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Sep 15Liked by David A. Hughes

Also, you are now my favourite academic of all time, second is Mark Fisher. Well done, you have restored my faith in academia :)

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Sep 17Liked by David A. Hughes

Totally agree! I've recently been rewatching Mark Fisher lectures on youtube. His stuff is so relevant today, such a sad loss. I wonder what he would have made of the covid event, I'm sure he would have had a lot of interesting things to say about it.

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Sep 16Liked by David A. Hughes

I do agree.

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Haha, thanks Zainab. I hope the writing up is going well!

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That is very kind of you to say!

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Sep 15·edited Sep 15Liked by David A. Hughes

Looking forward to listening to this one. Courtney is a good interviewer. She prepares well. I recall she interviewed Aman Jabbi not that long ago. I wonder how much he knows about the nanotech in the jabs. So far I've mainly heard him talk about smart cities/camera & lighting tech/facial recognition etc. but he must know much more imo. He would be a good one to touch base with. Maybe you could interview him. Just a thought!

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Jabbi has done very important work around smart cities, surveillance, ubiquitous sensors, etc.

I haven't heard him go to the next level of sensors within the body, however.

I would be interested in touching base with him, if anyone can DM me his contact details?

I believe he and I will appear in the same forthcoming documentary film by Mark Sharman.

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As a non-Facebook and non-YouTube user, I cannot access Jabbi via those platforms.

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Sep 15Liked by David A. Hughes

I'll try to find his email. I think I have it somewhere.

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Thanks, Kerry!

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noflaps@gmail.com I included his email address in my "Jabbi notes". He must have mentioned it in a video somewhere as there's no contact info on his yt/fbk channels. I emailed him 15 minutes ago to let him know I just sent him a msge on fbk, in case he misses it. It seems to have gone through. I'll let you know if he responds.

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He has responded with telephone no. which I've emailed to you just now.

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Still looking. His twitter/X = https://x.com/i/flow/login?redirect_after_login=%2Fnoflaps I've also messaged him on fbk

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Sep 17Liked by David A. Hughes

Another great share David. I don't know if you knew David Hawkins on Patreon and he also did some interviews with Crowd Source The Truth. He dug very deep into the bigger organisations that interrupt emergency communications and handle all u.s. patents and they are in London I believe. Worth trying to find his work. I'll post if I find some of his more important interviews. Courtenay is so wonderful.

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He did an interview on Andre Corbell channel on Rumble. Hawkins publication name is Reverse CSI Scripts

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Do you have any links?

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Sep 15·edited Sep 15Liked by David A. Hughes

Thank you David. I ditched Facebook a couple of months ago and Netflix a while back but now after listening to your interview I think I'm going to ditch the smart phone and get a replacement. You are so correct. I now starting to consider as to what a programme around a campaign could look like around persuading people to ditch their smartphones. We should encourage public events such as gigs and performances are smartphone free. I am certainly feeling the difference and benefit of not having Facebook on my phone but it's then the WhatsApp groups. Gradually uncoupling ourselves from these things could be a collective supportive action we all take. Could build communities around this concept. It can't be an accident that we see an increase in so called ADHD (I take offence to this pathologisation of what are natural human reactions to environment, oppression, etc) and the bombardment of information on the brain via smartphones. As the Ford school in America clocked on to, control leisure time and you control the morals, outlook and behaviour of the population. We need to create our own spaces to counter this.

Johan Hari did an excellent book called Stolen Focus:https://stolenfocusbook.com have you heard of it?

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Great comment!

I hadn't heard of Hari's book before, but those behind cognitive warfare openly discuss how "disruptive technologies" such as smartphones and apps are rewiring the brain and how we think, including reduced attention spans and inability to join the dots between seemingly disparate concepts. The fact that they now use the term "warfare" seems like an open admission that such technologies, which are designed to be addictive, have served to attack the public's rationality and cognition for around two decades now.

I love the idea of organizing events where "smart" devices are banned. Imagine a gig where people actually paid attention to what was happening on stage instead of trying to film it, or an eatery where people talked to one another instead of looking at their screens. Hard to imagine such radical change, I know! ;)

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Sep 15Liked by David A. Hughes

Great idea about organising smartphone-free events. That said, I don't think people need to ditch their smartphone, just use it sparingly. I use my landline to make calls, my computer to send messages/store my data/do my research etc. I keep an old cell phone is in my glove box with charger in case of emergency/break-down when I'm on the road. That's it. No apps/QR code/photos/details about me/mine. I joined Fbk in 2009 to catch up with friends/family as I was living overseas at the time, but after the Cambridge Analytica data scandal I decided to delete all my "friends" (I told them why beforehand and several followed suit) and I now only use it to keep up-to-date with events in local community. It's handy for gardening tips, local markets, when your pet goes missing etc. I still have Netflix for my kids/grandkids when they're here. Otherwise I don't use it at all. Thanks for the Stolen Focus link. Looks interesting, although I'm not a fan of some of those recommending it!

