Authored by Josh Stylman via substack,

Beyond The First Veil

In ‘Reading Between the Lies,’ we explored how to recognize patterns of institutional deception—the carefully crafted narratives that keep humanity trapped in a matrix of perceptions.

Theodore Dalrymple identified how this first matrix of control operates in totalitarian regimes: “In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.”

This principle of forced participation hasn’t disappeared – it has evolved. Today’s system doesn’t merely demand silence but active complicity in its narratives, weaponizing resistance itself as a means of influence. Watching trusted voices expose real corruption, only to redirect into managed solutions, reveals an even deeper pattern: The system doesn’t just create propaganda – it creates contained paths for those who see through propaganda. Breaking free from mainstream programming is only the first step. What follows is both subtler and just as disturbing. Untethering from institutional narratives creates an immediate vulnerability—the need for new answers, new leaders, new direction. Those who steer the first matrix wouldn’t leave the off-ramps unsupervised.

This illuminates the deeper mechanics of the second matrix: capturing awakening through sophisticated channels of inauthentic opposition.

The Mechanics of Controlled Opposition

The pattern becomes clear when we examine how systemic criticism is managed: Those who expose corruption are permitted to speak, but only within careful boundaries. Take banking for instance – even those who reveal central banking’s predatory nature rarely demand abolition. The 2008 crisis pushed financial fraud into mainstream awareness through popular exposés like ‘The Big Short.’ Yet understanding bred only mistrust – no accountability, just bailouts for perpetrators and a more fragile system for everyone else. Like any sophisticated confidence game, it works in stages: first gain trust through real revelations, then build dependency through exclusive “insider” knowledge, finally redirect that trust toward constrained outcomes. Watch how alternative media platforms follow this pattern: expose genuine corruption, build devoted following, then subtly shift narrative focus away from systemic accountability. Each revelation seems to lead deeper into a labyrinth of coordinated awakening. Note: I’m deliberately avoiding naming specific targets – this analysis isn’t about creating new heroes or villains, but recognizing patterns that transcend individuals.

What makes this model so effective is that the same institutions that transformed money from gold to paper also convert genuine resistance into managed opposition. As I wrote in ‘Fiat Everything,’ just as synthetic currency replaces real value, fiat opposition movements offer synthetic versions of independent awakening – containing just enough truth to feel real while keeping opposition within safe boundaries.

Understanding these patterns of controlled opposition can feel overwhelming. Each revelation seems to lead to another layer of deception. It’s like discovering you’re in a maze only to realize there are mazes within mazes. Some get lost documenting every turn – debating financial system minutiae, arguing over medical protocols, dissecting geopolitical chess moves. Or in ‘conspiracy circles’ – was the virus isolated? How did the Towers really go down? What’s really on Antarctica? While these questions matter, getting stuck in endless maze-mapping misses the point entirely. Healthy debate and disagreement are natural – and even healthy – in truth-seeking movements – but when these debates consume all energy and attention, they prevent effective action toward core goals.

The Research Journey

For the last few years, I’ve been deeply immersed in uncovering the mechanisms of control—not as an abstract exercise, but alongside a team that includes some of my closest friends, following trails that seemed to lead to truth. The revelations have been staggering – fundamental ‘facts’ we grew up accepting have been exposed as complete fabrications. We’ve been humbled twice over – first in unlearning what we thought we knew, then in discovering our own certainties about new paths were wrong. Paths that appeared revolutionary led to sophisticated dead ends. Communities that felt authentic revealed themselves as engineered channels.

The hardest truth isn’t just recognizing deception – it’s accepting that we might never know the full story while still needing to act on what we can verify. What began as research into specific deceptions revealed something far more profound: While devastating physical wars rage in multiple regions, a deeper conflict unfolds silently across the planet – a war for the freedom of human consciousness itself. This is what World War III looks like – not just bombs and bullets, but the systematic engineering of human perception.

This pattern of building trust before redirection reflects a deeper system of control, operating on the ancient alchemical principle of Solve et Coagula – first dissolve (break apart), then coagulate (reform under control). The process is precise: When people begin recognizing institutional deception, natural coalitions form across traditional divides. Workers unite against central bank policies. Parents organize against pharmaceutical mandates. Communities resist corporate land grabs.

But watch what happens next – these unified movements get systematically dissolved. Consider how quickly unified resistance fractured after October 7th, how the trucker protests dissolved into partisan narratives. Each fragment splinters further – from questioning authority to competing theories, from united action to tribal infighting.

This isn’t random fragmentation, it’s calculated dissolution. Once broken apart, these fragments can be reformed (coagulated) into controlled dialectical channels, as people revert to prior programming about issues that supersede their unity.

Watch how the confidence game operates in truth movements: First comes legitimate revelation – real documents, genuine whistleblowers, undeniable evidence. Trust builds through authentic insight. Then subtle redirection begins. Just as they slice society into ever-smaller fragments along political, racial, and cultural lines, they splinter truth movements into competing camps. Unity becomes division. Action becomes debate. Resistance becomes content.

This systematic fragmentation of awakening movements reflects a deeper historical pattern – one that traces the evolution of mass perception control from crude propaganda to sophisticated biodigital manipulation.

From Propaganda to Programming

The first matrix shaped thoughts through direct programming. The path from Bernays to biodigital oversight follows a clear progression: first manipulate mass psychology, then digitize behavior, finally merge with biology itself. Each phase builds on the previous – from studying human nature, to tracking it, to directly engineering it. From Bernays discovering how to manipulate mass psychology through unconscious desires, to Tavistock refining social engineering, to algorithmic behavior modification – each phase brings more sophisticated tools for reality manipulation. Digital technology accelerated this evolution: social media algorithms perfect attention capture, smartphones enable constant behavioral monitoring, AI systems predict and shape responses.

Now, as these digital tools merge with biological interventions – from mood-altering pharmaceuticals to brain-computer interfaces – they approach complete governance over human perception itself. What began with crude propaganda evolved into precise digital manipulation of attention and behavior. The second matrix creates approved channels for those who break free – an engineered ecosystem of controlled alternatives. Just as coordinated media narratives trained the professional class to outsource their thinking to ‘authoritative sources,’ the biodigital matrix now offers to outsource their sensibility itself – promising enhanced cognition while delivering deeper programming. This represents the latest evolution in perception management: At first, they simply denied conspiracies existed. When that became impossible due to undeniable evidence, they created orchestrated channels for awakening minds to follow.

