an information insurgency. The last 20 years has seen a giant increase in the controlled flow of centralized information that is either purposely misleading, patently false or deliberately shrouded in a manner to obfuscate the truth. That drip of fake news from centralized, corporate institutions has exploded in a gusher the last five years.
TRUTH IS BEAUTY by Marco Cochrane
If we care about a productive, just and beneficial society, then the truth still has value. You cannot diagnose a problem if you can't pinpoint it or talk about it, and the fog of corruption we see in the corporate media is designed to inhibit that very approach. The latest iterations of propagandistic messaging and destabilizing false narratives are everywhere.
Just as the false narrative purposely spread this summer of police hunting and killing unarmed black men by the thousands was patently false, it nevertheless accomplished it's desired goal - destabilizing a nation, fomenting riots, hurting the President's chances for re-election, raising billions for Marxist groups, and further radicalizing a nation of youth who have grown up hearing the disempowering message that their success depends entirely on the amends and generosity of white America.
What about 'kids in cages'? During the Trump era, these were Nazi concentration camps. Hysteric inducing articles were everywhere. AOC even held a photoshopped shoot of an empty fence to make it look like she was crying at the border over a cage.
Under Biden, the number of 'kids in cages' has more than tripled. But rather than media hysterics of kids in cages, they are now warmly referred to as migrant facilities for children.
The much reported 'epidemic of violence’ against women in Great Britain is another example. And please don't misunderstand me, a single killing of an unarmed person by police, or child in a cage, or woman murdered is one too many; however we aren't taking about the moral opprobrium of such acts but the factual statistics of the above to counter their use in driving a false narrative that has even more corrosive effects in the short and long term.
The real stats behind the surging epidemic of violence against women? The increase in violent crime is almost certainly due to the Covid lockdown and is borne almost entirely by men. Numbers of female victims have remained static for the last several years while crimes against men were up sharply this year. Again, reality versus what you read in the news.
The latest cynical attempt to foment racial strife and destabilize society is in response to the tragic mass murder of eight people in Atlanta that likely had nothing to do with white supremacy or anti-Asian racism. It seems much more likely a case of a deranged, incel lashing out at the victims he knew. In response to this false narrative, we've seen a coordinated 'Stop Asian Hate' campaign that is designed almost entirely to attack 'whiteness' and the patriarchy', rather than defend or bring justice to Asian-Americans.
And please let’s remember - the people loudly chanting, 'Stop Asian Hate' are the same people that have spent the last decade openly lashing out at Asians for their 'whiteness' and lobbying for policies that directly, negatively impacted Asian-American educational and employment opportunities. Their racism isn't just cosmetic, it's actually destroying Asian kids' academic opportunities.
These woke grifters just dismantled many of SF's and NY’s outstanding magnet high schools, mostly because there were too many Asians admitted.
As James Lindsay noted, “We're done with racism from the supposed "anti-racists," who are the worst racists this country has had to deal with in over 50 years. They've been given this pass for far too long.”
This destabilization of the American mind and moral compass now has begotten, as it must, societal destabilization. Whether it is the War on Christianity and people of faith, the elevation of racial distrust or the flooding a purposely porous border with an overwhelming amount of unassimilable foreigners, this serves the Cloward-Piven goal of overloading the system to cause a total breakdown of society, necessitating replacement of it with a socialist or totalitarian one.
The more people awaken and realize that nearly everything they read in the corrupted, corporate media is either manipulated, shrouded or outright false, the better off we'll be as a society.
The death of honest journalism is one of those metastatic cancers that doesn't always make itself visible immediately, but in the long run is always fatal to a society.
Consider for a moment what the lack of a free press would have meant at other times in history.
Watergate, WMD in Iraq, the Pentagon Papers, MK Ultra, Nazi eugenics experiments, Tuskegee, the failure to identify the origins of Sars Cov2 and hold the perpetrators responsible....the list goes on and on.
It means those in power can literally do anything they want when corruption and falsehoods go unchecked. There's zero chance for a productive or just society under that framework.
So what can we do about it? Treat journalists like tobacco executives (they're worse). Publicly shame them and starve them of your hard earned money. Cancel subscriptions to the New York Times, Washington Post and any other of the establishment mouthpieces that have made a career on spreading fake news, or acting as the think tank and chief propaganda arm of woke totalitarianism. Your dollars and attention are your shield and armor.
Seek out minority reports that have proven themselves reliable and incorruptible over the years. Reporters like Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald and others.
People spend money on art for it's representation of truth and beauty, do the same for honest information brokers and creators.
Instead of being a patron of the Arts, Be a Patron of the Truth. Spend your money on Truth Seekers and Truthsayers you align with ideologically. Support dissidents and information insurgents. If we let the principle of objective truth be murdered on a cross of Wokeness, then the future will continue down a path of despair. Between DeepFakes, AR and an all-seeing all-powerful technocracy, they will literally be able to present untrue 'information' directly in front of our 'lying eyes' (or downloaded direct onto our brains in a chipped transhumanist future).
Truth still matters. Don't let them tell you different.
The available information molds the narrative, and the narrative controls the policy and public's response.
By altering and manipulating that information, the establishment and it's water-carrying handfmaidends in the press have been able to convince the majority of people to adopt principles and politicians that are diametrically opposed to their well being.
