Jason Christoff Exposes How Organized Crime Hollywood Runs Mind Control on the PopulationJason Christoff’s new documentary Planet Mind Control exposes how modern society is submerged in a mind control system designed by ruling groups to undermine human sovereignty. Utilizing the “monkey see, monkey do” psychology, mainstream media and film act as vehicles for subconscious imprints or repetitive suggestions that shape behavior without conscious detection. The documentary breaks down how the subconscious processes millions of pieces of data per second and does not distinguish between reality and fiction, allowing media content to function as a direct download program into our psyche.A primary pillar of this manipulation is the normalization of toxic substances, specifically alcohol and toxic coffee. Alcohol is presented as an accepted ritual of self-destruction, while coffee is identified as the number one media programming tool in Hollywood. Christoff argues that coffee acts as the modern-day “Soma”—the social control drug described by Aldous Huxley—causing a reduction in blood flow and oxygen to the brain by up to 40%. This state of “slow-drip brain starvation” makes the population more docile, anxious, and easier to govern.The documentary redefines the term government from its Latin etymology (gubernate and mens) as the act of “controlling the mind.” It posits that educational institutions and low-cost or free media exist because the user is the product, designed to be kept in a state of mediocrity and infantilization.What the Documentary Left Out – The Brute Force Manufactured Consensus of Statism & Nationalism.. The Artificial Tribe.While the documentary, breaks down the “Big Three” subliminal “product placements” of coffee, alcohol and beta male patterning, the “Brute Force Manufactured Consensus” of the indoctrinated pseudo-religions of Statism and Nationalism might be a close runner up or even tied.Everyone born in the United States isn’t a free and independent human being… they are an “American” and “It’s Been Decided for You.” I break down the unethically manipulative techniques that the organized crime “government” and media use to create this artificially, indoctrinated religion of Statism in my book: To See the Cage is to Leave It – 25 Techniques the Few Use to Control the Many, but Jason Christoff does an amazing job at explaining the specific science about how and why the organized crime monopoly media product places the specific toxic substances and ideas into our psyche. Take a look below at the specific explanation from the movie on the science and then think about the dozens and dozens of “product placements” of the American flag into movies and tell-a-vision shows. The short 8 minute video below documents 469 product placements of the American flag in just 12 Michael Bay movies.Short 8 minute video revealing 469 “Product Placements” of the American flag in Just 12 Michael Bay movies to trick the audience into personally identifying with the “country” the artificially created “tribe” so the public can be controlled and tax farmed by the acceptance of that 100% completely indoctrinated system.Jason Christoff describing the “Brute Force Manufactured Consensus” Process That Tricks You into Accepting the American “Tribe”As Howie Mandel picked 04:00 on the watch and as Howie Mandel drew the sun, all because the number four and the sun symbol were repetitive in his environment, his body was only doing what it was designed to do, which is to keep him safe and bonded with the bigger herd. This may sound odd, but with the five repetitive fours in play, Howie Mandel’s nervous system was tricked into believing that he had now come into contact with something you could refer to as a “four tribe.” If your body believes you’re in a four tribe and you’re asked to pick a number between one and twelve, picking the four means you’re most likely to bond and find favor with the new four tribe you’re sitting in and hopefully the tribal elders as well.Whatever environment you’re in, it’s just best to blend in the most efficient way possible in order to increase your chances of survival. If you flash the gang signs of the tribe you’re hanging out with, it’s no guarantee that they’ll accept you, but it does tip the odds in your favor. The same exact thing happened within Howie Mandel’s nervous system when he was asked to draw a picture directly after being exposed to six consecutive sun symbols. His body believed he was sitting in the middle of what you can describe as a “sun tribe” and that flashing tribal gang signs would help him bond and find safety with the bigger group. We all do it. It’s not a malfunction, and that’s why the studio audience on America’s Got Talent all drew the same sun symbol when exposed to the same environment as Howie.“Sometimes a mind control program can be so effective at changing people’s perceptions regarding what is normal, it can feel like there is no way back. Once the repetitive content of any environment hits a very particular repetition threshold, that manufactured belief or behavior can reach what I refer to as “Kevlar-level strength” mind control. At that point, it becomes “just the way things are” and “just the way we do things around here,” and people generally can’t comprehend a life without that particular belief or behavior being constant in their lives.”What Is the Behind the Paywall Today?The Complete TranscriptAnother short 9 minute film showing Hollywood’s persistent, demonization of the Arab people. Out of 1000 films that have Arab & Muslim characters (from the year 1896 to 2000) 12 were positive depictions, 52 were even handed and the rest of the 900+ were negative. Why would the Central Bankster-owned media relentlessly demonize the Arabs for decades? Islamic Banking forbids Usury and the charging of interest for loans and to set us up for the wars we are in today.The Link to the Folder in The Liberator with even more examples of Hollywood propaganda and programming used against the public.The Best “Go Paid” Deal on Substack! 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Using AI to Calculate the Cost to Society of Our Crooked Fractional Reserve Banking & Primary Dealer-Centric Monetary SystemBy Etienne de la Boetie2, Founder of the Art of Liberty Foundation, Anthropic’s Claude, and XAI’s Grok (Bitch-ass CIA Google Gemini refused to even speculate on our premise that fractional reserve banking was a criminal enterprise… I didn’t trust Open AI’s ChatGPT enough to even ask) Grok Vs Claude – How much has fractional reserve banking extracted from society in the US and globally from 1913 – 2025 and how much have the organized crime banks stolen through the process. Executive Summary – The organized crime banks appeared to have lobbied and bribed the “government” (and potentially installed and propagandized/indoctrinated/normalized a federal “government” in the United States) to allow them to engage in a financial scheme known as fractional reserve banking where they are allowed to create money out of thin air and loan it at interest even though the process is inflationary and steals the value of the money earned and saved by everyone else.This process has dramatically impoverished the average worker costing them, according to analysis done by the Grok and Claude AI models, between $500K-$1.2 million dollars over their lifetime vs. what they would have received through an honest non-inflationary monetary system. Under a gold standard system, workers could have done even better as the gold standard has been proven to be deflationary, reducing the costs of the luxuries and necessities of life year-over-year more fully transmitting the savings from innovations and productivity Improvements. The AI model predicts a lifetime delta across wages, savings erosion, inflated asset costs (housing, healthcare, education), and foregone compound purchasing power plausibly exceeds $2 