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Every year since 2012 I have done an annual summary of my output from the previous 12 months, and this year is no different. Here are the essays I have written in 2019, along with the other media I have been involved in creating. [Categories include: QAnon Censorship Crime and corruption Society and philosophy Tech Business Interviews Talks Other content Which you can access HERE along with Martin Geddes personal portal, as well as a portfolio of his photographic art.]

Martin Geddes: Understanding #QAnon as the antidote to authority

The Q drops bombard a media-driven battlefield in a narrative cyberwar. Here is how to make sense of them as an advanced form of "information weapon". Web link Subscribe

Understanding #QAnon as the antidote to authority | Martin Geddes We are currently immersed in an unconventional war. Everyone I know senses the intense social and political conflict, unlike any we have experienced before in our lives. Clashing narratives divide families, friends and work colleagues. The war does not yet have an accepted name, but it can be seen as a continuation and culmination of many "hot" and "cold" wars over the past century and more. This war pitches a global Structural Elite (aka the Deep State or The Establishment) against a popular uprising across multiple countries, most notably the USA. A self-sustaining psychopathic culture has covertly ruled over the populace via criminal control of banking, media, government, academia, industry, religion, and the military. It involves mafia-like families, secret societies and extensive hoarding of information. We are being gradually exposed to some of this dark power system's mechanisms: blackmail centres like Epstein Island, pay-for-play networks such as with the Clintons and Bidens, sexual slavery with groups like NXIVM, and (if you've been paying attention) even baby farms. Add in human trafficking, imported militias and lots of very powerful paedophiles. It's stomach churning and treacherous stuff, and much worse is to come. The most potent of these corrupt social control systems is the corporate mass media. Q is the "antidote" military operation, designed to break their narrative-setting power permanently. I have previously described this Q phenomenon at the highest level with my essay WWG1WGA — The Greatest Communication Event in History, which introduces the catch-22 that Q constructs for the #FakeNews. I later unpacked this analysis with The 4 Functions of Q. The last of these functions is Q as an "information weapon against institutionalised crime and corrupted media". Let me expand a little on how I see Q as a weapon on a complex information battlefield. By the end of this article, I hope you will have a clearer "lens" through which to make sense of mainstream coverage of #QAnon. (A quick aside for the new and confused: the "Q team" produces the information "drops" now on 8kun.net; "QAnons" are ordinary, anonymous people on such social media websites; "#QAnon" is the media-friendly hashtag often used in headlines to represent the movement as a whole.) What we are being asked to do via Q is to reconsider at a fundamental level what "information" is in the context of world affairs. This involves a paradigm shift from the "authoritative news" model of the corporate media to the "sauced bread" model of social media sites like 4chan and 8kun. Let's first examine the familiar process of getting our "daily news-fix" via TV, radio and the press. The corporate media is heavily branded — think BBC, CNN, Reuters — and is run by professional journalists. They seek data from public and insider sources, produce and edit their work in private, and then (for print media) present their insights and opinions under their own byline. Mainstream journalists depend on the distribution power of their publications or programmes to get them an audience. Central to this distribution model is the authority of the brand. You are invited to believe what you read or hear, even if sources are anonymous and writers unknown to you, because the brand is a trusted authority. So a New York Times opinion piece is seen as having more authority to identical words from the same author published on a personal blog. Most journalists are reasonably honest and honourable, for sure. But it only takes (blackmail and extortion) control over a few proprietors, editors, and hiring managers to effectively have control over the medium itself. The claim of many of us is that there is an "attack surface" against the mass media — and that it has been extensively exploited by highly sophisticated criminals. As such, the appearance of authority is being used to further corrupt ends and cover for organised crime. This is where #QAnon comes in as an information weapon. It is an unprecedented challenge to the foundation of public trust and belief in the mass media. The mass media is forced to position #QAnon as a rival "authority" source, and one which is hilariously lacking in brand credibility. That is because under no circumstances must the corporate media allow the audience to reconsider whether "authority" is a helpful pointer to truth. The mainstream media (MSM) audience has outsourced their power to think for themselves to external authority — and this authority is gaslighting and exploiting them. If they realise the seriousness of the betrayal, then it is "game over" for the #FakeNews. Let me say that again, more slowly. The mainstream media positions #QAnon as a thing you "believe in", or are a "follower of", like some kind of New Age spiritual cult. Those who "follow Q" are depicted as mindless morons, not critical thinkers. Their data, arguments and insights are accepted and dismissed as a collective, not as free-thinking individuals. This is because the corporate media's claim to legitimacy is founded upon you believing they solely have authority to define 'reality', so you should (uncritically) believe them. In particular, when they speak with one voice you presume that there must be an underlying truth, because you do no see the coordination mechanism. They appear to be multiple independent sources, but are in fact controlled by corrupt intelligence agencies. This is the cruel mass mind control trick that is being perpetrated against the public. From the MSM's perspective, #QAnon is an unbranded, unprofessional, unsourced set of text and image posts on an exotic and unruly social media site. In