“Minorities” in this context refers to the elite vanguard of what Californian political writer Joel Kotkin has called the “Upstairs-Downstairs Coalition,” a voting bloc, he says, “that brings together the most destitute with the most privileged parts of our society.”

At the top of the top are a few thousand of the super-rich. At the bottom are a few thousand hardened fanatics, many of them professionals. These two super-minorities, working in tandem, currently control the destiny of America. Expertly manipulating the voters in the upstairs-downstairs coalition, they’re actively destroying everything we love and everything we need.

The minority occupying the top position in the upstairs-downstairs coalition are the plutocrats who run America. A 2017 analysis identified the top 0.01 percent (1 in 10,000 Americans) to have an average annual income of over $30 million. A 2019 Stanford study found the top 0.1 percent (1 in 1,000 Americans) control a total net worth equal to the entire cumulative net worth of the bottom 90 percent of Americans. At the pinnacle, however, are America’s billionaires, a scant 735 of them at last count.

This is a vanishingly small minority of people, roughly one in every half-million Americans. But their influence is decisive. Every year, these billionaires and the corporations they control disburse billions—often getting tax deductions for doing so—to maintain standing armies of activist groups that conduct lawfare, fund civil disobedience, run massive propaganda campaigns, engage in targeted “get-out-the-vote” activities, prop up financially dependent media properties, and produce “expert” studies with paid-for ideas.

The minorities at both ends of this up-down coalition are groups identifiable not by their ethnicity or ideology, but by their behavior. In every case, they constitute a minute fraction of the population, but in the name of compassion, equity, diversity, and environmentalism they are undermining and, unless stopped, will destroy America.

The Weaponization of Mental Illness

Michael Shellenberger, a Californian and former progressive activist, has become one of America’s most astute critics of the failed policies that are sowing social and economic chaos across the nation. In a series of recent Substack articles with self-explanatory titles, including “Infantilization Of The Apocalypse,” “The Quiet Desperation Of Woke Fanatics,” and “Narcissism In Climate & Woke Victim Movements,” referring to militant climate activists, he argues that “global elites are encouraging them, which is exceedingly dangerous and irresponsible.” He’s right.

Co-opting potentially violent sociopaths, or as Shellenberger puts it, “weaponizing mental illness,” has long been a tool of authoritarian regimes. In the USSR during the Cold War, during the German Nazi era, and in police states throughout the 20th century, recruiting thugs and turning them on their own people was a common tactic—as it is still in Communist China today. What’s happening in America is only slightly more nuanced, and highly effective.

To further explain who controls America’s current upstairs-downstairs coalition in a historical context, it is helpful to recognize the false dichotomy represented by the supposedly left-wing establishment Democrats and the supposedly right-wing establishment Republicans. “Establishment” is the key word here.

Gary Allen, in his 1971 book, None Dare Call It Conspiracy, blew up the traditional paradigm whereby the “Left” is communism and the “Right” is fascism. In what he suggested is a more accurate political spectrum, all forms of authoritarian government, communism, fascism, and socialism, are to one extreme, anarchy is to the other extreme, and in the center is a constitutional republic with limits on government power.

The distinction explains how a shared agenda could exist between outwardly antagonistic capitalists and socialists. Allen writes, “The seeming paradox of rich men promoting socialism becomes no paradox at all. Instead, it becomes the logical, even perfect tool of power-seeking megalomaniacs. Communism, or more accurately, socialism, is not a movement of the downtrodden masses, but of the economic elite.”

Pressure from Above, Pressure from Below

Allen describes the upstairs-downstairs coalition as “pressure from above, pressure from below,” writing, “Radical movements are never successful unless they attract big money and/or outside support . . .  the Left is controlled by its alleged enemy, the malefactors of great wealth.”

The hidden agenda is to sow chaos, triggering demands for more state control, and allowing governments and corporations to consolidate power and wealth further. This agenda is proceeding on schedule.

The public agenda, incessantly marketed as something to be desired, is to erase America as we know it, replacing it with what is enthusiastically portrayed as a transnational, transhuman utopia. According to this vision, every person on earth will have achieved “equity,” i.e., equal outcomes. At the same time, the footprint of human civilization will become ecologically benign, and the planet will be saved.

This is an impossible charade. What they are actually imposing on the overwhelming majority of Americans is a terrifying dystopia. Private financial independence will become all but impossible, the economy will be centrally controlled, productivity will be rationed, and, if anything, the health of planetary ecosystems will be worse, not better. Indoctrination campaigns escalate with every passing year. But if you question any of it, you are tarred as a divisive bigot. 

For decades, intensifying with Obama’s presidency, establishment institutions in America have falsely condemned Americans as racist and sexist, despite American culture for all its flaws being the most inclusive culture in the history of civilization. This ongoing propaganda war on social stability wasn’t enough, however, when the MAGA movement began to attract Americans of all backgrounds in 2016. These MAGA Americans reject the narratives of systemic racism and sexism, and they reject climate doomsday scenarios.

