Seeing as the visualisation exercises in last week’s newsletter proved pretty popular, let’s try another one:

The CIA gives you $200 for ‘web services’ in which they will store data on the citizens of the world. You buy a newspaper best described as ‘the CIA’s Facebook Wall’ (Catherine Fitts) for $100.

Who is running the newspaper? And was your purchase of the newspaper (the WaPo) a condition of the more profitable sale of web services to the CIA?

We have seen from the ‘World Without Sin‘ post series that there are certain companies that back-end straight into the shadow government and are provided with unlimited money to transform (ie privatise) entire sectors of the economy.

Uber is an obvious example. It runs at a loss as a way to fully privatise under a single company all logistics -not just ruining stinky taxi cabs. We’ve seen them expand into food -which is the thing you get delivered more than anything else so it builds in the behaviour before rolling it out to anything else you may buy. The end game is to have the experience of ‘getting this thing from here to there’ fall under the umbrella of a single company -that backends into the deep state. (Spare me your positive uber driver stories, too. That is the very definition of turkeys voting for Christmas.) The new CEO is on the board of the New York Times, by the way.

Tesla’s another example. There has been much grumbling about how much of its latest development is a complete sham. Nevertheless… unlimited money and the opportunity to completely reshape ‘private’ car experiences mean that you, it and its energy consumption are continually tracked. Already diesel vehicles are being banned in Europe. (And if you think that’s good, remember that most of them are owned by small businesses who most certainly will not be given Teslas by the governments who have just added £50,000 to their operating costs.)

All of Musk’s schemes carry the fingerprints of the shadow government -to the point that I wonder if some of his twitter brain farts aren’t actual mind control. Here’s an article asking the (for us, rhetorical) question of why NASA is covering up Musk’s mistakes.

Let’s return to the visualisation exercise. Amazon ran at a loss for over a decade thanks to the deep (unlimited) pockets of someone that I guarantee will turn out to be DARPA and the Pentagon -just as it was/is for Google and Facebook.

Now it runs a ‘breakeven’ strategy, which means it aims to not make a loss but also not make a profit. What are the implications of this? For a start, it is that you are paying for its success:

Amazon’s strategy of break-even operations also means that it has virtually no profits to tax. Since 2008, Wal-Mart has paid $64 billion in federal income taxes, while Amazon has paid just $1.4 billion. Yet, while paying low taxes, Amazon has added $220 billion in value to the stock held by its shareholders over the past 24 months—equivalent to the entire market capitalization of Wal-Mart. Something is deeply amiss when a company can ascend to almost a half trillion dollars in market value—becoming the fifth most valuable firm in the world—without paying any meaningful income tax. Does Amazon really owe so little to support public revenue and public needs? If a giant firm pays less than the average 24% in income taxes that the companies of the S&P 500 pay, it logically means that less-successful firms pay more. In this way, Amazon further adds to the winner-take-all tendencies plaguing our economy.

This, incidentally, is the high costs of discounting. You pay less for various items but then you pay more in tax as a result. And that’s just the beginning of it:

And then it bought Whole Foods.

I was a bit surprised after I had Greg Carlwood on the podcast that a few people asked what I meant by “the CIA is now in the food business.” This is what I mean, obviously.

They now have the opportunity to do to an entire country’s food supply what they did to the book business. And they wasted no time in doing so. Bezos immediately slashed prices by up to 43% and saw a 25% bump in consumers.

If you are a competing business -small or large- that doesn’t have infinite spook money propping you up, what are you going to do? Match price and die quickly or don’t match price and die slightly slower? And if you work for one of these companies that will go bust, what are you going to do? Walk down the road and compete for jobs with the robots at Amazon?

Consider your access to investment money. If you invest in retail industry shares in 2017, are you going to allocate money to Wal-Mart or to Whole Foodsazon?

Once more competitors are burned off and the US -and eventually western- consumers are buying their food from Whole Foods and everything else from Amazon, think of the data implications. Already your Amazon data backends into the shadow government. Now this will too.

Think of the policy changes around what ‘organic’ (already a useless term) might mean for the use of Monsanto products or animal cruelty. The power to turn around and dictate terms to the rest of the supply chain right down to the five remaining small farmers left in America approaches total.

What are you going to do? Take your business elsewhere? Like how you are going to use one of the many competitors to Uber for driving services in a few years time? It is also worth mentioning that the CIA has veys ov making you shoppe! Such as using its proxies to poison competitors’ food –and the grounds for such an op have already been laid.

Now think of why a shadow government might want all this connected data of where you move, what you buy, what you eat, what you watch -which they already have in, as far as I am concerned, a completely open way. Think of its implications for a universal basic digital currency -an idea Bezos obviously champions. (Because they might as well be Amazon gift certificates for all the choice we’d have in where we can redeem them.)

At the beginning of last year, I wrote about a ‘war in heaven’ -which is to say that the fulfilment/administrative layer of a global governance program is being downsized. That’s what I think Trump represents. (More specifically, the generals that use him as their offensive, comical Sesame Street puppet.)

The transport piece is in play, the energy/Tesla piece is in play, the food piece is in play. The health piece will come with the ‘single payer’ issue that will dominate and win the next election. (Something else I’ve been talking about for a year.)

Now just have a fiddle with the Constitution via a convention brought about by -I don’t know, some kind of large-scale mass killing- and great chunks of the social contract will be fulfilled by private megacorporations. I honestly suspect this is what Martin Armstrong’s AI is predicting when it says that the Private Wave will peak in 2032.

If this all sounds a bit much to you then think of the last few times I’ve stuck my neck out like this -including the creation of the newsletter in the first place- and what happened next. Just sit with it for a few days.

You may also benefit from watching this lengthy video recently released by James Corbett. The usual caveats apply. As far as I can tell, he’s a diligent and serious researcher so the data and quotations are solid. I’m just not really in alignment with his anarcho-capitalist, libertarian worldview but, whatever, that’s fine. (He gets points for understanding what it actually is, though, and even more for not using it as an excuse to live inside the President’s ass. He loses points for strawmanning some of the serious climate research out there, although many people will benefit from seeing the UN hijack laid out like this. Anyway, my point is I like the guy and this is some good work.)

What is intriguing in this piece is -like the stated aims of the CFR, the published works of Brzezinski, etc- it is hugely interesting that the eugenic and technocratic goals seem to disappear from popular discourse and then actually manifest as written a few decades later.

In fact, I’ve half a mind to resurrect some old post series so we can have a rundown of ‘conspiracy 101’ because it looks like the classic version really is in play and it looks like it’s further along than a lot of people realise.

We may hope that some of the narrative in Corbett’s film is the inevitability of selectively reading history -and surely some of it is as that always happens to everyone. But you are nevertheless left with some curious projects and connections from four decades ago that seem to be showing up right now.

As with all of these explorations, the last thing you want to do is fall into despair. As I keep mentioning, each trend summons its counter-trend. We are the counter-trend to centralisation. These posts are offered to provide additional resolution to your own, individualised maps.

Find the others. Find the farmers. Find the makers. Find your way.