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0:00 - Intro

1:26 - Clown world spirals closer to WWIII

12:13 - Divide and conquer through “pick a side”

19:25 - “Israel’s 9/11"

24:19 - Neocons trying to regain base

28:21 - Financial crisis

33:18 - CBDCs and financial cancelation

38:17 - Luongo’s theory

40:36 - Ending anonymity

43:18 - Big tech vs freedom tech

50:40 - AI

1:07:43 - Christian Zionism

1:21:36 - Keep your mind through the clown world

1:31:04 - AI religion

1:40:43 - Bitcoin is a revolution against the cyber/banking regime

1:46:47 - Wrapping

https://youtu.be/BlfZ91Pot-w?si=x-keCblUZHCCBqpv

The Untold Story of Christian Zionism’s Rise to Power in the United States

https://www.mintpressnews.com/untold-story-christian-zionists-power-united-states-israel/260532/

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The tech industry has craved a messiah since the death of Steve Jobs, but in OpenAI CEO Sam Altman they’ve discovered more of a false prophet — a seedy grifter that uses his remarkable ability to impress and manipulate Silicon Valley’s elite to mask a total lack of technical or business acumen.

I realize that this sounds a little dramatic, and a little inflammatory, but the air around Altman has, for years, been that he’s somehow a magical, special creature — a man “wise beyond his years” at the tender age of 19 — who, to quote startup incubator Y Combinator’s Paul Graham, “could be parachuted into an island full of cannibals and come back in 5 years and be king.” The Sam Altman myth is one of a person gifted with immense talent and ability, but without any demonstrations of where said talents and abilities have been employed.

In a stunning, in-depth piece by Ellen Huet of Bloomberg, Sam Altman is repeatedly framed by contemporaries as some sort of genius without anyone ever actually explaining why, other than this vague sense of intellectual superiority, with Y Combinator founder John Coogan claiming that Altman “had an uncanny ability to listen intently and diagnose problems…” and that he was “the Michael Jordan of listening.”

These laughable accolades aside, there doesn’t actually appear to be a single story I can find of some genius moment of clarity ushered in by Sam Altman. There are no fantastical situations where his remarkable mind brilliantly delivered the exact solution to a problem, or a singular concrete accomplishment that required preternatural levels of vision and clarity, just endless platitudes about a man who “always gets what he wants,” an unstoppably pushy young gentleman that excelled not at building great companies that did great things, but — and I quote Huet’s title here — “bending the world to his will.”

RE: https://www.wheresyoured.at/false-prophet/

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Thanks for your great post Don!

We've shared the link on our daily report.

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