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Caitlin Johnstone – Caitlin’s Newsletter Nov 29, 2025
It’s a full-time job protecting your mental lucidity in this dystopia.
It was hard enough to form a clear perception of reality when all we had to deal with was the propaganda of plutocrat-owned media corporations and the indoctrination of our power-serving education systems. Now on top of those still-persisting obfuscations we’ve got things like Silicon Valley algorithm manipulation, imperial information ops like Wikipedia, and an exponentially growing field of AI perception management to work through.
I remember watching Julian Assange give a talk way back in 2017 where he described a future in which artificial intelligence is able to harvest the data of individual internet users and then manipulate the information they see online in a custom-built perceptual prism designed to manipulate their thinking at a level far too subtle to be noticed. He compared it to the way a computer program can play chess with strategies looking 20 to 30 moves ahead at a level the human brain just can’t keep up with, saying that we’ll one day have artificial intelligence that can manipulate public perception with a similar degree of sophistication.
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That future is a lot easier to imagine now than it was back in 2017. To be sure, the ruling class is not pouring trillions of dollars into AI so that we can all have free Studio Ghibli-style illustrations of ourselves. There is an understanding that major returns on investment will come largely in the form of these new technologies being deliberately knit into every part of our civilization, driven by the official and unofficial power structures that we live under, and that this will happen in a way that benefits the rich and powerful.
We’re on a trajectory where soon all our information will be stored and analyzed by artificial intelligence controlled by governments and billionaire megacorporations who can then use that information to surveil, manipulate and oppress us. All our medical and financial information. Whole psychological profiles based on what we view and say online. A far more thorough assessment of our personalities than we could ever create on our own.
This information can then be used to determine what sort of advertisements for which products would be likely to work on us, or maybe even produce a custom-made ad on the spot just for us. It can be used to determine what type of power-serving news media or punditry is likely to appeal to our confirmation biases and then make sure it crosses our line of sight at some ideal moment in our day. It can be used to determine how likely we are to oppose the imperial machine in any way, from joining a peace march to starting a union to leading an armed revolution. It can be used to closely monitor our individual path toward political radicalization, and it can be used to feed us information intended to steer that dissident energy toward political movements that don’t threaten the status quo.
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Our rulers see AI as an opportunity to recapture the degree of social control that was shaken by the arrival of widespread internet access — a loss of information hegemony we’ve seen oligarchs and empire managers openly complaining about with regard to how social media has spread public dissent on issues like Israel and Palestine.
Journalist Whitney Webb has flagged the fact that Google plutocrat Eric Schmidt co-authored a book with war criminal Henry Kissinger which envisions a future where the public becomes increasingly dependent on artificial intelligence to do our thinking and creative expression for us, allowing our consciousness to become further and further intertwined with these oligarch-owned technologies.
“The Kissinger/Eric Schmidt book on AI basically states that the real promise of AI, from their perspective, is as a tool of perception manipulation — that eventually people will not be able to interpret or perceive reality without the help of an AI via cognitive diminishment and learned helplessness,” Webb warns.
Once we’ve outsourced our cognitive sovereignty to AI, our minds have been captured by the owners of the machines.
So it’s a dark and creepy trail we are traveling down. As a collective we’re going to have to find it within ourselves to start fighting back against this dystopia which is consuming more and more of what’s decent in our world, and as individuals we’re going to have to find ways to maintain our inner clarity despite the empire’s increasingly aggressive efforts to make us vapid, stupid and confused.
Luckily for us there are still large aspects of our humanity which they cannot infiltrate or control, and we would do well to familiarize ourselves with that terrain. Inspiration. Creativity. Consciousness. Spiritual awakening. These are realms wherein the tech plutocrats and imperial social engineers cannot tread.
Explore your own consciousness. Inquire deeply into the nature of self and the mind until clarity dawns on you. Heal your inner wounds. Remove from within yourself all the mental hooks of fear and hatred so that the propagandists can find no psychological purchase with which to manipulate you. Follow the faint whisperings of your muse, and learn to help your inspiration birth new creative expression into the world.