million for a median worker.These losses includes the inflation/loss of purchasing power from excess money creation, the well recognized Cantillon effect of new dollars created being worth more to those who receive the funds first then losing value, and the compounding trap where worker must now borrow/borrow more to purchase assets and services driven up by inflation including housing, education, and healthcare.The system has simultaneously made the banks over $20 TRILLION dollars between 1913-2025 in 2025 dollars. It is an exorbitant privilege only afforded a favored few who are granted a “government” banking license. There is a 90-97% rejection rate in the US and European Union even after you meet the minimum reserve requirements of $10-100M dollars depending on your business plan/bank type.The System Has Many of the Hallmarks of an Organized Crime Partnership with the Federal Government and Monopoly Media/Academia.We believe these organized crime banks have used these “profits” in a variety of additionally criminal ways to both cement their exorbitant privilege and their hold on power including:Regulatory capture – On January 18, 2019 the Cambridge University Press published a stunning research paper from the Journal of Institutional Economics showing an amazing revolving door between regulators and the financial industry: The authors write: “Looking at the revolving door in the 20 biggest US diversified banks, we identified 304 revolvers, among which 155 are considered as prominent. These revolvers have undertaken 384 revolving door movements between public and private positions and vice versa, mostly undertaken between 1960 and 2015, corresponding to a total of 2,256 years of experience in public office.” This pattern is structural, not incidental. Consider the architecture of the capture: Timothy Geithner went from President of the New York Federal Reserve Bank directly to Treasury Secretary, then to Warburg Pincus private equity. Robert Rubin spent 26 years at Goldman Sachs, became Treasury Secretary under Clinton (where he repealed Glass-Steagall separating commercial and investment banking), then joined Citigroup’s board — a bank that immediately benefited from deregulation he championed. Hank Paulson was CEO of Goldman Sachs before becoming Treasury Secretary and administering the 2008 bailout that saved Goldman from its own bad bets. These are not anomalies; they are the system operating as designed. The revolving door is not corruption of the regulatory process — it is the regulatory process.Capture of the Economics Profession – 2015 EPI Report: ~30% top academics consulted for Federal Reserve. 2021 Stanford Hoover (Foote et al.): 42% of top 50 macro PhDs (1980s-2010s) held Fed research/staff roles. AEA 2023 Survey: ~25% of AEA members report Fed experience (consulting/visiting > full-time). The implications are profound: when virtually every prominent macroeconomist has either worked for the Federal Reserve, received Fed research grants, or depends on Fed data access for publication, the field cannot produce independent criticism of central banking. This dynamic was documented starkly in the 2010 documentary “Inside Job,” in which Columbia economist Frederic Mishkin — a former Fed governor — was shown to have been paid $124,000 by the Icelandic Chamber of Commerce to write a paper praising Iceland’s financial system shortly before its collapse. Mishkin had listed the paper on his CV as “Financial Stability in Iceland” but changed the title to “Financial Instability in Iceland” after the crash. The economics profession’s dependency on central bank funding is the primary reason mainstream economics has never seriously challenged the legitimacy of money creation ex nihilo.

Volume 2 explores The Zionists, The Freemasons, The Jesuits, The Jesuit-Mason Connection, Venetian Black Nobility, The Illuminati, The Dark Occultists, The Otherworldly Evil and SolutionsEtienne Note: I was one of the tail-gunners in the last episode of The Pyramid of Power dropping the good news message that so many people are realizing there is a pyramid of power! I also break down the “One Way Revolution” of the Art of Liberty Foundation’s work: Once you understand that “government” has been: “The Biggest Scam in History” and the basics of Voluntaryism – We don’t really need illegitimate, immoral, illogical and easily-rigged “government” and REAL freedom would result in more harmony and prosperity for the world, most people abandon the scam of “government” which is a revolution that is only going in one direction. Who do I think is on the top of the Pyramid of Power? I break it down in the article below, but the executive summary is its obviously the banks creating money out of thin air which has allowed them to buy the world with their little paper tickets and create/fund the front groups and secret societies that allow them to project power. Which banksters sit at the Apex? Follow the money and who is puppeting the US “government” and military. The Rothschilds established Israel for the reasons I speculate on in the article. They funded the early settlers, the Knesset (Parliament building) and supreme court. They bailed out Trump in 1991 during his last major bankruptcy. Israel has received over $300 Billion (2025 dollars) in “foreign aid” from the US since 1948.. Even more in “indirect” aid, intelligence sharing and schemes like giving them “obsolete” weapons like fifteen F-15 fighters in 1991 (we are still flying the F-15 today) and fighting their wars in Yemen, Syria, and now Iran. The current war in Iran is projected to cost the US as much as $200 Billion dollars in direct costs and higher fuel and shipping. You don’t see those kind of sums going to the Vatican, Jesuits, or David Icke’s Aliens 😉 Who Runs the World? – Organized Crime’s Front Groups & Secret SocietiesWho Are the World Economic Forum, The Council of Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, Freemasonry, Bohemian Club, Skull & Bones and the Bilderberg GroupAn Art of Liberty Foundation White Rose MUCHO GRANDE Poster of a 2010 visualization by the Fund to Restore an Educated Electorate. The chart shows multi-decade “penetration of the cabinet” and Presidency, Vice Presidency, Congress, CIA, FBI, Banking, Central Banking, Universities, and Unions of just three organizations that Jeffrey Epstein was a member of. When people ask me who runs the world, my stock answer is something along the lines of: It appears to be Rothschild and Rockefeller Banking/Central Banking interests who hijacked the world using a variety of front organizations, NGOs, intelligence agencies, banks, central banks, supra-national banking institutions (BIS, World Bank, Import-Export Bank, IMF, etc.) and the cartel companies and monopoly media organizations they stole with fractional reserve dollars the banks are allowed to create out of thin air by the organized crime “government”.People, companies and organizations are controlled using this network and C-level executives, NGOs, and media organizations are organized under the World Economic Forum and Council on Foreign Relations.Video: Compilation of Zionists and Jews in the Media/Social Media/Search Engines (Control-of-Perception), Pornography (Cultural Debasement), Banking/Central Banking (Theft through fractional reserve banking), and “Government”/Politics to the hip hop beat of “I’m Not White, I’m Jewish” by Matt Bar Mitzvah: https://www.bitchute.com/video/3QFDi4pY9ccl/Much of the network, especially fractional reserve banking, central banking, monopoly media, and technology (Talpiot program companies covered below), is Jewish/politically Zionist because Jewish Rothschild interests have disproportionally benefited from fractional reserve banking, including owning M. A. Rothschild & Söhne in Frankfurt (1810–1901), N M Rothschild & Sons in London, Banque Rothschild in Paris (1817–1981), which was nationalized by the French government but