The Difference Between a Free Man and a Slave is the Ability to Say: NOThe ability to be (relatively) successful in the United States vs. other “government” tax farms is by some seen by some as something to celebrate. While I understand that the Art of Liberty Foundation has a high-quality audience of independent thinkers able to see through the lies, indoctrination and propaganda of the mandatory “government” schools, monopoly media, and algorithmic promotion/censorship of the DARPA Internet, I wanted to take a moment to help your friends, family and colleagues better understand the reality of their situation. Tax Slavery is still Slavery No Matter How Well Disguised – The difference between a free man and a slave is the ability to say: NO. BTW, on a related note: The difference between being honorably enslaved and being a broke back (Tax) Slave is: Are you resisting? There is a hierarchy of chattel slavery and tax slavery ranging from honorable to traitorous filth and NOT understanding the reality of your situation is lower on the ladder because, as Goethe put it so eloquently: “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free”Many people have been successful in the United States because a tremendous amount of wealth was created through the hard money, available land, and light-to-non-existent “government” in the early days of the country that has carried over to this time. That hard money and freedom has been replaced with rapidly depreciating fiat paper tickets, base-metal tokens instead of coins, and an organized crime “government” ratcheting up surveillance and control. Find your income level on the chart above to understand how much the organized crime banks and “government” will steal from you over a 40-year career & 20-year retirement. Details at Greatest-Theft.com In the same way that a rancher might give some animals more paddock or better living conditions (stalls for horses) because of their value to the rancher, don’t believe you are a truly free human being because you have it better than most. The house slave wasn’t free just because they had it better than the field hand. Never forget: there is a gun to your head if you decide to stop paying, wielded by a shave-headed cult member that has been indoctrinated into the religion of Statism and will kill you if you resist. The organized crime “Government” is running “Pimp Game” on the population to get them to go along with the Tax Slavery – A “pimp” is an individual who runs unethically manipulative techniques on women to get them to turn over their money to them, ostensibly for “protection.”This is essentially, in a nutshell, the same game that “governments” run on their populations to get them to semi-voluntarily turn over a significant portion of their income for “protection.”Many of the women, and undoubtedly some men, become psychologically and financially dependent on the pimp… the same way that many women and men become psychologically and financially dependent on the “government”Even when the women are abused or lied to by the pimp, many will stay loyal because of these techniques and the belief that they MUST have a Pimp/Man/Protector.Many Statists will, even after they have been repeatedly lied to and abused by the “government,” through lockdowns, mask mandates, involuntary servitude (drafts) and confiscatory taxation, to name a few abuses, will still self-identify as “Americans” (or Canadian, Australians, Englishmen, etc.) and stay loyal because of the techniques and belief that they MUST have a “Government”/ProtectorThe Organized Crime “Government” is Using DOZENS of Unethically Manipulative “Cult Indoctrination Techniques” in Their Mandatory “Government” Schools, Scouting Programs, Explorer Programs, and Police/Military Training to Create Unquestioning Obedience & Dependency in the Police/Military – In my book, To See the Cage Is to Leave It – 25 Techniques the Few Use to Control the Many, I break down DOZENS of unethically manipulative “cult creation techniques” the organized crime “government” and monopoly media use to indoctrinate the population into a religious devotion to the US flag, the US “Government” and having a ruling class. The “government” (and their accomplice Hollywood) have been tricking the population by controlling the information you receive about the legitimacy, desirability and necessity of having a “government.” They can even trick sThe 4th of July Holiday is a Trick as Well – The 25th Technique I break down in the book is: National Holidays and Celebrations are Associated with the “Government” and Flag – I am replicating the entire page from the book below, but the executive summary is the “government” that is tax farming the population for more than 1/2 their income is giving an infinitesimal portion back in fireworks, parades, and a day off while forcing the population to work without pay for 5-6 months of the year when you include the overt taxes, covert taxes, and inflation, is engaged in a form of marketing known as “Anchoring” that I spell out in the book.A page from To See the Cage is To Leave It – 25 Techniques the Few Use to Control the Many. This is the 25th technique in the book, and it also includes the infamous “26th technique” that I have been mentioning in my podcast appearances.25. National holidays and celebrations are associated with the government and flag- In another example of the marketing technique of “anchoring”, the government has mandated that certain days are set aside to celebrate it. Many Americans overlook the fact that the government is forcing them to work unpaid for five-six months out of the year, and celebrate a single day off that has been, in the case of the 4 of July, linked by the media and pop culture to feasting, drinking, parades, and parties at the lake!Local governments typically provide fireworks events at taxpayer expense. In the parade examples below (ABOVE), the Boy Scouts are wearing white gloves to handle the holy flag. The artificial honor of the flag could have been technique 26, as the flag can not be thrown away when old but must be “retired” in an official ceremony conducted regularly by American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars posts, Cub Scout, Girl Scout and Boy Scout troops, and others. The holy flag is ceremonially burned, and in some cases, its ashes are collected and buried.A statue of the original Etienne de la Boetie with his famous quote that not all men are tricked by the unethically manipulative techniques of the rulers.The tick of the 4th of July is very similar to the original Etienne de la Boetie’s observations from the 1560s where he broke down similar techniques used by monarchs and Caesars to trick the rabble into going along with “government. ”1. On holidays, spectacles and feasts as tools of distraction“Plays, farces, spectacles, gladiators, strange beasts, medals, pictures, and other such opiates … Roman tyrants invented a further refinement. They often provided the city wards with feasts to cajole the rabble, always more readily tempted by the pleasure of eating than by anything else.”2. On the illusion of largess“Tyrants would distribute largess, a bushel of wheat, a gallon of wine, and a sesterce: and then everybody would shamelessly cry, ‘Long live the King!’ The fools did not realize that they were merely recovering a portion of their own property, and that their ruler could not have given them what they were receiving without having first taken it from them.”3. On the nature of servitude through delight“Do not imagine that there is any bird more easily caught by decoy, nor any fish sooner fixed on the hook by worm‑y bait, than are all these poor fools neatly tricked into servitude by the slightest feather passed … Plays, farces, spectacles … were for ancient peoples the bait toward slavery, the price of their liberty, the instruments of tyranny.”It’s not that there is nothing to celebrate on the 4th of July, because there were victories at the time over the tyranny of the monarchy.The issue today is that the organized crime “government” is stealing a SIGNIFICANTLY larger portion of the population’s wealth while violently violating their natural law rights, spying on them, stealing the value out of their money through the inflation of fractional reserve banking and “quantitative easing.”The “Government” is openly being run as a criminal enterprise where TRILLIONS of dollars are going out the back door to Wall Street, defense contractors, Big Pharma, Big Ag, etc. while the “president” takes payoffs including $400M 747s, selling tickets to dine with him, and running crypto scams.The list of taxes today doesn’t include the new “tariffs” which are passed along to consumers as higher prices (a stealth tax) AND it doesn’t include the inflation of fractional reserve banking and “quantitative easing” which is another stealth tax.The total is easily over 50%+ when those are included.In addition, the organized crime “government” has eviscerated almost every single natural law right in the Bill of Rights from the 2nd amendment being shredded through Red Flag Laws, where Trump himself declared, “Take the guns first, go through due process second,” to the 4th amendment which is routinely disregarded at airports, courthouses, and traffic stops.I was a firsthand witness to a friend’s car being searched, where the officer told my friend, “You have two choices: #1 We can search the car OR #2 We can search the car, but it takes longer.” Maryland alone has stolen over 5,000+ firearms and murdered Gary Willis, a 61-year-old man and one of the first Red Flag Law victims, who thought he had a 2nd Amendment and resisted having his gun stolen by the immoral, shave-headed gunmen of the state.Finis! – The End of the Free Preview…What is Behind the Paywall Today?More Dank Voluntaryist Memes on the 4th of July!About the AuthorEtienne de la Boetie2 is the founder of the Art of Liberty Foundation and the editor of the Art of Liberty Daily News on Substack and Five Meme Friday, which delivers hard-hitting voluntaryist memes and the best of the alternative media. He is an internationally recognized expert and speaker on voluntaryism and government illegitimacy, criminality and corruption. His original writings and research can be found at ArtOfLiberty.org and ArtOfLiberty.Substack.comHe is the author of the new book To See the Cage is the To Leave It – 25 Techniques That the Few Use to Control the Many which pulls back the curtain on one of history’s most successful psychological operations: The US government and the monopoly media have been using a variety of unethically manipulative techniques to get free and independent human beings to self-identify as “Americans” so they can be tax farmed. The techniques range from mandatory schools to anchoring/product placing the flag in moments of high positive emotion in movies and television shows. From a hidden curriculum in scouting to subliminal programming in television “programming”.Boetie2 is also the author of “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! which breaks down how inter-generational organized crime centered around banking and central banking is robbing and controlling the population using the technique of “government” with puppet politicians and monopoly media/academia. His upcoming book: Voluntaryism – How the Only “ISM” Fair for Everyone Leads to Harmony, Prosperity and Good Karma for All! explains how REAL freedom (voluntaryism) can provide all the legitimate non-redistributive services offered by “government” without the waste, fraud, abuse, indoctrination and extortion.About the Art of Liberty FoundationA start-up public policy organization: Voluntaryist crime fighters exposing the illegitimacy and criminality of “government,” and their partnership with monopoly media/academia. The foundation promotes voluntary free market solutions, charities vs. inefficient “government” aid based on extortion.The foundation is the publisher of Important News from the Art of Liberty Foundation, The Daily News from the Art of Liberty Foundation and Five Meme Friday – a weekly e-mail or Telegram summary of the best of the alternative media, censored truth videos, and at least five hot, fresh, dank liberty memes every week, and “Government,” Media, and Academia Exposed! – A Telegram summary of the best mainstream and alternative news stories proving our thesis that intergenerational organized crime interests are hierarchically controlling all three.The foundation’s recent conference, Liberty on the Rocks – Sedona – The Voluntaryism Conference featured leading economists, legal scholars, and political theorists explaining how the free market can provide all the legitimate, non-redistributive services provided by monopoly “government” better, faster and cheaper without the waste, fraud, abuse and extortion.The Best “Go Paid” Deal on Substack! You Get REAL Stuff!!Go paid at the $5 a month level, and we will send you both the PDF and e-Pub versions of Etienne’s new book: To See the Cage Is to Leave It – 25 Techniques the Few Use to Control the Many and a coupon code for 10% off anything in the https://artofliberty.org/store/.Go paid at the $50 a year level, and we will send you a free paperback edition of Etienne’s new book: To See the Cage Is to Leave It – 25 Techniques the Few Use to Control the Many OR “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! OR a 64GB Liberator flash drive if you live in the US. If you are international, we will give you a $10 credit towards shipping if you agree to pay the remainder.Support us at the $250 Founding Member Level and get a signed high-resolution hardcover of “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! + Liberator flash drive + a signed high-resolution hardcover of Etienne’s new book: To See the Cage Is to Leave It – 25 Techniques the Few Use to Control the Many + everything else in our “Everything Bundle” of the best in voluntaryist thought delivered domestically. International pays shipping. Our only option for signed copies besides catching Etienne at an event.What is Behind the Paywall Today?More Dank Voluntaryist Memes on the 4th of July!

Common Denominator: They are the folks stealing the value of our money while algorithmically censoring information on the DARPA Internet and Building Terminator Robots & Drones Before we get into the specifics of CIA Contractor Peter Thiel’s secret Dialog Society that has been caught organizing secret meetings with participants from Wall Street, the Federal Reserve, US Government Intelligence agency officials and the heads of the media and AI companies algorithmically censoring information on the DARPA Internet (and building terminator robots and drones!), it is important for the uninitiated to understand the scam of “government. ” It is equally as important to understand how the banks and organized crime interests behind “government” (and the CIA’s Dialog Society) are stealing the value out of everyone’s money forcing them to borrow (or borrow more!) at interest from the same banks making homes, healthcare, and education unaffordable. If you already understand the scam of “government,” fractional reserve banking, and how they are stealing $1.40 million from the average worker ($60K annual salary over 40-year career + 20-year retirement), then you can skip ahead to the specifics of the Dialog Society. Understanding the Scam of “Government” – A Technique to Rob and Control Societies Indoctrinated into the Population using Mandatory “Government” Schools and Monopoly Media/Academia. Our thesis at the Art of Liberty Foundation is that “Government” is best thought of as a technique for robbing and controlling populations. It is always illegitimate because it is impossible to have a moral, legitimate “government” because:You can’t be bound to a “social contract” you didn’t signThe population can’t delegate a “government” (or representative ) “rights” they don’t possess themselves… If you don’t have the ability to rob your neighbor or make up rules for him YOURSELF, then you can’t “delegate” that to a “government”You and your friends can’t vote to rob your neighbor because you outnumber him. “Democracy” has the same moral equivalency as a lynching or gang rape. At least three US Presidents have admitted that the US Government is run by, to quote Teddy Roosevelt, “An Invisible Government” behind the scenes with Franklin Delano Roosevelt specifying it as “a financial element in the larger centers [that] has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson.”