The metaphorical Jack had a great idea, open a coffee shop where the beverages were free and use internal advertising as the income subsidy to operate the business. Crowds came for the free coffee, comfy couches, fellowship, conversation and enjoyment.
It didn’t matter where Jack got the coffee, how he paid for it, or didn’t, or what product advertising the customers would be exposed to while there. Few people thought about such things. Curiously, it didn’t matter what size the crowd was; in the backroom of Jack’s Coffee Shop they were able to generate massive amounts of never-ending free coffee at extreme scales.
Over time, using the justification of parking lot capacity and township regulations, not everyone would be able to park and enter. Guards were placed at the entrance to pre-screen customers. A debate began.
Alternative coffee shops opened around town. It was entirely possible to duplicate Jacks Coffee Shop, yet no one could duplicate the business model for the free coffee. Indeed, there was something very unique about Jack’s Coffee Shop. Thus, some underlying suspicions were raised:
The only way Twitter, with 217 million users, could exist as a viable platform is if they had access to tech systems of incredible scale and performance, and those systems were essentially free or very cheap. The only entity that could possibly provide that level of capacity and scale is the United States Government – combined with a bottomless bank account. A public-private partnership.
If my hunch is correct, Elon Musk is poised to expose the well-kept secret that most social media platforms are operating on U.S. government tech infrastructure and indirect subsidy. Let that sink in.
The U.S. technology system, the assembled massive system of connected databases and server networks, is the operating infrastructure that offsets the cost of Twitter to run their own servers and database. The backbone of Twitter is the United States government.
FREE COFFEE:
♦ June 2013: […] “Cloud computing is one of the core components of the strategy to help the IC discover, access and share critical information in an era of seemingly infinite data.” … “A test scenario described by GAO in its June 2013 bid protest opinion suggests the CIA sought to compare how the solutions presented by IBM and Amazon Web Services (AWS) could crunch massive data sets, commonly referred to as big data.” … “Solutions had to provide a “hosting environment for applications which process vast amounts of information in parallel on large clusters (thousands of nodes) of commodity hardware” using a platform called MapReduce. Through MapReduce, clusters were provisioned for computation and segmentation. Test runs assumed clusters were large enough to process 100 terabytes of raw input data. AWS’ solution received superior marks from CIA procurement officials”… (MORE)
♦ November 2013: […] “Twitter closed its first day of trading on Nov. 7, 2013, at $44.90 a share. In the years since then, it briefly traded above $70, but more recently, it has struggled.”
Jack’s free coffee shop has been for sale, but there’s no viable business model in the private sector. No one has wanted to purchase Twitter – it is simply unsustainable; the data processing costs exceed the capacity of the platform to generate revenue – until now….
And suddenly, the people who work in the backroom of Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop don’t want Jack to sell.
Twitter is not making a decision to decline the generous offer by Elon Musk because of stewardship or fiduciary responsibility to shareholders. The financials of Twitter as a non-viable business model highlight the issue of money being irrelevant. Twitter does not and cannot make money. Growing Twitter only means growing an expense. Growing Twitter does not grow revenue enough to offset the increase in expense.
There is only one way for Twitter to exist as a viable entity, people are now starting to realize this.
What matters to the people behind Twitter, the people who are subsidizing the ability of Twitter to exist, is control over the global conversation.
Control of the conversation is priceless to the people who provide the backbone for Twitter.
Once people realize who is subsidizing Twitter, everything changes.
That’s the fight. (more)
♦ 2021, Public-Private Partnership – The modern Fourth Branch of Government is only possible because of a Public-Private partnership with the intelligence apparatus. You do not have to take my word for it, the partnership is so brazen they have made public admissions.
The biggest names in Big Tech announced in June their partnership with the Five Eyes intelligence network, ultimately controlled by the NSA, to: (1) monitor all activity in their platforms; (2) identify extremist content; (3) look for expressions of Domestic Violent Extremism (DVE); and then, (4) put the content details into a database where the Five Eyes intelligence agencies (U.K., U.S., Australia, Canada, New Zealand) can access it.
Facebook, Twitter, Google and Microsoft are all partnering with the intelligence apparatus. It might be difficult to fathom how openly they admit this, but they do. Look at this sentence in the press release (emphasis mine):
[…] “The Group will use lists from intelligence-sharing group Five Eyes adding URLs and PDFs from more groups, including the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters and neo-Nazis.”
Think about that sentence structure very carefully. They are “adding to” the preexisting list…. admitting the group (aka Big Tech) already have access to the the intelligence-sharing database… and also admitting there is a preexisting list created by the Five Eyes consortium.
Obviously, who and what is defined as “extremist content” will be determined by the Big Tech insiders themselves. This provides a gateway, another plausible deniability aspect, to cover the Intelligence Branch from any oversight.
