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  1. 2 days ago

    Electronic Health Records: A Government Command and Control System | Twila Brase

    "Health data is gold. They can slice and dice it. They can sell the products of their slicing and dicing. They can use it to create treatment protocols to control the doctors." —Twila Brase Twila Brase is a registered nurse (RN Registered nurse and PHN Public Health nurse) who co-founded and serves as president of the Citizens' Council for Health Freedom (CCHF). In 2018, Brase published the book Big Brother in the Exam Room: The Dangerous Truth about Electronic Health Records. That is also the topic of our discussion. "Once the government has grabbed all the data, then they have the ability to control the doctors, control the hospitals and profile the patients." Government certified electronic health record systems are not simply record bookkeeping systems. The term is deeply misleading because they are way more than that. In Twila Brase's book "Big Brother in the Exam Room," she quotes Scott Silverstein, a physician who is an authority in health IT. He called EHR systems "medical meta devices." In 2018 already he said that these systems are not anything resembling electronic filing cabinets, but that they are way, way more. He called them "enterprise-wide command and control systems through which all medical transactions have to pass. Controlling clinicians and clinical resources. They are beyond just a medical device. They are really command and control systems." Brase said: "Being certified for the government means that the electronic health record has to do what the government says it has to do." Many doctors in the United States already had some version of private electronic records before the introduction of Government certified ones. And they worked quite well since such private patient record databases were designed for doctors' practical needs only and were based on doctors' requirements. They had nothing to do with government's goals and desires. But this changed completely with the introduction of government certified EHRs under Obama in [check]. Twila Base told me: "Once the government has grabbed all the data, then they have the ability to control the doctors, control the hospitals, profile the patients. One of the things we say in our organization is 'he who holds the data makes the rules.'" True. And controlling doctors and nurses is a surefire way to turn them into killers, making them into the state's instrument of eliminating part of its population. Also, governments love getting their hands on as much data as they can since their appetite to make rules and lord over their citizens is very hard to restrain and since their voracious appetite increases in proportion to the growing amount of data available through new technologies. If massive amounts of data can be used as an easy gateway to control and command citizens, then those in power will almost by default be driven to get access to as much data as they possibly can. The amount of medical data available to governments is growing exponentially: one example are the data from so-called ambient listening devices that by now have been installed in many doctors' offices. This means that an AI app is recording and transcribing everything that is being said in the exam room - whether the doctor or nurse is present or not. All this data is stored with the patient's records and can be accessed by a vast number of people, including about 1.5 million of third parties, called "business associates of covered entities." HIPAA, Brase explains, is not there to protect your privacy but to share data with about 700,000 "covered entities" and their business associates. CHAPTERS 00:06 Electronic Health Records: More Than Digital Paper Charts 01:38 How EHRs Changed the Doctor–Patient Encounter 05:49 Copy-and-Paste Records and the Problem of "Within Normal Limits" 08:45 EHRs as Command-and-Control Systems 12:11 Government-Certified Records and the 2009 Federal Mandate 16:08 Who Designed Government Electronic Health Record Systems? 17:30 Billing, Surveillance, and the Business of Health Data 22:14 HIPAA: Privacy Protection or Data-Sharing Framework? 24:18 Who Can Access Your Medical Data? 27:45 Why Signing a HIPAA Form Does Not Prevent Data Sharing 29:47 The Real Meaning of HIPAA and "Administrative Simplification" 31:19 Clearinghouses, Business Associates, and the Health-Data Economy 36:56 AI, Ambient Listening, and the New Medical Surveillance System 43:36 Clinical Decision Support and the End of Physician Autonomy 44:56 Evidence-Based Medicine, Protocols, and Algorithmic Care 48:47 The Deskilling and "Unskilling" of Doctors 53:28 Medical Ethics, AI Control, and a Patient-Centered Alternative 54:13 The 3C Solution: Cash, Catastrophic Coverage, and Charity