To cope, the establishment began anointing the most troubled individuals among us as pioneering saints, destined to redefine what it means to be “normal.” American culture is now at a tipping point, because American institutions are now opportunistically validating behaviors that are clearly destructive and obviously pathological.

The Useful Lunatics

The riots of summer 2020 highlighted the individuals who now constitute the vanguard of the downstairs cohort of the upstairs-downstairs coalition. For months on end, Antifa and Black Lives Matter ringleaders, fêted by the media and funded by plutocrats, orchestrated murderous rampages in dozens of cities. Looters and vandals were described by establishment press and politicians as “mostly peaceful,” and “victims of racism.”

Other members of the downstairs cohort include homeless drug addicts, psychopaths, and predators, who in their uncontained thousands have made life unpleasant, unsanitary, and dangerous for millions of people in cities and towns across America. But they are not held accountable for their actions. They are no longer arrested for vagrancy, public intoxication, or even theft. In the name of compassion and equity, such laws are no longer enforced. This disregard for the rule of law only encourages and multiplies the worse elements, and further harms the genuine victims.

Climate militants, also a minute fraction of the population, have made common cause with BLM and Antifa militants. They commit acts of performative vandalism, their protests block freeways, they harass targeted politicians and executives, they have shut down energy pipelines, and their attacks on vital energy infrastructure are escalating. Their actions are encouraged by every mainstream institution in America, despite the destructive essence of their agenda.

No description of the activist minorities bent on erasing America as we know it would be complete without delving into the sexual revolution, which has taken a form that even hippies in the hedonistic late 1960s would scarcely recognize. Do you think women have penises or that men menstruate? If you do not agree with those statements, American institutions ranging from Proctor and Gamble to the National Hockey League consider you to be a “divisive” individual, lacking empathy.

The preposterous extreme to which the woke gender warriors are trying to take America is incomprehensible to any sane person. Do you believe it’s appropriate for drag queens to recruit five-year-old children to learn how to twerk? Should states be boycotted because their legislatures had the courage to prohibit biological men from using a women’s restroom, or participate in women’s sports? Do you object to surgeons removing the sexual organs of children? Careful how you answer. Sanity is insurrectionary.

The public agenda of Antifa and BLM is “equity.” For the Homeless Industrial Complex, it’s “compassion.” For climate militants, it’s “saving the earth.” For gender warriors, it’s to end “discrimination.” But in all of these cases, their hidden agenda is to advance the power of the state, to divide and demoralize the population, to destroy conventional traditions and norms, and consolidate private property ownership in the hands of a small elite.

From outraged parents swarming in to be heard at school board meetings to individuals everywhere merely wanting to protect their families, their homes, and their businesses, those who defend order and normalcy are now the “divisive” ones. Worse, they are now deemed dangerous and are condemned by nearly every influential institution in the country.

A few hundred super-rich elites and a powerful handful of woke and climate activist ringleaders are the minorities that now tyrannize America. They are not defined by conventional ideological definitions, or by their faith, or by their ethnicity. With money and fanaticism, they control establishment institutions and grassroots armies. The wealthy faction is united by greed, the woke and climate populists by nihilistic hatred. It is an axis of evil.

This cannot stand. There are too few of them and too many of us. Resist. (read more)

Reduce new gas and oil leases on federal lands to the lowest levels of any president in history. Cut back production at precisely the time the world is emerging from a two-year lockdown with pent-up consumer demand.

Make war on coal and nuclear power. Drain the strategic petroleum reserve to make the pain for consumers more bearable for midterm election advantage.

Cancel the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge oil and gas field. Block pipelines like the Keystone oil pipeline and the Constitution natural gas line.

Overregulate and demonize frackers and horizontal drillers. Ensure there is less investment for their exploration and production.

Make use of internal combustible engines or fossil fuel power generation prohibitively expensive. Achieve a green oil-dependency along the lines of contemporary Europe.

Second, print trillions of dollars in new currency as the lockdowns end, demand rises, and consumers are already saturated with COVID-19 subsidies. Keep interest rates low, well below the rate of inflation, as you print more money. Ensure that passbook holders earn no interest at the very time prices skyrocket to the highest per annum level in 40 years.

“Spread the wealth” by sending money to those who already have enough, while making it less valuable for those deemed to have too much. Ensure runaway high prices to wean the middle class off its consumerism and supposedly to inspire them to buy less junk they don’t need. Damn the rich in the open and in the abstract, court them in the concrete and secret of darkness.

Third, end America’s physical boundaries. Render it an amorphous people and anywhere space.

