A two-step program explains just about everything: 1. Create a false narrative which allows the control of the masses. 2. Create a system where these false narratives cannot be exposed.
The first thing a kidnapper does is gag the victims so they cannot sound the alarm.
The first thing an enemy does in a fight is hijack or disable communications in their adversary so they are blinded and cannot defend or mount a counterattack.
The reason the Bill of Rights was ordered the way it was (this is actually true - originally they were embedded into the text of the Constitution then later taken out and created in the order of importance) is because without the ability to speak, coordinate, assemble, and plan - like those gagged and tied kidnapped victims - we are literally sitting ducks.
We were told to overthrow the US Government if they became tyrannical. You cannot do that if you cannot organize, recognize, and communicate.
The second amendment is second as the remedy to anyone overthrowing the first.
Please write on this nondiscussion not taking place:
Dear President Trump,
Stop! We the People do not, and have never wanted, RealID. Real elected Representatives don't surveil the people they represent and abrogate their first amendment right to privacy. Rulers do that.
Oh, let's see a federal ID with a little yellow star on it. Does that remind of a bygone Reich?
Is the President intentionally handing us over to the Technocrat Globalists, or is it just an innocent mistake?
It's time for an Executive Order to stop this leg of the three legged stool, digital ID, banishing cash in favor of digital currency, and the evil vaccine passports.
If the president won't step in to ban RealID, maybe we can rally support in the States. Decentralization is what is needed. Not more centralization.
Do the right thing for We the People, before May 7th.
Thanks for highlighting this issue, which I haven't researched to any serious degree yet. I have noticed a few other Substack writers who are trying to highlight the scary aspects of the "Real ID" agenda. It all fits into the Greater Control Paradigm. Like you say, digital currency - the same thing. If cash transactions are ever totally banned, that would be "check mate" for real freedom. As you know, we're almost there now. There's definitely a war on cash transactions ... or limits on how much cash can be used or taken out of the country. This qualifies as "genuinely scary" stuff. If we only had a real "watchdog" press ...
I bought a house in Alabama a couple of years ago and refused to do a wire transfer. I did a bank draft instead. The title company tried telling me I couldn't but I persisted. Eventually they relented. Read recently the feds under Trump made electronic payments mandatory. I pay cash for everything possible and have no intention of getting a RealID. Come and get me feds! Can't you see it? What are you in for buddy?
G’day Bill, Thanks for this article. It’s right in my wheelhouse, meaning it’s a recurring theme in my own efforts to awaken folks to the realities of power, and why it is critical for all of us to be more conscious of how it is abused and misused against us, to our increasingly collective detriment. I have restacked your article, and will repost on X. See below FMI.—/—
In 2019 I penned an essay titled “Inside the Submissive Void — Propaganda, Censorship, Power, and Control”. As the title suggests it touches on some of the key themes you’ve highlighted above. Readers herein might find it of interest. Best, GM 👍🙏====
ARTICLE: Inside the Submissive Void — Propaganda, Censorship, Power, and Control, By Greg Maybury
Brief: The use of propaganda and censorship is more frequently associated with totalitarian, corrupt and/or despotic regimes, not modern democracies in the West. Yet the history of how western governments and their ever-vigilant, globalist overlords along with their political underlings have controlled the narrative of the time via these means is a long, storied and ruinous one, going back well before 1914.
No matter how clever we think we are, or how mindful we might be of—and from that consciously resistant to—the corrosive effects of propaganda and censorship, misinformation, disinformation and the incessant lies of officialdom, we’re all susceptible to the forces they unleash, with complacency, arrogance, presumption, ignorance, paranoia, & self-delusion being but a few of them.
Much as the pharmaceutical industry is in the business of poisoning the very life-blood of our physical bodies (on the pretext of protecting our health and well-being), the propagandists and the gatekeepers of the flame are in the business of poisoning the very life-blood of the body politic itself. In their case it’s invariably under the guise of protecting our democracy and preserving our freedom. Or saving us from some vaguely identified, spuriously concocted, yet always existentially threatening, hobgoblin.