The OJ Simpson trial marked a crucial shift in this strategy – it trained society to process serious investigations as entertainment spectacle. As Marshall McLuhan famously observed, ‘the medium is the message’ – the format of spectacular media entertainment itself reshapes how we process truth, regardless of content. What began as legitimate questions about police corruption and institutional bias became a ratings-driven soap opera. The same pattern continues today – Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes become Netflix entertainment while his clients remain free, and the alleged Mangione shooting spawns multiple streaming productions within days of the event, even before the investigation concludes. The Las Vegas and New Orleans incidents last week offer a stark demonstration: within hours, potentially disruptive events are channeled into competing narratives, while the entertainment apparatus stands ready to transform any serious investigation into consumable content.

Real revelations about trafficking networks and institutional crime have become binge-worthy content. Whistleblowers become influencers. Declassified documents become TikTok trends. With limited attention spans and infinite content, truth-seeking becomes another form of consumption that pacifies rather than empowers. Watch how enough time passes and ‘conspiracy theories’ become limited hangouts – JFK’s death gets attributed to ‘the mob,’ a convenient decoy from the institutional forces behind it. Similar patterns emerge with 9/11 revelations.

Here’s my position – extreme as it may seem to my friends still steeped in conventional narratives: we have to consider the possibility that the power structure controls both sides of most major debates. Every mainstream narrative has its approved opposition. Every awakening gets its sanctioned leaders. Every revelation leads to administered channels. Understanding this pattern could lead to paralysis – but it shouldn’t. Instead, it means recognizing we need new ways of thinking and organizing entirely.

As researcher Whitney Webb observed on X the other day:

Only the designated enemy changes – the push for greater surveillance and oversight remains constant. Each ‘side’ gets its turn feeding fear to its base while the same institutions expand their power.

Nixon opens China. Clinton pushed NAFTA. Trump accelerates Operation Warp Speed. I’m observing a pattern here – not alleging conspiracy, but noting how political figures often act contrary to their public personas: Nixon, the anti-communist, opens the door to China; Clinton, who campaigned on protecting American workers, pushes through the biggest free trade agreement; Trump, the populist outsider, advances Big Pharma’s agenda. Whether through institutional pressures, political realities, or other forces, these contradictions reveal a sophisticated pattern: the system scripts both sides of major political transformations, ensuring controlled outcomes regardless of who appears to hold power. Many of these figures may themselves be responding to forces they barely understand – useful or manipulated actors rather than conscious orchestrators.

This dynamic isn’t limited to politicians. Consider Twitter/X, which has spent the last couple of years branding itself as a bastion of free speech while just this week introducing algorithms to amplify ‘positivity.’ Framed as promoting constructive dialogue, it mirrors the same subjective moderation policies once criticized as censorship.

This pattern of controlled opposition extends through every level of awakening movements. Consider how many of my friends still caught in the first matrix dismiss QAnon followers as complete fools, mocking them as cartoon characters while ignoring the documented institutional corruption the movement has exposed. What they don’t understand is that beneath the theatrical elements lie significant evidence of systemic criminality. I remain open-minded about examining these claims – after all, pattern recognition requires considering evidence without prejudice. But the movement’s core message of ‘trust the plan’ reveals how awakening gets redirected. It transforms active resistance into passive spectatorship, waiting for hidden ‘white hats’ to save them instead of taking meaningful action.

This is where I draw the line. I can’t outsource my family’s wellbeing to unknown entities or secret plans. This requires constant vigilance – alert to both obvious threats and subtle misdirection. The most dangerous aspect of managed opposition isn’t the information it shares, but how it teaches learned helplessness disguised as hope.

The Capture of Authentic Movements

Each new theory and movement adds another layer of complexity, drawing seekers further from meaningful action. The 1960s counterculture went from questioning war and authority to ‘tune in, drop out’ passivity. By the 1980s, former hippies became yuppies, their revolutionary awareness neatly channeled into consumer capitalism. Even today, the anti-war movement shows this pattern – one political side opposes war in Ukraine while supporting it in Gaza, the other reverses these positions. Each side claims to be anti-war when it’s not their preferred conflict. Occupy Wall Street followed the same pattern: beginning with potent exposure of financial corruption, it fragmented into competing social justice causes that left the banking system untouched.

The seduction lies in the truth content. Environmental movements expose corporate pollution but push carbon credits and individual guilt. Social justice movements expose real inequities but redirect into corporate DEI programs. The organic food revolution began as resistance to industrial agriculture but became a premium product category – redirecting real concerns into boutique shopping choices. Each movement contains enough truth to attract awakened minds while setting careful guardrails on acceptable solutions – identifying real problems but advocating solutions that expand institutional power.

This pattern repeats at every level. Throughout history, power structures have understood the principle of supplying controlled leadership to emerging movements. This pattern continues today across every awakening movement.

The template is consistent:

• A politician “bravely” questions vaccines while taking pharma money

• A pundit “exposes” deep state corruption while defending intelligence agencies

• A celebrity “fights cancel culture” while pushing digital passports

• A financial guru “warns” about banking collapse while selling CBDCs

These patterns of redirection play out vividly today. The medical freedom movement demonstrates this dynamic: Valid concerns about vaccine injuries risk getting redirected into competing theories and circular debates, while accountability remains elusive. The recent MAHA controversy shows shows how even valid food sovereignty concerns can potentially redirect focus from this urgent crisis of vaccine injuries and accountability.

The crypto world illustrates this pattern: Valid criticism of central banking transforms into tribal warfare between token communities. Each claims exclusive truth while potentially extending the system’s reach. Even reasonable debates about monetary solutions become religious devotion to competing coins. Meanwhile, the original promise of Bitcoin – the first cryptocurrency and its vision of financial autonomy – risks getting co-opted, as blockchain technology is repurposed for Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), digital IDs, and automated compliance. The very tools meant to free us from banking surveillance are being repurposed to perfect it. But the fusion of financial control with digital identity creates something far more insidious – a system that can enforce social compliance through access to basic resources, monitor thoughts through transaction patterns, and ultimately merge with our biological existence itself. This architecture isn’t just about controlling money – it’s about programming minds.

The Biodigital Convergence: Engineering Human Reality

The fusion of digital and biological control isn’t just changing how we interact – it’s redesigning human perception itself. As social connections move increasingly online, authentic human awareness is being systematically replaced with engineered experiences. Beyond attention hijacking and emotional manipulation, the deepest cost hits us where it hurts most – in our human connections. Every day we see people together physically but separated by screens, missing moments of genuine connection while scrolling through manufactured realities. This artificial construct is set to deepen further – Meta has announced plans to populate Facebook feeds with AI-generated content and bot interactions by 2025, raising questions about authentic human connection on these platforms.

