Biomedical. Yet another leading global health entity admits to having no actual scientific evidence of viruses.
Christine Massey, 4/17/24.
Greetings and Best Wishes,
An anonymous colleague in Japan has been sending me freedom of information (FOI) responses from health/science institutions showing that the Japanese “experts” have no record of “viruses” being found in and purified from any sick person on the planet - even though this is a necessary step in order for valid sequencing, characterization and controlled experiments to take place.
The failure of researchers around the world to obtain purified particles means that no scientific evidence of an alleged “virus” is even possible. Period, end of story. This colleague has been in touch again, this time alerting me to a series of FOI responses from Japan’s National Institute of Infectious Diseases that were posted to twitter.
Her email speaks for itself (emphasis is mine):[Massy’s]
“Last year, July, one Japanese man whose name is Takashi Uehara (上原敬), he filed FOIAs to National Institute of Infectious Diseases Japan(NIID).
One request was "Scientific evidence, papers, etc. that prove that human papillomavirus (HPV) is a pathogen". 3 months later, NIID gave him 4 useless, distracting and irrelevant references, (pic1) [Link]
Another request was "Scientific evidence, papers, etc., proving the existance of varicella-zoster virus (VZV)". NIID also gave him 4 useless, distracting and irrelevant references. [Link]
So he changed the request this way and asked NIID again this Feb;
For HPV:
"Records of the pathogenicity confirmed using purified human papillomavirus (HPV)"
This time the answer from NIID was "Not in possession of administrative documents” [Link]
(pic2)
For VZV he filed the same request and got the same answer.[Link]
At that time he filed so many same requests for other "viruses", and the answers were all the same, "Not in possession of administrative documents."
RSV[Link]
Smallpox virus [Link]
Adeno virus [Link]
Yellow fever virus [Link]
Ebola virus [Link]
Hepatitis B virus [Link]
Influenza virus[Link]
Avian influenza virus [Link]
Classical swine fever virus [Link]
Rubella virus [Link]
Rota virus[Link]
Please feel free to use his tweets and photos!”
Another colleague in Japan confirmed the contents of these FOI responses for me: Here are pdfs containing the relevant tweets from Takashi Uehara, with automated English translations, and the FOI confessions from Japan’s National Institute of Infectious Diseases: part 1, part 2.
Like all of my recent newsletters, this one has been sent to 170+ people working for “the state” or lamestream media at Canada or Isle of Man so that they cannot claim ignorance:
Related [Links]
My comment at the page.
Jeffrey Strahl
Lockdown Times, 8:55PM, 4/17/24, US Pacific Time. Liked by Christine Massey FOIs
"But, but, but... viruses are obvious, you don't need papers to know they're around. I've been around sick people and then gotten sick. You gotta trust the experts." :-)
Thanks again, Christine. Can't wait for someone to try that "reasoning" with me.
And, Eric Francis Coppolino recorded a speech to RFK Jr campaign volunteers by “campaign philosopher” Charles Eisenstein. This was in Kingston, NY, where he lives, it’s 90 miles north of New York City. He got to talk to him on the side after the event, long enough for a 4 minutes exchange.
The RFK Jr campaign came through town, in the person of its philosopher, Charles Eisenstein. Eric Francis Coppolino, 4/17/24.
[Audio player, an hour and 11 minutes. The exchange is the last 4 minutes or so.]
Good evening,
Tonight I’ve got for you a presentation by Charles Eisenstein, who was here in Kingston, New York tonight with the RFK Jr. presidential campaign. He arrived in an official Kennedy 2024 bus and spoke at the Senate Garage on the grounds of the Senate House and its museum — the first meeting place of the New York State Senate in 1777. The presentation opens with RFK making a statement to the New York volunteer team, from Texas. There was no open Q & A, but at the end, I got in a question with Charles off to the side. Here is that audio separately.[Link]
Thanks to the many people who emailed me about this event. Though Leland Lehrman had invited many other news outlets, no others were present that I could see. Three daily newspapers, one weekly newspaper, two TV stations and many local radio stations operate here in New York’s first capital. The Albany Times-Union has a correspondent who lives in town. I saw no evidence of any of them.
