Evading War & Digital Prison

Silencing Medusa's shrill voice

Dec 31, 2025

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Heading into a new year there are multiple threats to liberty
War remains the focus of many Western countries
Crisis is the pretext for introducing a digital prison

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Dec 31, 2025

Another year closes and the heinous threats to humanity have not diminished.

Mismanaged climate policy, like health scares, give way to emergency and panic instead of rational and planned transition. The focus is on manipulating society rather than redirecting the economy.

It is no surprise therefore that politicians, rather than putting hard work into cracking nutty problems, choose hysterical appeals to chaos and the gods of war.

It works every time. The citizen regards war as oblivion, a cataclysm. To politicians, it is the easy way out.

Politicians or their handlers appoint sages, who in turn perform the auguries of ancient Rome, telling us where war shall take flame and give birth anew.

In this age, dippy sages of self-promoting think tanks swing their arm, shriek, and shake hair like Medusa. War it shall be, at every point of the compass: east, west, north, south.

If you demur, Medusa wails louder than before. Your dissent shall not be heard!

Medusa was once beautiful, like Europa. “So beautiful as to tempt Poseidon.” Like modern Europe she exceeded the bounds of propriety and was thus condemned.

Dorothy’s road

In the pivotal year of 1900, L. Frank Baum foresaw where the money power would take the farm-based states of middle America. Joseph Keppler would map the tentacles of the Rockefeller oil empire in his cartoon of 1904. Alfred Owen Crozier would warn in 1912 against the coming “money trust” of the Federal Reserve privately-owned central bank.

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A century on, the octopus is collapsing.

The failure of the monetary and banking system has been evident since the financial crisis of 2008, which insiders surely knew ahead of time. The repeal of restrictions on banks speculating with depositors’ money began with Margaret Thatcher’s “Big Bang” in 1986, and led to the U.S. repeal of Glass-Steagall in 1999.

This led financial conglomerates and later corporations to switch from productive investment to a focus on profits and share price on the part of both investors and management. This made risk management more difficult and inflated the sub-prime bubble by accelerating the securitising of risky mortgages, leading to the 2008 crisis.

A meeting of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC )was leaked in January 2023. Board members and bank representatives discussed how the public should not be allowed to know that the FDIC cannot guarantee more than about 1 per cent of deposits.

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Now we have to navigate through that crisis while the bankers and their accomplices throw all kinds of diversions into our path. Those include pandemics and war, and the militarisation of the economy.

The population is kept in check by the threat of conscription, or the draft of which European leaders speak, and by the perception that we are so thoroughly surveilled that we dare not question their motives. Self-censorship is the result of the panopticon, or the fear of fear itself.

Somewhere, on the other side of the rainbow, is the rebuilding of production through a new monetary system that replaces the privately-owned central banks like the U.S. Federal Reserve.

The “Wizard of Oz” was a political allegory of the Great Depression. In Baum’s original novel the yellow brick road is the gold standard, and Dorothy’s silver shoes (changed to ruby in the film) the debate of metal standards.

If you missed the parallels with today, the leap in the price of gold and silver should bring it home.

Making vs speculating

We could make profitable not just infrastructure but technological investment that supports the population instead of the current approach of billionaires to invest in artificial intelligence to replace the workforce.

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