later replaced by Rothschild & Cie Banque in 1986. S. M. von Rothschild in Vienna (1820–1938) and C M de Rothschild & Figli in Naples (1821–1863, and the Bank of California in the US. It has also been reported they had an investment in National City Bank (later Citibank) through their agent Moses Taylor. Evidence suggests that the Rothschilds had a significant influence on U.S. banking through the Second Bank of the United States (1816), where foreign investors, including the Rothschilds, held substantial stakes​. Finally, the Rothchild network bought a 37% stake in Rockefeller Financial Services (now Rockefeller Capital Management) in 2012.The Rothchild network also figured prominently in the funding of Israel, we believe, as a political base of operations that gives their network “diplomatic” immunity and, in emergencies, safety from extradition from crimes committed in other parts of the world, and the ability for the entity to receive over $300 Billion in “foreign aid” from the US alone (Since 1948, adjusted for inflation) which is easily scammed by bribing and installing US politicians through AIPAC and Zionist-installed political puppets like Donald Trump.Donald Trump was bailed out by Zionist-connected Rothschild Inc. in 1991 during one of his six bankruptcies, was apparently swept up in the Jeffrey Epstein/Mossad “Brownstone Operation” blackmailing politicians and important people for Israel, was represented in Hollywood by Zionist Theatrical Agent Ari Emanuel (Brother of Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel) who helped raise Trump’s national exposure and “Create the Legend” of him as a successful businessman with NBC’s The Apprentice, and whose Presidential campaigns were primarily funded by Zionists, including Sheldon and Miriam Adelson who have contributed over $424,000,000 alone over three election cycles.The Republican Jewish Coalition and other AIPAC allies including Bernie Marcus and Paul Singer kicked in another $22-27 million (Estimates) and Susquehanna’s Jeff Yass kicked in $16 million.There were also what smelled like under the table payoffs to Trump like Zionist-connected Jeff Yass’s Susquehanna investing significantly in Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social when the company had lost $49 million in the nine months of 2023 through September while generating just $3.4 million in revenue. For 2025 the revenue barely rose to $3.7 million while the losses BALLOONED to an astonishing $712.3 million.What have the Zionists received for their investment in Trump, Biden, and the majority of the house and senate? Maybe the greatest ROI in history!Trump increased direct aid to Israel from $3.2 to $3.8 Billion a year starting in 2019. Joe Biden, who has received over $11 million from Zionist interests since 1990, gave Israel an additional $16.3-$17.9 billion over the $3.8 baseline in 2024 which was distributed by Trump in 2025. The total cost in direct aid to Israel has been estimated to be over $300 billion since 1948 in 2025 dollars.Israel receives additional billions from a variety of programs including loan guarantees, joint R&D and co-production for major military programs including Arrow and David’s Sling, Intelligence Sharing and Joint Exercises. One of the biggest programs is the Excess Defense Articles (EDA) program which has transferred over $6.6 billion in allegedly “outdated” military equipment including 15 F-15s in 1991 (The F-15 is still being flown today…), 10 CH-53A Sea Stallion Helicopters, and over 1,000+ military trucks to name but a few of the transferred items.All of this “aid” pales in the cost and potential costs of the US waging war on Iran for Israel.Operation Midnight Hammer which hit three Iranian nuclear facilities on June 22nd, 2025 cost an estimated $2.25 billion dollars.The first three days of the war have been estimated at between $1.6 – $2.3 billion not including the three $100 million dollar+ F-15s shot out of the sky by “friendly fire” in Kuwait yesterday alone.The total estimated cost:Short-term projection (Trump’s 4–5 week timeline): $6–8 billion (at sustained ~$220 million/day rates), potentially higher if escalation continues.- iran-cost-ticker.comDirect budgetary cost (Pentagon/munitions replacement, per Penn Wharton model): $40–95 billion (likely midpoint ~$65 billion); rises sharply if the operation exceeds 2 months. – fortune.comTotal economic cost to the US (including indirect effects like higher oil prices, disrupted trade via Strait of Hormuz, and market impacts): Up to $210 billion (wide range; additional ~$50–115 billion beyond direct military).None of these estimates include the potential loss of a US aircraft carrier(s), support vessels, or the tragedy of the human lies wasted in foreign wars for an organized crime “government” bribing, blackmailing, and installing US politicians.The US Senate, of which Tim Sheehy is a member, is rife with politicians who have received tens of millions of dollars from Israel for their campaigns.The US House of Representatives has also apparently been funded and installed by Zionist Israeli interests.Both Senators and almost every single representative from California have taken money from AIPAC!If AIPAC-supported reps in the US House of Representatives were their own political party, they would be THREE TIMES as large as the Republicans and Democrats who refuse to take AIPAC money.The Same dynamic is in play in the Executive Branch, where Zionist funded political puppets like Trump and Biden appear to be forced to staff the most important positions in the cabinet, intelligence agencies, executive branch, regulatory agencies, treasury, and Federal Reserve Board with pro-Israel Zionist Jews. This is a RED FLAG LEVEL statistical improbability and not representative of the demographic makeup of the country, where Jews are around 2% of the population.The Jewish Staff from the White House alone during the Biden AdministrationThe State of Israel has also received billions in Holocaust Reparations from primarily Germany, which was most likely engineered through easily rigged political processes.Visualizations of Jewish Zionists Installed in Organized Crime Monopoly Media Companies by the Jewish Management Installed by the Fractional Reserve Bankers Providing Unlimited Capital to Monopolize the Media to Conceal the Theft of TrillionsThey elevate their own for the same reasons that the Italian mafia is overwhelmingly Italian and Catholic.It isn’t “The Jews,” it is inter-generational organized crime some of whom happen to be Jewish and elevate their own for familial and community relationships where the members are somewhat isolated and compacted into a group dynamic around their religion.This network is hiding within the Jewish people, but 99% of Jews globally and 90% of Jews in Israel have nothing to do with it, and the organized crime “government” of Israel is running the same unethically manipulative tricks on the Israeli population while forcing the same deadly and crippling “vaccines” while tax farming them with the same confiscatory taxation.Various other power factions run the gambit from old-line European royalty to “Big Tech” control-of-perception internet companies to Israel, China, Russia to the Vatican. The dominant US network is eugenics in outlook and goals because that was the belief system of the folks who created and funded the network (David Rockefeller, JP Morgan, Andrew Carnegie). Some of the greatest fortunes in history were left to foundations that continue their work and exercise influence in the network, especially the Rockefeller Foundation, Wellcome Trust, Gates Foundation, Carnegie Foundations and others.Iain Davis’s Policy Power Structure DiagramWhile it is impossible to know who is at the boardroom table because real power exercises itself from the shadows, you can SEE and understand the NETWORKs of people, companies and organizations through which that power is