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Entrepreneur and libertarian activist Spike Cohen joins us today to discuss You Are The Power, his organization devoted to fostering respect for individuals and their rights. From helping people fight back against out-of-control government officials, to helping charities provide for those in need, You Are The Power has successfully advocated for its causes and is rapidly expanding across the United States. Today we talk to Cohen about the group, how it started, what it has achieved so far and where it is going from here.
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The End of the World Will Bore You to Tears – #PropagandaWatch
Very impressive! Great idea too. If you were to implement this abroad, what kind of minimum budget are you looking at? Where’s the budget for We are the Power coming from? Sponsors? Memberships? Crowdfunding?
I am from the government and I’m here to help. You people are simply no goods and you need us to save you from yourselves.
Here’s a very silly cartoon, flipping the “Jewish plan for Europe” on its head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAWQZH5gSfQ
Mkey
That was pretty on point, lol.
The best propaganda is easy to understand and true.
Therapeutic.
Soon AI will make animation so fast & easy we’ll all be able to make animations like this, instead of just memes.
Animals
Yes, but on the whole it will be negative….. when AI shows you videos of Mr Corbett and Trump having coffee in the White House you can probably work out its fake , but what about when normies see videos Soros saying how the holocaust period was his happiest time or Palestinians setting jew kids on fire and toasting mashsmellows on them, or “whatever” there wont be a way for them to tell if its real or fake. You could make this video with photo realistic Hitler and some people will think its real.
Most people will either go crazy in their info silo consuming AI slop or will just check out and disbelieve EVERYTHING…I dont think memes will matter much at that point anymore. Personally I’ve been locally saving news media and YT vids and podcasts that struck me as interesting for years because its almost time to leave the Internet for good.
“almost time to leave the Internet”
I have a literal combination padlock rigged to my Cat6 cable to remind me each day to either not use the Internet or use it very little.
“been locally saving…”
Ditto. Including a massive library of OS’s & software. Less than 1% of what I wanted to save though. A significant amount of what I’ve saved is already disappeared from the internet with no indicator that it ever existed.
On the flip side, I’m sitting here watching them go through the motions of successfully assembling an ultra-volatile surface civilization that can be completely erased with a single “solar outburst” so, if I really stop to think about it, it all feels pretty futile.
“on the whole it will be negative”
Bro you’re ruining our make-believe again.
Say it with me: The AI is fun and exciting. And definitely safe. Safest AI we’ve ever had. And there’s no chance it nearly-instantaneously evolved into a super intelligence and transported all of us into a simulation during the scamdemic. Why would you even think that?
I like the idea of a lock on the cable – I don’t have hike internet anymore but I’d do that if I did.
What OS ‘s do you have? I have all ye olde windows and DOS (and freeDos) stored as well as I bunch of Linux distributions. I don’t have the repository’s stored offline, I really should but I do have VMs set up. I keep KODI images for media playing, having ripped a ton of DVDs and acquired media from various sources- I can’t see that it’s a bad thing to have entertainment to sell if the grid goes wonkey.
I also use a httrack so I have some websites saved along with podcasts and books….i see it like the library of Alexandria burning down and me having some codices to pass on to future generations.
I hear that in five years there will be hardly any real websites thanks to google AI scraping them all so they don’t get clicks- what do you think the net will be like in the future? I think it will be subscription only, and most people will be paying for the TV slop they got for free in the 80s
Those who can keep their minds clean will have little competition from the zombie masses
@Duck
Caution: Rambling Ahead
Kodi
Had to look it up. Looks interesting. Apparently it evolved from XBMC which I actually have on my Xbox.
OS‘s
Looks like we may have similar collections. Every OS I’ve every used/tried (Windows, DOS, MAC, Linux, Android, other) I still have the installer for. Oldest are probably Win 3.1, DOS 6.22 & Red Hat 9 (excluding emulators for Apple II, C64 & such). Newest is Win 10 (aka: spyware) & Nobara (for linux gaming). I too am lacking when it comes to saved linux software packages. Plenty of distros saved and not enough packages. Unwise considering the degree to which the linux community has adopted the commie-presidente behavior of erasing old versions from the Internet. Doubly so since the DEI/wokeism infestation took root.
httrack
I have some sites saved but got really lazy in that department once archive.org & archive.is entered my radar. Now days I mostly use httrack for pulling all linked files from certain sites, pages & megathreads.
codices
I was recently going through stacks of my old storage from the 90’s & early 2000’s. I was able to get files off all the HDD’s (even drives from ’92). In some cases it was easy (drives still worked great) and in some cases it took a lot of time and file recovery software. Some data was unrecoverable.
