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Tim Price 😃's avatar

We are living through a global crisis of trust - and Escape Key is naming names and overturning rocks to reveal myriad connections between multiple horrific, treasonous, slithering things.. Superb analysis that absolutely demands universal readership.

Brien's avatar

There is this assumption that this all just gets turned on by a switch, at some point. But it just isn’t going to work, not on any kind of time frame that doesn’t become overcome by events.

This is what has happened to every major IT project in the history of computing. The Modernization of the Air Traffic Control System, the redesign and modernization of the system(S) that the IRS uses to track, monitor, process, control, distribute, and provide feedback for US tax receipts, the modernization of every system at Health and Human Services, Corporate attempts to integrate and automate their design/build systems and their supply chains, the US Postal Service attempts to modernize their systems and improve delivery times and lower cost. It has all failed. Progress at any kind of reasonable ROI has all been faked. The true stories of the disastrous implementations suppressed. It’s all been a decades past due, rarely mitigated fricking cluster F disaster. My examples are US but this has been worldwide. The only winner has been Silicon Valley, the computing and software industry, the recipient of a Trillion dollar annuity and a workforce that now maintains full employment through non value added change. Epstein’s wet dream is the Mother-of-All Cluster F<$€S!

So the risk here is a form of enslavement by utter collapse, not by an ingenious prison that works like a new Toyota.

Dr Mike Yeadon's avatar

I’m assuming they are well aware of this background. It’s very important information you bring because you know the reality and not the public gloss.

If you were among the Useless Eliters, you’d surely raise this issue.

You’d need to hear convincing arguments for why this isn’t going to suffer the same fate.

I wondered if it’s attempted patching together of fundamentally incompatible components that guarantees screw ups.

I’d be wanting to hear something like “We’ve built a new, clean internet. The only apps that we need running on Day 1 are…. We will sacrifice everything else to ensure this control system runs flawlessly at the top of the priorities for every processor, switch and memory element”.

By the way, U.K. government recently decided to capture people stepwise, mandating they “confirm their identity” by means of some ghastly biometric identification system. It applies to a branch of government called Companies House.

I dragged my feet and worked around it for year 1. Last week, they’ve announced that they’re pausing it. There is a flaw in the security architecture that has exposed five million company directors details to hackers. They really are bloody Charlies, aren’t they? There’s me assuming the throbbing brains surely won’t mess this up just like all other huge, complex IT projects. Perhaps you’re right after all. I just struggle to accept that the most fundamental transformation of all time is going to splash like so many others, for entirely predictable reasons.

Brien's avatar

This is a good topic for debate. I believe there are some maxims and first principles:

1. The dreamers who have been discussing and pushing this vision for decades are not the implementators. They are not the coders. They never have been and can’t be.

2. There is an old maxim that applies to making changes to complex systems that says: “Pay more attention to implementation than strategy. It is much harder to do”. (This, at the end of the day, has been the Achilles heel of all large scale development projects, especially in the IT realm)

3. The critical nature and distinction between the complex and the complicated is all important. Many of the implementers and coders will be complicators when they should be simplifiers. The best engineers are simplifiers because they know that complexity requires simplification in order to work. But complication produces the aura and the impenetrability of the expert which is the oil of esteem and career. Simplicity, and simplification, are shunned. This is often deadly.

4. Time is the enemy of all large scale systems projects. Change management can become chaotic and nearly impossible to coordinate. Change-on-Change increases entropy. The gulf between the visionaries and the implementors widens with time.

5. Everything, given enough time, is overcome by events.

This project, to have a chance of succeeding, must be done in phases. It will take decades for the full vision to be achieved, if it is even possible. The vision can never be implemented in one go. The visionary billionaire bastards surely know this, but one wonders.They are panicking because they have been exposed and things have not been going according to plan. They are impatient. They are becoming their own worst enemy

Yeowoman's avatar

Have to agree on this . I used to tell my IT friends they were going out each morning to 'it'll never work' . I also agree with your first point as to why .

