"what ever world economy is rebuilt will be much smaller overall" A world built by hand.
"Hamas agrees to gradually surrender weapons in exchange for Israeli troop withdrawal" yeah what ever.
Gain of function: “So it’s something with enormous cost and no proven benefits.” It does have proven benefits, just look at the bottom line of big pharma.
The FIC (Financial Industrial Complex): Dixon believes the root of the system is central banking, specifically the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve. These institutions allow for an "elaborate money laundering scheme" where losses are socialized (passed to taxpayers) while gains are privatized by clearing member banks and asset managers like BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard.
The MIC (Military Industrial Complex): War is described as a "racket" and a primary business model. Dixon argues that 95% of intelligence/deep state funding allegedly comes from "black ops" such as drug, human, and weapons trafficking. The goal is the "forever war," which justifies debt issuance; the ultimate profit is realized in the "rebuild contracts" which are 10 times more profitable than the war itself.
The TIC (Technical Industrial Complex): Power is currently shifting from money (FIC) to data (TIC). Dixon identifies companies like Palantir, SpaceX, and X (formerly Twitter) as nodes in a new surveillance grid. He believes the TIC aims to implement a global technocratic grid involving "Universal Basic Income" and "Smart Cities" (which he compares to open-air prisons like Gaza) to manage a population that is increasingly in debt.
Political Subordination and Grooming
Politicians as Prostitutes: Dixon argues that politicians do not hold real power. They are groomed through financial incentives, lobby funding, and "net-brat operations" (e.g., Jeffrey Epstein) to ensure they are compromised before reaching high office.
The Liz Truss Example: Dixon cites the brief tenure of Liz Truss as evidence that the Bank of England and financial markets can "rug-pull" any politician who attempts to implement policy contrary to FIC interests.
Regime Change: He claims the UK has seen seven "regime changes" in ten years, suggesting that changing the party in power does not change the underlying system, as all sides are funded by the same complexes.
The Strategy of Exit (Bitcoin and Sovereignty)
Bitcoin as a Breakaway Project: Dixon believes Bitcoin was a "breakaway project" from the digital surveillance grid being built by the banks. He suspects Len Sassaman was Satoshi Nakamoto and that Bitcoin was designed to allow peer-to-peer transactions without a central authority.
The ETF Trap: He warns that Wall Street's push for Bitcoin ETFs is an attempt to "centralize" and "paperize" Bitcoin, similar to what was done with gold, to manipulate the price and prevent people from owning the actual asset in self-custody.
Sovereignty: The path to freedom is a "multi-decade unwinding process." This involves moving from a "subordinate" (debt-ridden, dependent on banks) to a "sovereign" (self-custodied assets, debt-free, local community support) lifestyle.
Key Arguments Made by James Delingpole
Media Manipulation: Delingpole reflects on his career as a mainstream journalist, noting that he eventually realized the entire system was corrupt. He argues that the media uses "Operation Mockingbird" tactics to marginalize dissenters.
Skepticism of Narratives: He expresses skepticism regarding the "lab leak" theory of COVID-19, suggesting it might be "another bollocks theory" designed to distract from the idea that the entire pandemic narrative was manufactured.
Divide and Conquer: Delingpole observes that even within the "resistance" movement, podcasters and figures are often manipulated by algorithms to fight each other, which serves the interests of the power structure.
Financial Epiphany: He admits to having a personal epiphany regarding the corruption of the system, which led him to leave mainstream journalism and move down the "rabbit hole" of alternative history and finance.
Points of Agreement
The Illusion of Democracy: Both participants agree that voting for different political parties (Labour vs. Conservative, Democrat vs. Republican) is a distraction, as the policy is written by NGOs, think tanks, and the FIC.
Strategic Tension: They agree that the "divide and conquer" strategy is used to radicalize the public into opposing camps (e.g., left vs. right, religious tensions) to prevent a unified uprising against the power structure.
War as a Racket: Both agree with the Smedley Butler premise that war is a business model used to transfer wealth from the public to private contractors and banks.
Psychological Operations: They agree that the term "conspiracy theorist" was a CIA-invented label designed to ridicule and ostracize anyone who exposes the mechanics of power.
Points of Disagreement
The Origins of COVID-19: While both agree the pandemic was weaponized, Dixon focuses on the "incentives" and the flow of money (e.g., Fauci funding labs in Wuhan/Ukraine), whereas Delingpole is more inclined to believe the entire "virus" narrative might have been a total fabrication or a psychological operation from the start.
Interpretation of Public Figures: Delingpole expresses sympathy for figures like Ross Ulbricht, whereas Dixon remains more skeptical, questioning if certain figures or platforms (like Silk Road or certain high-profile whistleblowers) might be "honeypots" or part of a larger intelligence operation.
Important Data, Claims, or References Mentioned
The Three Industrial Complexes
Complex
Primary Actors Mentioned
Mechanism of Control
FIC (Financial)
Bank of England, Fed, BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street
Central banking, debt issuance, ETFs, socialization of losses.
MIC (Military)
Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, General Dynamics, CIA, MI6, Mossad
Forever wars, black ops, drug/human trafficking, rebuild contracts.
TIC (Technical)
Palantir, SpaceX, X, OpenAI, Anthropic
Data, AI, surveillance, social credit scores, "Smart Cities."
Historical Operations and References
1694: Creation of the Bank of England to fund war for the Crown and the East India Company.
Operation Mockingbird: CIA operation to take over and influence the media.
Operation Ajax: Regime change in Iran.
Operation Gladio: Manufacturing "stay-behind" armies and strategic tension/terrorism in Europe.
The Club of Rome (1968): Think tank credited with writing depopulation policy.
Petrodollar (1974): Agreement between US and Saudi Arabia to price oil in dollars and reinvest in US treasuries.
Mbridge: A network of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) currently being built to circumvent the SWIFT system.
Financial Statistics
Bitcoin Price: Referenced at roughly $63,000 (with an all-time high of $125,000 mentioned in the context of the future).
SpaceX Valuation: $175 billion (used as an example of a TIC company using stock as currency).
Asset Management: BlackRock’s assets under management grew from $12 trillion to $14 trillion recently.
Notable Quotes or Framing
"Politicians are just paid-for-rent prostitutes."
"Socialize the losses and privatize the gains."
"The goal was to follow the work of Digicash... Bitcoin was a breakaway project."
"War is a racket... peace is only allowed when it is 10 times more profitable than the forever war."
"Your job is to slowly each month say: 'Am I more subordinate or more sovereign?'"
"They want you gambling, degenerate, short-term thinking, borrowing, leveraged... they want you captured."
Open Questions or Unresolved Issues
The Role of China: Whether China is a genuine "sovereign" challenger to the FIC/TIC or if they are ultimately cooperating to build a global technocratic grid remains a point of interpretive analysis.
The Identity of Satoshi Nakamoto: While Dixon strongly believes it was Len Sassaman, it remains unproven and denied by Sassaman's family.
The "Moneyless World": Dixon suggests we may be moving toward a "moneyless world" under a TIC grid, but the exact mechanism of how this replaces the current debt-based FIC system is speculative.
The "Singularity": The point at which AI and the TIC completely displace traditional human-governed financial and military structures.
Iran doesn't have any need for Chinese or Russian satellite data for targeting. Its scientists and engineers developed a system with high accuracy. It might be obvious why even the "alternative press" is supposed to ignore it - to hide that the US has been run by a "leadershipwreck" (new word) for decades.
Thanks Jan. It was something like 20 years ago that Iran soft landed a US drone by spoofing it's GPS signal-coordinates. That implies mastery of GPS systems.
They are using some Chinese hardware lately, which likely works better with Chinese systems. I am not privy to details, of course. They just got a huge shipment of 16 Chinese military air transports with MANPADS, but 400 manpads would fit in 5% of one of those planes.
The difference could be greater. It serves as the explanation why Iran is doing rather well and that there's no need for foreign aid. Of course if effective weapons can be bought, the attention can be on something more urgent than making them in Iran.
From that perspective it might be obvious that many countries prefer doing business with Iran because it doesn't have any imperial or hegemonic intention.
Doing business with the US OTOH requires the addition of "at your own peril", as the Gulf States now know to be true.
"what ever world economy is rebuilt will be much smaller overall" A world built by hand.
"Hamas agrees to gradually surrender weapons in exchange for Israeli troop withdrawal" yeah what ever.
Gain of function: “So it’s something with enormous cost and no proven benefits.” It does have proven benefits, just look at the bottom line of big pharma.
big pharma was dwarved in this case by federal largesse
Of interest perhaps is following? https://pawelwargan.substack.com/p/nato-and-the-colonial-world?r=212ohr&utm_medium=ios
Thanks FS. I skimmed that. NATO defends old-money, doesn't it? ;-(
who is to say the game plan is not to make it weaker?
There are multiple game-plans in competition, are there not?
There is not even agreement upon who the actual "players" might be, but BlackRock represents a bunch of them in my opinion.
Key Arguments Made by Simon Dixon
The Mechanics of the "Complexes"
The FIC (Financial Industrial Complex): Dixon believes the root of the system is central banking, specifically the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve. These institutions allow for an "elaborate money laundering scheme" where losses are socialized (passed to taxpayers) while gains are privatized by clearing member banks and asset managers like BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard.
The MIC (Military Industrial Complex): War is described as a "racket" and a primary business model. Dixon argues that 95% of intelligence/deep state funding allegedly comes from "black ops" such as drug, human, and weapons trafficking. The goal is the "forever war," which justifies debt issuance; the ultimate profit is realized in the "rebuild contracts" which are 10 times more profitable than the war itself.
The TIC (Technical Industrial Complex): Power is currently shifting from money (FIC) to data (TIC). Dixon identifies companies like Palantir, SpaceX, and X (formerly Twitter) as nodes in a new surveillance grid. He believes the TIC aims to implement a global technocratic grid involving "Universal Basic Income" and "Smart Cities" (which he compares to open-air prisons like Gaza) to manage a population that is increasingly in debt.
Political Subordination and Grooming
Politicians as Prostitutes: Dixon argues that politicians do not hold real power. They are groomed through financial incentives, lobby funding, and "net-brat operations" (e.g., Jeffrey Epstein) to ensure they are compromised before reaching high office.
The Liz Truss Example: Dixon cites the brief tenure of Liz Truss as evidence that the Bank of England and financial markets can "rug-pull" any politician who attempts to implement policy contrary to FIC interests.
Regime Change: He claims the UK has seen seven "regime changes" in ten years, suggesting that changing the party in power does not change the underlying system, as all sides are funded by the same complexes.
The Strategy of Exit (Bitcoin and Sovereignty)
Bitcoin as a Breakaway Project: Dixon believes Bitcoin was a "breakaway project" from the digital surveillance grid being built by the banks. He suspects Len Sassaman was Satoshi Nakamoto and that Bitcoin was designed to allow peer-to-peer transactions without a central authority.
The ETF Trap: He warns that Wall Street's push for Bitcoin ETFs is an attempt to "centralize" and "paperize" Bitcoin, similar to what was done with gold, to manipulate the price and prevent people from owning the actual asset in self-custody.
Sovereignty: The path to freedom is a "multi-decade unwinding process." This involves moving from a "subordinate" (debt-ridden, dependent on banks) to a "sovereign" (self-custodied assets, debt-free, local community support) lifestyle.
Key Arguments Made by James Delingpole
Media Manipulation: Delingpole reflects on his career as a mainstream journalist, noting that he eventually realized the entire system was corrupt. He argues that the media uses "Operation Mockingbird" tactics to marginalize dissenters.
Skepticism of Narratives: He expresses skepticism regarding the "lab leak" theory of COVID-19, suggesting it might be "another bollocks theory" designed to distract from the idea that the entire pandemic narrative was manufactured.
Divide and Conquer: Delingpole observes that even within the "resistance" movement, podcasters and figures are often manipulated by algorithms to fight each other, which serves the interests of the power structure.
Financial Epiphany: He admits to having a personal epiphany regarding the corruption of the system, which led him to leave mainstream journalism and move down the "rabbit hole" of alternative history and finance.
Points of Agreement
The Illusion of Democracy: Both participants agree that voting for different political parties (Labour vs. Conservative, Democrat vs. Republican) is a distraction, as the policy is written by NGOs, think tanks, and the FIC.
Strategic Tension: They agree that the "divide and conquer" strategy is used to radicalize the public into opposing camps (e.g., left vs. right, religious tensions) to prevent a unified uprising against the power structure.
War as a Racket: Both agree with the Smedley Butler premise that war is a business model used to transfer wealth from the public to private contractors and banks.
Psychological Operations: They agree that the term "conspiracy theorist" was a CIA-invented label designed to ridicule and ostracize anyone who exposes the mechanics of power.
Points of Disagreement
The Origins of COVID-19: While both agree the pandemic was weaponized, Dixon focuses on the "incentives" and the flow of money (e.g., Fauci funding labs in Wuhan/Ukraine), whereas Delingpole is more inclined to believe the entire "virus" narrative might have been a total fabrication or a psychological operation from the start.
Interpretation of Public Figures: Delingpole expresses sympathy for figures like Ross Ulbricht, whereas Dixon remains more skeptical, questioning if certain figures or platforms (like Silk Road or certain high-profile whistleblowers) might be "honeypots" or part of a larger intelligence operation.
Important Data, Claims, or References Mentioned
The Three Industrial Complexes
Complex
Primary Actors Mentioned
Mechanism of Control
FIC (Financial)
Bank of England, Fed, BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street
Central banking, debt issuance, ETFs, socialization of losses.
MIC (Military)
Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, General Dynamics, CIA, MI6, Mossad
Forever wars, black ops, drug/human trafficking, rebuild contracts.
TIC (Technical)
Palantir, SpaceX, X, OpenAI, Anthropic
Data, AI, surveillance, social credit scores, "Smart Cities."
Historical Operations and References
1694: Creation of the Bank of England to fund war for the Crown and the East India Company.
Operation Mockingbird: CIA operation to take over and influence the media.
Operation Ajax: Regime change in Iran.
Operation Gladio: Manufacturing "stay-behind" armies and strategic tension/terrorism in Europe.
The Club of Rome (1968): Think tank credited with writing depopulation policy.
Petrodollar (1974): Agreement between US and Saudi Arabia to price oil in dollars and reinvest in US treasuries.
Mbridge: A network of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) currently being built to circumvent the SWIFT system.
Financial Statistics
Bitcoin Price: Referenced at roughly $63,000 (with an all-time high of $125,000 mentioned in the context of the future).
SpaceX Valuation: $175 billion (used as an example of a TIC company using stock as currency).
Asset Management: BlackRock’s assets under management grew from $12 trillion to $14 trillion recently.
Notable Quotes or Framing
"Politicians are just paid-for-rent prostitutes."
"Socialize the losses and privatize the gains."
"The goal was to follow the work of Digicash... Bitcoin was a breakaway project."
"War is a racket... peace is only allowed when it is 10 times more profitable than the forever war."
"Your job is to slowly each month say: 'Am I more subordinate or more sovereign?'"
"They want you gambling, degenerate, short-term thinking, borrowing, leveraged... they want you captured."
Open Questions or Unresolved Issues
The Role of China: Whether China is a genuine "sovereign" challenger to the FIC/TIC or if they are ultimately cooperating to build a global technocratic grid remains a point of interpretive analysis.
The Identity of Satoshi Nakamoto: While Dixon strongly believes it was Len Sassaman, it remains unproven and denied by Sassaman's family.
The "Moneyless World": Dixon suggests we may be moving toward a "moneyless world" under a TIC grid, but the exact mechanism of how this replaces the current debt-based FIC system is speculative.
The "Singularity": The point at which AI and the TIC completely displace traditional human-governed financial and military structures.
This is a pretty good summary of power relationships these days. I could quibble here and there.
I won't.
Knowing The Divine and your own Divine Nature is key to being of help in this world.
Iran doesn't have any need for Chinese or Russian satellite data for targeting. Its scientists and engineers developed a system with high accuracy. It might be obvious why even the "alternative press" is supposed to ignore it - to hide that the US has been run by a "leadershipwreck" (new word) for decades.
https://www.thedefensenews.com/University-of-Tehran-Builds-High-Accuracy-Military-Positioning-Platform-Using-Multi-GNSS-Data/
Thanks Jan. It was something like 20 years ago that Iran soft landed a US drone by spoofing it's GPS signal-coordinates. That implies mastery of GPS systems.
They are using some Chinese hardware lately, which likely works better with Chinese systems. I am not privy to details, of course. They just got a huge shipment of 16 Chinese military air transports with MANPADS, but 400 manpads would fit in 5% of one of those planes.
Iran has been busy developing, and this article shows the comparison with the US:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/women-education-iran-surpasses-united-states/5921694
The difference could be greater. It serves as the explanation why Iran is doing rather well and that there's no need for foreign aid. Of course if effective weapons can be bought, the attention can be on something more urgent than making them in Iran.
From that perspective it might be obvious that many countries prefer doing business with Iran because it doesn't have any imperial or hegemonic intention.
Doing business with the US OTOH requires the addition of "at your own peril", as the Gulf States now know to be true.
WoW, John Prine...flashback!!
;-) Spanish Pipedream - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkfqWEXdx-I