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• Jul 2, 202660x their median

  🚨There’s shocking new video footage from inside Israel’s police command room as they decided to slaughter their own people on October 7th. The video was aired on Israel’s Channel 12. https://t.co/Rs0yMCVJKd

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• Jul 12, 202619x their median

  🚨 Lindsey Graham is dead. Here's a clip of him adamantly saying Israel should nuke Gaza and kill millions of people in an instant. https://t.co/o1vpQUqhWL

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• Aug 28, 202616x their median

  🚨 When Was The Moment You Woke Up? 🚨 Iraq War WMD. Syrian chemical weapons. 9/11. Russiagate. Libya. Iran. Ukraine. Venezuela. George Floyd. Gaza genocide. Which lie related to these events or others started your awakening? Caitlin Johnstone recently penned a column about people waking up to the truth of the US empire. She said, “You start pulling on one thread and then the whole thing unravels. Maybe you start with the Iraq war lies. Maybe 9/11. These days for a lot of folks it’s Palestine.” For me, it was the 2003 Iraq War. Before that, I had not questioned most of the lies coming out of our government. But I knew there weren’t any WMD, and even if there had been, the US, Israel and many other countries have giant stockpiles of WMD and yet no one massacres their populations for possessing them. I saw the US bombs raining down on innocent people in Iraq LIVE on our TV screens and I felt my eyes open for the first time. It was horrifying. But it also ignited a fire in my soul. But looking back, my eyes weren’t fully open. The US system is carefully designed to force even those who start to question it back into the vomitous fascistic two-party theater. My youthful rage about the Iraq War was aimed squarely at the Bush administration and Republicans in our federal government. It took several more steps for me to finally see the full matrix. The two-party charade revealed itself to me when we all watched — popcorn in hand — as President Obama committed war crimes and completely betrayed the working class, the poor, immigrants, foreigners — the list goes on. I can still hear myself thinking: “Oh! It’s not two parties. It’s one capitalist war machine with two faces!” I next became aware of the long history of the US empire fighting against peace, love, equality, and justice. Learning that our government had executed Martin Luther King Jr. and JFK was pivotal for me. (If that’s even remotely shocking to you, then see the 1999 civil trial related to the murder of MLK. Next read The Plot To Kill King, JFK & The Unspeakable, and Mary’s Mosaic.) The next step was understanding how the US empire crushes countries around the world even when there’s no “war” to speak of. Confessions of An Economic Hitman helped me understand the system of economic war and dollar hegemony. Smedley Butler’s War Is A Racket also helped shock me free of any remaining tether to the concept of US justice or morality. It meant all the more that Butler is still one of the most decorated US military veterans to ever live. Waking up to core reality is a process. It takes time and at least a small degree of curiosity. It’s a process the imperial rulers work very hard to interrupt. They suppress thought. They cover up videos and books. They insult and malign those of us telling you the truth. One of their favorite tactics in recent years has been to “flood the zone” — fill the digital platforms with so much garbage like ancient aliens or flat Earth bullshit or other “science isn’t real” crap. Who can focus on Israel’s genocide of Gaza when the algorithm is pushing us all to watch a video about extraterrestrials using their gooey tentacles to build the Egyptian pyramids?! And unfortunately, it works. Some people who start to wake up to the US empire’s criminal enterprise suddenly get pulled away into a swirling eddy of bullshit, never to be seen again. But the rulers can’t stop or confuse everyone. As Caitlin Johnstone said, “But more and more people are choosing truth. More and more people are spotting a loose thread labeled ‘Gaza’ or ‘Epstein’ or what have you, and giving it a curious tug. Despite the discomfort, despite the required effort, and despite the great cost of having to sacrifice the world they thought they knew, they’re pulling that thread, and they keep on pulling.” Just look at the numbers. Far more Americans now identify as independent than as either Democrat or Republican. For the first time since polling started, Americans’ sympathies lie with Palestinians, rather than with Israelis. The great awakening is happening. It just takes time and energy and a little sliver of hope shining down on us. No matter how bad things seem, don’t give up. [NOTE: I'm very suppressed here. Please follow my work at LinkTree dot com/LeeCamp ]

