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Thou Shalt Trust the Narrative

It’s fascinating to see that the price of doubting the Narrative has been raised to nearly ONE BILLION DOLLARS!

Controversial radio host Alex Jones has been ordered by a Connecticut jury to pay $965 million in damages to the families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims, for suggesting that the December 2012 massacre was staged.

The six-member Connecticut Superior Court jury announced its verdict on Wednesday after three days of deliberations. The payouts were ordered to the families of eight children who were killed in the shooting, as well as to an emergency worker who claimed he was defamed.

The largest damage award was to one of the parents, Robbie Parker, whom Jones was ordered to pay $60 million for defamation and $60 million for emotional distress.

Fascinating. And it appears Miles Mathis may be at risk of facing a similar trial, as he has suggested that the second Alex Jones trial was itself staged.

I have dismissed both trials as fake, and we were given perfect proof of that today, when Jones himself reported that the judge declared him guilty during courtroom proceedings—which is of course highly illegal. Here is what she said to his attorney, after interrupting him for the millionth time during questioning of a witness: “If it’s not clear – wouldn’t be the first time – and you’ll move for an articulation, and I’ll articulate when I’m directed to by the appellate court. I understand that there will be an appeal, I assume-” Bellis explained before Pattis chimed in.

Whoops. If this were a real trial, a mistrial would have to be called right there, since the judge has just exhibited extreme prejudice, prejudging the outcome before full testimony. If a real jury had been sitting there, they would have all gasped at once. Jones’ attorney Pattis should have demanded a mistrial immediately, but he didn’t. None of that happened, because—as I have been telling you—this is not a real trial. It is not a “kangaroo court” either, since a kangaroo court is a real trial that is rigged.

This isn’t a real trial, it is a fake CIA trial run in some studio.

Alex Jones’ Second Fake Trial, 17 September 2002

The lesson, it seems, is that one must never say what one believes anymore, lest one be accused of insufficient faith in the Narrative. Instead, one would be wise to content oneself with quoting the statements of others.

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Rebel’s Run Update

While I discussed this on the Darkstream in considerable detail last night, I think a short summary posted here for the benefit of those who aren’t UATV subscribers would be a good idea.

  • The escrow company holding the $1 million security for the $4 million loan turned out to be a scam. The money was stolen and used to purchase medical gear for resale as part of what appears to be a massive Ponzi scheme the day it was sent from the VFM film company’s account.
  • VFM’s lawyers did their due diligence correctly, and on that basis refused to sign the final contract or to approve the security deposit without certain contingencies being met. However, the producer who originally initiated the project transferred the money to the fake escrow account despite the contract being unsigned and the contingencies being unmet.
  • Despite requests to return the security deposit as per the contract, and various “proofs” being provided that to show the money would be/had been returned, the security deposit was not returned to VFM.
  • VFM’s lawyers have been in contact with special agents from the FBI and cooperating with their investigations for the last two years. This is why no one has been able to say anything about the state of the project until now.
  • The man alleged to be primarily responsible for the false escrow company has been arrested and charged with seven felony counts of wire fraud and money laundering stemming from this and several other scams. Two Assistant United States Attorneys are prosecuting the case in Federal District court and special agents from the FBI are conducting the investigation.
  • FBI and SEC investigations of other individuals and organizations known to have been connected in some way to the financial structure of the Rebel’s Run project are proceeding. I will not comment on the possible fate of others who appear to have been involved in the scheme, except to say that it would not be a surprise if the first arrest does not turn out to be the last one.
  • The script for the movie written by myself and Chuck Dixon is complete and was approved for shooting by the director and the film company.
  • There is a legitimate possibility that part or all of the security deposit will be returned eventually, but now that the indictment has been made, restitution will not be discussed until the sentencing phase is reached.
  • The VFM partners are putting together a plan for making a different and less-expensive movie that will not require any additional financing from outside the community if the consensus is to continue moving forward on that front, regardless of whether restitution is made or not.

For more details, please watch Report on Rebel’s Run on UATV. If you have any questions about what happened, how it happened, or what our future plans are, please ask them on SG.

This is Fine

This is normal. Nothing to see here. Carry on.

Central Bank Liquidity Swap Operations
These swap facilities are designed to improve liquidity conditions in global money markets and to minimize the risk that strains abroad could spread to U.S. markets, by providing foreign central banks with the capacity to deliver U.S. dollar funding to institutions in their jurisdictions. The New York Fed undertakes certain small value transactions from time to time for the purpose of testing operational readiness. The results of the central bank liquidity swap operations and small value exercises of the central bank liquidity swap lines are published on a weekly basis when conducted.

Transfer to Swiss National Bank 10/05/2022 10/06/2022 10/13/2022 7 3.33 3,100,000,000

Now, why would the Federal Reserve be loaning $3.1 billion to the Swiss National Bank? Oh, yeah, I suppose that just might be why.

