Ten Questions for Sergey Brin
This week, it was reported that “Sergey Brin is selling his super yacht”. Great! Good for Sergey.
Then we cross to George Christensen at Substack:
Digital Dictators: How Big Tech is Rigging Elections & Controlling Your Mind.
Sergey Brin is the co-founder of Google (with Larry Page). Brin is worth 132 billion dollars, according to Forbes. Until 2023, he was married to RFK Jr’s 2024 presidential running mate, Nicole Shanahan.
Google, the world’s search engine, was originally a research project of the American deep state. As Nafeez Ahmed explains:
INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a new crowd-funded investigative journalism project, breaks the exclusive story of how the United States intelligence community funded, nurtured and incubated Google as part of a drive to dominate the world through control of information. Seed-funded by the NSA and CIA, Google was merely the first among a plethora of private sector start-ups co-opted by US intelligence to retain ‘information superiority.’
The origins of this ingenious strategy trace back to a secret Pentagon-sponsored group, that for the last two decades has functioned as a bridge between the US government and elites across the business, industry, finance, corporate, and media sectors. The group has allowed some of the most powerful special interests in corporate America to systematically circumvent democratic accountability and the rule of law to influence government policies, as well as public opinion in the US and around the world. The results have been catastrophic: NSA mass surveillance, a permanent state of global war, and a new initiative to transform the US military into Skynet.
https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e836451a959e
Evil stuff. The war on terror has much of which to be ashamed.
And Google is fulfilling its promise as an arm of government, in spades, two decades or so on. It has massive market share of the now indispensable online search market. Internet search is now the main place on the planet where people find out things. It is, therefore, ripe for control by bad actors. Back in the day, companies paid big dollars to hire experts in something called search engine optimisation, or SEO. This is about getting your brand to the top of the pile, online. That all seemed fair enough. But there came a tipping point, whenever precisely that was, when the rigging moved out of marketing and into propaganda. This has been deliberate, malicious, with global reach and evil in its intent and its outcomes.
Combined with surveillance capitalism, it has rendered the whole world and all its citizens a giant panopticon. They see and know everything about us. That is bad enough. Worse is what they do with all that data. They use it for global control, and for manipulation.
Some fun facts about Google:
· Google has in the 90 per cents of market share in many countries;
· Google engages in “filtering and ordering”;
· 95 per cent of “clicks” go to the first page of Google search;
· 50 per cent of clicks go to the top two sites on the first page;
· Google has over 200 platforms with which to play;
· Google can turn bias off and on at the flick of a switch;
· The algorithms constantly “push” users in particular directions, now with AI.
Brin has the subject of the attention of one Robert Epstein, an eminent American academic psychologist. Epstein has done research on the impact that search engines have on how we think about politics and other stuff.
It is pretty frightening. George Christensen summarises:
Dr Robert Epstein uncovered that Google can shift millions of votes in national elections, using short-lived content to guide decisions without a trace.
This isn't democracy; it's a dictatorship disguised as choice, where Google and other tech giants are shaping what you see, think, and believe.
The manipulation has been happening since 2012, and if you don’t question what you see online, you’re falling into their trap.
We must wake up and fight back by being aware of this manipulation, digging deeper, and not accepting what Big Tech feeds us.
Sky News has been reporting on Epstein, Google and Hillary Clinton, aka Killary:
In August 2019, Dr. Robert Epstein found himself caught in the middle of a heated clash between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
Just weeks earlier, he had testified before Congress, presenting compelling research that accused Google of playing an instrumental role in the 2016 election.
Epstein claimed the tech giant had manipulated search results and other tools to tilt the scales in Hillary Clinton’s favour.
Although Google’s efforts failed and Trump was elected, his evidence painted a damning picture of a corporation wielding immense, unchecked power.
Then, President Trump tweeted about Epstein’s findings, drawing attention to the academic’s work.
… By exposing the truth and defending his work, Epstein had made powerful enemies—two, to be precise: Hillary Clinton and Google.
… The academic establishment, likely influenced by the same corporate and political interests he had criticized, turned its back on him.
He found himself marginalised, unable to publish in peer-reviewed journals.
The former editor-in-chief of "Psychology Today" suddenly found himself banished from the very world that previously provided him with refuge, respect, and even reverence.
Things were bad, then they got worse.