  2. 6 Sept

    Never Enter a Hospital Without an Advocate At Your Side | Kimberly Overton

    "It's amazing to see how the trajectory of the care being provided to the patient changes once they know that you have a professional advocacy service on board. They start changing everything." https://flashlightsproductions.substack.com/p/never-enter-a-hospital-without-an?utm_source=youtube This is my second interview with Kimberly Overton. In our first interview, Overton talked about the horrifying events she witnessed as a critical care nurse during Covid in a hospital in Hendersonville, Tennessee. All except two of the hundreds of Covid patients she witnessed being put on ventilators died. Nonetheless, the treatment protocols remained unchanged. To this day, ventilators and Remdesivir are protected as medical countermeasures under the PREP Act that was declared for Covid-19 (and ends only in December 2029). Overton quit her job in protest against the hospital killings and founded the organization "The Nurse Freedom Network" in the summer of 2021. Later, in 2022, she founded Remnant Healthcare, a private membership association that provides nursing and also patient advocacy services. According to its website, its mission is to "provide compassionate, patient-centered healthcare services using holistic modalities and a root cause approach." Patient advocacy services is what we are talking about in our second interview: What are they? Why are they needed? And why is it that everyone should have an advocacy plan in place well before setting foot into a hospital? CHAPTERS 02:54 Hospital Consent Forms and Signing Away Rights 05:39 How Patients Lose Control of Their Own Treatment 10:52 The Shift Toward Profit-Driven Healthcare 13:13 The Rise of Electronic Health Records 14:00 The Forgotten Patient Bill of Rights 15:00 The Insurance Lie Nurses Were Told to Tell 16:52 The Right to Refuse Treatment 18:08 Doctor Google and Patient Gaslighting 21:14 Informed Consent and the COVID Vaccine Rollout 23:24 Polypharmacy and Alarm Fatigue 25:56 Refusing Daily Blood Draws 28:57 Defining Patient Advocates and Advocacy Plans 31:42 How Remote and In-Person Advocacy Works 33:00 Adding an Advocate to Your HIPAA Form 34:01 Why Hospitals Change Behavior With an Advocate Present 36:21 Directed Blood Donation and Post-COVID Pushback 40:24 Concrete Examples of Advocacy Changing Outcomes 42:12 Building Ongoing Relationships With Hospitals 44:14 Advocates as Allies to Nurses and Doctors 46:27 Planning an Advocacy Strategy in Advance 46:56 Membership Costs and Planning Session Details 52:17 Preparing for Planned Hospital Visits 54:06 Listening in on Appointments as an Advocate 56:19 What Makes a Good Advocate 57:40 Bringing a Holistic Perspective Into Hospital Care 59:41 The PREP Act and Loss of Patient Recourse 1:03:47 Remdesivir's Continued Protection Under the PREP Act 1:04:03 Finding and Vetting Advocacy Services 1:06:53 Pricing, Value, and Avoiding Price Gouging RESOURCES: The Nurses Report on America Out Loud: The Miracle of Drew Brophy Nurse Freedom Network Remnant Healthcare Kimberly Overton's X account Kimberly Overton's Substack account

  3. 26 Aug

    Goebbels Would have Approved: How the Government Used the "Trusted Messenger" Strategy | James Thorp