When the Intelligence Branch within government wants to conduct surveillance and monitor American citizens, they run up against problems due to the Constitution of the United States. They get around those legal limitations by sub-contracting the intelligence gathering, the actual data-mining, and allowing outside parties (contractors) to have access to the central database.
The government cannot conduct electronic searches (4th amendment issue) without a warrant; however, private individuals can search and report back as long as they have access. What is being admitted is exactly that preexisting partnership. The difference is that Big Tech will flag the content from within their platforms, and now a secondary database filled with the extracted information will be provided openly for the Intelligence Branch to exploit.
The volume of metadata captured by the NSA has always been a problem because of the filters needed to make the targeting useful. There is a lot of noise in collecting all data that makes the parts you really want to identify more difficult to capture. This new admission puts a new massive filtration system in the metadata that circumvents any privacy protections for individuals.
Previously, the Intelligence Branch worked around the constitutional and unlawful search issue by using resources that were not in the United States. A domestic U.S. agency, working on behalf of the U.S. government, cannot listen on your calls without a warrant. However, if the U.S. agency sub-contracts to say a Canadian group, or foreign ally, the privacy invasion is no longer legally restricted by U.S. law.
What was announced in June 2021 is an alarming admission of a prior relationship along with open intent to define their domestic political opposition as extremists.
July 26, 2021, (Reuters) – A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies including Facebook (FB.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) is significantly expanding the types of extremist content shared between firms in a key database, aiming to crack down on material from white supremacists and far-right militias, the group told Reuters.
Until now, the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism’s (GIFCT) database has focused on videos and images from terrorist groups on a United Nations list and so has largely consisted of content from Islamist extremist organizations such as Islamic State, al Qaeda and the Taliban.
Over the next few months, the group will add attacker manifestos – often shared by sympathizers after white supremacist violence – and other publications and links flagged by U.N. initiative Tech Against Terrorism. It will use lists from intelligence-sharing group Five Eyes, adding URLs and PDFs from more groups, including the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters and neo-Nazis.
The firms, which include Twitter (TWTR.N) and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) YouTube, share “hashes,” unique numerical representations of original pieces of content that have been removed from their services. Other platforms use these to identify the same content on their own sites in order to review or remove it. (read more)
The influence of the Intelligence Branch now reaches into our lives, our personal lives. In the decades before 9/11/01 the intelligence apparatus intersected with government, influenced government, and undoubtedly controlled many institutions with it. The legislative oversight function was weak and growing weaker, but it still existed and could have been used to keep the IC in check. However, after the events of 9/11/01, the short-sighted legislative reactions opened the door to allow the surveillance state to weaponize.
After the Patriot Act was triggered, not coincidentally only six weeks after 9/11, a slow and dangerous fuse was lit that ends with the intelligence apparatus being granted a massive amount of power. The problem with assembled power is always what happens when a Machiavellian network takes control over that power and begins the process to weaponize the tools for their own malicious benefit. That is exactly what the installation of Barack Obama was all about.
The Obama network took pre-assembled intelligence weapons we should never have allowed to be created, and turned those weapons into tools for his radical and fundamental change. The target was the essential fabric of our nation. Ultimately, this corrupt political process gave power to create the Fourth Branch of Government, the Intelligence Branch. From that perspective the fundamental change was successful.
…It’s all Connected Folks, SEE HERE
[…] “The vision was first outlined in the Intelligence Community Information Technology Enterprise plan championed by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and IC Chief Information Officer Al Tarasiuk almost three years ago.” … “It is difficult to underestimate the cloud contract’s importance. In a recent public appearance, CIA Chief Information Officer Douglas Wolfe called it “one of the most important technology procurements in recent history,” with ramifications far outside the realm of technology.” (READ MORE)
One job…. “take the preexisting system and retool it so the weapons of government only targeted one side of the political continuum.”
And to think that I was naive enough to think that the Patriot Act was a good thing.
You weren’t the only one. We were all had.
Expanding the power of any government is never a good thing.
I saw it as a lateral sharing of information, not an expansion of power; again, I was naively trusting. Fear is a foolish motivator.
I knew from the beginning that it would lead to spying by the deep state. It was set up to be a star court chamber. You can’t have secret warrants approved with no oversight.
I never thought it was a good idea…..
Me neither
No. We all weren’t had.
Nope. I was suspicious day one of anything give the feds that much power.
I opposed it and Bush’s efforts back then. My family and friends disagreed. I told them it would become an unassailable tool in the hands of people at the DOJ that would not end well for we the people. Even now they disagree and think it’s good.
The tell was when it became clear that it was only being used for abuse …and Bush refused to even consider repealing it.
Don’t forget about the NDAA !