Shortly after making powerful enemies, his wife died in a car crash after losing control of her vehicle for unknown reasons, an event that shook him to his core.
Adding to the anguish, as he recently told Joe Rogan, Epstein was denied access to the vehicle involved, raising questions about what really happened that day.
… This, along with the peculiar accidents and declining health of several of his closest friends, painted a haunting picture of a man besieged on all sides—not just professionally, but personally as well.
The collusion between Big Tech and political elites, as Epstein discovered firsthand, isn’t just theoretical.
The ties between Google and the Clintons run deep, with Eric Schmidt, Google’s then-chairman, both supporting and advising Clinton’s campaign.
Google had gambled heavily on Clinton defeating Trump in 2016, offering up its resources, its platform, and, as Epstein’s research revealed, its algorithms, to shape the electorate’s perceptions.
The stakes were exceptionally high, and Epstein’s research lifted the lid on some uncomfortable truths.
… Epstein referenced an infamous short video called “The Selfish Ledger,” which explores the company's ability to reengineer humanity according to Google's values.
Two enemies that you do not wish to make, if you wish to have your life safely continue as normal. Talk about twin candidates for the position of AntiChrist being thrown together. Epstein’s son was also nearly killed in a car crash, too. An American Attorney General told Epstein that he would probably be killed, too.
The author of the compelling Sky News story is as follows:
John MacGhlionn is a researcher and essayist who writes on psychology and social relations. He has a keen interest in social dysfunction and media manipulation.
His contribution to letting this genie out of the secret bottle is exemplary. Miranda Devine of the New York Post has been on this story, as well.
https://nypost.com/2023/05/24/how-google-manipulates-search-to-favor-liberals-and-tip-elections/
As Devine notes, Google has somehow largely stayed under the radar while greater attention has been focused on Facebook and Twitter/X. In the latter’s case, until Elon Musk took control. Devine had a story on Google’s election rigging ready to go just prior to the 2020 election. Sadly, the story was pulled by her editor, who had rung Google for comment. The New York Post got 50 per cent of its business from Google links. So that was that. The way the world works.
Robert Epstein’s unmissable 2018 paper was called “Taming Big Tech: the Case for Monitoring”.
https://hackernoon.com/taming-big-tech-5fef0df0f00d
The man himself, interviewed this year by Michael Knowles, author of Speechless, can be seen here:
He has also done The Joe Rogan Experience.
The Selfish Ledger, a leaked Google video referenced by Robert Epstein, can be seen here:
Julian Assange has also been on Google’s case, here:
https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/
Assange provides astonishing insights into the world of interconnected elites, PPPs (public private partnerships), thinktanks, NGOs, politicised philanthropy, “don’t be evil” doublespeak and one Jared Cohen. Eric Schmidt is a central character in the story. It is gripping reading. No wonder they all hate Assange. Mike Pompeo planned to assassinate him.
Mike Yeadon has spoken of adopting decentralised communications and “de-googling”. Do it!
Whitney Webb has stated recently, in an interview with Neil Oliver:
They're crazy eugenicists that don't give a damn about regular people. So regular people have to give a damn about themselves, uh, and stop looking for these people to save them, because they're hurting us into this vision that H. G. Wells and people like Eric Schmidt and Henry Kissinger have shared of this idea of there's going to be an upper class and a lower class, and they're going to become different species, and us, the lower class, are going to become, basically, mentally retarded and eat bugs and become goblins that serve these like super elite that are enhanced genetically in all of this stuff.
I mean, it's madness. And we have to keep in mind a lot of the stuff that's being framed as either mental enhancement, like the brain machine interface or genetic enhancement. All of those things are dual use. You can enhance and you can diminish. With all of those technologies and almost all of those technologies have been heavily developed by groups like DARPA in the Pentagon in the United States and other militaries around the world, specifically for that reason, because not only are they enhancers, they can be used as weapons of war against people, targeting them on the genetic level and all of this.
So we are literally living in a society where maniacs are in the driver's seat and we need to get out of the car immediately. (Emphasis added).
https://rumble.com/embed/v57ks7x/
Eric Schmidt was CEO, then Chair, of Google, then Chair of Meta (the owner of Facebook and Instagram):
Eric Schmidt was CEO for 10 years, then Chairman of Google (and then Alphabet) for almost 10 more, marking him as internet royalty. Which makes his views on the unfolding AI revolution especially worth hearing. To that end, he says the changes wrought by large language models (LLM) like ChatGPT over the next two years will be more profound than most people realise. "Much bigger than the horrific impact we've had from social media."
