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Dr Mike Yeadon's avatar

This is ghoulishly clever. It took considerable imagination to even conceive of the design of the control system, let alone to begin to implement it.

The point about self maintaining structures through selection of leaders who can be relied upon to follow instructions. Personally, I feel sure that there is at least one other layer of control that isn’t described here.

Consider those who at some point realized that what was happening was tyrannical. Didn’t say anything while working.

But in actual or in semi-retirement, they could, like me, speak freely with only minor economic consequences (I was fired by my remaining consulting clients, biotechnology companies, presumably because I was judged to be a conspiracy theorist and therefore an unsuitable person to be advising the board or the CEO).

But look around. Can you find a single example of a recently retired, C-suite professional who is speaking out?

I don’t think there’s even a single example from any business sector, educational institutions or branch of public life.

ESC’s document here, which as a former executive, I would classify as a superbly written executive summary plus, provides examples of how those involved, or merely deeply aware, are effectively restrained from objecting, while working.

I do know that, even in retirement, many people are retained in various ways, such as an Emeritus professorship or a board consultancy, which pays generously yet requires little. In such circumstances, the threats may hold continuing leverage.

However, not everyone at senior level is paid into retirement and in any case, such monies are never life changing. Yet nobody speaks out.

I rather suspect that there’s another control mechanism. I’ve heard enough snippets to cautiously hypothesise that “kompromat” is required on senior staff, more senior than I ever reached (because never was it suggested to me that further elevation was available, subject to certain conditions being met). I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Epstein’s island or related activities didn’t play some role in this respect.

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KatWarrior's avatar

That is not an unreasonable assumption Mike. Whilst retired C-Suite folks may be acting a role on boards, a few very well may be subject to “certain” conditions. The remuneration subject to censoring language to the prescribed narrative. Not shocking or even surprising.

The truth is that people can be reasonably categorized into three columns. First, those that take action to preserve freedoms and speak out to expose the lies.

Second are those that know some (if not all) of the lies, but choose to “go along to get along.” I refer to them as the “fence-sitters.”

Third are those that completely buy into the lies, deceit, and propaganda-the walking dead or the sleepwalkers.

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Kaylene Emery's avatar

Don’t leave me out…drugged into stupor by a doc who convinced me that people are at heart …..well meaning!

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KatWarrior's avatar

No, They Are NOT!

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Renate Lindeman's avatar

The article is an amazing analysis of what is happening. But I too think there are other control mechanisms both at the top and at the bottom.

At the top, like you mentioned, there's perversion as a control-mechanism.

In the middle, like the article mentions: "Participants think they're being chosen for their talent, when they're really being chosen for their willingness to accept global coordination as inevitable and necessary." In other words: mediocre, non-creative, cogs in the technocratic model-based machine.

At the bottom, perhaps what is currently used in Gaza right now. If AI identifies you as a threat and a dissident, and economic sanctions do not work on you, then you're targeted for killing. Even in a small contained area like Gaza, people will notice and protest the brutal killings. On a world scale it will become increasingly difficult to control dissidents.

The uncontrollable may be send 'treatments camps' but sooner or later, it will dawn that these are extermination camps. Open oppression and force is needed to get rid of a growing number of dissidents. That is where one of their weaknesses lies, I think.

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Debbie Lerman's avatar

Yes. Hence the mantra we should all be repeating : Models are weapons of mass destruction!

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Thumbnail Green's avatar

When I see master detectives/researchers like you Debbie on esc comments I can begin to accept I'm not an evangelist or off track but right over the target.

Models are black boxes filled with Schrödingers' morals and ethics. They are not there until you look but guess what, you're not allowed to look. That would be a symmetrical recursion and we can't have that!

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Peter Andrew Nolan's avatar

Debbie, it was you women who destroyed western society.

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Dr Mike Yeadon's avatar

I’ve just recalled another, extraordinarily effective control system that I’ve seen evidence of, yet didn’t understand how it exerted pressure on people.

In The West, it’s extremely commonplace for there to be a regulatory body, professional register or merely a professional association.

In nearly all cases, you’re required to be a member of such a body, register or association.

This is true not only of medicine, nursing, midwifery etc, but also for example of estate agents, accountants and even pest control specialists.

If you’re out of line, criticising vaccines, for example, or questioning lockdowns and masks, even if you’re nothing to do with medicine, if you persist, you will be contacted by your professional body. You’ll be informed that you’re in danger of “bringing the profession / association into disrepute” with your ill-advised comments. Should you persist, there may be consequences on your continuing ability to practice your trade or profession.