“Government” has been the BIGGEST SCAM in ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY! It has, essentially been a manufactured belief system that has been indoctrinated into the public using what we refer to as a “Brute Force Manufactured Consensus” of monopoly “government” schools, scouting programs, police/military training, monopoly media, and algorithmic promotion and censorship of the DARPA Internet. We believe it is the money center banks and their central banks that are using “government” as a technique to rob populations by “legalizing” a scheme called fractional reserve banking that secretly steals the value from the money earned and saved by the population. Find your income level on this chart to understand how much the crooked monetary system + government taxation + Social Security underpayment will cost you over a 40-year career + 20-year retirementWe have calculated that the theft of purchasing power through inflation + government taxation + Social Security underpayment in the US totals $1.4 MILLION dollars from the average worker making $60,000 per year over a 40-year career+ 20-year retirement. Details at ArtOfLiberty.org/Inflation The theft is significantly more for higher earners ($6.64 Million if you make $250K a Year) and the total has been the Greatest Theft in Human History… Which is the title of my upcoming book on the subject. The Treasury exacerbates the problem by running trillion-dollar deficits and issuing debt to cover them. When the Federal Reserve monetizes that debt — buying the bonds with newly created dollars through “quantitative easing” — it injects trillions of new dollars into the system, stealing still more value from the dollars earned and saved by the population.The Fed and the Treasury engage in other activities that are inflationary as well:Interest on reserves / the Fed’s balance sheet — the Fed paying banks interest on reserves and its general balance-sheet expansion.The discount window and emergency facilities — 2008 and 2020 backstops created money to bail out the banks.Under honest money, the average person should be able to afford more and more each year as innovations and productivity improvements reduce the costs of buying the necessities and luxuries of life, but the crooked monetary system has been secretly stealing the value out of everyone’s money reducing the purchasing power while simultaneously causing asset inflation creating something we are calling “The Compound Trap” We have estimated the theft at between $182 and $255+ TRILLION dollars that have been stolen from the American people alone between 1913 and 2025. This has resulted in unethical “profits” to the money center banks and banking industry alone of between $20-25 TRILLION dollars over the same time frame not including the trillions handed out the back door by “government” for weapons systems we don’t need, ethanol subsidies, corporate welfare, and other criminality, waste, fraud and abuse. These stolen TRILLIONS have been used to buy up and monopolize the media and major corporations who are operating as a cartel. The ownership appears to be held by asset managers like Blackrock, Vanguard, State Street, Berkshire Hathaway and Brookfield to obscure and hide the individual ownership. The C-level executives appear to be coordinated through front groups like Dialog, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Bilderberg, the Trilateral Commission, and the World Economic Forum which allows the cartel to have regular secret meetings in secure facilities around the world. The Dialog Society Exposes the CoordinationEvery once and while “The System” gets exposed and the recent leak of the membership list of CIA Contractor Peter Thiel’s Dialog Society exposed a secret organization meeting regularly whose common denominators are illustrative of the exact dynamic that I just described. First, Who is Peter Thiel?Peter Thiel is a gay American billionaire who was San Mateo High valedictorian (1985) and a chess Life Master before earning a B.A. in philosophy from Stanford in 1989, then a J.D. from Stanford Law in 1992. At Stanford he co-founded The Stanford Review in 1987 and was its first editor-in-chief, and that paper became the seed of his entire later network. The Review received funding from Irving Kristol, the “father of neoconservatism,” who had documented connections to the CIA and the conservative Collegiate Network, then operated by Irving Kristol and William E. Simon’s Institute for Educational Affairs. William E. Simon was the 63rd Secretary of the Treasury under Richard Nixon and a former Wall Street Executive for both Union Securities and Salomon Brothers. The exact Stanford-specific grant has not been publicly documented, although comparable grants generally ranged from a few thousand dollars to roughly $10,000. $10,000 would be around $30,000 in 2026 dollars. The IEA was supported by major conservative foundations, including Olin, Scaife and Smith Richardson. Kristol and Scaife both had separate historical connections to CIA-funded media operations. Kristol was executive director of the American branch of the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) and then, from 1953 to 1958, co-founded and co-edited the London magazine Encounter. Encounter received covert funding from the CIA, which along with MI6 had discussed creating an “Anglo-American left-of-centre publication” to counter Cold War neutralism — and a CIA official later said the journal could not have survived financially without CIA funds. The New York Times reported the CIA’s funding of the CCF and Encounter in 1966, then Ramparts and the Saturday Evening Post detailed it in 1967, lent credence by former CIA officer Thomas Braden’s article “I’m Glad the CIA is ‘Immoral,'” admitting the CIA had subsidized Encounter through the CCF for more than ten years. Kristol left the CCF after the revelations and moved to the American Enterprise Institute. Kristol’s next venture, The Public Interest (1965), was initially financed by Warren Demian Manshel, a wealthy investment-banker also involved in the Congress for Cultural Freedom, plus the Olin, Bradley and Smith Richardson foundations who would go on to fund The Stanford Review as well. Manshel had a Harvard PhD in government and shared an office and a friendship with Henry Kissinger as a teaching fellow at Harvard; he was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, co-founded the European Options Exchange in Belgium in 1978, co-founded Foreign Policy magazine with Samuel P. Huntington (Trilateral Commission and CFR), and was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Denmark by President Carter, serving 1978–1981.Thiel also served as president of the Stanford Federalist Society, and shortly after law school worked as a speechwriter for former U.S. Education Secretary William Bennett and clerked for an 11th Circuit judge after interviewing (unsuccessfully) with Justices Scalia and Kennedy. Thiel co-founded Confinity in 1998, which became PayPal after merging with Elon Musk’s X.com in 2000; he was CEO until eBay bought it for ~$1.5 billion in 2002, spawning a group of early tech executives that has become known as the “PayPal Mafia.” PayPal benefited from government-granted money transmitter licenses.Facebook is born on the day that DARPA, allegedly, pulls the plug on a program they were running called Lifelog that was doing essentially the same thing that Facebook would go on to do: map the connections between friends, events, relationships, etc. Regina Dugan was DARPA director (2009–2012), then led Google’s Advanced Technology & Projects group (2012–2016), then ran Facebook’s Building 8 (2016–2018)Thiel goes on to make the first outside investment in Facebook in 2004 — $500K for roughly 10% and a board seat — and founded Founders Fund and the hedge fund Clarium.Thiel co-founds Palantir in 2003–04 with Alex Karp, Joe Lonsdale, Stephen Cohen, and Nathan Gettings, adapting PayPal’s anti-fraud pattern-detection to allegedly combat terrorism. The CIA’s venture arm In-Q-Tel invested about $2 million — effectively the only outside money. The CIA was Palantir’s first government customer. Palantir’s software (Gotham, Foundry, and its newer AI Platform) is now embedded across the CIA, Pentagon, ICE, IRS, CDC, Army and multiple other federal agencies. Federal contracts jumped from about $541 million in 2024 to roughly $970 million in 2025, headlined by a July 2025 U.S. Army “Enterprise Agreement” worth up to $10 billion over ten years that consolidates 75 separate contracts into one, plus a $30 million ICE contract for a system called ImmigrationOS and DOGE-linked work on a cross-agency deportation database — all drawing civil-liberties scrutiny. Palantir went public in 2020; Thiel remains chairman. ArtOfLiberty.org/Fact-Check/JD-VanceBeyond BILLIONS in contracts, his government footprint is heavily political and networked. He was Trump’s most prominent Silicon Valley backer in 2016 (a convention speech, ~$1.25M donation, and a transition-team seat), and he is the patron behind the current Vice President — he put roughly $15M behind JD Vance’s 2022 Senate run (and another $15M behind Blake Masters’s Senate Campaign) after employing Vance at his firm. He sits on the Bilderberg Steering Committee, he is a co-founder of the Dialog society with Auren Hoffman, runs the Thiel Fellowship (paying students to skip college), was granted New Zealand citizenship in 2011 after spending only about 12 days in the country, and secretly financed the Hulk Hogan lawsuit that bankrupted Gawker in 2016. Our theory is that groups like Dialog are where the bankers and government/media puppets meet to coordinate the monopolization of the media, the algorithmic and now AI censorship of information, and police state / surveillance technologies that keep this inter-generational organized crime system in business. You can find a list of 140 names that have been publicly exposed below cross referenced with their affiliations to three other organized crime front groups, because one of the “Big Reveals” of the Dialog Leak is that many of the members are running their own front groups and “policy shops” where they are having additional secret meetings on a regular basis which is an exponential projection of power much greater than wielded by the identified members. Sub-groups / Cross-Affiliations of the Dialog Society The Council on Foreign Relations ( 25% of the exposed members are CFR… 35 members out of 140 if you include Tulsi Gabbard who has been a CFR member but isn’t on the current list while she is serving as DNI) Key CFR Leadership at Dialog: Robert Rubin (Chairman Emeritus), Richard Haass (President Emeritus), Peggy Hamburg (current Director), Henry Kravis (former Director)2011 Chart from the Foundation to Restore an Educated Electorate showing Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Bilderberg and Trilateral Commission penetration of the US Government at every key position of power going back decades through both Republican and Democrat administrations. The CFR, which apparently birthed the World Economic Forum whose founder Klaus Schwab was mentored/recruited by CFR figures, was the original intelligence-agency connected front group for secret meetings that “Penetrated the Cabinets” to use WEF-founder Klaus Schwab’s famous line describing the strategy of the WEF.The Bilderberg Group – 10% of known attendees – 14 people out of 140 (Summers, Thiel, Karp, Schmidt, Kravis, Driscoll, Reid Hoffman, Kushner, Tugendhat, Palmer Luckey, Bret Stephens, Kallas, Adam Grant, and Andresseen (reported)Key Bilderberg Leadership at Dialog: Steering Committee: Alex Karp (CEO, Palantir), Eric Schmidt, Peter Thiel (also Dialog’s co-founder)A close-up crop of the Ultimate Bilderberg Chart of Connected Politicians, Corporations and Organizations. See Below for Details.This Bilderberg Group visualization has been kicking around the internet for years without good attribution (or it is being hidden) and shows the board and organizational connections of 4-5 dozen Bilderberg attendees. You can download the full high-resolution visualization from The Liberator Here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/epa4cq9yzo46uiz/Ultimate_Bilderberg_Flowchart_Connected_Politicians_Corporations.jpg?dl=0 You can download the White Rose MUCHO GRANDE poster here: https://artofliberty.org/white-rose/poster4/The World Economic Forum – 10% (14 out of 140) – Another suspected organized crime front group that “Penetrates the Cabinets” of easily captured “governments.” The World Economic Forum (WEF) was founded on January 24th, 1971 as the European Management Symposium, then renamed the European Management Forum, then WEF by German engineer and economist Klaus Schwab. Evidence points to Schwab being recruited by Henry Kissinger during a seminar series at Harvard revealed to have been funded by the CIA in 1967. Kissinger would go on to become Secretary of State, a Rockefeller advisor, and National Security Advisor. Herman Kahn and John Kenneth Galbraith would help get the EMF off the ground by traveling to Europe to help with Schwab’s recruitment efforts. Kissinger and Galbraith were members of the Council on Foreign Relations, the US branch of Cecil Rhodes’s Anglo-American imperialist “Round Table” network that had established outposts in most Anglo countries and “penetrated the cabinets” and media in the US and Europe in previous decades (and currently) the exact same way that Schwab’s WEF has done in this decade.World Economic Forum Leadership: There is none (so far) but many Dialog members haven’t been identified yet. WEF cross-affiliated members include: Elon Musk (YGL 2008), Peter Thiel (YGL 2007), Jim Breyer (WEF committees), and Tulsi Gabbard (YGL selected 2015, but claims she was never active.)The WEF figured prominently in the scam of “The Covid” which demonstrated that monied interests can easily install political puppets using disparity of campaign funds, media monopolization/coverage, etc. to install political puppets that “Penetrate the Cabinets” and executive branch leadership. The Berggruen Institute – 3.6% overlap (5 of 140 cross-reference Dialog members) The Berggruen Institute is a Los Angeles–based think tank founded in 2010 by billionaire investor Nicolas Berggruen (b. 1961, Paris) and journalist Nathan Gardels, focused on governance, philosophy, economics, and technology, with centers in Beijing and Venice. Berggruen is the son of German-Jewish art dealer Heinz Berggruen; he studied finance at NYU and built his ~$2–3 billion fortune through Berggruen Holdings (founded 1984), with major bets in real estate, retail (Karstadt), and media including Spanish media group Prisa which owns El País (Spain’s largest newspaper), the radio network Cadena SER, and other outlets. Berggruen once described the institute as the “new Bilderberg Group” on their website… and then took it down! Berggruen/Dialog Leadership & Attendees include: Nicholas Berggruen (Founder and Chair), Reid Hoffman (Board), Larry Summers, Elon Musk and Eric Schmidt who were all on Berggruen’s 21st Century Council. So what do the members of Dialog Have in Common? If you want to rob the world then you have to have meetings, BUT I am not saying that every Dialog Member is an unindicted co-conspirator. Similar to other front organization policy shops, many members are window dressing similar to “Porch Masons” to disguise what is going on in the back rooms and make things more interesting for the REAL attendees. Axios’s reporting described “small, moderated conversations with assigned seats and absolute confidentiality” which could easily separate the nefarious from the innocuous where the window dressing isn’t invited to the REAL sessions. So.. If we strip away the eye-candy and “porch members” and analyze which members fall into our thesis of organized crime centered around banking/central banking buying the world with the little paper tickets they create out of thin air while monopolizing the media and algorithmically censoring information on major tech platforms lets see who drops into those buckets: Stealing the Value Out of Our Money – Central Banking & Money Center BankingSimilar to the 2011 Foundation to Restore an Educated Electorate chart I used above and below, which was entitled: Who Profits from the Present Usury Money System?, I am going to start my analysis with the top of the food chain: The money center bankers, treasury department officials, and federal reserve leaders that are represented at Dialog and every one of the other front groups and policy shops that enable regular meetings in secure facilities with the government officials, monopoly media, and intelligence agency members that sustain, protect, deflect and distract away from TRILLIONS of dollars that are being siphoned away from the American people. In this chart from the 2010 F.R.E.E visualization: Who Profits from the Present Usury Money System, we can see the pattern of money center bankers, Federal Reserve Board Members, and Secretaries of the Treasury riding herd over Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, and Bilderberg Group meetings as well with Dialog members Laurence “Larry” Summers and Robert Rubin appearing on both lists. It is interesting to note that Larry Summers (along with Peter Thiel) were both connected to Rothschild banking agent and suspected Mossad agent Jeffrey Epstein with both having verified in-person meetings and Thiel being referenced over 2,000 times in the Epstein files that have been released so far. Connections include: a Nov 2017 lunch with Thiel on Epstein’s schedule, a declined island invitation, and a reported $40M Epstein investment into Thiel’s Valar Ventures funds in 2015–2016 (NYT, June 2025). Epstein arranged for Former Israeli Prime Minister/Head of the IDF Ehud Barak to meet Thiel in New York in 2014.We have already broken down above how central banking backstops the money center banks to create money out of thin air and enable deficit spending by the organized crime “government.” Control of the Media – Is this Operation Mockingbird 2.0?During the 1976 U.S. Senate Church Committee hearings, it was revealed that the CIA maintained a network of hundreds of publishers, editors, and reporters to influence global opinion.We believe the CIA utilizes monopoly media to control the “head ends” of the information food chain. Through highly coordinated private networks, they manipulate public consensus, dictate mainstream policy narratives, and steer global media coverage across DOZENS of ostensibly independent news organizations. A page from my book “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! breaking down the connections between the intelligence agencies and the media including JD Vance, who we believe is an agency “Created Legend” who was a commentator at CNN before Thiel funded his Senate campaign with $15 million dollars. Article Version HERE. Reportedly, the program had various monikers: “[Frank] Wisner’s Wurlitzer,” “The Mighty Wurlitzer,” and “Operation Mockingbird.”It is rumored that “Mockingbird” referred to the strategy of controlling the “head ends” of the information food chain—The New York Times, The Washington Post, AP, and CNN—ensuring that smaller regional and local media outlets, as well as the public, would “mockingbird” and repeat the controlled narrative.Interestingly, many of the Dialog members come from the same “Head Ends” the New York Times, Washington Post, etc. BUT more interestingly is that many are/were running entire media networks Veit Dengler, Isaac Lee, etc. BUT even more more interestingly are the presence of CFR and Bilderberg leadership who are running similar secret meetings with an estimated 100+ more publishers, editors, reporters AND network heads AND private equity and/or ownership of entire networks. The chart at the bottom of the graphic above is a poster we produced from an analysis done by Swiss Propaganda Research in 2017 showing how just three organizations, the CFR, Trilateral Commission, and the Bilderberg Group have maneuvered, installed or recruited the key publishers, editors, and reporters from DOZENS of ostensibly independent media outlets. Dialog is populated with 3 members of the Bilderberg Steering Committee (Thiel, Karp and Schmidt) and the Chairman Emeritus of the CFR Robert Rubin, the President Emeritus of the CFR Richard Haass, in addition to Board Member Peggy Hamburg and 25% of the identified Dialog members so far. The same dynamic is taking place at the Berggruen Institute, which is represented by the Chairman and Founder, Nicholas Berggruen, along with Berggruen advisors/supporters: Eric Schmidt, Reid Hoffman, and Elon Musk. These are the media operations that sold you: “The Covid,” WMDs in Iraq, the official story of 9/11, Kuwaiti babies thrown from incubators, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, WMDs in Iran, OKC BOMB, Waco, January 6, and the legitimacy of “government,” fractional-reserve banking, and easily rigged elections.The Algorithmic Censorship of the Internet We like to say that Control of Perception is the most powerful weapon in the US arsenal. Can the organized crime system make you believe you aren’t a free and independent human being BUT, by virtue of where you are born, you are an American (It’s been decided for you!) and you owe over 50% of your income in overt taxes, covert taxes and inflation to Washington DC? Can they trick you into the no-win game of easily rigged elections where their monopoly media system and unlimited digital dollars guarantee that only political puppets funded by AIPAC are elected? Can they hide the fact that their crooked monetary system, taxes (theft) + Social Security underpayment is going to steal an average of $1.40 million from a median worker over a 40-year career and 20-year retirement with much more stolen from higher earners? Control-of-Perception is a Binary Weapon composed of the aforementioned monopolization of the media BUT is also composed of the algorithmic censorship of the DARPA Internet. Map showing the Military’s ARPANET in 1969 and 1982, the organized crime “government” had plenty of time to figure out how they were going to control perception widely and profit from doing it before it was released to the public. Many people forget that the Internet is a military network that was released to the public only after the military and intelligence agencies had over two decades to study it and figure out which key technologies they needed to dominate to widely control perception on the internet.From the Article: How the CIA Made Google that breaks down the connection between Google’s founding and DARPA, the Pentagon and the Pentagon’s partnership with Silicon Valley: The Highland Forum: In 1989, Richard O’Neill, then a US Navy cryptologist, wrote a paper for the US Naval War College, ‘Toward a methodology for perception management.’ In his book, Future Wars, Col. John Alexander, then a senior officer in the US Army’s Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM), records that O’Neill’s paper for the first time outlined a strategy for “perception management” as part of information warfare (IW). O’Neill’s proposed strategy identified three categories of targets for IW: adversaries, so they believe they are vulnerable; potential partners, “so they perceive the cause [of war] as just”; and finally, civilian populations and the political leadership so they “perceive the cost as worth the effort.” A secret briefing based on O’Neill’s work “made its way to the top leadership” at DoD. “They acknowledged that O’Neill was right and told him to bury it.Except the DoD didn’t bury it. Around 1994, the Highlands Group/Highland Forum was founded by O’Neill as an official Pentagon project at the appointment of Bill Clinton’s then defense secretary William Perry — who went on to join SAIC’s board of directors after retiring from government in 2003.In O’Neill’s own words, the group would function as the Pentagon’s ‘ideas lab’. According to Government Executive, military and information technology experts gathered at the first Forum meeting “to consider the impacts of IT and globalization on the United States and on warfare. How would the Internet and other emerging technologies change the world?” The meeting helped plant the idea of “network-centric warfare” in the minds of “the nation’s top military thinkers.”An Art of Liberty Foundation White Rose MUCHO GRANDE poster showing a Media Ownership Chart from 2006 showing six companies running HUNDREDS of subsidiaries to give the illusion of diversity of information.In many ways it appears to be an extension of the Operation Mockingbird program that monopolized print, radio, television, and appears to organize and control the promoted “journalists” being organized by Dialog, CFR, Bilderberg, the WEF, and the Berggruen Institute. Google alone, which was connected to exact same Highland Group/Highland Forum which specified the “Perception Management” strategy and is represented at Dialog by former CEO Eric Schmidt, has been caught both algorithmically amplifying certain voices while algorithmically censoring other voices especially with Google News. The Columbia Journalism Review article: Audit suggests Google [News] favors a small number of major outlets, which we syndicate in our unauditiable flash drive (and free Dropboxes!) of Liberty: The Liberator, breaks down how Google News directs traffic to a small number of outlets. At the same time that they are pumping up certain news sites and information, ex-Google employee and whistle-blower Zach Voorhies has released documents and testimony that Google is algorithmically censoring other information. Notice that CNN, which dominates our list of CIA-connected journalists above also dominates CIA-connected Google’s list of promoted news sources. Here is a list of the Dialog participants whose companies have large-scale algorithmic content-ranking and moderation power, the vast majority of which have been caught censoring, demonetizing, shadow-banning truth tellers, plus other propaganda crimes. These are the media companies that sold you “The Covid,” the official story of 9/11, Kuwaiti babies thrown out of incubators, WMD’s in Iraq, January 6th, obviously rigged elections with unauditable black box voting machines and mail-in ballots, and the legitimacy of “government.”Facebook alone, represented by initial investor Thiel, Marc Andreessen (Early Investor), Adam D’Angelo (former CIO), and Charlie Songhurst (Board Director, Meta) have censored multiple voluntaryist, libertarian, and truth movement news organizations off their platform including organizations that had MILLIONS of followers. Some of the affected organizations included The Free Thought Project (3 million + followers) and the Anti-Media (2 million + followers) and the Art of Liberty Foundation’s original Etienne de la Boetie2 account in what has been called: The Great Social Media Purge of 2018. Alex Jones’ InfoWars was simultaneously deplatformed by Facebook, Apple, YouTube, Spotify, Vimeo, Pinterest, MailChimp, and LinkedIn at essentially the exact same time showing a degree of high-level coordination. The Facebook executive that coordinated the purges, Nathaniel Gleicher, was the ex-Director for Cyber Security Policy at the National Security Council and Facebook has been exposed by MintPress News for being populated with “EX” CIA officers, FBI agents, and other intelligence agency veterans in content moderation. Aaron Berman, a 17-year veteran of the CIA who already held a senior position on Facebook’s “misinformation” team during the 2020 election, was promoted in 2023 to “Head of Elections Policies” at the company now known as Meta The Art of Liberty Foundation’s Substack audience was more than doubling each year until last year when Substack took a $100M investment led by BOND and the Chernin Group, with a16z (Andreessen) participating. BOND is tied to In-Q-Tel and the Defense Innovation Board. Now we are having to spend $20,000 to move ourselves off the platform and build our own censorship-resistant infrastructure to keep getting this information out to the publicMarc Andreessen, who has suspiciously invested in multiple social media platforms that have been caught censoring, recently participated in a $100M round of financing for Substack led by BOND Partners (BOND, get it.. James Bond/Intelligence agencies) whose partners include “Ex-Goldman Sachs, ex-Kleiner Perkins, ex-CIA In-Q-Tel, and a member of the Defense Innovation Board. At almost the exact time that this investment was made, the Art of Liberty Foundation’s Substack which had been doubling year-over-year, began heading in the opposite direction. Other liberty and truth movement-oriented authors saw the exact same declines at the exact same time. AI-Driven Autonomous Weapons Systems: Drones, Terminator Robots & AI Targeting (Military and Civilian) In one of the most troubling “coincidences” of Dialog, we have what can only be described as the top CEOs, investors, and in the case of US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, procurers of AI-driven autonomous weapons system, terminator robots, & AI targeting in both military and “civilian” applications. AI Drones – AI Drones are drones that can be launched and targeted using lists drawn up by AI and/or guided and targeted using AI. The drones can be used to kill individuals based on facial recognition, location, or other targeting information. An Anduril Bolt-M drone is diving for an attack before exploding, showering an unoccupied target vehicle with anti-materiel fodder. Anduril CEO and founder Palmer Luckey is a Dialog participant while Thiel, Lonsdale, and Andreessen are investors. Pentagon, intelligence agency, and NASA contractor Elon Musk’s Optimus Robots – a general purpose, bi-pedal, autonomous humanoid robot capable of being remotely reprogrammed at any time in the future by the same folks who sold you “The Covid,” bankrupted small businesses, and forced injections into family members.Terminator Robots – Even robots (or even self-driving cars) can be used as dual-use military devices under pressure from an organized crime “government”.” Dialog participant Elon Musk has already promised a world where his Tesla robots will outnumber humans. Dialog Society founder Peter Thiel (2nd from right) and participant Alex Karp (3rd from left) meeting with Israeli military officials. Israel has been accused of genocide against the Palestinian people using AI targeting in the massacre. AI Targeting – Military – AI targeting is where AI systems determine what individual people (high-value commanders, officers vs. enlisted, etc.), assets (tanks vs. trucks on a battlefield) or buildings are targeted in a scenario where dozens or hundreds of autonomous and/or programmable weapons are launched at once. The Israeli military has already been caught using a system called Lavender for targeting and another tool called “Where’s Daddy” which uses AI to determine when a target is with their family so the entire family is killed vs. just the target. Dialog participant and Palantir CEO Alex Karp has already bragged that Palantir is “responsible for most of the targeting in Ukraine.”AI Targeting – Civilian – Palantir has been ICE’s data backbone since about 2013, when it built the Investigative Case Management system. In April 2025 ICE awarded Palantir a $30 million contract to build ImmigrationOS, folded into the existing sole-source ICM deal that has ballooned past $145 million. Its stated functions: prioritizing who gets removed first, tracking self-deportations in near real time, and streamlining removal logistics.In March 2025 Trump signed an executive order to eliminate data “silos” across agencies. The New York Times then reported the administration tapped Palantir’s Foundry to carry it out, with talks underway at the IRS and Social Security Administration, and the ACLU warned of “a panopticon of a single federal database” — a centralized dossier on everyone in the country. Palantir publicly called the reporting “blatantly untrue,” said it “never collects data to unlawfully surveil Americans,” BUT given they are using their tech to murder people, why would anyone believe them? The Danger for Freedom We believe the illegitimacy and criminality of monopoly “government” is slowly and surely spreading. Every day more and more people realize that the “government” is illegitimate on its face and being run as a criminal enterprise in Washington, DC. We, and many others, are exposing the TRILLIONS of dollars that have been stolen through fractional reserve banking, inflation, no bid contracts, corporate welfare, and needless, overpriced weapons for wars based on lies and manufactured intelligence. We think these autonomous weapons systems are being built for a time when the knowledge of this organized crime system spreads to the police and military who are having their own pensions and savings devalued by the organized crime banks and “government” that tricked them with unethically manipulative propaganda and indoctrination. Dialog founder and CIA contractor Peter Thiel already broke down the bankster and organized crime “government” case for autonomous weapons on the Joe Rogan podcast: “The natural development of drone technology … is you need to take the human out of the loop because the human can get jammed.”What is Behind the Paywall Today?The Formatted, Print-Ready Version of this Article and a HUGE THANK YOU! for Making it Possible! The List of Prominent Known Dialog Participants- Cross-referenced with CFR, Bilderberg, Trilateral Commission, World Economic Forum & Berggruen Institute affiliations- Intelligently categorizedDialog is a private, invitation-only network founded in 2006 by Peter Thiel and data entrepreneur Auren Hoffman. It runs both an ongoing paid-membership organization and separate off-the-record retreats attended by members, guests, speakers and prospective recruits. Internal material reportedly describes more than 1,000 paying members and more than 2,500 people who have attended its retreats since 2006.How many names have been exposed?There are several different numbers because the leak contained overlapping—but not identical—datasets:Category 1 — Federal Reserve, Fractional Reserve Banking and US Treasury “Legal” Counterfeiting of US Dollars· Scott Bessent — U.S. Treasury Secretary — Council on Foreign Relations (verified against current CFR member roster). Not on the official Bilderberg 2026 participant list.· Robert Rubin — Fmr. Secretary, U.S. Treasury; fmr. Co-Chairman, Goldman Sachs —Co-Chairman Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations.· Larry Summers — Former U.S. Treasury Secretary; former president of Harvard University —Bilderberg Meeting participant (2025), Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Agenda Contributor and speaker at World Economic Forum, Member Trilateral Commission· Randy Kroszner — Former Federal Reserve governor; Bank of England Financial Policy Committee, Chair/Vice-Chair/Member of the WEF Global Agenda Council on the Global Financial System 2008–2009 and 2010–2016Category 2 — Autonomous drones, robotics & AI targeting (military & civilian)Companies and people building, owning, or funding autonomous/AI systems with weapons applications. Government counterpart: — listed under Government.· Palmer Luckey — Founder, Anduril Industries; co-founder, Oculus VR. Affiliations: Bilderberg (2024)Anduril builds autonomous attack and loitering-munition drones, counter-drone systems, and the Lattice AI battle-management software — among the most explicit autonomous-weapons companies in the U.S. defense base.· Alex Karp — Co-founder & CEO, Palantir Technologies. Affiliations: Bilderberg (2019, 2022, 2024, 2025, 2026) + Steering CommitteePalantir’s Gotham and Maven AI platforms generate and prioritize military targets — Karp says the company is “responsible for most of the targeting in Ukraine.” Palantir signed a Jan 2024 strategic partnership with the Israeli Ministry of Defense, and Karp has said “our product is used on occasion to kill people.”· Peter Thiel — Co-founder/chairman, Palantir; Founders Fund; early Anduril backer. Affiliations: Bilderberg (2007–2016, 2019, 2022, 2024, 2025; 2026 not on official participant list) + Steering Committee (current); WEF Young Global Leader 2007*Co-founded Palantir and, through Founders Fund, was an early backer of Anduril. Asked about the Lavender targeting system, Thiel said his “bias is to defer to Israel,” underscoring his ownership stake in AI-targeting infrastructure.· Joe Lonsdale — Co-founder, Palantir; founder, 8VC. No cross-org match found in checked sources.Co-founded Palantir and runs 8VC, a venture firm that is one of the largest funders of autonomous-defense startups (Anduril, Saronic and others).· Eric Schmidt — Ex-CEO, Google; Schmidt Futures; CEO, Relativity Space. Affiliations: CFR; Bilderberg (2008–2024 across many years, 2025, 2026) + Steering Committee; Bohemian Grove (leaked 2023 list†)Chaired the U.S. National Security Commission on AI and the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Board, and has personally funded military-drone and autonomy ventures — the leading establishment advocate for integrating AI into warfighting. (Also fits the content-moderation bucket via Google.)· Elon Musk — CEO, Tesla & SpaceX; owner, X; founder, xAI. Intelligence agency, Dept of War, and NASA Contractor with BILLIONS in “government” contracts and tax breaks for his electric vehicles.Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot and Full Self-Driving are dual-use autonomy platforms, and SpaceX/Starlink is now critical military communications infrastructure (decisive in Ukraine). “Weaponizable” here is a capability/dual-use observation, not a current weapons product.· Dan Driscoll (U.S. Army Secretary, Bilderberg 2026), who oversees Army procurement of these systemsCategory 3 — AI, Algorithmic Content Moderation & the “Censorship-Industrial Complex”These are participants whose companies have large-scale algorithmic content-ranking/moderation power, or who have funded information operations. Capability is documented; whether a given activity is “censorship” is contested and attributed.· Eric Schmidt — Ex-CEO, Google. Affiliations: CFR; Bilderberg (2008–2024 across many years, 2025, 2026) + Steering Committee; Bohemian Grove (leaked 2023 list†)Ran Google during the build-out of its search-ranking and YouTube moderation systems and has funded election/information-integrity initiatives — a central figure in any map of algorithmic information control.· Neal Mohan — CEO, YouTube. Affiliations: CFRRuns YouTube’s recommendation algorithm and its content-removal and demotion policies — one of the largest content-governance systems on earth, with direct power to amplify or suppress information at scale.· Yasmin Green — CEO, Jigsaw (a Google incubator).Leads Jigsaw, a Google unit that builds tools to counter “disinformation,” extremism and “threats to open societies,” and served on the Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder. Google frames this as countering harm; the Censorship-Industrial-Complex critique reads it as institutionalized content control.· Tom Lue — Global affairs lead, Google’s frontier-AI division. Gemini’s image generator produced historically absurd and racially biased images due to over-aggressive efforts to force diversityLeads global affairs and policy for Google’s frontier-AI division, which sets the guardrails and output-filtering for Google’s most powerful models — content governance at the model layer.· Reid Hoffman — Co-founder, LinkedIn; partner, Greylock (Connected to CIA Venture Firm In-Q-Tel) . Affiliations: CFR; Bilderberg (2017, 2019, 2022)Documented funder of social-media influence operations: he financed “Project Birmingham,” a 2017 Alabama false-flag disinformation effort (~$100K via AET/New Knowledge), and the “News for Democracy” Facebook network. Hoffman apologized for Birmingham and said he was unaware of its tactics.