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I wish everyone were as disciplined as you, Kerry!

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Actually I'm not all that discipled. Like I never became addicted to my cell phone. I also find it difficult to use a cell phone, particularly for messaging, as I have hammer thumbs, so it was easy to give it up! Apart from that, I'm a tail-end boomer, very different to my older siblings. We were fairly tech savvy whereas early boomers had never used a computer before buying their first cell phone. They are now just as addicted to their cell phones as the Gen-Zedders, but much less smart. All that to say smartphone-free events need to address many different profiles.

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Sep 15Liked by David A. Hughes

It could start off with events where you take break for an hour or two and listen to a presentation or enjoy live music or just a space that for a couple of hours you don't have your phone with you. in this way, we can gradually get ourselves off these addictive things and to remember the feeling of being connected. it's when you feel things is when you start to realise and you go,actually this is really nice, I like the peace that it brings. Done the right way, it would bring back a really vital component back into our communities. :)

I tend to find nowadays I read books that I want to read and if people are critical of the author it piques my interest more. For example a lot of my friends gave me a lot of stick for reading RFKs The Real Anthony Fauci. it's sort of like saying if you read something then you have chosen a camp or a side. But whilst I might not agree with JFK politically I do think he has important information to share and I would really recommend the book.

I think Hari has made an important contribution to the subject in the book Stolen Focus and is worth a read. Bringing back critical thinking is really important. The thing about the smart phones and social media is we are bombarding with so much information that is mainly garbage that the quality is edged out.

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Sep 15·edited Sep 15

Conversations on what a truly smart city would look like, and it would be reliant on technology. It would have well thought out urban spaces and facilities that benefit us all. :)

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Great interview, you present things very clearly and insightfully.

"If they can implement this, it would potentially be irreversible"

But I don't believe that. Their systems of oppression will be designed primarily to prevent organized opposition, which is key, because without organized opposition resistance will be very difficult. But that resistance will not only be possible but it will be inevitable because its power will be in proportion to the danger, futility and hopelessness that people are faced with. It basically unfortunately has to be darkest before the dawn, before people wake up, because that's just how people are. So I think its important to explain just exactly how dark things really are. I'm not talking about trying to engender a violent reaction or revolution, which is just what the pathocrats want, because they're very good at violence and controlling it. I'm talking about a peaceful revolution when people see how bad things already are.

Here is Emanuel Pastreich talking about nationalizing, or whatever the modern equivalent would be called, Facebook. It may be premature, but just the fact that it can be talked about means these changes and opportunities are closer than people realize, just as the pathocrats darkness is very close at hand.

https://emanuelprez.substack.com/p/time-to-seize-control-of-social-media

Here's another strategy that could be just around the corner, if people could only see it.

Citizen Grand Juries

The only way to stop the tyranny is to begin at the local level

https://tomg2021.substack.com/p/citizen-grand-juries

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Thank you, I am certainly with you on non-violence and what you call a "peaceful revolution."

The reason I think a technocratic slavery system could prove irreversible is that if every human body is connected to .a ubiquitous wireless control grid, there is no way out. Quite apart from turning off dissidents' "money" through CBDC, remote control torture and assassination become thinkable, and punishments could be automated through A.I. The new biodigital technologies would render resistance impossible.

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AI is not up to the job of controlling We The People.

AI was invented by the physicists to explain things but they realized it couldn't.

Jobst Landgrebe: Skynet Will Not Become Self-Aware, AGI Is Impossible!

https://geopoliticsandempire.substack.com/p/jobst-landgrebe-skynet-will-not-become

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I certainly hope you're right!

But A.I. doesn't have to be self-aware in order to automate punishment.

And who knows how advanced classified A.I. is? I was reading with interest the documents from the John Akwei lawsuit against the NSA in the early 1990s, and as a whistle blower he basically described current A.I. down to a tee - 30 years ago!

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Even their best AI will be appropriated and used against them. If they didn't know that then they wouldn't see the need to kill everybody so they can sleep at night.

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Doctors are STILL injecting, for government payments. And they know they're murdering their patients. Wonder of they have medical clubs where they salute pictures of the central bank Fuhrers

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I get into the complicity of the medical profession in both eras in Wall Street, the Nazis, and the Crimes of the Deep State.

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You could successfully argue that the surveillance is already under the skin. Mos Def the injections have done it, and breathing the dust from the chemtrails and getting poisoned by the shedding, that's an injection too.

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These are legitimate concerns, though it is hard to know how far advanced these agendas are in practice.

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Such a brilliant guy and a marvelous researcher, the leader in synthesizing the evil of the Great Reset--disappointing to hear him spout "From each..., to each...," Marxist pablum. What we need is legislated profit sharing to maintain wage contours within welfare-maximizing ranges (see Wilkinson et al.). Private property is necessary, as is freedom within democratically legislated laws (a major problem with republics where money pollutes the democracy).

