IIRC, it’s known as the totalitarian tiptoe. Keeping the useless eaters in check. I’ve read a couple of Ike books; funny in parts, entertaining, incisive. Then inevitably you have to put your crash helmet on and buckle up: for the labyrinth of demons; the blood drinking lizards and the polyester shell suited zombies, etc. etc… god bless his little cotton socks..
But if we really think about it: it’s the same old ‘establishment’ story. About censorship, control, crop spraying, and genetically modified craft bread !?! ..publishing houses; BBC celebrities, music bizz, Tv success for certain high profile Actors. Everything really is, moderated, carefully calibrated, allowed; if it serves a purpose. Undoubtedly, to crush and restrain, the average tax paying Joe.
In fact - one begins to wonder if we ever had anything remotely resembling free will. Or, Access to the ‘Truth’. Or the ability to try and understand: Pet Sounds, by the Beach Boys..?!?
All the big nasty million dollar corporations (deffo back in the last century or two) simply helped themselves to anything they desired: Fed Reserve; Fiat currency, Petro-chemical-pharmaceutical; allopathic germ theory; Viruses (never been proven to exist).
Absconding with billions, of tax payers money - by pretending to fly to the moon. Or crashing a plane (?) into the twin towers and the Pentagon(?) and, oddly enough: losing 2.3 trillion in the process.(9/11) . It’s a circus of deprivation for (ours) truly.
And, there probably hasn’t been a time, since the powers that shouldn’t be, weren’t fiddling with history: evolution, medical science(?).. or various religious psy-ops. Global warming, anyone .?? Palantir technologies. Christ, it makes Cambridge analytica look like a provincial kindergarten, from back in the day.
We’ve been exploited and gaslit since time immemorial. I wonder if they’ve simply rearranged the furniture in Plato’s cave, and put in a bigger screen.. ??
Barry Norman used to do the Film review series on bbc, between the mid seventies and nineties. And the theme tune was:
“I wish I knew how it would feel to be Free”. (???)
Thanks Miri - your experience and analysis correlate w the experiences of many Substack writers I know, including myself. Rumble seems to be a similar online dissident ghetto, owned by the same broligarchy, intended to corral us into a corner and then control our reach and ability to monetize our content.
My question is this: can a decentralized network be created where we can publish content and monetize it without any owners controlling it? This is an existential question and I don’t know if any brilliant tech nerds are working on it, since it would not lead to any lucrative IPOs etc. I’m also too tech ignorant to know if it’s even possible. If not, we might have to go back to the times of printing and distributing subversive pamphlets in the physical world!
Thank you, Debbie, and sadly all you say is very true.
The best compromise I have been able to come up with - short of the printing and distributing you mention - is to own your own website where you publish all your content (as I do at miriaf.co.uk), and then only use "their" platforms for monetisation, but never actually post your content there, so they don't have an excuse to ban you, i.e., I have a Buy Me A Coffee account for people who want to support my work, but don't publish any content there. https://buymeacoffee.com/miriaf
It's far from perfect though, as it's ultimately still relying on "them", so if any aforementioned brilliant tech nerds do have better options, please let us know!
I’m not an expert but I believe that podcasts can stand alone without the limitations of publishing websites because they are based on RSS feeds. I listen to a podcast called "No Agenda" that is owned by a chap called Adam Curry and he was the inventor of podcasting I believe. Curry says that they won’t be able to shut him down but he recommends you don’t access podcasts through major platforms like Spotify and Apple because they censor. He recommends using a podcast app such PodcastGuru which is free and allows access to all podcasts. Curry has built up his audience to around 1million and doesn’t charge a subscription but rather uses what he calls a "value for value’ and asks for donations however small if you find value in his output. I do. I think it’s a great podcast once (like most things) you get into it because on first appearance it’s a bit laddish.
I found this a very interesting piece but wonder if you’ve considered another reason why you encounter these trolls who say they’ve met Lucy Connelly. There are a lot of nutters or just horrible people who come to play out their nasty argumentative side on the internet because they can hide like the Wizard of oz. When you confront them they are incapable of backing down hence the attack you receive. I’m prepared to believe it’s a psy op but the people you talk about aren’t necessarily part of the psyop. Have you tried getting a visiting order to see Connolly?
It's certainly possible, and if it was just random Twitter trolls claiming to know her, I wouldn't draw such a firm conclusion. It's the Twitter trolls, plus the implausibly high Twitter activity of "Lucy", plus the husband as "Northhampton's first Covid patient", plus the dodgy fundraiser on dodgy site (a site I have exposed before because of all its elite establishment connections), that make it look extremely likely indeed that this is an op.