Big Pharma brought the ability to chemically alter cognizance; Big Tech perfected the ability to digitally direct attention and shape behavior. Their merger isn’t about market share – it’s about complete spectrum dominance over human cognition itself. The same companies that pushed pills to numb a generation now partner with platforms that addict us to digital stimulation. The corporations that profited from ADHD medication collaborate with social media giants that deliberately engineer attention deficit. The entities that marketed antidepressants join forces with algorithm makers who scientifically manipulate emotional responses.

As Whitney Webb observed about the shifting enemy narrative from ‘Russians’ to ‘Islamists,’ the designated threat changes while surveillance expansion remains constant. The digital ID agenda follows this pattern: while the World Economic Forum presents it as humanitarian aid for financial inclusion, it builds the architecture for comprehensive behavioral monitoring and oversight. Each crisis – whether health, security, or financial – adds new requirements that merge identity, banking, health records, and social tracking into a single unified system. What begins as voluntary participation inevitably becomes mandatory as digital surveillance extends into monitoring and shaping human behavior itself – the perfect staging ground for Central Bank Digital Currency.

This surveillance architecture represents the merging of two foundational pillars. What began with chemical alterations of mood and thought, then evolved into digital manipulation of attention and behavior, is now fusing into a single architecture for human experiential management. Watch how mental health apps collect behavioral data while promoting medication. Social credit scoring merges with health tracking. The same companies developing digital identity systems partner with pharmaceutical giants. This isn’t future speculation – it’s happening now. While we debate the ethics of AI, they’re quietly building the infrastructure to merge human cognition with digital systems. The transhumanist promise of enhanced awareness through technology masks a darker reality – each integration diminishes natural human perception, replacing genuine consciousness with an engineered simulation. This technological colonization of the human brain seeks to sever our connection to natural awareness and spiritual sovereignty.

In one of his later lectures, Aldous Huxley, the renowned author of ‘Brave New World,’ offered a chilling prediction about the future of social control: “There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it.”

We’re at a crucial juncture where technological capture of human consciousness is becoming irreversible. Each new generation is born into deeper digital integration, their baseline reality increasingly synthetic. But recognizing this pattern reveals both the threat and its weakness. While they perfect technological tools for control, they can’t fully replicate the power of direct human connection. Every instance of genuine interaction, every moment of unmediated presence, demonstrates what their system can’t capture. The answer isn’t just seeing through lies – it’s creating spaces of human connection that exist outside their control architecture. What makes this moment unprecedented isn’t just the sophistication of control, but its method of implementation – not through force, but through seduction and convenience. Each convenience we embrace, each digital enhancement we accept, brings us closer to their vision of managed awareness.

Liberating Consciousness, Reclaiming Connection

Understanding these mechanisms doesn’t mean rejecting technology or retreating into paranoid isolation – it means recognizing that real power begins with autonomy, and learning to engage with modernity on our own terms.

The battle for our minds requires both awareness and authentic action. While they attempt to engineer behavior through chemicals and algorithms, our power lies first in liberating ourselves, then extending through direct human connection.

Their endgame – absolute mastery over human perception and cognition – reveals a fundamental weakness: they cannot fully contain liberated minds and authentic human relationships that exist outside their mediated channels. This comprehensive system requires managed opposition at every level, steering us away from genuine awakening and direct engagement.

The crucial insight is this: The opposite of globalism isn’t nationalism or political movements – it’s individual liberty expressed through local action. Real awakening can’t be programmed or scheduled. It emerges through clear recognition and spreads through genuine connection. When intellectuals at think tanks like Brownstone Institute found common cause with firefighters, the system recognized a dangerous precedent. Unity across traditional societal divides – between intellectuals, professionals, and working people – demonstrates how truly free people can bridge manufactured divisions. While digital networks can facilitate organization, true power manifests in physical community.

Speaking from experience, these digital networks have been invaluable in my journey – I’ve found kindred spirits, shared insights, and built lasting friendships through online communities. These connections have helped me understand patterns I might never have seen alone. But information sharing is just the first step. The real transformation happens when we take these shared insights off the screen and into our communities, turning digital connections into flesh-and-blood relationships and shared local action.

This means:

• Freeing our minds while they push programmed thinking (creating local learning circles to counter their digital-pharmaceutical engineering of thought)

• Building connections while maintaining individual agency (establishing real communities to resist their social credit systems)

• Taking action without waiting for consensus (bypassing their arranged opposition channels)

• Growing food while they push synthetic alternatives (maintaining biological autonomy as they push lab-created dependencies)

• Building community while they sell digital tribes (creating genuine connection as antidote to technological isolation)

• Healing ourselves while they market dependencies (developing natural resilience against their biodigital convergence)

The most powerful truth isn’t a revelation – it’s the recognition that consciousness can transcend their constructed boundaries entirely. The way out requires stepping beyond their endless distractions and reclaiming grounded, authentic action. Their biodigital convergence can only capture souls that follow their prescribed paths. Our essence was never truly bound by their walls.

​​Stay vigilant. Question everything. Free your mind and act with intention. The revolution begins with sovereign spirits and grows through genuine connection. Build where they destroy. Create while they deceive. Connect while they divide. The way out of their matrix is with eyes wide open and feet planted firmly in local soil.

Less than two weeks to go in his lame-duck presidency before Trump takes office, and President Biden is pursuing the controversial move of emptying out Gitmo further. On Monday the Pentagon confirmed it released 11 Yemeni detainees with suspected ties to al Qaeda from the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, after which they are set to begin new lives in Oman, as we detailed earlier. This has shrunk the population of the facility to 15 men.

None of the detainees have ever been charged with a crime, despite having been in the high-secure military facility for a couple decades or more. The Biden administration has long sought to move forward Obama’s stated goal of seeking to permanently shutdown the notorious facility where torture has been alleged and documented.

On Tuesday another major potential released has been revealed: the White House is now negotiating with the Taliban which could end in the release of a high-profile prisoner long alleged to have been a close Osama bin Laden associate. Muhammad Rahim al Afghani has long been deemed “the Last Afghan in Guantanamo”.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the Democratic administration “has been discussing a deal with the Taliban since at least July, told the group on Nov. 14 that the U.S. would release Muhammad Rahim al Afghani, who the U.S. government alleges was a senior al Qaeda aide, if the Afghan rulers released George Glezmann, Ryan Corbett and Mahmoud Habibi, American citizens seized in Afghanistan in 2022.”

Rahim, if the swap goes through, could be freed alongside two others prisoners the Taliban is seeking in exchange for Americans Glezmann and Corbett. However, things are already complicated as the Taliban denies that it is holding Habibi.