We noticed the public like the idea of slick simple tech solutions and the govt like to attempt to provide such simple sounding solutions. The tech guys know its either 100x more difficult than it sounds or else its likely impossible. They or their intermediaries can draw in a lot of money with the lure of those slick solutions which never quite get there.

The thing is ive long imagined a two tier system or a breakaway system where some things are done well on a limited, smaller scale.

I could quite imagine chaos ensuing for most people but a smaller slick system organising a few subsets of society or breakaway civilizations ..

i could imagine mass chaos with a small number of folks accessing rations via a digital ID

I think it likely that a great many people would flee toward a safe digital hive to avoid chaos.

The idea of 'own nothing and be happy' sounds to me like most monastic contexts in history .. With only shared possessions people do tend to be happy enough, particularly if the alternative is chaotic violence. I dont think it'll be hard to find volunteers for this limited techno hive world.

Valerie Bressler's avatar

Unfortunately, I think you're right about that last point. It'll be the same crowd (the ones who haven't been killed by the MRNA shots yet) who happily grabbed their free donut to get injected with an unknown poison.

Protect & Survive's avatar

You are so right Brien. Many large institutions, including banks and airlines, still rely on legacy software systems built in the 1960s, such as COBOL, due to their reliability and the complexity involved in replacing them. This reliance can hinder innovation and efficiency, as these outdated systems struggle to integrate with modern technologies. QED. https://medium.com/@aaryan17.badyal/why-the-worlds-banks-still-run-on-old-software-a33bfa815822

Enouhg said I guess.

substantial stacks's avatar

IT peddlers are the biggest scammers after Pharma. The "virus" scam model is the same in both fields!

grrlrocks's avatar

I'm new here, came through from a YT video interview of Catherine Austin Fitts by WTFinance, "50 Trillion Missing | The US Financial Coup Catherine Austin Fitts Exposed", 4/10/26, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaAd4DscZ6s. She mentioned the Escape Key substack, and here I am.

Can you provide any citations for summarizing documentation of any of these failures? I'm part of a group of folks here in NE Wyoming trying to catch up with all this craziness, and try to stop horrifying bills in our Legislature to enact this BS. Again, new here and trying to catch up. Thanks!

Brien's avatar

Substack is a good resource. I would suggest you check out a few Substack writers who have extensively documented what is occurring:

1. Sasha Latypova (Substack: Due Diligence and Art)

2. Dr. Mike Yeadon

3. The Liberty Sentinel(Alex Newman)

4. Exposing the Darkness

5. Patrick Wood(Technocracy News)

These sources all provide much current information and include sourcing and documentation

Best

Protect & Survive's avatar

Thanks Brien, these sites describe what 'they' are trying to do. But for me, the solutio is in plain sight - public banking perhaps: https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/the-financial-jigsaw-part-2-59-brics

Repost King's avatar

Esc delivers AGAIN

“Jeffrey Epstein is now primarily remembered as a sexual predator, but the published materials reveal something considerably larger. And the one hundred and fifteen hours of tape that could have explained it to the public produced four hostile books about Donald Trump and a podcast that demands transparency from everyone — except the man holding the camera.”

What a freakin quote.

Roger Beal's avatar

From what you write, it appears to me that Epstein presents as great a danger to global financial stability as he does to young women's sexual security.

esc's avatar

the blackmail story is the intended distraction.

that's not saying it's not awful. that's why it works.

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

substantial stacks's avatar

Epstein = Israel... and this is why they need to deflect as much as possible, because they have some "anti-semitism" problems as usual.

60Gigahertz2's avatar

This was the first time I understood the US monetary system on ANY level...

05/02/23 Added. The BIS announced the Going Direct Reset (GDR) in 08 or 10/2019 (need conf), just before it's global C19 scamdemic, which it refers to in it's planning documents as a population "softener."