Thank you to my subscribers, who help make it possible for me to do this kind of spot reporting, plus our long-term projects, Planet Waves FM, journalism training via Chiron Return, and much else. This is a Substack like no other.
— efc
My comments at the page.
Jeffrey Strahl
Lockdown Times, 4/17/24/
Eisenstein LIED about legacy. He made out FDR to be "anti-imperialist." Never mind that via Bretton Woods and the like, and the UN, the CFR under FDR (in fact, while Henry Wallace was VP) created the post WWII US dominated New World Order. FDR cemented this personally via meeting with Kind Saud of Saudi Arabia in Feb 1945 on a US navy ship docked in the Suez Canal, created the petrodollar and the US-Saudi alliance.
He lied about the entire post WWII era, "the greatest country in history," in fact a rampaging murderous empire. And he lied about JFK's ample role in furthering that legacy. i've discussed this with Eric on two occasions.
I discussed the Kennedys directly, in a conversation regarding the discussion between RFK Jr and Joe Rogen.
I discussed the Trilateral Commission \ in this one, the Kennedys came up.
Junior is against censorship? How about RFK Jr's tweet in October lauding Bill Ackman, a hedge fund billionaire, over his demands that Harvard U repress expressions of opposition to the Israeli genocide?
And here's more about Charles Eisenstein (CE)
Camelot Corner with Operation Snow White and Charles Eisenstein as Troubadour, Alison McDowell, 5/26/23.
Regarding the second video, From the blog entry,…...
"I also made two presentations focused on the role Charles Eisenstein, advisor to Web3 social impact platform Celo, will be playing to frame out a mythology around Bobby’s “Kennedy Democrat” candidacy. In the first video I explain how the initial phase of “authoritarian government” overreach set the stage for decentralized “tagged” agents exercising a radical, participatory digital “democracy” in a surveilled “commons” using tokens and a language of programmed “community” currency in a new game of noetic emergence. Also featured is the Bretton Woods 75 anniversary event sponsored by Bancor’s Galia Benartzi, Benjamin Netanyahu’s niece by marriage to his third wife Sara. The event, which was held at the historic Mount Washington hotel and featured yoga, storytelling around the campfire, tea ceremonies, and a lively debate over the future of reserve currencies (dollar, yuan, or crypto), was attended by 200 stakeholders from the worlds of global finance, blockchain, and social impact venture philanthropy. Charles gave a keynote presentation on inter-beingness, the death of “Mother Earth,” and the emergence of a new spirit, “Lover Earth,” that comes expecting gifts and is going to be keeping track of donations and withdrawals by humanity (cue distributed ledger technology).
In the second installment, I pulled clips from a podcast Charles and Bobby did last May about the need to move on from the climate / carbon discussion, braiding the strands of eco-Bobby, with health freeDOM Bobby, and now Bitcoin Bobby. I demonstrated the hypocrisy Charles embodies as he calls for the transition to a sacred gift economy, even as he maintains a close affiliation with Celo and Sep Kamvar. Kamvar stays busy tokenizing human and natural capital (see IoT sensors in the slippers of pre-k children enrolled in the Wildflower Montessori franchise he founded while at MIT) and devising novel ways to scale remote sensing and automated measurement for the nature backed currency that Eisenstein proposed in his book “Sacred Economics.” I also laid out my concerns around Kennedy’s proposed recovery Peace Corps models based on my research into impact markets in the addiction space and the problematic history of San Patrignano.” MdDowell emphasized that what she has done is NOT about "questionable ties to the global technocrat criminals” but about the Blockchain-run society RFK Jr himself is advancing, lamenting how many of her readers and viewers just don’t understand what she is saying and jump to facile conclusions. [Two videos]
"In this episode I'll start examining the role Charles Eisenstein is playing in the RFK Jr. candidacy with a focus on decentralized community currencies and tokenized markets in Web3 "regenerative" finance.”