    "In a disturbing campaign for control typically characteristic of totalitarian societies, the government co-opted the voices we trusted into a vast covert government operation." Jim & Maggie Thorp https://flashlightsproductions.substack.com/p/goebbels-would-have-approved-how?utm_source=youtube In the second part of my interview with Dr. James Thorp we talk about many things, among them the deep corruption of medical journals, ongoing fertility concerns and how Thorp got fired from SSM Health.  But in the post below I want to highlight what I consider the most important piece we discussed during the interview - and that is the federal government's Propaganda Blitzkrieg to get Americans injected with the toxic mRNA shots. CHAPTERS 00:05 Medical Journal Corruption Exposed by Former Editors 03:11 Billion-Dollar Payments to Journal Reviewers 03:43 Fraudulent Data Behind the Hydroxychloroquine Study 05:19 ACOG's Revenue Chart: Following the Money 07:44 Program Services and the 2018 Revenue Spike 11:06 Marketing Vaccines Through OB-GYNs and Mothers 13:34 HHS Funding and the Move to Washington, DC 16:02 The $67 Million Grant and Massachusetts Payoffs 18:59 Trillions in Pandemic Spending and Institutional Capture 20:31 Origins of the Trusted Messenger Strategy 21:48 Hospitals Paid to Push the Vaccine 26:03 How Many OB-GYNs Knew They Were Being Used 27:33 Trust Through Coercion 28:50 Did Doctors Believe the Narrative 29:41 ACOG's Conversation Guide for Patients 32:50 A Radioactive Topic Among Colleagues 34:02 Introducing Mark Weber and His Article 35:11 Inside the HHS Propaganda Campaign Paper 37:49 Projection and the Politics of Public Health 39:36 The Nine Learnings of Systems Change 42:38 Mark Weber's Career and Education 44:32 Bragging About Vaccination Numbers and ROI 45:32 The April 2021 Inflection Point and Faiths for Vaccines 48:25 A Goebbels Comparison 51:28 The Septem Group and the Revolving Door 53:25 The Firing Begins 58:03 The Termination Call 1:00:41 A System Wide Email Within Minutes 1:03:21 The Non Disparagement Clause 1:04:49 A Terrific Investment 1:06:07 Fertility and Long Term Safety Concerns 1:09:24 Why No Spike Protein Home Test Exists 1:09:41 Five Years Later: Has Anything Changed 1:12:30 Placebo Speculation and DARPA 1:14:28 The Purpose Behind Targeting the Vulnerable 1:15:29 A Spiritual Battle 1:20:31 Celia Farber and the Book's Legacy

  4. 19 Aug

    "They're telling us that we need to be afraid of China, but we're becoming them." | Lori Merriman

    "You have to convince your community how great these things [data centers] are. You can't fight it. You have to go with it." —Donald Trump https://flashlightsproductions.substack.com/p/theyre-telling-us-that-we-need-to?utm_source=youtube This is the second part of my interview with Lori Merriman who is leading the opposition against building a hyperscale data center in a small town in Missouri, half an hour to the south of St. Louis. CHAPTERS 03:42 Bob Clark's Closed-Door Visit to Festus City Hall 08:31 Confronting Bob Clark Outside City Hall 16:38 Five Attorneys Against One 18:50 FOIA Comments: "Dumb Hicks" and "Keep the Flock Herded" 23:17 The $40,000 PAC and Labor Union Backing 26:00 Temporary Jobs, AI, and Housing for Outside Laborers 28:03 Recall Lawsuit: Judge Recusal and Delays 30:14 The Third Lawsuit: City vs. County Clerk 32:38 Corruption Concerns in Jefferson County 34:00 From City Hall to the Governor to Trump 35:15 Trump's "Ratepayer Protection" Clip and Reaction 36:21 National Security, Domestic Terrorism, and Data Center Opponents 38:31 Chinese Components and National Security Contradictions 39:52 Surveillance Creep: Cars, Thermostats, and Kill Switches 41:00 Living With the Domestic Terrorist Label 42:49 Other Missouri Data Centers and Abandoned Projects 46:05 What Are These Data Centers Really For? 47:46 Biometric Data, Stablecoins and Programmable Currency 49:55 Advice for Other Towns: Organize, Form an LLC, Show Up 54:00 Fundraising Struggles and the Wake Up Jeffco GoFundMe 58:16 Finding a Lawyer: 80 Hours of Cold Calls RESOURCES 'You can't fight it,' Trump tells Americans about data centers moving into their communities https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7kmEbWsDnE

  5. 11 Aug

    Trump's "Board of Peace" Is His Personal Life-Long Source of Power | Patrick Wood