In the case of pest control services, you’re required to carry certain insurance policies, which may be withdrawn if you’re no longer a member of whatever the body is. There are regulations surrounding almost everyone who has “standing” in the community. Those who don’t are easily dealt with by calling them conspiracy theorists.

The reason it took a long time for me to even realise that there was this kind of control mechanism is that mere PhDs are not obligated to join any professional association. I was a member of the British Pharmacological Society and the American Thoracic Society, but gave them up once I was no longer working in those areas.

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Neil D's avatar

Yes, PhDs tend to walk around oblivious to a lot of things (and I know this from first-hand experience).

May we wake up and act more like conspiracy theorists!

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Peter Andrew Nolan's avatar

You are a PhD Neil?

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Neil D's avatar

Yes. And you?

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Peter Andrew Nolan's avatar

Mike, did you not read 1984?

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Helen's avatar

This is powerful stuff. I was at one stage working at a multinational company and I always wondered...where the heck did all these "goals" and "new directions" come from? I mean, I know for sure as heck we hadn't conducted ANY customer surveys to see if the customers were interested in a virtual-reality online shopping experience, or if they really cared about a circular economy, or were interested in renting equipment rather than buying it or if they really would buy more product if it had sustainable packaging or if they wanted an app to say when their product was ready and track the process...none of it seemed to me to be guided by REAL business needs, ROI or any law of supply and demand...it all just nebulously popped out of the air! This is helping me to understand that

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Dr Mike Yeadon's avatar

This is so powerfully written and describes what we observe, but for which we may have had little to no understanding, that I’m sharing this like mad. Thank you, as ever, ESC.

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Peter Andrew Nolan's avatar

Mike, you are a couple of decades late.

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biologyphenom's avatar

''Hold politicians accountable.''

Indeed. Particularly for the biggest crime spree in human history which i have evidenced thoroughly from official data and is the only resource of such facts in the world. Sadly my pleas to have this evidence amplified with focus and consistency within the popular 'covid critic/freedom' arena has either been ignored or has resulted in my account being blocked. Denis Rancourt bizarrely being the latest addition and shortly before Dr.Yeadon told me to 'leave him alone'. So i struggle to comprehend the mindset of many people ''speaking out'' who warn about totalitarianism etc but at the same time are dimssing actionable evidence that actually empowers ordinary people to unite on both sides and stop all which they claim to oppose. eg-If 'we' can't get 'them' on the back of all this it's not realistic to expect to get 'them' with regards to anything else coming down the pipeline. Ironically on this one issue (ongoing COVID inquiries) the establishment and the established 'opposition' in 2025 are rock solid UNITED with the message to the general public 'nothing to see here...move along.' Some mainstream entertainment awaits or your latest feel good 'alt' rabbit hole void of any useful facts, you can even help fund both too. It's enough to make a grown man cry.

https://biologyphenom.substack.com/p/scottish-covid-19-inquiryclosing

https://biologyphenom.substack.com/p/exclusiveuk-covid-19-inquiry-bereaved

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esc's avatar

These things take time. Nothing happens, and then suddenly everything. Exponential growth, and all.

They count on us running out of patience.

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biologyphenom's avatar

How much time? Are people waiting on something? Do you know what? Time is what many prominent people 'speaking out' claim we don't have and i agree with them. The inquiry information (for whatever reason) has been by far the most avoided REAL covid truther information out there and both msm and popular 'alt' are in lockstep in the denial and sadly that only helps the perpetrators.

https://biologyphenom.substack.com/p/newuk-covid-19-inquiry29-jul-2025

https://biologyphenom.substack.com/p/newuk-covid-19-inquiry30-jul-2025-69a

https://biologyphenom.substack.com/p/newuk-covid-19-inquiry28-jul-2025

I could post another 100 links but many 'heroes speaking out' in alt media etc couldn't care less. This is 'not enough' they seemingly want more...like live TV confessions from Boris and co and even then i'd post it and be told it's not quite the whole story. lol

As i said it's all enough to make a grown man cry. Impressive article btw

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esc's avatar
Aug 12Edited

the point is that waiting for you to tire is very much a strategy of theirs. they can stall you in courts. stall you politically. stall you in the media.

but truth eventually comes out. they count on you having given up by then.

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Ralph Pike's avatar

So help him out, like I do and a very few others.