As for trying to get a visiting order, working on it! So far, investigations have failed to elicit so much as a confirmation that she is really is resident in HMP Drake Hall, as the media claims. I'll keep you posted...
How many people who've been caught up in the Lucy Connolly narrative have tried to verify the incarceration of Lucy for themselves, to establish what they're confident of? Is an interesting offshoot from your closing question. Probably almost no one right?
They're forming opinions on things they've been fed but perhaps have not looked into for themselves. We all collectively have the means of investigation; and the more the merrier imho.
I think it's because for so many people connecting with other people is scary. I mean really connecting - I stand in my integrity, you stand in yours.
As a proxy they say and do things that indicate to others they are in a particular group and reassure the other they are a "good" person, because they believe/do/say x.
I often reflect on what started out as something valuable (having an educated opinion you crafted yourself) has turned into something so potentially diabolical (repeating something someone said without criticism to act as a proxy for forming an opinion).
I also think this applies to deodorant, but I really need to write an article about that to explain what I mean because it's quite long and complicated and I know I'll only work it out if I try and concisely express it!
You're spot on as always, and sure, we're systematically corralled into limited hangouts. But they're created after the fact, reactive.
Farcebook was a classic. We knew it was the perfect surveillance system but who cares? The things that went on! Up to around 2017 the antivax groups flourished, became a goldmine of information and data. That's how I came to learn of Chris Exley, to watch lots of his videos and to buy his book, to understand this key part of the vaccine paradigm.
But didn't we advance the deeper knowledge, the hidden knowing that used to only come from reading scarce books and journals! We've never had it so good and it was out of control for them. It had to be shut down of course, Twitter had a purge, the controlled opposition worked hard.
Like acid in the 60's (it was legal until the mid 60's). It blew the culture apart but it created an unprecedented shift of consciousness, previously only known to a few (whether obscure initiates or secret societies). So it had to be shut down .. bring on the heroin, economic crises, nuclear posturing ..
And now there's lots of antivax groups up on farcebook again, it's safer for the matrix to put the limited hangouts in place, who knows which direction our questing will take us, or which website or blogger we'll spend time with. So many people woke up during those years, the process has it's own life, is ongoing. It often only takes one good post or article to change a life, to open the matrix exit door. I continually meet people who searched for basic answers to logical questions and spent half a year plummeting down a rabbit hole. Reeling in shock and horror, quitting their job, staggering out into the daylight and there it was, lifechanging community and kindred souls they'd have never connected with before.
So I see these nasty pushbacks as reactive rather than proactive. I see you as powerfully proactive and no doubt so do they.
I don't think we're winning but we're a tough adversary and for the first time in history we're fighting the good fight without harmful weapons.
BTW this isn't a sycophantic rave, you're welcome to alert me to flaws of perception or logic!
I would have given up before even asking the person to meet on a Zoom (honestly, if people are rude to polite strangers, I really know all I need to know about them!). TBH, I can't really go on Twitter because I find the "enraged, vicious lunatic" count too high for my taste!
I really admire your pursuit of this and I am very much looking forward to reading whatever happens next; whatever it is, I am sure I'll find it entertaining!
Thank you so much for what you do and, as they say in New Zealand - Kia Kaha! (stay strong).
Crazy thing is someone on Twitter is saying “she’s real I’ve had email communications with her from prison via this website”..this is from someone who is apparently “awake”.
The problem is that people often aren't aware of what "evidence" is. I could set up an email account called 'Lucy Connolly', and use it to start communicating with people, claiming to be in prison. Anyone could do this (and online "Catfish" do exactly this - pose as others online, sometimes for years). So of course, this isn't evidence the story is true.
As yet, I haven't even been able to see verifiable proof anyone has visited her in prison (at least with the Tommy Robinson situation, the establishment bothered to stage "prison visits" etc).
Thanks, Miri. I have had a slightly different experience: I have mysteriously––but spuriously––been 'subscribed' to several Substacks––and have been charged. Also, I un-subscribed to a Substack but the money has kept flowing. And then there was the one posting dozens of essays about 'Jewish' issues––which had no standard way to unsubscribe! I think I will take all my books to unorganized territory in northern Maine and fade from sight (site?) like Alice's Cheshire Cat. Best always, h
Oh no, sorry to hear about that. Substack does have a bit of a sneaky trick where, when you subscribe to a new person, it tries to get you to subscribe to their recommendations too, and it's easy to accidentally be roped into that (I did it a few times before realising why I was subscribed to all these newsletters I didn't recognise). As for being erroneously charged, that's awful and I hope you were able to recoup your money - very possibly didn't even go to the authors, but straight to Mr Andreessen himself!
