195 - Macau this week
🇭🇰 🇲🇴 We are really making the most of our stay in Hong Kong. In addition to doing all the usual things this week, V and I broke pattern again - we did a trip over to Macau. Since we had such a good time in Madeira, why not visit its twin over here in the Far East!
Macau is about an hour from Hong Kong on the high speed ferry. You have many options to get there including bus, car and helicopter. We opted for the ferry - nice and relaxed and they will include transport in Macau if you want! We had a fabulous time - and we got upgraded to the VIP suite!
On arrival we skipped the free shuttle and walked into town visiting quite a few interesting sights on the way, including Sun Yat Sen house and the new Guia pedestrian tunnel as well as Lou Lim Ioc garden. Once in town we wandered around all the normal sights including Ruins of St Paul and around Senado but also quite a few other places we had not been before. From there we took the new MRT down to Cotai and did a tour of all of the major hotels and casinos before our show - the Dancing Waters at City of dreams.
Of course we also got to Happy Valley Horse races. We had another great evening there. We've had a cold snap during the week with temperatures dipping to 12 degrees C - that's about as cold as it gets here in HK Central. Luckily it is back up again and it's looking good for the weekend.
Interviews of the week
A couple of fantastic interviews this week. Since I go hiking most mornings to the Peak or outlying islands I had plenty of time to listen to lots of great material this week. A couple are below:
ESC - Escape Key
James Dellingpole does some great interviews and this recent one is well worth a listen. Escape Key's true identity is a mystery but he has recently made a name for himself for talking plenty of sense. Here he talks to James about the inner workings of the New World Order.
If you are looking for supporting evidence, check out his substack and this recent fascinating article:
Substack
Click for ESC's recent in-depth analysis
David Icke is back
You may have noticed that David Icke is back on YouTube again, having been banned for many years. Like so many others who have been banned in recent years his unbanning is surely part of the bigger plan that is being orchestrated.
Greg is a great interviewer and he does a great job in this chat with David. They cover plenty of familiar ground if you have read The Reveal and they go much further as David talks about his upcoming book, The Roadmap.
I have not been able to get my hands on a copy of the new book yet but I will as soon as I can. Meanwhile I know that at least one of my subscribers in the UK was in the lucky group who got one from the first production run - so I'll be looking forward to his review and I'll be getting mine in January.
Click above for the interview - book for pre-order here
For the full length interviews from Greg, you can subscribe on his website and this gives you lots of interesting features like full transcripts, searching and downloads of all his interviews over the last 13 years or so.
For another example of David's work from 2016 watch here. You will be amazed. Backup here - in case he gets banned again!
More in this issue
- Photo memories - Macau this week
- Project Updates - Gold Standard(!), NanoGPT and Bitcoin
- Plenty of useful links - don't say nobody told you!
- Closing out - Only if you are ready - Fasten your seatbelt
Around Macau this week
🛠️ Project Updates
The following are updates from some projects that I am following, supporting and collaborating with. These are all part of the Parallel Systems that we need to build and use. What are you doing?
The Gold Standard
Saifedean has a new book and the title is somewhat "tongue in cheek". What would the twentieth century have looked like on a gold standard? What would have happened to the state without its money printer? What would have happened to prices, wages, living standards, capital markets, politics, energy production, technology, and education?
In The Gold Standard, Saifedean answers these questions with a unique alternative history that is one-third history, one-third novel, and one-third economic analysis. In 1911, French aviation pioneer Louis Blériot partners with the Wright brothers to build the Blériot Transport Corporation (BTC), an airplane-based decentralised peer-to-peer gold-settlement network.
Click for more details and to get your own copy
I have got my copy and it is nice to buy and pay in Bitcoin for which you get a 10% discount. I'll be reviewing this in due course - get your own and enjoy! Meanwhile do listen to this interview of Saifedean taking about his book.
You will learn so many things just by listening to this - do not skip it!
Monthly statistics for October
You will know how important it is to protect your privacy if you use any AI systems. This is why NanoGPT is so interesting. Just like Mullvad VPN you do not need to give any personal information to create an account (not even an email address) and data is only stored in your browser on your computer.
Beyond that, they also offer a most interesting pay-as-you go model that gives you anonymous access to all of the major AI models and you can pay using fully anonymous Monero. As you can see from the stats below, this is a popular option.
Monero payments surged to 50.28% of all payments, up over 7 percentage points from September’s 42.76%. Privacy demand continues to accelerate.
Click for the full breakdown and analysis
In case you were wondering
I am including a couple of shorts from Adam this week - they really are so good. He is remarkably smart, eloquent, amusing and brutally direct in his delivery - I recommend both of these.
In this one he explains why Bitcoiners are happy when the price goes down - hint: in addition to being able to buy more at last year's prices, there are many other interesting factors - including Bitcoin's tendency to "sniff out" what's coming ahead of time.
🔗 Links for your edification
The following are links from my NetNewswire feeds - learn, enjoy and share.