Everyone at work thought I was insane when I screamed (I was outside of the building welding) NOOOOOO!!!!! when they posted the news on the radio of emplacing restrictions on the USA citizens and Constitution (which IS illegal, fraudulent, and NULL AND VOID) with the passing of the un”Patriot Act”.
Never has a government granted itself TEMPORARY POWERS that they have willingly laid back down when they claimed that they would.
Ben Franklin’s describing of those people that believe in the giving up temporary freedoms for temporary safety deserve neither always comes to mind.
They ALWAYS use “What about the Children (that they are the world’s worst stewards of – and you can make of that what you will, but I bet it is much worse than your fevered minds could believe let alone comprehend) or other such like COVID “your KILLING GRANDPA and GRANDMA” lies.
“I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have … The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.” – Thomas Jefferson
The United States federal government was created when the States signed a legal and binding CONTRACT/Compact called the United States Constitution.
Federal government has no ABILITY to change the Contract between the States that created THEM!!!
That is why people push for a Convention of States, but they are either NOT informed, mis-informed, or criminal liars that know only that can be used to LEGALLY change the US Constitution. All WE need to do is remove all the lies , null and voided “laws” and federal over-reach to restore the US Constitution before the corruption and criminality of the fedewral government overreach.
The general misconception is that any statute passed by legislators bearing the appearance of law constitutes the law of the land. The U. S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and any statute, to be valid, must be in agreement. It is impossible for any law which violates the Constitution to be valid.
“All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void.” Marbury vs Madison, 5 US (2 Cranch), 137, 174, 176, (1803)
Sorry fore the long posts, but this is VERY important.
The Truth Will Set You Free
You nailed it Libby. The Constitution reigns supreme, no matter how they have trampled it.
We the People hold the power….we must engage locally and secure our cities and counties first. Then move out from there
Not me. No-siree-bob!
Way back when we had ‘real’ caller-driven talk shows, I was given the opportunity to argue w/a caller … a young lad who said he was willing to give up ‘some’ of his rights for the safety of others.
I had countless books warning us of the NWO globalists’ intentions … so saw it coming. And impossible to explain what’s what w/friends, relatives, associates w/FAKE NEWS’ constant brain-washing. And I’m not one to say, “I told you so” … stupid!” That’s just not me. :I
I was one as well. I feel so dumb now.
At that point, most of us thought we had an honourable government working for us (mostly).
Won’t be making that mistake ever again.
If all the people filling all the agencies were totally virtuous and trustworthy… sure, it would have worked out great.
Now they have completely exhausted any trust we ever had. We are in a new era with the total collapse of trust in government.
That’s true.
Amen brother.
I suspect that, even if he is successful at acquiring Twitter, Elon will ultimately find himself with that same old Trump problem, as he will need to hire people to run it, and no matter how much screening he can construct, many of the enemy will still get hired, and they will then give us the same F— job that we have been getting.
I shared this article this morning with Rudy Giuliani on his radio show. Rudy was polite but seemingly uninterested. That was surprising and disappointing.
If Rudy was really good he would have filed a RICO case about the MASSIVELY stolen elections.
How could you share an article “this morning” that was only just published?
Please advise.
Enquiring minds would like to know….
sundance, you know the guy never shared anything, he is trolling.
Lee ‘Dono’.
Sundance, he is friends with Doc and Marty. He just hopped in the car with them and shared it with Buford Tannen and Rudy G. 😁
“Morning” in a different time zone?
My views of Rudy changed after watching this docuseries:
The Crime of the Century
https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/the-crime-of-the-century
“The Crime of the Century is a Jigsaw Production in association with The Washington Post…”
Are you sure you can trust what you saw?
Do we have an opiod epidemic? YES.
Did Rudy G represent Purdue? YES.
Any further questions?
Please someone tag this thread of Sundance to Elon Twitter page.
I’m sure he knows this or at least suspects thus the bid but frankly we need 100M more to understand this possible scenario.
YES, this was the first thing I thought of after reading. We need this spread from sea to sea. Otherwise, it will be buried like twitter does.
You can’t have a fascist government without a secret police.
Our Republic didn’t die. It was murdered.
Cold blooded premeditated 1st decree…lying in wait.
Couldn’t put it any better, Mike…especially the “lying in wait”… for decades.
Exactly 💯 💯
Our Republic is still there.
The US Constitution is that base of our Republic with equal laws for all.
The Federal government has no legal authority to change the Constitution.
The Constitution is a legal Compact signed to by the States, for the people, to CREATE the federal government.
We just need to know the truth and take back what is ours and never was theirs.