Your Maine plan certainly has a lot to recommend it!
Thanks Oiram, and I have also noticed this! All my content is also published at my own website, https://miriaf.co.uk/ and may be easier to read there, especially on certain devices.
Coming to terms with what total control actually means, particularly 0n the Internet is not easy. Preventing ideas on Substack from reaching the majority seems so obvious when you, Miri, have followed the money and researched it so thoroughly.
Debbie Lerman’s description of a computer nerd saviour would seem to fit Roger Ver, genius, freedom fighter and creator of Bitcoin as a monetary system outside of central banks. Aaron Day is now seeking a pardon for Ver’s “crime” of apparently consulting a lawyer. I don’t know the current situation but in 2024 he was held in the same Spanish prison where John McAfee died.
A better fit might be Aaron Swartz who “committed suicide” age 26 after co-founding Redditt in an effort to enfranchise the internet. Going back further to 2000 Anonymous, hacktivists who publicly belittled the cabal by their campaign against Scientology and role in the Tahrir Square riots, were eventually infiltrated and arrested.
The control grid would seem to be founded on banking and the internet. David Rogers Webb, banking expert, has had real world success in having bills brought in South Dakota, Wyoming and Tennessee to strike out Article 8 of the Universal Commercial Code.
The votes might have gone his way had constituents of these states exercised their constitutional right to address the legislature. Sadly he could count on the fingers of one hand the number of supporters. The general public seem reluctant to use their ‘reality privilege’ even though they can potentially lose their financial property.
However, David Rogers Webb does have reach since his book The Great Taking has sold upwards of 2M copies and is translated into 8 languages. I will keep my eye on miriaf.co.uk for content in future.
I do receive your emails at 2 addresses and Debbie Lerman’s BTW.
IIRC, it’s known as the totalitarian tiptoe. Keeping the useless eaters in check. I’ve read a couple of Ike books; funny in parts, entertaining, incisive. Then inevitably you have to put your crash helmet on and buckle up: for the labyrinth of demons; the blood drinking lizards and the polyester shell suited zombies, etc. etc… god bless his little cotton socks..
But if we really think about it: it’s the same old ‘establishment’ story. About censorship, control, crop spraying, and genetically modified craft bread !?! ..publishing houses; BBC celebrities, music bizz, Tv success for certain high profile Actors. Everything really is, moderated, carefully calibrated, allowed; if it serves a purpose. Undoubtedly, to crush and restrain, the average tax paying Joe.
In fact - one begins to wonder if we ever had anything remotely resembling free will. Or, Access to the ‘Truth’. Or the ability to try and understand: Pet Sounds, by the Beach Boys..?!?
All the big nasty million dollar corporations (deffo back in the last century or two) simply helped themselves to anything they desired: Fed Reserve; Fiat currency, Petro-chemical-pharmaceutical; allopathic germ theory; Viruses (never been proven to exist).
Absconding with billions, of tax payers money - by pretending to fly to the moon. Or crashing a plane (?) into the twin towers and the Pentagon(?) and, oddly enough: losing 2.3 trillion in the process.(9/11) . It’s a circus of deprivation for (ours) truly.
And, there probably hasn’t been a time, since the powers that shouldn’t be, weren’t fiddling with history: evolution, medical science(?).. or various religious psy-ops. Global warming, anyone .?? Palantir technologies. Christ, it makes Cambridge analytica look like a provincial kindergarten, from back in the day.
We’ve been exploited and gaslit since time immemorial. I wonder if they’ve simply rearranged the furniture in Plato’s cave, and put in a bigger screen.. ??
Barry Norman used to do the Film review series on bbc, between the mid seventies and nineties. And the theme tune was:
“I wish I knew how it would feel to be Free”. (???)
By the Billy Taylor Trio.
(Nina Simone did a vocal cover version,too.)!!
So… don’t let the bastards grind you down..
Just listening to the cover now - what a fabulous song!
Thanks Miri - your experience and analysis correlate w the experiences of many Substack writers I know, including myself. Rumble seems to be a similar online dissident ghetto, owned by the same broligarchy, intended to corral us into a corner and then control our reach and ability to monetize our content.
My question is this: can a decentralized network be created where we can publish content and monetize it without any owners controlling it? This is an existential question and I don’t know if any brilliant tech nerds are working on it, since it would not lead to any lucrative IPOs etc. I’m also too tech ignorant to know if it’s even possible. If not, we might have to go back to the times of printing and distributing subversive pamphlets in the physical world!