For an easy to understand description of how the GDR will restructure our financial system (and economy), go to:

Best Evidence w/John Titus: Larry & Carsten's Excellent Pandemic 08/15/2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOEvurCVuk

Augustin Carstens stepped down in 07/01/2025

* * *

And now I understand where today's mess came from:

02/15/26 The Theft of the Tartarian Banking System - Taken Over By The Rothschild Bloodline, for five puppetmaster Global Financial Elite families...

https://odysee.com/@StopTheCrime:d/The-Tartarian-Banking-Systems-%E2%80%94-Taken-Over-By-The-Rothschild-Bloodline:b

* * * *

The Tartarian System That Threatened Banking - And Why It Was Destroyed

https://odysee.com/@Outersite.org:7/TartarianSystemThatThreatenedBanking-AndWhyItWasDestroyed:1

So you will understand that there was a global financial system that supported trade without concentrating wealth with the use of interest, for hundreds of years. At some point, the bloodline families that managed the system splintered, with five global financially elite families removing the rest, and installing the Rothschild's as their frontmen. Rothschild wasn't even their original name. Funny how that Rothschild name is mentioned 12,000 times in the first 3 million doc set of redacted Epstein documents.

* * *

What happens next is up to us... right? LOL!

Ubetcha's avatar

So what about the missing parts? It seems reasonable that they need to button up the world transactions otherwise the system wont work. The black market will bugger their control. Is this why they continue to deconstruct all economies that operate outside of the global banking systems? Attacking countries and confiscating their gold reserves. Taking down Venezuela and Iran limits the crude commodity. Since China depends on these reserves and they don't seem concerned, it would imply they are in on it. Russia too for that matter.

Joe Doe's avatar

If you haven't figured out, based on what they did during the PLANdemic, that china, iran or russia are no real opponents of the "western" so called elites you are far behind and have a lot to catch up with.

Billy Bob's avatar

Like all club memberships members have dues to pay, initiation rituals, sworn to secrecy with threat of death or financial and social ruin along with an agreement to bare their part of unpleasantness in the club’s mission. Failure to join also has ramifications.

substantial stacks's avatar

"Is this why they continue to deconstruct all economies that operate outside of the global banking systems?"

Yes, They are busily attacking all non-centralised control, non dollar (black) markets via paid human agencies and bots.

China are concerned and are actively assisting Iran with intel so as to take control of the situation - China are the sole beneficiaries of the latest war, with Russia a close second- see https://no01.substack.com/

substantial stacks's avatar

It's important to always bear in mind when parsing the messages of elite psychopaths: They will lie and deceive in ways that are not readily apparent. All the AI peddlers are liars exploiting people's limited understanding of tech.

"When you ask the person who designed the system, how did it come to that answer? How did your neural net? Can you show me the calculations? They say, no, we don’t know. We don’t know how the thing we designed actually came up with that answer."

They are lying to you. They are cultivating the delusion that AI is an "emergent" intelligence in the virtual domain, that the algorithms became so complex and advanced that they took a life of their own after absorbing all the information on the internet...and became like a virtual God, a Deus Ex Machina.... they are repeating a classic sci-fi narrative that's been around for decades and it is nothing but fiction that has become embedded in popular consciousness through media.

The AI is not some objective arbiter of truth, neutrally deriving its knowledge from the sum of human knowledge that it has access to. That is the story.

The output of AI machines is continuously steered by (barely) human hidden hands who add layers to the system so as to contain the output within the Overton window defined by the elites who pay the developers....The language of AI comes from the people that trained it. Without all those hidden hands the output would be garbage. They need to tweak it to give the user the illlusion of interacting with an intelligent entity.

What you get from AI on questions that really matter e.g. world wars, vaccines, international banking and the dollar, the trans-global elites, Greater Israel, etc.. won't be much different to what you get from google and wikipedia.... it isn't "rocket science"- just ask Elon!!

Perry Simms's avatar

Nobody expected the transformer architecture could achieve thinking. *thinking as evinced from the functional perspective.

AlexHK's avatar

I need to read this very carefully; it seems to hold a lot of valid assumptions. How does one get out of this mess? That is my query. A total reset?