their paradigm it has zero authority — so you should not believe any of it. Indeed, it's so patently absurd that anyone could treat such a thing seriously, you shouldn't even entertain the idea of going there and looking at the raw data for yourself. Of course, the reality is they know Q is an existential threat; but to ignore Q raises questions, and they are only left with feeble hit pieces on #QAnon to maintain the illusion of authority. The "authority" model extends to the big social media platforms, too. They are also in the business of only allowing you to promote the "official narrative" — not challenging it. As this Newstarget article on censorship notes (my emphasis): Big Tech’s excuse for engaging in this mass censorship agenda is that it is somehow necessary in order to promote “authoritative information.” But as Adams explains, “authoritative information” is simply a fancy misnomer to categorize deep state propaganda. When you (unconsciously) buy into the current "authority" media model, you will continue to accept whatever lies and propaganda that the mass media pushes your way, and you will reject alternative data like Q because it lacks the authority you (wrongly) believe is a proxy for truth. This is the trap we see many of those dear to us struggling to escape: incredulity stops them seeing the coordinated propaganda reality. It's hardly surprising when the MSM won't help you by showing you how to read Q drops, or pointing you at the most interesting parts. Because… guess what? The information in these "drops" comprises the most explosive political scandals in history, including their own complicity in serious criminality! "Q followers" have been watching these scandals slowly unfold for the last two years, waiting for the hammer to finally fall on the crowds of crooks. Q drops have often foreshadowed events in a way only a plan with military precision could account for. It looks like the fun is about to really get going with Spygate/FISAgate, with the Clinton Foundation in the spring/summer. By allowing someone else to tell you what to think you have ceded your own authority. The mainstream news is 6-18 months behind understanding of events of "Q followers". There's a real cost to pay of being "out of touch" — yet seemingly having the comfort of the crowd. The Q drops are constructed to initially appeal to those who are the most skeptical and open minded, and thus have the least utility for "authority" as a short cut to veracity. In other words, the QAnon project has created a nucleus community of critical thinkers, around which the public can assemble to reclaim the authority to decide for themselves. It's as if the diseased Official Narrative "hive mind" is having a new "hive" built next to it, and Q is the Queen bee of this cleansed new narrative environment. There's no precedent in history for this happening that I know of, although there are many "narrative collapses" like the end of the USSR. Q is core to a new citizen media that usurps the untrustworthy mass media as their brand-authority model collapses. This is not about citizens working as unpaid journalists, replicating the existing corporate media model. We are not offering ourselves as a more authoritative and trustworthy kind of news operation per se. Citizen media happens when citizens accept that the only acceptable authority is themselves. The model of the "chans" (where Q lives) is a template for how collaborative investigative journalism can be produced. It is a very different paradigm. Collective data "crumbs" with "sauce" (i.e. hard evidence, not opinion) are openly assembled by volunteers into the "bread" and "buns" by "bakers". Rather than news bulletins there are "notables" summaries capturing the most interesting threads. Nobody tells you what to think. It's the opposite for corporate journalism: an open process, stripped of personal and institutional branding. There is no authority tied to individuals or corporate logos. The data that emerges from that process, as well as parallel endeavours on Twitter and elsewhere, then feeds into a new distribution system: ordinary people have "hijacked" social media for citizen journalism to bypass the controlled mass media. We're only as authoritative as our personal reputations or (where necessary) pseudonyms. You don't have to believe anything I say, but I reckon you'd be dumb to accept the word of a NYT journalist over mine because of their brand. In this paradigm, a New York Times opinion piece arguably has less authority to identical words from the same author published on a personal blog. The very idea of "authority from corporate being" is discredited. We citizen journalists are such a threat to the established order that these social media platforms are being forced to expose themselves as censorship engines. For example, Twitter won't let me add any followers right now: their behaviour is obviously fraudulent. What was set up to be a surveillance and censorship system has been turned back upon its criminal creators (and have no illusions, companies like Twitter, Amazon, Facebook, and Google have a LOT of nasty legal problems ahead). This is also why the idea of Q as a "Qult" is laughable: the only demand that Q places upon us is to think for ourselves. There are no mandatory doctrines, no membership list. It's the perfected antithesis of a cult, which demands unquestioning belief in an authority, with coercive penalties for apostasy. I was going to delve into the detail of the specific mechanisms by which Q deconstructs belief in institutional authority, and replaces it with sovereign person authority. Plausible deniability and information osmosis will have to wait for another day. If you take one thing away from this Sunday evening essay it is this: you cannot simultaneously believe in the authority of media brands to tell you what to think — and also be truly thinking for yourself. It's one or the other: make your choice wisely. (I'm with Q and the critical thinkers.) Share Tweet Share Forward I donate all my time and professional expertise to MAGA for free. If you value open source citizen journalism, then please be a patron for its creators, including myself. A "service to all" ethos means making a fair exchange. 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There are many reasons why people come to wildly different conclusions about what is "real". We explore some of the causes of conflicting perceptions. Web link Subscribe