Thank you, Debbie, and sadly all you say is very true.
The best compromise I have been able to come up with - short of the printing and distributing you mention - is to own your own website where you publish all your content (as I do at miriaf.co.uk), and then only use "their" platforms for monetisation, but never actually post your content there, so they don't have an excuse to ban you, i.e., I have a Buy Me A Coffee account for people who want to support my work, but don't publish any content there. https://buymeacoffee.com/miriaf
It's far from perfect though, as it's ultimately still relying on "them", so if any aforementioned brilliant tech nerds do have better options, please let us know!
I’m not an expert but I believe that podcasts can stand alone without the limitations of publishing websites because they are based on RSS feeds. I listen to a podcast called "No Agenda" that is owned by a chap called Adam Curry and he was the inventor of podcasting I believe. Curry says that they won’t be able to shut him down but he recommends you don’t access podcasts through major platforms like Spotify and Apple because they censor. He recommends using a podcast app such PodcastGuru which is free and allows access to all podcasts. Curry has built up his audience to around 1million and doesn’t charge a subscription but rather uses what he calls a "value for value’ and asks for donations however small if you find value in his output. I do. I think it’s a great podcast once (like most things) you get into it because on first appearance it’s a bit laddish.
Oh that's interesting, thanks Susie!
He is very accessible and helpful to podcasters. His email can be found on the No Agenda website
I found this a very interesting piece but wonder if you’ve considered another reason why you encounter these trolls who say they’ve met Lucy Connelly. There are a lot of nutters or just horrible people who come to play out their nasty argumentative side on the internet because they can hide like the Wizard of oz. When you confront them they are incapable of backing down hence the attack you receive. I’m prepared to believe it’s a psy op but the people you talk about aren’t necessarily part of the psyop. Have you tried getting a visiting order to see Connolly?
It's certainly possible, and if it was just random Twitter trolls claiming to know her, I wouldn't draw such a firm conclusion. It's the Twitter trolls, plus the implausibly high Twitter activity of "Lucy", plus the husband as "Northhampton's first Covid patient", plus the dodgy fundraiser on dodgy site (a site I have exposed before because of all its elite establishment connections), that make it look extremely likely indeed that this is an op.
As for trying to get a visiting order, working on it! So far, investigations have failed to elicit so much as a confirmation that she is really is resident in HMP Drake Hall, as the media claims. I'll keep you posted...
How many people who've been caught up in the Lucy Connolly narrative have tried to verify the incarceration of Lucy for themselves, to establish what they're confident of? Is an interesting offshoot from your closing question. Probably almost no one right?
They're forming opinions on things they've been fed but perhaps have not looked into for themselves. We all collectively have the means of investigation; and the more the merrier imho.
I think it's because for so many people connecting with other people is scary. I mean really connecting - I stand in my integrity, you stand in yours.
As a proxy they say and do things that indicate to others they are in a particular group and reassure the other they are a "good" person, because they believe/do/say x.
I often reflect on what started out as something valuable (having an educated opinion you crafted yourself) has turned into something so potentially diabolical (repeating something someone said without criticism to act as a proxy for forming an opinion).
I also think this applies to deodorant, but I really need to write an article about that to explain what I mean because it's quite long and complicated and I know I'll only work it out if I try and concisely express it!
You're spot on as always, and sure, we're systematically corralled into limited hangouts. But they're created after the fact, reactive.
Farcebook was a classic. We knew it was the perfect surveillance system but who cares? The things that went on! Up to around 2017 the antivax groups flourished, became a goldmine of information and data. That's how I came to learn of Chris Exley, to watch lots of his videos and to buy his book, to understand this key part of the vaccine paradigm.
But didn't we advance the deeper knowledge, the hidden knowing that used to only come from reading scarce books and journals! We've never had it so good and it was out of control for them. It had to be shut down of course, Twitter had a purge, the controlled opposition worked hard.
Like acid in the 60's (it was legal until the mid 60's). It blew the culture apart but it created an unprecedented shift of consciousness, previously only known to a few (whether obscure initiates or secret societies). So it had to be shut down .. bring on the heroin, economic crises, nuclear posturing ..
And now there's lots of antivax groups up on farcebook again, it's safer for the matrix to put the limited hangouts in place, who knows which direction our questing will take us, or which website or blogger we'll spend time with. So many people woke up during those years, the process has it's own life, is ongoing. It often only takes one good post or article to change a life, to open the matrix exit door. I continually meet people who searched for basic answers to logical questions and spent half a year plummeting down a rabbit hole. Reeling in shock and horror, quitting their job, staggering out into the daylight and there it was, lifechanging community and kindred souls they'd have never connected with before.
