🇹🇭 The weather here in Bangkok has continued to be rather pleasant. It is not as hot as I remember it in previous years at this time. Even so, we are getting to the end of our stay here. Shortly we will be heading West for the spring and summer.

V and I have been making the most of our last days in the city and have been visiting places all over town. We have tried plenty of new restaurants and coffee shops and got to see and walk through some great neighborhoods.

Monday was the regular Bitcoin meetup. Mostly just the regulars today. Some of them live here and others, like us are just visiting. Bangkok in the evenings reminds me a lot of how Hong Kong used to be 10-15 years ago.

V has used her superpowers and all our travel and accommodation is booked for our trip, all the way till we are back home again in Hong Kong in the autumn. We have our stake in the ground and will refine as/if needed. Do say "hello" if/when we pass nearby or when you find yourself in town with us. How is your planning for 2026 going?

Book of the week

As you know, I always have several books on the go. It has been quite some time since I shared a book review, so here is a good one. This is part one of a series that Mark was inspired to write after making his podcast series, Where is My Mind?

Mark Gober challenges the materialist view by arguing that consciousness is independent of the brain, supported by evidence from near-death experiences, psychic phenomena, and reincarnation research. Gober posits that consciousness acts as a receiver, not a generator and this perspective offers a framework to understand phenomena that traditional science struggles to explain, leading to profound implications for our understanding of human existence and potential.

Upside down Everything

Mark Gober joined Greg to discuss his book An End to Upside Down Everything, which challenges materialist assumptions about consciousness, reality, and human capabilities. The interview covered near-death experiences, psychic phenomena, the nature of consciousness, and implications for how we understand human existence. Core Thesis: Consciousness Beyond the Brain Gober’s

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Some specific examples that he substantiates with plenty of evidence:

• Near-Death Experiences (NDEs), particularly 'veridical NDEs' where accurate perceptions occur during cardiac arrest (eg, the AWARE study), are presented as evidence for consciousness surviving death.
• Psychic phenomena like Remote Viewing (studied in the Stargate program by Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ), precognition (eg, Daryl Bem's research), and telepathy (eg Ganzfeld experiments) are supported by scientific research.
• Reincarnation research, notably by Dr. Ian Stevenson and Dr. Jim Tucker at the University of Virginia, systematically investigates children's past-life memories with verifiable details, including birthmarks matching wounds.

In past newsletters I have shared the work of many scientists here who are suffering suppression and vilification for their work. They are following the true scientific method, requiring evidence and accepting that any theory can (and should) be invalidated by a single piece of conflicting evidence. Click below for their full manifesto and to understand how "corrupted science" has defrauded and continues to defraud humanity.

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More in this issue

• Photo memories - Exploring Bangkok with V
• Project Updates - Sideswap, Liquid, Fastmail and Linux
• Plenty of useful links - don't say nobody told you!
• Closing out - Sovereign Individual (ch 8-11) and Flag Theory

🛠️ 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?

Sideswap and Liquid

Scott, co-founder of SideSwap joins Matt to discuss their non-custodial wallet and swap infrastructure on the Liquid sidechain, highlighting features like atomic swaps, peg-in/peg-out services, and an open order book market.

Scott and Sideswap

Scott, co-founder of SideSwap, joined Matt on Citadel Dispatch to discuss their non-custodial wallet and swap infrastructure built on the Liquid sidechain. The interview covers SideSwap’s growth, technical architecture, privacy features, and their new prediction market initiatives using Simplicity smart contracts. Citadel Dispatch - CD194 Sideswap-transcriptClick for the full transcriptCitadel

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I agree with Matt that Liquid is an extremely useful component in the Bitcoin infrastructure and the features that it enables are not yet widely appreciated. This gives opportunities for developers and early adopters - what are you waiting for?

Gmail alternatives

We all know how difficult it can be to get off Google services in general and Gmail in particular. Using Google Takeout is an essential tool and it will give you a permanent backup of all of your old mail but it is not easy to use and even loading it into Thunderbird is not a great experience.

Fastmail, by an Australian company, is a seriously interesting tool that does enable you to take your mail out of Google and have it easily accessible while being private. Once active, you can safely delete mail in your Google Gmail account and it remains available in Fastmail.

Fastmail

Here is a summary of Henry’s interview with Ricardo Cignas, Chief Engineer at FastMail, highlighting significant and surprising points. Summary Ricardo Cignas has spent 20 years in email—10 at Pobox.com, which FastMail acquired a decade ago. He remains driven by FastMail’s four core values: being stewards of your

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The Fastmail clients are good, running on Web, iOS and Android/GrapheneOS. Fastmail is also feature-rich giving you pretty much all the tools that you might want from the Gmail suite. Click above for a summary and to listen to an in-depth interview with their Chief Engineer. You can also try it free of charge for 30 days.

Switching to Linux

As the strangle-hold tightens around you and your data from Big Tech (Apple, Microsoft and Google), you likely are beginning to wake up and realise that this is serious. It is past time to get off those platforms (at least for most of your work) and have and use self-sovereign alternatives. Below are a couple more testimonials - it is way easier than you might think, it is inexpensive and it really is fun.