All of factory pressed optical discs worked like new. Home-burned discs (CD-R/RW) were another matter. Many of them couldn’t be read despite them being in pristine condition. Never touched (except slight brief contact with the edges) and never removed from their cases. Hilariously, the cheap Memorex discs were more readable than the expensive highly-toted Verbatim/Taiyo Yuden discs.
Might have to switch to M-Discs (or something new coming down the pike) if you want to pass your collection of stuff on. Though, of course, that’s only the beginning of a list of the things you’d need to do.
net in the future
Now that powerful AI is available to the public (and therefore a far more powerful AI is available to TPTB), I no longer have a prediction.
Maybe some kind of global quasi-super-hero AI defense force will be created to shackle the AI. Maybe we’ll all be moved into an eternal-bliss containment dimension next month. Maybe we’ll all be exterminated next week. Maybe we’re already living in some kind of illusion.
I don’t know what’s coming but very bad things are by far the most probable.
Question for you:
Left & right, I’m seeing awakened truth seekers (IRL) succumb to the surveillance tech pleasure-speed-convenience allure. I can see the addiction rage come to the surface whenever I remind them that their private household conversations are being permanently recorded.
Are you seeing this as well?
Animals
“….I can see the addiction rage come to the surface whenever I remind the….”
Oh yes… had my brother literally scream at me down the phone the other day when I talked to him about the internet…..now TBF he is actually a legit nutcase, but the same reaction is pretty common in most people. The anger comes from them knowing it’s bad for them to use but “I like it”! lol. Unless you give them an alternative tech that is easy to use most people will just keep going along with that and develop psychological pain from their own double think.
The pain makes them angry when you remind them what they know
I will probably post about this in the open thread – sensible people need to take charge and cut off a lot of stuff for their families but ALSO need to provide alternatives to prevent grumbling.
Key word is PROVIDE because most people, even if they hate and fear big tech, won’t give up the dopamine and convenience, not learn how to themselves . For family members who require TV slop I have a Kodi box set up with enough (filtered) TV that we can be our own home TV station. I didn’t even need to torrent because we were getting DVDsets for a buck or less for a long time. I will sell the disks when prices rise some more (DVDs are getting more expensive again, just like vinyls did)…..naturally I will respect copyright and then delete my copies because I don’t want to hurt the fine people of Hollywood.
lol all that work and I hardly watch TV.
Ps the BIG killer of dvd and cd disks is moisture since they’re mostly just some kind of vegetable dye between two bits of plastic. Humid places killed some of mine a ways back
I, for one, salute our AI overlord.
Great video thanks.
I love this.
This guy looks really good, he has the right idea about making it PERSONAL and not letting people hide, invisible behind institutions.
Honestly the best solutions watch idea to actually slow down or reverse the negative direction things are heading in, as opposed to just avoiding it personally.
All people are bad unless they fear consequences, and the kind of creatures that inhabit the Bureaucracy are horribly afraid of problems that attract their bosses attention.
Thank you.
I agree completely to your comment.
Very inspiring talk, great perspective on solving problems, it may not be so obvious to everybody. This is actually the ultimate solution for most of evil happening, I mean a very powerful one, and can be applied now, everywhere. Wow.
Thank you for the service you provide our human family Spike Cohen.
Keep up the great work brother.
Very inspiring to see the work that Spike Cohen is doing, particularly in Family Court. My neighbor in my Appalachian hometown had custody of her children given to her abusive husband without her knowledge. They weren’t returned after a visit with his family and for 11 years she didn’t know where they were.
It happened that the Family Court where the case was tried was by my daughter’s house in California. On the day she got her daughter back, I was at the courthouse getting a copy of the file. The violations were glaring–no jurisdiction established, notices sent to ‘YMCA’ or a street with no house number, falsifications of process servers by adding documents to a photocopy, etc. In this, I document the violations: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/the-mother-child-reunion.
When the mom first told me about this, I thought the worst … of her. I thought that courts don’t just do this. She told me to look at Solano Families United. Under their “Plea to Journalist, Writers, Reporters and Influencers,” I read:
“You’ll find out that Solano County Victim Witness Counselors don’t like Unger because she has a well-documented history of failing to protect female victims of violence and sexual assault. You’ll find that she was removed from CPS court due to excessive disqualifications due to bias. You’ll find out that Unger’s poor reputation is far-reaching and even other counties’ family law employees know about that “rogue judge in Solano County”. You’ll search online and find out about the recall attempt, and the numerous complaints on The Robing Room.”
On the site Recall Judge Unger is a page of excerpts from the filed complaints. Yet the most poignant and devastating are the mothers’ stories, of what happened to the estranged kids after these court decisions. I found the full list of raw comments on The Robing Room, where judges can be rated with anonymous comments. Because Judge Unger has now retired, her page is only available on The Wayback Machine. But to make sure it didn’t disappear, I copied 15,000 words into a document, comment by heartbreaking comment, nearly every one a mother’s worst nightmare of custody given to an abusive or negligent spouse.