Along with serving the contemporaneous political objectives of its perpetrators as contrived, such activities often continue to inform our understanding, and cement our interpretation, of our past. If as Hegel suggested, the only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history, we need look no further as to the main reason why we repeatedly do this.
In this wide-ranging ‘safari’ into the fake news, myth-making, social engineering, misinformation and disinformation wilderness, Greg Maybury does indeed look further, and concludes that in the main, truth is always the bridesmaid, never the bride.
READ NOW: Inside the Submissive Void — Propaganda, Censorship, Power, & Control
Yep. We are both trying to highlight the same narrative-control operations, which, as you note, have been occurring for centuries. I do think these efforts have gone to a new level in recent years. One might think with the Internet it would be harder to conceal important truths. In some respects, this is true. Still, the world's real rulers figured out a "work-around" to get around the possible threat posed by information being spread on the Internet - They just captured all the Big and Key Players who control the Internet.
Thanks for this post. I'll definitely check out your erudite writings on the same subject.
The Conservative Woman is a fantastic information source, experienced investigative journalists, I discovered in 2021. I had already done a deep dive on the US Nudge teams in 2020, tried to share, shadow-banned into an empty room. But when Laura Dodsworth's book "State of Fear" came out in early 2021 I was heartened that others were beginning to share some of what I had learned. She personalized raw data into compelling narrative stories. I had far more data and research than found in her book, but it was dry, lacked personal stories to evoke empathy. Her work exposing the UK Nudge brought me to TCW's work.
They did a brilliant three-part series in 2021 on the UK's behavioural health "fear amplification" that the US also employed for pandemic control - we all "suffered" from "optimism bias" and the Rx was Fear. The "sophisticates" knew better, as Obama's spokesperson said about unmasked guests at his Martha's Vineyard birthday party. Leaders putting masks on for the cameras, then taking them off when finished with public statements, and traveling to see families after telling everyone else to stay home.
They even shared a fancy little table produced by UK authorities showing the plug-and-play app for any behavioral science campaign. Pandemic. QR Code surveillance, Digital Currency, Climate. Gender. Energy. Food. All-purpose:
The UK and US responses were nearly identical. Both had established sister Social and Behavioral Science 'Nudge Units' at the same time under Obama and Cameron. And leaned heavily into them for the "pandemic emergency." A product of Bernays, Laswell, and the other prominent pioneering propagandists of a century ago. Goebbels was a big fan. They learned how to weaponize human psychology to control entire populations. This is what we live under today.
I don't know if the term "Been there, Done that" even applies to what they do to the Adults in the room. Social Engineers have more excuses than Carters got pills as to why their imaginative chimera's should take priority over present realities. I know that with enough "believers" in their own righteousness, any given group can gang-bang those who have dissenting opinions. The combinations of bureaucracies and judges with their show trial courts is hard to defeat when they know that like the 8th step in genocide is denial. They know full well they are doing evil to other people, but have no restrictions (like the myth of "The Rule of Law") when dysregulated actors/actress's can showcase their insanity in a "sanctified" environment.
It seems to me the Narrative Controllers covered all of their bases. There's no "important" organization out there that can stop them or expose them. Knowing this, they act accordingly.
They haven't "gotten" me yet. However, I think it's possible "they" might have concluded, "What Old Bill Rice writes on Substack doesn't matter."
If my writing started to matter, they might turn their attention to me. For all I know, this might have already occurred. One thing I do know is that my Substack newsletter was growing pretty rapidly for about the first year of this newsletter and then - blam! - sudden trend reversal.
My articles no longer REACH nearly as many people and I'm now losing paid subscribers every month.
The Substack newsletters that are growing - exponentially - are those of Narrative-Protecting writers like Robert Reich and Paul Krugman - which is interesting to me.