    "I believe it's the most consequential board, certainly in terms of power and in terms of prestige. There's never been anything close." —President Donald Trump, February 2026 https://flashlightsproductions.substack.com/p/trumps-board-of-peace-as-his-personal This is the third part of my interview with Patrick Wood about his newest book "The New Economics of Technocracy - You Will Own Nothing." In the first part we talked about the Genius Act, stablecoins, tokenization and the privatization of money. In the second part, we talked about Islamic finance and the Gulf Money Pipeline. And in this third and last part, we talk about the Board of Peace. According to Patrick Wood, the Board of Peace isn't about peace and it isn't about Gaza: "The Board of Peace is not a peace organization. It is the first fully operational prototype of technocratic governance — a privately controlled international body chaired for life by one man, administering 2.3 million people who have no seat, no vote, and no veto." Wood sees Gaza as a test case for something much larger: "This is not a reconstruction plan. This is a blueprint."   CHAPTERS 00:47 Trump's Purpose at the World Economic Forum 01:50 What Is the Board of Peace 03:56 The January 16 Executive Order 06:10 Explaining the International Organizations Immunities Act 12:31 Remarks at the Inaugural Board Meeting 17:49 Kushner's Plans for Smart Cities, Surveillance, and Finance 22:21 Article 3.2: The Chairman's Authority 23:25 Article 3.3: Succession and Chairman for Life 29:32 The Security Layer and CENTCOM 34:30 Naming the Executive Board Members 37:23 Limited Powers of the Executive Board 39:57 The $10 Billion Pledge and Congressional Authority 41:44 Rubio's $2 Billion State Department Donation 44:40 Trump's Post-Presidency Power Base 47:38 The Billion-Dollar Membership Fee 50:27 Where the Money Actually Comes From 51:24 Constitutional Standing of the Board 53:15 Prospects for Congressional Oversight 55:19 Defining the True Purpose: A Technocratic Blueprint 1:05:29 Countries That Rejected the Invitation 1:07:11 A Direct Challenge to the United Nations 1:16:39 The Gaza Executive Board as a Third Tier 1:20:00 Overlapping Membership Across Boards   RESOURCES Patrick Wood: The New Economics of Technocracy - You Will Own Nothing Patrick Wood: The Final Betrayal: How Technocracy Destroyed America Patrick Wood's Technocracy News

  6. 29 Jul

    How the U.S. Government Coerced OBGYN Doctors to Push the Covid Shots on Pregnant Women | Dr. James Thorp