End any vestigial difference between a citizen and resident. Up the current nearly 50 million who were not born in the United States —27 percent of California’s population—to 100 million and more by allowing 3 million illegal aliens to enter per year.

Fourth, destroy the public trust in its elections. Render Election Day irrelevant. Make proper auditing of 110 million mail-in/early ballots impossible. Normalize ballot harvesting and curing.

Urge leftist billionaires to infuse their riches to “absorb” the work of state registrars in key precincts to ensure the correct “turn-out.”

Blast as “election denialists,” “insurrectionists,” and “democracy destroyers” anyone who objects to these radical ballot changes, neither passed by the U.S. Congress nor by state legislators. Weaponize the FBI, CIA, and Department of Justice.

Fifth, redefine crime as one rich man’s crime, another poor man’s necessity.

Let those who need “things” exercise their entitlement to them. Rewrite or ignore laws to exempt the oppressed who take, or do, what they want as atonement for past systemic racism and oppression.

Six, junk the ossified idea of a melting pot and multiracial society united by common American values and ideals. Instead, identify individuals by their superficial appearance. Seek to be a victim and monetize your claims against perceived victimizers. Call anyone a “racist” who resists.

Encourage each tribe, defined by common race, ethnic, gender, or sexual orientation affinities, to band together to oppose the monolithic “white privilege” majority. Encourage social and tribal tensions. Racially discriminate to end discrimination.

Greenlight statue toppling, name changing, boycotting, cancel culturing, ostracizing, and Trotskyizing. Erase the past, control the present, and create a new American person for the future.

Seven, render the United States just one of many nations abroad. Abandon Afghanistan in shame. Leave behind thousands of loyal Afghan allies, billions of dollars in equipment, a billion-dollar embassy, and the largest air base in central Asia. Appease the theocracy to reenter the Iran nuclear deal.

Beg enemies like Venezuela, Russia, and Iran to pump more oil when it is politically expedient for us to have abundant supplies—oil that we have in abundance but won’t produce. Discourage friends like Guinea from producing more energy and cancel allies’ energy projects like the EastMed pipeline.

Trash but then beg Saudi Arabia to pump more oil right before the midterms for domestic political advantage.

Eight, neuter the First Amendment. Enlist Silicon Valley monopolies to silence unwanted free speech while using Big Tech’s mega profits to warp elections.

Declare free expression “hate speech.” Criminalize contrarian social media.

Nine, demonize half the country as semi-fascists, un-Americans, insurrectionists, and even potential domestic terrorists. Try to change inconvenient ancient rules: seek to pack the court, end the filibuster, junk the Electoral College, and bring in two more states.

Twice impeach a president who tried to stand in your way. Try him when he is an emeritus president and private citizen. Raid his home. Seek to indict a future rival to the current president.

Ten, never mention the [American] origins of the COVID virus. Never [state he real target was} China for the release of SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Exempt investigations of U.S. health officials who subsidized Chinese gain-of-function research. Ignore the Bill of Rights to mandate vaccinations, mask wearing, and quarantines.

We have done all of the above.

The Twitter Files should raise the ire of all Americans, however, and not because of what they expose about tech companies — but because they illustrate the corporate media’s complicity in the censorship of stories that prove harmful to powerful people and preferred politicians.

A little over a week ago, Musk tweeted a promise to release evidence of the company’s “free speech suppression” in what he branded The Twitter Files. “The public deserves to know what really happened,” the new Twitter owner stressed. Late Friday, Musk kept his promise when Taibbi published a detailed Twitter thread highlighting, with screen grabs, high-level internal Twitter discussions concerning the company’s censorship of posts and specifically the blocking of the New York Post’s story about the Hunter Biden laptop.

The Post published its exclusive bombshell report on emails culled from a laptop Hunter Biden abandoned at a Delaware computer repair store a mere three weeks before the U.S. presidential election. “How Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dad,” the Post titled its Oct. 14, 2020 story that then opened by detailing that an email confirmed Hunter had introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma “less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company.” The email to Hunter, dated April 17, 2015, came from Vadym Pozharskyi, an adviser to the board of Burisma — a board on which Hunter served “at a reported salary of up to $50,000 a month,” according to the Post’s article. 

Soon after the Post broke the story, Twitter and Facebook “deprecated” the story, meaning the social media giants prevented the algorithm code from allowing the story to be amplified. By mid-afternoon, however, Twitter moved to banning the sharing of the story both in tweets and in direct messages. At the time, “Twitter representatives pointed press to the company’s hacked material policy, which prohibits sharing links to or images of hacked content. Twitter’s guidelines for blocking URLs, which were updated this July, also include provisions for hacked material and content that ‘interferes with civic and election integrity.’”