I in my ignorance along with my late wife always knew there were evil actors/actress's out there, but always assumed that the general population shared a tacit understanding that there are some lines that were never meant to be crossed. They are not only "Crossing the Rubicon" but seem to take pride in those who are the most blatantly daring. How long can they stick their finger in God's face and not get slapped down sometimes makes me wonder what happened to the country that I grew up in, where neighbors were quicker to help other neighbors than hurt them? Old school thinking about "limited warfare" has become folly of those who still believe in "due process" and "fair play". I know I didn't particularly enjoy being reduced to a spectacle in my own life.
But it is also evident that most of humanity either:
1) prefers to remain ignorant of the answer, or
2) hates the answer.
So what is the answer?
John 14: 6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. John 8: 32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
I think about that scripture/maxim - "the truth shall set you free" - all the time.
My conclusion is most people fear the truth. So our project is to convince people they shouldn't fear the truth because it can indeed "set them free" and help them in the rest of their lives.
Being led by evil and lying leaders is not going to help us. These leaders are literally killing millions of people and injuring many more. If we could show these people this was happening, their thinking would/might change.
That's why I keep pulling for the detonation of ONE "thermo-nuclear" Truth Bomb. I don't really care what that Truth Bomb turns out to be.
But it will take journalism - that reaches enough people - to produce this result. This is why Priority One for the Deep State was the capture of mainstream, corporate journalism organizations.
He's got to get permission from President Trump. President Trump should give him that permission IMO. I'm going to soon write a hypothetical speech that President Trump could give to the nation that WOULD be the "thermo-nuclear" Truth Bomb that changed the entire world for the better.
Right?
The first thing a kidnapper does is gag the victims so they cannot sound the alarm.
The first thing an enemy does in a fight is hijack or disable communications in their adversary so they are blinded and cannot defend or mount a counterattack.
The reason the Bill of Rights was ordered the way it was (this is actually true - originally they were embedded into the text of the Constitution then later taken out and created in the order of importance) is because without the ability to speak, coordinate, assemble, and plan - like those gagged and tied kidnapped victims - we are literally sitting ducks.
We were told to overthrow the US Government if they became tyrannical. You cannot do that if you cannot organize, recognize, and communicate.
The second amendment is second as the remedy to anyone overthrowing the first.
Speaking of: narratives are the most powerful mind weapons in our world: https://tritorch.substack.com/p/counterfeit-continuity-in-our-fourth
The perfect analogy germane to this essay. Thanks for making these points in your post:
"The first thing a kidnapper does is gag the victims so they cannot sound the alarm."
Beautifully said TriTorch.
Thank you Laura. (I sent you an email this morning)
Yep - just sat down at my desktop. On it!
Please write on this nondiscussion not taking place:
Dear President Trump,
Stop! We the People do not, and have never wanted, RealID. Real elected Representatives don't surveil the people they represent and abrogate their first amendment right to privacy. Rulers do that.
Oh, let's see a federal ID with a little yellow star on it. Does that remind of a bygone Reich?
Is the President intentionally handing us over to the Technocrat Globalists, or is it just an innocent mistake?
It's time for an Executive Order to stop this leg of the three legged stool, digital ID, banishing cash in favor of digital currency, and the evil vaccine passports.
If the president won't step in to ban RealID, maybe we can rally support in the States. Decentralization is what is needed. Not more centralization.
Do the right thing for We the People, before May 7th.
Thanks for highlighting this issue, which I haven't researched to any serious degree yet. I have noticed a few other Substack writers who are trying to highlight the scary aspects of the "Real ID" agenda. It all fits into the Greater Control Paradigm. Like you say, digital currency - the same thing. If cash transactions are ever totally banned, that would be "check mate" for real freedom. As you know, we're almost there now. There's definitely a war on cash transactions ... or limits on how much cash can be used or taken out of the country. This qualifies as "genuinely scary" stuff. If we only had a real "watchdog" press ...
I bought a house in Alabama a couple of years ago and refused to do a wire transfer. I did a bank draft instead. The title company tried telling me I couldn't but I persisted. Eventually they relented. Read recently the feds under Trump made electronic payments mandatory. I pay cash for everything possible and have no intention of getting a RealID. Come and get me feds! Can't you see it? What are you in for buddy?