    "The patient was not speaking to her doctor. The patient was speaking to Anthony Fauci and the government… It was a horrible betrayal. It was an awful betrayal." James Thorp "There is strong evidence that the rollout of the vaccines for pregnant women was pre-planned, like the pandemic." This is the first part of a three-part interview with Dr. James Thorp about his and co-author's Celia Farber's book "Sacrifice: How the Deadliest Vaccine in History Targeted the Most Vulnerable." Dr. Thorp specializes in maternal and fetal medicine and treats women with high risk pregnancies. He has forty-seven years of clinical experience. In the first part of our interview he discusses how the federal government weaponized the three big OBGYN professional organizations (ACOG, ABOG and SMFM) as transmission belts for government orders to compel America's tens of thousands of obstetricians and gynecologists to push the toxic mRNA Covid shots on pregnant women. ACOG, ABOG and SMFM, Dr. Thorp told me, "are supposed to be a non-governmental organizations... The government weaponized these independent organizations and used them to do their dirty work." ABOG, ACOG and SMFM Became the Willing Executioners of Government Commands That Were Harmful or Deadly for the Unborn How were these three large and powerful professional organizations weaponized? With a flood of money, billions of federal dollars. From not recommending the shots to pregnant women at the end of 2020, all three medical OBGYN organizations quickly pivoted to strongly recommending them in July of 2021 and shortly after, in the fall of 2021, threatening OBGYN doctors with the loss of their medical certifications if they refused to go along. Thorp said: "It was around December of 2020. The American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Society for Maternal and Fetal Medicine, they all said we're never gonna push the vaccine in pregnancy. "We're not gonna do that… "Now those same three societies did a complete 180. They decided to push it, push the vaccine in pregnant women. "But look what happened in April of 2021. They received $13 billion from HHS through the project called CCC, the COVID-19 Community Corps. Around the same time, in the spring of 2021, major medical journals also began promoting the vaccine in pregnant women - despite the fact that there were no safety data and despite the fact that over 80% of Pfizer's pregnant clinical trial participants whose pregnancy was followed lost their unborn children. The American Board of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Has Enormous Leverage Over America's and Canada's OBGYN Doctors ABOG, which is a non-profit organization, does not issue OBGYN licenses. Issuing medical licenses is the job of state medical boards. ABOG does something else: It certifies OB-GYN physicians in the US and Canada. Such board certification is voluntary and, at least in theory, a doctor doesn't strictly need it in order to practice. However, the reality is different: Hospital credentialing committees often require certification (or "board eligible" status) to grant admitting/surgical privileges. Malpractice insurers may decline or complicate coverage for uncertified specialists. Health insurance networks frequently require certification for in-network reimbursement. Employers, especially hospital systems and large practices, typically mandate it as a condition of employment. In other words, without ABOG certifications, OBGYN doctors are severely limited in the way they can practice their professions. Therefore, ABOG has huge leverage over all OBGYN doctors in the United States and Canada. The Federation of State Medical Boards Threatens Doctors with Loss of License; ABOG Threatens Doctors with Loss of Certification In September of 2021, ABOG sent an email to its 62,000 members threatening them with the loss of their certifications if they spread "misinformation" - without ever qualifying what such misinformation actually constitutes. Here is the first sentence of the email where ABOG declares that it "fully supports" a statement published by the FSMB, the Federation of State Medical Boards. These medical boards, as explained further up, license doctors and therefore have even greater leverage over doctors than ABOG: "The American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ABOG) fully supports the statement published by the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) that asserts that providing misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine contradicts physicians' ethical and professional responsibilities, and therefore may subject a physician to disciplinary actions, including suspension or revocation of their medical license." Here is the the FSMB's statement that ABOG is referring to in its fall 2021 email: "Physicians who generate and spread COVID-19 vaccine misinformation or disinformation are risking disciplinary action by state medical boards, including the suspension or revocation of their medical license." Dr. Thorp told me the following about ABOG's infamous email: "There's a threatening email. And, by the way, the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology deleted this email. "They deleted it because when you read the language, it was literally like Adolf Hitler or you know, Mao Tse-tung: 'You will do this. You will not spread disinformation.' "This email was sent to sixty-two thousand OBGYN doctors in Canada, the United States of America, and some countries in South America. 62,000 OBGYN doctors. "Dr. George Wendel was the executive director of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, at that time. "And by the way, I've been highly regarded by all of those organizations. I was an examiner for the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology at around the turn of the century. So these were my colleagues. I was a senior examiner. "I was given awards by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. The Society of Maternal Field Medicine, I was given many research awards. I was on their board of directors for a three-year term at the turn of the century. Doctors' Response to ABOG's Email: Deadly Silence, Betrayal of Pregnant Women and Their Unborn Babies I asked Thorp how doctors' reacted to ABOG's outrageous email which tried to force doctors to break their Hippocratic oath and betray their patients. The reaction was "dead silence" he said: "Dead silence. They saluted. They bowed. They wanted to continue collecting their paychecks and be good servants… "We talked about it [the email] and a lot of people were really upset, but nobody would raise their hand. "You gotta remember when you get a letter from the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, you do what you're told to do and you don't step out of line. And they didn't. Now, there's a few other obstetricians around the country that agreed with me, but they've told me that I'm the only maternal fetal medicine physician in the country who spoke out. Instead of advocating on behalf of their pregnant as well as not pregnant or not yet pregnant patients and warning them against taking the shots, most OBGYN doctors, according to Dr. Thorp, abused the trust of their patients and convinced huge numbers of pregnant women to take the shots - and take them at any time during their pregnancy, including during the most vulnerable first trimester. Thorp told me during the interview: "My definition of totalitarian state is when most of the citizens of a state know it's a lie, but they remain silent. And that's exactly where the United States of America is right now. You know, they're still pushing the COVID nineteen vaccine." Dr. Thorp Responded to ABOG's Email. He never received a Reply. In January of 2022, Thorp sent a long response to ABOG's email in which he cites over one thousand studies documenting harms of the shots and challenges ABOG to a public debate: "I invited the board to have me come down and present the data. I challenged everybody on the board of directors of ABOG to debate me". In his book 'Sacrifice," he writes: My online ninety-eight-page letter included 1,019 peer-reviewed medical journal publications—in just twelve months—that documented injuries and deaths after the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines. Let that sink in: 1,019 peer-reviewed medical journal articles in just twelve months after rollout of this lethal, injurious shot. And here is the beginning of his reply to ABOG's threatening email: "Couched in bullying language, ABOG's Statement Regarding Dissemination of COVID-19 Misinformation begs critically important questions for both constituents and patients alike. "These questions are intrinsic to a physician's ability to treat patients free from conflict of interest over fear of reprisal from ABOG (or others). Even more important, these questions concern matters essential to safeguarding and protecting maternal and fetal health and well-being, and are essential to upholding the physician's oath to do no harm. "First, what constitutes that which ABOG deems "misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine"? Second, by whom and how is such "misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine" determined? "ABOG's Statement Regarding Dissemination of COVID-19 Misinformation fails to provide answers to these questions and also fails to acknowledge the growing body of scientific, peer-reviewed evidence that the experimental mRNA and DNA gene therapy injections are a failed strategy that have killed, injured, and endangered many. "ABOG's widely circulated Statement Regarding Dissemination of COVID-19 Misinformation has placed patients' health in jeopardy while leaving constituents holding the proverbial bag as their medical license and livelihood hang in the balance. "Patient safety is sacrificed as constituents toe the line—forced to choose between pushing experimental gene therapies shown to be dangerous to bo

