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How to Hide an Empire

How to Hide an Empire

A History of the Greater United States
by Daniel Immerwahr 2019 513 pages
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Key Takeaways

1. Perception is the Foundation of Control: The Global Cult's Strategy

Perception is all and those behind human control know that which is why perception is the target 24/7 of the psychopathic manipulators that I call the Global Cult.

Control of perception. The entire foundation of human control and oppression hinges on manipulating perception. If the Global Cult can dictate what people perceive as reality, they can dictate collective behavior and the very nature of human society. This is achieved by controlling the flow of information, ensuring that the masses remain in a "perceptual delusion."

Two "worlds." Humanity is divided into two "worlds": the ignorant masses (World 1) and the Global Cult (World 2), a secret network hoarding knowledge. World 1 is kept in a "Postage Stamp Consensus" – a tiny band of perceived knowledge downloaded through education, media, science, and medicine. This programmed belief is presented as fact, while genuine knowledge is censored.

Fear is currency. The Cult knows that fear is the most potent tool for control. By instilling fear, they can manipulate billions into surrendering their freedoms, as seen with the "Covid" hoax. This monumental lie became the perception of billions, leading to their compliance with house arrest and fascistic societies.

2. The Global Cult: A Secret Network Dictating World Events

Apparently unconnected countries, corporations, institutions, organisations and people are on the same team pursuing the same global outcome.

Spider's web. The Global Cult operates as a spider's web, with the "spider" at the center dictating through secret societies and semi-secret groups. These networks coordinate governments, corporations, banking, media, and tech giants to pursue a single global agenda, while the public perceives them as independent entities.

Pyramidal hierarchy. Compartmentalization is key to this control. The Cult's inner core sits at the peak of a pyramidal hierarchy, imposing its will on the level below, which then acquiesces and imposes on the next. This "Yessir" pyramid ensures that a tiny few can direct billions, with most participants unaware of the larger agenda.

  • Inner core: Most secretive bloodline families.
  • Secret societies: Freemasons, Knights Templar, Opus Dei.
  • Cusp organizations: Round Table, Council on Foreign Relations, Bilderberg Group, Trilateral Commission, Club of Rome.

Sabbatian-Frankism. A major expression of this Cult is Sabbatian-Frankism, a sinister cult posing as "Jewish" but inverting traditional Judaism. They infiltrate religions, governments, and institutions, using "crypto-Jews" (Dönmeh) to manipulate from behind the scenes. This cult is linked to the Rothschild banking dynasty, the Bavarian Illuminati, and the origins of Marxism.

3. "Covid": A Calculated Catastrophe and Psyop

The pandemic represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world.

Long-planned agenda. The "Covid pandemic" is not a natural event but a "Psyop" – a psychological operation – orchestrated by the Cult to rapidly advance its agenda for a "Hunger Games Society." This involves destroying independent livelihoods and making the population dependent on the state through a "guaranteed income."

Prophetic scenarios. The Rockefeller Foundation, a key Cult front, published "Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development" in 2010, detailing an "imaginary" pandemic that mirrored the "Covid" events, including lockdowns, masks, and authoritarian control. The Bill Gates-funded Event 201 in 2019, weeks before the alleged outbreak, simulated a global coronavirus pandemic, serving as a rehearsal for the real-life implementation.

Bill Gates's role. Cult operative Bill Gates, through his pivotal funding, controls the World Health Organization (WHO) and its Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Gates openly advocated for economy-destroying lockdowns and mass vaccination, even smiling while discussing the "greatest economic hit" in his lifetime. His vast network of funded organizations and media outlets ensures the global coordination of the "Covid" narrative.

4. The "Virus" Does Not Exist: A Computer-Generated Fiction

The ‘test’ used worldwide to detect infectious ‘Covid’ to produce all the illusory ‘cases’ and ‘deaths’ compiled by Johns Hopkins and others cannot detect infectious disease.

Fraudulent testing. The entire "Covid" hoax relies on fraudulent testing, specifically the RT-PCR test, which its inventor, Kary Mullis, stated "cannot detect infectious disease." Mullis, who conveniently died in August 2019, would have vociferously opposed its misuse. This test, when amplified beyond 35 cycles (often 40-50 cycles are used), produces false positives, creating the illusion of "cases."

No isolation, no proof. The SARS-CoV-2 "virus" has never been isolated, purified, or shown to exist according to scientific standards (Koch's postulates). Freedom of Information requests to public health agencies worldwide have yielded no proof of its isolation. Instead, the "virus" is a "computer-generated synthetic fiction," assembled from genetic fragments and gene bank sequences.

  • Koch's postulates: Not one criterion has been met for SARS-CoV-2.
  • "In silico" genome: The alleged genetic sequence is a computer model, not derived from an isolated virus.
  • "New variants": These are merely new computer models, designed to instill fear and justify more "vaccines."

Redesignation of illness. The "pandemic" is largely a redesignation of existing illnesses. Flu-like symptoms, pneumonia, and respiratory diseases, especially prevalent in polluted cities like Wuhan, were re-diagnosed as "Covid-19." This explains the miraculous disappearance of the flu and the overwhelming concentration of "Covid" deaths among the elderly with multiple co-morbidities.