Martin Geddes: The perception problem: how do you define 'reality'?   Over the last few weeks I have had many discussions with friends, family, and associates in the United States. These conversations broadly fall into one of two social contexts: Those who believe that CNN, MSNBC, NYT, and WaPo are legitimate journalism; late night comedy shows are funny and informative; Hollywood makes film art; Donald Trump is a criminal narcissist ruining the country. Those who believe that CNN, MSNBC, NYT, and WaPo are criminal enterprises; late night comedy shows are vile and deceitful; Hollywood makes evil propaganda; Donald Trump is an honourable warrior saving the country. It hardly needs stating that these are opposing paradigms, even if there may be nuance in individual views. Whilst there may be common ground — "Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself" — the situation is best characterised by a divergence of perspectives. It seems fair to say that we are in a societal battle to define what "real information about reality" is. This "perception problem" transcends traditional politics. My purpose in writing this missive is to share my observations at the philosophical and media studies level, rather than to opine on world affairs or advocate for a movement. What might be the appropriate "thinking tools" to help us to ground our perspective of reality? Read on: https://mailchi.mp/martingeddes/the-perception-problem-how-do-you-define-reality?

Martin Geddes: Epstein, Mafia Media, and their Conspiracy of Silence

The mass media is complicit in covering up the rape, torture, and murder of children by the powerful — among other crimes. Their days are running out.

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Epstein, Mafia Media,and their Conspiracy of Silence