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• Aug 22, 202611x their median

  🚨The Corporate Comedy That Mocks Trump Actually Solidifies US Imperial Aims 🚨 The liberal anti-Trump comedy that fills our airwaves and attacks our brainwaves actually serves to further, not fight, the imperial fascist agenda. That’s essentially Chris Hedges’ thesis in his recent column, and I agree. As one of the few anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, anti-corporate, pro-peace comedians in America, I feel like I have something unique to add to the conversation. Of course, it’s exactly these characteristics of my comedy that have forced me to the corners of the internet as arguably the most censored comedian in America. Hedges wrote: "There are two forms of satire. That of the educated elites, which dominates the commercial media, ridicules the foibles and pretensions of Trump and his hapless followers. This satire does not attack corporations or the war industry. It ignores the decay and rot within our political institutions, including the Democratic Party, which created Trump. It pretends we live in a democracy." This brand of satire — the kind we see on every late-night show, the Daily Show, etc. — rarely, if ever, gets to the heart of the issues. As Hedges makes clear, it mainly focuses on the foibles, the surface-level flaws, of the leaders, rather than the system that puts those sociopaths in power. Underneath almost every joke (funny or not) is the same message: The leaders suck, but the system is sound, stable, sacrosanct. For example, one will almost never even hear the word “capitalism” on the mainstream comedy shows, much less a solid criticism of capitalism. The brand of comedy I’ve traded in for 25 years stands in stark contrast. Underneath most of my humor is the message: The leaders suck because the system rewards sociopathy, greed, and corruption. A comedian who practices the mainstream form of political comedy can make millions and appear on every TV show and major podcast. A comedian who does the latter will see their platforms banned and suppressed. Hedges points to Gramsci’s alternative to our modern corporate-supported satire: "Antonio Gramsci warned that elitist satire is counterproductive. He called for a “passionate sarcasm,” which targets the machinery of power. Satire, he wrote, must excoriate the dominant myths and ideologies which buttress capitalism and fascism. It must expose not only the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of fascism, but acknowledge the legitimate grievances of those under its spell." Colbert, Kimmel, Fallon, Meyers, Maher, SNL, the Daily Show, and the few stand-up comics with million-dollar comedy specials who occasionally address America’s socioeconomic or geopolitical realities — none of them tear apart the core “myths and ideologies” that allow our sociopathic system to operate. The comedians I looked up to as a young comic and continue to learn from today (even though they’re gone) did just that. George Carlin, Bill Hicks, Lenny Bruce, Dick Gregory, etc. You’ll notice something about the career trajectory of each of those comics. When they were doing more “polite,” “corporate-friendly” comedy, they achieved their greatest success and fame. When they shifted (or, I would say, evolved) to angle their satirical scalpel at America’s hallowed institutions, they were either censored, attacked or blacklisted. After his evolution, Carlin was far less welcome on late-night shows and in fact was fired from many contracts. Hicks’ final Letterman appearance was censored, and he likely would’ve been banned from the show except he died before that could become clear. Gregory was blacklisted and investigated by the FBI at the request of J. Edgar Hoover. (He also believed his friend and driver was killed in a hit that was actually aimed at him.) Lenny Bruce was arrested and harassed many times by law enforcement and essentially driven to his death (by drug overdose) due to the stress of having no way to pay his legal bills and maintain a comedy career. I clearly should consider myself lucky to have only had my TV show canceled by US sanctions, my YouTube channel banned, my TikTok banned, and my Spotify podcast banned. Honestly, most censorship against anti-corporate comedy takes the form of a quiet, backroom shadow-banning. For example, the only reason we know about Bill Hicks’ Letterman appearance censorship is that Hicks had already filmed the segment before it was blacked out. In most cases, late-night show bookers tell the comics to cut out the offending material long before it’s ever filmed. As an anti-capitalist anti-imperialist comedian, I’ve never been welcome on the prime late-night shows to begin with. They didn’t need to ban me because they would never allow my type near their stage. As Hedges points out: "Elitist satire — whether on “Saturday Night Live” or other late-night shows — punches down. It seduces liberals into believing that the thugs and grifters who have taken power are too stupid and too inept to last." I would only add that in this way, those TV shows lead liberal Americans to believe all will be right with the United States once the offending characters are removed or term-limited. Of course, this is laughable. Of the roughly 6 million innocent people killed by America’s Global War on Terror, as many were murdered during the Obama presidency as the Bush presidency. The fascist dumpster fire of America’s police state was nearly as strong and unhinged under Biden as under Trump. Famously, Biden helped craft and push through the 1994 crime bill that destroyed the lives of millions of Americans and made the US the world’s largest prison state. We still proudly hold that title. "[Elitist satire] reduces the catastrophe to the clown show around Trump: the sycophantic cabinet secretaries, ICE Barbie or Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s bizarre war on medical science. It does not address our failed democratic institutions — the academy, elections, courts, Congress, or the media. It deflects attention from the billionaires and corporations… It does not address the murderous war industry or the domestic security apparatus that makes us the most watched, monitored, spied upon, tracked and photographed population in human history." Luckily, we now live in a time when many of the gatekeepers can’t keep the gates closed. (Or perhaps they’ve lost the gates? Whatever, point is—no more gates.) We can all post comedy that does indeed attack the dominant myths and ideologies that defend our dystopian death spiral. We can mock the war machine. We can blast the cruelty of capitalism. We can laugh at the belief that the US has a democracy and not an oligarchy or kleptocracy. It is precisely fear of this freedom that has forced the ruling elite to buy, degrade, and censor social media so much in the past few years. Their anxiety about what Gramsci termed “passionate sarcasm” has driven them to try to cover it up and shut it down. Ironically, such a response shows the power of comedy of, by and for the people. [NOTE: I'm very suppressed here. Follow my work at "RealLeeCamp" on subs tack or at LeeCamp dot com]