The potential deal has apparently been in the works for several weeks at this point, given national security adviser Jake Sullivan briefed House Foreign Affairs Committee members in a classified session on Dec.17. The WSJ has cited him as saying that no decision has yet been made.

If Biden goes through with it, he’ll be hammered by Trump and Republicans, and it will also revive criticisms of the botched Afghan withdrawal which ended in the deaths of many American troops as well as Afghan civilians:

The Taliban’s offer poses a dilemma for Biden. He has prided himself on securing the release of American hostages around the world, bringing home more than 70 people over the past four years. But handing over Rahim, long seen by the U.S. government as a high-profile prisoner, and potentially other Afghan prisoners held in U.S. custody might spark criticism.

NEWS

Frustrated With White House, Family of Detained American Reaches Out to Taliban

The family of George Glezmann, feeling like it is running out of options, has informed the White House it would negotiate directly with the Taliban to try to secure the American hostage’s… pic.twitter.com/hw5NZikQeY

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) September 2, 2024

But at the same time, Gitmo seems to belong to another era—the ‘Global War on Terror/GWOT’ Bush era of CIA black sites, extraordinary rendition, and the ability of military prosecutors to lock people up for decades without so much as a formal charge.

Ironically the terror situation globally is arguably far worse than it was when Rahim and other AQ operatives were initially apprehended on central Asian battlefields and locked up, thanks to Washington itself.

In 2015 the CIA directly helped a coalition of jihadists which make the Gitmo guys look like ‘moderates’ take Idlib province from Assad. These same NATO/Gulf-backed Idlib terrorists now hold all of Syria in the wake of Assad’s overthrow, and the Biden administration has positively celebrated it.

The real scandal…

The U.S. State Dept.’s own numbers: read the full report HERE at STATE.GOV

Yet Fox-style conservatives are now going to boil with rage over Biden “selling out America” by freeing Gitmo prisoners, but all the while the same ‘Fox-Cons’ will barely bat an eye over the ISIS-style terrorists now controlling Damascus. The mainstay of the Republican party has also been completely silent over America having armed Sunni hardline jihadists from Libya to Syria for more than the past decade, more content to make a national scandal over who gets released from Gitmo – all the while also dutifully ignoring the obvious Saudi state connections to 9/11.

And then there’s also the fact that the jihadists of central Asia, including the Taliban itself, were trained and supported by the CIA and allied intelligence services throughout the 1980s as part of the Afghan-Soviet war. The US deep state doesn’t like when average Americans actually dig in to history, where they discover that there are few terrorists or foreign dictators that Washington didn’t initially create or at least support at some point.

Authored by Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com,

It’s a “scheme of central bankers to subjugate humanity by taking all securities, bank deposits, and property financed with debt.”

David Webb, a former hedge fund manager, and Wall Street insider, has blown the lid off a diabolical plan more than 50 years in the making in a shocking new book.

He calls it The Great Taking.

I consider it an urgent must-read (available for free here).

Here’s the synopsis (emphasis mine):

It is about the taking of collateral (all of it), the end game of the current globally synchronous debt accumulation super cycle.

This scheme is being executed by long-planned, intelligent design, the audacity and scope of which is difficult for the mind to encompass.

Included are all financial assets and bank deposits, all stocks and bonds; and hence, all underlying property of all public corporations, including all inventories, plant and equipment; land, mineral deposits, inventions and intellectual property.

Privately owned personal and real property financed with any amount of debt will likewise be taken, as will the assets of privately owned businesses which have been financed with debt.

If even partially successful, this will be the greatest conquest and subjugation in world history.

Private, closely held control of ALL central banks, and hence of all money creation, has allowed a very few people to control all political parties and governments; the intelligence agencies and their myriad front organizations; the armed forces and the police; the major corporations and, of course, the media. These very few people are the prime movers. Their plans are executed over decades. Their control is opaque.

To be clear, it is these very few people, who are hidden from you, who are behind this scheme to confiscate all assets, who are waging a hybrid war against humanity.

Webb shows how the dark forces behind central banking have spent the last 50 years meticulously putting the legal structures in place worldwide to sever property rights for securities.

Gone are the days of physical paper share certificates and bearer securities, where you had control and ownership of the asset.

Today, your control and ownership have become increasingly distant as stocks, bonds, and other investments have been centralized away from account holders and rehypothecated—a slimy practice where financial institutions reuse an account holder’s asset for their own purposes, creating multiple claims on the same asset.

Contrary to what most brokerage account holders believe, they only have the appearance of ownership. If their broker goes bust, the stocks and bonds they think they own will be used to satisfy the other more senior creditors of their broker.

Webb shows how, during the 2008 financial crisis, a small broker in Florida went bankrupt.

Instead of sending the clients’ securities to another broker, as had traditionally been the case, they were swept up by the bankruptcy receiver.

But it’s not just some isolated small broker.

The bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers set the case law precedent for secured creditors to take client assets in the case of insolvency.

The most senior secured creditors are the most powerful financial institutions closest to the central banks—JP Morgan, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, etc.

The net effect of The Great Taking will be the biggest centralization of money and power in history as they take everyone’s securities during a future crisis.

Though it’s not just securities, they will also take ANY asset financed by debt—like real estate, cars, and small businesses—as people become unable to service their debts.

Webb provides all the details and proof in his book.

Here’s the bottom line.

The most powerful people in the world have succeeded in subverting the property rights of securities and ensnaring most of the world with debt.

The trap has been set, and the legal plumbing is in place.

All that is needed is a big crisis that will cause a tidal wave of bankruptcies, and the hidden forces behind the world’s central banks will be able to take everyone’s stocks, bonds, and any property financed by debt.

All the assets people think they own in brokerage accounts, bank accounts, pensions, and other financial accounts could vanish overnight.

Webb says, “There will be a game of musical chairs. When the music stops, you will not have a seat. It is designed to work that way.”

The Coming Collapse Is by Design

Webb makes a compelling case that the next financial crisis won’t be an accident; the global elite are making it happen to proceed with The Great Taking.

In short, it’s not plausible that such an intelligent, deliberate plan executed with persistence for more than 50 years could happen by accident.

Further, the forces behind central banking and (fake) money creation undoubtedly understand the dynamics of the boom-bust cycle they create by expanding and contracting the money supply.

They know the Everything Bubble they created will lead to a massive bust. That’s when they will execute The Great Taking.

Further, consumer debt is at record highs.

After many years of being encouraged to go deeply into debt, many Americans have reached their maximum debt saturation. They will be ripe for the picking.

As Webb explains:

“Debt is not a real thing. It is an invention, a construct designed to take real things.

The bottom line is that debt has for centuries had the function of dispossessing, of taking away property, capital and investments from someone.”

