Wikispooks and Anthony C. Sutton

Today I came across a site called WikiSpooks that was hosting three books by Anthony C. Sutton here. On the WikiSpooks website, it's claimed that:

People up to no good don't generally advertise the fact. Wicked deeds are done in secret, but for those which cannot be kept secret - such as assassinations or full scale wars - alternative explanations are concocted and aggressively promoted. Aware of this, WikiSpooks aims for a genuinely dispassionate analysis of what is going on in the world, refusing to blindly take the "official narratives" of nation states and powerful institutions at face value.

Further along in the site:

While commercially-controlled media generally present official narrative-friendly perspectives of events in inexplicable isolation, framing them psychologically for their own purposes, Wikispooks seeks to shine an unbiased light in dark places and so to establish and trace important connections between events based on objective evidence. Behind a range of distractions from sports to celebrity culture or even party politics ("...the entertainment division of the military industrial complex" as Frank Zappa once opined) lies a set of hidden truths, parts of a wholly unacknowledged reality which can be discerned behind the misinformation fog that aims to hide it. 

Source 

Sutton is an interesting character. As Wikipedia quotes him as saying: 

In a few words: there is no such thing as Soviet technology. Almost all — perhaps 90–95 percent — came directly or indirectly from the United States and its allies. In effect the United States and the NATO countries have built the Soviet Union. Its industrial and its military capabilities. This massive construction job has taken 50 years. Since the Revolution in 1917. It has been carried out through trade and the sale of plants, equipment and technical assistance.

I've downloaded his books now and added them to my library. There are YouTube videos available in which he talks about some the issues raised in his books. In the following embedded video, Sutton talks about Western involvement in the Bolshevik Revolution.

ZeroNet for Uncensorable Websites

Consonant with the theme of decentralisation via P2P and BitTorrent is ZeroNet which claims to offer "open, free and uncensorable websites, using Bitcoin cryptography and BitTorrent network".

I was first alerted to this idea via a Corbett Report video on YouTube that was uploaded on the 12th January 2017 but is dated March 28th 2014. The MeowBit.com website mentioned in this video hasn't been updated since that time and any YouTube videos also date to 2014. ZeroNet seems to have now taken over as the driving force behind the popularisation of this technology. 

AceLewis has a YouTube channel with many instructional videos, the most recent of which was posted only a month ago. I've linked to the website above. Here is the first in his series of instructional videos, titled Introduction to ZeroNet and posted 11 months ago:

However, after downloading ZeroNet to my Mac, it doesn't open even after I watched his instructional video and followed all the steps. I need to investigate further but I've made a start at least.

Bitchute: YouTube Alternative?

While I was watching the latest episode of mediamonarchy.com, mention was made of a new startup called bitchute as an alternative to YouTube. It is powered by WebTorrent and relies on P2P sharing on data instead of vast numbers of centralised servers. Here is what the site's founders have to say about how the idea came about:

Throughout 2015 and 2016 several prominent YouTubers reported a loss of video monetization when covering certain topics or for having particular opinions. YouTube claimed this was due to tighter enforcement of existing rules, even if true this will restrict the type of content that gets made and is a form of censorship. 

Here we believe people should be able to express their opinions and choose their topics. If existing services cannot allow that, then let's make some that will. The question is, how to disrupt a platform as well established as YouTube? It cannot be on their terms; we think we might have an answer, decentralization by torrents and tailored matchups for monetization. *More on the monetization to come soon. 

Rather than needing massive data centers with humongous bandwidth costs, torrents depend on many people sharing videos from their home computers. While this has been possible for many years through bit torrent, bit torrent applications have steep learning curves; this site aims to make the torrent experience seamless by working entirely in the web browser.

On the WebTorrent site, things are explained by its creator, Feross Aboukhadijeh, as follows:

What is WebTorrent? 

WebTorrent is the first torrent client that works in the browser. YEP, THAT'S RIGHT. THE BROWSER. 

It's written completely in JavaScript – the language of the web – and uses WebRTC for true peer-to-peer transport. No browser plugin, extension, or installation is required. 

