179 - Manchester day
🇬🇧 We have had a busy week. Over the weekend, breaking pattern (as my friend Jason recommends), V and I made a trip to Manchester to meet up with some HK friends! All of this was combined with the arrival of the Belgians so there was plenty of logistics to manage (V's superpower). We all had a nice birthday lunch celebration on Monday - so that's it for another year.
As a pattern-break this one was superb. Whilst we had not planned it, we arrived in Manchester on Manchester Day. The city was decked out for an all-day festival and the weather was perfect for the day. We got to enjoy all the parades in addition to the required sites (eg John Rylands library, St Ann's and the Cathedral - all open free to visitors). Even better - there is a really lively social scene in Manchester and lots to do and see with plenty of great places to eat out. We were staying right in the centre and there is a plethora of public transport available.
History and life lesson of the week
Have you ever felt like a honeybee? You work tirelessly, day in and day out, building your savings—your personal store of honey. But just when you think you’re secure, a beekeeper arrives. With a puff of smoke called inflation and the jarring shake of a financial crisis, your hard-earned wealth is systematically extracted, leaving you to start over.
This isn’t an accident; it’s the design of our global financial system, a hive controlled by a select few. Victoria will explain - click below:
The Birth of the Debt Machine
The blueprint for this system was laid centuries ago. In 16th-century England, King Henry VIII's repeal of usury laws unlocked the power of debt, paving the way for joint-stock companies and financing geopolitical ambitions. The creation of the Bank of England supercharged this model with fractional reserve banking, granting governments the god-like ability to create money from thin air.
This new power was tested early. The South Sea Bubble of 1720 provided the perfect crisis. When it burst, the elite didn't lose; their institutions absorbed the toxic debt, and the public paid the bill through higher taxes and a devalued currency. Sound familiar? This became the playbook for managing every crisis since.
Currency as a Weapon of War and Control
This ability to manipulate money became the ultimate tool of state power. Britain’s flexible fiat system was a key weapon in its victory over Napoleon. Fast forward to the 20th century, and the Bretton Woods agreement cemented this power on a global scale, establishing the US dollar as the world's reserve currency and centralising financial control in the United States.
Today, this control is managed by a near-invisible layer of global governance. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS)—the central bank for central banks—oversees global banking regulations and the SWIFT payments system, giving it immense power over the flow of money worldwide.
To keep the bees in the hive, the system maintains an illusion of prosperity. It offers social goods like healthcare, pensions, and welfare, but these promises are built on a foundation of ever-expanding debt and a currency designed to lose value over time.
Click below for the full summary, including steps you can take going forward.
Roger Price
Click for summary and the complete transcript
Victoria is not the only one to see this. Tom shares his similar thoughts and he cites many of the same historical examples. As he explains: the idea behind this particular video comes from a lot of co-workers that he's met. They seem so into their roles at work. They are either very good at pretending, or they really fell for the work myth. It's not just a job to them; it's a definition of their persona. It's who they are. And that's the sad part!
Tom doesn't see himself as an enlightened free spirit. He fell for it, too. The difference is he woke up and saw the truth and maybe you do too?. Knowing the truth is half the battle because that's how you start getting out. So don't give up.
Over the course of the last six months, Tom started making wage slavery videos and then started his own business. He opened a web shop, he created a digital course, he wrote his own book and a ton of PDF tutorials. He's working on his escape and you know as well as I do that he's going to succeed. The big question here is, will you?
More in this issue
- Photo memories - Manchester Day - out and about, breaking pattern
- Project Updates - Backup/Restore and WhiteNoise messaging
- Plenty of useful links - don't say nobody told you!
- Closing out - Epstein and worse - it's all intertwined
Manchester Day - out and about - breaking pattern this week
🛠️ Project Updates
With my birthday and all the travel over the weekend, I was already on the back foot for project work this week. Then trouble struck, testing my backup processes. Happy to say that all is well. What are you doing?
Testing your backups
It was certainly not on my plan for this week but I did get the opportunity to (re)test my backup strategy. During the week I had a disk failure and the computer would no longer even boot at all - this is indeed rather unusual and certainly a worst case scenario - especially when travelling!
You may recall that way back in Newsletter #3 I described how important backups are and how important it is that you test them. A good starting point is the 3-2-1 strategy. Have at least three copies of your important data on two different backup media with at least one copy somewhere offsite. You can always increment these numbers to make things more resilient.
One possible remote backup is Backblaze. It used to be rather affordable but in the last two years they have dramatically increased their pricing and they limit you in number of devices and require connected USB drives. More worrying is that their so-called Private Encryption requires that you trust them not to store your key when you provide it via their web-client. I cannot recommend it.
Recently I discovered iDrive. As always, DYOR - but their scheme gives you unlimited devices (nice) with a quota of 5TB (sufficient for most) and they offer proper Private Key Encryption with no key sharing via their App - the key is known only to you. Even better - their solution also backs up Linux computers as well as Android and iOS phones.
