Beyond the deep state: blackmail, surveillance capitalism, and people as drones—this is just the tip of the iceberg (the work of Whitney Webb and Shoshana Zuboff).

Whitney Webb is the person I know who comes closest to uncovering the truth. I’ve previously written that Aaron Good and Max Blumenthal are excellent sources of information about the real world—and they are. However, while they focus on the fight between capitalist groups or the struggle between the West and the rest of the world, Whitney Webb goes even deeper, uncovering truths beyond this surface-level narrative.

From my earlier post, you may understand that “Communist” China is not actually communist; it practices state capitalism. This puts China in the same club as the West since both operate under capitalist systems. While China and the West may fight over a larger share of the global pie, they are fundamentally part of the same capitalist system. Whitney Webb is the only person I know who acknowledges this truth.

I’ll quote her here:

“This isn’t free-market capitalism—it’s crony capitalism, it’s cartelism. These are fundamentally corrupt players who don’t play by the rules. They manipulate the free market to advance themselves, generate more money, and become more powerful.

This is really a merging of the public and private sectors, but it’s the private ones in control, operating as a cartel rather than free-market capitalists. That’s essentially where we are right now. This was admitted before Congress by a very prominent figure at the time, Samuel P., who is probably best known now as the stepfather of current Secretary of State Antony Blinken. When he testified before Congress, he talked about the rise of what he called the ‘trans-ideological corporation.’ Essentially, Western capitalists or a group of them decided to cooperate and do business with the people running state-owned enterprises in the Communist bloc. Together, they built a network of corporations so powerful they would make the nation-state irrelevant, and this is the model we have today.”

Now compare this to a quote from Zbigniew Brzezinski’s 1970 book Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era:

“The nation-state as a fundamental unit of man’s organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multi-national corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state.”

Doesn’t that sound strikingly similar? The war in Ukraine and much of what is happening globally is merely competition between capitalist factions. Yet, these factions ultimately support the same overarching system. While they compete with one another, they are still part of the same club—a capitalist club. And above these factions lies an even higher layer: the capitalist ruling class. Whitney Webb is the only person I’ve encountered who sees it this way, just as I do.

To make this concept clearer, let me use an analogy: imagine Western capitalism as Cola and China/BRICS capitalism as Pepsi. While Cola and Pepsi are fierce competitors, neither will make its product less addictive. Both fight for a larger market share, yet simultaneously collaborate to grow the market overall. Similarly, Western capitalism and BRICS/China’s capitalism are competitive but also collaborative, as they are part of the same system. Beyond individual states and factions, there exists a larger layer of control, a ruling class that owns both sides. Whitney Webb is the only one who truly addresses this, as far as I’ve seen. Most people fail to see through even basic lies.

If this societal construct of blind faith in the system cannot be broken, how can I explore my deeper suspicions—suspicions so unsettling that I hesitate to even write them down? I have many theories about what “they” truly do, theories I am 70–80% confident in. Yet, these ideas are so abstract and far-reaching that I fear sharing them. If people cannot even accept basic truths, like the reality of 9/11, how could they ever grasp the larger, more intricate realities I suspect are at play?

FFS even Whitney Webb constantly repeat about one experiment:

“This has been done by our own National Security State. For example, the U.S. Air Force had a research program in 2014—ten years ago—focused on using social media to control people like drones. That was the description of the program. Now that we have a military contractor running Twitter, do you think he would not allow the tools that the Pentagon and other agencies have poured millions of dollars into over the past ten years to be used on his platform? These tools could be used for purposes such as manufacturing consent for various policies or politicians, for example.”

Now we have a US military program trying to use “social media” to control people like “drones”. Now hold it in your mind for second and let’s listen to Shoshana Zuboff:

Surveillance Capitalism “…they have been engineered to be indecipherable to be undetectable to create ignorance in a vast group of all of us that they call users. Our ignorance is their bliss”

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Number two, we can exercise these methods while bypassing user awareness.

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A very interesting experiment is occurring under the guise of an augmented reality game called Pokémon Go. In the game, you walk around in the real world while Pokémon are hiding in various locations. You must visit these places to collect them.

But what are we not seeing when Pokémon Go is introduced in our country? It's important to understand that Pokémon Go is an augmented reality game that was incubated and developed inside Google for many years. Google, being the first pioneer of surveillance capitalism and the inventor of this concept, incubated Pokémon Go as part of its larger strategy.

Pokémon Go was led by John Hanke, who also invented an operation called Keyhole. Keyhole was initially funded by the CIA and later purchased by Google, where it became Google Earth. This technology was originally a CIA-backed startup before it transitioned to Google.

It's crucial to realize that Pokémon Go was not some innocent little game launched by a toy company. When they decided to bring Pokémon Go to the public, they deliberately avoided branding it as a Google product. Instead, they marketed it under Niantic Labs—a startup no one had heard of at the time—to give it a more independent and trendy appeal.

However, Pokémon Go is essentially a Google augmented reality game. Beneath the surface, the true game—the one operating alongside the game children play—emulates the logic of surveillance capitalism. In surveillance capitalism’s original online version, companies predict click-through rates and sell these predictions to advertisers, who pay to attract users to their websites and ultimately lead them to buy something.

In the real world, business customers paid Niantic Labs, the company behind Pokémon Go, not for click-through rates but for their real-world equivalent: footfall. This means getting real people with real feet into actual business establishments, so their presence could translate into purchases.

For instance, Niantic Labs allowed businesses like ice cream parlors to purchase "lure modules," features within the game that attract players to specific locations. These modules could turn a shop, restaurant, or bar into a hotspot for players—not to entertain them, but to get them to spend money.

Starbucks and countless other establishments profited, as did Niantic Labs. Meanwhile, the players, unaware of the underlying strategy, were unknowingly participating in a larger commercial operation. The rewards and punishments within the game were carefully designed to guide players through cities to businesses that had paid for their physical presence.

This was the true "shadow game" of Pokémon Go: guiding players to locations where their presence was predicted, ensuring the value of these predictions for businesses. The ability to guarantee someone's arrival made these predictions even more valuable.

This concept, known as "economies of action," is how companies like Niantic Labs ensure their predictions are accurate and profitable. Pokémon Go was a large-scale, global experiment in economies of action, using remote control to automate and engineer human behavior for commercial ends—all while players believed they were simply having fun.”

Does that not make Pokemon GO sound like that Pentagon program from 2014 about which Whitney Webb is constantly talking about which was trying to control people like Drones using social media (or for example a social media game). The Pentagon wanted to control people like drones while Google made people run with their phone in hands like good little drones while they were “simply having fun”.

This does make you think doesn’t it? And just a tip of Iceberg. HEHE

"And I stand to fight, as before, against the primary evil of the state(world): the rule of unruly parties and factions over Poland(world), the forgetting of intangible values, and remembering only money and personal gain."
-Description: From an interview for "Kurier Poranny" about the coup d'état that was to be carried out by Piłsudski, read on May 11, 1926.