CUNNINGLY DEVISED FABLES - PART 2

The Tea Leaves

NOTE: If you have not read part 1 in the series, go here » PART 1: ORIGINS.

NOT COUNTING THE COSTS

The more I have lived life the more I have come to understand that the things worth preserving are most certainly worth fighting for until the bitter end (or beginning depending on your world view). I, like most, have experienced a series of events and incidents throughout my life that have convinced me that God has had a hand in my life.

I do not believe in fate. I do not believe in accidents. What a senseless and pathetic way of looking at the world.

It has always been the case that people of like interests, passions, and visions tend to gravitate to one another. So, what is happening right before our eyes should be a surprise to precisely nobody. It is inconceivable that those with power and wealth would not band together with a common bond, a common interest, and a long-range plan to decide and direct the future of the world. For those with the resources, to do otherwise would be unthinkable.

If I were one of these individuals, I would be first to raise my hand to organize a conspiracy to control the outcome of the future, if such a conspiracy did not yet exist. I would do it in an attempt to ensure the survival of the principles in which I believe, the survival of my family and the survival of the human race, if for no other reason.

Just because Trump won does not mean the same war is no longer being waged by the enemy. Actually, I would argue it is being played on a level that we can barely imagine, and like it or not, we are the pawns. Pawns are valuable only under certain circumstances and are frequently sacrificed to gain an advantage.

Those who have seriously studied history have probably discovered the real reason we go to war on a regularly scheduled basis. You must learn the rules THEY play by. You must realize objectively that some pieces are more valuable than others and that the king is the most valuable of all.

You cannot learn reality if you get caught up in this fantasy that "it’s not fair." You must come to know that outcome is the only thing that counts. We are being told a massive lie when we accept the phrase "it does not matter whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game." Winning must matter to us.

Winning in the world of the elite is everything. In fact, it is the only thing.

The power elite intend to win. Based on what I can see the future laid out for us may be just about impossible to change. I do not agree with the means by which the powerful few have chosen to accomplish their goals which I am afraid are not all that honorable. I base that statement not on defeatism but rather the continued complacency I see from the majority of the American people. Twenty-five years ago, I would have believed otherwise, but twenty-five years ago I was also sound asleep.

I agree that many people are awake now, but what are they awake to exactly?

If you think for one second that we returned to reality on January 20th, you are sorely mistaken. That is not meant to underestimate the power of Trump. Clearly, in less than 3 months he is showing what determination, and a plan can do. But we MUST understand that the other powers at play here have a plan and strategy that if learned only in retrospect, will most certainly doom us all. I am not talking old school ‘Soros’ type plans. I am talking about a plan centered on technology that is not even conceivable to the human mind.

Let us not kid ourselves. Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum have a plan, but that plan pales in comparison to what these technology elites can do. It’s not even a close race. What I am banking on is an extremely insightful and savvy Donald Trump who is able to separate the good from the bad. I am trusting that bank still has money in it.

After all, the buck stops with Trump. He now has all the control and is responsible for the puzzle pieces he has put in place.

COMMON CAUSE CLUB

WHEN A MAN’S WAYS PLEASE THE LORD, HE MAKES EVEN HIS ENEMIES TO BE AT PEACE WITH HIM. - PROVERBS 16:7

Don’t get me wrong because I am hardly into evolution. But what transpired with JD Vance over the course of about 7 years is nothing short of miraculous. Or is it?

I have a small group of close friends, and I have expressed from time to time that “I am not completely convinced that Trump has ever had the large group of ‘enemies’ that most think he does.” I have probably watch 20-30 different videos of JD Vance from 2016-2021, and I cannot for the life of me see how this stark change from Never Trumper to Forever MAGA actually transpired.

Yeah, yeah, I get it….he has said on multiple occasions that he was wrong about Trump, and I should therefore have an obligation to take that at face value. But in order to do that, I would have to believe that a very well-spoken, intelligent, and thoughtful JD Vance went from ‘there is no way’ to this is the ‘only way’.

For me personally, it was blatantly obvious way back in 2015 that Trump was the only candidate even remotely in tune with the massive problems and equally in tune with people. I don’t consider myself any more insightful or intelligent than JD. So why would I totally get it from day one and it takes him nearly 7+ years to get it?