G’day Bill, Thanks for this article. It’s right in my wheelhouse, meaning it’s a recurring theme in my own efforts to awaken folks to the realities of power, and why it is critical for all of us to be more conscious of how it is abused and misused against us, to our increasingly collective detriment. I have restacked your article, and will repost on X. See below FMI.—/—
In 2019 I penned an essay titled “Inside the Submissive Void — Propaganda, Censorship, Power, and Control”. As the title suggests it touches on some of the key themes you’ve highlighted above. Readers herein might find it of interest. Best, GM 👍🙏====
ARTICLE: Inside the Submissive Void — Propaganda, Censorship, Power, and Control, By Greg Maybury
Brief: The use of propaganda and censorship is more frequently associated with totalitarian, corrupt and/or despotic regimes, not modern democracies in the West. Yet the history of how western governments and their ever-vigilant, globalist overlords along with their political underlings have controlled the narrative of the time via these means is a long, storied and ruinous one, going back well before 1914.
No matter how clever we think we are, or how mindful we might be of—and from that consciously resistant to—the corrosive effects of propaganda and censorship, misinformation, disinformation and the incessant lies of officialdom, we’re all susceptible to the forces they unleash, with complacency, arrogance, presumption, ignorance, paranoia, & self-delusion being but a few of them.
Much as the pharmaceutical industry is in the business of poisoning the very life-blood of our physical bodies (on the pretext of protecting our health and well-being), the propagandists and the gatekeepers of the flame are in the business of poisoning the very life-blood of the body politic itself. In their case it’s invariably under the guise of protecting our democracy and preserving our freedom. Or saving us from some vaguely identified, spuriously concocted, yet always existentially threatening, hobgoblin.
Along with serving the contemporaneous political objectives of its perpetrators as contrived, such activities often continue to inform our understanding, and cement our interpretation, of our past. If as Hegel suggested, the only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history, we need look no further as to the main reason why we repeatedly do this.
In this wide-ranging ‘safari’ into the fake news, myth-making, social engineering, misinformation and disinformation wilderness, Greg Maybury does indeed look further, and concludes that in the main, truth is always the bridesmaid, never the bride.
READ NOW: Inside the Submissive Void — Propaganda, Censorship, Power, & Control
👀🔗👉 https://tinyurl.com/4tty3dc7
Yep. We are both trying to highlight the same narrative-control operations, which, as you note, have been occurring for centuries. I do think these efforts have gone to a new level in recent years. One might think with the Internet it would be harder to conceal important truths. In some respects, this is true. Still, the world's real rulers figured out a "work-around" to get around the possible threat posed by information being spread on the Internet - They just captured all the Big and Key Players who control the Internet.
Thanks for this post. I'll definitely check out your erudite writings on the same subject.
https://timothywiney.substack.com/p/tavistocks-nudgers
That's an interesting read, especially the parts about Nudge Psychology.
The Conservative Woman is a fantastic information source, experienced investigative journalists, I discovered in 2021. I had already done a deep dive on the US Nudge teams in 2020, tried to share, shadow-banned into an empty room. But when Laura Dodsworth's book "State of Fear" came out in early 2021 I was heartened that others were beginning to share some of what I had learned. She personalized raw data into compelling narrative stories. I had far more data and research than found in her book, but it was dry, lacked personal stories to evoke empathy. Her work exposing the UK Nudge brought me to TCW's work.
They did a brilliant three-part series in 2021 on the UK's behavioural health "fear amplification" that the US also employed for pandemic control - we all "suffered" from "optimism bias" and the Rx was Fear. The "sophisticates" knew better, as Obama's spokesperson said about unmasked guests at his Martha's Vineyard birthday party. Leaders putting masks on for the cameras, then taking them off when finished with public statements, and traveling to see families after telling everyone else to stay home.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/sages-covert-coup/
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/sages-covert-coup-part-two-project-fear/
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/sages-covert-coup-part-three-the-mass-behavourial-science-experiment/
They even shared a fancy little table produced by UK authorities showing the plug-and-play app for any behavioral science campaign. Pandemic. QR Code surveillance, Digital Currency, Climate. Gender. Energy. Food. All-purpose:
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/sage.png
The UK and US responses were nearly identical. Both had established sister Social and Behavioral Science 'Nudge Units' at the same time under Obama and Cameron. And leaned heavily into them for the "pandemic emergency." A product of Bernays, Laswell, and the other prominent pioneering propagandists of a century ago. Goebbels was a big fan. They learned how to weaponize human psychology to control entire populations. This is what we live under today.