What You Can Do About It

Nobody knows the future or how The Great Taking will play out. The best you can do is to make yourself a hard target and not be among the low-hanging fruit.

You can do that by being debt-free and owning unencumbered assets within your direct control.

You don’t want to own something that is simultaneously someone else’s liability. That’s because the legal structures are already in place to take it from you during the next crisis.

Crucially, this includes fiat currency in bank accounts.

Remember, fiat currency is the unbacked liability of a bankrupt government.

Further, once you deposit currency into a bank, it is no longer yours. Technically and legally, it is the bank’s property, and what you own instead is an unsecured liability of the bank.

As The Great Taking unfolds, you won’t want to be on the other end of unsecured liabilities or IOUs of any kind.

I believe The Great Taking could happen sooner than most realize—and it won’t be pretty for many.

Most people have no idea how bad things could get—or how to prepare.

That’s why I’ve published a detailed guide called The Most Dangerous Economic Crisis in 100 Years: The Top 3 Strategies You Need Right Now.

Click here to download the free PDF.

Three Chinese nationals have been arrested in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo with 12 gold bars and $800,000 in cash hidden beneath their vehicle seats, according to the BBC.

According to South Kivu Governor Jean Jacques Purusi, the arrests were kept secret following the recent release of other Chinese nationals accused of illegal gold mining.

Eastern DR Congo, rich in gold, diamonds, and battery minerals, has faced decades of instability due to exploitation by foreign groups and militia control of mines, where leaders profit by selling resources to middlemen.

Governor Purusi revealed the arrests were kept secret due to ties between some metal dealers and powerful figures in Kinshasa. Acting on a tip, authorities discovered gold and cash after a thorough vehicle search near the Rwandan border but did not disclose the gold’s exact quantity.

The BBC report noted that last month, Purusi expressed outrage over the release of 17 Chinese nationals accused of illegal gold mining, stating it undermined efforts to reform DR Congo’s corrupt mineral sector. The group allegedly owed $10 million in taxes and fines. The Chinese embassy has not responded to the claims.

The arrests follow ongoing conflict in North Kivu, where a Rwanda-backed rebel group has seized territory. Last month, DR Congo announced a lawsuit against Apple over “blood minerals,” leading the company to cease sourcing from DR Congo and Rwanda. Rwanda denies involvement in the export of illegal minerals.

“These activities have fuelled a cycle of violence and conflict by financing militias and terrorist groups and have contributed to forced child labour and environmental devastation,” lawyers acting for the Congolese government said.

Authored by Christopher Roach via American Greatness,

The 1992 military justice drama, A Few Good Men, explores a fictional hazing incident involving the U.S. Marines. The main question posed by the film is whether there is a place for unwritten rules and customs, which may technically violate regulations, but may prove necessary for a unique institution like the military to accomplish its mission.

In determining whether the hazing was ordered from higher up, the defense counsel, played by Tom Cruise, cross examines the defendants’ commander, a no-nonsense Marine colonel played by Jack Nicholson. When the attorney insists that he deserves the truth, the colonel angrily responds, “You can’t handle the truth!”

While the colonel is made out to be the bad guy, many of the distortions, omissions, and outright lies from the managerial class are informed by the same ethos, and they think of themselves as the good guys. This type of “noble lying” arises from the governing elite’s belief in its own sophistication compared to the rabble, who would overreact to the truth.

This self-serving justification obscures that officials engaged in narrative control are often more concerned with avoiding embarrassment and accountability than any broader social goal.

Political Correctness Distorts Facts About New Orleans Attack

A few recent events illustrate this phenomenon quite clearly. A man with an ISIS flag on his truck committed a terrorist attack in New Orleans. He ran over pedestrians and then shot it out with police, having earlier announced his intentions on social media. At least 14 people were murdered in the attack.

A third-grade kid could figure out it was Islamic terrorism. Yet agent nose-ring from the FBI and the clownish local police chief would not describe the attack as terrorism in their initial press conference. The media interviewed some of his family but kept calling him American-born and emphasizing his U.S. Army service, lest we think there is anything unusual about an American named Shamsud-Din Jabbar.

Based on photographs, the killer’s appearance sometimes looked African-American and at other times Middle Eastern. When combined with the nature of the attack, this led to a lot of speculation he was Somali or Pakistani.

In multiple stories from the mainstream news, it was impossible to find out if his family had foreign origins or if they had ties to a terror-supporting country. It looked as if the media was trying to hide something, which we have seen many times before.

A local Louisiana paper was the only one to answer this completely natural question. It turns out his parents were natural-born Americans of Louisiana Creole descent, whose father converted to Islam. The father changed his name, presumably to signal commitment to his new faith, and all of his children had similarly foreign-sounding names.

Why the avoidance of facts by the press? Most people know that the vast majority of Muslims are not terrorists and that not all of those who become terrorists are foreign-born, as was the case with converts John Walker Lindh and Jose Padilla.

Scrutiny about names and origins arouses liberal sensitivities because such inquiries remind us that Islam is a recent and foreign import. Even when its votaries happen to be born here, this foreignness manifests in many lesser ways than terrorism, which exposes real flaws with the dominant ideology of multiculturalism.

Not limited to hiding facts, in New Orleans and in similar attacks, before we are even allowed to be angry, the media repeatedly bludgeons us with stories warning about the dangers of “backlash.” Victims are blamed before they can mourn.

After the Fort Hood attacks by mutinous army officer Nidal Hassan, the general in charge of the U.S. Army said insultingly, “Our diversity, not only in our Army, but in our country, is a strength. And as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse.”

In spite of these warnings about stereotypes and backlash, there has been almost no significant backlash against Muslims in the United States, even after the 9/11 attacks.

The U.K. Is Similarly Handicapped By Ideology

There has been an even more aggressive media blackout in response to the horrifying rape gangs in the United Kingdom. For years, not only the media, but police, politicians, social workers, and other authorities downplayed the reality of these attacks, blamed victims, and did little to stop the rape of young, native British females by Pakistani immigrant gangs.

The story was back in the news after multiple tweets by Elon Musk about the need for the British government to investigate these matters. As was the case when these stories first came to light in 2014, the media and politicians have been loudly expressing concerns about backlash.

Defending the authorities’ atrocious handling of the matter, British writer Tom Holland said: “The true nightmare of #Rotherham is that the motives of those who turned a blind eye, however monstrous the consequences, were indeed noble.”

In his words, “It wasn’t the indifference that was noble, but the concern not to demonise a minority. Caring for the weak. The Christian thing . . . I think they genuinely didn’t want to give succour to racism against a minority – which was a noble principle.”