Twitter’s staff went further, though, locking out the Post’s primary Twitter account (@nypost), claiming in a letter to the outlet that “the Hunter Biden stories violate its rules against the ‘distribution of hacked material.’” Twitter also locked Trump spokeswoman Kaleigh McEnany out of her account merely for tweeting about the story.

Twitter reinstated McEnany’s account the following day and later reversed itself, allowing the Post’s article to be shared. However, the Post remained locked out of Twitter for another two weeks, preventing the outlet from directly sharing its many follow-up articles, such as its Oct. 15, 2020, piece that revealed additional emails obtained from Hunter’s abandoned laptop. 

That article discussed email exchanges concerning a business venture Hunter was negotiating with CEFC China Energy — an investment Hunter said would be “interesting for me and my family.” Another email featured in the Post’s follow-up article was sent to Hunter and included the subject line “Expectations.” The email detailed the “remuneration packages” planned for six individuals “involved in an unspecified business venture” and floated as a suggested share, “10 held by H for the big guy?” A former Biden business associate, Tony Bobulinski, would later claim in a late-October 2022, Tucker Carlson interview that the referenced “big guy” was Joe Biden. 

In Friday’s Twitter Files, Taibbi revealed that while still blocking the story, Twitter insiders were questioning the legitimacy of the censorship decision. “Can we truthfully claim that this is part of the policy?” the then-Vice President of Global Communications Brandon Borrman asked in response to the Twitter team framing the ban as based on Twitter’s hacked policy. 

In response, Twitter’s then-Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker framed the censorship decision as based on “caution.” “There are some facts that indicate that the materials may have been hacked, while there are others indicating that the computer was either abandoned and/or the owner consented to allow the repair shop to access it for a least some purposes,” Baker wrote in an internal email. 

Taibbi highlighted these emails and others; he also revealed details from interviews he had with Twitter sources. And noting he had obtained thousands of internal documents, Taibbi promised more revelations in the days to come. 

But even as Taibbi’s reporting confirmed Twitter’s unprincipled censorship of the Post’s story, because there was no single smoking gun among the details dropped, the same news media that buried the Biden-family scandal mere weeks before the 2020 presidential election — or falsely reported it was misinformation — mocked Taibbi, claiming he had fallen from a respected journalist to running “PR for the world’s richest man.”

The projection from these supposed reporters couldn’t have been any more ironic because had there been a widespread outbreak of journalism following the Post’s bombshell coverage of the Biden family scandal, Twitter’s censorship would not have happened — or, if it did, it would not have mattered. 

Had journalists from legacy outlets and especially the supposed standard-bearers of journalism, such as The New York Times and The Washington Post, approached the story with the seriousness it deserved, it seems unlikely Twitter would have dared censor the story. Or such censorship, had it occurred, would have been futile because journalists would be falling over themselves to report the latest details in a political scandal that suggested the Democrat candidate for president had participated in a pay-to-play enterprise with his son while vice president. 

Real journalists would have tracked down and authenticated the laptop materials, as they did a belated two years later. Real journalists would have questioned Bobulinski and reported his collaborating statements. Real journalists would have demanded answers from Joe, Hunter, and James Biden, the president’s brother who also profited from the many deals; they would have sought answers on every detail suggesting corruption discussed in the emails and other materials recovered from the laptop. And real journalists would have pushed intelligence agencies, and the former members of them who signed on to a letter casting the laptop as Russian disinformation, on the basis for that claim. 

Nothing Twitter did or could have done would have buried the Biden family scandal story had journalists just done their jobs. But they didn’t, and a retrospective review of their contemporaneous “reporting” shows they took pride in their non-coverage, as best illustrated by an Oct. 18, 2020, CNN story titled “The Anatomy of the New York Post’s Dubious Hunter Biden Story.”

In reference to the bombshell story, Brian Stelter called it “a classic example of the right-wing media machine.” The story is a “manufactured scandal,” the former host of CNN’s “Reliable Sources” said. Yochai Benkler, a Harvard Law School professor, agreed with Stelter, telling him approvingly, “The media world has largely ignored the Post’s Hunter Biden story.” Trump’s team is “so confident that the story’s just going to be too much fun for serious journalists not to pick up,” Benkler added. “They’re trying to produce it now, but the media at the moment — major professional media — doesn’t seem to be falling for it.”

PolitiFact likewise celebrated the media’s refusal to cover the Biden family scandal story, writing that “no credible news outlets have reported any wrongdoing or role held by Joe Biden…” And NPR announced it was not covering the story because it didn’t “want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories,” and didn’t “want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.”

It had long been suspected that Twitter was, before Elon Musk bought it, regularly engaging in a massive fraud against the principles of free speech and creating a slanted public forum. Now it's demonstrably true, based on the words of those who were running it. 