Restack, comment, spread the word!

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Ralph Pike's avatar

The real question is “Who are they?

I'm beginning to think wd have paid- up Brigade members posing as health freedom fighters to dampen things down. Like GBNews just being an outlet for the disaffected to keep them quiet.

The SCE is “under oath” testimony which proves widespread and co-orfinated government sponsored murder.

How is this not news?

How much time have we got before Plandemic 2.0?

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esc's avatar

well, the latter question is actually one i've covered in great depth, with full sourcing. i've even detailed exactly what covid was about in great detail, and how the pandemic treaty builds on that, diving into every cavity taking us through one health and to the 1968 unesco biosphere conference where much of this began (recommendation 3.2 and 3.3 are of particular importance).

further, biologyphonom and i have spoken for, what, 2 years now and i was unaware of us having any sort of trouble until your posts.

for future reference, please do at least a tiny bit of due diligence before posting, thank you.

https://escapekey.substack.com/p/the-pandemic-treaty?utm_source=publication-search

https://escapekey.substack.com/p/covid-19?utm_source=publication-search

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Ralph Pike's avatar

Pardon me for not reading every bleeding poster there is in full unexpurgated detail on Substack, you pompous asshole.

There are only so many hours in the day and you can take your attitude and shove it where the son doesn't shine.

If you can get it past your head, that is.

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esc's avatar
Aug 12Edited

You did literally nothing before posting, yet you have the nerve to think you’re the one in the right. Appears remarkable, really, given this is my page.

Muted.

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Kaylene Emery's avatar

😂😂😂

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Kaylene Emery's avatar

It does get kinda school yard in the com section.

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JLE's avatar

Grotesque, yet accurate.

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Frances Leader's avatar

A very long and thorough account of the servants and all their interactions.

What a shame you stop short of naming the actual controllers.

You were almost there.... but fizzled.

Why?

Allow me to assist:

https://francesleader.substack.com/p/black-nobility-101

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esc's avatar
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who said i'm planning to stop?

i do things the proper way, by nailing down every escape route with 12 inch nails. trust me, i have a lot of information left to come, i can even tell you the little trick they execute repeatedly in order to escape scrutiny. because they're never on the scene for a reason.

soon.

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David Simpson's avatar

The question is, is it working? I guess you would say it is because they have power and control, but to what end? They seem to be making a god awful mess of everything; can anyone seriously make a claim that we are better off now than say we were in 1990?

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Dr Mike Yeadon's avatar

Well, it’s not for us, is it?

If you were to ask those I call “The Perpetrators”, how do they think it’s gone over the last few decades, they’d probably say it’s gone astonishingly well.

Total control of everyone in The West is comfortably in sight with few hurdles remaining.

The perpetrators intend to consolidate totalitarian power over us all at the level of the individual, so that there will be nowhere to hide.

The intend us to “own nothing”. They’ll accomplish that via “The Great Taking”, as detailed by David Rogers Webb.

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BEAN2's avatar

Hi Mike. Would you please link for all of us the D R Webb so we can read or hear his research? Thank you. PS I always feel connected when you speak. Means so very, very much. You are such an authentic voice.

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Patricia's avatar

The Great Taking - David Rogers Webb (Audiobook) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4-IC2rQ-gE

and the documentary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk3AVceraTI&t=25s

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esc's avatar

the CeDe & Co 'trick' is identical to Alfred de Rothschild/Julius Wolf's 1892 international gold receipt one which was fused into the Bank for International Settlements in 1930. totally a coincidence, of course.

https://escapekey.substack.com/p/the-origin-of-global-governance?utm_source=publication-search

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David Simpson's avatar

Yes, I’m being naive. I kind of think the powers that be have our best interests at heart, but really they have their own best interests at heart. I’m curious as to how big the lifeboat is that they’re all planning to jump into. How big is the elite and their hangers on? I guess maybe a couple of hundred million. And their plan is to get rid of most of us and steal whatever we have left, in order to survive the next millennium.

I’m trying to figure out how to turn my “virtual” gold into krugerrands, to bury in my garden 😂

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Kaylene Emery's avatar

May God bless you n yours.

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Rob (c137)'s avatar

Nah, let them try. As soon as they try to screw humanity more, do you think any of these already stretched thin people will go along with it?

Let's say the AI refuses open minded thinkers like us access to jobs. Good, how about they explain the reason why they don't hire because of a certain trait or belief?