There are, in fact, things worse than developing prejudices, not least among them failing to prevent actual child rape. But, in the modern West, whether in the United States or the United Kingdom, authorities are more afraid of being accused of racism than stopping terrorism and child rape. Fear of being accused of racism even contributed to the 9/11 attacks, lest we forget, because the gate agent didn’t want to stereotype the Arab men carrying box cutters.

Real racism has certainly led to abuses, particularly a generation or two in the past. But the left’s mélange of misplaced compassion, anti-working-class prejudice, and social experimentation in the pursuit of anti-racism has done much more harm to everyone in recent years, not least by contributing to the victimization of innocents when the perpetrators are minorities.

Free Speech and Democracy

Under the emerging ethos of safety, authorities treat information and speech as things that must be curated and controlled to prevent the dangers of prejudice. The dominant ideology conceives of the public as parochial, tempestuous, and easily seduced by bad speech. Instead of calling regulated speech what it is—simply ideas they disagree with—censors in the government and the compliant media ominously label it “hate speech” and “disinformation.”

Self-government is not possible if the people are deprived of facts from authorities. Democratic self-government does not even have any obvious value if we also think the voters are too stupid, easily misled, or prone to spasms of emotional hatred to govern themselves.

Far from hateful, Americans, Britons, and westerners in general are remarkably fair-minded. Because of a deep-seated tradition of individualism, we are averse to judging others as part of groups and mistreating them because of the crimes of their coethnics. It is the British Empire, after all, that abolished slavery around the globe, and it is the West that developed the ideals of limited government and the rule of law, which together protect individual rights.

The emerging managerial elite has weaponized this generosity to import maximally alien foreigners in order to increase social conflict; this, in turn, provides support to illiberal and authoritarian plans of social control and social engineering.

The leadership class has no respect for the West, its history, or its people. This is evidenced by their consistent desire to hide the truth and subject our most vulnerable citizens to horrific violence, lest we all “get the wrong idea.” They have forfeited their authority to rule because of their repeated refusal to treat us with candor and protect our most vulnerable citizens.

Contrary to their prejudices, we can handle the truth.

Coming from diverse backgrounds, the president-elect’s Cabinet selections bring a variety of skills to the new government.

After sweeping all seven battleground states this year and becoming the first Republican to win the national popular vote in 20 years, President-elect Donald Trump has assembled a team to lead his next administration.

The Cabinet mainly consists of the vice president, the leaders of 15 executive departments, and several other top positions. Most, but not all, of these appointments require confirmation by the Senate. Trump’s selections come from diverse backgrounds, with many hailing from the business world outside Washington politics. Two of the nominees also come from across the political aisle.

The Epoch Times’ Jacob Burg and Jackson Richman provide below a brief overview of what Trump’s nominees will bring to the table in his second administration… (click image for large legible version)

For a full breakdown of each individual, read here…

Authored by Frank Shostak via The Mises Institute,

The yearly growth rate of the consumer price index (CPI) stood at 2.7 percent in November, against 2.6 percent in October. In June 2022, the yearly growth rate was 9.1 percent.

The price of a good is the amount of money asked per unit of some particular good at which an exchange will obtain. It follows, then, that if the quantity of money increases faster than the quantity of goods, the price of goods will also increase, all other things being equal.

When money is injected, it enters a particular market and then moves through the price structure to other markets. The injected money does not spread instantaneously to all the markets, there is a time lag. The yearly growth rate of our monetary measure—AMS for the US—stood at 79 percent in February 2021 against 3.7 percent in October this year.

It is estimated that the average time lag from changes in money supply and changes in prices as depicted by the consumer price index the CPI is about 26 months. This suggests that the massive decline in the momentum of the CPI is because of the large decline in the yearly growth rate of the money supply. Again, the yearly growth rate of money supply fell from 79 percent in February 2021 to 3.7 percent by October this year.

On account of the time lag, it is quite likely that the yearly growth rate of the CPI is poised for a further visible decline ahead. Based on the lagged money supply growth rate, it is quite likely that the yearly growth rate of the CPI will turn negative from the second half of next year (see chart).

The negative figure in the yearly growth rate of the CPI raises the likelihood that most commentators will start warning about deflation and the threat that it is going to pose to the economy. A general decline in the prices of goods and services is regarded by most experts as bad news since it is seen to be associated with major economic slumps such as the Great Depression of the 1930’s. Note that, by July 1932, the yearly growth rate of industrial production fell to –31 percent, while by September 1932, the yearly growth rate of the consumer price index plunged to –10.7 percent.

According to many economists, when prices decline it is harder for borrowers to pay down existing debts, leading to growing defaults, while banks become reluctant to extend credit. Consequently, these two factors generate a downward spiral in the supply of credit and a consequent decline in economic activity.

Furthermore, most experts regard a general decline in prices as “bad news” because it raises expectations for a further decline in prices, and this, it is held, slows down individuals’ propensity to spend, which, in turn, undermines investment in plant and machinery. These factors set in motion an economic slump. Moreover, as the slump further depresses the prices of goods, this intensifies the pace of economic decline. It is for these reasons that many economic experts are of the view that it is the duty of the central bank—the Fed in the US—to prevent deflation.

In his speech before the National Economists Club (Washington, DC, November 21, 2002), entitled “Deflation: Making Sure ‘it’ Doesn’t Happen Here,” Ben Bernanke—then a Fed governor—laid out measures that the central bank should employ to combat deflation, such as buying longer-maturity Treasury debt and the “helicopter money.”

For most experts the occurrence of economic depression is because of a collapse in aggregate demand. In this view, since demand causes supply, the central bank should embark on massive monetary expansion in order to boost the demand for goods and services. According to much popular thinking, a strengthening in aggregate demand will set in motion the increase in the production of goods and services (i.e., economic growth).

But why would an increase in demand lead to an increase in the supply? Without a suitable infrastructure, no expansion in the supply is going to emerge because of the increase in the demand. Also, to suggest that consumers postpone their buying of goods at present because prices are expected to decline would mean that individuals have abandoned any desire to live in the present. However, without the maintenance of life in the present, no future life is conceivable.

Contrary to such thinking, deflation, which is manifested by declining prices, is the mechanism that makes a great variety of goods produced more accessible to individuals. Murray Rothbard wrote,

[I]mproved standards of living come to the public from the fruits of capital investment. Increased productivity tends to lower prices (and costs) [i.e., deflation] and thereby distribute the fruits of free enterprise to all the public, raising the standard of living of all consumers. Forcible propping up of the price level prevents this spread of higher living standards.