  7. 20 Jul ·  Video

    Inside the Fierce Battle Over a $6 Billion Data Center | Lori Merriman

    "When I started this, I thought I was just fighting a data center, and the amount of corruption that has been uncovered is mind blowing." —Lori Merriman https://flashlightsproductions.substack.com/p/inside-the-fierce-battle-over-a-6?utm_source=youtube "I thought we were in the United States and I thought that they worked for the people." Festus is a small town thirty-five miles south to St. Louis, Missouri. About a year ago and unbeknownst to Festus' 14,000 residents, the town's city council started secretly meeting with real estate developer CRG to discuss building a massive 360-acre hyperscale data center in a wooded area in Festus. The North American real estate firm CRG is the real estate development arm of the construction company Clayco. Bob Clark is Clayco's founder. Lori Merriman, who lives in Festus, became a leading force in the town's fight against the data center. She told me that it took three to four months before citizens in Festus got wind of what was happening behind the scenes. Once they did, they turned up in force to the next council meeting where the mayor and councilmen told them not to worry and that the whole scenario with the data center was completely hypothetical. Just two days later, the city council voted unanimously to approve the rezoning of a large woodland area to allow for the construction of a hyperscale data center called "Festus Campus." The fight was on. Battles have been waging since November 2025 and they will continue for an unforeseeable time. CHAPTERS 0:00 Introduction to Festus and the Data Center Threat 0:18 Data Center Crash Course: US Statistics and Global Rankings 9:11 Missouri's Data Center Boom and Major Operators 13:37 Life in Festus Before the Data Center Craze 14:54 November 2025: The Meeting Where It All Began 21:46 City Council Composition and the Vacant Seat 22:19 Secret Meetings to Dodge Sunshine Law Quorums 25:10 The 6-2 Vote to Approve the Contract 27:16 Local Newspapers and Buried Public Notices 31:26 FOIA Documents Reveal "Dumb Hicks" Insults 33:07 Public Backlash Against the Mayor's Conduct 35:47 Governor Kehoe's Offer to "Nudge" Council Members 38:03 Political Fallout and Ties to State Politics 39:21 Union Members Bussed in to Support the Project 40:37 The Search for an Attorney 41:28 Stephen Jeffery and Wake Up Jeffco LLC 42:34 Why Everyone Was Afraid to Form the LLC 45:02 Fast-Tracked Approval of Data Center in the School Gymnasium 45:37 April 2026: Incumbents Voted Out 47:00 Discovery Battles and Delay Tactics 49:33 Fundraising Totals and Ongoing Legal Costs 50:16 Untangling the Three Lawsuits 54:41 Organizing the Recall Signature Campaign 55:12 National Media Attention and Uncertain Future 55:37 Bob Clark, Clayco, and the Closed-Door Meeting 1:00:00 The Recall Rejected: Reasons Deemed "Not Sufficient" 1:01:11 Suing the County Clerk Over Election Certification 1:03:53 More Delays, More Legal Costs for Citizens 1:16:49 The Recall Signature Requirements Explained   RESOURCES Data Center Watch Missouri town fires half its city council over data center deal Digitalisation World, Shift in US hyperscale data centres towards central regions GoFundMe Campaign for WakeUpJeffco: Protect Our Community

