How Your Dissent Is Monetised Against You

I have often wondered about the willingness of mainstream media, education outlets and Hollywood in entertaining sentiments against the Vietnam War. Specifically, I wonder whether there is an ulterior motive that favours highlighting certain individuals or aspects of the conflict because it can capture people’s sentiments and steer them into supporting other controlled narratives or keeping false left-right paradigms alive, preventing questions and actions towards those who are truly responsible for many of the assaults humanity has experienced.

There were no shortage of critics of the Vietnam War when the US began their assault. This includes poets; Allen Ginsburg, Denise Levertov, Robert Lowell are just a few of those names. While seems apparent that the US intelligence agencies weren’t wholly happy that their agendas weren’t going unopposed, it seems as though the CIA realised something: They could use these critics of war, whose words were not directly changing the actions they were taking, and bankroll them to push other aspects of their agenda.

The Congress for Cultural Freedom was created by the CIA as a means of advancing anti-communist sentiments amongst intellectuals and high-level creatives. This included using poet and Vietnam War critic Robert Lowell to tour South America, sharing his words to specifically counter the popularity of Communist-supporting writers like Pablo Neruda.

Similarly, it might have been desirable to keep certain individuals in-play if they were inadvertently—or consciously—advancing other agendas, thus preventing meaningful resistance. The CIA kept an extensive file on Allen Ginsburg due to his opposition of the Vietnam War, however his connection and support to the CIA-backed psychedelic movement through Timothy Leary likely made his promotion in the counterculture more useful to intelligence agencies than otherwise. RESIST, which Ginsburg, Lowell and Levertov were all associated with, has since turned from an anti-Vietnam War collective into an institutional non-profit funding projects around everything from LGBTQ rights, pro-abortion initiatives and climate change—all things supported by the very same globalist forces that RESIST was literally out to “resist”.

The Sustainable Development Goals

I used to see clips making sensational claims about the Sustainable Development Goals, often triggering strong emotional responses. And, sure, these can be infuriating - that’s part of their appeal. The trouble is, though, that many of these claims are questionable, and others are outright false. But my primary issue is that

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

In the modern day, we see this idea of infiltration taken to a further level. Institutional left-wing movements become synonymous with pushes for justice for Palestinians. But, it doesn’t take long to find that initiatives like Together For Palestine, applauded for the amount of money they raise for Palestinian aid, are run by organisations that take money from CIA-affiliated groups like the Rockefeller Brothers fund. Which begs the question: what’s really happening with all that money raised from ordinary people?

Together for Palestine Concert - for Palestine or for "Israel"?

Professor David Miller writes on X:

Vanessa Beeley

Both of the atrocities in Vietnam and Palestine are wrong. Yet, it cannot be ignored that the parasite class have worked out how to exploit these sentiments for their own benefit… and to make money while doing so. What’s more, they’ve figured out how to make sure we fund our own demise without us even realising it.

Controlled opposition doesn’t always mean someone whispering in your ear, telling you what to say. Anything that makes you believe that you and the methods you advocate for are making an impact—when actually, you aren’t—will make you controlled opposition, even if you have honest intentions and aren’t being “told” by anyone what to do.

Take the “freedom movement” community on Substack, or even other pro-Palestine publications. Paid subscriptions on Substack are provided exclusively by Stripe, a company who tick all the following boxes:

• Funding from Peter Thiel, a16z and other questionable characters, many of whom are involved with Zionist operations
• Founders who invested - amongst other things - in Fast Grants, which were funding many of the “scientific” endeavours of Covid
• Initiatives like Stripe Identity which seem like nothing more than a vehicle for pushing a digital control grid

It gives Substack the guise of being a “neutral” platform—and yet, given its partner organisations (and shared investors) and its eagerness to be a part of pushing Digital ID infrastructure, it seems clear that nothing could be further from the truth. It’s why I don’t charge paid subscriptions here, and why I’m making progress on leaving:

How To Model What Is Right

The title of this piece comes from the last line of a poem I shared a few months ago, Say No And Smile. It captures a theme I have been thinking about a lot lately…

Tom ShawTom Shaw

Do I think many of these individuals and content creators are consciously trying to advance global agendas? Most of them, no. They’re doing their best with the information they have—and they may not have enough information or experience to know that other options are available. I’ve been guilty of this, for example in my changing view of BRICS, or how I once believed Covid was a real threat, and subsequently a lab-leak bioweapon (spoiler: it’s neither). It’s impossible to expect each and every talking head online—or anyone, for that matter—to have an absolutely perfect map of the game at play—and it’s in that naivety and lack of knowledge that we can become “controlled” without realising it.

What they should all be willing to demonstrate is a willingness to change and adapt when new options are presented.

We have so many people protesting about the explosion of data centres across the Western world. That’s great. However, particularly in the US, many people neglect to see that its the money from their 401ks, taxes and pension funds that are providing the capital for those data centres. You can voice your concern all you want, but as long as you keep making those payments, those data centres are still going to get built. And, just as with the Vietnam War and Palestine, it can actually benefit the perpetrators if you are simply protesting without taking action, as it helps create the illusion that meaningful pushback exists where it doesn’t.

We have a power with our words. The rich tradition of poetry throughout the history of humanity is a testament to that. But, if they are not supported with the intention and action, they are open to being co-opted by parasites. Take responsibility for the words that you are saying. Talk the talk so that you walk the walk. That’s when you maintain control of your life, without giving it away to others.

Don’t let your words go wasted—or worse, taken advantage of.

Special shoutouts to The Solari Report, vanessa beeley, Michael Ginsburg, esc and Iurie Rosca, whose work has made an impact on this piece through the information they’ve provided.

Thank you all for making time to read this somewhat-different piece from me. I’ve had a few of these concurrent threads running in my head for some time, and it’s only this week that I realise they coalesced into one idea.

And for those of you wanting more poetry—there’ll be more next week.

With gratitude,

Tom