My notes/comments. Charles Eisenstein (CE) is now the “philosopher” of the RFK Jr presidential campaign. W.Aaron Vandiver "Can We Reboot the Environmental Movement — So It Protects Freedom, Too?’ 5/11/23 at CHD puts forth a Blockchain libertarian “alternative” social ecological movement, , connects to the ideas of Extinction Rebellion found Jem Brendell, evokes a 1865 speech by RFK Sr, and advances the notions of a “community currency” digital structure. “Resistance community” managed with a game based upon digital tokens. Decentralization system analysis, specialty currencies as per CE. Bendell has converted from corporate environmentalism to “eco-libertarianism.” CE however works with Celo, very much a corporate digital space entity. See the excerpt from the Blog entry, above, re Bretton Woods 75th anniversary and CE’s keynote address at it.
4IR. Jesse Zurawell is back, interviewing Fabio Vighi, focusing on the latter’s new article. which is the next item down.
The Methods Section | Episode 7 || Fabio Vighi Part one of a critical survey of the "Fourth Industrial Revolution" through the lenses of history, political economy, technology, and empire building. Jesse Zurawell,, interviewing Fabio Vighi. 4/17/24. An hour and 38 minutes.
My comments. An extremely interesting discussion, often involving Vighi’s new article. Good part about how the people of Gaza are regarded as "surplus population,” no longer of use to capital, which wants to move them away and rebuild Gaza as a “SMART city.” I was taken aback by the idea that “Egypt doesn’t want them.” Why should the Egyptian government take them in? This would outright serve the Israeli aims of cleansing them out of Palestine, it’s an Israeli talking point, which makes the Palestinians “Arabs” who can be resettled in other “Arab nations,” as if they aren’t the indigenous people there.
Good point about how 4IR is the first phase during which capital is conscious of the transformation, and also using the technological change to not only change the production process but to prepare to deal with its consequences, i.e. lots of people displaced from the capital accumulation process, pushed to the margins of society. These are people such as the ones in Congo who go into mines abandoned by Chinese firms to try to extract what little is left in hopes of selling it to make survival money.
I have to differ re Adorno’s analysis that the problem with technology is the capitalist context. This technology cannot exist without the global capitalist industrial system, from the research labs which develop it to the extraction of the raw materials to the internationalized production process to the distribution. The Frankfurt School actually believed the technology could be appropriated by a liberated society and used for human needs, and i think the reality is much less sanguine.
Discussion of Al Jazeera’s coverage of Gaza, how it has been deemphasized since January. Media consumers have been subjected to a shifting parade of spectacular atrocities. They got once again into a discussion the thoughts of Jaques Ellul’s thoughts regarding technology and how its development has become a dynamic separate from the money angle, seeking ever more “progress” as part of its inner rationale. Vighi opined that the desire to learn more is just a human drive, and the question is whether this can be separated from the logic of capital. More discussion about the human ability to even control technological development any longer.
Fascinating discussion of steps the “surplus population” could take to establish itself as an independent force striving for a new society rather than merely striving to be somehow re-incorporated into the present, capital-determined one. The final sentence from the new article by Vighi (see below) is "Many of the future generations will find themselves occupying the position of “human surplus” with respect to blind and furious profit-making dynamics. They are likely to end up locked into a system of control with respect to the capitalist zone of interest, or worse. But precisely as “inoperable and disposable excess” they represent the negation (and potential rejection) of the system. In all probability, a socio-anthropological horizon of sense alternative to the capitalist one will have to be built by and for them from that position of radical exclusion.”
Zurawell brought up the invasive and enslaving aspects of developments which are being posed as aides to autonomy, such as crypto-currency, widely embraced by the “Freedom” movement as being a means to liberation from the system’s prerogatives, an utter delusion given the actual technology behind crypto, e.g. the Bank for International Settlements being the entity which keeps records of crypto transactions. Also Substack, where this very conversation was posted, (and where i have my blog), whose list of financial backers includes Andreessen Horowitz, a key promoter of 4IR. Substack is marketed as a way for people to independently earn income, again an illusion in terms of independence from the reigning system. Vighi and Zurawell will be resuming this conversation soon. I’m looking forward to that.
And, a good chunk of Vighi’s article.
Our Zone of Interest: The Noise of Permanent Warfare, Fabio Vighi, 4/15/24.