· Jonathan Greenblatt — CEO, Anti-Defamation League. Affiliations: CFRThe ADL flags online content and lobbies platforms over moderation decisions and is frequently cited in censorship-critical reporting; the ADL frames this work as countering antisemitism and hate. Listed for the capability/role, not as an established “censor” (contested).· Elon Musk — Owner, X. Intelligence agency, Dept of War, and NASA Contractor with BILLIONS in “government” contracts and tax breaks for his electric vehicles.X performs algorithmic ranking and moderation like any large platform, X content moderation team populated by “Ex” FBI personnel per Alan Macleod/Mint Press News. If the DARPA Internet was Internet 1.0, then Starlink is DARPA Internet 2.0 where profits are being privatized to defense industry insiders.· Greg Brockman — Co-founder & President, OpenAI; ex-CTO, Stripe. OpenAI (primarily through ChatGPT and related models) has been extensively documented for political bias and content filtering that functions as censorship on certain topics and viewpoints· Jason Kwon — Chief Strategy Officer, OpenAI. Trilateral Commission 2026 Annual Plenary (Tokyo) participant list. Plenary participant lists can include invited guests and speakers, not only members- 14 out of 15 political bias tests administered by David Rozado diagnosed Chat GPTs responses as left-leaning (favoring progressive positions on economics, social issues, environment, etc.)· Adam D’Angelo — Co-founder & CEO, Quora; ex-CTO, Facebook. Quora has been caught censoring pro-Palestinian and anti-Zionism voices (Dr. Rima Najjar) among others· Charlie Songhurst — Board Director, Meta; ex-Head of Corporate Strategy, Microsoft – Meta/Facebook caught censoring information during “The Covid” including true information that could “cause vaccine hesitancy”Category 4 — Mockingbird Media· Richard Haass — Diplomat; President Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations. Affiliations: CFR (President Emeritus)· Ezra Klein — Columnist, The New York Times.· Bret Stephens — Opinion Columnist & Associate Editor, The New York Times. Affiliations: Bilderberg (2024)· Nick Thompson — CEO, The Atlantic; ex-Editor-in-chief, Wired. Affiliations: CFR· Souad Mekhennet — National security correspondent, The Washington Post.· Veit Dengler — Member of Austrian Parliament, Media executive; co-founder, NEOS political party (Austria) former Chief Operating Officer of Bauer Media Group, which employs more than 11,000 people across 13 countries in Europe and North America· Isaac Lee — Chairman & CEO, Hybe America, former Board Member Associated Press, Former President of the News for Univision. CFRCategory 5— Government, intelligence, military, law & diplomacy· Ted Cruz — U.S. Senator (Texas). Dialog-status note: named in the leaked Dialog directory; Cruz said publicly he attended only a couple of meetings over a decade ago.· Cory Booker — U.S. Senator (New Jersey).· Tulsi Gabbard — U.S. Director of National Intelligence. Affiliations: CFR per 2019 reporting; not in current-roster, WEF Young Global Leader (2015), Former Civil Affairs officer in the Military· Jared Kushner — Founder, Affinity Partners; ex-White House senior adviser. Affiliations: Bilderberg (2019)· Wes Moore — Governor of Maryland. Affiliations: CFR Dialog-status note: named on the leaked 2026 retreat registration list (entry “Governor, State of Maryland”); a spokesman said he spoke at a Thiel event roughly a decade ago with no involvement since — though Axios (Aug 2025) had reported him as a Dialog member.· Jim Himes — U.S. Representative (Connecticut); ranking member, House Intel. Affiliations: CFR· Gen. Alexus Grynkewich — NATO SACEUR; head of U.S. European Command. Affiliations: CFR Dialog-status note: leaked records list him as attending Dialog gatherings since 2021.· Hallie Hoffman — Ex-general counsel & acting chief of staff, DEA.· Lisa Monaco — Ex-U.S. Deputy Attorney General. Affiliations: CFR· Jim O’Neill — HHS Deputy Secretary nominee; co-founder, Thiel Fellowship.· Jared Polis — Governor of Colorado. Dialog-status note: named in the leak; his spokesperson denied membership, said he does not recall attending and had not previously heard of Dialog.· Will Scharf — White House Staff Secretary (see correction note). No cross-org match found in checked sources.· Tom Tugendhat — Member of Parliament, United Kingdom. Affiliations: Bilderberg (2019, 2022, 2023, 2024)· Kaja Kallas — Vice President, European Commission; ex-PM of Estonia. Affiliations: Bilderberg (2024) Dialog-status note: named on the leaked list; the European Commission denies she is a member or will attend the Aug 2026 retreat (Axios had listed her as a 2025 participant).· Tarō Kōno — Former Minister for Digital Transformation (2022–2024); ex-Minister of Defense, Japan; current Member, House of Representatives. Affiliations: Trilateral Commission (verified: current member, Asia Pacific Group)· Jens Spahn — German Bundestag; ex-Federal Minister of Health.· Shahid Khaqan Abbasi — Ex-Prime Minister of Pakistan; founder, Airblue.· Turki Al Faisal Al Saud — Founder, King Faisal Foundation; ex-Saudi intelligence chief.· Reema Al-Saud — Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the U.S..· Ali Siddiqui — Board Chair, OnZero; ex-Pakistan Ambassador to the U.S..· Himanshu Gulati — Member of Parliament, Norway.· Simon Stevens — UK House of Lords; ex-CEO, NHS England.· Mitch Daniels — Ex-Governor of Indiana; ex-president, Purdue University.· Stan McChrystal — Founder & CEO, McChrystal Group; ex-U.S. Army General. Affiliations: CFR Dialog-status note: named in the leak; told The Guardian he attended two Dialog events about a decade ago but does not consider it membership.· Matt Clifford — UK PM’s AI adviser; co-founder, Entrepreneur First.· Neal Katyal — Partner, Milbank; ex-Acting Solicitor General.· Preet Bharara — Ex-U.S. Attorney, SDNY.· Rachel Brand — Chief Legal Officer, Walmart; ex-Associate Attorney General. Affiliations: CFR· Rob Hur — Ex-Special Counsel, U.S. DOJ. Affiliations: CFR· Tom Goldstein — Partner, Goldstein & Russell; founder, SCOTUSblog.· Julian Castro — Ex-Secretary, U.S. HUD. Affiliations: WEF Young Global Leader 2010*· Richard Haass — Diplomat; President Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations. Affiliations: CFR (President Emeritus)Category 6 — Finance, investment & industry· Henry Kravis — Co-founder, KKR. Affiliations: CFR; Bilderberg (multiple years)· Chamath Palihapitiya — Founder & CEO, Social Capital. Affiliations: WEF Young Global Leader 2007*· Randy Kroszner — Ex-Federal Reserve governor; Bank of England FPC.· Gaurav Kapadia — Founder & CEO, XN. Council on Foreign Relations· Karen Karniol-Tambour — Co-CIO, Bridgewater Associates. Affiliations: CFR· Micky Malka — Founder & Managing Partner, Ribbit Capital.· Mike Novogratz — CEO, Galaxy Digital; ex-CIO, Fortress.· Barry Silbert — Founder & CEO, Digital Currency Group.· Barry Sternlicht — Co-founder, Chairman & CEO, Starwood Capital.· John Arnold — Co-Chair, Arnold Ventures; ex-founder, Centaurus Advisors.· Nicolas Berggruen — Founder & President, Berggruen Holdings. Affiliations: CFR· Pete Briger — Principal & Chairman, Fortress Investment Group. Affiliations: CFR· Peter Brown — CEO, Renaissance Technologies.· Thasunda Brown Duckett — President & CEO, TIAA.· Matt Cohler — Ex-General Partner, Benchmark.· Bob Jain — CIO, Millennium Management; founder, Jain Family Institute.· Wences Casares — Founder & ex-CEO, Xapo Bank. Affiliations: WEF Young Global Leader 2011*· Sheikh Nawaf Saud Nasir Al-Sabah — CEO, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation.· Steve Ells — Founder & ex-CEO, Chipotle.Category 7— Technology (founders & executives)· Auren Hoffman — Chairman & co-founder, Dialog; data entrepreneur (SafeGraph/LiveRamp). Affiliations: CFR· Astro Teller — Captain of Moonshots, Google X (Alphabet). Projects at Google X include Google Glass, Google Self-Driving Car Project, Google Contact Lens and Project Loon.· Jonathan Ross — Founder & CEO, Groq.· Dan Schulman — Ex-President & CEO, PayPal. Affiliations: CFR· Howie Liu — Founder & CEO, Airtable. Affiliations: WEF Technology Pioneer (company-level)*· Pete Shadbolt — Founder & Chief Science Officer, PsiQuantum.· Scott Stephenson — Chairman, President & CEO, Verisk Analytics. Affiliations: CFR· Immad Akhund — Founder & CEO, Mercury.· Sarah Bond — President of Xbox, Microsoft.· Fatima Kardar — VP & COO of Xbox, Microsoft.· Manuel Bronstein — Chief Product Officer, Roblox.· Scott Belsky — Partner, A24; ex-CSO/CPO, Adobe; founder, Behance.· Scott Cook — Co-founder & Chairman, Intuit.· Severin Hacker — Co-founder & CTO, Duolingo.· Mike Cannon-Brookes — Co-founder & Co-CEO, Atlassian. Affiliations: WEF Young Global Leader 2009*· Cesar Carvalho — Co-founder & CEO, Wellhub.· Marcos Galperin — Co-founder & CEO, MercadoLibre. Affiliations: WEF Young Global Leader*· Demet Mutlu — Founder & CEO, Trendyol Group. Affiliations: WEF Young Global Leader*· Strauss Zelnick — Chairman & CEO, Take-Two Interactive. Council on Foreign Relations· Caroline Cochran — Co-founder & COO, Oklo.· Mario Schlosser — Co-founder, Oscar Health (see correction note).· Raffi Grinberg — Executive Director, Dialog.Category 8 — Entertainment· Sophia Bush — Actress.· Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor.· Benj Pasek — Songwriter & producer (EGOT-class).· Drew Scott — Co-founder, Scott Brothers Global; Property Brothers.· Josh Brolin — Actor.Josh Brolin making the organized crime CIA look cool in the movie: Sicario. You have to be a complete scumbag to make the murderous, drug dealing, regime changing, Mockingbird media manipulating CIA look cool. Search engine: The Phoenix Program to understand how the organized crime CIA murdered thousands of people extra judicially in Vietnam. They are a bunch of organized crime parasites living off money stolen from others at the point of a gun.· Eva Price — CEO, Maximum Entertainment Productions.· Teresa Hsiao — Writer-producer (Family Guy, American Dad).· Scooter Braun — CEO, Hybe America; founder, Ithaca Holdings· Zach Shields — Executive producer & writer (Godzilla: King of the Monsters).Category 9 — Academics, authors, public intellectuals & policy· Garry Kasparov — Democracy advocate; ex-world chess champion, Aspen Commission on Information Disorder.· Jonathan Haidt — Social psychologist, NYU Stern; author.· Steven Pinker — Psychologist, Harvard; author.· Jonathan Levin — President, Stanford University; economist.· Anne-Marie Slaughter — CEO, New America; ex-State Dept Policy Planning. Affiliations: CFR· Roger Myerson — Economist, University of Chicago; Nobel laureate. Affiliations: CFR· Susan Athey — Professor, Stanford GSB; ex-DOJ chief economist.· Tyler Cowen — Professor of Economics & Director, Mercatus Center, GMU.· Peter Goettler — President, Cato Institute. Formerly Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking and Debt Capital Markets at Barclays Capital· Ryan Stowers — Executive Director, Charles Koch Foundation.· Leonard Leo — Co-Chairman, Federalist Society. sources.· Grover Norquist — President, Americans for Tax Reform. Affiliations: CFR· Adam Grant — Organizational psychologist, Wharton; author. Affiliations: Bilderberg (2019)‡; WEF Young Global Leader*· John Townsend — Author, Boundaries.· Tim Urban — Writer & illustrator, Wait But Why.· Rick Warren — Pastor; author, The Purpose Driven Life. Affiliations: CFR· Gretchen Rubin — Author & podcast host, The Happiness Project. Affiliations: CFR· Kim Scott — Author, Radical Candor.· Bob Cialdini — Author, Influence.· Charles Duhigg — Author, The Power of Habit.· Tim Ferriss — Author & podcast host.· Daniel Pink — Author; ex-chief speechwriter for VP Al Gore.· Sam Harris — Podcast host & author, Making Sense.· Lori Gottlieb — Psychotherapist & author; The Atlantic columnist.Category 10 — Health, biotech & science· Vas Narasimhan — CEO, Novartis. Affiliations: CFR· Peggy Hamburg — Ex-Commissioner, U.S. FDA. Affiliations: CFR· Atul Gawande — Author; ex-Assistant Administrator for Global Health, USAID.· Elizabeth Blackburn — Ex-President, Salk Institute; Nobel laureate.· Peter Attia — Physician, Attia Medical; author, Outlive.· Bryan Johnson — Founder & CEO, Kernel & Blueprint.· Shivon Zilis — Director, Neuralink.Category 11 — Other / NGO· Shadi Martini — CEO, MultiFaith Alliance (humanitarian aid).· Evan Marwell — Founder & CEO, EducationSuperHighway.About The Author Etienne de la Boetie2 is the founder of the Art of Liberty Foundation, and the editor of the Art of Liberty Daily News on Substack and Five Meme Friday, which delivers hard-hitting voluntaryist memes and the best of the alternative media. He is an internationally recognized expert and speaker on voluntaryism and government illegitimacy, criminality and corruption. His original writings and research can be found at ArtOfLiberty.org and ArtOfLiberty.Substack.comHe is the author of To See the Cage Is to Leave It – 25 Techniques the Few Use to Control the Many which exposes an inter-generational psychological operation by the “government,” Hollywood, and the monopoly media to indoctrinate the population with the pseudo-religion of Statism using dozens of unethically manipulative techniques ranging from subliminal content in television programming to a hidden curriculum in the mandatory “government” schools, scouting, and police/military training.He has also authored: “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! which breaks down how inter-generational organized crime centered around banking and central banking is robbing and controlling the population using the technique of “government” with puppet politicians and monopoly media/academia. His upcoming book: Voluntaryism – How the Only “ISM” Fair for Everyone Leads to Harmony, Prosperity and Good Karma for All! explains how REAL freedom (voluntaryism) can provide all the legitimate non-redistributive services provided by “government” without the waste, fraud, abuse, indoctrination and extortion.About The Art Of Liberty FoundationThe Art of Liberty Foundation is dedicated to exposing the illegitimacy and criminality of monopoly “government” and central banking/fractional reserve banking and promoting voluntaryism — the only system of social organization based entirely on consent and REAL freedom — as the alternative.See ArtOfLiberty.org.The Best “Go Paid” Deal on Substack! You Get REAL Stuff!!Go paid at the $5 a month level, and we will send you both the PDF and e-Pub versions of Etienne’s new book: To See the Cage Is to Leave It – 25 Techniques the Few Use to Control the Many and a coupon code for 10% off anything in the https://artofliberty.org/store/.Go paid at the $50 a year level, and we will send you a free paperback edition of Etienne’s new book: To See the Cage Is to Leave It – 25 Techniques the Few Use to Control the Many OR “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! OR a 64GB Liberator flash drive if you live in the US. If you are international, we will give you a $10 credit towards shipping if you agree to pay the remainder.Support us at the $250 Founding Member Level and get a signed high-resolution hardcover of “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! + Liberator flash drive + a signed high-resolution hardcover of Etienne’s new book: To See the Cage Is to Leave It – 25 Techniques the Few Use to Control the Many + everything else in our “Everything Bundle” of the best in voluntaryist thought delivered domestically. International pays shipping. Our only option for signed copies besides catching Etienne at an event. What is Behind the Paywall Today?The Formatted, Print-Ready Version of this Article and a HUGE THANK YOU! for Making it Possible!

The Replay of our June 14th Live Stream on Finding (OR Creating!) The Freedom Movement in YOUR Community! Here is the replay from our June 14th LiveStream: From Isolation to Action – Finding (OR Creating!) The Freedom Movement in Your Area! Liberty Group List at: ArtOfLiberty.org/Liberty-Groups/Etienne: Hi, this is Etienne De La Boétie2 with the Art of Liberty Foundation. Welcome to our Sunday night live stream, which is something I think we’re going to begin doing more and more of. For those that aren’t familiar with the Art of Liberty Foundation, we are a startup public policy organization exposing the illegitimacy and the criminality of government. Essentially, our thesis is that government was never intended to protect life, liberty, and property. Government is best thought of as a technique for robbing and controlling society. And as voluntarists, we don’t believe that government is legitimate, desirable, or necessary. So we are advocates of something called real freedom, and there is a real freedom movement all around the world. In some cities and towns it is much stronger than others, but there are voluntarists and libertarian and freedom-oriented groups all around the United States.So what we wanted to do is have a little bit of an overview of how you find that freedom movement. And if that freedom movement isn’t active in your town or city, then how do you create it yourself so that you can find your liberty friends and your liberty allies? I wanted to start off by telling you why that’s so important. But before that, I wanted to introduce Counterforce Alliance, our partners in this event. Counterforce Alliance helps liberty groups grow, provides tools so that they can be successful, and provides training for people that want to take their liberty group to the next level or learn how to become a facilitator of a liberty group. So I’m going to be joined by the team from Counterforce Alliance, and we’re going to give you an overview. And with that, I think we’ll start sharing the slides. So, Haley, if you wanted to kick it off and begin sharing our deck, I wanted to get started and go over why it’s so important to have a liberty group and to have freedom groups in the United States and in the world. My example is something that happened during COVID, where we helped organize resistance to the economic warfare of COVID, the lockdowns in Santa Cruz, California.And Haley, if you could put it on the third slide, I wanted to talk about what success looks like and why this is so very, very important. So when COVID kicked off, I found myself in Santa Cruz, California, which is a story in and of itself, and people were still trying to figure out what was going on, what was happening in the United States and the world. Myself and David Rodriguez, who many people know from the Education Options Summit or the Gatto Project, or from helping students graduate and get out of the government school system through Valor Academy, where he speed-graduates people out of the system so that they can get on with their lives and/or some kind of vocational education or other self-directed learning — we ended up at a little dinner party of about ten twenty-somethings and thirty-somethings and everybody was trying to figure out what was going on with COVID. And David and I said, well, I think we’ve got an idea: we’ve got an intergenerational organized crime problem. They’ve been lying to the country about everything, from what happened in the Gulf of Tonkin, to what happened on 9-11, to what happened with Kuwaiti babies tossed out of incubators during the—Kristina: I want to — sorry, I apologize. People are saying that they can’t see the slides. Are they live right now?Etienne: We are live, so they should be getting the slides, and I’ll let Dren work on that, but it sounds like they can hear me. So I’ll keep talking and keep going over it while Dren figures out the slides. But back to my story on Santa Cruz: we knew the government and the media couldn’t be trusted about what happened in the Gulf of Tonkin, or Kuwaiti babies tossed out of incubators, or weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So there was no reason to believe the government and the media that there was a pandemic. And so we made a decision at that dinner table, with about ten people, that we were going to organize resistance and begin investigating this ourselves. So that initial ten people began putting out feelers in the community. We scheduled a barbecue and a potluck at somebody’s house the next week, and the next week we had twenty-something people, and we began going into the hospitals in what the LA Times said was “the epicenter of COVID in California”. And we found empty waiting rooms, empty hospitals. Etienne de la Boetie2 personally investigating claims of pandemic conditions at Santa Clara Medical Center in “California’s epicenter of the coronavirus” and finding empty tents, empty waiting rooms and hospital employees openly speculating that the whole thing was a hoax.We interviewed the guy that was doing the testing. He told us flat out they weren’t experiencing pandemic conditions. He told us flat out that they weren’t even testing — not many people were coming in for testing. And if you know anything about Santa Clara in California, there is a huge Chinese community coming back and forth from the valley. If there really was a pandemic, you would see it in Santa Clara, California, because of the back and forth between the valley and China. And we found hospital employees that were openly speculating the whole thing was a hoax. So we were convinced that it was a hoax. Now, keep in mind that at the time the hospitals had emergency tents and they were full-scale pretending that there was a pandemic.So we began exposing, literally on camera: look, these tents are empty, there’s nobody in here, there’s nothing going on at these hospitals. And we began fighting back and organizing resistance. Within a week’s time, like I said, we had twenty-something people. By the end of the third week, we had thirty-seven-plus people marching through the streets in Santa Clara, passing out leaflets, exposing the hoax of the whole thing, exposing that masks weren’t going to do anything even if there was a pandemic. And we began trying to get businesses open, because we viewed the whole thing as economic warfare against the population. Very quickly, by the fourth week, we had over two hundred people in a Facebook group, and we began routinely turning out sixty, seventy-plus people to peaceful civil disobedience events. Some of these were free-hug events. Some of these were reopening the beaches. We would go and reopen parks. We would tear down the tape that had been wound around the jungle gyms and the equipment. They put some locks on parks; we didn’t just cut the lock off, we went with bolt cutters and cut the U-bolt off that held the lock to the gate, so they just couldn’t put another lock on it. And we began having these beach parties, because they were trying to close down the beaches, and we would step forward with sixty, seventy people and a bullhorn. And we’d say, we’re reopening this beach. And sixty to seventy people would move forward, and the police would come. And the police would say, hey, y’all can’t be here, the beach is closed. And we would calmly and politely explain to the police that, no, you don’t have the right to close down the beaches — you’re the bad man, you’re threatening people with violence over something that’s not really a crime. And we stood down the police eight times in eight weeks that I was there. We won. The police would get huffy, and sometimes they would ask everybody for ID and nobody would give them ID, and then they would eventually leave, and everybody would see what was going on. And we were having fun. We’re playing badminton, we’re surfing, people are singing with guitars, people are having a blast. And it became clear that really nothing was going on. People would watch us, and over time they realized, hey, this is the group that you want to be with. These guys know what’s going on. These people are organizing resistance. And it grew. Ultimately, the county public health officer, a woman named Gail Newell — in the LA Times, and you can go see the story today — ultimately said, we’re giving up on trying to close the beaches, we’re giving up on trying to enforce this policy, because the people refused to be governed in this way. Peggy Hall, The Healthy American, Covers Our Mask-Free Shopping at Traitor Joes. Now, a couple of other things that we did that I think are key: we created videos of us going into supermarkets without masks. We would go in twenty people at a time, and Trader Joe’s — their employees would try and stop us, and we would just walk around them, because there’s twenty people doing it together. And we would pick up all the groceries that we wanted, and we would do what’s called a cash drop, where we’d figure out how much money was owed and drop the money on the cash register and just take the goods. And those videos went viral, millions and millions of views, and they ultimately had to stop doing that. One other funny thing: some local organization tried to give Gail Newell, the county health officer that was imposing these draconian lockdowns when there obviously wasn’t a pandemic going on, an award. And the Santa Cruz voluntarists pulled up on a trailer right in front of the event. And the Funky Fathers of Liberty, many of whom were in our group, have a full sound system and drum kit, and they began playing a song they’d written called — Jail to Gail, sorry, Gail to Jail — and disrupted the entire event, while the rest of our liberty group passed out information on the harmfulness of the vaccines, the experimental nature of the vaccines, and why you didn’t really want to do this, because there was no pandemic going on at all. Etienne and David Rodriguez About to Speak to an Unmasked Crowd of 3,000+ at the State Capital in Sacramento in late summer 2020 – No cases of Covid were ever reported from any of our unmasked events. Now, I would leave Santa Cruz, and in 2020 I was in twenty different states, and in 2021 I was in thirty different states, and I would meet with other liberty groups all over the country. Some of these liberty groups were libertarian. The majority of them were conservative. All of these liberty groups weren’t wearing masks. And almost every single liberty group that I went to had some connection to a hospital in that area, where some of the members of that group were either doctors, nurses, EMTs, worked in the hospital, or knew somebody that worked in the hospital. And in twenty different states in 2020, and thirty different states in 2021, I never ran into a single person — dozens and dozens of hospital employees, like I said, doctors, nurses, EMTs, et cetera — that claimed they had pandemic conditions at their hospital. So it really was a government and media hoax designed to transfer money to these pharmaceutical companies and to get a needle into people’s arms that ended up hurting a whole bunch of people. So my point here is that having that network in your community is very, very important, should they ever try that again. But it’s also very important because it’s hard to explain to somebody what’s going on when they’re getting all of this information from every single screen — that government’s legitimate, that government’s desirable, that government’s necessary, that civilization would crumble, that it would be purge anarchy in the streets if there wasn’t a government. And you really have to have a network of people, some of whom understand economics, some of whom understand philosophy, to really drive this point home and help people understand the freedom philosophy. So what I wanted to do is take everybody through the basics of how you do this. If you don’t know where that organization is in your town, then the first place to start is at the Art of Liberty Foundation website at ArtOfLiberty.org. On our website, we have a tab in the About section called Liberty Groups, and we have a listing of all of the liberty groups that the Art of Liberty Foundation knows about. ArtOfLiberty.org/Liberty-Groups/You can go and see if there is a liberty-oriented organization in your town. We also have links to other consolidators. There’s a group called Liberty on the Rocks, and Liberty on the Rocks has libertarian-oriented drinking events — get it? Liberty on the Rocks — in almost ten-plus cities in the United States, and very popular in Colorado, where the average chapter has hundreds of people and they regularly turn out events with fifty-plus people. There is the Soho Forum in New York City. There is the Menlo Forum in Silicon Valley, in Menlo Park (Invitation Only, E-mail me if interested). There are a variety of very well established, and in some cases very prestigious, meetings where they’ve got world-class speakers. So you’re going to find, like I said, that list at ArtOfLiberty.org/Liberty-Groups/. But we’ve also got links to groups like Freedom Cells, which has a map where you can either search in your hometown or post a link, and you can do this anonymously — you don’t have to put your exact address, you don’t have to put your exact name — but you can begin to network with the Freedom Cell community, who are overwhelmingly libertarian, to find those groups that are in your town.Now, let’s say that you don’t have one of those in your town. Some of my checklist of success is, number one, to find a cool place to meet, and ideally a recurring date. To get traction, you want to try and have everybody meet on the same day, whether that’s the second Saturday of the month or the third Thursday of the month, so that people can plan on it ahead of time. You get started with your nucleus of friends, family, colleagues, neighbors, and others — you reach out to your existing social circle. You say, hey, I’m worried about what’s going on in the country. I’m worried about masked ICE goons on the street and the surveillance and the flock cameras and everything that’s going on. I wanted to get everybody together. And there’s a variety of places where you can market this event. Some of those are Meetup, Facebook events, Eventbrite. We don’t trust Meetup — we believe they’re censoring freedom-oriented events and freedom-oriented groups, so be aware of that. But I like the full-court press. I think you should do it all. You should be on every single channel that would help you find people within your area. So I call it the full-court press: be on every channel, have a Facebook event so that you can share it easily on Facebook. But also count on the fact that it may be censored, that you may be shadow-banned, that they may not share it the way that you would want. So physical flyers are the gold standard. Having both a physical flyer and a digital flyer — this is an example of a digital flyer on the screen, and this is from the Voluntarists of Austin. The Voluntarists of Austin, on Meetup, have a meetup group with over a thousand people in Austin, Texas. So you might be surprised that there’s already a group in your town, and that group might have a thousand-plus people in it, like the Voluntarists of Austin. A digital flyer is simply something that can be shared — the details of the organization. A website is great, but if you don’t have a website, then the Meetup page, the Facebook event page, your Facebook group — whatever it is, you need to have some kind of landing page. Counterforce Alliance will take you through the tools that they have to help you organize a group as well, and we’re going to get into that in a little bit. But you want to be able to share it. The physical flyers go into any place that’s got a community bulletin board — coffee shops, comic book shops, the cool hipster area in your town, bars, pubs. Everybody knows their town and where people like to gather and where those would be successful. But plan on having a digital version as well, so that not only you can share it, but your friends, your colleagues, your nucleus of the group can text it to their friends and colleagues, and you can share it through Telegram and SMS and Facebook and those avenues as well. Almost every newspaper has a “this is what’s going on on the weekend” or an events section. Sometimes those are free to list your event in, and sometimes those are very low cost. But again, I recommend using every venue. Most people have a local what’s-going-on-in-the-concert-scene-and-the-bars-and-the-pubs publication. In Memphis, where I live, it’s called the Memphis Flyer — those are the free publications that you find in the free bins at bars and restaurants and taverns and things like that. They have event listings as well. Connector.App Allows You to Search for Affinity Groups and People In Your AreaGive yourself a month. Once you start, start with the things that have the longest draw time, like an event listing in the newspaper, like an event listing in the local what’s-happening paper, and then build to that date with the things that give you the best results. And then, like I mentioned, Freedom Cells and the connector.app.Haley, take me to the next slide. So that’s really the best practice for getting your group off the ground: marketing it effectively and getting to people that are there now. So now you get people there, people show up. And now what do you want to do? Well, number one, plan on it taking some time – Your first one might only have five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten friends. Be in it to win it, be in it for the long haul, especially if you’re starting it in the summertime where people are traveling, where people are on vacations.Mix it up – Sometimes have speakers, sometimes have a documentary night, sometimes have potlucks. Don’t just make it about the problems with flock cameras in your area, or inflation. People come to this because they’re concerned about what’s going on with the government. They stay because they like the people and they have a good time and they begin to build friendships. Just keep that in mind. You want to make it welcoming for people. You want to make it so that people want to come back and want to be with the people. That’s how you’re going to attract people that other people want to be around, and that’s how you’re going to make it cool. And that’s what we did in Santa Cruz — it was the cool kids’ club, and people wanted to be part of it. They realized that, hey, the government’s lying, there’s nothing to be worried about, these people are having a blast, they’ve been doing it for weeks, none of them have COVID. I want to be with those people. I don’t want to be locked in my apartment by myself. Split up the duties so that no one gets burned out – If you’re going to have a calling tree, don’t have the same person do all the calls every week. Maneuver the duties so that one person’s in charge of marketing, one person’s in charge of putting up flyers, or whatever it is. Create a team. And that’s really my advice there: make it as fun as possible. That’s why our group thrived. That’s why we had so much success — people wanted to be a part of it. They had a good time, and we had a blast doing it. So everybody else was locked up in their homes, and we were having liberty bonfires. So now what I wanted to do is introduce Haley with Counterforce Alliance. She’s going to tell you a little bit about Counterforce Alliance and how they create and help people start groups. They provide tools for groups, and like I said, they can help train you to be an effective facilitator and a group leader, if you so desire. So I’d like to turn it over to Haley with Counterforce Alliance.Haley: All right, thank you, Etienne. So what I’m going to end up having to do — can you screen share? I stopped screen sharing. Can you screen share the PowerPoint presentation from your end?Etienne: Let’s see. Yeah, I just gotta give it up for a second. But go ahead and introduce yourself while I do.Haley: So thanks for that great example of what you guys did in Santa Cruz — it was inspirational. And I think what we’re going to talk about from our end is how we can replicate that for everybody, because that was a learning moment for all of us about how we failed as a liberty movement. You guys did a great job, but for the most part we were behind the eight ball when it came to organizing and activism at the biggest moment of our life — tyranny here in the real and now, and not just some hypothetical future — and how we can make sure that that never happens again. So I’ll just piggyback off of what you were talking about — where we are now in the freedom movement, and the Substack article that we wrote about isolation and action. So right now, a lot of freedom-minded people are frustrated or overwhelmed, or that’s what they’re feeling, but that’s really just a cover for feeling isolated. And isolation is not just emotionally draining, it’s strategically dangerous. We saw that during COVID. You guys managed to solve that problem, but most of us didn’t. We felt like one man on an island. We felt like we didn’t have support of any kind, like we were the only sane people around here while everybody else, the world, had gone insane. We felt like the only sane ones in the insane asylum. But that’s strategically dangerous. What we’ve discovered is that freedom is not meant to be pursued alone. And community doesn’t happen by accident — it happens by intention. And that’s where our aim is at Counterforce Alliance: to build community intentionally, and not by accident. So here we go.I’m going to get started on slide seven, about why it feels like we’re losing, but we aren’t. A lot of people in our community, let’s face it, have taken the black pill. And let’s be real — it’s hard not to see what’s going on in our country and not feel a little bit demoralized. We see what’s happening, we see the news, we have this feeling that evil is winning, or that the globalist agenda is just unstoppable. Etienne, can you get to slide seven?Etienne: Yeah, I’m on it. Yeah, that one.Haley: And keep scrolling forward. So the reason it feels like harmful agendas are winning is not because they’re more numerous, but because they