  8. 17 Jul

    United States of Silicon: The Only Trustworthy Are The Controlled | Courtenay Turner

    "We the people have been completely taken out. Did you vote for Pax Silica? I don't remember voting for Pax Silica. This wasn't on my list." Pax Silica - Silicon Peace: America's Claim to Global AI Hegemony Ever heard about Pax Silica? Probably not. But it's up there together with Pax Romana and Pax Britannica. At least that's the claim and the intent of those who launched the Pax Silica initiative in December of 2025. Eras are usually declared after the fact. The Pax Romana was declared more than a thousand years after it happened. Not so Pax Silica: it's an announcement of an era that is in the process of being created right now - or at least that's the hope of Pax Silica's architects. Eras used to be named after geographic locations. Not Pax Silica. It's named for the material that functions as a semiconductor and that enables AI control systems. Humans as Nodes Inside an AI Based "Security Economy" In our interview, Courtenay Turner argues that this Silicon Peace era is creating global control systems that turn human beings into data "nodes" within a programmable "security economy." The traditional concept of autonomous citizens with individual rights is disappearing; humans will have no meaningful say in the AI governed world of Pax Silica. "People are not part of this equation because people have become nodes. We're just nodes for that infrastructure." Turner is the host of The Courtenay Turner Podcast. She and Patrick Wood co-authored the recently released The Final Betrayal: How Technocracy Destroyed America, a book about the rise of technocratic control systems. You can find her substack here. CHAPTERS 00:05 Introduction to Pax Silica and the Power Structure 14:00 What Is Pax Silica and Why Was It Launched 21:18 Wearables, Biometric Data, and the Selling of Personal Data 24:03 Catherine Austin Fitts' Two-Lock vs. Three-Lock Transaction System 29:03 Why Data Centers Are the System's Linchpin 34:30 The Push for a Global AGI Constitution 39:30 Data Centers as National Security Infrastructure and Protest Risk 42:32 The "Anti-Tech Extremist" Designation and Environmental Concerns 47:30 Reading the Official Pax Silica Declaration on State.gov 49:58 Comparing Pax Silica to Trump's Three-Pillar AI Stack 55:22 Profile of Jacob Helberg and His Career Path 1:02:28 Humans as Nodes: Sovereign Property vs. Private Property 1:15:18 The Declaration's Vision for Economic Partnership 1:28:03 Trusted Information Networks and the Meaning of "Trust" 1:29:26 Building a New "Economic Security Order" RESOURCES The Courtenay Turner Podcast Patrick Wood and Courtenay Turner: The Final Betrayal: How Technocracy Destroyed America Courtenay's Substack Pax Silica - United States Department of State Jacob Helberg | LinkedIn

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