I appreciate your view. How are we going to take it back? I am sincerely asking by what mechanism do we achieve this? Through the corrupt and debased voting system we now have which has been installed? Through the courts which are clearly not on the up and up constitutionally? How exactly do we proceed to recover (as you rightly note) what is ours and not theirs?
BINGO. Not going to happen. I’ve said it many times, there is only one way but there is no appetite, no will, not to mention what they would do to any real challenge and so it will not happen. It’s gone (the Republic). Our only mission now is to survive what is coming as best we can.
We have the power, if we would just use it. They have many weapons to use against us in store, but we could still take our power back. We would need to organize in ways that circumvent their control over media, information, and thought.
Organization takes leadership. Any leadership attempting to organize a national army, and that is what it would take, would be arrested and done away with before the organizational size hit 100. That’s a far cry short of what would be needed. When you start to think through the organizational needs and logistics, the scale is a dead stop. And ESPECIALLY in the surveillance world we live in.
We can all dream up guerilla tactics and even more grandiose ideas. Not happening. I once thought that it would. In fact I was certain it would happen. Not anymore. Too late. But that’s just my opinion. Some still believe elections are the way out. If it gives people hope, let them believe it.
“Hope is the fuel for the journey”
Very true. Faith is my hope. That’s good enough for me.
Nothing lasts forever, Levi, as you know. For verification of that see, for example (and just one of many), the Roman Empire… or (adding one more) the mighty British Empire , as was.
There was a movie called A Period of Adjustment. I suspect we’ll all have to face a great big, long one of those. May God be with us as we try to salvage the good which still remains in our American hearts and protect those we love coming up behind us.
Perfectly stated from beginning to end. Appreciate your position and responses here, throughout. God bless.
Exactly 💯 💯
Very interesting.
There are not enough lamp posts in DC
To handle the amount of Lamp post ornaments
That are located there.
Maybe Double them up?
March them to the Potomac and encouraged to swim.
To simplify for the leftists and uninformed:
Twitter cannot financially exist on its own.
It relies on gov’t money to operate.
That gov’t money comes with a political price.
If you do not adhere to the leftist, globalist paradigm, you will perish on Twitter.
Such banishing of free speech makes Twitter less valuable, less able to exist.
The Board (with suspicious backgrounds) doesn’t care, because they aren’t invested in Twitter and don’t even use it.
The Board will reap hefty paychecks while the duped stockholders will suffer when the ruse is obvious to all.
Twitter stockholders will continue to fund a corrupt gov’t, while wealth is being redistributed according to the agenda of those who do not have their best interests (fiduciary or otherwise) in mind.
It will be a vicious circle until something massive breaks the chain.
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Perhaps I’ve missed a few points, but isn’t this basically what’s going on?
“isn’t this basically what’s going on?”
Yes, and it’s a feature, not a bug for the liberal/leftist/globalists.
It’s very easy to accept unconstitutional initiatives when they increase your power.
Heh, just trying to simplify some talking points for those who need it most.
PJ…that’s exactly what lefty progressives want…more government tell us how to live our lives
I’ll have a double-decaffeinated half-caf with a shot of surveillance, and can you give me some constitutional work-arounds with that?
Very thoughtful and deep article (like many written by Sundance) but nothing will come out of it. You will continue tying yourself in a knot coming up with explanations as to what’s going on while “they” knowing that “you” know and knowing you are impotent in doing anything about it. Human nature is corrupt. That should be a starting point in any conversation and as such nothing will be done. People will accept it because they will miss their smart phones. As much as I hate to admit it, we are living in a post Constitutional Republic sliding faster and faster into Venezuela like country. Wake up. There are not enough people willing to put their fortunes and wealth on the line to prevent it from happening.
Not necessarily the case. An obvious adjustment is to build a set of trusted relationships – sources with “hands on” or insider knowledge. A bigger picture can be built. Information can also be culled.
The only thing that prevents the deep state from taking the final step to total control is the number of citizens that have guns. As much money as they have stolen from us, I think they still need us working serfs to produce & pay taxes. If there’s a civil war that money spigot is jeopardized. The deep state advantage has been secrecy, citizens know something is wrong & that government isn’t working on their behalf but don’t know who to fight, not like a normal invading army. But we are waking up. It’s a race against time.
I would agree with you sentiment maybe 20 years ago. At this point, I am not sure if the number of citizens with guns would make any difference. What makes a difference how many citizens with those guns would actually be willing to put everything on the line to defend the dying Republic.
In order for changes to occur, the starting point is for uninformed people to become informed. That is why these posts, with this depth of information, are so essential and critical. Then a critical mass of informed people need to start pushing the ball back.
This is why dictators and authoritarians seek to stifle speech. Without knowledge and the ability to pass it on, many remain blind.
Hmm. How well did it work for us, let’s say since 2001-09-11?
Maybe it is time for Sundance to run for US Senator?