How the Central Bank Makes Things Worse

Whenever the central bank artificially inflates money into the economy this benefits various individuals engaged in activities which sprang up on the back of the expansionary monetary policy, at the expense of true wealth-generators. Through expansionary monetary policy, the central bank gives rise to a class of individuals whose ventures could not come into existence without continued inflation and which distort the structure of production.

The consumption by these recipients of the newly generated money and credit is made possible through the diversion of real savings from wealth producers. Through this process, these recipients divert production, saving, and capital investment without contributing anything in return.

The expansionary monetary policy of the central bank generates an environment where it appears that it is possible to consume without production. Not only does the easy-money policy raise the prices of existing goods, but monetary inflation also gives rise to the production of goods and assets which would otherwise not be the case. These goods are not demanded in those amounts and/or prices by consumers.

Once the central bank reverses its expansionary monetary policy, the diversion of production from wealth producers to non-wealth producers is arrested. This, in turn, undermines the demand of non-wealth-producers for various goods and services thereby exerting downward pressure on their prices.

A tighter monetary policy undermines various activities that sprang up the previous expansionary monetary policy. This partially halts the bleeding of wealth generators. The decline in prices comes in when prices realistically realign with the new production caused by previous inflation. Deflation during recession signifies the beginning of economic healing.

As a rule, what the central bank tries to stabilize is the so-called “price index.” The alleged success of this policy, however, hinges on the state of saving, capital investment, and production. As long as saving expands, a bout of inflation generates the illusion that the expansionary monetary policy is the right remedy. This is because the inflationary expansion of money and credit, which renews the flow of real savings to non-wealth-producers, props up their demand for goods and services, thereby halting or even reversing the decline in prices. Furthermore, if saving and capital investment is still growing, the pace of economic growth stays positive. Hence, the mistaken view that an inflationary monetary policy can reverse deflation (falling prices) is the key in reviving economic activity.

The illusion that through inflation it is possible to keep the economy going is shattered once savings begin to decline and the distortions in the capital structure are recognized. Once this happens, the economy begins a downward plunge. The most aggressive expansionary monetary policy would fail to reverse this plunge. Even if easy-money policies were to succeed in raising prices and inflationary expectations, this could not revive the economy.

Considering the declining momentum of the lagged money supply growth rate, and the likely shrinking savings and capital investment, economic activity could enter a severe recessionary phase from the second half of 2025.

Conclusion

Contrary to the popular view, deflation is good for the economy. Thus, when prices are declining in response to the expansion of wealth, this means that individuals’ living standards are rising. Further, when prices decline because of the bursting of a financial bubble, it is also overall good for the economy, for it indicates that the impoverishment of wealth producers is being arrested.

A brush fire that has spread to over 1,200 acres in Los Angeles amid a massive wind storm has prompted a mass evacuation in the upscale Pacific Palisades area on Tuesday.

🚨🇺🇸 BIDEN CANCELS EVENT AS WINDSTORM FUELS PALISADES FIRE FORCING EVACUATIONS

The windstorm fueling the Palisades Fire has forced mandatory evacuations and canceled Biden’s event in Thermal, CA.

UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain warns, “Just about everything is going to get… pic.twitter.com/aVKr0okLas

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) January 7, 2025

“Evacuate now from the area of Palisades…” officials warned on X. “Those not in the evacuation area should shelter in place.”

LAFD: Evacuate now from the area of Palisades Area. Those not in the evacuation area should shelter in place. Evacuation order for Palisades Fire. Maps and information can be found at https://t.co/GihYtg2yPf https://t.co/kMAzuc7uaf

— LA City Emergency Alerts (@NotifyLA) January 7, 2025

The Palisades – home to numerous A-list celebrities, has roughly 9,400 homes and 27,000 residents. After the fire broke out, smoke plumes spread quickly toward structures and homes – including a large area of Topanga Canyon, tucked-away community with a single road in and out.

Meanwhile, the South Coast Air Quality Management District on Tuesday issued an air quality alert for the Santa Monica Mountains “due to increased fine particle pollution from wildfire smoke,” which has now traveled as far east as Diamond Bar, located around 30 miles from downtown LA.

Massive fire above my neighborhood of Pacific Palisades, in #LosAngeles. Evacuating. pic.twitter.com/vJI06iWa1X

— Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) January 7, 2025

Officials shut down all traffic on the Pacific Coast Highway at Topanga Canyon Boulevard – causing (greater than usual) traffic jams that could be seen all over.

California: The structure loss will likely be huge from the Palisades Fire. #wildfire #cafire

The flame lengths off this fire after making a slope reversal are insane. Firefighters have their work cut out for them. Yo Congress, still plan on cutting wildland firefighter pay?… pic.twitter.com/rjJRLpCf2k

— The Hotshot Wake Up (@HotshotWake) January 7, 2025

Actor James Woods has posted several videos to X showing the fire raging near his house.

Leaving pic.twitter.com/yJDQ8xIhbI

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) January 7, 2025

Two houses from us… pic.twitter.com/5lx6kMqdmN

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) January 7, 2025

People are abandoning their cars in the street…

KTLA’s @GeneKangTV reports from the perimeter of the #PalisadesFire where crews needed to clear vehicles using a bulldozer to make access for firefighters. Live coverage: https://t.co/ZEEfGXODEx pic.twitter.com/ziOctuFD7X

— KTLA (@KTLA) January 7, 2025

We’ve counted at least 7 homes in Pacific Palisades destroyed by flames as the fire continues to spread rapidly. Not sure if firefighters are struggling to get to this area or what, we’ve tried grabbing water hoses ourselves. #PalisadesFire pic.twitter.com/nv1P3s1XEP

— Matthew Seedorff (@MattSeedorff) January 7, 2025

Developing…

Authored by Andrew Noymer via RealClearPolitics,

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya – the Stanford professor who is President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for the directorship of the National Institutes of Health – will bring transparency to this government agency, which sorely needs it.

I am an odd person to write a piece supporting Jay Bhattacharya’s nomination to lead the NIH. During the pandemic, I disagreed with Jay on COVID response. Jay supported the Great Barrington Declaration, while I favored a more active and engaged public health response, broadly although not completely along the lines of what was actually done in the United States. At times our differences were fundamental, other times pragmatic. Nonetheless, the differences of opinion between Jay and me on this subject were deep.

I debated Jay over Zoom on the topic of pandemic response, so I am well aware of his views on COVID response, as he is of mine. Our debate was not archived but was roughly similar to the Munk Debate I did with Jay’s Stanford colleague, John Ioannidis, and the SoHo Forum debate I did with Jay’s Great Barrington collaborator, Martin Kulldorff. These discussions are dated now, but they still reflect deep intellectual rifts that were brought into sharp relief by COVID and the collective response to it.