exercised. You can follow quid pro quo, understand how the money circulates through regulatory capture agencies and monopoly media companies.The key thing about these networks that are global and represent power centers and public/private intelligence networks around the world is they are all using “government” to rob and control their own populations. You might get a socialist “government” or commie “government” or “freedom government,” but you are getting “government,” and it is always being controlled by these inter-generational networks.In our article: Control of the Media and, by Extension, Human Perception we featured two 2017 charts showing how just three organizations, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberg Group, and the Trilateral Commission include in their membership the key publishers, editors, and journalists at essentially every major network, wire service, Hollywood studio, newspaper of record, internet publication, and other sources of “news” and cult-ure creation. Convicted pedophile and apparent Mossad asset Jeffrey Epstein was a member of all three groups and running an apparent blackmail operation on politicians and prominent individuals as another method of control.An Art of Liberty Foundation White Rose MUCHO GRANDE Poster of a 2010 visualization by the Fund to Restore an Educated Electorate. The chart shows multi-decade “penetration of the cabinet” and Presidency, Vice Presidency, Congress, CIA, FBI, Banking, Central Banking, Universities, and Unions of just three organizationsThe 2010 chart above shows how that control extends to everything from the Presidency, Congress, Judicial, IMF, CIA, FBI and other key positions of power. Here is a short primer on each of these organizations, plus others where organized crime recruits, trains, organizes and gets their membership together for meetings. Just because someone is a member of these organizations doesn’t make them a criminal. Many are recruited and found too honest/moral for the higher levels of the program or are dupes used as window dressing, I.E., “Porch Masons.” Some organization’s members also undergo classic, unethically manipulative cult indoctrination techniques to ensure their conformity to the required control/secrecy.A Popular Meme Calling out CFR Members in the “Government”The Council on Foreign Relations – “The Council on Foreign Relations is the American branch of a society which organized in England . . . (and) . . . believes national boundaries should be obliterated and one world rule established.” -With No Apologies by Senator Barry Goldwater, P. 126The Definitive History and Breakdown of the Trilateral Commission and their Interference in US Politics. Trilaterals Over Washington by Patrick Wood and Antony Sutton.The Trilateral Commission – was formed in 1973 by private citizens of Japan, Europe (European Union countries), and North America (United States and Canada) to foster closer cooperation among these core democratic industrialized areas of the world with shared leadership responsibilities in the wider international system. “The Trilateral Commission is international . . . (and) . . . is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States.” -With No Apologies, by Senator Barry GoldwaterA 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/Bilderberg Group – The Bilderberg is a quasi-secret consortium of international bankers, politicians, academics and business persons who meet annually to plan world economic and political policies. The Bilderberg has no membership per see, but attendees who have been invited by the steering committee sometimes year-after-year. American politicians routinely attend even though it violates the Logan Act prohibiting officeholders from conducting secret meetings where policy decisions are discussed and made.Freemasonry – Quasi-secret society that exists publicly, but its criminality and secrets are only revealed to higher-level members. All are bound to secrecy in a blood oath, and members work to advance each other in business and politics, especially the courts, police and local, state and federal governments. Created the 1st “gang sign,” the masonic “Hidden Hand,” found in tens of dozens of portraits and photographs of prominent masons, including those guilty of the murder of tens of millions through war and forced socialism/communism. IMPORTANT: We are not saying that all Freemasons are unindicted conspirators. Please see my joint article and interview with Mark Passio: An Open Letter to Freemasonry – It’s Time to Clean the Lodge!“Free Mason Lyndon Johnson appointed Mason Earl Warren to investigate the death of … John.F. Kennedy. Mason and member of the 33rd degree, Gerald R. Ford, was instrumental in suppressing what little evidence of a conspiratorial nature reached the commission. Responsible for supplying information to the commission was Mason, FBI Director and member of the 33rd degree, J. Edgar Hoover. Former CIA director and Mason Allen Dulles was responsible for most of his agency’s data supplied to the panel”.- From King Kill 33“Don’t Taze Me, Bro!” – Many people are familiar with the meme. Still, few understand that University of Florida Student Andrew Meyer asked “Democrat” John Kerry if he and “Republican” Presidential “opponent” George Bush Jr. were in the secret society Skull and Bones right before he gets arrested and tazed.Skull & Bones – Secret society at Yale University created and endowed by opium dealers (Russell Trust) that “taps” 15 new members of each junior class. Membership includes 3 US Presidents (Bush Sr., Bush Jr. and Taft). The 2004 Presidential election between Bush Jr. and John Kerry was between two members of an organization that has less than 600 living alumni at any one time. Heavily connected to the intelligence agencies.Bohemian Club – Famous for its roster of past US Presidents, power brokers and their Bohemian Grove retreat, where members encamp in a private, secure redwood grove in California for two weeks (3 weekends) in July and burn a child in effigy in an occult ritual known as “Cremation of Care.”World Economic Forum – The WEF appears to be an off-shoot of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), 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. The WEF appears to be a front for this network and the intelligence agencies. The WEF sits at the intersection of “government”, central banking, fractional reserve banking, and what appear to be companies that have been acquired and monopolized using money stolen through fractional reserve banking.The WEF is the newest front organization that provides organized crime interests the reason for large-scale meetings in secure facilities and provides a framework for organizing 1,000+ companies, NGOs, and media organizations.The WEF’s Young Global Leaders Program is a talent identification program for identifying, developing and integrating the next generation of political puppets, media propagandists, and corporate apparatchiks into key positions in the inter-generational organized crime system.Other Organizations, Companies, People and Groups of Interest:Pilgrim Society – Founded to foster Anglo- American relations between Great Britain and the United States, many believe it to be an organization that organizes Anglo control over its “former” colony.ISGP’s Superclass Index – mainly consisting of the closest friends of the late David Rockefeller, is by far the most important though. They have built and dominated this global network from at least the 1950s to the 2020s. Is this network still being wielded today? Was it used in the Covid?Supranational Top 400 – A list compiled by the Institute for the Study of Globalization and Covert Politics of the top individuals serving and participating in supra-national organizations like Bilderberg, the Trilateral Commission, United Nations, and participating in the control of “governments,” central banking, banking and other