Above all, remember that if you have not tested your backup, you can be pretty sure that you do not really have one. Test everything - including restoration of things like browser caches, application keys and licenses and hidden files. Have you tested yours recently?
White Noise - how interesting
This is a fascinating listen. You ought to be well aware that the major messaging services are thoroughly untrustworthy - Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram etc. The best alternatives that I have found are Session and Signal, both of which have strong security and only a few drawbacks.
Nostr is the up-and-coming ecosystem that I and many others are working on and with. Until now its messaging capabilities were sub-optimal since that had not been the prime focus. WhiteNoise changes this - it brings secure messaging for Nostr build from the ground up with all of the best security features built in.
Listen as Max and Jeff explain why and how they built this - you will learn a few things:
(04:00) Secure Private Messaging, (06:56) Signal Protocol vs MLS Protocol
(15:25) Nostr's Role in Secure Messaging,
(24:38) Privacy and Metadata Concerns, (31:02) White Noise App Overview
(36:37) Mesh Networking and Future Plans
(45:00) Interoperability with Other Clients
(52:53) MLS Protocol Features and Upgrades
(58:07) Funding and Development of White Noise
(01:04:29) Vibe Coding vs Traditional Coding
(01:09:09) Community Involvement and Future Plans
đź”— Links for your edification
The following are links from my NetNewswire feeds - learn, enjoy and share.
Lecture 2 - the truth around WW1 (and WW2)
Two weeks ago you had Lecture 1 - here is Lecture 2. Warning: you likely will be horrified to hear what the Bank of England did in 1913 and 1914 to enable them to fund the First World War. This truth only got uncovered in 2017 and we also now know how the governments of the time lied about what they were doing.
The truth is still available on the Bank of England website if you know where to look (maybe download and safestore it before it disappears): The Bank of England 1914-21 (Unpublished War History). Saifedean also explains how all of this inevitably led to WW2.
The devil is in the detail
Thanks to Denome who has done a thorough analysis of the recent US Crypto Regulations. You may think that these do not affect you - you are wrong. I suggest that you likely do want to listen to his analysis
And you can read the report yourself here.
Meanwhile - in the UK...
Collapse seems ever more imminent and certain. Banana-republic tactics are now being deployed in full force.
🤔 Closing Thoughts
This week I have a couple of important articles for you to think about. These are not easy topics but it really is time to take your head out of the sand and acknowledge what is going on.
Time to stop pretending
It is time to stop pretending to yourself. The reality is that the politicians are absolutely corrupt - they are part of the organised crime that calls itself "Government" and that keeps it's citizens in a state of fear and submission.
Recall that this was explained to you in Anatomy of the State and it was the conclusion of the Report from Iron Mountain.
Here, Charlie tells you rather clearly why the Epstein files will never be released - they are far too valuable an asset of control to whoever holds them. They are and will continue to be used. Charlie shares facts more than a decade of research.
In related vein and with a few twists - consider this article by Alex Krainer. He recounts his discussion with EM Burlingame - you will recall that I have cited both these folks recently (here and here) and they are likely on the money.
Alex Krainer
Click for Alex's summary article - or here for the discussion
Tired of Epstein? Remember Dutroux!
All of the above is not just in the USA - it is everywhere (eg UK and Ireland). Recall what happened Belgium - click and listen (hard as it may be) to this excellent interview of Carine Hutsebaut by William Ramsey. For the full summary of what happened, recounted by one who was there - click here.
In the mid-1990s, Belgium was plunged into one of its darkest chapters by the horrific crimes of Marc Dutroux. The nation watched in horror as the fates of six children were revealed. While two girls, Sabine Dardenne and Laetitia Delhez, were rescued alive from a hidden, custom-built dungeon in Dutroux's cellar, four others—Julie Lejeune, Mélissa Russo, An Marchal, and Eefje Lambrecks—were murdered. The tragedy was compounded by the gut-wrenching realisation that it was entirely preventable.
The investigation was a catalog of failures, defined by staggering incompetence, crippling rivalry between police forces that refused to share information, and missed opportunities that cost lives. Public fury reached its zenith when the lead investigating judge, the one man the public trusted, was removed from the case on a flimsy technicality. This act was seen not as justice, but as the establishment protecting itself, confirming the people's worst fears that the entire system was rotten from within.
This profound betrayal of trust ignited a peaceful, powerful uprising of the Belgian people. On October 20, 1996, an estimated 300,000 people—an astonishing number for a small country—flooded the streets of Brussels in what became known as the White March (La Marche Blanche). Dressed in white to symbolise the innocence of the victims, mourning, and a demand for a "clean" government, they walked in a deafening silence that spoke volumes. This was not just a protest; it was a collective vote of no confidence in the Belgian state. The sheer scale of this public outcry was impossible to ignore - we need more of this today.
Listen carefully to what Carine explains about how the follow-up actions have been, and continue to be, perverted by those in charge.
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