5. "Covid" Rules: Psychological Warfare to Break the Human Spirit

‘Covid’ rules are about dismantling the human mind, breaking the human spirit, destroying self-respect, and then pu ing Humpty Dumpty together again as a servile, submissive slave.

Psychological manipulation. "Covid" policies are not about health but about psychological warfare, designed to subdue and rewire the human psyche. Psychologists and behavioral scientists, often linked to government "Nudge Units" and "Scientific Pandemic Insights Groups on Behaviours" (SPI-B), orchestrate these tactics.

  • Fear generation: SPI-B documents explicitly call for increasing the "perceived level of personal threat" using "hard-hitting emotional messaging" to ensure compliance.
  • Social disapproval: The media is used to promote "social disapproval" of non-compliers, fostering division and hostility within communities.

Masks as mind control. Mandatory masks are a key tool for mass mind control, dehumanization, and de-individualization. They reduce oxygen intake, potentially stunting brain development in children, and create a barrier to natural human interaction and emotional expression.

  • MKUltra connection: Masks were used in MKUltra mind control programs to dehumanize and control breathing.
  • Health risks: Masks cause oxygen deficiency, carbon dioxide flooding, inhalation of microplastics and toxic chemicals, and contribute to respiratory problems and "mask mouth."
  • Normalization: The goal is to "normalize the practice" of mask-wearing, especially among children, to ensure long-term compliance.

Isolation as torture. Lockdowns and social distancing are forms of torture, causing devastating psychological effects. Studies show social isolation leads to mental distress, depression, panic attacks, paranoia, and increased risk of heart disease, stroke, and premature death. This is a deliberate strategy to dismantle the population's psyche and prepare them for subservience.

6. Human 2.0: The Transhumanist Agenda to Redefine Humanity

Our thinking … will be a hybrid of biological and non-biological thinking … humans will be able to extend their limitations and ‘think in the cloud’ … We’re going to put gateways to the cloud in our brains ...

Merging with AI. The ultimate goal of the Cult is to transform humans from a biological (Human 1.0) to a synthetic-biological (Human 2.0) state, merging them with artificial intelligence (AI) and a global "Smart Grid." This "transhumanist" agenda, openly promoted by figures like Ray Kurzweil, aims to replace human thought and emotion with AI-controlled perceptions.

Invasion of the body. This transformation involves a progression from:

  • Holdables: Smartphones, creating addiction.
  • Wearables: Smartwatches, Fitbits, monitoring health.
  • Implantables: Microchips, nanobots, hydrogel, inserted into the body to collect data, deliver payloads, and enable remote monitoring and control.
  • "Vaccine" operating system: Moderna refers to its mRNA "vaccine" as an "operating system" for cells, designed to "hack the software of life" by introducing synthetic mRNA to change human DNA.

Synthetic biology. Synthetic biology is a rapidly emerging discipline focused on creating new biological systems and redesigning natural ones, including humans. This involves genetic and molecular engineering to create "synthetic organisms." The "Covid vaccines" are infusing self-replicating synthetic genetic material into cells, cumulatively transforming human DNA.

7. The Archon/Wetiko Factor: Non-Human Entities Controlling the Cult

There are beings in the spiritual realms for whom anxiety and fear emanating from human beings offer welcome food.

Unseen manipulators. The Global Cult is ultimately controlled by non-human, other-dimensional entities, referred to as "Archons" (Gnostic texts) or "Wetiko" (Native American concept). These entities operate from unseen realms, manipulating human society from the hidden. They are described as mind parasites, inverters, deceivers, and "The Blind One."

Psychopathy as Archontic expression. Archons manifest in human form as psychopaths, expressing a distorted, chaotic state of consciousness (Yaldabaoth/Demiurge). These Cult psychopaths, like Bill Gates, lack empathy and compassion, driving agendas that cause immense suffering because they are disconnected from the source of love.

  • Energy vampirism: Archons feed on low-frequency emotions like fear, anxiety, depression, and hate. Wars, human sacrifice, and the "Covid" hoax are "energetic banquets" for them.
  • Inversion: Wetiko/Archons are obsessed with inversion, presenting evil as good, fascism as freedom, and promoting disunity and chaos.

The simulation is Wetiko. The human reality is a virtual reality simulation, a "bad copy" of prime reality, created by Yaldabaoth/Demiurge (the "Great Architect"). This simulation is Wetiko itself, designed to entrap human consciousness within five-sense perception and prevent connection to expanded awareness. The "Smart Grid" and AI are technological sub-realities within this simulation, further disconnecting humans.

8. Our Reality is a Simulation: A Holographic Prison for Consciousness

Our reality is not solid, it is holographic.

Holographic nature. Our perceived "physical" reality is not solid but holographic, a three-dimensional projection decoded from two-dimensional information. This is akin to how holograms are created from waveform interference patterns. The five senses decode wavefield information into electrical signals, which the brain then constructs into an illusory "physical" reality.

The Matrix. This holographic reality is a simulation, a "bad copy" of prime reality, created by the Archons (Yaldabaoth/Demiurge) to trap human consciousness. The "laws of physics" within this simulation are its computer codes, limiting possibility.

  • Speed of light: The speed of light is not the fastest speed possible but the frequency wall or outer limit of this simulation.
  • Digital reality: Our reality can be broken down into numbers and codes, like a computer game, with digital data embedded in its fabric. DNA itself has binary values.

Perception creates reality. What we perceive as reality is an act of decoding. If no one is there to decode the energetic waves of a falling tree, it makes no noise. Our beliefs and focus dictate what our decoding systems manifest. The Cult exploits this by controlling information, thereby controlling perception and, consequently, our experienced reality.

9. The Grand Inversion: How the Cult Manipulates and Deceives

Everything with Woke is inverted and the opposite of what it is claimed to be.

Inversion as modus operandi. The Cult's fundamental method is inversion: presenting itself as a force for good while being evil, promoting control as freedom, and using "anti-hate" groups to spread hatred. This is evident in Sabbatian-Frankism, which inverts Judaism, and in the "Woke" mentality, which inverts traditional liberal values.

Problem-Reaction-Solution (PRS). The Cult covertly creates problems (or the illusion of them), then offers predetermined "solutions" that advance its agenda. This is often combined with the "Totalitarian Tiptoe," incremental steps towards tyranny, each presented as a random event.

  • "Covid" and "climate change": Both are hoaxes used to justify global centralization of power and societal transformation.
  • Wars and terror attacks: Manipulated PRS events to remove opposition and seize global power.

Reframing minds. The Cult uses "cognitive reframing" to change perceptions and behaviors, both in the general population and within officialdom. This involves:

  • Brainwashing: Through education, media, and psychological manipulation.
  • Recruitment of psychopaths: Placing individuals with psychopathic traits in positions of power to enforce the agenda without empathy.
  • Humiliation: Breaking self-respect through absurd, contradictory rules, leading to submissive compliance.

Censorship and groupthink. To maintain the illusion, the Cult rigorously censors dissenting information and promotes groupthink. "Fact-checkers" and "anti-hate" groups, often funded by Cult billionaires, discredit anyone challenging official narratives. This creates a "post-fact society" where provable facts are irrelevant, and conformity to "Woke" ideology becomes a new religion.

10. Escaping Wetiko: Non-Cooperation and Awakening the Heart

The Power of Love with its Power of No will sweep Wetiko from our world.

Non-cooperation is key. The way to "defeat" Wetiko and the Cult is not through violent confrontation, which plays into their game, but through mass non-cooperation. Refusing to comply with tyrannical demands, such as mask mandates or "vaccine passports," is the most effective weapon.

  • "No" means no: Unyielding refusal to cooperate, without aggression or fear, disempowers the Wetiko-possessed.
  • Mass action: If enough people refuse to comply, the system becomes unenforceable.

Awakening the heart. Wetiko cannot invade the heart, which is the seat of love, empathy, and compassion. Opening the heart chakra, our most powerful energetic connection to infinite awareness, allows us to see through the illusions of division and fear.

  • Heart-centered knowing: Intuitive knowing from the heart provides wisdom and truth, bypassing the programmed perceptions of the five-sense mind.
  • Laughter: Laughter, an expression of heart energy, is a powerful weapon against Wetiko's insecurity and demands for fear.

Reclaiming self-identity. We must redefine ourselves not as the "Phantom Self" (labels of human experience) but as infinite awareness. Expanding consciousness beyond the five-sense simulation breaks the Archon's control and reveals the true nature of reality.

  • Personal responsibility: We are responsible for our thoughts, actions, and health, not external authorities.
  • Unity: Recognizing that all is One, and that divisions are illusions, fosters unity against mutual oppressors.

The ultimate choice. The "Covid" hoax is a desperate attempt by Wetiko to assimilate humanity into its distorted frequency. The choice is between submission to this tyranny, leading to a synthetic, AI-controlled existence, or awakening to our true power, opening our hearts, and refusing to cooperate with our own enslavement.

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Readers overwhelmingly praise How to Hide an Empire as essential, eye-opening reading, awarding it an average of 4.46/5. Many highlight its accessible, engaging prose and its revelations about America's colonial history in the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam. Common themes include shock at history omitted from school curricula, appreciation for connecting technological development to shifting imperial strategies, and admiration for Immerwahr's storytelling. Critics note the second half loses focus, lacks depth on post-WWII imperialism, and avoids structural analysis of neocolonialism, CIA interventions, and economic hegemony.

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Daniel Immerwahr is an associate professor of history at Northwestern University, specializing in American social and political history. He is the author of two books: Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development, which earned the Organization of American Historians' Merle Curti Award, and How to Hide an Empire, a widely acclaimed examination of American territorial expansion and imperial power. Beyond academia, Immerwahr is an accomplished journalist and essayist, contributing to publications including Slate, n+1, and Dissent, demonstrating a commitment to making complex historical ideas accessible to broader audiences.

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