Sow fear, distrust, worry, and the delegation of personal autonomy to a force they deem capable of saving or fixing things (the government) who can only make things worse. Wash rinse repeat.
As I've written repeatedly, Bitcoin has always been the best weapon in our liberty arsenal. It’s both the canary in the coal mine warning us and the 3rd Way.
At heart, it's our Escape Velocity. Can we come up with an alternative system that is more just, more respectful of liberty, freedom, privacy, autonomy and the pursuit of happiness than the current kleptocracy? It's the brightest glimmer of hope I've seen and the only viable option currently in existence to give a majority of the world's population the potential to escape monetary slavery.
Control the money, control the population. Control the media, control the narrative and zeitgeist.
If we check out, starve the beast, align with like minded communities and continue to sow the seeds of growth of a new coalition and political / financial system based on decentralization,voluntaryism and innovation, we win in the end.
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Biden in in Bad Shape
Just as a corrupt, corporate press engenders mid and long-term devastating consequences, so does having a President who is clearly suffering from advanced aging.
Presidents Reagan and Trump didn't have to fight wars because they firmly established a philosophy of peace through strength. There were no mixed signals or feckless flailing. Adversaries knew if they got out of line they'd get thumped, or as the kids like to say, FAFO.
Whether intentionally or not, Biden and his administration are sending the exact opposite message. His performance climbing up the stairs to Air Force One yesterday set the internet on fire with priceless memes. I mean, I've see drunks fall down stairs before, but I'm quite sure I've never seen someone fall UP an entire flight of stairs.
This wasn't an isolated incident either. Foreign governments and our fellow Americans have noted that he hasn’t given a single press conference, will absolutely never give a State of the Union, and became the first President in history that got caught using a green screen, a terrifying proposition itself in an era of fake news and Deepfakes.
At a certain point soon, it’s not inconceivable that after Biden’s VERY BAD NO GOOD WEEK, that sometime soon every public event will be a hologram or pre-recorded appearance.
Ultimately, I'd like nothing more than to NEVER see another war fought by this country on foreign soil, or to lose a single American life overseas. That hope becomes less realistic, not more when we project an image of weakness instead of strength.
The point of this isn't to highlight that this is unprecedented in a democracy, and that the country has never had such a feckless and mentally out of it president...it’s that weakness has consequences. In meetings this week, both the Russians and Chinese publicly mocked and humiliated our diplomatic corps and President. Bad actors and bullies are encouraged when the schoolyard sheepdog is in a wheelchair or absent. Look for continued flare ups across the globe as American strength and competence continue to diminish, and position yourself and your portfolio accordingly.
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What I’m Reading…
*King Randall raising the minds of young black men. I remember what I was doing at 21…it wasn’t this. Honor and respect.
*HIGHLY RECOMMEND: The information insurgency is spreading. Bitcoin is at the vanguard.
*The Information Age is Over. Enter the Age of Curation...ergo Sovereign Sunday.
*Google’s plan to disrupt higher education.
*DeSantis continues to be a legend.
*And here’s a primer to tuck away on CRT if (when) you need it.
*The Supply Chain Disruptions caused by Covid and the Selling out of American Manufacturing will continue to reverberate for some time. Also see Huntsman's Twitter Card below for a good lesson.
*Quick article on Quieting Your Mind. I do a training on this for corporations that is much more exhaustive and effective, but this has a few good tips worth trying.
*The Virus Continues to Spread....and this is a big domino. Grateful I was able to help some up and coming Alpha Sovereigns get an edge and front run these billionaires.
*I might need a pair of these after leg day.
*Whether it's food, vaccines or gender dysphoria...sterilization and depopulation has always been the goal of the Gates Malthusians.
Bad day for NYT: Project Veritas wins a motion that will allow them to depose the NyT editors for several false news stories they wrote in response to a Project Veritas expose.
*The brilliant Arthur Hayes on Defi.
*Palantir vs Google on Privacy, Innovation and the Future of Mankind. This one is long, heavy, and fascinating.
*Wonderful flashback to a simpler era, and kudos to some of my NYC sovereigns for hitting a steakhouse this past week that bucked the NYC 'cower at home' order to remain open during 2020.
What I’m Listening to…
There’s a snippet below in Twitter octagon of this one. If you like, here’s the full.
Andy Frisella on Ditch the Victim Mentality.
What I’m Watching…
Comedian Andrew Schultz and Pomp: Long but funny and informative. Watch the first 15 min for a good primer on Bitcoin and Money.
*Murray Stahl & James Davolos | Why Inflation Hedging Is Critical (Hedgeye Investing Summit). Finance heavy, but a conerning sign when even tradiitonal finance dudes start fretting about our massively understated inflation.
While we’re on the topic of creep, this is the best version ever. Prince didn't do a lot of covers, but when he did....oh my.
Books I’m Reading….
Amazon keep's taking this one down or making it unsearchable. It's a devastating look at the election by Patrick Byrne, one of the smartest, most connected guys out there.
And a must read classic for those that believe in the fairy tale that is MMT
Economics in One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt
Twitter Octagon
Parting Words…
“The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything either as a blessing or a curse.” - Don Juan, Tales of Power
I never lose. I either win, or I learn. -Nelson Mandela and John Maxwell.
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