Back in August, Jeffrey Epstein did not kill himself. We do not know for sure if he is even dead, as he could still be in witness protection, and his "death" is a ruse using a substitute body. But the "official story" we were offered of his suicide is transparently absurd. Even the medical examiner agrees: "Hanging does not cause these broken bones, homicide does." So here we have a lurid story involving a blackmail centre, child sex, rogue intelligence agencies, foreign governments, corrupted leaders (political, media, academic, business), presidents, royalty, and more. Plus a murder mystery — making the official story seem comically ridiculous — to top all previous whodunnit tales! Yet the corporate mainstream media has been very very very quiet on what ought to be the crime story of the century. Meanwhile, citizen journalists and an army of digital soldiers have been keeping the story alive, with Epstein themed memes and the #EpsteinCoverup hashtag. Something is clearly not right in the world. Now we have a clearer picture of why there is that collective media omertà. Project Veritas has released candid videos of an ABC TV presenter accidentally spilling the beans on how the Epstein Island scandal was hushed up. We now have hard evidence of the corporate media failing to alert law enforcement to child abuse — thus breaking the law themselves — whilst allowing countless children to face an awful fate of rape (and worse). As @metavinci points out, there's a key quote from her: “[Epstein] made his whole living blackmailing people. There was a lot of men in those planes, a lot of men who visited that island, lot of powerful men who came into that apartment,” she (ABCs Robach) said." The media has been sitting on this information for at least 3 years. There has been no hunt for information about who was travelling to Epstein Island, or for what purpose. Occam's Razor strongly suggests that these aren't journalists working for legitimate news organisations, they are accomplices working for a mafia media! Tiffany FitzHenry notes the pattern we see with ABC's parent company, Disney: James Gunn, Victor Salvo, John Heeley, Michael Laney, just a few Disney directors and executives suspected, charged and convicted of pedophilia. Disney Chairman George Mitchell named by Virginia Roberts as a pedophile in the Epstein documents... Makes sense now? Disney = pedos You may not want to believe it, but that is a solipsistic argument: that you cannot imagine this is true says a lot about your psychological constraints, or misreading of modern history, and nothing about the actual real world. To make sense of a complex reality you need to understand power in ALL its forms, including the very darkest. We live in a world where paedophile networks have created "in-group promotion clubs" for the corrupt (like the CFR, Atlantic Council, Bilderberg). They use kompramat of the kind created at Epstein Island to ensure everyone is controlled and on-side as part of the #DeepState "gangster government". The conspiracy of silence is maintained through mutually assured blackmail destruction and/or violence against defectors and whistleblowers. These networks are allied to a psychopathic culture of multi-generational child abuse, including (for the core bloodlines involved) their own families. Underpinning much of this horror is a sex and death cult (demanding blood sacrifice), whose origins can be traced back through all of human history. The mafia media is owned and controlled by this structural elite — which is why they won't touch this story unless absolutely forced to by you and me. That "force" of us all demanding the light of truth to burn away the shadows is the #GreatAwakening — of which #MAGA is only one facet. It is the realisation that our society is essentially a "macro-cult" — The Cult of the Official Media Narrative — with more intense "micro-cults" embedded within it (like Extinction Rebellion). The "baseline reality" for everybody has been "hacked" over a long period by these mafia media corporations, making the sane appear abnormal as "conspiracy theorists". The QAnon phenomenon plays straight into this #EpsteinCoverup story: Q has been telling us to focus on Epstein since November 2017, and emphasising its "keystone" importance to the #DeepState's institutionalised criminality. At his most recent rally in Kentucky, Donald Trump also hinted in code that he is Q. Can you see where this is going? The collective legitimacy of the mass media is on the line here. The unsealing of the Epstein case forces the "Q question" of whether Q is indeed POTUS. That in turn sets off The Storm, since every accusation of Q against the mafia media and #DeepState will have to be proved in public. A "D5" of megascandals — the biggest possible size of avalanche — is the result in Q-speak. But, but, but… there is a complication. The corrupt always accuse those seeking justice of the same crimes of which they are guilty, to confuse people and cause distraction. Raping children isn't something that can be "spun" — but those Epstein worked for will accuse the righteous of the same crimes. So there's a deception vs discernment battle raging among the public. As French historian Alexis de Tocqueville famously said: “It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.” So far, a sizeable chunk of the population has swallowed the simple lies of the mafia media. The "Q question" points to where the complex and awful truth is. This conspiracy of silence around the Epstein cover-up should provoke deep searching of the conscience on this critical question of our age. For anyone who thinks that Q is a "debunked conspiracy theory" should consider if that belief is solely the result of a mafia media assuring them over and over that it is the case. After all, that same corporate media has protected Epstein (and all whom he serviced) with a conspiracy of silence. I think you all know the answer, deep down, however uncomfortable it may be. The good news for the deceived is that the #WWG1WGA spirit means those who accept reality for what it is will find kindness and acceptance from their discerning peers, and (hopefully) not humiliation or retribution. For Q's offer to us all is to be the "exit counsellor" from the Cult of the Official Media Narrative — so that we can create a society free from mafia media mind control.

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