Credit Suisse Group AG may be facing a capital shortfall of up to 8 billion Swiss francs ($8 billion) in 2024, according to an analysis by Goldman Sachs Group Inc, underscoring the difficulties the troubled lender will face is it approaches what will likely be an extensive restructuring. Given the lender will need to restructure its investment banking operations during a period of “minimal” capital generation, it will face a shortfall of at least 4 billion francs, according to a team of analysts

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The Email

If you got the email, then you know exactly what I’m referring to. I’m going to be addressing this on tomorrow night’s Darkstream and providing significantly more detail than you’ve presently got, so please sit tight, keep your cool, and wait until you hear exactly what has happened, what the ramifications are, and what we’re planning to do about it.

Remember, the Ride Never Ends.

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Skin in the Game

The September-October Castalia Library book is SKIN IN THE GAME by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. It is an excellent work, second only to ANTIFRAGILE in my opinion. Subscribers will also be able to purchase the fourth book in the leather INCERTO collection, FOOLED BY RANDOMNESS, at the subscription price. All four books are being designed to work together as a set, in the mode of the three Aristotle books.

A few notes concerning Castalia Library.

  • A THRONE OF BONES I and II are currently scheduled to ship on 16 December from the bindery. We are attempting to get them moved up on the schedule; this is yet another reminder, as if any were needed, that we would really like to get these things under our control.
  • If you no longer subscribe to Castalia Library, you are not eligible for the discounted subscribers price. We would like to avoid issuing new discount codes for each book, but if the discounts continue to be used by ex-subscribers, we will have to do so.
  • The leather JUNIOR CLASSICS VOLS. 1-6 are complete. We’re going to confirm addresses next week, then get them out. We have 2-3 goatskin as well as an unknown number of cowhide sets remaining, and they will be made available to those who wish to buy them soon.
  • A dry washcloth will suffice to remove the extraneous gold foil speckling on ETHICS and will not harm the leather. We’re looking into what happened there.
  • There are 61 copies of ETHICS remaining.

EXCERPT: This book, while standalone, is a continuation of the Incerto collection, which is a combination of a) practical discussions, b) philosophical tales, and c) scientific and analytical commentary on the problems of randomness, and how to live, eat, sleep, argue, fight, befriend, work, have fun, and make decisions under uncertainty. While accessible to a broad group of readers, don’t be fooled: the Incerto is an essay, not a popularization of works done elsewhere in boring form (leaving aside the Incerto’s technical companion).

Skin in the Game is about four topics in one: a) uncertainty and the reliability of knowledge (both practical and scientific, assuming there is a difference), or in less polite words bull**t detection, b) symmetry in human aff airs, that is, fairness, justice, responsibility, and reciprocity, c) information sharing in transactions, and d) rationality in complex systems and in the real world. That these four cannot be disentangled is something that is obvious when one has . . . skin in the game. It is not just that skin in the game is necessary for fairness, commercial efficiency, and risk management: skin in the game is necessary to understand the world.

First, it is bull***t identification and filtering, that is, the difference between theory and practice, cosmetic and true expertise, and academia (in the bad sense of the word) and the real world. To emit a Yogiber-rism, in academia there is no difference between academia and the real world; in the real world, there is.

Second, it is about the distortions of symmetry and reciprocity in life: If you have the rewards, you must also get some of the risks, not let others pay the price of your mistakes. If you inflict risk on others, and they are harmed, you need to pay some price for it. Just as you should treat others in the way you’d like to be treated, you would like to share the responsibility for events without unfairness and inequity.
If you give an opinion, and someone follows it, you are morally obligated to be, yourself, exposed to its consequences. In case you are giving economic views:

Don’t tell me what you “think,” just tell me what’s in your portfolio.

Third, the book is about how much information one should practically share with others, what a used car salesman should— or shouldn’t— tell you about the vehicle on which you are about to spend a large segment of your savings.

Fourth, it is about rationality and the test of time. Rationality in the real world isn’t about what makes sense to your New Yorker journalist or some psychologist using naive first-order models, but something vastly deeper and statistical, linked to your own survival.

JUNIOR CLASSICS LEATHER EDITIONS 1-6

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French Government Isn’t Vaccinated

Isn’t that just a tremendous surprise…

« Je me suis fait vacciner car je ne voulais laisser le sentiment que je n’accomplissais mon travail en tant que député. Je ne savais pas qu’Emmanuel Macron n’était pas vacciné ainsi que la plupart des membres du gouvernement. Et je ne savais pas qu’un nombre important de mes collègues ne l’était pas non plus. Et lorsque j’ai dis que j’étais malade après la vaccination lors de la campagne électorale, personne ne m’a écouté et on a voulu me faire taire. »

La bombe de Jean Lassalle, 10 October 2022

Translation:

“I got vaccinated because I didn’t want to leave the feeling that I was not doing my job as a deputy. I didn’t know that Emmanuel Macron was not vaccinated and neither were most members of the government. And I did not know that a significant number of my colleagues were not vaccinated either. And when I said that I was sick after the vaccination during the election campaign, nobody listened to me and they wanted to silence me.”

Somehow, I doubt it’s only the French government officials who weren’t vaccinated.

UPDATE: In COVID hearing, #Pfizer director admits: #vaccine was never tested on preventing transmission. “Get vaccinated for others” was always a lie.

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