So I see these nasty pushbacks as reactive rather than proactive. I see you as powerfully proactive and no doubt so do they.
I don't think we're winning but we're a tough adversary and for the first time in history we're fighting the good fight without harmful weapons.
BTW this isn't a sycophantic rave, you're welcome to alert me to flaws of perception or logic!
Thank you very much, Hugh, and a very astute comment, as Robert said.
I'd say that this was a very perceptive comment, well articulated.
I just LOVE your tenacity. Love it.
I would have given up before even asking the person to meet on a Zoom (honestly, if people are rude to polite strangers, I really know all I need to know about them!). TBH, I can't really go on Twitter because I find the "enraged, vicious lunatic" count too high for my taste!
I really admire your pursuit of this and I am very much looking forward to reading whatever happens next; whatever it is, I am sure I'll find it entertaining!
Thank you so much for what you do and, as they say in New Zealand - Kia Kaha! (stay strong).
Thanks very much, Rosie! Much appreciated. I think you will enjoy the next instalment....
Crazy thing is someone on Twitter is saying “she’s real I’ve had email communications with her from prison via this website”..this is from someone who is apparently “awake”.
Mind boggling.
The problem is that people often aren't aware of what "evidence" is. I could set up an email account called 'Lucy Connolly', and use it to start communicating with people, claiming to be in prison. Anyone could do this (and online "Catfish" do exactly this - pose as others online, sometimes for years). So of course, this isn't evidence the story is true.
As yet, I haven't even been able to see verifiable proof anyone has visited her in prison (at least with the Tommy Robinson situation, the establishment bothered to stage "prison visits" etc).
Good post Miri and a good reminder choosing "our allies carefully".
I no longer receive your posts Miri and have to search them out. I will now find them at your website.
Thanks Farleyboy, that's useful to know. I'll be setting up a private mailing list soon so as to reduce my dependency on Substack.
Thanks, Miri. I have had a slightly different experience: I have mysteriously––but spuriously––been 'subscribed' to several Substacks––and have been charged. Also, I un-subscribed to a Substack but the money has kept flowing. And then there was the one posting dozens of essays about 'Jewish' issues––which had no standard way to unsubscribe! I think I will take all my books to unorganized territory in northern Maine and fade from sight (site?) like Alice's Cheshire Cat. Best always, h
Oh no, sorry to hear about that. Substack does have a bit of a sneaky trick where, when you subscribe to a new person, it tries to get you to subscribe to their recommendations too, and it's easy to accidentally be roped into that (I did it a few times before realising why I was subscribed to all these newsletters I didn't recognise). As for being erroneously charged, that's awful and I hope you were able to recoup your money - very possibly didn't even go to the authors, but straight to Mr Andreessen himself!
Your Maine plan certainly has a lot to recommend it!
I have noticed on Miri's stack, that sometimes it is very difficult to access the posts.
Thanks Oiram, and I have also noticed this! All my content is also published at my own website, https://miriaf.co.uk/ and may be easier to read there, especially on certain devices.
Thanks I will check it out
Coming to terms with what total control actually means, particularly 0n the Internet is not easy. Preventing ideas on Substack from reaching the majority seems so obvious when you, Miri, have followed the money and researched it so thoroughly.
Debbie Lerman’s description of a computer nerd saviour would seem to fit Roger Ver, genius, freedom fighter and creator of Bitcoin as a monetary system outside of central banks. Aaron Day is now seeking a pardon for Ver’s “crime” of apparently consulting a lawyer. I don’t know the current situation but in 2024 he was held in the same Spanish prison where John McAfee died.
A better fit might be Aaron Swartz who “committed suicide” age 26 after co-founding Redditt in an effort to enfranchise the internet. Going back further to 2000 Anonymous, hacktivists who publicly belittled the cabal by their campaign against Scientology and role in the Tahrir Square riots, were eventually infiltrated and arrested.
The control grid would seem to be founded on banking and the internet. David Rogers Webb, banking expert, has had real world success in having bills brought in South Dakota, Wyoming and Tennessee to strike out Article 8 of the Universal Commercial Code.
The votes might have gone his way had constituents of these states exercised their constitutional right to address the legislature. Sadly he could count on the fingers of one hand the number of supporters. The general public seem reluctant to use their ‘reality privilege’ even though they can potentially lose their financial property.
However, David Rogers Webb does have reach since his book The Great Taking has sold upwards of 2M copies and is translated into 8 languages. I will keep my eye on miriaf.co.uk for content in future.
I do receive your emails at 2 addresses and Debbie Lerman’s BTW.