176 - Marching season

🇬🇧 Somehow I managed to capture the photo above during a momentary sunny spell! The weather has been the usual Northern Ireland Summer - mostly cloudy with frequent showers and occasional heavier rain and intermittent sunny spells. We have totally missed out on all the apparent heatwaves elsewhere.
Tuesday morning was the opening of the Weaver Cross Halt. This is the old Europa Bus station. It has been nicely converted into what could be a lively public space. The waiting room has been transformed with tables and there is a very lively bar. In what used to be the bus lanes there are now small cafes and shops in converted containers - unusual but it might well work. Let's see!
During the week we fitted in several lunches with friends and we are getting ready for a couple of family birthdays this month, including mine! A recommended stop is McKee's farm. Fresh and freshly cooked local food and they have a great shop where you can buy and support local produce. It should be clear to you by now that it will be increasingly important going forward to support places and initiatives like this.
As we head into the weekend we have the Eleventh Night Bonfires followed by the Glorious Twelfth on Saturday. This kicks off the Marching Season and the Twelfth Fortnight. Currently the weather (forecast at least) is looking rather good and this usually does not bode well for peaceful evenings - we shall see.

Click to learn more and all the background
Interview and Documentary of the week
I have a couple of insights to highlight this week. By now you should be ready to appreciate these too and recognise the truths they reveal. You may well be challenged by these but burying your head in the sand or pretending that these things did not happen does not help you understand what is happening and what is coming.
Recall that we are now in the time following the breaking of the second seal when many things that were hidden get unveiled. The word "apocalypse" originates from the Greek word "ἀποκάλυψις" (apokálypsis), meaning "unveiling".
Failure of Academia and much more
I recently listened to a fabulous interview of David Hughes by James. They discuss the total failure of academia to ask crucial questions, especially regarding events like 9/11 and the Covid-19 plandemic.
David explains the evidence of a coordinated global operation behind the Covid-19 response, with implications of deep state involvement in various other incidents, including the Manchester Arena bombing. One dreadful technique was the use of face masks during Covid-19 as tools for psychological manipulation and social conformity. David's book is freely available and you will find hundreds of further examples within.

Click to watch and listen - interview starts at 5m22 - Covid discussion at 20m32
Further examples are provided on the manipulation of public perceptions regarding political figures and agendas, including Trump and Biden. They conclude on parallels between contemporary issues and historical events, such as the rise of eugenics and the political climate of 1930s Nazi Germany.
David recommends that you download his book for free (rather than buying it from the publisher who takes all the revenue and gives him none - so deep is the corruption of Academic Publishing). You can donate and support him by many other means and show your appreciation here.

Click for his book - download for free and share it - you can donate and support David here
Remember September 2001?
For many (myself included) it was the events of 11 Sep 2001 that woke me from the mass media slumber - although for many years I had splinters in my mind (eg the so-called "Moon Landings"). So it was also for David Hughes (above), James Corbett and many others. James now has over two decades of research into the events around 9/11 and he exposes the lies that were told to you leading up to the day, on the day and subsequently. If you have not seen it yet you should watch his documentary from 2019 - it is really excellent.

This documentary will blow your mind - there are so many things that you did not know and the media has hidden and suppressed. Once seen, you cannot unsee it.
The problem is much bigger
After that, a logical next step is to listen to Ole Dammegard. In this recent interview he recounts his journey from 1980 when he woke up - realising that his parents were undercover agents, part of Operation Gladio. This was a covert NATO operation during the Cold War, primarily from the 1950s to the 1990s, supposedly aimed at countering Soviet influence in Western Europe. It involved the creation of "stay-behind" paramilitary networks in NATO member countries, designed to "resist" potential Soviet invasions or communist takeovers through guerrilla warfare, sabotage, and intelligence operations.

Another superb explainer from Ole - listen, learn and wake up
Needless to say - you are looking at and living through the consequences today as these techniques are used against and to control the general population.
More in this issue
- Photo memories - Belfast walkabout
- Project Updates - Going further with Obsidian and Tether revisited
- Plenty of useful links - don't say nobody told you!
- Closing out - A challenging one in the spirit of Ethical Skepticism









Belfast walkabout
🛠️ Project Updates
This week I am sharing some fascinating uses of AI and how this can be done safely on your own computer with no external links. Additionally, considering all the kerfuffle around Stablecoins, I have some further take on that. What are you doing?
Going further with Obsidian
You may well recall that I have long recommended Obsidian as your note-taking tool of choice. Follow the link above for my review and all the features and benefits. Today I show you how you can take things much further, using fully private AI to enhance the linking and structure of your notes as well as to query them. It is amazing what you can do now.