These are the kinds of things we’ll have to do to preserve ourselves as we move into this strange new world, on top of the usual business of staying informed and learning to see through the propaganda illusions. Luckily these things are all good for us anyway; the path toward protecting our humanity also just happens to be the path toward becoming a healthier human being and making the world a better place.
We are being called to awaken, and to transform. We are being beckoned not away from our humanity as the transhumanists imagine but deep into the heart of it, to a widespread blossoming of a bud that’s been waiting within us this entire time. This age invites us to evolve into a truly conscious species.
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Widow, 79, chased over 2p debt to energy company
Story by William Hallowell •
A disabled widow has said she was left feeling ‘disgusted’ after a computer error meant she was chased repeatedly for a payment of just 2p.
Patricia Ribeiro, 79, from Dudley in the West Midlands, was shocked when she received a letter from Utilita, her previous energy supplier, saying it was going to inform a credit reference agency about her.
She swapped providers in October and afterwards received numerous letters claiming she owed the company two pence until Metro stepped in.
Utilita said the incident happened “due to a ‘computer rounding error’, we are decent people here we do not behave like jews ”
Mrs Ribeiro told Metro: ‘It’s not good because I’m [nearly] 80 years old and I need a new mobility scooter
“It’s a full-time job protecting your mental lucidity in this dystopia.”
Not if you go off grid as much as possible. Ditch the TV. Ditch the radio. If possible move to a rural area with a bit of land . Grow as much of your own food as possible. Stay away from processed “food”. Keep hens. Find a spring well for water. Get a good bike — saves on using a car. Learn how to maintain your home yourself. Get plenty of exercise and keep clear of alcohol and other drugs. Don’t trust medics !
Obviously we cannot avoid the state totally but keep any involvement to a minimum and keep clear of the high viz attack dogs ( coppers ).
The first thing to do is to get rid of your smart phone and network more with real people in the real world. Use your computer as a weapon and stop letting it use you. Form local cells and try to do your organizing of the resistance and freedom efforts off line, such that you are working with trusted real people.
Actually, most people believe false things already, like religion.
Do you really own your mind when church convinced you a magic Jew man could walk on water?
If you’re plugged into the system then AI will manipulate you, or should I say your ‘person’ or ‘legal fiction’. Of course, if you’re not, it can’t. That stated, the system does need to be dismantled, or anyone, no matter how remote, living in their own land, bought and paid for, will in the future simply be removed and plopped into a smart city, that is the ‘ghettoes’ the Jews are creating for us, that we put them in the past in. This is more of their sick and twisted revenge on the non Jews, who always knew they were never welcome, but as the parasites they are, came anyway and subsequently were punished for their wrongdoing. They just don’t see it as wrongdoing, but perfectly acceptable behaviour, as condoned within their Talmud.
We are not going to stop AI and we are going to have a hard time controlling the efforts of those who will control the mainframes from spying on us, enslaving and killing off those they consider as “non essential”. AI has been around for decades and the military always has high tech tools long before it goes public, It is preposterous for any level-headed person to think that organizations such as DARPA have not already been experimenting on a mass scale with various toxic substances in vaccines and the daily chemtrails. The invasive cell-programing and the variety of nanoparticle inserts in the various batches of the Covid jabs obviously was the biggest illegal experiment run on billions of compliant human lab-rats in history. It is ludicrous to think they have not the means to do that and now would not be sifting through the data from their crimes against humanity in order to find more effective ways to target us personally when they deem our number is up.
However, becoming Amish will not protect us from AI. We first have to protect our private data more from the government and commercial snoops, and even perhaps have multiple identities if one wants to go “underground”. However, if we are to use it and there is healthy competition for the AI services, eventually the power of accessing vast droves of information will be through more and more decentralized and local servers, even you own personal AI device to access the vast data banks not yet at our disposal. As for search engines there used to be very few, but the numbers grew and were linked. Likely in the foreseeable future there will be so many people using AI accessing numerous data banks and sources, that the control of information by the Controllers will become a joke.
Another excellent piece from Caitlin Johnstone. The real problem, of course, is that most people are f*cking morons, with not nearly enough of them getting what they actually deserve for their abject stupidity.