That's what we have learned so far from what journalist Matt Taibbi has dubbed the "Twitter Files." It's a compilation of emails from inside of Twitter that shows the company was – at the highest level – deeply partisan, and became a ruthless tool of left-wing censorship on a range of key issues and critical election moments.

But the "Twitter Files" are still in their opening act. Matt Taibbi and Elon Musk himself have made clear that a whole range of internal documents will soon be shared with the public. And the Democrats may face a reckoning that stretches all the way up to the White House. 

What will the next batch of Twittergate emails show? 

ELON MUSK'S 'TWITTER FILES' INCREASE SUSPICION DEMS HAVE 'DEPUTIZED' BIG TECH TO POLICE SPEECH, WARNS BONGINO

"Shadow banning" is a likely target. This is the process that Twitter, under its previous woke management, used to dramatically limit the reach of certain users. In essence, disfavored conservatives, who challenged the consensus on, say, COVID mandates or election rigging – would be blocked from reaching their own audience.

This was among the most pernicious, underhanded maneuvers at Twitter, as it created the appearance of free and open debate without risking the backlash of an actual suspension.  

It was demoralizing for anyone who was trying to make their case in the public square and found themselves shouting into a proverbial empty room, no matter how many followers they had. This was all done on purpose, to aid the Left.

We know there's more coming, and while the Democrat-aligned news media has thus far laughably ignored the huge story, the internet has been on fire with Twitter's malfeasance for days. 

We are still in the opening act of this saga. But we already know the Hunter laptop was authentic, and the only real election "collusion" was in 2020, between Twitter and the DNC. 

Thanks to Elon Musk, we see that many of the people who have been lecturing us online about the sanctity of our democracy were in fact working from shadows to undermine it, by crippling the First Amendment. And this is just the beginning. (read more)

Twitter’s ex-safety chief, Yoel Roth, later said the decision was a “mistake” but the story “set off every single one of my finely tuned APT28 hack and leak campaign alarm bells.” The reference to the APT28 Russian disinformation operation dovetailed with false claims of former U.S. intelligence officers that the laptop was “classic disinformation.”

The Russian disinformation claim was never particularly credible. The Biden campaign never denied the laptop was Hunter Biden’s; it left that to its media allies. Moreover, recipients of key emails could confirm those communications, and U.S. intelligence quickly rejected the Russian disinformation claim.

The point is, there was no direct evidence of a hack or a Russian conspiracy. Even Roth subsequently admitted he and others did not believe a clear basis existed to block the story, but they did so anyway.

Musk’s dumped Twitter documents not only confirm the worst expectations of some of us but feature many of the usual suspects for Twitter critics. The documents do not show a clear role or knowledge by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. Instead, the censor in chief appears to be Vijaya Gadde, Twitter’s former chief legal officer who has been criticized as a leading anti-free speech figure in social media.

There also is James Baker, the controversial former FBI general counsel involved in the bureau’s Russia collusion investigation. He left the FBI and became Twitter’s deputy general counsel.

Some Twitter executives expressed unease with censoring the story, including former global communications VP Brandon Borrman, who asked, “Can we truthfully claim that this is part of the policy?” Baker jumped in to support censorship and said, “It’s reasonable for us to assume that they may have been [hacked] and that caution is warranted.” Baker thus comes across as someone who sees a Russian in every Rorschach inkblot. There was no evidence the Post’s Hunter Biden material was hacked — none. Yet Baker found a basis for a “reasonable” assumption that Russians or hackers were behind it.

Many people recognized the decision for what it was. A former Twitter employee reportedly told journalist Matt Taibbi, “Hacking was the excuse, but within a few hours, pretty much everyone realized that wasn’t going to hold.”

Obviously, bias in the media is nothing new to Washington; newspapers and networks have long run interference for favored politicians or parties. However, this was not a case of a media company spiking its own story to protect a pal. It was a social media company that supplies a platform for people to communicate with each other on political, social and personal views. Social media is now more popular as a form of communications than the telephone.

Censoring communications on Twitter is more akin to the telephone company agreeing to cut the connection of any caller using disfavored terms. And at the apparent request of the 2020 Biden campaign and the DNC, Twitter seems to have routinely stopped others from discussing or hearing opposing views.

The internal company documents released by Musk reinforce what we have seen previously in other instances of Twitter censorship. A recent federal filing revealed a 2021 email between Twitter executives and Carol Crawford, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s digital media chief. Crawford’s back-channel communication sought to censor other “unapproved opinions” on social media; Twitter replied that “with our CEO testifying before Congress this week [it] is tricky.”

At the time, Twitter’s Dorsey and other tech CEOs were about to appear at a House hearing to discuss “misinformation” on social media and their “content modification” policies. I had just testified on private censorship in circumventing the First Amendment as a type of censorship by surrogate. Dorsey and the other CEOs were asked about my warning of a “‘little brother’ problem, a problem which private entities do for the government that which it cannot legally do for itself.” In response, Dorsey insisted that “we don’t have a censoring department.”

