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from Iron Mountain and I were in the summary and conclusions and recommendations phase,

but I was reading over the weekend.

I mean, let me just give you this little.

Alternative media, conspiranoia, whatever, has really jumped the shark. Check this out.

There was a pullout in the Wall Street Journal this weekend, Saturday. I don't like to read the newspaper on Saturdays, but I was talking to Weezy, and I thought, I ought to brush up on the news. And an entire pullout. Front page headline, huge

picture, Tim Poole, inside a full page, full page article. I mean, that's a lot. It's a lot of words on the Wall Street Journal.

So many things caught my eye, but I'm not going to talk about them all now.

But one thing that really caught my eye relevant to our conversation here is one of the recent episodes we talked about,

I've mentioned it probably more than once because I remember like the wheels turning when I first heard this, they said something like if we have or threatened

to have an international police force, people will have loyalty to local government or the nation

state or whatever. And I thought that was so interesting

that like our fear of world government is like what's standing between us and anarcho-capitalism,

but also anarcho-capitalism is probably set up a stepping stone to world government. I mean,

it's quite clever. And it's definitely true.

I think I talked about watching Mr. Robot and right out of the gate. It said that, like,

it revealed a conspiracy. The Corpo governmental continuum. We're like, oh my gosh, this is how

you get people like being loyal to, to, well, I would be loyal

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