From this, I got in contact with the organizer of these recalls, a quiet, smart woman. Although they’ve succeeded for now, the stories are horrific–a girl who committed suicide after being forced to sleep in her father’s bed, a child who died after being kept in a kennel by the stepmom. There’s no question that this is an agenda that goes to the top. We’ve talked about a series of interviews called Courting Abuse.
And the agenda to give custody of children to abusive fathers is global, as I’ve found from this site: https://womenscoalition.substack.com/.
So I’m happy to see Spike having the courage to deal with Family Court.
This guy is a bloody legend. Sounds like his system is making a real difference.
So many corrupt, incompetent and power-tripping people.
The scamdemic revealed them to be virtually everywhere but government and mainstream ‘medicine’ are absolutely infested with them.
What Spike Cohen is doing seems almost too good to be true.
What if this actually caught on?
What if the tables turned and these f*ckers stopped feeling so untouchable and actually started to fear the consequences of screwing people over and ruining their lives?
The child abuse case reminds me of a case in Idaho of a young couple that Amon Bundy tried to help where the courts completely destroyed him financially. He has left Idaho and now because of the corrupt courts he owes St. Luke’s Hospital millions of dollars. He has lost everything because of it.
And never try to get justice from the SS department for withholding funds. When I contacted people at the federal level they wrote back and told me how wonderful the department is and never addressed my complaint. I live on $700/m, less money than a homeless person on SSI who has never worked a day in their life.
The process itself is the punishment.
The monsters have always wished to eliminate Social “Security” and have virtually erased it with their hyperinflation.
Social security was a Ponzi scheme from its inception…it’s certainly a stupid idea when people live as long as they do ,post retirement , nowadays.
It’s going to get a LOT worse for people depending on it in the future.
The Ol’ plug and pay. The Medical Industrial Complex ( T.M.I.C.) is an
racketeering outlet and somewhat blind to details it was created to address. If a configured health and social problem grossly fits the outlet, much like an electrical outlet and appliance plug, then the ” juice flows”. Also, the regulatory body is like a bookie taking a bet; the juice is paid win or loose. Squeeze the juice out of them, which solves nothing and creates more squeezes elsewhere.
For this characteristic alone I can become a volunteerist opposing the corruption of organized extortion and racketeering. Even a child could comprehend this. Unfortunately we aren’t dealing with children; we are dealing with monsters.
Loved the episode. Loved the idea.
I’m game.
This is exactly the solution we need… people holding people accountable. Or better yet, people reaching out to people, requesting consideration of the human impact and giving them every opportunity to do the right thing.
I also love what Cohen is doing.
May his work catch on like wild fire.
I have one word to describe what the governments and their bureaucracies/agencies are doing to devastate peoples’ lives. Disgusting.
This guy is a hero. This is a sign that there’s still hope in what’s to come for the future. More and more people like this are beginning to pop up in public awareness. The recent release of the Telepathy Tapes is another sign of positive changes. The entire paradigm is going to turn on a dime soon. The tipping point is on the horizon. Which way things tip is up to us…as always.
So great to learn about this! What a dramatic difference between running for elected office and finding a way to confront injustice in a personal way. Thank you!
Bureaucracies/hierarchies are weapons. Bureaucracies conceal the perpetrators and destroy Humanity. Bureaucracies/corporations are PEOPLE….people EACH personally responsible for the harm they inflict. I love what this guy is doing!
When vetting people who I’m not familiar with, I try to keep in mind the article Towards 2025 on Lucis’ Trust that says “Because of the growth of soul values (the sense of synthesis, the inclusive spirit, and the rejection of separateness by people of intelligent goodwill), there are grounds for expecting the worlds of soul and of outer human living to be increasingly aligned in the years and decades following 2025. This might mean people who have achieved some measure of spiritual enlightenment emerging as leaders in all manner of human affairs, uniting the hundreds of thousands of world servers from every part of the planet, initiating a renaissance in global culture and civilization.” https://www.lucistrust.org/triangles/bulletin/recent_issues/towards_2025
What could be bad about philanthropy? Jesus warned about people who called themselves Philanthropists in Luke 22:25. According to this article, it was what wealthy people and rulers practiced to secure honor, success and power.
https://larshaukeland.com/bits-pieces/archeology/luke/the-benefactor-luke-22/
Is the title Muddied Waters referring to Bartholomew Roberts saying “For I have dipped my hands in muddied waters, and, withdrawing them, find ‘tis better to be a commander than a common man!”
Who has the money to practice philanthropy? Not the common man.