Using open web standards, WebTorrent connects website users together to form a distributed, decentralized browser-to-browser network for efficient file transfer. 

Why is this cool? 

Imagine a video site like YouTube, where visitors help to host the site's content. The more people that use a WebTorrent-powered website, the faster and more resilient it becomes. 

Browser-to-browser communication cuts out the middle-man and lets people communicate on their own terms. No more client/server – just a network of peers, all equal. WebTorrent is the first step in the journey to redecentralize the Web. 

In the following video, Feross explains how WebTorrent will work:

Finally, here's a Speaker Deck slide presentation about WebRTC from Feross:

Understanding our Past

This is an excellent video in which Graham Hancock expatiates on a number of different topics. I've only come to learn about him recently. The notes to the YouTube video describe him as follows:

Graham Hancock (born 2 August 1950) is a British writer and journalist. Hancock specialises in unconventional theories involving ancient civilisations, stone monuments or megaliths, altered states of consciousness, ancient myths and astronomical/astrological data from the past. One of the main themes running through many of his books is a posited global connection with a "mother culture" from which he believes all ancient historical civilisations sprang.

One crucial point he makes is the importance of thinking for yourself. Don't accept what so-called authorities say about something. Years ago, he began to question the accepted narrative about ancient civilisations and has spent his subsequent years trying to find out the truth about the pyramids, the sphinx and other Egyptian structures. Mainstream historians, in his opinion, misrepresent the ancient past just as they misrepresent the recent past.

Here is the video:

Beyond the Zika Freakout

In this post, I've included a timely video that discusses the media hype surrounding the Zika virus, the latest virus in a long list of nasties that generate a level of concern not commensurate with the actual damage caused. It would be naive in the extreme to believe that international bodies such as the World Health Organisation (WHO) are concerned with the welfare of humanity or that they care about YOU. Any pronouncements by WHO and similar organisations, either national or international, about Zika or any other virus should be treated with skepticism. 

Ask yourself: what is the hidden agenda? In every case, Big Pharma certainly profits from marketing vaccines that governments then push onto largely unsuspecting publics, aided by propaganda from main stream media (MSM) outlets. From a broader perspective however, these scare campaigns generate a sense that the world is a dangerous place where potentially devastating microorganisms lurk in the shadows waiting their time to mutate, propagate and depopulate. Are bird flu, Ebola, Zika etc. just trial runs for the "big one" that is being deliberately bio-engineered, will be covertly disseminated and, because of its lethality, used as justification for mandatory, emergency vaccination of "the herd". 

Racing against the clock, brave scientists will develop this emergency vaccine but have no time to conduct thorough safety checks. Tragically, its effect of the concocted vaccine proves far more lethal than the concocted virus it is meant to combat. The herd of humanity is catastrophically culled from 7 billion to well under 1 billion. Of course, those in the know, receive a different vaccine that is harmless and nearly all of them survive whereas the bulk of humanity perishes. Life goes on, for some. Is this insane speculation? Maybe, but remember the world is run by psychopaths who would not lose a night's sleep over such a cull. In fact, they would probably sleep more soundly, believing that the world was a better place as a result.

Here is the video:

Steemit

An interesting alternative to mainstream social media that makes use of blockchain technology is steemit and I've linked a James Corbett YouTube video that explains a little about it. I've signed up but have yet to submit a story or even vote on a story that someone else has submitted.

I've also added the logo that the site uses. It will be interesting to follow how this site fares because alternative viewpoints are being increasingly suppressed on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit etc. I can help a little by posting some content of my own and voting on content that is uploaded. In fact, I've just done this so I'm up and running. I've upvoted a post by a mathematics teacher and added a comment of my own. My username on Steemit is voodooguru.

The Hidden Agenda Behind Free Trade Agreements

Robert Reich's résumé seems to put him firmly in the camp of mainstream economists:

Robert Reich, one of the nation’s leading experts on work and the economy, is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. Time Magazine has named him one of the ten most effective cabinet secretaries of the last century. He has written 13 books, including his latest best-seller, “Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future;” “The Work of Nations,” which has been translated into 22 languages; and his newest, an e-book, “Beyond Outrage.” His syndicated columns, television appearances, and public radio commentaries reach millions of people each week. He is also a founding editor of the American Prospect magazine, and Chairman of the citizen’s group Common Cause. His new movie "Inequality for All" is in Theaters. His widely-read blog can be found at www.robertreich.org.

In spite of that, what he says here in SALON on March 16th 2016 echoes precisely what David Icke was talking about in a recent YouTube post.

Here is what Robert Reich had to say. I've highlighted some of the text:

Trade agreements are simply ravaging the middle class

I used to believe in trade agreements. That was before the wages of most Americans stagnated and a relative few at the top captured just about all the economic gains.

The old-style trade agreements of the 1960s and 1970s increased worldwide demand for products made by American workers, and thereby helped push up American wages.

The new-style agreements increase worldwide demand for products made by American corporations all over the world, enhancing corporate and financial profits but keeping American wages down.

The fact is, recent trade deals are less about trade and more about global investment.

Big American corporations no longer make many products in the United States for export abroad. Most of what they sell abroad they make abroad.

The biggest things they “export” are ideas, designs, franchises, brands, engineering solutions, instructions, and software, coming from a relatively small group of managers, designers, and researchers in the U.S.

The Apple iPhone is assembled in China from components made in Japan, Singapore, and a half-dozen other locales. The only things coming from the U.S. are designs and instructions from a handful of engineers and managers in California.

Apple even stows most of its profits outside the U.S. so it doesn’t have to pay American taxes on them.

Recent “trade” deals have been wins for big corporations and Wall Street, along with their executives and major shareholders, because they get better direct access to foreign markets and billions of consumers.

They also get better protection for their intellectual property – patents, trademarks, and copyrights – and for their overseas factories, equipment, and financial assets.

That’s why big corporations and Wall Street are so enthusiastic about the Trans Pacific Partnership – the giant deal among countries responsible for 40 percent of the global economy.

That deal would give giant corporations even more patent protection overseas. And it would allow them to challenge any nation’s health, safety, and environmental laws that stand in the way of their profits – including our own.
But recent trade deals haven’t been wins for most Americans.

By making it easier for American corporations to make things abroad, the deals have reduced the bargaining power of American workers to get better wages here.

The Trans Pacific Trade Partnership’s investor protections will make it safer for firms to relocate abroad – the Cato Institute describes such protections as “lowering the risk premium” on offshoring – thereby further reducing corporate incentives to make and do things in the United States, using and upgrading the skills of Americans.

Proponents say giant deals like the TPP are good for the growth of the United States economy. But that argument begs the question of whose growth they’re talking about.

Almost all the growth goes to the richest 1 percent. The rest of us can buy some products cheaper than before, but most of those gains would are offset by wage losses.

In theory, the winners could fully compensate the losers and still come out ahead. But the winners don’t compensate the losers.

For example, it’s ironic that the Administration is teaming up with congressional Republicans to enact the TPP, when congressional Republicans have done just about everything they can to keep down the wages of most Americans.

They’ve refused to raise the minimum wage (whose inflation-adjusted value is now almost 25 percent lower than it was in 1968), expand unemployment benefits, invest in job training, enlarge the Earned Income Tax Credit, improve the nation’s infrastructure, or expand access to public higher education.

They’ve embraced budget austerity that has slowed job and wage growth. And they’ve continued to push “trickle-down” economics – keeping tax rates low for America’s richest, protecting their tax loopholes, and fighting off any attempt to raise taxes on wealthy inheritances to their level before 2000.

I’ve seen first-hand how effective Wall Street and big corporations are at wielding influence – using lobbyists, campaign donations, and subtle promises of future jobs to get the global deals they want.

Global deals like the Trans Pacific Partnership will boost the profits of Wall Street and big corporations, and make the richest 1 percent even richer. But they’ll contribute the to steady shrinkage of the American middle class.