The implications of these documents becomes more serious once the Biden campaign became the Biden administration. These documents show a back channel existed with President Biden’s campaign officials, but those same back channels appear to have continued to be used by Biden administration officials. If so, that would be when Twitter may have gone from a campaign ally to a surrogate for state censorship. As I have previously written, the administration cannot censor critics and cannot use agents for that purpose under the First Amendment.

That is precisely what Musk is now alleging. As the documents were being released, he tweeted, “Twitter acting by itself to suppress free speech is not a 1st amendment violation, but acting under orders from the government to suppress free speech, with no judicial review, is.”

The incoming Republican House majority has pledged to investigate — and Musk has made that process far easier by making good on his pledge of full transparency.

Washington has fully mobilized in its all-out war against Musk. Yet, with a record number of users signing up with Twitter, it seems clear the public is not buying censorship. They want more, not less, free speech.

That may be why political figures such as Hillary Clinton have enlisted foreign governments to compel the censoring of fellow citizens: If Twitter can’t be counted on to censor, perhaps the European Union will be the ideal surrogate to rid social media of these meddlesome posters.

The release of these documents has produced a level of exposure rarely seen in Washington, where such matters usually are simply “handled.” The political and media establishments generally are unstoppable forces — but they may have met their first immovable object in Musk. (read more)

That said, sometimes this intellectual and cognitive intent can become so directed and so all-consuming that we can lose the forest for the trees. In this week’s deep dive on the System of Systems, ‘Hegelian Death Loop,’ I took some time to attempt to parse this subject by applying a macro lens to what it is we mean when we refer to the Deep State, the Cabal or even the more sanitary, politically-expedient term, ‘The Globalists.’

Still, while it is essential to map out the various factions on a game board that becomes less obscured by the day only to reveal itself as being even more expansive than previously imagined, there is something that lies below and hangs above all of it. Something that gnaws at those of us who found our way into this Strange World War through pathways that challenged the heart and soul as readily as the mind and the will.

I am referring, of course, to the Darkest Path, and one that requires us to shine the light more powerfully if any of this is to mean anything in the end. I am talking about the children, and those who would—who have—done them harm.

This is the core truth that sits at the heart of it all. For what greater purpose could any of us singularly or all of us collectively have that trumps the protection of—or at the very least, vengeance for—the most innocent among us?

It seems simple today, and this piece is not meant to be a lecture or any sort of admonishment—far from it. But the subject of Crimes Against Children that was at one time ubiquitous with this entire Truth Community, from the [Deep State} Q Operation to the Memetic Warfare we all employ and deploy to staggering efficiency, from digs in daylight to digs in darkness, it seems that every spoke in the wheel and every pillar in the crumbling edifice that is the System of Systems was erected, supported and will ultimately be undone by horrors some of us have researched in excruciating detail, while others have not had the will or the heart to do so, but know them to be true all the same.

In various pieces before and I’m sure in many to come, I will continue to address flagging spirits and sinking resolve in the face of a pervasive and subversive enemy who seeks to reduce us to dimming wicks in the cold winter night, writing on the point of it all in reference to the continued exposure of the Financial, Political, Administrative and Media arms of the System of Systems, but there are times when even those logic-based appeals seem tired and fail to generate the spark necessary to keep up the fight.

When you feel this, remember the exposure events of the last week and project them onto the many to come, and remember that, even if you lose the will to expose the corruption inherent in any of the figures, factions and systems we explore around these parts and elsewhere in this brilliant community of thinkers, writers, readers and researchers, that it was never about the towers, the castles and the fortresses of [their] domain. It was about the foundations, and the bones that hold them up.

It was about the children, and it continues to be.

While this can be an understandably-depressing topic, my appeal to you today is to see the emerging—and far from finished—Balenciaga Saga as less of a shocking exposure and more an encouraging—even a divine—sign that we are approaching a time in American and World society where these unspeakable dregs are not simply whispered of in the dark corners and derided in the open, but discussed in the cold light of a judging day. Judged by us and for us, as the symbolism inherent in the warped, poisonous philosophy that underlies everything [they] are building, that buoys every Narrative and Policy, Social Movement and Military Deployment [they] have visited upon us.

The Epstein Arrest [and subsequent extraction] remains one of the most all-encompassing Narrative Seeds ever administered to the Collective Mind, and stands as a sobering and unifying reminder that we must not lose the future in the present, the Macro in the Micro or, yes, the forest for the trees.

As Gandalf says in The Fellowship of the Ring, “Even the very wise cannot see all ends,” even if we guess at them and apply all of our individual and collective cognitive might and discernment to the attempt.