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• Aug 14, 202610x their median

  🚨 The Actual, Hidden Reason Europe Wants War With Russia! 🚨 We all know the real reasons the US initially created the proxy war with Russia. It allowed the deteriorating US empire to cut Russia off economically from the consumer base of Europe - especially when it came to “energy" - thereby strengthening the petrodollar. (If sanctions didn’t do it, the US could always just blow up the Nord Stream pipeline, but we would never do that. Heh heh heh, ermmmm…) The US rulers thought they could sanction Russia into oblivion and then easily create regime change — push out Putin and then put in a puppet. (Yes, I’m happy with that pun.) Once effectively puppeteered, Russia would cut ties with China and shift entirely to acting as another vassal state of the US empire, as the European nations already were. Some of it worked. Most of it did not. But if that’s why the US has been crafting this proxy war in Ukraine for at least 15 years, why have the UK and EU supported it and recently even led the charge in provoking a larger war with Russia? Well, my friend and favorite economist, Professor Richard Wolff recently elucidated what he believes to be the answer. (I agree.) Since World War II, Europe has lost most of its colonial territories. Subjugating and extracting those lands was how Europe built its wealth. The US, Europe, and other rich countries have extracted roughly $152 trillion from the global south since 1960. But Europe has largely maintained that wealth by being a junior partner to the US empire. However, now the US is in decline and acting increasingly erratically. (Not sure if you noticed.) So, as Professor Wolff said: “Inside each nation, rich and powerful minorities use their social positions to sustain their wealth and power while the masses bear most of the burdens of decline offloaded onto them by the rich and powerful. The problems flowing from these cumulative developments are approaching points of social explosion. …[And] the shock of Trump’s abandonment of Europe as the US economy’s junior partner accelerated Europe’s decline.” [SIDE NOTE: Support independent media by sharing this and clicking subscribe. Thanks!] The rich ruling elite need to find a way to either enrich Europe anew or, at minimum, convince the unwashed masses to accept the coming harsh austerity. Russia is their answer to both, or either. If their plan works, not only will the rich keep their heads; they might even keep their riches. Back to Prof. Wolff: "Europe’s leaders believe they can accomplish this by pumping up mass anxiety and fear around urgent preparations for a war against Russia. To that end, they demonize Russia beyond even the levels achieved against Stalin and Stalinism during the Cold War." A terrified public is far easier to control, especially when economic times are rough. The great bogeyman of Russia is by far the easiest threat to dust off and reintroduce. Of course, the crown jewel would be to actually destroy, melt down, and sell the largest country by landmass in the world. "Longer-run hopes entail imagining Russia’s military defeat and consequent de jure or de facto dismemberment. The resulting subunits of old Russia would then offer Western Europe a new colonial opportunity, a vast expanse for profitable investment to obtain food, raw materials, and possibly workers to rejuvenate Western European capitalism." This explains why the ruling elite of the UK and EU are pushing toward a completely unnecessary, bloody war that could result in a nuclear exchange killing most of humanity — their repulsive wealth depends on it. And as we’ve seen with the climate crisis, the rich and powerful are fine with putting the future of humankind at risk if there’s a lot of money to be made in the death spiral. [NOTE: Support independent media and get more columns like this by following my work at LeeCamp dot com. Thanks!]