I don't know if the term "Been there, Done that" even applies to what they do to the Adults in the room. Social Engineers have more excuses than Carters got pills as to why their imaginative chimera's should take priority over present realities. I know that with enough "believers" in their own righteousness, any given group can gang-bang those who have dissenting opinions. The combinations of bureaucracies and judges with their show trial courts is hard to defeat when they know that like the 8th step in genocide is denial. They know full well they are doing evil to other people, but have no restrictions (like the myth of "The Rule of Law") when dysregulated actors/actress's can showcase their insanity in a "sanctified" environment.
It seems to me the Narrative Controllers covered all of their bases. There's no "important" organization out there that can stop them or expose them. Knowing this, they act accordingly.
They haven't "gotten" me yet. However, I think it's possible "they" might have concluded, "What Old Bill Rice writes on Substack doesn't matter."
If my writing started to matter, they might turn their attention to me. For all I know, this might have already occurred. One thing I do know is that my Substack newsletter was growing pretty rapidly for about the first year of this newsletter and then - blam! - sudden trend reversal.
My articles no longer REACH nearly as many people and I'm now losing paid subscribers every month.
The Substack newsletters that are growing - exponentially - are those of Narrative-Protecting writers like Robert Reich and Paul Krugman - which is interesting to me.
I in my ignorance along with my late wife always knew there were evil actors/actress's out there, but always assumed that the general population shared a tacit understanding that there are some lines that were never meant to be crossed. They are not only "Crossing the Rubicon" but seem to take pride in those who are the most blatantly daring. How long can they stick their finger in God's face and not get slapped down sometimes makes me wonder what happened to the country that I grew up in, where neighbors were quicker to help other neighbors than hurt them? Old school thinking about "limited warfare" has become folly of those who still believe in "due process" and "fair play". I know I didn't particularly enjoy being reduced to a spectacle in my own life.
I know the answer to this problem.
But it is also evident that most of humanity either:
1) prefers to remain ignorant of the answer, or
2) hates the answer.
So what is the answer?
John 14: 6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. John 8: 32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Simple. But humbling.
I think about that scripture/maxim - "the truth shall set you free" - all the time.
My conclusion is most people fear the truth. So our project is to convince people they shouldn't fear the truth because it can indeed "set them free" and help them in the rest of their lives.
Being led by evil and lying leaders is not going to help us. These leaders are literally killing millions of people and injuring many more. If we could show these people this was happening, their thinking would/might change.
That's why I keep pulling for the detonation of ONE "thermo-nuclear" Truth Bomb. I don't really care what that Truth Bomb turns out to be.
But it will take journalism - that reaches enough people - to produce this result. This is why Priority One for the Deep State was the capture of mainstream, corporate journalism organizations.
I’ve gone through something similar, so I know where you’re coming from.
https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/the-institutional-suppression-of
Bill - did you listen to Tucker’s interview of congressman Curt Weldon talking about 9/11?
Also, how about this:
https://x.com/JackPosobiec/status/1913229239836348517?t=pItJLCeCk7Lpca4NNPezmg&s=19
Not yet, but I will. When is Tucker going to interview Tom Haviland and Richard about the embalmers' clots?
I would very much like to know the answer to that question. My best guess is - when he is permitted to.
He's got to get permission from President Trump. President Trump should give him that permission IMO. I'm going to soon write a hypothetical speech that President Trump could give to the nation that WOULD be the "thermo-nuclear" Truth Bomb that changed the entire world for the better.