Internet royalty! He is certainly right in the thick of Google’s global domination and all that has flowed from it. He co-wrote a book with Henry Kissinger on AI. It would be interesting to explore why Schmidt believes social media to have been “horrific”. Perhaps because it has let one hundred non elitist media organs bloom.
As always, Webb is on the money. Appropriately here, Webb is an expert on the connections between politics, economics and organised crime. Indeedy.
The capacity for Google to engage in promoting its own agenda and simultaneously memory holing those of its opponents reflects a number of developments – including its success in creating a global monopoly out of a garage business initially developed by DARPA (the US military’s research arm) back in the day, its powerful connections, its ability to convince people that it is benign and unbiased AND the willingness of countless dupes to trade self-respect and privacy for convenience.
On memory holing, the redoubtable Kel Richards has been on this at his Ozwords website. Kel explains:
… The expression ‘memory hole’ was coined by the brilliant George Orwell in his grim (and prophetic) novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (published as long ago as 1949). In that book ‘memory hole’ refers to an incinerator where documents are destroyed, rather than stored. The central character in that book is Winston Smith who works for a government department called The Ministry of Truth. Winston’s job was to purge the written records of anything contrary to the mandates, visions, and approval of his government. Orwell spends a relatively long time describing the memory holes in Nineteen Eighty-Four. They are ‘oblong slits protected by a wire grating.’ They are everywhere, not just in all the rooms of the building in which Winston works, but also ‘at short intervals in every corridor.’ Sadly, it still happens—and happens for real in our world today. When people claim Australia’s history is all bad, all bleak, and all horrible—they have fed all the good things that colonialism brought into the ‘memory hole’ to erase them. When they pretend that land was stolen they have fed the truth into a ‘memory hole.’ Land was actually developed—virgin bushland was developed into productive farmland to feed a nation. And temporary, fragile bush humpies were replaced by permanent buildings—to house a nation. And Indigenous Australians were given (free of charge, as a gift) a developed economy, engineering, a written language, democracy, the rule of law, trial by jury, the presumption of innocence and the precious gift of being automatically made British subjects (just like every other human being living in colonial Australia). When the record is distorted in this way, then half the story had been fed into the ‘memory hole.’ Mind you, the expression can also turn up from time to time in conversations. For example, someone might say, ‘down the memory hole’ to explain why they can’t remember something. More often, however, the phrase is related to politics and may be used when someone appears to be attempting to erase the public’s memory of an event.
https://ozwords.com.au/history
All is part of the Google strategy, indeed, its core business.
So, given all this, and the fact that search is an online era public good, I have some questions for Sergey Brin:
· Have you heard of Robert Epstein?
· What do you think of his research on search engine pysop-style manipulation, mind-shaping activities and election fraud?
· What do you know of the death of Epstein’s wife?
· Why did you hire Eric Schmidt as CEO?
· Are you aware of Schmidt’s connections with the Bilderberg Group?
· Do you accept the characterisation of Schmidt (by Whitney Webb) as a crazy eugenicist?
· What do you think of the possibility of Donald Trump winning in November, and are you using, this time around, the means at your disposal that almost got Hillary over the line in 2016?
· Did you ever think that you could rule the world and get paid billions for the privilege, back in 1997?
· Do you believe in the singularity?
· What do you believe gives you the right to elevate on your search engine views with which you agree and to make disappear views with which you disagree?
One could think of many more. Like, have you read Controligarchs? Any thoughts? Obviously, I don’t expect any answers any time soon. But the questions are, nonetheless, worth asking, n’est-ce pas?
Interestingly, whistleblowers have revealed, from internal sources, that Google sees its mission as “resequencing human behaviour according to Google’s values”.
Pretty chilling. Google has been called the most powerful institution in world history. Arguable, certainly. Is there anyone out there, other than Hillary Clinton and her class, who doesn’t think we have a problem here?
Paul Collits
6 October 2024
It is most certainly "pretty chilling". A lot of articles concerning Google get lost in the details, but this article was clear and, from what I've heard previously, accurate. All information is much appreciated, Paul Collits.
Ok. So you lost me at Assange, Webb and Yeadon.