operate in coordination. They move in tandem and they reinforce one another. It’s been an observation in politics for quite a while that those on one side of the political spectrum tend toward collectivism, and those on the other side tend toward more radical individualism. And most of us here tend to fall on the latter side of that, the radical individualist side. Meanwhile, the freedom movement, despite being filled with intelligent, principled, well-intentioned people, often operates in isolation. Everyone is doing something, but it often feels like we’re just shouting into the void, like we’re one man on an island. And we rarely act in unison together. I always joke that anyone who’s been in the freedom movement for more than five minutes and has ever tried to organize something to affect change knows it’s a bit like herding cats — it’s rough. But that’s not a sign of weakness. It just means that we’re fragmented. And fragmentation is the real obstacle, not a lack of awareness. I dare say there’s nobody here on this stream that’s not painfully aware of the problems we’re facing as a society. So the pattern that we get into is fragmentation. And fragmentation leads to isolation. And isolation leads to hesitation, which is just a combination of uncertainty and a lack of direction. And that equals stagnation. We just don’t end up doing anything, because we don’t know what to do. And so the solution is structure, leadership, and action. So the root problem is fragmentation. We’re going to talk about that.So on slide eight, the fragmentation problem. Why does it seem like the freedom movement is fragmented if so many are working hard to make it succeed? If we take a step back and really look at what’s happening, there is a lot of commotion. There’s noise, there’s energy, there’s conversation, but what we’re lacking is momentum. And that’s an important distinction, because momentum requires people moving together in a shared direction. Right now it seems like everybody’s just trying to do their own thing, and it might even be something meaningful, something important, but without support it’s hard to sustain. So you have people out there who are either knowingly or unknowingly duplicating work others are already doing. Again, it might be well-intentioned, but it ultimately leads to more fragmentation. You’re siphoning support off from one area and bringing it to the other, and then nobody’s able to reach critical mass on any one initiative or endeavor. And over time, that leads to burnout. So ultimately, this isn’t a lack of care. That’s not the problem. It’s not that people don’t care — people do care deeply. They’re informed, they’re engaged, they’re trying, but there’s no clear structure, no consistent support, and no accessible leadership. So all that energy stays fragmented. And when the energy is fragmented, it struggles to build into anything lasting. And that’s the root problem that we’re here to solve.Etienne: And I’ve got it on “fragmentation leads to isolation” now.Haley: Yep, that’s right. So carrying on about the fragmentation problem: it’s not that people don’t care about freedom. People are researching, they’re listening, and they’re trying to understand what’s happening, probably now more than ever before, thanks to our digital age. And the proof of that — just look at the overwhelming number of podcasts, articles, conversations, conferences, Substack blogs, et cetera. All this indicates that people are paying attention, but there’s something missing. Despite all this information, despite all the awareness, it hasn’t translated into coordinated action. And again, this leads to that fragmentation problem. This fragmentation is aided and abetted by the pitfalls of our modern age. All the digital media, in one way, is a blessing — we’re able to stay more aware and informed than ever before — but it has nevertheless kept us in a cycle of consumption rather than connection. And the paradox here is that, despite having the world at our fingertips, quite literally, these little algorithmic bubbles that we find ourselves in actually make our world feel smaller, not bigger. And on top of that, we have to worry about things like misinformation, which is so much harder to discern in the age of AI. We’re still dealing with the issue of censorship, especially for groups like these trying to organize around freedom and liberty. So ultimately, people start to feel alone in what they believe, even when millions of others feel the same way. And when that happens, we get stuck. We get stuck in these loops where we’re inspired for a moment — oh, that was a great podcast, oh my gosh, he really nailed it; or we hear a great talk, we read something powerful, that was a great Substack article you wrote, I totally agree, you hit the nail on the head — but then there’s no clear path forward. There’s no place to bring that energy, and so it all fizzles. It fizzles that energy, that momentum, that inspiration. And then over time, that fragmentation, that fizzling of energy, leads to isolation. And isolation is what keeps movements from forming, even when there’s a desire to act. And that’s what we’re here to overcome together.So, hesitation and uncertainty. When we get into this fragmentation, isolation, hesitation cycle, this is where most people get stuck. The hesitation gets misinterpreted as apathy or blackpilling. It can look like people aren’t stepping up, like they’re disengaged or just not willing to get involved — like, what’s the point? But that’s not actually what’s happening. Most people aren’t afraid of showing up, but they are afraid of stepping into something that feels unclear, unsupported, or unsustainable. And what most people are doing is making an unconscious cost-benefit assessment, or, as I like to say, an effort-to-reward ratio. I like to weigh that out in my mind. Say, for example, 5G cell phone towers are your area of concern. You’d say, yeah, I want to do something about these 5G cell phone towers in my neighborhood, but I don’t know anyone else who’s doing anything about it, and me going to my local city council meeting by myself isn’t going to do anything, so why bother? That’s the attitude most people have. So when it looks like nobody else is doing anything about this, or whatever little group is trying to do something is poorly organized, then hesitation becomes a natural response. And this isn’t weakness, and it’s not laziness, and it’s certainly not a lack of courage. But it is a signal — a signal that what we don’t need is more outrage and we don’t need more information. What we need is support. We need structure. We need leadership. And most importantly, we need a clear, grounded path to take action, one that feels sustainable and not overwhelming. And when that exists, the hesitation starts to dissolve, and the uncertainty shifts from clarity into direction.So, our common barriers. What are some common barriers or shared hesitations out there in the freedom movement that prevent people from taking action? There are lots of them, but the main ones boil down to three things. Some people say things like, well, I know something’s wrong, I just don’t know where to start. Exactly — there’s just so much, where do we begin? Or another one is, which issue even matters the most? Again, there’s so much, where do you start? Which issue do we tackle first? What’s the low-hanging fruit? It’s hard to know. And there’s so much that we all get pulled in different directions. For one person it might be digital privacy, another medical freedom, another food sovereignty, things like that. So we’re all being pulled in different directions. And then one of the big ones is, am I the right person to do this? Who am I? I’m just Haley Heathman, what am I supposed to do? And underpinning all this is an unspoken fear of, what if I try and it doesn’t go anywhere? That’s a common fear. Maybe we’ve already seen it happen somewhere in our own circles, where someone pours a ton of time, energy, and money into an endeavor and it never takes off. Despite all the effort, and you really try, it’s like a failure to launch. Or maybe they do gain traction, but still, despite their best efforts, they’re unable to achieve the goal they set out to achieve, and that leaves you feeling even more demoralized than before. And these aren’t excuses. These are real, honest reflections of what it feels like to stand alone without a clear path forward. But what that tells us is that it’s not that people are unwilling. It’s just that they’ve been left without a way to step in that actually works to support their efforts.So, the critical reframe. In order to get people out of this defeatist thinking that prevents them from even getting started, this hesitation that we’re talking about, this is where we need to do a mindset shift. We need to think about things a little bit differently. And one of the big ones we need to start with is that not everyone needs to be a leader. Everybody feels like, well, I can’t take this on. But that’s not actually what we need. We do need some of those, but, as they say, too many chefs spoil the broth. So what we need in the freedom movement, actually, is more facilitators and activists. We need people who are willing to connect others, to create a little structure, or simply take the next step. Because, let’s face it, the real momentum doesn’t come from one person having all the answers. It comes from many people doing small things consistently together. You don’t have to have it all figured out. You don’t have to be perfect. You don’t need permission. You just have to be willing to say yes. You just have to be willing to try, because it’s those small, steady action steps — especially when you’re in a supported team environment — that are way better than trying to delegate tasks and figure it all out on your own.And so that leads me to our mission and who and what we are. What is Counterforce Alliance, and why are we here talking to you today? I’m Haley, and I’m joined here with John, Amy, and Christina from the leadership team, to talk about Counterforce Alliance’s mission and vision for the freedom movement. At Counterforce Alliance, our mission is fivefold. Number one, we want to unify the freedom movement. We want to bring together individuals and local groups under a shared purpose, so that we, the people, move from scattered effort to coordinated collective impact. Two, educate. We want to educate members on self-sovereignty and independence. We want to provide access to trusted knowledge, tools, and experts, so that people can build more independent, resilient lives without having to figure it all out on their own. Three, facilitate. We want to facilitate local groups and activism-focused efforts through task force teams, creating simple, accessible infrastructure for communities to organize, communicate, and take action together at the local level. Four, empower. We want to empower leaders at every level, and equip everyday individuals with the mindset, skills, and support needed to step up, lead, and sustain meaningful efforts over time. Five, inspire. Of course, we want to inspire a culture of liberty, as we know politics is downstream from culture. So beyond just practical solutions to our everyday problems, which of course is important, we also want to create a culture that values freedom. And we can do this through things like visual arts, music, short- and long-form videos, gaming, and everything in between. So in short, we provide the structure, connection, and support that turns intention into aligned, consistent action, all in one place.So, our purpose. Everything we do is grounded in a shared purpose, a very clear filter. And we’re always asking some of these questions: Does this build something real? Does this empower people beyond just talk? Does this unify instead of divide? Because if it doesn’t do those three things, it’s just noise. We also have to define what we are not. We’re not a political party — we’re not trying to create a fourth or fifth political party in the U.S. We’re not an ideology; in fact, we’re actually trying to transcend all these ideologies. And we’re not built around one voice. This is not a cult of personality or a brand. We are here to empower you, not a charismatic leader in charge of everything. And this isn’t about attention. It’s not about entertainment. It’s about alignment, action, and building something that actually lasts together.So if I had to boil it down to one sentence: Counterforce is about bringing community, focus, and leadership back to the freedom movement — and not in theory, but in a way that people can actually step into. Because this isn’t something separate from you. This only works because of you. And we’re not building it for people, we’re building it with people, because at the end of the day, we are all the counterforce.Now, what sets us apart? That’s a good question, and it’s one of the questions we get most often. There’s plenty of other freedom-minded communities and networks out there, so what makes Counterforce Alliance any different? Any of you who have been in the freedom space for more than five minutes have probably felt at times disappointed and frankly let down at the lack of organization within our circles. It’s one of the things I mentioned before, that the other side does way better than us, because, as I said, they’re collectivists whereas we’re mostly radical individualists. We have this sense that the freedom movement is scattered, divided, and hard to plug into. And honestly, that’s not wrong — that’s a valid feeling. What makes Counterforce Alliance different is that we’re not here to add more noise or division. There are plenty of other freedom-minded networks out there, and most of them are just talk or meme-lording — let’s create another meme, that’ll do it. Whereas we build, we empower, we unify, and we intentionally stay away from things that pull us apart and divide us, things like politics and headline news and labels. Instead, we focus on what actually brings people together, which is a shared pursuit of liberty and real, practical solutions. We don’t try to lead for you, we help you lead. And we believe the future of freedom doesn’t come from the top down — it comes from you stepping in, taking action, and leading change in your own life and community. We are here to create a space where leaders and groups can collaborate and grow, and we do that by focusing on what truly matters: personal sovereignty, local resilience, and collective freedom. Because this isn’t just another movement. It is a space to actually build something real together.Our community framework — so, how does Counterforce facilitate action? What does the Counterforce community look like in practice? Think of Counterforce as the missing infrastructure, the framework that helps people move from being aware, to connected, to actually taking action. Because the goal isn’t just to inform people — we all know we’re well aware of the problems — it’s to help us build together. And we do that in a few key ways. First, through our local liberty groups, so that people can connect in their own communities, not just online, and turn shared values into relationships and action. Then we have our task force teams, which are focused, collaborative spaces where people come together around specific initiatives and actually get things done. Imagine that. And lastly, we have liberty leadership, giving people the tools, support, and training to step up with confidence and lead in a way that’s sustainable. And all of this is designed to answer that core problem we’ve been talking about: to make sure that no one has to figure this out alone and no effort is wasted.So, our community framework — what does this actually look like on the ground? At the heart of Counterforce is our community framework, and it starts with local liberty groups. These are dedicated spaces where people can actually connect in real life, not just online. I know those in our community value their online privacy, as we all should — that’s really important — but at some point we have to step away and step out from behind the shadow of anonymity, so that we can take the next step of meeting people in real life. We need boots on the ground, so to speak. And this is where, in real life, you can organize, communicate, share resources, plan events, and most importantly, build real relationships with people in your community who care about the same things. Because that’s where trust is built. That’s where the momentum begins. And the beauty of these local liberty groups is that they’re not one-size-fits-all. There are lots of different things you can do with them. These can be social, bringing people together casually for fun meet-and-greets; interactive, centered on discussion and collaboration; educational, sharing knowledge through talks and lectures; or hands-on, building real-world skills or working on local projects. It’s going to evolve naturally as you grow, based on the people, the needs, and the energy of that community. Because we’re not a top-down organization, it’s decentralized. We’re not trying to force a structure onto people or groups, we’re just creating a framework that allows something real to grow. And one example of that is the San Diego Freedom Alliance, which is one of our own local liberty groups. It’s kind of the basis, the genesis, the catalyst of what prompted this whole Counterforce Alliance movement — the success that they’ve had in San Diego organizing their group. They started off as maybe a dozen or a couple dozen people, and they’ve swelled to almost triple digits. They’ve done that by bringing in speakers and hosting conversations on everything from digital privacy, to having people from the Weston A. Price Foundation come in and talk about health and nutrition, to developing real-world activism strategies and doing activism efforts in San Diego. And beyond just activism efforts, it’s about personal growth and development too. They’re offering life-path courses to help people find clarity, purpose, and direction. And they’re also developing practical skills, like time management. So it’s not all heavy. They also intersperse that with fun things, like movie matinees, community gatherings, beach barbecues, shared experiences, and real connection. Because that’s the point. This isn’t just about information. It’s about building relationships, skills, and momentum in a way that actually sticks.Focused activism. So beyond the local liberty groups, our other secret weapon is our task force teams. And this is where connection starts to turn into real, focused action. Our task force teams are built around specific issues, so people who care about the same thing can stop working in silos and start collaborating. Whether it’s digital privacy, food independence, flock camera surveillance, alternative energy, or emerging issues like data centers and water rights — and that’s a big one, that’s a buzzword these days, these AI data centers — each team has a dedicated space to share research, resources, ideas, and most importantly, coordinated action steps. I’ll give an example. I’m in Florida, the quasi-free state of Florida, at least. What we did last year was make a concerted effort on getting fluoride out of the water in Florida. It started off locally, where we would show up to local city council meetings and commissioner meetings and petition them to start getting fluoride out of the water. That was spurred on by some of the work and attention that RFK Jr. brought to it and his role in the White House, and that helped build some momentum. We were actually having success at that. We were having these county commissioners and city councils start to vote to remove fluoride from the water. That compounded into being able to put forth a bill in our legislature to get the fluoride out of the water at a state level, and ultimately that passed and was signed into law by Governor DeSantis. So this is something that you can replicate on a state-by-state basis. Hey, we’ve had some success there — how can we take that success and let other people know about it? And that’s how we can use these task force teams, so that nobody has to figure it all out on their own. They can take something like Florida and use it as an example and a blueprint, figure out what’s working and what’s not working, which arguments are more persuasive than others. Because that’s one of the biggest gaps we’ve seen: people are working on the same problems, they’re just not working on them together. So the task force teams change that. They bring alignment, clarity, and momentum to making headway on some of these efforts, so the effort is not duplicated, but multiplied. And that’s just the beginning.But wait, there’s more. So, from connection to impact. This is where everything starts to come together. Our task force teams don’t just organize ideas, they create real connections between people who are ready to act. And when the right people find each other, things start to move. We’ve already seen this in our Counterforce Alliance community. About a month or two ago, we had a live stream with Brendan Trachsel of Flock Out of Flag, which is an initiative to get flock camera systems out of Flagstaff, Arizona. And he was successful — they actually got them removed. He gave us a great presentation on the step-by-step actions he took to get those flock camera systems out of Flagstaff. And after that live stream, which is on our platform too — you can view it on our platform — we were able to help connect Brendan with a university student at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. And that connection is already turning into action on their campus to push back against flock camera installations. So that’s how this grows. It’s not a top-down effort, it’s through aligned people finding each other, sharing strategies, and stepping forward together. That’s how we make a difference and have an impact. And the great thing is that that’s just the beginning. So, piggybacking off of that, building the momentum with the flock camera systems, this summer we’re actually going to be actively working to find and connect other student-led groups and local efforts to stop flock at colleges and universities across the country, so that no one is operating in isolation and every effort becomes part of something bigger. Nobody’s starting from square one. We can collaborate and communicate with each other about how we can carry this momentum forward. And that’s what Counterforce Alliance is here for — not just for sharing information, but for helping activists find each other and build something real in the real world.Stepping into leadership. So this is where it becomes personal at Counterforce. We’re not just here to connect people, we’re also here to help people step into leadership in their own communities. One of the misconceptions about leadership is that it’s about having all the right answers. It just means someone who’s willing to take responsibility for the next step. And the way we support that is through real, practical training — things like how to facilitate a group, how to set expectations, how to delegate and sustain momentum over time. We’ve got courses that are going to help you learn how to do all that. We also provide courses and tools to help you grow in communication, organization, time management, and advocacy, so you’re not just guessing your way through it — you’re supported all the way. If there’s something you don’t know how to do, or maybe you’re a little bit weak on, we’ve probably got a course on it, or we’re creating a course to help you figure out how to do it. But importantly, while all those leadership skills are important, they don’t mean anything if we don’t have the proper value systems to carry them out. So we need to act with integrity. We’re teaching about personal responsibility, truth, and service to others, because those are really the foundations of any free society and the kind of leadership that actually lasts. It doesn’t mean anything to achieve our objectives if we do it by throwing people under the bus and hurting other people. That’s not what we’re about. It’s about how to act with integrity while making headway and momentum for freedom. At Counterforce, we don’t lead for you, we help you lead. And we give you the structure, the support, and the tools to help you step forward and lead. Because at the end of the day, Counterforce was born out of a need for real leadership, direction, and focus, and it grows through people who care about their communities and are ready to take action together.All right, now, there might be some of you on the stream who are already leading. If you’re already a leader, great — that’s awesome, congratulations, thank you for stepping up. So this is where Counterforce becomes a force multiplier for what you’re already doing. If you’ve already taken the step to show up, already taken the steps to organize something and carry responsibility, we’re here to support you and to help you do it more effectively and sustainably. For those who are already leading a local group or specific initiative, we provide you with training that will help you become an even more effective leader and activist, to arm you with the tools, strategies, and skills to keep your group growing and become more resilient. So you’re not just working hard, you’re working more strategically — work smarter, not harder, right? You’ll also be able to connect with other leaders on the network, so you can exchange strategies, resources, and experience with others who are leading alongside you. As a liberty leader, you’ll be provided with the structure needed to be more successful: a dedicated and customizable space on our network to manage your group, including features such as an event calendar, forums, file sharing, members directory, alerts, reminders, and more. You’ll get one space for your local group, and you’ll also get up to two task force team spaces to address specific issues or solutions you are focused on. Because leadership shouldn’t feel like you’re holding everything together on your own. It should feel supported, connected, and built to last.Our collective impact. All right, what it’s all about here at Counterforce Alliance — our mission is to empower you. Everyone has something unique to offer. Your voice matters. Your skills, your talents, your perspective — they matter now more than ever. And what matters most is choosing not to retreat, not to feel defeatist, not to get blackpilled, but to participate, to step up, to step in and build alongside others who care. Different people, different strengths, coming together with a shared purpose for freedom. And together, we create something far more powerful than any of us could do alone, because it all starts with you.So, some examples of taking action. Action doesn’t have to be big to be meaningful — I think that’s a misconception, and it’s another one of those things that causes hesitation, thinking that in order to be meaningful we have to do something like take down Klaus Schwab at the WEF. I know he’s already been taken down, but that’s just an example. We don’t have to be toppling world leaders in order to take meaningful action. Small actions are just as important. And those small actions can look like things such as supporting a local co-op, growing your own food, bartering for goods and services, showing up to a task force, or simply starting conversations in your community. These are some of the simple, tangible steps that people can take that really make a difference. They really matter, because real change isn’t built on one big moment. And I’ll put this in a quote. If anyone’s ever read The Hobbit by Tolkien, there’s a great quote from Gandalf the Grey, and he says: “Some people believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I have found. It is the small, everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.” And that’s exactly what we can accomplish through our Counterforce Alliance community.So, moving from isolation to connection, as we close, I want to come back to where we started: that feeling of isolation. If you’ve ever felt like you’ve been carrying this alone, you’re not alone. I’m here to tell you that you’re not alone. Your skills, your voice, your perspective — they’re all needed now more than ever. And Counterforce exists because freedom isn’t meant to be pursued alone. It’s built through connection, through shared effort, through small, steady steps forward. You don’t have to have everything figured out. You don’t need to lead tomorrow. You just need to take the next step. With Counterforce, that isolation becomes community, the hesitation becomes action, and individuals become activists and leaders. So if that resonates with you, we’d be honored to build alongside you.And there’s no time like the present, as they say. Our time is now. There’s never been a more important moment than right now. You can feel it in the air these days — the tension, the uncertainty, the sense that something’s not right. It’s tangible, it’s palpable. And despite all the promises, not much has truly changed, and if anything, many of our freedoms are slipping faster than we expected. At some point, we have to face reality: no one is coming to save us. Facts. And that’s not meant to create fear, but it is meant to create clarity. Because we’ve seen what happens when we’re unprepared, when we don’t have strong communities, coordination, or a plan. We talked about that with regard to the COVID response. Etienne and his group were prepared, but most of us weren’t. Most of us were the only sane person in an insane asylum, and that led to bad outcomes. And we can’t let that happen again. We can’t be caught unaware, stuck behind the eight ball again. So this is the moment to step forward, to find your people, to take action, however small it may seem. Because silence becomes consent. Every step towards freedom matters. The fear we feel comes from isolation, and the way we defeat that is through action. There is another path forward, and it starts with us. It’s up to all of us to decide what happens next.So, taking the next step. Are you ready to take action? Are you ready to get off the sideline and get into the game? Are you ready to stop being a keyboard warrior and put some boots on the ground? This is the one area where we want some boots on the ground. Yes, indeed. So if something you’ve heard today resonated, then this is your moment. We want you to join the Counterforce community. Start connecting, engaging, start building. Find a local group or start one. Join a task force that you care about. Step up where you can — every contribution matters. Just take the next step, because consistent, collective action creates real change. And if you’re ready, we’re here. We’re ready to build with you. Your next step starts here.So if you’ve made it this far in the presentation, we really thank you for sticking around. At this point, we are going to open it up to some Q&A. If there have been any questions put in the chat box, we’re going to go through those — we’ve been monitoring the chat. And if you haven’t, now’s your chance to put something in the chat box, maybe something like, what’s your biggest concern or question about our platform, or something personal, like, hey, I’m feeling hopeless or overwhelmed, how can this help? And then we’ll share openly from our side what we’ve learned and what we’re building. So we’re ready to have a conversation. I’m going to kick it over to John, who is the mastermind, the man with the plan, the genius behind all this madness. He and Christina are going to be taking questions and answering all your questions. So John and Christina, if you want to take it over from here.John: Hi everyone, thanks for joining us. I see a question here about whether or not we have any courses on freedoms. And yes, we have one in the works, and it’s very much in depth. I believe it’s going to change a lot of people’s minds, especially in regard to getting out of the left-right paradigm. Because we, as the Counterforce community, are very much focused on freedom, and party politics just isn’t working, as Etienne has been preaching for years now. So we’re just so happy that he’s brought us on board. And if there are any more questions, we’re here to answer them.Etienne: Hey, John, while we’re waiting for some questions to appear, could you go ahead and give everybody an overview of what you’ve been able to do in San Diego, some of the success that you’ve had, how that got started, and any best practices that you’ve seen be successful in your group — just a little bit about your group?John: Sure. Well, our group was started on the Freedom Cell Network, and it was during COVID, right at the beginning. It was actually started by another lady named Sherry. She had some issues in her family, and I just kind of took over to keep the group going, and I’ve been doing it ever since. She just said, John, you’re doing so good, just take over. I said, okay. So it’s been about five years. I do most of the speaking, we do lectures, we have guest speakers, we do some social events, and we just try to mix things up and keep it interesting. So we’ve grown over the years, and people are very happy with what we’ve done. So we’re trying to take what we’ve built over the last five years and get it out to the freedom community. But I’ve learned that keeping things focused on freedom and focused on alternative solutions — that’s what brings people together. We have all different types. We have the whole political spectrum in our group: Democrat, Republican, everything in between, everything outside of the box. They’re all coming to our meetings, they’re all friends, and they’re developing relationships. Some people have changed their politics over the years as we’ve gone through different courses and material we’ve presented. So it’s been a growing process for all of us, and I’m just excited to bring this to the world.Etienne: And I have been a presenter to the group, so I’m an example of those voices that you’ve been able to bring to the table. If somebody is thinking about doing this in their own community, what would you tell them? What’s the first thing they could do? What’s your best advice for somebody that’s sitting on the fence and would like to do this in their own community?John: Take our courses. Just kidding. So, start small, start with just your inner circle of friends. If you have no friends that are like-minded to start a group like this, you’re just going to have to go online and see if you can find those people. Go to Etienne’s local groups page, or come to our community, or Freedom Cells, and just try to find your tribe. But if you just start with two people, that’s enough. Just the two of you can meet in a coffee shop, and over time you’re going to meet other people and you can start growing your group. And eventually you can bring in guest speakers. You can mix it up by having social events. We have a Christmas party every year at a nice restaurant, and that’s always a blast. We invite musicians in our group to come and play. Just keep it, like Etienne said, keep it fun, keep it interesting, but you’ve got to keep the focus on freedom and working toward activism efforts too. Otherwise, it’s only a social event. We have members that are highly active in the local community, standing up against the flock cameras, 5G towers, and they’re very successful. So we take what they’ve done and we learn from them, and then we spread that knowledge to everyone else. And then they, in turn, take it to their cities and they can make things turn around for liberty.Etienne: Christina, do you want to chime in? Do you want to throw out your favorite suggestion for somebody that’s getting started, that wanted to put together a group in their city or town?Kristina: Yeah. First, I wanted to say what led us to this moment. When John and I first connected and started talking, it became evident very quickly that we both shared a similar vision of creating this way for people to come forward, connect with each other, become more self-reliant, learn the knowledge, learn the skills, get together, and pick their favorite issue and run with it. And I’m very passionate about this project, because I come from a small town, and I know what it’s like to wonder if you’re ever going to find support, if you’re ever going to find your tribe in a small-town community, especially where there just isn’t the numbers or population to support it. So if you’re listening to this and you join our community, we can set you up with your own space for your town, or your region, or wherever you are. And yes, start with a few friends. If not, you might have to start online and contribute to the freedom movement in that way until you can find your tribe that’s locally around you. But in the meantime, we’ve got plenty for you to do. If you want to join us, even small steps — there are ways to contribute to the freedom movement, whatever your skills are, whatever your talents are. We need you, because they’re going to move forward with their agenda. They’re going to keep moving forward as a united front, and we need to do the same. We need to get together. And maybe it isn’t going to be your friends — maybe you’re going to meet them later, once you start, once you create or facilitate a group. And then you post at the library, you post at the coffee shop: hey, are you guys concerned about this? Are you concerned about flock, about biometrics? Let’s get together, let’s talk about growing some food. This is what this is all about. We need to step forward in humanity. We need to step forward and take our rights back and start saying that we’re not