Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy — their own population. Noam Chomsky
June 2020
May 2020
Censorship by Google Drive and Google Docs
Back in June 2019 I had warned about relying on cloud platforms for your business and for storing your (personal) data, with some examples of what could go wrong. With all the recent online censorship related to the COVID-19 ‘pandemic’ more examples are piling up showing what can happen when you rely on the current centralized Software As A Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platforms. Read more ⟶
Losing the elections of May 25th 2020
Following is an English translation of an article I wrote that was published on Starnieuws yesterday. The original article is in Dutch and you can read it on Starnieuws if you prefer that version. In a recent column on Starnieuws Mr. Hans Breeveld wrote the following: “Nobody should allow themselves the luxury of not voting. Read more ⟶
December 2019
The Slave Plantation of Eden
If, like me, you’ve wondered why all of our cultures, social institutions and ways of living together, have elements of slavery that are deeply, and indeed even fundamentally, embedded, then I hope you realize that this is because that’s how ‘civilization’ started many thousands of years ago, enforced on us by a specific extraterrestrial ruling class. Read more ⟶
November 2019
Being brainwashed in China’s “re-education camps”
After the recent example of torture and oppression by the criminal government of China, new leaked documents give insight into what the criminal government of China calls “re-education camps.” Here’s from the BBC, “Data leak reveals how China ‘brainwashes’ Uighurs in prison camps” (November 24th 2019): Leaked documents detail for the first time China’s systematic brainwashing of hundreds of ... Read more ⟶
The only way not to lose a rigged game is not to play. When the ruling classes exempt themselves from the ‘laws’ they expect us to live by, there is tyranny. The political, financial and military complexes have become one interwoven system of corporate fascism based on lies and deceit. It is more vulnerable than people think, as it requires our continued co-operation for it to maintain its illusion of legitimacy. When we choose to stop playing the game we dissolve the façade of presumed authority over us. To destroy a lie, live the truth. Unknown
Being tortured in China
A former British consulate employee by the name of Simon Cheng has written a detailed account of how he was detained and tortured by the criminal Chinese government because of possible participation in the Hong Kong protests. It’s a horrifying read, but I highly recommend reading it in full to understand what the situation currently is in China. Read more ⟶
Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed. Their mistaken course stems from false notions of equality. Equality, rightly understood leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. Barry Goldwater
October 2019
Mining for a Heart of Gold
For some reason it happens more frequently these days that people comment on the fact that I choose to live alone. I figured I should probably start writing about the reasons for that so that I won’t have to keep repeating myself in the future. There are many reasons for why I choose to be alone, basically all having to do with one of the most important things to me in life: freedom. Read more ⟶
The organizing principle of centralism was necessary only for the individual ruler who, from one place, wanted to dominate larger countries at the same time in order to squeeze interest from them. To this end, they were compelled to appoint ministers to their courts, and to send statesmen to the provinces.
Now one must always keep in mind that this was not necessary for the life of the subjugated peoples, but that this central government was created only by the ruler who conquered power for the purpose of collecting taxes and later influencing peoples opinion in favor of the ruler. Augustin Souchy
June 2019
The danger of “Software as a Service” and “Infrastructure as a Service”
Eric Raymond blogged about the danger of using “Software as a Service” (SaaS) in light of Salesforce.com recently banning customers from selling firearms. Read more ⟶
May 2019
I’m Rich and Successful
One of the things that I’ve realized and have been thinking about often in the last few weeks is how rich and successful I am. And I don’t mean this in the way that most people understand these terms, which is usually in the financial sense, because I don’t care about being rich and successful in that way. In fact, I’ve written before about the fact that I never want to get rich in that sense. Read more ⟶
April 2019
The government I live under has been my enemy all my active life. When it has not been engaged in silencing me it has been engaged in robbing me. So far as I can recall I have never had any contact with it that was not an outrage on my dignity and an attack on my security. H. L. Mencken
December 2018
I can’t recommend this presentation (also available on Archive.org) by Mark Passio highly enough. Be sure to free up 3 hours of this weekend to watch this presentation. After watching this you might also be interested in watching his 8 hour long presentation on Natural Law, which can also be found on YouTube. Read more ⟶
March 2018
An example of the dangers of a government provided basic income
In my post ‘Governments and Basic Income: Why they don’t go together’ I discussed the dangers of relying on a basic income provided by the government. Specifically I mentioned the following: If every individual’s universal right to life isn’t respected (in the broadest sense possible) then no amount of free money will be able to save them from abuse. Read more ⟶
Politics: An Exercise in Futility
Larken Rose published a status update on Facebook a few days ago that I really liked. Read more ⟶
July 2017
Court rules that Politicians blocking followers on Social Media violates Free Speech
Back in October 2016 I had blogged about my experiences with censorship on Facebook, where I mentioned that the reporting functionalities provided by the social media network were “being abused […] to harass, silence and censor people, and is a serious violation of every individual’s natural right to free speech.” Interestingly a judge in the USA seems to agree in at least one specific instance: Court Rules That Politicians ... Read more ⟶
November 2016
Governments and Basic Income: Why they don’t go together
Scott Santens published another excellent article a few days ago on basic income titled “True Freedom Comes With Basic Income.” As the title already gives away, the article is about how a basic income can help to give people more freedom in their daily lives. Santens argues very convincingly, with real world examples, that having an unconditional basic income will give people more freedom to refuse to make choices that they ... Read more ⟶
October 2016
On the Facebook 30-Day Ban and Censorship
This week I got temporarily banned, again, for 30 days on Facebook after someone apparently reported a comment I had published below a friend’s post. Much has been said about this ‘feature’ on Facebook, but I have more to add to the ongoing discussion on the Internet. Read more ⟶
February 2016
Relationships of the Future
We’re currently living at a time when there are a lot of social changes underway at relatively rapid speeds (compared to the past), due in large part to the Global Brain. Until recently, humankind made a lot of progress when it comes to our scientific and technological development, but we’ve basically remained stagnant when it comes to social developments. Read more ⟶