such activities. supra-national organizations engaged in color revolution, “democracy,” weaponized media, activist training or other “government” control techniques.Rhodes Scholars – Talent identification and scholarship program for Cecil Rhodes’ round table groups, Provides funding for college scholarships, stipends, and future network development. Many fundees go on to serve in “government” at top levels, and participate in CFR/WEF/Bilderberg/Trilateral conferences while advancing the network effect.Apparently, installed politicians include: U.S. President Bill Clinton, Bill Bradley – “Hall of Fame career in basketball before entering the Senate in 1978 and running as a presidential candidate in the 2000 primary. Also in 2000, Bradley was offered the chairmanship of the United States Olympic Committee, which he turned down. He currently is a member of the board of directors of the American Committee on East-West Accord.” Dean Rusk – U.S. Secretary of State from 1961 to 1969 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. James William Fulbright- elected to the House of Representatives in 1943, then served in the Senate from 1945 to 1974. Soon after, he established the Fulbright Program to provide grants for students and professionals to study, teach and conduct research abroad. To date, more than 400,000 individuals have received Fulbright grants., Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) Strobe Talbot – “Deputy Secretary of State from 1994 to 2001. Talbott was also president of the Brookings Institution — a Washington, D.C.-based political research facility that helped negotiate an end to the war in Yugoslavia in 1999. Talbott currently sits on the advisory board of the D.C. non-profit America Abroad Media.” and Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg (D) has been member.Journalists include: George Stephanopoulos, who was a former WH Chief-of-Staff as well.Covid 19 Participants: Tim Evans- former Rockefeller Foundation Director and Event 201 participantJohn Bell – UK Vaccine Task Force. He was interviewed by Jon Snow on Britain’s Channel 4 News on August 24, 2020[3], about when the COVID-19 Vaccine would be available. He replied that the vaccines might be available by Autumn but continued that “These [COVID-19] vaccines are unlikely to completely sterilize a population. They’re very likely to have an effect which works in a percentage. Say, 60% or 70%.”Dr. Michael Callahan – DARPA’s Man in Wuhan,Leana Wen – Covid “created legend” crisis actorControlled Opposition: Naomi Wolf- CEO of Daily Klout, Covid 19 Independent Investigation?Research includes excerpts from: 15 Famous Rhodes Scholars By: the Editors of Publications International, Ltd. | Updated: Jun 1, 2022Dual-Citizen Zionist Israelis – Political Zionists (Statists) invest in American politicians and media companies who lobby and vote for sending billions to Israel.The US currently sends over $3.8B a year to Israel (that is trackable and obvious and doesn’t include weapons transfers, sharing of intelligence, dual-use technology transfer, attacks by US on Israel’s enemies like Iran and Yemen, and other direct and indirect aid that is harder to track). The “aid” ballooned with an additional $17B in 2024 for a total of over $300B since 1948 adjusted for inflation.Trump has actually received over $400 Billion from Sheldon and Miriam Adelson ALONE over both election cycles (2016 & 2020).The red-flag statistically over-representation of Zionist/Jewish Staffers in Biden’s White House. All are, by definition, Statists as well.Talpiot Companies/CEOs – Talpiot program companies are spun out of Israel’s Unit 81, Unit 8200, or Technion, an Israeli research university. Talpiot companies appear to be overfunded to dominate key global telecommunications and cyber-security infrastructure junctures in key technologies that would allow electronic eavesdropping, firewall traversal, or provide actionable intelligence about who is talking to whom, such as telephony call detail records collected globally by suspected Talpiot program company: Amdocs.Fox News Reports on AMDOCS Spying on the USOther Talpiot companies, Zionist (Statist), dual citizen Israelis, and former Israelis that hold ownership and/or C-level executive positions at major telecommunications or cyber-security companies.Comverse Technologies – Makes eavesdropping equipment for the FBI and CALEA collections.RSA – Encryption technologiesCheckpoint Technologies- Top corporate firewall providerCyota- online security and anti-fraud solutions for financial institutionsGuardium – Database security, Amit Yoran BoDPtech – Michael Goff- Suspected in 9-11 false flagRADVision- Videoconferencing MCUs in corporate videoconferencing networksVidyo – Videoconferencing MCU in Google Video and HangoutsZoom – Oded Gal – Videoconferencing MCU in Zoom videoconferencing applicationUS Cyber Security Czar – Amit Yoran – Dual Citizenship Zionist IsraeliMarius Nacht – one of the co-founders of Check Point Software Technologies[10][11][12][13]Daniel Ramot, Oren Shoval – founders of Via[14][15][16]Assaf Rappaport, Ami Luttwk and Yinon Costica- co-founders of Wiz[17][18]Daniel M. Lewin – co-founder and CTO of Akamai, holder of two Technion degrees, was allegedly killed while resisting the hijacking of American Airlines Flight in the 11 September attacks on the United States.Yoelle Maarek – Research VP, AmazonJohny Srouji – Senior Vice President of Hardware Technologies at Apple Inc., reporting to CEO Tim CookYehuda and Zohar Zisapel – co-founders of the RAD Group, “fathers” of Israel’s hi-tech industrySayanim – Zionist (Statist) Jews living in other countries who can be counted on to assist Israeli intelligence agency operatives in that country even though the Israeli intelligence agencies have a track record of murderous corruption and criminality.Berggruen Institute – Claimed to be the new Bilderberg on their website and then took it down,Intelligence agency alumni (I.E. CIA Democrats) – being funded for Congressional campaigns.About The Author – Etienne de la Boetie2Etienne 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. He was also the author and principal investigator for the monographs: The Covid-19 Suspects and Their Ties to Eugenics and Population Control/Reduction and Solving Covid – The Covid 19, Eugenics, and Vaccine/Drug Scam TimelineAbout 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. You can read our 2023 Annual Report here.End Free PreviewWhat is Behind the Paywall Today?The high-res version of the Big Roundtable and Foundation Visualization. Who is creating these? Can we get that database?Our collection of visualizations showing the monopolization of everything from seed companies to beer/wine, meat packing, consumer goods, and defense contractorsFor More InformationThis article is an excerpt from the book: “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed!You can find part two of the series here: Control of Media and, by Extension, Human Perception.You can find Part One of the Series here: The Propaganda MatrixThe Pyramid of Power Documentary Series by Derrick BrozeYou can watch Chapter 17 Episode 1 AND all the previous episodes Here. 