What makes my endorsement of Jay all the more peculiar is that he and I still disagree on COVID response. I know because I had the chance to talk with Jay and others in October at a conference that he organized at Stanford, at which I served as a panelist. What’s more, Jay invited me to this conference knowing that his and my opinions on this subject continue to diverge. Here and in other examples, I have seen Jay’s commitment to hearing diverse and disagreeing viewpoints. Jay is not one to try to muzzle a dissenting opinion.

The most important outstanding item on the COVID agenda is: Where did SARS-CoV-2 – the virus that causes COVID – come from? The pursuit of this question is where Jay Bhattacharya and I have the most in common. I am on the advisory board of Biosafety Now, an organization dedicated to increasing transparency in high-risk experiments on pathogens with the capacity to harm people. Jay was, for a time, also involved with BN.

The stakes could not be higher: COVID killed 15 million people worldwide in 2020 and hasn’t stopped killing, although thankfully at a lower rate more recently. Tracing the origins of epidemics is one of the cornerstones of public health. This task is woven into its very fabric, even from before John Snow’s founding the science of epidemiology in the 19th century, through to the work of American pioneer Theobald Smith in the 20th century, and to the present day. There are a number of questions about COVID that may point to SARS-CoV-2 having leaked from a lab.

The NIH has not heretofore acted with enough transparency on COVID origins. It was a funder of gain-of-function research on coronaviruses. Former NIH director Francis Collins and former director of NIAID (National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases), Anthony Fauci, were both major proponents of gain-of-function virology research, some of which is objectively dangerous enough to require the highest security (BSL-4) labs (think: labs inside an air lock and researchers in pressure suits). Grants from NIH in this area included funding the research of Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance and Peter Hotez of the Baylor College of Medicine.

However, NIH has not acted to shed light on its actions, and has even stonewalled Congress.

There is nothing inherently political about wanting to know where COVID comes from; it is a core function of epidemiology. It is virologists – not those in epidemiology who wish to get to the bottom of COVID origins – who have politicized the COVID origins debate. As one of my colleagues at the University of California, Irvine condescendingly scolded me via email in 2022: “Suggesting lab leaks or worse (without any real evidence) feeds into the right-wing, anti-China conspiracies promoted by the Trump administration.” Other virologists have shown a remarkable incuriosity: “What difference does it make where it [SARS-CoV-2] came from?” asked another one of my University of California, Irvine colleagues, at a conference here. It makes an enormous difference. To avoid a repeat of COVID, we need better regulation of gain-of-function virology, and full transparency about coronavirus research in the years leading up to the pandemic.

Jay Bhattacharya understands that the NIH budget is public money, and that every American is a stakeholder in research performed by NIH, including the grants it makes to external scientists. He and I had, and continue to have, deep disagreements about the public health response to COVID, but the most important task facing NIH at the moment is give the world a full account of its involvement in research on the bat viruses that are the ancestor of the COVID virus, so we can better understand how SARS-CoV-2 jumped into humans. Transparency is a principal (and principled) solution to lack of public trust in institutions. I am confident that Jay’s pursuit of transparency can restore public trust in NIH.

Andrew Noymer is associate professor of population health and disease prevention in the Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health, University of California, Irvine.

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2025, the world’s biggest tech show, officially began on Monday. 

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang kicked off the week by unveiling the latest products designed to advance gaming, autonomous vehicles, robotics, and agentic AI (key takeaways here). 

Along with Nvidia’s new AI products, here are the ten most impressive unveils at CES 2025 so far (courtesy of Rowan Cheung):

A 360° AI-powered body scanning health mirror that can scan your heart, weight, and metabolic health

It’s only been 1 day of CES 2025, and the announcements have already been incredible.

The 10 most impressive reveals of CES 2025 so far:

1. A 360° AI-powered body scanning health mirror that can scan your heart, weight, and metabolic health pic.twitter.com/c8iaJFB5EW

— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) January 7, 2025

Roborock’s Saros Z70: A robotic vacuum that has a mechanical arm for picking up objects in the way of cleaning the floor

2. Roborock’s Saros Z70: A robotic vacuum that has a mechanical arm for picking up objects in the way of cleaning the floor pic.twitter.com/M6T428zeYa

— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) January 7, 2025

Halliday Glasses: Smart glasses with a 3.5-inch internal monochrome display

3. Halliday Glasses: Smart glasses with a 3.5-inch internal monochrome display

These glasses are equipped with an AI agent that can listen to conversations, answer questions during meetings, and do live translationpic.twitter.com/1jIigyCC7l

— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) January 7, 2025

Project DIGITS by NVIDIA: A $3000 personal supercomputer that’s 1,000x the power of an average laptop

4. Project DIGITS by NVIDIA: A $3000 personal supercomputer that’s 1,000x the power of an average laptop pic.twitter.com/djMkIOolt7

— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) January 7, 2025

BYD’s supercar, Yangwang U9, jumping 6 meters forward (over potholes)

5. BYD’s supercar, Yangwang U9, jumping 6 meters forward (over potholes) pic.twitter.com/QAQZdMRyHT

— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) January 7, 2025

A pen with three cameras at the tip that turns any surface of the world into a canvas with notes synced and recorded to your phone

6. A pen with three cameras at the tip that turns any surface of the world into a canvas with notes synced and recorded to your phone pic.twitter.com/fPHHFyLjek

— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) January 7, 2025

NVIDIA Cosmos: An open source, open weight Video World Model designed for the upcoming age of robotics source

7. NVIDIA Cosmos: An open source, open weight Video World Model designed for the upcoming age of robotics source pic.twitter.com/19XVUKIOud

— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) January 7, 2025

Portalgraph: A 3D projector that projects VR space into the real world

8. Portalgraph: A 3D projector that projects VR space into the real world pic.twitter.com/kGdLToYToO

— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) January 7, 2025

Samsung Vision AI TVs that come with real-time translation, the ability to adapt to user preferences, AI upscaling, and instant content summaries

9. Samsung Vision AI TVs that come with real-time translation, the ability to adapt to user preferences, AI upscaling, and instant content summaries pic.twitter.com/303yFOZr5q

— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) January 7, 2025

NVIDIA GB200 NVL2: A datacenter superchip with 72 Blackwell GPUs, 1.4 exaFLOPS, and 130 transistors

10. NVIDIA GB200 NVL2: A datacenter superchip with 72 Blackwell GPUs, 1.4 exaFLOPS, and 130 transistorspic.twitter.com/O7r4foKUr4

— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) January 7, 2025

This is only day one.