A good reminder - you have been warned
With all the talk about Digital ID, it really is time to wake up to the fact that you have been warned about this many times. One of the best and clearest warnings came in the 1960's TV series, The Prisoner.
We have talked about this before and I highly recommend that you go back to refresh your mind and check our previous discussion and links. This week I found this recent explainer and it makes me want to go back and watch the series again!
This should surprise nobody
Of course, the EU is now quietly undoing the protections that you had with GDPR. They are doing their best to push through changes that weaken your protections in ways that all happen to favour big tech and AI companies in particular. You certainly did not vote for this, nor will you be consulted or asked. It is up to you to take action and demand that they stop - as Henry explains.
You can read the full story here and this includes many useful links that you can use to make your disgust and objection known.
Click for the full details and plenty of useful links to escalate your discontent
Pushing all the levers
Adam gives and sincere and heartfelt summary of the choice ahead. To be seen what happens next - we can hope that this progresses although Elon surely is just another part of the Empire machinery.
That said, the Empire is known for betting on all the horses in the race and if anyone in the Empire can ride this horse, it would be Elon. Let's see.
🤔 Closing Thoughts
Just one closing thought this week. I have been reading this book for the last couple of weeks. I include it here rather than Book of the Week since I know that not everyone is yet ready for the contents. If you are reading here then maybe you are ready - even so you will find this challenging but the result is well worth the effort.
You do need to be prepared for this one - or you may be too shocked by what you discover. I highly recommend that you make sure you have listened to one or both of the following before going further:
Start with Joe Atwill's Caesar's Messiah - recall that we have discussed this before. Grok's view is here.
Then move on to Ralph's lecture on Jesus, King of Edessa. He goes further than Joe's analysis in several interesting directions. He will likely startle you with who Paul really was, considering that Paul wrote at least 13 of the 27 books in the New Testament - and he may well have been the real writer of the Gospel of Luke and Acts of the Apostles as well. All the pieces in the puzzle fit together, once you see this.
So, now you should be ready - fasten your seatbelt and get going. Listen the interview below and/or get your own copy of the book and read it yourself. Listen in the spirit of Ethical Skepticism and do not react emotionally - rather take time to listen to the arguments and consider the evidence.
A couple of quotes extracted to get you started:
Today we have utterly forgotten that heresy derives from the Greek heraisthai, "to choose". To be heretical means to have choices and not be forced or obligated to believe what one is told to believe. A heretic is free to choose what to believe and what not to believe.
I regard feminism as a perfidious and tiresome strain of cultural Marxism, totally opposed to the true cause of the Divine Feminine. Social leadership by men is not categorically wrong, but with the wrong men, it is. With the wrong women, even worse.
The truth is out there - click above for the images - here for the interview - summary and specific topics below
02:32 John Lash is a scholar known for his work in Directive mythology and his unique interpretations of Gnosticism.
10:11 ️Discussion on heresy as the choice to keep spiritual options open, contrasting with mainstream Christianity.
16:29 ️The murder of Hypatia symbolises the end of pagan intellectualism and the beginning of the Dark Ages.
20:39 ️Lash explains how the rise of Christianity led to the systematic destruction of pagan knowledge and culture.
35:21 ️Gnostics emerged from mystery schools to openly debate and criticise the dominant Christian belief system, resulting in their persecution.
39:02 ️Abrahamic religions have historically caused more wars and divisions than any other factor.
42:13 ️The "redeemer complex" devalues human autonomy, promoting reliance on a superhuman authority rather than individual conscience.
44:53 The "victim-perpetrator bond" explains why Europeans replicated their own history of genocide in the New World.
53:04 Lash highlights Marcus Aurelius' "Meditations" as an example of pagan ethics emphasising love, truth, and trust in human goodness.
2:05:18 Theocracy originated in ancient Babylon (~4000 BC) as a form of social control with the rise of agriculture and city-states.
2:05:45 Early rulers employed astrologers and soothsayers to legitimise their authority through divine ancestry myths.
2:06:41 Lash argues that the Anunnaki story is channeled disinformation used by theocrats to maintain social control.
2:08:00 Gnostics teach that human thoughts can be influenced by archons, external entities manipulating through fear and deception.
2:08:29 Gnostics believe humans possess divine imagination (epinoia) to see through archon deception and reclaim mental power.
2:21:29 Final remarks emphasise the importance of Gnostic knowledge in liberating humanity from theocracy and oppressive belief systems.
Using the Coptic word 'HAL', meaning "simulation", Gnostic cosmological texts explain that the many-mansioned heaven of the Demiurge is a virtual cosmos, a virtual reality (VR) world.
So - there you have it. This does seem to fit pretty much all the pieces of the puzzle. The answer might not be what you expected or wanted to hear and I am the first to say that not all the pieces may yet be fully correct but this is the most all-encompassing source-based narrative that seems to cover all the bases. WDYT?
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