01:35 Today's Video Outline 02:22 Context On How I Use Obsidian
03:57 Phase 1: Reviewing My Goals & Expectations Of AI In Obsidian
04:52 My 3 Goals, Embedding Models & Local Models Explained
07:42 Phase 2: Evaluating AI Plugins For Obsidian (Options)
10:11 Ask AI How To Use AI (Perplexity + NotebookLM)
14:47 Phase 3: Smart Connections Plugin
17:53 Installing The Smart Connections Plugin In Obsidian
20:31 Smart Connection Plugin Settings
23:24 Embedding Models
25:29 Starting The Embedding Process
30:23 Testing The "Smart Connections" Feature
31:24 Smart Lookup - Semantic Searching
35:53 Smart Connection Topic Example
37:23 New Note Example (Smart Connection Overview)
39:29 Obsidian Copilot + Local LLM Model (LM Studio) & Next Steps
You can take it further still
This next one will blow your mind. This started out with a YouTuber wanting to find a better way to leverage notes and scripts from his videos but he quickly realised that he could generalise this to work on ANY youtube channel.

All of this is based on and in Obsidian, leveraging AI tools that you can connect and use. Clearly, since this is working on public data with public AI services you will want to do this in a separate Obsidian Vault, away from your personal notes. You may well also want to use tools like NanoGPT that give you private and anonymous access to all of the AI tools and their APIs. We have discussed this before.
More on Tether
Adam's delivery style is a bit unconventional (listen at 1x speed) and you can read his slides. Here he explains how Tether is not reinforcing dollar dominance—but dismantling it from within. Drawing on Saifedean Ammous’s insights (we discussed recently) and macroeconomic math, this video unpacks how every USDT token becomes a Bitcoin accumulation engine, accelerating the end of fiat without anyone realising it.

Tether isn’t just a stablecoin. It’s a Trojan Horse of monetary evolution. This should also remind you of Allen Farrington's thesis.
🔗 Links for your edification
The following are links from my NetNewswire feeds - learn, enjoy and share.
Be aware - Avoid WhatsApp where you can
Henry shares how Facebook (the owner of WhatsApp) is surreptitiously gathering data on all WhatsApp users, regardless of platform (iOS, Android, Windoze, Linux). There really is nothing that you can do, other than not use it - or at least minimise your use. You can be certain that this data will be misused in future.

This is hot on the heels of the illegal and immoral actions of Facebook, impacting Android users that we covered recently - LocalMess.
There are other options - I have long recommended Session and Signal messenger. For me, Session is preferred but Signal tends to be more widely accepted and used by others. If/when you get a message from me on WhatsApp, asking you to move to Signal or Session, now you understand why.
So now you know...
Marty explains how many average workers in Western societies are unknowingly sustaining an economic system that exploits them, feeling financially strained despite earning decent salaries.
Currency debasement is significantly impacting their purchasing power, with inflation rates outpacing wage growth, leading to a decline in real wages across various OECD countries.

Additionally:
- The average worker faces high tax burdens while struggling to save money, as banks offer low interest rates that do not keep pace with inflation.
- Historical precedents show that every fiat currency eventually fails due to government overprinting, suggesting the current system is not unique.
- The majority of workers continue to comply with the system, like Non-Player Characters (NPCs) in video games, failing to recognise the hidden costs of inflation.
Happy, a growing minority of people are starting to wake up to the harsh realities of the economic system, seeking alternatives like self-employment and Bitcoin as a means of preserving wealth. Are you among the happy ones?
ICYMI - The BRICS Rio Declaration
6 July 2025 the BRICS conference issued their declaration in which they tell you the plan for the coming years. If you are any way interested in what's going on you likely should be aware of its contents. Denome helps you with a walkthrough of the document below and you can download the document here.

TLDR - the does pretty much confirm what Simon has been saying in recent weeks and they are doubling down on all the UN 17 Goals, WEF and WHO nonsense - not to mention crack down on personal privacy and human rights. Lots of DoubleSpeak in the document - it means the opposite of what they seem to say.
There are no coincidences
I know that some of you have been skeptical about my comment on coincidences. If you are among them you should listen to this video explainer. It ought also to remind you of our discussion with Rupert on Presentiment.

Let me give you one more example - isometric projections around 1973:
Consider the year 1973. Go forward 28 years to 2001 - this is when (apparently) a plane flew into the 80th floor of the World Trade Center (WTC), then the tallest building in New York. Go back 28 years to 1945 when a B25 plane flew into the 80th floor of the then tallest building in New York - the Empire State Building. What's special about 1973? - well that was the year that the WTC overtook the Empire State building and became the tallest building in New York.
If you need yet another example try this one - and Jason explains it below:

I already gave you the bigger picture with the Seven Seals - but in case you missed it you can go back here and check again. The supporting download is below:
If you look, you will find dozens, even hundreds of other examples of such synchronicity - these are NOT coincidences.
🤔 Closing Thoughts
Just one item to close out this week and I realise that it may well challenge many. I encourage you to watch and reflect in the spirit of Ethical Skepticism as we have discussed here many times.
As additional background - or perhaps after watching this you might want to revisit our previous discussions on Gnosticism vs Hermeticism and Buddhism. You are certain to learn a thing or two.

Agrippa's diary is a real human creator who has a long track record of high quality analysis. You will find many interesting insights from him. He has an additional channel Vox Occulta - also recommended.
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