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Thanks, Elliott.

As I see it, your proposal requires capitalism, which is, by its very nature, a system of exploitation and predation. It cannot be tamed through democratic means, nor has it been.

After more than two centuries of capitalism, it is no accident that we live in a world where the richest 10% controls 76% of the wealth while the poorest half of humanity controls only 2%, and where 38% of global wealth growth between 1995 and 2021 accrued to the richest 1% (mostly the richest 0.01%) - see the World Inequality Report 2022.

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Hi David,

I am a (retired) PhD economist and have watched the increasing inequality over past decades with great unhappiness. The public/private [fascist] system you decry I have been decrying for over a decade. The techno-neo-feudal desired end state (China) was easy to see coming. But as a classical liberal I believe with species learning we can create a mixed "capitalist" system with enough profit sharing to allow for reasonable welfare outcomes, with limitations on wage contours and private wealth accumulation. But we need private property, laws, and inequality of outcomes to motivate people. I am a fan of Wilkinson on this. Categorical statements about capitalism, communism, socialism are not useful, in my view. Cheers, keep up the good work. I am supporting you, BTW.

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Thanks for your support, Elliott.

Didn't Wilkinson argue that more equal societies do better overall?

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I thought you might come back on that! What I presume is that there is an "optimal" level of inequality that we are far beyond. I can't think of a real world example of a "commune-ity" where everyone is equal in outcomes. In my understanding of human nature, that would be very un-motivating. You could make an argument that ultimately only intrinsic rewards matter to achievers, but that is taking the discussion to a whole new level.... But on your assertion of the instrinsic evil of capitalism... no, I don't think giving someone a job and paying them fairly is evil. All production is joint, as we say in economics. You need to get over this misconception which academic life encourages, IMHO. Cheers

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I have no problem with the idea of fair pay. Trouble is, capitalism is premised on the extraction of surplus value from labour, i.e. exploitation. Unfairness is built into the system at a fundamental level.

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If there is surplus, it should be shared. That is the essence of profit-sharing. Marx's theory of surplus value is a religious proposition, IMHO, woefully incomplete.

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We equal in worth spiritual, just not as an individual, in that we are unique. Westeners iron so much out in flat mechanistic thinking! So much so that our leaders are transforming us into hive like minded machines.

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They are trying to. Whether or not they succeed is another matter.

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Sep 15Liked by David A. Hughes

I am just an old housewife, but communism can work in a family setting, socialism for a country and world wide an overarching capitalist setting. Provided all 3 have high integrity and law as backbone of the whole system. That last part seems a obstacle for humanity as a whole, so nothing works!

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Haha, there's a lot to fix!

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Not sure capitalism can't be tamed by democratic means, I don't know, but I think it can be tamed by republican means.

I'm speaking in general about democracy and republics, and not talking about the current political parties in the U.S. that happen to share those names.

Non-violence, belief in God, and the Constitutional rule of law are fundamental.

Economic systems are a local matter, subject to the 10th amendment.

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I agree that we need all those things. Trouble is, we live in a capitalist system, and the accumulation of capital is ultimately premised on criminality and violence. Whitney Webb's One Nation Under Blackmail does a good job of showing that the United States is basically ruled by a criminal class. U.S. exceptionalism, in legal terms, means that the United States is above the law and doesn't have to follow the same rules as everyone else. The perpetrators of intelligence crime stand above the law and appear immune from punishment. At the top of the system, lawlessness prevails, even (and especially) in the United States.

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Yes but when the U.S. Constitution was written, the monarchies of Europe, controlled by their bankers, were kept at bay. That changed as they realized after the war of 1812 that they couldn't take the U.S. back by force and they had to do it by stealth, which they thoroughly did during the 19th century leading up to to ww1. I'm not a historian, that's just from what reading I've done.

But the constitution is still there even though its not honored. It needs to be honored. Cicero said "In times of war, the law is silent". Its got to get it together and speak up.

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Yes, and that is why I think the United States is key in all of this. The U.S. Constitution (and Declaration) are revered by millions of patriots. Today, the principles enshrined in those documents are under assault. How will U.S. patriots react once they realize what is happening?

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Its hard to tell how much is due to big brother's trolls and how much is native, but the mention of Marx since the collapse of the Soviet Union seems to evoke jeers from people who seem to identify as patriots.

People need to be reminded of the proud history of socialists in the United States, of people like Eugene Debs and others, as well as of the need of their help in for example ending child labor and and bringing in the 8 hour day, and in opposing the many abuses, all part of the Omniwar, still going on.

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The Florida State Sunshine Bank: How a State-Owned Bank Can Protect Free Speech

https://ellenbrown.substack.com/p/the-florida-state-sunshine-bank-how

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