Dude this is a huge conspiracy theory. If Facebook were tied to DARPA/CIA and associated agencies, surely there'd be a long list of money "donated" to the cause!
James Corbett at corbettreport dot com reported on this and other links and 'coincidences' between social media, google, etc and security/research agencies years ago. Check out his "Who is Bill Gates" and other podcasts and videos which he researches in depth and provides links to source materials. Unlike Ivor's shallow dismissal of 9/11 conspiracy, his investigations are well substantiated not armchair speculations. His series on World War 1 is particularly good and reveals the ongoing modus operandi of the warmakers.
Hmmm. Do you find it unreasonable that your average reader would think you are Ivor when there is no identification of the writer apart from the nom de plume?
I like and respect Ivor but the conclusion he reached in his recent piece on identifying indications of unfounded conspiracies was shallowly researched. He was/is clearly unaware of the abundance of evidence which corroborates the 'theory' that the report of the investigating committee is a complete misdirection.
I am a signatory to the AE911truth.org petition demanding a proper investigation, based on my education as a civil engineer and the mass of information compiled by myriad sources which STRONGLY supports my opinion.
Hmmm. I would hope my average reader wouldn't get confused between Fat Emperor and Naked Emperor. Let's hope they don't go to the zoo and confuse me with an Emperor penguin too, that would be awkward. Hopefully, my average reader appreciates my content otherwise they wouldn't subscribe.
What do you want me to do? Sign off with Naked Emperor (Not Ivor) every time? I had not heard of Ivor when I started writing. Now and again someone calls me Ivor and every time I make sure they understand that I am not.
With regard to 9/11, I agree with you that there is an abundance of evidence and well done for signing the petition. I don't see how anybody wouldn't want a proper investigation into such a major event where the current narrative is clearly false.
The founders had their anonymity too, in the Federalist papers and other writings. I think that there is a damn fine case to be made for anonymity these days too.
Universities and government have had partnerships on spooky projects for decades. It's a way for the government to launder money and work on projects out of view, and a way for universities to gobble up funding and resources from the government piggy bank. Ted Kaczynski underwent abusive psychological experiments during his time at Harvard University.
Even today many universities have buildings that contain classified research projects sponsored by the government. So, it's plausible, if not likely, that Zuck and pals were recruited during their time at Harvard to launch FB under the guise of a university project that would spread because it was viewed as a harmless college communications endeavor.
For every social media site that you've heard of, there are probably a hundred that crashed and burned. So, when one company becomes huge and all-encompassing in its field, you have to ask yourself why. The answer is money and marketing, and that money came from somewhere.
Thank you for pointing out what should have been obvious, but that I missed. I subscribed under the misunderstanding that this was Ivor Cummin's substack but have found your posts interesting too.
One of the problems with claims that our situation is “just like the 1970s,” is that very few adults of the period are still around to share the memory. Those of us who were children at the time have only memories distorted through the lens of childhood innocence. I, for example, have a memory of the lights going off during the “three-day-week,” together with cloudier memories of petrol shortages in the autumn of 1973. But we children had little appreciation of the hardships that these events caused our parents – being unable to cook dinner, not being able to drive to work, etc. The inflation which followed was even less tangible to a child who had few things to spend pocket money on back then. It is only later in life that I came to appreciate just how much effort my mother had to put into feeding two kids with ingredients which seemed to go up in price week to week and month to month.
What I “remember” of the 1970s is actually very limited. Most of what I think of as “my memories” have, in fact, been generated by various retrospective media coverage of the period which provide the framework into which my scraps of memory have been slotted. And the younger someone is, the more their view of the 1970s will have been shaped by media rather than memory. And so, it has been all too easy for today’s lazy news coverage to frame our current woes through the lens of an imaginary 1970s.
The crisis now unfolding, however, is entirely different to the 1970s in one crucial respect… The 1970s crisis was largely artificial. When all is said and done, the oil shock was nothing more than the emerging OPEC cartel asserting its newfound leverage following the peak of continental US oil production. There was no shortage of oil any more than the three-day-week had been caused by coal shortages. What they did, perhaps, give us a glimpse of was what might happen in the event that our economies depleted our fossil fuel reserves before we had found a more versatile and energy-dense alternative. Although a widely repeated conspiracy theory in those days claimed that the oil corporations had bought up all of the patents for alternative energy technologies, and that once they had screwed the last dollar out of the sale of expensive oil, they would reveal – and profit from – an entirely new energy infrastructure.