Epstein [the Mossad pedophile & procurer, tempter & blackmailer] was and is a massive cultural touchstone unlike anything we have ever seen before [in modern times].

Not because of what he is accused of and not because he was a name before becoming THE name, but because of the crime. Because of the money. Because of the influence implicit in the two together, and because of the truth that underlies it all.

The truth that has burrowed its way deep into the darkest recesses of that Collective Mind—nestled in the exhaustive Memetic Event that spun out of it and kept warm by the imprint of the name as being synonymous and ubiquitous with the prime evil and the prime act that holds the whole thing up, and so will bring the whole thing down. This is a truth that hit the Collective Mind like a battering ram, that was so apparent and so disconcerting that it assailed the walls of cognitive dissonance and vaulted over them, finding its way into every cultural moment of the ensuing year, from the satisfying shock at the Golden Globes to the failed attempts by Netflix and other Media Illusionists to obfuscate.

This truth [that our global elite are irredeemably depraved and are a parasitic cancer upon humanity] has been resting, germinating and waiting patiently for the waters of the Information War to seep down, to crack the sodden shell, caress the sprouting chutes and break up the soil that has been packed down so hard and so forcefully that it has been calcified.

That is what we have done. That is what you have done.

We have chosen to lift the veil from reality and peered into all its ugliness when others would not, and we have taken the opportunity to sharpen our claws and our picks and shovels and set to work on this engineered psychological bedrock, searching for earth loose enough and fertile enough in the minds of our fellows to pull them up, dust them off and hand them a digging tool for themselves, so that they might join us.

The Balenciaga Saga is the latest opportunity to dig, and to call others into the act of digging, and to make such an event of the exposure itself that our act of asking questions imprints the implied answers into the Collective Mind we are attempting to free so that we might put things right, or to ensure that they are never put so wrong again. {This latest revelation about a luxury brand that caters to an unseemly elite, consumed by fetishes and perversions, pales when we realize the 'Beautiful People' have shown no outrage. Their silence is indeed deafening.]

Other exposures will continue and must continue, from the Financial to the Political, the Cultural to the Administrative, but the darkest truth remains the darkest path, and no matter how long it lays dormant or how obscured it becomes, it must be walked and those seeds must be watered so that the shoots might reach up high enough to break through and find the sunlight, and perhaps justice.

Take a look at the lay of the land in this Fifth-Gen War. A communications battlefield has been unleashed once more, unfettered and largely unchained. An Anon decentralized collective that stands as the vanguard—a powerful paradox of directed intent and genius, hardened by exile and eager to return to the front lines. A sleeping, slowly-waking hive mind that has been beaten down and exhausted by the psychological and Actual [pandemic] deployments of the last few years and now sits malleable and more open than it has ever been before, now that the Old System no longer serves and protects it as it begins to accept the prospect that something is wrong.

The Balenciaga Saga.

The name itself is dripping with symbolism, making it instantly memorable and easily-imprinted. A name that manages to convey all of the sinister darkness and the striking arrogance [they] have flaunted for time immemorial.

What’s more, the powers that would be and the powers that stand accused have not devolved into the usual panicked pattern of denial and obfuscation, but rather to blame, a tacit admission of the underlying and obvious guilt at the heart of the scandal in the first place—one that won’t be denied because it CAN’T be denied.

I have said in recent pieces and on recent appearances that we have entered a new phase in the Information War, in the Mind War, and while I said this because of my observations of a shifting cognitive and communications battlefield, a teetering Financial system and the continued emergence of a multi-polar world order that stands to replace the collectivist rot of the System of Systems, that shifting Information Battlefield is only as relevant as the Information that comes to light on its blasted fields and emerges from its smoking craters.

Nothing is accidental and nothing is by mistake.

We have entered a new phase in the war. A new beginning. That should strengthen your resolve and redouble your patience, as the Balenciaga Saga reminds us that the loss of that patience is not some virtue of tired intelligence or moral superiority while we watch the rest of humanity flounder and fight, but rather a grave sin in light of what this war is all about.

Remember that we have many more among our ranks than the last time the Darkest Path was explored in full view of the Collective Mind and [their] corrupt and crumbling System.

And remember that those who still sleep among us are not our enemies, but our allies-in-waiting, consumed by cynicism, programming, hubris and ignorance. They wait only for a truth that could shock them AND unite them, so that they might join us in common cause.

The awakening happens very slowly … and then all at once.

Nothing can stop what is coming.

Nothing can stop us. Nothing can stop you.

It was always about the children. It will always be.

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This graph shows changes in Arctic sea ice cover during the satellite era. Values are anomalies from the 1991-2020 average. Eschenbach notes that since around 1990, people have been talking about how human-emitted carbon dioxide is reducing the amount of Arctic sea ice. When it started dropping very fast, there was talk we’d passed a ‘tipping’ point from which the ice would never recover. Over this time, noted Eschenbach, predictions of an ice-free Arctic ocean abounded.