At least it's more blatant. In the past they regularly denied people things because of their race, creed, etc.

AI would make people ask, let me see the reasoning.

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Howard Steen's avatar

Very comprehensive, thanks, Mike. One ‘top of the head’ thought without having read all of your article in detail - so apologies in advance if you have dealt with this point.

I suspect that in the U.K. and also in other countries, the “Common Purpose” organisation, an obscure U.K. charity organisation but in reality a network which acts more like a global corporation - offering training courses (in group think) to medical people, the police and local government organisations - has been and still is a key part of laying the groundwork for the coup we’ve all been witness to during the Corona scamdemic and subsequent agendas. Common Purpose has been investigated by U.K. Column but nobody seems interested in this. I continue to think it has been very influential in creating the ‘right mindset’ among public service people at all levels to carry out atrocities without really thinking about what they are doing.

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Baldmichael's avatar

Agreed, there are many organisations like 'Common Purpose' that's the trouble. Common Purpose will anagram to

- cop mum snooper

- ceo morons pump

- cor pompous men

Suitable descriptions I think.

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Jack Boulay's avatar

Yes, it is a devilishly clever ploy, isn't it? Esc has laid it out with beautiful clarity. The only thing I'd like to add is that this rule by moral or ethical perogative has a long established template in religion.

For millennia the enslaved have been induced to police each other through the belief in a rule setting God or god's, which is, of course, unquestionable by any mere man. Any deviation is deemed a contravention of God's law, which is beyond the realm of human agency and to which there is no earthly recourse. Morality is established by an unapproachable and unimpeachable outside authority and rigidly enforced by those who consider themselves virtuous, whereas those who question are considered evil.

All that has changed is that God has been replaced by The Science, which is equally unamenable to human questioning. To doubt The Science is equivalent to doubting God and those who do are unholy heretics whose ideas can be dismissed out of hand. Any deviation from dogma must be ignored, as even to consider it is to participate in evil and commit egregious sin. Devilishly clever.

Trust in God has become Trust the Science. It's a maxim so absurdly unscientific that I find it difficult to understand how anyone could fall for it. But the vast majority have. I guess that it's the same form of magical thinking that one finds amongst the devotees of religions.

The Science can exist alongside the already existing belief structures that the masses cling to. Like the Red Queen in Wonderland, they have no problem entertaining opposing notions at the same time, as long as the names are different. Slowly but surely belief in The Science will supplant belief in God. It's already happening remarkably quickly. The masses readily accepted and enthusiastically helped enforce the closure of their churches and temples, along with the suspension of their traditional rituals, to signal their virtuous modernity during covid. In fact, that was the reason for it. It was mass social training.

In order to cement the New World Order in the social subconcious of the global population, they need a unifying global religion to set the self-policing moral regime. Trying to blend the multitude of existing religions, sects and cults into one syncretic belief system is unworkable and impossible and would meet too much resistance. So they had to create a new unquestionable faith: The Sacred Temple of Science. It is just as dogmatic as it's forebears and is chock-a-block with priestly charlatans, like St Pasteur, St Darwin and St Einstein.

Now all they need to do is crucify someone; St Gates or St Fauci perhaps, and they'll be all set to go.

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Brown paper bag's avatar

Hello Dr Yeadon,

Very interesting ideas.

I wonder have you ever come across these publications?

Written by extremely credible and respected individuals at the time. Certainly opened my eyes.

"Admiral to cabinboy" by Sir Barry Domvile

"Pawns in the game" by William Guy Carr

These books written a while back are so relevant to today.

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Dr Mike Yeadon's avatar

I don’t know those works, sorry.

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Brown paper bag's avatar

That's normal. I bought my copies via amazon, £7 and £18 respectively. I would urge everyone to have a look, important and prescient.

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Dr Christine Dewbury's avatar

Excellent analysis. Thank you.

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Mark Brody's avatar

This is an astute unraveling of the control mechanisms designed to enslave us systematically. However, there are a few additions I would make: one, human systems are complex systems, with emergent properties that cannot possibly be predicted. Hence any rigidly codified system is unable to account for intuitive factors - what Jim Rickards calls "abductive reasoning" . This is the fatal flaw in any criminal plan - the unforeseeable twists of fortune which inevitably leads the criminal protagonist's downfall. And sophisticated as this interlocking triangular system is, it is based on fraud, and based on the assumption that a clever enough plan with sufficient coercive forces or forces of enticement will lure any human sucker into its web of deceit. But Oliver Goldsmith thought otherwise: "Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive." The nub of it being that fraud and deceit create traps that the spinners eventually get caught up in. A system of fraud rests on an unsound foundation. When the earthquakes hit, as they inevitably do, the system falls down.