We should never lose sight of the bigger picture. The string of geopolitical conflicts we are experiencing (as a rule, anticipated by corporate media and escalated when financial markets are closed) are neither accidental nor arbitrary. They are symptoms of growing systemic fragility, inscribed in the dialectical deployment of the collapsing logic of capital. Such a depressive constellation – in no way unique in history but symptomatic of the implosion of our civilisation – is captured by the popular dictum “when all else fails, they take you to war”. The causal connection between socioeconomic collapse and relentless emergency may appear counterintuitive, and yet it is the existential requirement of global late-capitalist work society insofar as it is supported by the artificial creation of colossal and ever-increasing amounts of debt. We must appreciate the inverted logic at play here: wars at the periphery of Empire are not the reason for economic decline. Rather, the implosive economic environment activates military conflicts in a desperate bid to save appearances and postpone its redde rationem. Wars (especially when marketed as humanitarian, defensive, or “against terror”) are, in essence, criminal means to “easy money”, which is what keeps today’s financial bubbles inflated to record-breaking highs while the actual economic conditions of millions of workers (or “inactive workforce”) are cratering at an equally record-breaking pace.
Let’s zoom out a little further. The enormous mass of debt that for decades has been pumped into a labyrinthine financial architecture, which requires constant refinancing through more debt, is now the key driver of the eschatological narratives that have mushroomed all around us – from the anthropic climate change (aka global warming) planetary catastrophe to the Covid pandemic [i.e. Operation “Pandemic”] and the revenant of the nuclear holocaust. The debt spiral we are in is a death spiral, literally. It can no longer be placed in any “productive” context. World debt is surging at an unprecedented pace while the real economy is contracting steadily, with no end in sight. In capitalist terms, more and more debt must be brought into existence to chase the debt that hangs over our heads like a sword of Damocles. Without this mechanism in place, the entire financial and socioeconomic system locks up. And it is easy to imagine what would ensue: mayhem in the streets, civil wars, the disintegration of the social bond. However, the immediate side effect of perpetually expanding debt to “finance emergencies” is currency devaluation – the epochal crisis of the money-medium that is already sweeping the globe.
Perhaps it is a sign of the times that even the sharpest thinkers, historians and geopolitical commentators struggle to comprehend the existential nature of the liaison between our debt-based economic system and military escalations. Especially, they seem to fail to understand why the hyper-indebted West keeps trying to pick a geopolitical fight. Yet, it is a very simple logic: today’s emergencies are not independent variables but the destructive modus operandi of implosive capitalist reproduction. The sound of bombs in Ukraine, Gaza and the Middle East is the operatic accompaniment to the deadly dance of recession and inflation in the era of QE-infinity, stagnating incomes, and structural debt monetization. The ineluctable realities of economic implosion need to drown in the deafening cacophony of war, or the promotion of its threat. Psychopathic financial elites love the smell of napalm in the morning. The Maginot Line of their financial casino is under such severe pressure that only continuous geopolitical noise can preserve the illusion of systemic sustainability. This is how perverse the mechanism has become: global capital needs Covid, Ukraine, Gaza, the Houthis and now (predictably) Iran – ideally all at once, but also in alternate weeks – so that the can is kicked a little further down the road.
The accelerating disintegration of the highly integrated socioeconomic system demands more social destruction and human blood so that the sacred profiteering mechanism can grind on. The economic function of the global industry of chaos & destabilisation is, at heart, aggressively self-defensive: it works as a Pavlovian trigger for 1) mass monetary injections into the bulimic body of financialised capitalism; and 2) the turning of the authoritarian screw on immiserated populations. We should not be afraid to spell it out: the havoc wreaked on humanity by “crisis capitalism” feeds into the formation of a new totalitarian order, namely a techno-fascist, AI-driven interoperable control infrastructure that draws its force from, among other things, infectious pseudo-leftist rhetoric.
Whether it is identity politics, concern for public safety, or the new religion of net-zero green economy, such humanitarian rhetoric plays a powerful ideological role for two interconnected reasons: it responds to the need to manipulate and control increasingly destitute populations while also disabling any serious collective struggle against rampant poverty and the physical removal of the superfluous, unproductive “wretched of the earth” (of which the Palestinians are today’s exemplary incarnation). In a nutshell, the critique of political economy is pre-emptively disabled by faux-leftist conservatism serving the interests of the elites rather than the underprivileged and excluded. The result is that oppression has long become anonymous: any sense of class solidarity is lost, while the atomised masses fail to grasp that they have turned into objects of a socioeconomic process that, in a bitter twist of irony, they enthusiastically support.