Dr Mike Yeadon's avatar

We must be prepared for a total reset, with all the ghastly implications. Though that would be horrible, and it would almost certainly finish me among others, it’s a million times better than the destination these lunatics intend.

Karen Bracken's avatar

I started to look at Bannon in a totally different light when I listened to this interview when it first came out a few weeks ago. First, shocked that he did this interview knowing Epstein was a disgusting pervert and second, how Bannon slobbered over Epstein. Epstein was NOT a great intellect he was a sociopath with no conscience. He was dangerous and got what he wanted by blackmailing people.

esc's avatar

these emails show, without the shadow of a doubt, that he consistently held his own when discussing with some of the smartest people on the planet. he funded very targeted and specific research; research which, when combined, would produce exactly the outcome we now see materialise around us: conditionality embedded in every transaction, from macro to micro.

he identified the tax problem in alternative currencies before anyone else in the correspondence raised it. he edited ito's technical paper on the unified ledger with specific additions that became central to the design. ariane de rothschild thanked him for his guidance. JPM's $2 trillion asset management CEO asked him to define the 'impact investing' architecture of what became the Global Health Investment Fund

there is no way he did not know what he was doing, and the blackmail story gets the newspaper coverage because that's the deflection.

Momo's avatar

I recall articles in which he was portrayed as a not so smart guy, with a wealthy benefactor, who longed for acceptance into the highest levels of scientific academia and research, and who used his money to gain access. He was described as being a superficial thinker whose musings and ramblings were tolerated but not respected.

A perfect cover.

esc's avatar
Mar 16Edited

the other issue here with the blackmail theory is that, sure, blackmail can make individuals go along - but it's not a very good solution when you seek to develop large structures. for that, you need compartmentalisation and ideology, and probably decent funding as well.

that interview, in essence ,pivots systems theory continuously. he was remarkably fluent in exactly that and cybernetics. and general systems theory (along with the rapidly exploding ISO standards we see around us) explains perfectly why compartmentalisation works to establish the final outcome - a fully automated 'spaceship earth', with conditionality embedded into every transaction as the ultimate enforcement mechanism.

the general systems theory/ISO standards argument i discussed over here

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

Protect & Survive's avatar

You are right on Esc. Compartmentalisation is what made the Apollo moon landing simulation work. It is said that only some 100 managers knew the truth. I worked with IBM 360 in the 1960s - awesome for its time and definitely capable of achieving this result: https://unstabbinated.substack.com/p/apollo-11-deconstructing-the-logistics

Momo's avatar

Thank you for your work. I will read.

esc's avatar

head to the bottom if in a hurry, because that's essentially my longest and most densely sourced essay.

find 'Coincidence does not explain why those outputs slot into each other' and read down.

Dr Mike Yeadon's avatar

I at least understand, and I’m noisy about it, to the extent it might help. Thank you 🙏

Meryl Nass's avatar

He was a genius--an extraordinarily evil genius.

Perry Simms's avatar

No he was just interested in some scifi stuff. His only qualification was serving as a child/teen pimp. He never developed, invented or discovered anything of value. If you call that 'genius' then we have no word left for people who do great things.

Reconsider your gushing please.

esc's avatar

you're clearly way out of your depth here

substantial stacks's avatar

Why do you think he was insisting on "local money" ? What is that about?

esc's avatar
Mar 19Edited

it enables conditionality

local to what? to a nation? to an individual?

you begin with one, end with the other. suddenly, you're not allowed to travel beyond 5 miles during an 'emergency'.

Perry Simms's avatar

Nonsense from the 'genius'.

Ohio Deb's avatar

Immediately before joining the SEC, Chair Gensler was professor of the Practice of Global Economics and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, co-director of MIT’s Fintech@CSAIL, and senior advisor to the MIT Media Lab Digital Currency Initiative. From 2017-2019, he served as Chair of the Maryland Financial Consumer Protection Commission.

https://www.sec.gov/about/sec-commissioners/gary-gensler