And so, in the 1980s, as new oil began to flow from North Alaska and the North Sea, we all went back to sleep again. At least until those deposits – and indeed, the entire world’s conventional oil reserves peaked and went into decline in the early years of the twenty-first century. Only then did we discover that the leading economies of the world had been built upon a mountain of debt whose repayment ultimately depended upon an ever-growing supply of cheap oil. Just as has happened in the last year, when the price of oil goes up, the price of everything in the economy goes up accordingly. This, in turn, obliges the mass of households to switch their consumption from discretionary to essential items. The ensuing slowing of the broad economy – discretionary consumption being far greater than essentials – together with central banks jacking up interest rates and governments cutting spending and raising taxes, pulled the rug out from beneath the debt mountain effectively bankrupting the western banking and financial system.
That system has been on the life-support of quantitative easing and near zero interest rates ever since. Indeed, so perilous a state has the system been in since 2008, it was essential that the people who claim to be our leaders avoid doing anything so foolish as to lockdown the economy or launch an undeclared economic war on one of the world’s biggest commodity exporters. As I have said elsewhere though, instead of true leaders we are cursed with:
Dude this is a huge conspiracy theory. If Facebook were tied to DARPA/CIA and associated agencies, surely there'd be a long list of money "donated" to the cause!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/social-media-is-a-tool-of-the-cia-seriously/
Oh.
It's the biggest tool of the CIA since crack cocaine, basically, only it's even more addictive, and much more socially acceptable.
I'm reminded of this:
https://youtu.be/G94n14eTfUQ?t=28
LOL
Banned on Twitter.
https://substack.com/profile/137849242-mason-hunter/note/c-21011567?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2a2l5m
... check Witney Webb's Unlimited Hangout, for instance https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/04/investigative-reports/the-military-origins-of-facebook/
Nah. Nothing to see here. Move along. 🙄
James Corbett at corbettreport dot com reported on this and other links and 'coincidences' between social media, google, etc and security/research agencies years ago. Check out his "Who is Bill Gates" and other podcasts and videos which he researches in depth and provides links to source materials. Unlike Ivor's shallow dismissal of 9/11 conspiracy, his investigations are well substantiated not armchair speculations. His series on World War 1 is particularly good and reveals the ongoing modus operandi of the warmakers.
I'm not Ivor! And I don't dismiss the 9/11 conspiracy.
Hmmm. Do you find it unreasonable that your average reader would think you are Ivor when there is no identification of the writer apart from the nom de plume?
I like and respect Ivor but the conclusion he reached in his recent piece on identifying indications of unfounded conspiracies was shallowly researched. He was/is clearly unaware of the abundance of evidence which corroborates the 'theory' that the report of the investigating committee is a complete misdirection.
I am a signatory to the AE911truth.org petition demanding a proper investigation, based on my education as a civil engineer and the mass of information compiled by myriad sources which STRONGLY supports my opinion.
Hmmm. I would hope my average reader wouldn't get confused between Fat Emperor and Naked Emperor. Let's hope they don't go to the zoo and confuse me with an Emperor penguin too, that would be awkward. Hopefully, my average reader appreciates my content otherwise they wouldn't subscribe.
What do you want me to do? Sign off with Naked Emperor (Not Ivor) every time? I had not heard of Ivor when I started writing. Now and again someone calls me Ivor and every time I make sure they understand that I am not.
With regard to 9/11, I agree with you that there is an abundance of evidence and well done for signing the petition. I don't see how anybody wouldn't want a proper investigation into such a major event where the current narrative is clearly false.
The founders had their anonymity too, in the Federalist papers and other writings. I think that there is a damn fine case to be made for anonymity these days too.
Yes, agree. Thank you for sharing.
Just like AI is “new” technology.
Recall in the Matrix movies...
The men in black suits tried to cut deals to encourage betrayals... the offered a range of opportunities such as 'rock star' ... 'movie star' etc....
I think I'd like to be ... the front man for a major tech play... and be rich and famous!
Do you really believe LifeLog was cancelled? Or just repurposed?
They can say it was canceled all day long. Does that mean they actually did pull the plug on it?
Of course it does. They wouldn't lie to us. Would they? They've never lied to us before..............
Interesting stuff. the CIA has been known to use the "ivy league" as a source for "talent".
This is interesting....You should check into FTX next....see if Scam Bankman-Fraud, I mean Sam Bankman-Fried had any questionable connections....🤣🤡
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." - William J. Casey, CIA Director (1981)
Mission Accomplished
Universities and government have had partnerships on spooky projects for decades. It's a way for the government to launder money and work on projects out of view, and a way for universities to gobble up funding and resources from the government piggy bank. Ted Kaczynski underwent abusive psychological experiments during his time at Harvard University.
Even today many universities have buildings that contain classified research projects sponsored by the government. So, it's plausible, if not likely, that Zuck and pals were recruited during their time at Harvard to launch FB under the guise of a university project that would spread because it was viewed as a harmless college communications endeavor.
For every social media site that you've heard of, there are probably a hundred that crashed and burned. So, when one company becomes huge and all-encompassing in its field, you have to ask yourself why. The answer is money and marketing, and that money came from somewhere.
Elilminated? Or, renamed?
While suspicion may be terrifying, confirmation should induce rage.
Thank you for pointing out what should have been obvious, but that I missed. I subscribed under the misunderstanding that this was Ivor Cummin's substack but have found your posts interesting too.
Cheers.
No worries!
Wow, what a coincidence! NOT.
Bigger than you can imagine:
One of the problems with claims that our situation is “just like the 1970s,” is that very few adults of the period are still around to share the memory. Those of us who were children at the time have only memories distorted through the lens of childhood innocence. I, for example, have a memory of the lights going off during the “three-day-week,” together with cloudier memories of petrol shortages in the autumn of 1973. But we children had little appreciation of the hardships that these events caused our parents – being unable to cook dinner, not being able to drive to work, etc. The inflation which followed was even less tangible to a child who had few things to spend pocket money on back then. It is only later in life that I came to appreciate just how much effort my mother had to put into feeding two kids with ingredients which seemed to go up in price week to week and month to month.
What I “remember” of the 1970s is actually very limited. Most of what I think of as “my memories” have, in fact, been generated by various retrospective media coverage of the period which provide the framework into which my scraps of memory have been slotted. And the younger someone is, the more their view of the 1970s will have been shaped by media rather than memory. And so, it has been all too easy for today’s lazy news coverage to frame our current woes through the lens of an imaginary 1970s.
The crisis now unfolding, however, is entirely different to the 1970s in one crucial respect… The 1970s crisis was largely artificial. When all is said and done, the oil shock was nothing more than the emerging OPEC cartel asserting its newfound leverage following the peak of continental US oil production. There was no shortage of oil any more than the three-day-week had been caused by coal shortages. What they did, perhaps, give us a glimpse of was what might happen in the event that our economies depleted our fossil fuel reserves before we had found a more versatile and energy-dense alternative. Although a widely repeated conspiracy theory in those days claimed that the oil corporations had bought up all of the patents for alternative energy technologies, and that once they had screwed the last dollar out of the sale of expensive oil, they would reveal – and profit from – an entirely new energy infrastructure.
And so, in the 1980s, as new oil began to flow from North Alaska and the North Sea, we all went back to sleep again. At least until those deposits – and indeed, the entire world’s conventional oil reserves peaked and went into decline in the early years of the twenty-first century. Only then did we discover that the leading economies of the world had been built upon a mountain of debt whose repayment ultimately depended upon an ever-growing supply of cheap oil. Just as has happened in the last year, when the price of oil goes up, the price of everything in the economy goes up accordingly. This, in turn, obliges the mass of households to switch their consumption from discretionary to essential items. The ensuing slowing of the broad economy – discretionary consumption being far greater than essentials – together with central banks jacking up interest rates and governments cutting spending and raising taxes, pulled the rug out from beneath the debt mountain effectively bankrupting the western banking and financial system.
That system has been on the life-support of quantitative easing and near zero interest rates ever since. Indeed, so perilous a state has the system been in since 2008, it was essential that the people who claim to be our leaders avoid doing anything so foolish as to lockdown the economy or launch an undeclared economic war on one of the world’s biggest commodity exporters. As I have said elsewhere though, instead of true leaders we are cursed with:
https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2022/07/01/bigger-than-you-can-imagine/