going to take this anymore. And the way we do it is together, step by step, big steps, small steps, every walk of life. We need you, we want you to join us, and you’re more than welcome.Etienne: Well, thank you. Now, is there anything else that you guys — because we’re at the end of our hour — is there anything else that the Counterforce Alliance team would like for folks to know? Or anything that I forgot to ask you? Or anything else that we should cover before we close it out?Haley: I don’t know if we want to put the last slide up.It’s just got our QR codes for where people can find us and how they can join, and our invitation for action: the URL, counterforcealliance.com, and some QR codes that you can scan right now so you can join. It’s free to join, let’s put it that way. There are some membership tiers for those who want to be local liberty leaders and lead task force teams, but anybody can join the platform. And that’s the first logical next step that we want you to take for our movement. It’s not going to hurt you to just start connecting and meeting people and go from there. So, John, anything you want to finish off with about memberships or getting started?John: I think that one of our core philosophies that I didn’t mention is that we try to focus on people and the local needs. So if you’re starting a group or you want to start an effort, number one, focus on the relationships. That’s the most important thing. If you make it about yourself or your agenda, people are going to see through that. So if you keep it focused on the people you’re working with, it just creates a stronger bond between you. And also, as far as the group as a whole is concerned, keep it about what that area needs or what that area needs to focus on. If flock surveillance is a big issue in your area, then go after it, if that’s what everyone else is on board for. So just keep it about what the other people are interested in as well. You have to give and take. So it’s all about relationships. All right, I hope that helps.Etienne: Yeah, that was perfect. And I want to thank you guys. I want to thank everybody that joined us. And anybody that sees the live stream, please scan the QR code to get more information: CounterforceAlliance.com, artofliberty.org. You can find our list of liberty groups in your area at: ArtOfLiberty.org/Liberty-Groups/. And I hope everybody takes action. I hope everybody finds their tribe. And I hope everybody has an absolute blast with your new liberty friends and tribe. Thank you for attending. It has been our pleasure to put this together for you.CounterforceAlliance.comArtOfLiberty.org/Liberty-Groups/The Best “Go Paid” Deal on Substack! You Get REAL Stuff!!Go paid at the $5 a month level, and we will send you both the PDF and e-Pub versions of Etienne’s new book: To See the Cage Is to Leave It – 25 Techniques the Few Use to Control the Many and a coupon code for 10% off anything in the https://artofliberty.org/store/.Go paid at the $50 a year level, and we will send you a free paperback edition of Etienne’s new book: To See the Cage Is to Leave It – 25 Techniques the Few Use to Control the Many OR “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! OR a 64GB Liberator flash drive if you live in the US. If you are international, we will give you a $10 credit towards shipping if you agree to pay the remainder.Support us at the $250 Founding Member Level and get a signed high-resolution hardcover of “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! + Liberator flash drive + a signed high-resolution hardcover of Etienne’s new book: To See the Cage Is to Leave It – 25 Techniques the Few Use to Control the Many + everything else in our “Everything Bundle” of the best in voluntaryist thought delivered domestically. International pays shipping. Our only option for signed copies besides catching Etienne @ an event.The Best “Go Paid” Deal on Substack! You Get REAL Stuff!!

Kauffman causes more divide and conquer + Etienne’s Prescient 2024 Article: Libertarian Party Shoots Itself in the Foot… Again… at National ConventionEtienne Note: As part of our support of the Free State Project, we have been covering Jeremy Kauffman’s divisive tactics, most recently in our article: What is the Deal with the Free State PARTY in New Hampshire?Video: Jeremy Kauffman calls the Libertarian Party Convention attendees: “Freaks,” “Loser Apes,” “Dumb,” “Stupid” and “Theatre Kids” Kauffman is now back in the news dragging libertarianism in NH through the mud and causing division (Divide & Conquer) in the national Libertarian Party. One of his NHLP members, Andrew Allgood, was arrested for slapping a woman who threw some NHLP give-a-way brochures in the trash.NHLP member and Kauffman ally Andrew Allgood, giving Jeremy Seig Heil, Heil Hitler salutes during his speech. Allgood would later be arrested for slapping a woman at the convention.Allgood was also photographed giving Jeremy “Seig Heil, Heil Hitler” salutes while Jeremy was giving this talk. Jeremy was ultimately removed from the Convention by the Chair, trespassed and forbidden to return.For reasons we detail in my article: New Hampshire’s Free State Project – How Freeing a Single State from “Government” Could Free Us All, we believe that the Liberty movement in New Hampshire could be the most important avenue for widely exposing the illegitimacy and criminality of “government” nationally. We believe Jeremy and other agent provocateurs are sabotaging that movement by attempting to associate libertarianism and voluntaryism with racism, nationalism, conservatism, and other divisive ideologies while “dividing & conquering” the Libertarian Party in NH and nationally.This isn’t an endorsement of the Libertarian Party, to the contrary this is yet another example of how easy it is for monied interests to hijack and sabotage the easily rigged political process. See my recent article Thomas Massie’s Loss to AIPAC Funded “CIA Republican” Ed Gallrein Proves Elections Rigged & “Government” A Scam to understand how easy it was to get rid of one of the most popular Congressmen of this century.The members of the Libertarian Party should be focused on exposing the illegitimacy and illogical nature of “government” on its face which produces a “one-way revolution” as people understand the scam and abandon “The Most Dangerous Superstition.”Here is an article I wrote in 2024 pointing out the folly of the Libertarian Party and their well-meaning but misguided attempts at playing poker in a rigged game:Libertarian Party Shoots Itself in the Foot… Again… at National ConventionIs the LP Now Counter-Productive to the Goal of REAL Freedom?by Etienne de la Boetie2, Founder – Art of Liberty FoundationOriginally Published: June 3rd 2024In a previous life, I ran a successful national campaign for the Libertarian Party, helping a vice-presidential candidate win their nomination (LP vice-presidential candidates are elected, not chosen by the presidential candidate). My takeaway after the race was that the LP was at a dead end. The party was knee-capped by the election laws that favored the incumbent parties, making it essentially impossible for the LP to compete. I went on to work at a libertarian think tank in DC instead.Among other issues, the Libertarian Party simply can’t raise the money they need to wage a viable campaign. Back in my day, contributions were capped at $2300 before the primary and $2300 after the primary. That has now been raised to $3300 or $6600 across the entire cycle. So.. You can compete with Walmart, but you can only spend $6600 on advertising. Compounding the problem, the position of the Party was, and I assume it still is?, to reject taxpayer financing of campaigns on principle. This means that the incumbent parties get tens of millions of tax-payer financing while the LP candidate refuses to take taxpayer monies. Finally, the majority of the funds raised by the Libertarian Party itself usually go to getting ballot status in all 50 states, which entails having to pay professional signature gatherers $1-2 per signature to gather, in some states, 100,000 signatures JUST to get on the ballot.In the races for House and Senate, the incumbents have the ability to send their constituents hundreds of thousands of dollars in free advertising disguised as communications with constituents (known as the Franking Privilege… where the Congressman gets to mail free by putting their signature or “Frank” on the envelope instead of a stamp. Each Senator and Congressman has dedicated employees known as “Constituent Services” that spend their days solving issues that voters have with government bureaucracies at taxpayer expense, generating the incumbent “reciprocity” with thousands and thousands of voters each year that is impossible for challengers to replicate similarly. Finally, the incumbents have professional video studios, full time staff, drivers, and a variety of other tax-payer funded advantages over 3rd party opponents.Now, it appears the easily manipulated LP is being used, more often than not, to give small (l) libertarians a bad name. The party seems to have completely lost its way.Here are some examples:Inviting Former President Trump, who is responsible for Project Warp Speed, which conservatively killed between 13-20 million people globally and injured 1 billion, to speak at its national convention… Where he mocked them for their 3% of the vote. – Which genius at the national LP made the decision to associate a criminal with the Libertarian Party?Nominating Chase Oliver, a former Democrat who supported masks, transitioning kids, and men in women’s sports as their Presidential candidate, making a mockery of libertarians everywhere. If you hadn’t figured out by November of 2020 that “The Covid” was a scam, you don’t deserve to be running for dog catcher.Resorting to deceptive fundraising tactics where the national leadership attempted to capitalize on the popularity of individual LP presidential candidates to fund the national Party when some candidates openly disagreed with the National Party and openly objected to the Party fundraising on their name.While there are many good folks in the Libertarian Party who use the political cycle as an opportunity to discuss small (l) libertarian solutions and political philosophy with their neighbors and town, I am starting to believe the LP is doing more harm than good for a number of reasons.The LP legitimizes the easily rigged political process, the concept of “government” itself, and the illegitimacy of voting in obviously rigged elections with unauditable black box machines and mail-in ballots. – In “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed, I argue that it is impossible to logically and morally have a legitimate government as it is impossible to delegate rights you don’t have yourself to a “representative” or a “government”; you can’t be bound by a social contract you didn’t sign, and if my girlfriend and myself can’t vote that you have to give us all your money because there are two of us and one of you, then no additional extra people make that legitimate.The LP, by participating, is essentially legitimizing the idea that the criminals in Washington DC get to rule us because 4-5 dozen slave owners on a continent of three million people got together in a room and wrote down on a fancy piece of paper that they alone get to make up rules for everyone and steal the wealth of others.The LP is easily hijacked by fake libertarians like Bob Barr, Bill Weld and Nick Sarwark AND/Or embarrasses libertarians everywhere by its ridiculous candidates, some of whom may be controlled opposition. Some recent examples include a candidate for national chair, James Weeks, who stripped down to a thong during the nationally televised convention in 2016 or the fact that two of the 2020 presidential candidates campaigned in costume headgear, including “Vermin Supreme,” who wore a boot on his head and promised voters ponies.The LP doesn’t advocate for things that would actually help the situation OR define REAL Freedom and the differences between them and statist politicians – If the LP’s presidential candidates were intellectually honest, then they would openly state that political authority is illegitimate. They would explain the moral and intellectual case for REAL freedom and campaign as Privaticians who pledge only to use “government” power defensively to protect lives, liberty and property, NEVER to steal and redistribute.The LP’s candidate should be running on a platform of a peaceful dissolution of the US federal “government,” which are issues that a sizeable majority could get behind and would, in my opinion, result in tens of millions of legitimate “earned media”There are better things that Libertarians Could be Doing with their Time and Treasure – Yes, I agree that the good folks in the LP are effecting some amount of change by talking about small (l) libertarian solutions and explaining how the free market delivers the goods BUT there are other organizations that are doing a better job including:The Advocates for Self-Government—Instead of door-knocking for a candidate who won’t win, man an Operation Politically Homeless booth at a fun event in your community. You can explain libertarian ideas and introduce the Advocates’ website and video channel of freedom resources.The Art of Liberty Foundation – Our humble effort is to widely expose the illegitimacy of “government” on its face and open criminality. We are producing a “one-way revolution” as people realize HOW they have been tricked into supporting statism. Make censorship-proof, “sneaker-net” Liberator flash drives for free with the PDF of “Government”- The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! for your friends, family and colleagues OR Print and distribute our flyer asking your neighbors not to vote to rob their neighbors and explaining the scam of “government.”The Foundation for Economic Education – FEE’s mission is to inspire, educate and connect future leaders with the economic, ethical and legal principles of a free society.The Mises Institute – The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. RothbardThe White Rose – The White Rose is an international group of activists that make pro-liberty, anti-lockdown, anti-covid stickers available globally for gas pumps, bathroom doors, airports, and police cars. The campaigners make a file of stickers available for free, and anyone with a low-cost Brother QL 800 label printer (~$100 new or $40-$60 used on E-bay) can print cool, hard-hitting stickers at a very low cost. They also distribute free stickers worldwide via postal mail (follow the directions on their Telegram page to get yours). The stickers are distributed in bulk at liberty events like Porcupine Freedom Festival, Jackalope, FreedomFest, The Rainbow Gathering, and others! They have stickers that promote “Government”- The Biggest Scam in History Exposed! and the Art of Liberty Foundation makes a series of free POSTERS available that expose organized crime “governments”About the AuthorEtienne de la Boetie2 is the founder of the Art of Liberty Foundation, and the editor of the Art of Liberty Daily News on Substack and Five Meme Friday, which delivers hard-hitting voluntaryist memes and the best of the alternative media. He is an internationally recognized expert and speaker on voluntaryism and government illegitimacy, criminality and corruption. His original writings and research can be found at ArtOfLiberty.org and ArtOfLiberty.FoundationHe is the author of To See the Cage Is to Leave It – 25 Techniques the Few Use to Control the Manywhich exposes an inter-generational psychological operation by the “government,” Hollywood, and the monopoly media to indoctrinate the population with the pseudo-religion of Statism using dozens of unethically manipulative techniques ranging from subliminal content in television programming to a hidden curriculum in the mandatory “government” schools, scouting, and police/military training.He has also authored: “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! which breaks down how inter-generational organized crime centered around banking and central banking is robbing and controlling the population using the technique of “government” with puppet politicians and monopoly media/academia. His upcoming book: Voluntaryism – How the Only “ISM” Fair for Everyone Leads to Harmony, Prosperity and Good Karma for All! explains how REAL freedom (voluntaryism) can provide all the legitimate non-redistributive services provided by “government” without the waste, fraud, abuse, indoctrination and extortion.About the Art of Liberty FoundationA start-up public policy organization: Voluntaryist crime fighters exposing inter-generational organized crime’s control of the “government,” media and academia. The foundation is the publisher of “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed!- How Inter-Generational Organized Crime Runs the”Government,” Media and Academia.We publish The Daily News, a free survey of the best of the alternative media, censored videos, and documentaries, and the Daily News Digest, a once-per-day-summary of the Daily News as a premium service for paid subscribers of any Art of Liberty Foundation Substack and Five Meme Friday- a free weekly e-mail or Telegram summary of the best of the alternative media, censored truth videos, and at least five hot, fresh, dank liberty memes every week, and “Government,” Media, and Academia Exposed!- A Telegram summary of the best mainstream and alternative news stories proving our thesis that all three are being hierarchically controlled by inter-generational organized crime interests. The Best “Go Paid” Deal on Substack! You Get REAL Stuff!!Go paid at the $5 a month level, and we will send you both the PDF and e-Pub versions of Etienne’s new book: To See the Cage Is to Leave It – 25 Techniques the Few Use to Control the Many and a coupon code for 10% off anything in the https://artofliberty.org/store/.Go paid at the $50 a year level, and we will send you a free paperback edition of Etienne’s new book: To See the Cage Is to Leave It – 25 Techniques the Few Use to Control the Many OR “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! OR a 64GB Liberator flash drive if you live in the US. If you are international, we will give you a $10 credit towards shipping if you agree to pay the remainder.Support us at the $250 Founding Member Level and get a signed high-resolution hardcover of “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! + Liberator flash drive + a signed high-resolution hardcover of Etienne’s new book: To See the Cage Is to Leave It – 25 Techniques the Few Use to Control the Many + everything else in our “Everything Bundle” of the best in voluntaryist thought delivered domestically. International pays shipping. Our only option for signed copies besides catching Etienne @ an event.