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• Aug 31, 20269.8x their median

  It's not a deal. It's called theft. Not difficult to understand https://t.co/Z4DHKCcRs6

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• Aug 4, 20267.5x their median

  🚨 China Just Saved The World — And No One's Talking About It 🚨 If China hadn’t done something incredible over the past 5 months, you and I and much of the world would be living very differently right now. This has gotten relatively little coverage, and even China has not been talking about it. A YouTube show called The Bigger Picture covered it, and some mainstream outlets have reported on pieces of it. WHAT WAS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN As you’ll recall, many pundits and networks warned that once Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, 20% of the global oil supply would disappear overnight. This would cause an oil shock, heavily impacting the global economy. - US gasoline would sell at $6 to $9 a gallon, causing an average American to spend over $100 every time they fill up their car. - Airfares would rise 30% to 80%, causing a simple US domestic flight to cost $700 or more. - Certain foods would double in cost and restaurant bills would go up 30%. - European gas and electric bills could go up 75%. - We’d see rolling blackouts. - Many countries would likely start fuel rationing and institute reduced business hours. - A serious recession, and likely a depression, would hit the Western world. You get the idea. Not pretty. And people living on a tight budget would suffer the most, of course. It’s always the rest of us who suffer for the rich man’s wars. So far, most of that hasn’t happened. Surprisingly, we all owe a big thank you to China. WHY HASN’T IT HAPPENED Let’s break down the math. 100 million barrels of oil are both produced and consumed every day. As mentioned, 20 million a day were lost to the Strait of Hormuz closure. After that, various pipelines increased their oil flow and added 7 million barrels a day. So that decreases the hit to negative 13 million barrels a day. Many countries have opened up their reserve stockpiles in order to add another 2.5 million per day. But there’s a catch. Most countries do not have oil stockpiles that will last very long. For some of them, it’s only days. For the US, it’s a few months. However, a lot of the charts showing oil stockpiles by country leave out China because no one is sure just how much China has in reserve. But we know one thing — it’s a massive amount. China’s stockpile dwarfs those of the rest of the world combined — and it might even be much more than the 1.4 billion barrels estimate because that number comes from just the visible stockpiles, not what might be hidden away. [SIDE NOTE: Support my work by sharing this post and clicking "follow." Thanks!] Anyway, if you take the negative 13 million barrels a day and subtract another 2.5 million from the stockpiles, you get a shortfall of 10.5 million barrels missing per day. So 10% of the global oil demand would still be unmet. Yet, as the unhinged, psychotic US war on Iran continued in March and April, the markets showed that the global economy was not suffering nearly as much as expected and the global oil supply was only 5% below the norm, rather than 10.5%. So people with big brains scrambled to figure out what the hell was happening. It turned out China had slashed its oil imports by nearly 50%, essentially saving the global economy. But no one knew why. The Atlantic called it “The Great Chinese Oil Mystery.” The attached chart shows China’s oil imports falling off a cliff. HOW DID THEY DO IT China was able to cut their imports so drastically using a variety of tactics. They asked Chinese people to use less gas (travel less or do so by train, bike, etc. instead of car). They began using more coal power (unfortunately). They dipped into their massive petroleum stockpiles. And finally, they used unbelievable amounts of green energy. In fact, every single week China builds the green energy infrastructure equivalent to five nuclear power plants! Meanwhile, the recent US green energy infrastructure consists of two Amish women with a butter churn. Altogether, China’s actions have greatly minimized any oil shock from the demented US war games. WHY HAS CHINA DONE THIS Why would China save the global economy and rescue the US and Europe from the ramifications of their disastrous, insane, unhinged, Tasmanian Devil-esque war on Iran?? And why would they do so while barely talking about it? Well, here are the possible reasons: 1) This move gives China massive power against the US. It shows that China cannot be beaten simply by cutting off oil imports. It also shows that China has the power to prop up (or knock down) the global economy. Right now it is only because of China that the US and Europe are not on their knees. 2) Saving the global economy also protects China’s economy. If a large percentage of the countries China exports to were to suddenly struggle or collapse, China’s own economy would be in major trouble. But if it props up the global oil supply, their own economy keeps humming along. While the US suffers with this catastrophic war on Iran, China does not. 3) Finally, this proves China is now a major player when it comes to the energy that powers the world. The US is no longer a hegemon. The petrodollar is no longer god. Iran has proven its power to control the Strait of Hormuz, and China has proven their power to control the global economy. This is the nail in the coffin for US imperial power, with even American propaganda toilet paper like CNN admitting China has won the Iran War. The US ruling elite got into the War on Iran partially to protect and strengthen the petrodollar. It has had the exact opposite impact. China has used the petroyuan to build up petroleum reserves larger than the rest of the world combined. And, at least for now, we have China to thank for saving the global economy while the US tries to set fire to everything. [SIDE NOTE: Support my work by sharing this post and clicking "follow." And learn more about me at LeeCamp dot com. Thanks!]

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• Sep 3, 20266.6x their median

  🚨Trump Accidentally Just Revealed The US Dollar Is In Big Trouble 🚨 (Column by Lee Camp, a human) The US just did something it hasn’t done since 1998 — bought somewhere between $5 and $10 billion worth of yen in order to prop up the Japanese currency. …But Trump and Bessent don’t want us to know it wasn’t really about the yen. It was about the US dollar. The Trump administration claims they executed the trade simply “as a signal of friendship.” You know Trump — he just loves helping people. He especially loves helping people when it involves spending billions of dollars. (Love and friendship meant a little less to him a few months ago when he missed his son’s wedding in order to focus on murdering schoolgirls in Iran. Gotta have priorities.) But this wasn’t about friendship or helping an ally. The US Treasury is trying to prop up the depreciating Japanese currency in order to protect the US dollar system from a growing crisis. As Ben Norton pointed out: “Japan provides [a] crucial service for the US empire: it acts as the largest foreign holder of Treasury securities (ie, US bonds, US government debt). In other words, Japan lends more money to the US than any other country.” [NOTE: I'm very suppressed here. Support my work at no cost by subscribing to "RealLeeCamp" on subs tack. Thanks!] That’s right. Japan scoops up more US debt than all other countries, even China. “As of February 2026, Japan owned about $1.24 trillion ($1,239,300,000,000) in Treasuries.” China now owns only $700 billion worth as it dedollarizes more every year. But Trump’s unhinged war on Iran has not been kind to Japan. It has heavily impacted Japan’s energy markets and its currency. Japan’s government responded by selling over $100 billion of US Treasuries. To sum that up: The largest holder of US debt has been getting rid of its holdings of US debt. And it’s not just Japan. Many other countries have been dumping the US dollar. Ben Norton notes, “The problem is that foreign governments are less and less interested in holding US Treasuries — precisely at the moment when Treasury issuance is exploding, because US debt is rising so quickly… The share of Treasuries held by foreigners has hovered around 32-33% since the Covid-19 pandemic. This is a stark decline from more than 45% in the early 2010s.” There are several reasons countries are dumping the dollar, but one of the bigger ones is the choice by Washington to straight-up steal other countries’ assets when they can. They pilfered $4.6 billion belonging to Venezuela, and even though it was gold and not dollars, it still shows the US/EU will pillage and rob any assets they want. The US/EU also swiped $300 billion worth of Russian assets in 2022 to try to teach Russia a lesson. Instead, they taught the whole world a lesson: Don’t keep your assets anywhere within the reach of the US/EU’s greasy tentacles. One way to do that would be to avoid US Treasuries. So with foreign governments dumping the dollar, the US rulers needed something to make up the difference. They turned to foreign private investors — billionaires and hedge funds. Back to Norton: “Like Japan, these private firms are also holding up the global dollar system. This is why Adam Tooze has argued the arrangement should be called the ‘hedge fund dollar’, or the ‘billionaire dollar’. The petrodollar still remains a significant pillar of the global dollar system, but the hedge fund dollar has become even more important in recent decades…” So we now have the world’s richest people propping up the currency of the world’s (ostensibly) richest country because if they don’t, they won’t be rich much longer. And here’s the kicker: Trump and Bessent’s efforts to save the yen, thereby helping the dollar, didn’t even work. The yen is worth even less now than it was at the beginning of August, just before the US Treasury swooped in and bought billions of them. [See chart below] You add all of this up and what do you get? A giant flashing signal that the dollar-based financial system is in crisis. [See other chart below] How low can the US dollar’s share of global reserves fall before the $40 trillion US debt starts to have major ramifications? …Eh, who cares?? Let’s just keep partying like it’s 1999! [NOTE: Support my work at no cost by subscribing to "RealLeeCamp" on subs tack. Thanks!]

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• Aug 6, 20264.8x their median

  🚨$1.6 Trillion In Hidden Debt — The AI Bubble Just Got More Insane! 🚨 It has just been revealed that the 5 biggest US tech companies have $1.65 trillion in hidden debt. Those companies are Meta (Facebook), Oracle, Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet (Google). And that’s just the secret debt, not the debt they publicly admit to. That means the hidden debt of 5 US tech companies is larger than the GDP of over 170 countries around the world. When you add the hidden debt with the reported debt, it comes to $3 trillion. In case you’re curious, $3 trillion is more than the GDP of every country on Earth except the US, China, Germany, India, Japan, the UK, and France. Many are saying these revelations show that the US tech bubble right now is akin to Enron — the notorious company synonymous with world-shaking accounting fraud followed by a supernova-like explosion. HOW DO THEY HIDE ALL THIS DEBT? Well, sometimes they create a completely new company (entity) to hide the debt behind. You and I would call this a shell company or a “front,” but in the world of corporate America, it’s just called “business as usual.” For example, what do you know about Beignet LLC? Are you a big fan? Do you use its products a lot? Do your children nag you constantly — “Mooooommm, can I pleeeeeease get a Beignet account?? Every other kid at school has one!” …Probably not. You’ve never heard of it because it’s the shell company Meta/Facebook uses to cover up $27 billion of their debt. Here’s from Yahoo Finance: “Meta's Hyperion data center in Louisiana is the poster child. Meta and Blue Owl Capital co-funded a separate entity that took on $27 billion in debt to build the facility. Meta is the sole tenant but argues it needn't record that debt because the entity — not Meta — bears the risk. Meta's total off-balance-sheet obligations sit at roughly $420 billion, nearly three times its reported debt…” And this type of cover-up is actually the norm for these big tech bros. They create companies that are supposed to be ignored and forgotten. They’re meant to be bland and uneventful so no one thinks about them. Essentially, they’re supposed to be the color beige. …Maybe that’s why Meta named this one “Beignet”. I assume the next one they create will be named Shut Up, Forget This LLC. [SIDE NOTE: Support true independent media. Follow my work (at no cost) at "RealLeeCamp" on subs tack. Thanks!] PROOF THIS IS A GIANT BUBBLE The US economy right now is basically held up by 7 companies sending money back and forth to each other — Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Tesla. So, essentially, it’s the same companies with massive amounts of hidden debt. Even NBC News — normally in the business of manufacturing consent for endless unfettered capitalism — has said, “The AI boom’s reliance on circular deals is raising fears of a bubble.” And Reuters, just three days ago, reported: “Big Tech’s circular AI trade grows too big to veil.” For example, yesterday we found out from financial disclosures that Microsoft has essentially one customer for its AI. That’s right, one customer! It’s a guy named Stephen in Eagle Butte, Montana. No, it’s actually OpenAI. (Sorry, Stephen.) So Microsoft — a company with $300 billion in secret debt — has only one customer for their AI, and it’s OpenAI — a company with $96 billion of debt. Wow. That sounds like sound fiscal management. If this doesn’t sound like a bubble perched on top of a Jenga tower perched on top of a house of cards, then I don’t know what does. AND IT GETS WORSE A whopping 90% of US GDP growth comes from big tech’s AI spending. So that bubble-Jenga-cards thing is powering the entire US economy. Awesome. Love it. I’m excited about the future. (Slowly fills up 10-gallon jug with potable water.) This insanity all goes on while most Americans struggle to get by. Less than half of Americans can afford a $1,000 emergency. This means the vast majority of us are living paycheck to paycheck. The Trump administration claims the unemployment rate is a little over 4%. Of course anyone can just look around and know that’s not accurate. The true unemployment rate is nearly 25%! The true rate is found by adding up anyone without a full-time job who wants one or doesn’t earn a living wage ($26,000 a year before taxes). TO SUM IT ALL UP The irony is thick. While most Americans can barely afford rent, we’re inflating a bubble to further enrich a cabal of billionaire sociopaths who don’t care about any of us. And we’re doing it with a technology meant to replace most of us, which even the creators say has a 20% chance of wiping out all humanity. In order to produce that technology, we need to build massive data centers that steal our water, land, air and future. Dystopian science fiction writers suddenly look like they lack imagination when we compare their work to our reality. [NOTE: Support true independent media. Follow my work (at no cost) at "RealLeeCamp" on subs tack. Thanks!]

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• Aug 16, 20264.8x their median

  🚨 Israel Spending Millions To Manipulate AI Chatbots — And It's Working 🚨 People around the world increasingly get their information from AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude, or Google’s Gemini. But in these youthful years for AI chatbots, there’s been a problem (for the ruling elite). Since the bots get their knowledge from massive amounts of information rather than one propaganda source, they often — but not always — feed the truth back to the reader. (Oh, the horror!) This means that if you ask ChatGPT right now whether Israel is committing Jen-o'cide in Gaza, it will tell you yes. (See attached image.) However, Israel is working hard to manipulate AI’s answers to questions like that one. It’s not easy, but they’re spending millions of dollars to try. In fact, they’re paying those millions to Trump’s former campaign manager Brad Parscale, who is a registered foreign agent of Israel. [NOTE: I'm very suppressed here. Support my work by sharing this, clicking thumbs up, and leaving a comment. Thanks!] Parscale has been busily creating meaningless professional-looking websites that claim Israel is moral and just and beautiful and caring and bakes rainbow-colored cupcakes for Palestinian children. These are sites such as CompassionPulse dot org. (Good luck saying that name without throwing up a little in your mouth.) Well, let me be clear: The sites are only meaningless for humans. They are literally simply meant for AI bots to “read” and “learn” from. Practically zero humans actually go to these sites. Apparently it’s been working. Some AI chatbots have been quoting from and linking to Parscale’s hot, steaming, pro-genocide garbage as they misinform readers. Surely this is just the beginning of big money gaming AI responses. It will not be long before Big Oil spends billions to create spam websites saying human-made climate change isn’t real. Or Big Pharma dumps billions into websites defending their profit-over-human-life business model. Or the US government pumps billions into websites claiming countries that haven’t bombed anyone in 50 years are more dangerous and belligerent than the US, which bombs someone every 12 minutes. And this is why we can’t have nice things. [NOTE: I'm very suppressed here. Support my work by sharing this, clicking thumbs up, and leaving a comment. Thanks!]

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