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Category: Manifesto

  • The Expert Class: Manufacturing Consent Through Media and Power

    This article dissects the rise of a credentialed “expert class” that serves as the managerial layer for the elite. Moving seamlessly through revolving doors between government, corporations, media, and academia, this class acts as the gatekeepers of acceptable thought, enforcing the status quo and shaping public policy to benefit their patrons and themselves.

    The Iron Triangle: Revolving Doors of Power

    This section will illustrate the feedback loop where individuals cycle between roles in government agencies (like the Department of Education), corporate boards, think tanks, and philanthropic foundations (like the Gates Foundation). We will analyze how this creates an “iron triangle” that writes, funds, and validates its own policies, ensuring a steady flow of taxpayer money and public grants into private hands while locking out any external critique.

    The Propaganda Engine: How the Expert Class Controls the Narrative

    Here, we explore how this class co-mingles with media and intelligence to manufacture consent. This analysis will integrate several key tactics:

    • Modern Mockingbirds: An examination of the historical relationship between the CIA and major newsrooms, and how those tactics of narrative control have evolved in the digital age.
    • Consolidated Messaging: A case study of media empires like Sinclair Broadcast Group, which dictate identical, centrally-written scripts to hundreds of local news stations, creating an illusion of grassroots opinion.
    • Algorithmic Gatekeepers: An investigation into how Google and Facebook’s algorithms are designed with inherent biases that suppress dissenting information and create curated information bubbles.
    • Weaponized “Truth”: A look at the network of “fact-checking” organizations, often funded by the very same entities (like the Gates Foundation) whose influence they claim to be neutrally assessing.

    The Fusion of Power: Big Tech and the Surveillance State

    This section focuses on the increasingly blurred line between Silicon Valley and the intelligence community. It will cover the flow of talent and contracts from agencies like the NSA to tech giants, and the use of powerful surveillance tools like those developed by Palantir for domestic policing, creating an unprecedented apparatus for monitoring the public.

  • F-35 Lightning Scam

    This article explores the following key points:

    • Cost overruns ($1.7T).
    • Coercion of allies.
    • Performance fails vs alternatives.
    • Expert suppression.
    • Fiat waste in budgets.

  • The Fiat Engine: How the Monetary System Funds Control and Destroys Public Wealth

    This final article reveals the underlying financial engine that powers the entire structure: the fiat monetary system. By severing the U.S. dollar from gold in 1971, the government granted itself the unlimited ability to create money, which it uses to fund endless wars, bail out corporations, and enrich a select few, all while silently taxing the public through inflation and destroying middle-class wealth.

    The 1971 Nixon Shock: The Birth of the Inflation Tax

    This section will explain the historical significance of ending the gold standard. Using clear charts and data, it will show the subsequent 98% decline in the dollar’s purchasing power and the great decoupling of wages from productivity. This created a permanent “inflation tax” that erodes savings and devalues labor.

    The Blank Check: Funding War, Bailouts, and Corporate Welfare

    Here, we follow the money. This analysis will track the trillions in unaccountable “black hole” spending at the Pentagon, the hidden details of the $29 trillion 2008 bank bailouts, and the vast sums of corporate welfare disguised as subsidies or tax breaks. It will argue that these are not policy failures, but core features of a system designed for massive wealth transfers from the public to the elite.

    The Great Divide: Asset Bubbles and Wealth Destruction

    This section explains how the system creates two different economic realities. For the elite, constant money printing inflates the value of the assets they own (stocks, real estate, art). For the working and middle classes, it manifests as a rising cost of living and the devaluation of their savings and wages, widening the wealth gap to historic levels (e.g., the 344-to-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio).

    Sheltering the Gains: Tax Havens and Philanthropic Control

    The article concludes by showing how the elite shield their gains from the very system they perpetuate. We will investigate the trillions hidden in offshore tax havens and, critically, how philanthropy is used as a tax shelter. Foundations like Gates’ allow billionaires to avoid taxes while using their untaxed wealth to influence public policy, effectively creating a shadow government that completes the architecture of control.

  • Halliburton Iraq Goldmine

    This article explores the following key points:

    • No-bid contracts (Cheney ties).
    • Profits/human costs.
    • Oversight lapses.
    • Post-war scams.
    • Global occupation model.

  • FDA Capture and Drug Pricing Monopolies – Health as Profit Machine

    Regulatory revolving, overpricing, suppressed alternatives; ties to expert class (med school capture), fiat (Medicare fraud).

  • Afghanistan Papers Exposed

    This article explores the following key points:

    • Progress lies (20 years).
    • Media complicity.
    • Contractor windfalls.
    • Veteran impacts.
    • Fiat funding endless conflict.

  • Opioid Conspiracy

    This article explores the following key points:

    • Purdue risks known (memos).
    • FDA approvals help.
    • Doctor incentives.
    • Epidemic stats/human cost.
    • Lawsuit lack of change.

  • COVID Vaccine Billions

    This article explores the following key points:

    • Pfizer windfall (profits).
    • Auth shortcuts/side effects.
    • Global distribution inequalities (Gates).
    • Expert biases in approvals.
    • Fiat taxpayer rollout funding.

  • FDA Revolving Door

    This article explores the following key points:

    • Gottlieb pipeline (examples).
    • Conflicts/rules weak.
    • Reforms failed.
    • Inequality in drug access.
    • Ties to education (med school influence).

  • Insulin Monopoly

    This article explores the following key points:

    • Price-fixing by 3 companies.
    • Lobbying for life-saving meds.
    • Alternatives suppressed.
    • Global pricing disparities.
    • Fiat welfare to pharma corps.