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  1. “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
    F Scott Fitzgerald certainly had a way of describing the mentality which has held sway in the Empire for so many generations. The changes are coming sooner rather than later and I agree that the situation and the future are fluid… and thus worth fighting for at every level, local, national and global.
    I must constantly remind myself of Mr Rappaport’s deathless quote – “hopelessness is an OP!”

    1. One of my favorite quotations, which I use, and authors, such rich and dreamy descriptions of life before technocracy. Thanks.

      1. “Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you — Ye are many — they are few.” PB Shelley
        I’m increasingly leaning on poetry and literature to keep my pecker up! Countless works over centuries, nay millenia remind us that the difficulties and seemingly insurmountable odds we face are nothing new. Scriptural works such as the Gideon story are an even starker reminder of course!

          1. “We will grieve not, rather find
            Strength in what remains behind;
            In the primal sympathy
            Which having been must ever be;
            In the soothing thoughts that spring
            Out of human suffering;
            In the faith that looks through death”
            Wow! Wonderful.

          1. A truly brilliant essay. He is definitely on to something… the feel of a spirit inhabiting the digital realm is one I can increasingly discern. My gut says to get away from it as much as possible while retaining the true benefits of the access to great writing such as this! Much to chew on

          2. Great article!

            We know that real markets driven by price discovery are given a bad name by opaque “markets” pumped by debt and insiders. This does not mean that markets are bad.

            The real internet is much larger than the handful of “social media” companies with questionable algorithms and agendas. The old internet is still there, e.g see https://search.marginalia.nu/ which indexes 100 million pages using a single $5000 server.

            “Technology” eventually comes down to physics and mathematics, which are properties of the physical universe, i.e. they originate in nature. They can no more be boycotted than oxygen and water. Instead, we can all learn how to evolve local tech to serve local human and spiritual goals, rather than remote mass manipulation.

            As for Ahriman, remember that John Dee, cryptographer to Queen Elizabeth, was studying how to communicate with spirits. No computers were needed.

            https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/john-dees-life-shows-sciences-magical-roots-180963985/

            John Dee, born on this day 490 years ago, was Queen Elizabeth I’s scientific advisor–but he was also a magician. He carried on a lengthy conversation with spirits. But he was also a Cambridge-educated scientist who did postgraduate work with the likes of Gerardus Mercator, a cutting-edge mapmaker in a time where maps were–as today–essential technology. 

            https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2014/11/10/from-shakespeare-to-the-nsa/

            almost every technique or principle that Friedman and others helped to invent is really something of a reinvention …The Renaissance created a matrix of unique conditions that caused codes and ciphers to flourish. A network of diplomats peppered around Europe needed to be able to transmit news and advice confidentially. And the tremendous increase in printing spawned a reactionary need to control information.

            LLMs (“AI”) are entirely dependent on data. That data comes from humans. But like a student in a library, the choice of books, data and author is important. We can choose the data used to train LLMs. We can choose the prompts used to query LLMs for local needs. LLMs are not creative intelligence, but the speed of LLMs can help humans with many tasks, the cost of which is going to plummet.

            What we don’t need is a new caste of techno-priest AI wranglers to save the ignorant peasants. As the movie Ratatouille said, “Everyone can cook!”

          3. Amen. AI brings phenomenal processing speed. But anything that is limited to 1 and O is limited in types of intelligence.

          5. Thanks for this. I relish anything by or with Paul Kingsnorth so I’ll tuck into this later!
            He’s currently sharing practical efforts to disengage from The Machine in such a simple and refreshing way too – weekly accounts of the 50 Holy Wells he visited this year in Ireland. One of my weekly highlights!
            Reading the likes of him and Mary Harrington wrestling with our culture is a joy. Two formerly ‘liberal/left’ writers who are honest enough to follow their insights wherever the truth leads them; a reminder of what a public thinker should be.

    1. Paradise, Lahina….they want a bigger piece of the clean up pie. Why wait for the real estate profits? Hit the ground running with fee flow starting day 1 on the clean up. Optimizing profits.

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  3. Remember the Syrian Refugee crisis? aka the rape of greece, where all aiports, ports, and train stations were sold to european corporates? Greece could have paid their debts, with massive oil reserves in their seas. Now who will drill for that oil?