Old habits die hard. Despite the impressive recent ice recovery, talk of these tipping points – mostly an invention of so-called ‘attribution’ computer models – are ubiquitous. In his recent Frozen Planet II agitprop series for the BBC, Sir David Attenborough made a number of model-produced references to the Arctic being free of summer sea ice by 2035.

According to Eschenbach, there are more mysteries down in Antarctica.

Here Eschenbach poses the question – why did the Antarctic ice pack, unlike the Arctic pack, start increasing quite rapidly around 2008? Nobody knows, he says. Why did it differ from the Arctic by plateauing from 2010 to 2015, but then mirror the Arctic by dropping rapidly, and then turn around and start rebounding? You guessed it – nobody knows.

Finally the global situation.

Why has global sea ice followed this pattern, while CO₂ continues to rise in the atmosphere, he asks. The politically-motivated alarmists constantly tell us the ice will soon all disappear. According to Eschenbach, not one climate scientist on the planet predicted these large changes in sea ice.

The author concludes:

Here’s the strangest part. Despite the failure of the many predictions of an ‘ice-free Arctic’, despite the falsified claims that we’ve passed a ‘tipping point’, despite the fact that the reasons for the curious and unexpected changes in the polar sea ice cannot be explained by anyone and the changes weren’t predicted by anyone – climate change scientists still insist that they can tell us what the global temperature will be like in the year 2100.

Of course, there are many sceptical scientists who seek answers to the cyclical nature of global ice outside the restrictive confines of ‘settled’ climate science. As the Daily Sceptic has often reported, short-term movements of ice are affected by often incalculable atmospheric heat exchanges, ocean currents and many other natural climatic variations.

The geologist Professor Ian Plimer recently noted in an essay published by Quadrant, there have been six major ice ages and each started when there was far more CO₂ in the atmosphere than now. Taking the longer view, Plimer said that we are currently in an ice age initiated 34 million years ago, the current interglacial started 14,400 years ago in the Northern Hemisphere, and we were at the peak of this interglacial 4,000-7,000 years ago in the Holocene Optimum.

Two American geologists recently found that over half of the Arctic’s glaciers and ice caps that exist today did not exist or were smaller 3,400 to 10,000 years ago. At the time, atmospheric CO₂ ranged between 260 to 270 parts per million, compared to the current 410 ppm. At the peak of this interglacial Arctic warming, temperatures were noted to be several degrees warmer than today. Change in the size of glaciers and ice caps over the last few centuries “is but a partial return to a former period of much greater warmth”, the geologists suggest.

Political tactics designed to scare entire populations into following an anti-growth Net Zero future pay little attention to such trends. Global warming ran out of steam a couple of decades ago, and the latest satellite data for November is almost certain to extend the current eight year, one month pause. Instead a ‘highway to hell’ message is broadcast, based almost solely on invented stories attributing bad or ‘extreme’ weather to the activities of humans. Despite the overwhelming evidence from the past that global temperatures can rise and fall rapidly, an entire climate industry, backed by almost unlimited transfers of wealth from often poor to rich people, has sprung up forecasting Armageddon if there is a rise of a few parts of a degree centigrade.

It’s definitely all a bit of a mystery. (read more)

The Federal Council of Switzerland has therefore published draft legislation, which outlines four tiers of escalating measures to conserve electricity and avert potential blackouts. The first prescribes a lot of temperature restrictions for things like refrigerators and washing machines. The second includes more unusual rules, such as the demand that heating in clubs and discotheques “be set to the lowest level or switched off completely,” and that “streaming services … limit resolution of their content to standard definition.” The third foresees cutting business hours, banning the use of Blue Ray players and gaming computers, and also limiting the use of electric cars, which should be driven only when absolutely necessary. A fourth and final tier mandates closure of ski facilities, casinos, cinemas, theatre and the opera.

A lot of these rules look unenforceable, but they said the same thing about contact restrictions during the pandemic. It turns out that the state really can prevent you from socialising with people in your own home if it wants to, especially when there’s no shortage of prying neighbours eager to snitch.

Feasibility isn’t the point, though. It’s the optics here that are most astounding. Electric vehicles, which politicians have heavily subsidised as one of their primary policy responses to [fictitious] climate change, are just now crashing against that other great arm of the green agenda, namely renewable energy. You can’t drive everyone into ever greater dependence upon the electrical grid, while also orchestrating an energy transition to wind (which hardly blows in Germany, except in the north) and solar (which generates no meaningful power in the depths of the Central European winter). Gas from Russia was the magic ingredient that kept the whole renewables charade going, and we’re out of that now. There’s no way to cover up the failure; not even the green-friendly German media has any excuse or messaging angle here. (read more)