But the bigger question is why would Donald Trump even consider JD Vance as a running mate? Why even take the risk? If you’re wrong, then you have very big problems ahead. What happened to the Trump that rewarded loyalty? Why go with the former Never Trumper?

I can only conclude that the former Never Trumper was never a Never Trumper.

WAIT? WHAT WAS THAT AGAIN?

I don’t believe anyone reading this would argue that from November of 2020 until right around the end of 2022 it was very much a fog of war. Fake elections, fake pandemics, and a host of propaganda unlike anything we had witnessed in our lifetimes. Well, with the fog of war, comes the amnesia that happens as the fog begins to clear. Because at the end of the day we just wanted it to be over so we could forget about it, move on, and have our ‘freedom’ back. That is a somewhat reasonable train of thought but it’s also quite dangerous.

With the amazing reclaiming of the Presidency by Donald Trump, many were quick to extend huge amounts of credit to Elon Musk (and justifiably so) because of his key contributions in helping to reset the political landscape in a way we have never seen. But watching from backstage was perhaps the most powerful player of them all. We are talking about the man that with a $500,000 investment in Facebook literally made Mark Zuckerberg who he is today. This was in addition to supporting both Trump and Musk before either were considered viable in their respective political and business pursuits. The once chess prodigy that is now positioned to literally rule how huge swaths of American society will operate….and it’s possible I am understating the scenario.

Peter Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal and Palantir and a renowned Silicon Valley entrepreneur, is about as central a figure as there can be in this MAGA technological and political movement. Thiel has been either a founding member, significant investor, and/or board member on ‘at least’ all of the following companies:

• Palantir (Big Data and AI)

• PayPal (Finance Technology)

• Meta (Social Media)

• OpenAI (AI)

• Stripe (Finance Technology)

• Anduril Industries (Military AI)

• Rumble (Social Media)

And here is a partial list of his significant connections to the Trump administration. When I say ‘significant’ connections I do not mean they happened to have dinner one night. I am talking very close business, corporate, ideological, and/or political ties.

• JD Vance (Current Vice-President of The United States) - More on Vance in a moment.

• David Sacks (Current AI and Crypto Czar) - As a fellow (with Peter) and former key player at PayPal, Sacks is responsible for a high-dollar Trump fundraiser in 2024, which brought together major tech investors and venture capitalists. He is thought to be a key behind-the-scenes operator in shaping Trump’s approach to tech policy and he obviously has close ties with Thiel.

• Stephen Miller (Current White House Deputy Chief of Staff) - Thiel has funded several groups that Miller later advised which strengthening immigration and national security. While Miller does not have a direct corporate connection to Thiel, their ideological overlap and financial connections indicate mutual influence on policymaking.

And now back to JD Vance. Peter has been a longtime mentor to JD. From the Vance days at Yale, where Thiel lectured on technology, government, and society to Mithril Capital where JD worked for Thiel in a position that eventually propelled him into a prominent political career. In 2022, Thiel’s political support for Vance went public when he donated $15 million to a super PAC backing Vance’s Senate campaign. This was one of the largest individual contributions in a Senate race, underscoring Thiel’s commitment to Vance and signaling a vested interest in Vance’s influence on Capitol Hill.

As VP, Vance now brings a very Thiel-aligned perspective towards innovative technology in national security—an area where Palantir has thrived. This connection alone offers Palantir government contracting access like never before, potentially influencing defense and intelligence budgets to align with Palantir’s unique strengths.

As a not-so-side note (because this may have slipped by many during the COVID fog of war)…in May of 2021 it was venture capitalists Peter Thiel, Vivek Ramaswamy and JD Vance that were pumping very large sums of money into Rumble (YouTube alternative). On December 14, 2021, Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) announced that it was entering a "wide-ranging technology and cloud services agreement" with Rumble in a statement that also stated that Rumble would operate part of Truth Social as well as TMTG. Source —> HERE.

The fact that politicians and corporate executives have collaborative history is hardly earth-shattering news. Where you find the real news is when you go back even further to better understand the power of the wagon to which JD is hitched.

FORGETTING TO NEVER FORGET

I think it’s probably safe to say that over the last 25ish years the two events that have produced the most societal disruption and change were 9/11 and COVID.

9/11 was undoubtedly used to remove any and all obstacles that prevented the powers that be from ‘information-access’. The CIA chief information officer (Alan Wade) stated that “We’re looking at tools that facilitate communication in ways that we don’t have today.”

So, in order to mitigate the risks and solve for the problems, the US national-security state attempted to create a “public-private” partnership, managed by the Pentagon’s DARPA. Supporters argued that invasive surveillance of the entire US population was necessary to prevent terrorist attacks, bioterrorism events, and even naturally occurring disease outbreaks (such as pandemics) before they could take place.

Have you ever heard of TIA?

Is it Title Insurance Agency? Nope.

Is it Thanks In Advance? Nope.

How about Training Impact Analysis. Nope.

Last guess.

Is it Total Information Awareness? DING!!! DING!!! DING!!! You win the steak knives!!

Total Information Awareness (TIA) was a mass detection program by the United States Information Awareness Office under the direction of then Admiral John Poindexter. It operated under this title from February to May 2003 before being renamed Terrorism Information Awareness. Congress defunded the Information Awareness Office in late 2003 after media reports criticized the government for attempting to establish "Total Information Awareness" over all citizens.

Although the program was formally suspended, other government agencies later adopted some of its software with only minor changes. The TIA core architecture continued development under the code name "Basketball".

So, Total Information Awareness was dead but only in the sense that it wasn’t really dead at all.

…..similar to ObamaCare…..

I mean let’s get real. Would you kill something you plan to use later? You wouldn’t. This is precisely why the company Palantir (founder Peter Thiel) was incorporated in the immediate aftermath of the TIA shut down.

This could only have meant one thing. There needed to be a meeting of the minds.

So, the aforementioned Admiral Poindexter brought together the architect of the Iraq War, Richard Perle, and a couple of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who were starting a software company. Poindexter, according to a report in New York Magazine, “was precisely the person” with whom the entrepreneurs (Peter Thiel and Alex Karp) wanted to meet, mainly because “their new company was similar in ambition” to what Poindexter had tried to create at the Pentagon (that is/was, TIA), and they wanted to pick the brain of the man now widely viewed as the godfather of modern surveillance.

Since then, Palantir has been implementing the “pre-crime” initiatives of TIA under the cover of the “free market,” enabled by its position as a private company. Palantir operates within 4 key components….Palantir Gotham, Palantir Foundry, Palantir Apollo, and Palantir AIP….with government contracts that would blow your mind.

We’ll get into all these at a later date when I can show you how the astounding puzzle pieces fit in this national (and likely international) framework.

READING THE ‘THIEL’ LEAVES

If you were to lay your political bias aside for a moment and watch this exchange between Senator Maria Cantwell and Mark Zuckerberg, I think you would be completely amazed. If you are not able to do that then you will miss the fact that she was asking precisely the right questions. Questions that are so relevant today it’s frightening. She didn’t seem to be attacking like most were. She just asked questions.

“I am not really familiar with what Palantir does.”

So, the man that Peter Thiel literally turned into a billionaire is now saying that he has never heard of the concept of Total Information Awareness, nor does he have any idea what Peter Thiel’s company does? That would be like Gary Redenbacher, who organizes the Valparaiso, IN Popcorn Festival saying…

“I am not really familiar with what grandpa Orville did for a living.”

But it’s statements like the ones from Zuckerberg that just fly right over the heads of most because people are too focused on things like censorship, election influencing, and other topics that, while important, only speak to the symptoms and not the fundamental problem.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely and a man (or woman) with a god complex is able to lie publicly with no thought given to either credibility or accountability. This always reminds me of the advice from my grandma to never get too high on my horse because, “There is a God, and you ain’t him.”

The fundamental problem is that the enemy has, is, and always will be trying to convince human beings they can not only ascend to the knowledge of God, but dare I say become the source of their own knowledge. It’s been this way from day one.

“For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.” - Genesis 3:5

We’re just getting started. So, stay tuned for part 3 and thanks for reading.

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