Insofar as it works with corporations, bankers, and the invisible elites, the liberal left is contributing to the exacerbation of our systemic crisis. That today’s “progressive” discourse is not only unable to reflect on the economic cause of the emergency paradigm, but also denounces it as conspiratorial, is the definitive proof of its surrender to, or opportunistic participation in, the destructive logic of contemporary capitalism. Especially the fashionable, middle-class liberal left is now a pathetic force for status quo conservation, and has therefore relocated to the right. Any left deserving of its name should always begin from the beginning: the critique of political economy. This task is particularly urgent at a historical time when the discourse of political economy (the reproduction of capitalist conditions whatever it takes) has achieved global dominance. Its criminal operations are in full view, and to turn a blind eye to them is equally criminal. The consequences we are facing are dire. In the best-case scenario, the steady devaluation of fiat currencies translates into unforgiving de-socialisation: the bleeding to death of the social link.[SNIP]……
Jeffrey Strahl, Lockdown Times, 4/17/24.
More on Charles Eisenstein.
Alison McDowell on RFK Jr, Charles Eisenstein and their “beyond carbon” discussion of May 2022, juxtaposed with various statements/videos by them and associates over the last several years. It’s the last of the three videos in McDowell’s recent Camelot Corner blog post, the first two of which were discussed by me in previous LT editions.
The blog post, and the relevant note from it.. [See above for link and title]
The video is at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvRicYbX_CU
Moving Beyond Carbon - How About Peace Corps Recovery Centers? Camelot Corner, Alison McDowell, 5/26/23. Just under four hours.
My notes/comments. Time marks are approximate.
A lot on impact investment. RFK Jr’s campaign will take donations in Bitcoin, he promoted it at a Miami cryptocurrency conference. Smart contracts, impact investing, social engineering via cybernetics. Charles Eisenstein (CE) has not admitted his link to Celo, which is all about impact investing, in spite of Alison’s repeated questions posed to him.. (about 17:00) CE brings together "the strands of eco-Bobby, with health freeDOM Bobby, and now Bitcoin Bobby.” This was at the 5/6/22 joint appearance,
1:22:00 - Digital surveillance, put forth as a boon to ecosystems, to be extended to the entire world. RFK Jr states his goal to "restore “free market capitalism.”” Meanwhile CE pitched tight regulation via Blockchain to the Bretton Woods 75 conference (see previous video). Glaring contradiction. They both have it wrong. The problem is NOT “corrupt actors” but the system as a whole.
1:29:00 - New Economy, New Economy Society, “co-ops” based on token incentives. impact markets. Human capital finance foundations, and Open Society (Soros). Applying Blockchain to traditional practices, coopting them, digitizing them. CE talks against putting economic value on ecosystems. Applying all this to “health Care." Meanwhile Celo via a tweet (March ’20) talks about doing exactly that to rainforests, saying it is inspired by … CE See Leo Saraceno at Silicon Icarus for details. . CE puts forth Bobby Jr as a “crusader,” while we’re being driven into the global ant computer. (2:00:00)
2:02:00- RFK Jr puts forth a “recovery” program for addicts in Italy, San Patrignano, as a good model for his proposed Peace Corps. Turns out this was a labor camp, a program run by an Italian capitalist, heir to an oil fortune, program investigated, criminal charges filed over abuse. People were even indicted and convicted. Large businesses were involved, including Italy’s oil giant ENI. Free labor power for business.
2:55:00 - Celo founder Sep Kamvar, as “inspired by CE,” on natural capital-backed currencies. Even though CE is against measuring this way?!! 3:04:00 - Turn citizen service into a tokenized relationship. 3:10:00 - The Kennedy legacy, evoking the Agency for International Development, created by JFK in 1961, as a promoter of “sustainable development.” It actually has facilitated US imperialism, AID acting as a branch of the CIA. Ted Kennedy, as senator, was responsible for Education Accountability, aka No Child Left Behind, which facilitated takeover of education by technology, something Ted Kennedy facilitated together with George W Bush.
3:24:00 - CE talks of JFK’;s presidency as “anti imperialist.” McDowell, a thorough researcher, didn’t bother doing much research into the sordid details, said little aside from speculating that maybe the powers wanna shift to using psychological force vs military force. This “anti-imperialist" characterization is an audacious, outrageous lie. JFK made a big deal during the 1960 campaign and then his presidency about re-enabling the US military to fight actual wars, vs total dependency upon nuclear weapons. Built up army conventional forces. And created the Green Berets, the intent being counterinsurgency war, The Special Forces Center in Ft Bragg, NC. bears his name. The JFK administration was the godfather of Latin America's death squads, via AID. The historical record is quite clear. See for instance the North American Council on Latin America's ample records. (NACLA)
After making anti-CIA statements, JFK in November 1961 (per brother Bobby’s advice) appointed major corporate bigwig and head of the then Atomic Energy Commission (!) head John McCone to head the CIA. The "Company" then went on (while JFK was president) to overthrow governments in Ecuador, Guatemala, El Salvador, British Guiana and Iraq, and carried out a de facto coup in Canada to oust John Diefenbaker as premier, a man JFK "hated" (per Bobby Senior) because he refused to arm Canadian air defense missiles with US nukes, and in general refused to integrate Canada's air defense system into NORAD, McCone did oppose the overthrow of the Diem regime in "South Vietnam" (a US created puppet) but was overruled by JFK. And JFK totally supported US backing of NATO, an organization whose prime purpose was and still is to facilitate US domination of Europe and Eurasia/Africa.
3:36:00 Crowing about the campaign drawing support from both “left” and “right,” including Lew Rockwell, the head of the Mises Institute, an “anarcho-capitalist.” Meanwhile, support from the mainstream centrists like the New America Foundation. integral theory, “the good kind of capitalism,” capitalism with “spirituality." Del Bigree’s father, pastor of the Unity Church in Boulder. Talk of how the Kennedy presidency was a “fork in the road,” Kennedy mythology. Breitbart puts forth the idea that Bobby Sr ran in 1968 “against the military industrial complex,” when in reality he stated in his speeches that he was against a pullout from Vietnam, simply wanted Vietnams troops to do more of the ground fighting and also to counter “corruption.” The talk in the movement is all about “the deep state,” and very little about Web3, Blockchain digital slavery.
My full comments at Eric's page regarding Eisenstein. First.
https://wrenchinthegears.com/2023/05/26/camelot-corner-with-operation-snow-white-and-charles-eisenstein-as-troubadour /
Camelot Corner with Operation Snow White and Charles Eisenstein as Troubadour, Alison McDowell, 5/26/23.
Regarding the second video, From the blog entry,…...
"I also made two presentations focused on the role Charles Eisenstein, advisor to Web3 social impact platform Celo, will be playing to frame out a mythology around Bobby’s “Kennedy Democrat” candidacy. In the first video I explain how the initial phase of “authoritarian government” overreach set the stage for decentralized “tagged” agents exercising a radical, participatory digital “democracy” in a surveilled “commons” using tokens and a language of programmed “community” currency in a new game of noetic emergence. Also featured is the Bretton Woods 75 anniversary event sponsored by Bancor’s Galia Benartzi, Benjamin Netanyahu’s niece by marriage to his third wife Sara. The event, which was held at the historic Mount Washington hotel and featured yoga, storytelling around the campfire, tea ceremonies, and a lively debate over the future of reserve currencies (dollar, yuan, or crypto), was attended by 200 stakeholders from the worlds of global finance, blockchain, and social impact venture philanthropy. Charles gave a keynote presentation on inter-beingness, the death of “Mother Earth,” and the emergence of a new spirit, “Lover Earth,” that comes expecting gifts and is going to be keeping track of donations and withdrawals by humanity (cue distributed ledger technology).
In the second installment, I pulled clips from a podcast Charles and Bobby did last May about the need to move on from the climate / carbon discussion, braiding the strands of eco-Bobby, with health freeDOM Bobby, and now Bitcoin Bobby. I demonstrated the hypocrisy Charles embodies as he calls for the transition to a sacred gift economy, even as he maintains a close affiliation with Celo and Sep Kamvar. Kamvar stays busy tokenizing human and natural capital (see IoT sensors in the slippers of pre-k children enrolled in the Wildflower Montessori franchise he founded while at MIT) and devising novel ways to scale remote sensing and automated measurement for the nature backed currency that Eisenstein proposed in his book “Sacred Economics.” I also laid out my concerns around Kennedy’s proposed recovery Peace Corps models based on my research into impact markets in the addiction space and the problematic history of San Patrignano.” MdDowell emphasized that what she has done is NOT about "questionable ties to the global technocrat criminals” but about the Blockchain-run society RFK Jr himself is advancing, lamenting how many of her readers and viewers just don’t understand what she is saying and jump to facile conclusions.
The video is at.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ffWRhmzoi8
Courting "Lover Earth" With Cybernetic Community Currencies - Camelot Corner, Alison McDowell, 5/26/23, three hours and 47 minutes.
"In this episode I'll start examining the role Charles Eisenstein is playing in the RFK Jr. candidacy with a focus on decentralized community currencies and tokenized markets in Web3 "regenerative" finance.”
My notes/comments. Charles Eisenstein (CE) is now the “philosopher” of the RFK Jr presidential campaign. W.Aaron Vandiver "Can We Reboot the Environmental Movement — So It Protects Freedom, Too?’ 5/11/23 at CHD puts forth a Blockchain libertarian “alternative” social ecological movement, , connects to the ideas of Extinction Rebellion found Jem Brendell, evokes a 1865 speech by RFK Sr, and advances the notions of a “community currency” digital structure. “Resistance community” managed with a game based upon digital tokens. Decentralization system analysis, specialty currencies as per CE. Bendell has converted from corporate environmentalism to “eco-libertarianism.” CE however works with Celo, very much a corporate digital space entity. See the excerpt from the Blog entry, above, re Bretton Woods 75th anniversary and CE’s keynote address at it.
CE is about “debt jubilees, Universal Basic Income (UBI and digital currency, a cyber-regulated structure. RFK Jr is meanwhile promoting Bitcoin. Excerpts shown from his recent speech at a Crypto conference. “Your [digital]wallet is your own.” Alison emphasizes that the CBDC is jus one said of the emerging threat we face, the one which the likes of RFK Jr and much of the “freedom” movement exclusively focus upon. Community currency is the alleged “alternative” which in fact is NOT an “alternative.” 21:00 Surveillance is to be done to develop patterns to make predictions and engineer the people via He promotes “decentralization.” Yet he wants to keep the US as the center of Crypto, while calling for “some regulation.”
Government to be left behind n favor of machine encryption coding world. “Bitcoin is neutral” really means “accept Bitcoin domination.” Control grid coming via tokens, digital devices, compliance with the game. A move from “authoritarian government” to digital life. run by tokens. CE talked about digital currency way back in 2013. Entry on 5/15/23 at CE’s Substack https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/a-major-life-change "A Major Life Change.”
"It all started a couple months ago with a “coincidence.” Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. knew my work vaguely before then, as a fellow Covid dissident and environmentalist. But that had little to do with this coincidence. One of my readers won a fundraising raffle for “a day of falconry with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.” She was allowed to take a guest, so she invited me. I have no interest in falconry, but since I’d always admired Kennedy, I accepted the offer. There were a lot of people there, at least 15 including me and my son, Cary. At lunch, one of them was declaiming at length on some topic. I was just listening. But then Mr. Kennedy turned to me and said, “Charles, what do you think?” That is what began the relationship."
Not true, they did a major presentation together a year ago. So, CE promotes debt jubilee, UBI and a life run via digital currency, while RFK Jr is promoting eco-libertarianism. Contradictions, anyone? CE’s remark about “the nature of money” is totally bogus. Money is NOT “natural,” it is a totally contrived instrument of social control, made universally necessary on because of the global imposition of capitalist social relations, starting with the Enclosures in late medieval England and then spreading elsewhere via coercion. At 1:08:00, CE speaks, asserts that “money is a story.” Eh, right, just a story