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Senator Sheehy is a Former “Beltway Bandit” and One of DOZENS of “Former” Intelligence Agency & Military Industrial Complex Operatives Apparently Being Installed in CongressAfter Brian McGinnis, a US Marine Veteran, stood up in an Armed Services Subcommittee hearing to announce that “No One Wants to Fight for Israel,” US Senator Tim Sheehy, a former Special Operations “Order Follower” turned “Beltway Bandit” who has received over $640,000 from AIPAC, tried to silence the Marine and appears to have broken the Marine’s hand trying to eject him from the hearing. Sheehy has, BTW, been accused of lying about being wounded in Afghanistan when he was actually wounded by a negligent, accidental firearm discharge in Glacier National Park in 2015. Sheehy is Illustrative of US Politicians Who Appear Installed/Bought Off by Organized Crime IsraelAt the Art of Liberty Foundation, our thesis is that “government” is best thought of as a technique for robbing and controlling populations. It is obviously illegitimate on its face and is being run as a criminal enterprise, with TRILLIONS of dollars flowing out the back door to identifiable interests. At the top of the organized crime pyramid is an inter-generational organized crime system centered around Rothschild banking and central banking interests, subsidiaries, and front organizations that is primarily Jewish for the same reasons that the mafia is primarily Italian and Catholic.We believe this organized crime system established Israel as a base of operations to give itself “diplomatic immunity,” safety from extradition in other countries, and the ability to receive hundreds of billions of dollars in “foreign aid” and repartitions where the US has provided over $300 billion (2025 dollars) since 1948 alone. The US, led by Zionist funded and installed political puppets, is now illegally engaged in a foreign war for Israel, where the ultimate cost to the US has been estimated at as much as $200 billlion in addition to the lives lost and potential for additional US deaths. Donald Trump was bailed out by Zionist-connected Rothschild Inc. in 1991 during one of his six bankruptcies, was apparently swept up in the Jeffrey Epstein/Mossad “Brownstone Operation” blackmailing politicians and important people for Israel, was represented in Hollywood by Zionist Theatrical Agent Ari Emanuel (Brother of Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel) who helped raise Trump’s national exposure and “Create the Legend” of him as a successful businessman with NBC’s The Apprentice, and whose Presidential campaigns were primarily funded by Zionists, including Sheldon and Miriam Adelson who have contributed over $424,000,000 alone over three election cycles. The US Senate, of which Tim Sheehy is a member, is rife with politicians who have received tens of millions of dollars from Israel for their campaigns. The US House of Representatives has also apparently been funded and installed by Zionist Israeli interests. Many of the Members Installed by this Organized Crime System have Dual-Citizenship and hold Israeli Passports so they can flee from extradition if exposed. If AIPAC-supported reps in the US House of Representatives were their own political party, they would be THREE TIMES as large as the Republicans and Democrats who refuse to take AIPAC money.The Same dynamic is in play in the Executive Branch, where Zionist funded political puppets like Trump and Biden appear to be forced to staff the most important positions in the cabinet, intelligence agencies, executive branch, regulatory agencies, treasury, and Federal Reserve Board with pro-Israel Zionist Jews. This is a RED FLAG LEVEL statistical improbability and not representative of the demographic makeup of the country, where Jews are around 2% of the population. The Jewish Staff from the White House alone during the Biden AdministrationWe believe these same inter-generational organized crime systems have used the unlimited fiat paper tickets they create through fractional reserve banking to buy up and monopolize the media. This keeps the theft of fractional reserve banking inflation and the transfer/theft of trillions of dollars out of the “news” while allowing organized crime to further influence the easily rigged political process. FL Congressional Rep and ex-casino exec Randy “The Hebrew Hammer” Fine, who has received almost $500K from AIPAC, was even caught illegally “Ghost Voting” for other members on a bill seeking to outlaw boycotts of IsraelInterestingly, Senator Sheehy is Also a “CIA Republican” and “Beltway Bandit”Please see our article: CIA Democrats (and Republicans!) – Are You Getting Your Politicians from the CIA, which breaks down how DOZENS of “former” intelligence agency and Military Industrial Complex officials, including Navy SEALs like Sheehy, who have likely had working relationships with the intelligence agencies, are apparently being funded for congressional races also at a RED FLAG statistically improbable-level. Sheehy was also a “Beltway Bandit,” the popular term for military-industrial complex contractors who make over-priced weapons systems used in foreign wars based on lies and manufactured intelligence. Sheehy is the founder of two “government” contractors: Bridger Aerospace and drone manufacturer Ascent Vision Technologies (acquired by defense contractor CACI). Interestingly, both companies have the 666 Masonic “gang sign” hidden in their corporate logos. Senator Tim Sheehy is worth $163.8M, as of January 25th, 2026. This is the 11th highest net worth in Congress and was reported to have made $12 million in stock market gains in January 2026 alone.BTW, the author of this article was raised in the Jewish faith, Bar Mitsvahed, now self-describes as monotheistic and spiritual, loves his family and the Jewish people and is not the least bit “antisemitic.” It’s not “The Jews,” it’s Jewish organized crime hiding within and exploiting the Jewish people and religion for selfish gain. About The Author – Etienne de la Boetie2Etienne 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. He was also the author and principal investigator for the monographs: The Covid-19 Suspects and Their Ties to Eugenics and Population Control/Reduction and Solving Covid – The Covid 19, Eugenics, and Vaccine/Drug Scam TimelineAbout 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. You can read our 2023 Annual Report here.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. 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Bio, Quotes, Memes, Rap Battles and a FREE Paperback Copy of the new book: Hayek for the 21st Century- Essays in Political EconomyThe Art of Liberty Foundation is honoring the Nobel Laureate F.A. Hayek, one of the most important economists to have ever lived, with a campaign that will both syndicate the new book: Hayek for the 21st Century – Essays in Political Economy and provide free paperback copies of the book to anyone who goes paid on our Substack as an annual member and/or orders anything from ArtOfLiberty.org/store. This introduction to F.A. Hayek includes his biography, memes, quotes, “Rap Battles” with economist Lord John Maynard Keynes, and the first installment of our syndication of Hayek for the 21st Century – Essays in Political Economy: The Introduction to the book by Thomas J DiLorenzo, President of the Mises Institute & Editor of Hayek for the 21st CenturyWe are also adding the full PDF of Hayek for the 21st Century to our uncensorable flash drive of Freedom: The Liberator. Biography F. A. Hayek’s life spanned the twentieth century, and he made his home in some of the great intellectual communities of the period.Born Friedrich August von Hayek in 1899 to a distinguished family of Viennese intellectuals, Hayek attended the University of Vienna, earning doctorates in 1921 and 1923. Hayek came to the University at age 19 just after World War I, when it was one of the three best places in the world to study economics (the others being Stockholm and Cambridge).Like many students of economics then and since, Hayek chose the subject not for its own sake, but because he wanted to improve social conditions—the poverty of postwar Vienna serving as a daily reminder of such a need. Socialism seemed to provide a solution. Then in 1922 Mises published his Die Gemeinwirtschaft, later translated as Socialism. “To none of us young men who read the book when it appeared,” Hayek recalled, “the world was ever the same again.” It was around this time that Hayek began attending Mises’s famed Privatseminar. For several years the Privatseminar was the center of the economics community in Vienna.Later, Hayek