  4. I became familiar with Saudi Arabia‘s mega project, Neom, this week as my husband has been approached with a lucrative employment position there.

    Neom’s location on the Gulf of Aqaba rang a bell from John Titus’s wider explanation about Pepe Escobar’s Israel-Gaza-US article and the proposed Ben Gurion Canal.

    Check out the infrastructure of one of the proposed 10 projects that is being “designed as a gateway to the future”:

    https://www.dezeen.com/2023/11/16/neom-epicon-resort-gulf-aqaba-saudi-arabia/

    This does not smell of ordinary tourist destination development…

    Another project is a linear mega-city that will be 170 kilometres long.

    They definitely know something we don’t!

    1. It looks like a communication and/or energy centers. Reminds me of when Joseph Farrell was talking about pyramid around the world and their alignment. I will try to find where he discussed this and then post it.

    2. Aqaba was also highlighted in the 1960’s movie “Lawrence of Arabia” starring Peter O’Toole. He led a group of Arabs across the desert to capture Aqaba from the Turks during World War I. Also discussed in the biography “Hero: the Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia” by Michael Korda, c2010.

  5. Someone met in real life, who truly cares about all of us, is being sentenced December 7th and there are likely 100s or more being sentenced who were set up by the actors. We keep our sense of amusement, but among the fake protestors and the fake prisoners are the people they wanted to put away for speaking out on the mandates.

    1. We need to aggregate and publish a history of entrapment by fake “freedom fighters” and “protestors”, if only to protect future, real, resistance. Only a precious few have survived active attacks. There’s a much longer list of lives and careers destroyed.

      Solari has done a great job of covering both groups, but we’re still lacking a structured, comprehensive history of such conflicts, which seem unbelievable until you’re in them, and then it’s too late to prepare.

      From last century, the manual on “purposeful stupidity” remains relevant, https://www.openculture.com/2022/01/read-the-cias-simple-sabotage-field-manual.html

        1. One way to approach manuscript creation and publication would be for the author to partner with counter-intelligence professionals in private practice. That could bring focus to timeless attacks and defenses, instead of transient, sensitive context of attackers and targets.

          There is an excellent book on “Close Protection” (bodyguards for corporate executives), first published in 2012 and recently updated in 2022. It’s worth the effort to get a physical copy from the UK. The national library of every country should have a copy.

          2012 reviews: https://www.amazon.com/Close-Protection-Closer-Observation-Equation/dp/0957207506/

          2022 author’s site: https://cpbook.co.uk

          The aim of this book is to right the wrongs, to correct the methods of ‘best practise’ contrary to those stipulated by industry authorities, organisations, training/ service providers, and online/ offline commentary; to provide realistic, practical and effective advice concerning methods of operation and tactical doctrine to detect, confirm, identify and thwart any hostile action whether the nature of it be technical, physical or socially engineered from tactics, techniques and procedure that have been both personally tried and tested in most countries and in all threat regions throughout the world. 

          Part 2, The Ascertainment of Foul Play examines the very beginning of any hostile threat action; Surveillance, and will expound protective security operational conduct to detect, identify and thwart those hostile actors using a real example of where the author detected, disrupted and compromised a UK government surveillance team on his client, the surveillance operation critique, the subsequent 3-year complaint process and the conclusion. This publication delivers all the facts that work in concert and conflict to the provision of professional Close Protection within the private sector whilst providing best practise solutions when and where they [legally] can be utilised.

  6. Miss Catherine and Mr John. You guys just keep getting better and better. Much thanks and gratitude for all you do. Some with big lights must shine, that is you guys. I help with my little light all I can in telling people to subscribe. USA break up? Maybe it does, we are in a 4th Turning Cycle. Military jabs reversed I thought about Lt Col Teresa Long. Oh so much harm from dr world, pharma, Faucci, and Trump, when will they all be held accountable???? Blessings to all who read and have their eyes opened more by the Solari Repot. Great story of the candy bars and money. Well Wishes to you both this holiday season and all of next year, change is coming big time, keep on shinning. And we all need to keep praying for peace. Thank you with all my heart.

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