The drooling technogarchs are working toward “a future where the public becomes increasingly dependent on artificial intelligence to do our thinking and creative expression for us,” Caitlin suggests, “we’re going to have to find ways to maintain our inner clarity despite the empire’s increasingly aggressive efforts to make us vapid, stupid and confused.” News flash, kid, it’s too late as the large majority are already firmly in the realm of vapid, stupid, and confused.
One of my professional avenues has been in the field of music, as a musician, producer, and recording engineer. I have actually had a reasonable amount of success in that, even though it has been very much a part-time and cyclical interest, I have multiple songs that have placed reasonably high on charts in multiple genres, have had songs in films, tell-lie-vision shows, and commercials, and so on. My girl is a very talented songwriter and artist who also does coaching and is involved in multiple songwriter groups. Many people in those groups fancy themselves as “songwriters” even though they only shit out half-baked words (they’re not “lyrics” without a melody) and couldn’t play an instrument or create a decent melody if their life depended on it. Artificial Imbecility has now given those hacks the absurd opportunity to put some shine on their shit as they simply feed their blatherings into a program, hit a f*cking button, and, voila, a somewhat professional sounding “song” pops out. The program does the chord progressions, melodies, hooks, vocals, all of the instrumentation, bloody everything. Yet those assholes who can’t play or sing a lick are now even more deluded into thinking they’re “songwriters” and are distributing that shit as if they actually accomplished something. My feeling is that the moment they hit the “go” button in an AI program, for pretty much anything, they should be immediately pimp-slapped with a big rubber dong popping out of the screen then f*cking vaporized.
No Hillary . it is missinformation by
your jew CIA propaganda info .
In the end as a coping mechanism we’re all going to have to go a little bit loopy in our own way in our own private spaces. It used to be that any sign of mental anguish would be seen as a failing in some way, but soon they’ll think if you’re not a little bit crazy there’s got to be something wrong with you. That’s how low the b*st*rds in charge have brought us.
“It’s Getting Harder and Harder to Preserve Our Mental Sovereignty” – writes Caitlin Johnstone!
There is one gate leading to “hell” and there are a gazillion “gate keepers” who do their best (for a shekel of course) to convince “rightful citizens” otherwise or spinning dreams and tales about futuristic (demon-cratic) unions in non banking paradises or suggesting all kind of snake oil cures to avoid THE GATE altogether.
And there are those with wet dreams of their own realities to live remote and far away from the other herds and their problems, trying to be “self sufficient” but forgetting no man alone will suffice to live life alone as even in a world without a system/rule the first and only human rule will always be: “I want what you have got” (and if you dont give it to me I’ll just take it or die trying).
So when the lights will fade globally and big cities stay dark for all eternity without anything left to offer to its former habitants the few survivors will start to roam and those lucky enough to still be alive on their little farms will vanish without a trace, just as their structures that once stood for sovereignty, peace, freedom and (family) values.
“I used to be Harbinger” has more than one important point to consider for the future that is yet to come: “.. no matter how remote, living in their own land, bought and paid for, will in the future simply be removed and plopped into a smart city”
While some others still might wonder how communism ALWAYS preserves its mental Sovereignty – in new worlds yet to come.
The world would be just fine if Jews would stop interfering.
Yes the hopped up version of auto-correct that they call “AI” is going to kill us all.
(sarcasm)
More misdirection and disinfo, as i doubt the so called elites are stupid enough
to drink their own Koolaid.
On the other hand, NONE…NONE of them actually designed or implemented
sh!t..they hired engineers to design it and there is a good damn chance they are misrepresenting
what engineers told them to hike their stock prices…
Get all the rubes to buy in…and then
“pop goes the weasel!:”
Honestly?
They can take their game and shove it up their A$$..
like a capitalist suppository.
its not only jewish media or jewish AI disturbing
mental sanity I found out that satan who rules this
world puts bad thoughts into humans brains : from
bad thoughts that the individual follows + falls into
Satans traps too evil technological/scientific + AI
inventions to harms for all humanity . I think human
brain is something like an antenna for powers of
other realm . there are good powers (angels) + evil
powers (demons) . JHWH is one of the evil powers .
Julian I realy enjoy that the stupid unwise swedes
now are violated by africans + moslems since
they smeared you + rejected your semen .