Bogeyfree: Nah. If he ran for Senator, I’d have nothing to do all day.
Lol me too
So what would be the top 10 questions to ask the Twitter CEO and BOD when they are under oath and or being deposed?
That thread would be worth gold.
And here I tho’t databases were raciss.
Nah, just ask Maxine, she’ll tell you about Obama’s Hammer:
We’ve achieved socialism.
The statists persecuting Trump had infinite resources.
Stefan Halper was theoretically being paid by the the Department of Defence.
Devin Nunes was frantic to get people to understand that the State Department were huge players in the Russian Collusion hoax.
Fascism. Everything of the State. Nothing against the State. Zuckerberg complacently goes along. Elon Musk wants to climb onto that same gravy train.
CNN hosts are paid $multi-millions to speak to audiences of almost no one. That’s not capitalism, that’s corporatism.
You pay for cable TV, but you’re only paying for Fox, not CNN..
And pour a glass of water into the ocean, then order it where to flow!
Wow!
This post belongs with the Main Street vs Wall Street economies articles. They bring together and clarify a whole range of issues. Bravo, Sundance!
When you explain it this way it really pisses you off!
It’s perfectly clear now why nothing ever came of all those hearings on Capitol Hill.
The uniparty cabal likes this cozy set up just as it is.
Chooseamerica: Good point and yes, the hearings were all for show. All the participants knew that nothing would be exposed and nothing would be done, because it’s all smoke and mirrors.
“The modern Fourth Branch of Government is only possible because of a Public-Private partnership with the intelligence apparatus.”
I’m beginning to believe the Fourth Branch is its very own government, worldwide at that.
Exactly 💯 💯
✅️President Harry Truman realized this a little while after helping to bring in the foundation stones for the Modern-day Deep State. He was very concerned with the Intelligence Communities and The big Industrial Corporate War Machines which most definitely in our days includes the vast database collections and manipulated use of such data as a significant part of Modern-day war.💥
Somewhere, a while back, I heard/read the comment : The USA is not a country that has a CIA; the CIA is an agency that has a country.”
Please study TIA program, started off as Total Information Awareness:
“In November 2002, the New York Times reported that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was developing a tracking system called “Total Information Awareness” (TIA), which was intended to detect terrorists through analyzing troves of information. The system, developed under the direction of John Poindexter, then-director of DARPA’s Information Awareness Office, was envisioned to give law enforcement access to private data without suspicion of wrongdoing or a warrant.
TIA purported to capture the “information signature” of people so that the government could track potential terrorists and criminals involved in “low-intensity/low-density” forms of warfare and crime. The goal was to track individuals through collecting as much information about them as possible and using computer algorithms and human analysis to detect potential activity.
The project called for the development of “revolutionary technology for ultra-large all-source information repositories,” which would contain information from multiple sources to create a “virtual, centralized, grand database.” This database would be populated by transaction data contained in current databases such as financial records, medical records, communication records, and travel records as well as new sources of information. Also fed into the database would be intelligence data.
A key component of the TIA project was to develop data-mining or knowledge discovery tools that would sort through the massive amounts of information to find patterns and associations. TIA would also develop search tools such as Project Genoa, which Admiral Poindexter’s former employer Syntek Technologies assisted in developing. TIA aimed to fund the development of more such tools and data-mining technology to help analysts understand and even “preempt” future action.
A further crucial component was the development of biometric technology to enable the identification and tracking of individuals. DARPA had already funded its “Human ID at a Distance” program, which aimed to positively identify people from a distance through technologies such as face recognition or gait recognition. A nationwide identification system would have been of great assistance to such a project by providing an easy means to track individuals across multiple information sources.
DARPA’s Broad Agency Announcement 02-08 soliciting proposals from industry stated that the initial plan was for a five year research project into these various technologies. The interim goal was to build “leave-behind prototypes with a limited number of proof-of-concept demonstrations in extremely high risk, high payoff areas.”
It’s all here: https://archive.epic.org/privacy/profiling/tia/
More info: https://archive.epic.org/privacy/profiling/tia/doc_analysis.html
Umm… Jack’s coffee shop rents the use of CIA server farms for $1 per year. Almost too good to be true. What a deal!!
I wonder what a little scrutiny of their SEC filings might reveal if one knew what to look for…
April 14, 2022 Sundance explains twitter is financially impossible. (my take)
2022-04-15 Karl Denninger (who I also admire greatly) writes
Then, and this is the kicker, having spent money to build it you have to fund its operation somehow. Twitter, Facesucker, Google and similar do not set their policies in a vacuum; they set them based on how they fund their business. You can spend billions building infrastructure but if you can’t come up with a funding model that works you’re ultimately headed for bankruptcy. The real problem lies there and I’m reasonably certain Musk knows it. May I add a little post-it note that exactly zero commentators have pointed to this and entertained that debate — not now and not over the last ten years either.
