Puppet Masters
In a tweet, the outspoken provider of safe-spaces, retweeted an essay by Charles Eisenstein entitled "The Conspiracy Myth" which appears to go against everything Twitter has done.
So, we ask in all seriousness, why did Dorsey - who has shown himself, via his actions, to be an enemy of any non-establishment-sanctioned narrative with his suspension and banning of any tweets or twitter-ers that dare to offer alternate views - retweet an essay that raises doubts about the over-arching threat of "conspiracy theories" to snowflakes, promotes the idea of exploring all sides of an argument before dismissing it, and most ironically, rails against "information suppression" and centralized decisions based on someone's "trustworthiness"?
Read the essay for yourself (emphasis ours):
The Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C., said in a post on Facebook that the article by Bloomberg, which cited a poll last month conducted by Russia's main state-funded pollster, the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM), was "written to promote fake graphs and create sustainable false visual images about the 'negative dynamics' in Russia."
The report on Bloomberg noted that only 27 percent of respondents in the poll, published on April 27, named Putin when asked to name a politician they they most trust.
Comment: The implication, by Bloomberg, being that only 27% of Russians trust Putin.
The embassy, however, said that "the editors of Bloomberg continue to show complete disrespect for its readers" since the "real level of trust" is 67.9 percent, a number that refers to a second part of the poll that asked specifically whether the respondent trusted Putin.
Comment: Which is true, but RFE/RL will never frame it that way. Imagine a poll asking to list your favorite composer. 27% of people respond "Bach". Does that mean that only 27% of respondents like Bach. Obviously not. Some just prefer Beethoven, or Prokofiev.
Bloomberg has not commented publicly on the issue.
Those receiving subsidies and loan guarantees are no doubt grateful, though they probably see it as the government's duty and their right. But someone has to pay for it. In the past, the redistribution of wealth through taxes meant that the haves were taxed to give financial support to the have-nots, at least that was the story. Today, through monetary debasement nearly everyone benefits from monetary redistribution.
This is not a costless exercise. Governments are no longer robbing Peter to pay Paul. They are robbing Peter to pay Peter as well. You would think this is widely understood, but the Peters are so distracted by the apparent benefits they might or might not get that they don't see the cost. They fail to appreciate that printing money is not just the marginal source of financing for excess government spending, but that it has now become mainstream.
Comment: See also:
- The Federal Reserve's massive mismanagement of US finances
- The Federal Reserve is enslaving the public with infinite money
- 'F-You, Main Street!' Federal Reserve will now buy junk bonds while it bails out banks and billionaires
- The Federal Reserve is contemptuous of non-elites and about to make the financial system much, much worse
- Was the Federal Reserve just nationalized?
With the supply chain in disarray, many companies (like Apple) are trying to shift their manufacturing base to dodge the pandemic. Of course, none of them want to bring factories back to the US; there's simply no incentive to do so. And, the small business sector has been crushed by the shutdowns, with the vast majority of those seeking bailout loans still waiting for aid and over 20.5 million employees laid off in April alone.
Needless to say, the economy has been severely affected. The problem is that many people are being led to believe that this event has been triggered by the virus outbreak alone. This is a lie. As I noted back in February in my article 'Global Centralization Is The Cause Of The Crisis - Not The Cure', the collapse of the Everything Bubble was well underway long before the pandemic. The crash was started by the Federal Reserve hiking rates into economic weakness at the end of 2018, puncturing the bubble and setting the liquidity crisis in motion.
The president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, expressed his desire to discuss possible cooperation in rocket construction with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Having previously suggested the possibility of building Chinese missiles in Belarus, Lukashenko insisted that there should be "no dependence" on foreign actors.
"Let me then negotiate that on my level, I'm ready to negotiate that with Xi Jinping, I don't think that will be a problem", the president said.

On May 18, JMOD established Space Operations Squadron which is the first space domain mission unit for JMOD. DM Kono handed unit-flag and gave a speech to encourage the commander and the other representative, who will be the pioneers in the new domain, with great expectation.
The ministry will consider procedures for responding to, recording and reporting on UFO encounters as their unknown nature might cause confusion among Self-Defense Forces pilots.
The videos released Monday by the U.S. Defense Department were taken in 2004 and 2015. Some show an elliptical flying object with unprecedented speed and maneuverability.
Comment: Reported a day earlier was the announcement of a new "Japan-US space domain mission unit" intended to "strengthen cooperation and the security of the Indo-Pacific region":
A second Iranian oil tanker, the 'Forest', entered the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Venezuela early Sunday, met by the country's navy. It followed the first tanker from Iran, the Fortune, that successfully reached the Venezuelan coast a day before.
Three more oil tankers are expected to arrive to Venezuela from Iran. The five vessels are carrying an estimated 1.53 million barrels of gasoline between them.
Editor's note: John Solomon's columns regarding Ukraine became a subject of the House Intelligence Committee's impeachment inquiry against President Trump. Any updated information can be found at the end of the column.
When I was a young journalist decades ago, training to cover Washington, one of my mentors offered sage advice: When it comes to U.S. intelligence and diplomacy, things often aren't what they first seem.
Those words echo in my brain today, as much as they did that first day. And following the news recently, I realize they are just as relevant today with hysteria regarding presidential lawyer Rudy Giuliani's contacts with Ukraine's government.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D), who has suggested he might make wearing face masks mandatory, was spotted on the boardwalk in Virginia Beach on Saturday — without a mask.
The Daily Beast quoted a spokesperson for the governor, who tried to help him save face:
Alena Yarmosky, a spokeswoman for the Democratic governor — a physician who has repeatedly urged Virginians to wear face coverings in public — said he was "outside yesterday and not expecting to be within six feet of anyone. This is an important reminder to always have face coverings in case situations change," adding, "we are all learning how to operate in this new normal, and it's important to be prepared."However, the governor was pictured taking selfies with beachgoers — at far closer range than six feet:
In a nutshell: no GDP target for 2020; a budget deficit of at least 3.6% of GDP; one trillion yuan in special treasury bonds; corporate fees/taxes cut by 2.5 trillion yuan; a defense budget rise of a modest 6.6%; and governments at all levels committed to "tighten their belts."
The focus, as predicted, is to get China's domestic economy, post-Covid-19, on track for solid growth in 2021.
Also predictably, the whole focus in the Anglo-American sphere has been on Hong Kong - as in the new legal framework, to be approved next week, engineered to prevent subversion, foreign interference "or any acts that severely endanger national security." After all, as a Global Times editorial stresses, Hong Kong is an extremely sensitive national security matter.
This is a direct result of what the Chinese observer mission based in Shenzhen learned from the attempt by assorted fifth columnists and weaponized black blocs to nearly destroy Hong Kong last summer.














Comment: An interesting question, why did Dorsey tweet this article when it suggests taking a line of action and inquiry into conspiracy narratives that is the opposite of what he has done for the past several years? Is he changing his mind about the best way to 'protect' society from the 'dangerous' conspiracy theories, or is it something else?
As for the article he tweeted, it doesn't fully taken into account all of the facts that go into supporting the case for the grander conspiracy that the article takes only as a myth, and much of what the author brings up as real isn't connected or put in its proper context or perspective. The author is right when he says that the human elites aren't the puppet masters and that there is something higher than humans at work on human consciousness that is creating the appearance of conspiracy that people are seeing. However, it's not myths. The real truth of what's at work is far stranger than that.