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Jamie's avatar

I've been afraid to say anything for fear of retaliation, or to encourage atheism, which I would rather not do, but these engrained masked networks of control are ancient.

Has anyone ever studied the Bible? Where does it say you must attend a church house meeting on Sunday? Why are we so presured to go, and rebuked and shamed if we don't? Aren't Christians supposed to worship and fellowhip as often as possible? daily?

It's enlightening when Rome took over Christianity and changed the Sabbath from Saturday to their previous Sun God Worship day, Sunday. And many practices were intertwined. It's a pagan ritual, not Christian. Why are they so intent on it? And unmoveable?

Not everyone used to be able to read. That's a recent development, with the printing press. Before, books were prohibitively expensive. Study the history of propaganda. How was it spread before mass media? Distributed?

Speeches. Plays. Murals. Symbols.

The pulpit as we know it is the theocracy control mechanism from pagan theocracies. Like our factory style education now to replace it in the secular world, go get a lecture. Shouldn't Christians talk amongst themselves more? Isn't that more productive anyways? "Call no man rabbi", but once a week everyone listen to one man lecture? The same man everyweek?

It's a communication network, the direct voice to the people from the powerful. And serves not to empower them but disempower. Frighten them, indoctrinate them, threaten them, false promise them, and keep them in line.

Jesus said to spread the Word. Not gather and listen to one man's opinion of it repeatedly. This is not Christian.

It's all gangster. "The Rule of Law, and Not of Men." Unless the People practice democracy, go to council meetings, write, maintain, and enforce law - the People have no power, and gangsters, warlords, bullies, will rule. This is the problem. Bullies built networks of power and control, and people try to overthrow or stop them - but don't follow through.

Leave the work of governance to the elite, and you will get government in their interest, government For The Elite.

The People have abandoned the helm. We must be the government again ourselves, or we are lost. The People have succumbed to temptation of irresponsibilty, negligence, greed, and selfishness. It will never work. We abandon our primary organization - city council meeting, and try and bandaid it elsewhere - it cannot work.

Peace.

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Dr Mike Yeadon's avatar

I do not attend church in the modern era. I did in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a keen choirboy.

Since 2021, I have had a renewed & personal relationship with God. It is a tremendous comfort. It’s private. I don’t understand anything much beyond my duty & that I’m safe in His hands. If anyone thinks this is nonsense, that’s their decision.

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Jamie's avatar

..And isn't it interesting how the word "church" has been distorted from it's original meaning, to a 'building' one visits on Sundays, Holidays, weddings, and funerals?

Shortened from "Church House", or "House for the Church" - and the Church is the people, or the believers. Further distorts Christianity from a constant lifestyle and practice, and shared fellowship, to an isolated experience of periodic consumption.

A consumer model of Christianity! Instead of a producer model, or participatory model.

"church, in Christian doctrine, the Christian religious community as a whole, or a body or organization of Christian believers.

The Greek word ekklēsia, which came to mean church, was originally applied in the Classical period to an official assembly of citizens. In the Septuagint (Greek) translation of the Old Testament (3rd–2nd century bce), the term ekklēsia is used for the general assembly of the Jewish people, especially when gathered for a religious purpose such as hearing the Law (e.g., Deuteronomy 9:10, 18:16). In the New Testament it is used of the entire body of believing Christians throughout the world (e.g., Matthew 16:18), of the believers in a particular area (e.g., Acts 5:11), and also of the congregation meeting in a particular house—the “house-church” (e.g., Romans 16:5)"

(KJV “Likewise greet the church that is in their house”...)

I really appreciate those who earnestly seek God. And very concerned about those who don't believe it's worthwhile, or important. I fear saying anything unflattering about Christian practice, because so many Christians are so lazy, that if they become disillusioned, they give up - instead of sort things out, and digging through to the truth.

Peace

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Kaylene Emery's avatar

I learn lots in the com section.

As I slowly acclimatise to reality and a depth of evil once un imaginable . I begin to accept that there is …no one to tell. Especially not those in power.

It is made bearable by trust in God , who thankfully already knows.

Sometimes I think He is just waiting for me to catch up.

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