Foci on Linux

Foci’s Six-Month Linux Journey: From $25 iMac to Digital Independence Foci’s monologue documents a rapid descent into the Linux ecosystem, beginning with a simple experiment and expanding into home labbing, digital privacy advocacy, and open-source commitment. What makes his account notable is his self-identification as a non-technical user—he explicitly

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BTW - the worst thing that you could do is pick up one of the new Mac Neo computers. It is indeed interesting that Apple should have made it so modular and repairable but it is absolutely limited in terms of capability and, as Ryan explains, you can get a very much better computer for less than half the price and this will be an option that will be good for years.

My take is that the MacBook Neo from Apple is just their attempt to get more people locked into the Big Tech dragnet where everything you do will be surveilled and constrained. Buy one and you will regret it - you have been warned.

Principles of Economics

I am continuing to share Saifedean's Lecture Series. Lecture 2 introduces subjective value and marginal analysis as core Austrian economics principles, emphasizing that value is a human judgment, not an inherent property of goods, as illustrated by the fluctuating value of oil. It explains that scarcity is permanent due to limitless desires and that individuals make economic decisions based on the marginal utility of goods, valuing them by their least important use, which resolves paradoxes like water versus diamonds.

Principles of Economics 2

This lecture establishes subjective value and marginal analysis as the foundational concepts distinguishing Austrian economics from other schools. Saifedean argues these principles, introduced by Carl Menger in 1871, transformed economics entirely and remain essential for understanding all economic phenomena. Principles of Economics Lecture 2_ Value-transcriptPrinciples of Economics Lecture 2_ Value-transcript.

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I highly recommend that you do take the time to listen to these lectures. You will learn much about how the world really works. Spoiler: it is not what you are told.

🔗 Links for your edification

The following are links from my Liferea RSS feeds - learn, enjoy and share.

All the world is a stage

I tend to agree with Simon's analysis of the events playing out in the Middle East. He interprets this as a "managed transition" to a multi-polar world order. The deeper you dig, the more it does indeed seem that the conflict is orchestrated by competing factions within global power structures. Simon makes a good case.

Simon on Week 2

The Hormuz Oil Shock Simon Dixon’s analysis of the second week of the Iran war focuses on market reactions, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, and what he interprets as a “managed transition” to a multi-polar world order. The transcript reveals his theory that the conflict is theatrical rather

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Remember that part of the orchestration will likely include one or more "false flag" events on a large scale (rather like 9/11, Gulf of Tonkin, RMS Lusitania and others you should be familiar with). Be ready to recognise these and do not let yourself be fooled.

Whatever you believe, you will do well not to participate in the nonsense. You want to opt out and deny your consent at every possible opportunity. Do not give this any of your energy or life force. There are much more important and useful things to do with your time.

You should realise this by now

Tom discusses how manufactured fear is used as a control mechanism in society, keeping people trapped in jobs and dependent on systems that profit from their anxiety. Tom advocates for recognizing fear as a signal rather than a command, suggesting small steps towards building independent income and integrating life for personal transformation.

Society runs on Fear

Tom opens with his father’s story: an engineer who spent decades building houses for resentful bosses, chasing a receding retirement. Late in life, his father discovered his true passion—building with his own hands—and began constructing rental apartments for independent income. Cancer struck before completion. Tom sees this tragedy

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The challenges are real but you can succeed and Tom makes some useful suggestions that he is doing himself. Other constructive options that we have discussed include doing one or more semesters from The Preparation. Those of you who are programmers or have the inclination to do software development are more than welcome in the Bitcoin space - check out Calle's call to action.

🤔 Closing Thoughts

A couple of related closing thoughts this week. First is a nice summary of Chapters 8 through 11 of The Sovereign Individual - you will likely be surprised by the accurate description of current events - written back in 1997. After that CTO Larsson gives some solid and well substantiated insights into how to apply the Sovereign Individual thesis, practically.

A recommended read

Even if you do not read the whole book, do click through to the summary here. You will find how current events were accurately "foreseen" from 1997 as well as probable next steps in the big plan; you can already see those unfolding if you open your eyes and look around you today.

Sovereign Individual - today

I have reviewed and recommended The Sovereign Individual book before. It is such an important and foundational read. Written back in 1997, it foresaw so many of the elements that have transformed society, including: cryptocurrency, mobile computing and mobile phones, remote work, and the erosion of traditional state power in

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How and why to do it

We have discussed Flag Theory and Jurisdictional Arbitrage before. In this explainer CTO Larsson gives you real insight into how it works and the effect that it can have on your life earnings and quality of life for you and your family. This is also as "foreseen" in the Sovereign Individual.

Where to plant your flag

CTO Larsson, a former telecom CTO who helped develop 2G-5G mobile data technology, shares his analysis of why wealthy entrepreneurs and investors should consider relocating from Western “old world” countries to underrated destinations in Asia and the Mediterranean. Having lived in 10 countries with his family, he combines personal experience

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