became the first of this group to leave Vienna; most of the others, along with Mises himself, were also gone by the start of World War II.At the L.S.E. Hayek lectured on Mises’s business-cycle theory, which he was refining and which, until Keynes’s General Theory came out in 1936, was rapidly gaining adherents in Britain and the U.S. and was becoming the preferred explanation of the Depression. Hayek and Keynes had sparred in the early 1930s in the pages of the Economic Journal, over Keynes’s Treatise on Money.Within a very few years, however, the fortunes of the Austrian School suffered a dramatic reversal. Mises left Vienna in 1934 for Geneva and then New York, where he continued to work in isolation; Hayek remained at the L.S.E. until 1950, when he joined the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Other Austrians of Hayek’s generation became prominent in the U.S. but their work no longer seemed to show distinct traces of the tradition founded by Carl Menger.At Chicago Hayek again found himself among a dazzling group. But economic theory, in particular its style of reasoning, was rapidly changing. In addition, Hayek had ceased to work on economic theory, concentrating instead on psychology, philosophy, and politics, and Austrian economics entered a prolonged eclipse.When the 1974 Nobel Prize in economics went to Hayek, interest in the Austrian School was suddenly and unexpectedly revived. Hayek’s writings were taught to new generations, and Hayek himself appeared at the early Institute for Humane Studies conferences in the mid-1970s. He continued to write, producing The Fatal Conceit in 1988, at the age of 89.Hayek died in 1992 in Freiburg, Germany, where he had lived since leaving Chicago in 1961.Among mainstream economists, he is mainly known for his popular The Road to Serfdom (1944) and for his work on knowledge in the 1930s and 1940s. Specialists in business cycle theory recognize his early work on industrial fluctuations, and modern information theorists often acknowledge Hayek’s work on prices as signals, although his conclusions are typically disputed. Hayek’s work is also known in political philosophy, legal theory, and psychology.Within the Austrian School of economics, Hayek’s influence, while undeniably immense, has very recently become the subject of some controversy. His emphasis on spontaneous order and his work on complex systems has been widely influential among many Austrians. Others have preferred to stress Hayek’s work in technical economics, particularly on capital and the business cycle, citing a tension between some of Hayek’s and Mises’s views on the social order.Hayek’s writings on capital, money, and the business cycle are widely regarded as his most important contributions to economics. Building on Mises’s Theory of Money and Credit (1912), Hayek showed how fluctuations in economy-wide output and employment are related to the economy’s capital structure. In Prices and Production (1931) he introduced the famous “Hayekian triangles” to illustrate the relationship between the value of capital goods and their place in the temporal sequence of production.In Monetary Theory and the Trade Cycle (1933) Hayek showed how monetary injections, by lowering the rate of interest below what Mises (following Wicksell) called its “natural rate,” distort the economy’s intertemporal structure of production. Most theories of the effects of money on prices and output (then and since) consider only the effects of the total money supply on the price level and aggregate output or investment.Hayek’s writings on dispersed knowledge and spontaneous order are also widely known, but more controversial. In “Economics and Knowledge” (1937) and “The Use of Knowledge in Society” (1945) Hayek argued that the central economic problem facing society is not, as is commonly expressed in textbooks, the allocation of given resources among competing ends.It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know. Or, to put it briefly, it is a problem of the utilization of knowledge not given to anyone in its totality.Clearly, the Austrian revival owes much to Hayek. He ranks among the greatest members of the Austrian School, and among the leading economists of the twentieth century. His work continues to be influential in business cycle theory, comparative economic systems, political and social philosophy, legal theory, and even cognitive psychology. Hayek remains one of the most intriguing intellectual figures of our time.Fear the Boom and Bust: Keynes vs. Hayek – The Original Economics Rap Battle!F.A Hayek vs. John Maynard Keynes square off in Fear the Boom and Bust – The Original Economics Rap Battle where Keynes, who advocated “government” action during periods of recession and depression and “wants to steer markets” squares off against F.A Hayek, who advocates for low taxation and savings-led investment by those who best understand their industries… Hayek “wants them set free” Full Lyrics Here: https://genius.com/John-papola-fear-the-boom-and-bust-hayek-vs-keynes-lyricsFight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek – Economics Rap Battle Round TwoFull Lyrics Here: https://genius.com/Econstories-fight-of-the-century-lyricsWhich way should we choose?More bottom-up or more top-down?The fight continuesKeynes and Hayek, second roundIt’s time to weigh inMore from the top or from the ground?Let’s listen to the greatsKeynes and Hayek throwin’ downIntroduction to Hayek for the 21st Century Introduction by Thomas J DiLorenzo, President of the Mises Institute & Editor of Hayek for the 21st Century The rest of Hayek for the 21st Century will be syndicated in the coming weeks. In a February 7, 2000, article in The New Yorker, journalist John Cassidy wrote that “it is hardly an exaggeration to refer to the twentieth century as the Hayek century.” He said this because of Friedrich Hayek’s prominent role throughout the century in defending free market capitalism and his critiques of socialism, especially his writings on the importance of decentralized knowledge in economic decision-making. Hayek lived to see his ideas proven correct with the worldwide collapse of socialism in the late eighties and early nineties. Watching the images of the collapse on television he said to his son, “I told you so.” The Knowledge Problem The “knowledge problem” is Hayek’s key contribution to the critique of socialism. It recognizes the commonsense notion that what makes the economic world go around is the use of knowledge by all kinds of people with diff erent abilities, educations, experiences, and skills. Th anks to this international division of labor and knowledge, we collaborate “as though led by an invisible hand” in order to mutually prosper. It all depends of course on freedom—the freedom to own property, to pursue a profession of your Introduction 7 8 Hayek for the 21st Century choosing, to start and run a business, to buy and sell, to be guided in your decisions by free market prices. By contrast, socialism in all of its varieties is based on the opposite idea—that what is supposedly needed for prosperity is totalitarian powers in the hands of a small number of politicians and “planners” who will forcefully impose a single plan on an entire society. Hayek labeled this “the fatal conceit” of socialism in his last book. Th e entire world now knows that he was right, and all of the socialist tyrants and their propagandists and court historians were (and are) wrong. Hayek’s “The Use of Knowledge in Society” and “The Pretense of Knowledge,” reprinted here, are the two best expositions of the Hayekian knowledge problem. Indeed, John Cassidy credited Hayek with providing an explanation of the workings of “the information age” of the internet that would develop some fifty years after he first started writing about the importance of decentralized information in society. Th is is not mere speculation on Cassidy’s part. As