Uh no. Karl’s post is well worth the read but Sundance already covered this.
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=245650
Elon Musk was a Youth Global Leader with Klaus Schwab World Economic Forum. How does one synchronize that with his Twitter actions? My brain isn’t letting me bridge the gap.
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Hypotheses:
(1) As the richest man in the world he doesn’t need them to boost him (any more?), and actually has some core values that he doesn’t want to compromise;
(2) He’s pulling this as a stunt because there’s something else going on and as an enormous receiver of corporate welfare is making himself some serious bargaining leverage for something else; and/or
(3) He’s been bored lately
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Outhouse, thank you. It has galled me how many of these people have put their hand in the government kitty to get and keep their businesses going.
This is our money… everyone of us who pays taxes.
Musk would not be worth 300 billion without us subsidizing him.
Wouldn’t it be nice if just one of these tax grabbers would give something back to the people who helped them get where they are.
It would give us a small glimmer of hope for humanity.
lol, Tesla paid back the loan from the government.
How bout GM?……not so much.
What’s funny with your deep state talking point is that Musk is actually building the most EV’s (which is what the global warming types want) yet you attack him, why?
Possible #4.
✅️Elon has endgamed that he and his loved ones are not going to be allowed to be a part of the great Globalist Reset and he’s protecting personal as well as professional interests.🤔
IMHO all of the above
Maybe he is now realizing what the future will look like for his 7 children, and is horrified- like we all are. He is a smart man.
They may have recruited him, but that doesn’t mean he’s automatically ensnared and mind-controlled by Klaus and The Gang.
Klaus is not infallible.
And Musk seems to be a free thinker… the horrors!!
I was brought up by. communist mother … although we could never use that word (or socialist or marxist).
For whatever reason, God gave me the intuition and questions to ask her (that she could never answer to my satisfaction — even at 3 and 4 years of age).
My sisters are all full blown progressive leftists … I have never been.
You could ask why the greatest generation teachers — that helped me stay clear of my mother’s evil ways — did not affect my sisters and give them strong enough conservative principles.
Elon (in his recent TED) talk — toward the end and throughout it — talks about a not very happy childhood and dark topics he read about.
Those experiences and the Klaus Schwab “attempted indoctrination” might have actually served to show him the positive power of doing loving and truly helpful things.
Those are some of my thoughts.
Elon was bullied his entire childhood in South Africa. I come from the same place as him and it’s an alpha macho society for boys where the smart, brilliant and cerebral that love their studies and are not rugby players are targeted from age 5 on.
It’s tough to grow up there for someone like him. All boys high schools are hard on the more intellectual. Especially in the ‘70’s thru ‘80’s.
I read his mother, Mae Musk’s, book, “A Woman Makes a Plan.” There are some interesting revelations about her marriage, and how she and her three children escaped from their abusive husband/father. Elon has publicly stated that his father “had done every evil thing that you can think of.” It seems that the had a terrible childhood.
Didn’t Mussolini say something like “fascism is collusion between private business and government”?
I don’t know what M said but I did find an interesting article….
https://fee.org/articles/businessndashgovernment-collusion/
Or
https://distributistreview.com/archive/end-corporate-government-collusion
It’s attributed to Mussolini:
Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power
Sundance…..You are absolutely exceptional.
My radar went off this morning when I read about govt going after Musk.
Love your staff as well.
Happy Easter.
After reading this, it makes me question the use of VPN services for home use. You have the ability to not only choose the U.S. as the routed through VPN server, but also have options of routing through other countries servers. (at least on my service) I know coumputers, but not law. My question is; If you route through another country, does that not also allow your info to be harvested by that country and used by our Intelligence Agencies by being able to bypass any 4th Amendment issues? Hmmmm…
If VPN’s could keep out the gvt we wouldn’t be permitted them.
SD, you might research the role the “Google Play Store” fills in our tech lives. All communications between content generators (with only a few exceptions) pass thru the Google Play Store (GPS) cloud servers, which match transmissions with recipients. Said another way, when a WordPress blogger who does not own their own site sends a new post to their subscribers, that post goes via the GPS, where it is matched with the IPS of all subscribers. Many, many apps rely on GPS for the distribution of their published product.
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I had thought the Google Play Store was just a retail outlet for purchases of apps and the like. Turns out that is a mere fragment of its raison d’etre. Google can (and surely does) track exactly who is receiving what content from whom … “to better tailor my browsing experience”, they say … but also to better keep tabs on what every owner of a smartphone is reading and thinking about. Imagine how useful these data trails are to the government owners of Google …
Deep Dive into the Fourth Branch of Government
by
@TheLastRefuge2
Preview
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/07/04/preview-the-fourth-branch-of-government/
Part 1
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/07/05/day-one-the-fourth-branch-of-government-the-intelligence-branch/
2
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/07/08/day-two-the-fourth-branch-of-government-the-intelligence-branch/
3
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/07/09/day-three-the-fourth-branch-of-government-the-intelligence-branch/
4
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/07/12/day-four-the-fourth-branch-of-government-the-intelligence-branch/
5
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/07/22/day-five-the-fourth-branch-of-government-the-intelligence-branch
6
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/08/08/the-fourth-branch-of-united-states-government/
Is this what the massive server in Utah was built for? The timing seems about right. At the time there was supposed to be a smaller version being built in Texas.
I did notice that 1+ terabytes became available and cheap around this time.
Apparently there are a couple of huge server farms being built around Columbus, Ohio along with a massive Amazon distribution center.
There is a huge Google facility being built (may be up and running) in Clarksville, TN.
“In February of 2018, Google officially broke ground on its $600 million data center in Montgomery County, Tennessee.”
Zuckerberg is building one in Kuna Idaho too…outside of Boise.
Just don’t hide anything. All of your activities on the internet should be open for all to see. Here’s what it says on their sign outside entrance….
“If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.”
https://nsa.gov1.info/utah-data-center/
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I always get confused. Boards pick presidents, but presidents pack boards in their favor. So which one is at fault?
What’s going on with Jack? Second strange tweet in as many weeks:
https://www.techspot.com/news/94043-jack-dorsey-regrets-helping-create-centralized-internet.html
Damn.
Turn off icloud. The app will annoy you to death asking to be turned back on again. Someone wants your data.
I’ve been getting notifications for weeks now that the Cloud is having trouble accessing my email address, because of “a problem with said address.” I’ve ignored it. Can anyone tell me what that is all about?
The notifications might not be from Apple. See if you can find your “help” screen and go through that route to get rid of the annoyance. I wouldn’t accept any remedies that the notification suggests without trying to verify that the notification truly came from Apple (or whomever). I definitely do not allow anybody to share my screen unless I am the one who initiates contact.
And I guess “little old low profile me” isn’t at all that low profile, right?
None of us are, unless we live deep in the woods, completely off the grid, relying on fires of twigs for heat, D-cells for light lighting, and our own hunter-gather skills for meals.
Surveillance, spying on your political opposition searching for compromising information and framing fellow countryman is no way to run a country. When back in power, play by their rules and deliver pain ( we know the GOPe won’t do it) or tear it all down.
We are way overdue the Butlerian Jihad.
If PT were smart he’d require EVERY MAGA candidate he endorses to go through the Sundance class entitled- The 4th Branch of Government.
Anyone who doesn’t attend or get a passing grade doesn’t get PT endorsement.
This is another reason why Sundance should be an advisor on PT’s team.
SECOND!
There’s a reason Nellie Ohr used Ham radio and not Twitter.
….Tinder alternative for over 60’s?
Mention Ham radio and it generally conjures up an image of two old codgers chatting on homemade radios.
Today, however, it can include the keyboard-to-keyboard exchange of digital information.
Yep: Consider SDR transceivers.
Globalists need a global intelligence community, and it seems that they have it.
How do we get these articles by Sundance to Zero Hedge, Gateway Pundit, Citizens Free Press, Hillsdale College along with getting them to Tucker, Bongino, Peters, Bannon, Robinson and others?
This one plus the full series on the 4th Branch of Government should be required reading
Send them all a link on twitter.
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It filters through just takes awhile. It’s congress that needs education both parties because eventually Democrats will be spied on as well.
Makes me wonder if they used Morse code to communicate. The vast majority of people wouldn’t be able to “listen in”.
Been here with this fellowship pre Rona.
I look for the strings all the time now.
Then this subject comes to the fore this week building to this Post and additional comments, links & analyses
that dissects The Puppets, The Stage and The Stooges.
Gratitude.
Yet I will concede the size and scale is frightening.
I would like to see Elon Musk only agree to back off from his bid to buy Twitter if the Board agrees to name it “Big Brother” social media. Then at least no one would be fooled, not even the Liberals.
Read the book Lift Off by Eric Berger, it’s the “biography” of Space X.
Elon knows about the govt and the insider contracts as he fought big space.
He’s prob hired a lot of people who know things as well.
We’re boinked.
I’ve been concerned for last 20 years that the people making laws are tech illiterate. We have ppl in the senate 80 years old. I remember McCain saying he didn’t even email and you have presidential candidates who said you wipe data “…like with a rag?” And thinking that funny. Then you have the Awan (sp) brothers doing the IT work for these ppl.
I believe a good % of those ‘elected ’ jokers in DC have no idea what is going on. (Rant over and Happy Easter).
“Coffee shop” story… brilliant!
Making the complex easy to understand…priceless…
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I run a few decent-size networks, and have for many years, long before wifi, long before cell phones, even long before graphical internet interfaces.
About 25 years ago, my security techie got into a disagreement with a big-time computer geek, and they started hacking into each others’ networks and pulling pranks. Which got worse and worse. At a point, the two of them literally spent several days straight doing stuff and counter-stuff, cracking and blocking and etc. They were enjoying themselves. I got seriously aggrieved.
Finally, I went to the back room and… pulled the plug.
That experience among a few early others taught me a few things.
I do not carry a smart phone (occasionally a sat phone or burner, but that’s rare). I do not keep anything “backed up in the cloud”. I maintain a separate network that is never connected to the internet. (Transfers from connected to unconnected equipment are done manually). I do not trot around with a laptop that has my and my clients’ lives on it. I do not use wifi. I do not use anything with internet-of-things. I do not have a “toll pass” or use GPS (yes, the vehicle choice is becoming a more and more PIA issue) . I do not do social media. I do not do electronic signatures, banking, bill-paying, or anything else if it can be avoided. Perfect? No. Is it better? I think so.
We do have some choices.
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You could have a consulting service that disconnects people from prying eyes and sets them up ‘unconnected’. Anyway good info there OC.
All – my choices as well!
PS take good care of your car 🙂
I’m not aware of my stand-alone GPS transmitting anything. Am I misinformed ?
Here’s just one example of stuff going on in your background: https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/virginia-police-routinely-use-secret-gps-pings-to-track-people-s-cell-phones/article_e9c5e028-bbd4-11ec-8934-ab3eea0e9aa5.html
Not talking about cellfone GPS. Stand alone as in my Garmin or Magellan box stuck to the windshields
We do have choices. Until we don’t.
Example – with the Bureau of Land Management, in order to access our land records account one must now use a cell phone. Cannot access the accounts anymore with just emails even. Without cell phone access one has to drive all the way in to the nearest State office to use the department’s computers to get the information one is looking for.
Wasn’t that way a year ago. But now it is. Makes me think this is a forerunner for all who want access, whether government agency accounts, or to one’s local bank account. Also noticed our local bank branch, a national bank, has reverted to old-fashioned banking hours, doors close at 3 PM and drive-up windows close at 4 PM.
It’s as if windows for choices are closing, small steps at first, then one day, no options left.
And, purposefully got rid of the cell phone, never missed it until I needed to access our BLM account, which made me begin to notice other windows closing.
You’ve done well and you’re right to be very wary. Always remember whether it’s ‘on’ or ‘off’ the communication devices you have are still transmitting. NSA had a great poster back in the 70s which read “The Third Man is Listening.” Everything I do with tech devices is done with the understanding that the 3rd man is indeed listening.
It’s ok. Your bank tracks you just fine, as does the post office.
USPS: “Informed Delivery”. Whether or not you subscribe to daily delivery updates, EVERY piece of mail coming to you is scanned by the USPS. Their images show the “from” addresses.
True and the same is exactly true for Amazon, Google, Youtube, and Facebook. All IT services are given to these companies by DARPA. All companies are bankrupt technically. You pay for them through taxes.
Correct! The heads of Amazon, Google, Facebook, etc. are not business geniuses. They really didn’t build that.
They are like Russian oligarchs. As long as they play the game and don’t get involved in anything the government doesn’t like, they get to be rich.
They get to be rich as long as they submit to the control. Is Musk really going rogue, or is he playing an assigned role? I have become so cynical.
Me in 2012: Burn it all down!
Me in 2016: Ok, hold on a minute. This might work,
Me in Current Year: Honey! Where is the gas can?
White Supremacists are anyone who believes in the constitution.
DARPA. It’s how they were “born” & how they’ve evolved. Nothing changed except the “frontmen.”
The so-called private sector frontmen serve to give the government plausible deniability. Arm’s length and all that.
Ah yes, this brings to mind, Trump’s “Despite the constant negative press covfefe” ….
“Covfefe” credited as number one in a top-five list of Donald Trump’s “linguistic triumphs”
Trump never acknowledged that the tweet contained a mistyping. He instead tweeted again after deleting the original tweet: “Who can figure out the true meaning of ‘covfefe’ ??? Enjoy!”.
Sean Spicer implied later that day that the tweet was not a typo but rather intentional: “I think the president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant.”
I read somewhere there was an Arabic translation for Covfefe – “I will stand”. Looking back that this was after PDJT’s first overseas visit, to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, then assumed it was to let them know he’s ‘got this’ whatever ‘this’ was.