just one example, the cofounder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, claims to have gotten the idea for Wikipedia as an Auburn University undergraduate finance student aft er Mises Institute Research Fellow Mark Thornton got him to read “The Use of Knowledge in Society.” Hayek called free market capitalism guided by private property and free market prices a “telecommunications system,” which Cassidy suggested was “one of the great insights of the [twentieth] century.” Hayek’s Demolition of Socialists and Their Ideas Hayek wrote in a 1961 Southern Economic Journal article (“The Non Sequitur of the ‘Dependence Effect,’” republished here) that for over a hundred years socialists had argued that “the problem of production” had been solved, so that “only the problem of distribution remains.” At the time, the “latest form of this old contention” was in the form of numerous books by the socialist Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith, the best known of which was The Affluent Society. Galbraith argued in books and articles that all “essential needs” are already met, and that most of what people think are other “needs” are really fake needs created by the brainwashing effects of advertising. Only “innate” needs that we think of ourselves are useful, said Galbraith; everything else that is brought to our attention by others is therefore useless and wasteful. Therefore, the argument went, government should tax more and spend more for what it deems to be our genuinely useful needs. What is genuinely useful would of course be determined by politicians—presumably with the assistance of John Kenneth Galbraith.Hayek called this argument “a complete non sequitur.” It implies for one thing that “the whole cultural achievement of man is not important.” The only genuinely innate human needs, said Hayek, are food, shelter, and sex. Everything else is brought to our attention by someone. Hayek’s article is a complete demolition of the Galbraithian system and his life’s work of promoting what Hayek called increasing “the share of the resources whose use is determined by political authority and the coercion of any dissenting minority.” In 1949 Hayek authored “The Intellectuals and Socialism” in The University of Chicago Law Review. His argument is as relevant today as it was then—if not more relevant. Contrary to the common argument that “intellectuals” have little influence on day-to-day discussions about public policy, Hayek argued that “over somewhat longer periods they have probably never exercised so great an influence as they do today.” He pointed out that socialism was never a “working class” movement but was always hatched from the utopian dreams of “theorists” who spent 10 decades preaching their socialist utopianism in university classrooms and all throughout the culture. In many countries the result of this decades-long propagandizing for socialism was that the views held by socialist intellectuals became “the governing force of politics,” wrote Hayek. The “intellectual” spreaders of socialist ideas were not just academics but also “journalists, teachers, ministers, lecturers, publicists, radio commentators, writers of fiction, cartoonists, and artists,” among many others, including “scientists and doctors.” It is “the intellectuals in this sense who decide what views and opinions are to reach us.” Eventually, so many institutions are taken over by socialists that an intellectual who espouses the philosophical foundations of a free society, by contrast, “soon discovers that it is unsafe to associate too closely with those who seem to share most of his convictions and he is driven into isolation.” This sounds like a perfect description of today’s American university world. Nevertheless, all is not lost, Hayek concluded. What is needed is education about a classical “liberal Utopia” to counter the endless promises of socialist utopias—not a “diluted kind of socialism,” he wrote, but a “truly liberal radicalism” that does not pull punches to please any special interest group. Leave the compromising to the politicians, he advised. Hayek was relentless in his devastating critiques of socialism and interventionism, and nowhere is this more on display than in his essay “The Meaning of Competition.” By the 1940s the academic economics profession had adopted a straw-man argument version of competition. Rather than the Austrian School conception of competition as a dynamic, rivalrous discovery process, competition was newly defined as a static situation where “many” business firms all produced a homogeneous product and charged identical prices in a world where all market participants had “perfect knowledge” of everything—what consumers wanted, how to minimize costs and maximize profits, and so on. They called it “perfect competition.” In his essay Hayek explained that “‘perfect’ competition means indeed the absence of all competitive activities” because all of it—product differentiation, price cutting, mergers, advertising—was all assumed away by the perfect competition “model.” This method of analysis was later labeled a “nirvana fallacy” by UCLA economist Harold Demsetz. Positing a utopian never-never land and comparing it to the real world, and then condemning real-world markets as “failed” because they are “imperfect,” is one of the biggest hoaxes ever perpetrated by the economics profession. In “Choice in Currency” Hayek did not oppose government issuance of money but instead opposed governmental monopoly and governments’ “power to limit the kinds of money in which contracts may be concluded.” Competing currencies could be valued “in seconds” with “electronic calculators,” Hayek wrote, long before the invention of the cell phone. Competition in currencies would be the path to honest money, for “even the slightest deviation from the path of honesty would reduce the demand for their product.” It is little wonder that Hayek’s writings on competing currencies have become enormously popular among advocates of cryptocurrencies. Hayekian Political Philosophy Oddly enough, despite all of his contributions to economic science and his Nobel Prize, what Friedrich Hayek is most known for among the general public is his writings on political philosophy, in particular his infamous book The Road to Serfdom, a critique of collectivism in all its forms. Hayek did not distinguish between fascism and socialism, the former being just a variant of the latter, with a common hatred of private property, free enterprise, economic freedom in general, constitutionalism, and the rule of law. The most famous chapter of The Road to Serfdom is chapter 10, “Why the Worst Get on Top,” republished here. Since any kind of socialism requires a central plan for all of society, it also requires the use of massive governmental force (and censorship of critics) to implement the plan. Consequently, the kind of people who would rise to the top of such a system are those with the fewest qualms about coercing, imprisoning, and brutalizing (or worse) their fellow citizens, wrote Hayek. That is why, he wrote, “the practice of socialism is everywhere totalitarian.” Hopefully, this brief introduction has helped the reader to understand why the journalist John Cassidy was so inspired by the power of Hayek’s scholarship and writings that he made a case that the entire twentieth century (the good parts of it, anyway) should be thought of as “the Hayek century.” Ludwig von Mises was surely right when, he said that “Doctor Hayek . . . will be remembered as one of the great economists of all time”. Thomas J. DiLorenzo Quotes & Memes“From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time”― Friedrich August von Hayek, Constitution of Liberty“Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.”― Friedrich von Hayek“The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.”― Friedrich August von Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty