–Updated: There are many ways beside jail and killing to contain, confine, suppress those who are speaking out against the 0.1%. Let’s explore them. Some of the 0.1% are probably doing good work. Warning: earlier version of this story was apparently hacked

Reporting and opinion by Mathew Carr

Feb. 21-28, 2024 *– If you take away 0.1% of the world’s population, that’s about 8 million people from 8 billion.

I reckon that a fair guess at the number of people who contain and exploit the other 7.992 billion people on earth (give or take).

Some of the 8 million — a group with power and/or money that includes intelligence operatives, politicians, government officials, judges, lawyers, bankers, media moguls, bishops, clerics and company executives — have been involved in locking up activists — one of the most well known being Julian Assange.

These “matrix folk”, let’s call them, also confine the Palestines in the West Bank and Gaza, for instance, and probably killed Russian lawyer Alexei Navalny and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein (tentative allegations I’m making based on the timing and circumstances of their deaths. I’m far from the only one surmising this).

The contentions are not conspiracy theories. They’re following the money and the reputation-protection rackets.

The stories of those jailed and killed are often well told. Also the warmongering and actual war gets public attention that is, I contend, deliberately formed to distract well-meaning politicians who can hardly stand by and let thousands of babies die for no good reason. Can they? They are frozen by horror instead of making the world a better place for the 99.9%, which is what they otherwise would be and should be doing.

I want to focus this story not on these well-known methods of suppression but the lesser known ones; the matrix folks use nefarious means to keep themselves in power and money. Some of the 0.1% are probably trying to help the 99.9% and change the world so it’s more sustainable. So it’s not a simple picture.

There are many ways beside jail and killing to contain, confine, suppress those who are speaking out against the 0.1%. Let’s explore them.

There really is so much at stake.

The people blowing the whistle are concerned about about the failure to properly regulate climate change and the degradation of nature, worried about governments who seem to refuse to adequately oversee the intelligence/tech community/secrecy, or to scrutinize social media moguls or tackle the rampant greed in the legal industry, banking and insurance.

Beholden to advertising revenue, the mainstream media barely acknowledge the deliberate and repeated failure to repair broken market structures that primarily benefit the 0.1% while leaving the 99.9% actually financially deprived and feeling increasingly angry.

Regulators are captured by the companies they are meant to regulate. Competition in industries has been quietened as fearful politicians allow ever-bigger mergers and takeovers. The “free hand” of the market has become a “sinister hand” that leaves little market choice for mums and dads. That’s allowed companies to boost corporate prices and profits massively.

THAT is what is behind inflation and interest rate hikes, globally.

The 99.9% are now VERY sick and tired of getting ripped off.

Tax structures that favor the rich are one way the 99.9% suffer, worsening climate change is another and rip-off middle men are a third.

Here are a few OTHER more surprising ways how I’ve been contained for speaking out against the exploiters. These might be personal or systemic… it’s hard to find out and the 0.1% love to exploit that particular grayzone. Deliberate bad behavior by corporate executives and government operatives can non-genuinely be explained away as a mistake, you see.

One — I was fired by Bloomberg LP — which provides news and data to the richest of the world’s wealthy — a few months into the crazy pandemic, after 20 years of loyal service. I’m now almost 4 years into expensive and time consuming litigation. I suffered more than 20 detriments as I was “managed out” in 2019-2020 after I blew the whistle and refused to shut up about bad news coverage that was failing not just the 99.9% but the 0.1% too.

I was arrested in Britain as G7 claims victimhood because of ‘transnational repression’ (3)

Bloomberg was involved in intelligence gathering. See these Wikileaks disclosures, for instance, naming me and my editor Rob Verdonck … one is an email from one person at Stratfor (the US intelligence group) to another. I’m not alleging wrongdoing re these particular documents, but I believe Bloomberg by its news choices has sought to delay climate action and hand fossil-fuel profits to the 0.1%. Search for Bloomberg on carrzee.org.

Intelligence services such as Stratfor (intelligence for the 0.1% I would say) were interested in data about things that threaten trading profits, for instance. Financial traders and fossil fuel companies get an unfair portion of the global money pie, I contend. I’m in favor of transparent markets that have better guardrails, that ensure competitive tension and so are unlikely to whipsaw wildly. Eg see these emails on climate markets and natgas:

The above is from this email below

A major part of my role was to write about natural gas, from which the US, Mike Bloomberg (owner of Bloomberg LP) and many other “rich, influential 0.1%” people have probably made huge fortunes over the past three decades.

At Bloomberg, I was pushed to write stories to help these fossil-fuel people get richer and my attempts to focus on climate action was resisted (I was never completely removed from climate duties until I was fired).

What is Statfor (snip from a Google search)?

Two — I’m no debanked Nigel Farage (a politician who claims he’s fighting the matrix folks). Yet, after I started writing that banks should automatically increase interest rates provided to savers as reserve banks boost the price of money, HSBC’s service levels plunged. It apparently allowed a community centre in Singapore to extract a total of almost £1,000 from my account in three separate transactions back in July 2022, for instance. This has added to financial and mental distress. Now, it’s refusing to address my complaints properly which is extremely time consuming. Stealing a whistleblower’s time is a key tactic of the 0.1%, I contend. Just ask Assange, who has had the last 14 years stolen from him.

HSBC Begins Preventing Screen Recordings, Limiting its Accountability; CarrZee Feels Attacked (1)

Three — My phone company o2 has been hounding me and effectively stealing money. The bad service has slowed my disclosures on CarrZee.org about systemic corruption and bad climate policy. How can I publish stories without mobile data?

Soon after first publishing this story, I was apparently kicked off the o2 5G network while attending an Assange rally, for instance (this could be systemic or personal – I just don’t know). This stopped me immediately publishing footage of police behavior at the event, outside the prime minister’s house in London. Meanwhile the UK is seeking to give the police new powers to suppress protesting 99.9% folk.

Four — Nefarious tech surveillance. This is going to sound nuts, but one time during my litigation preparation my cursor adopted a life of its own and started pointing me to parts of a court document that favored arguments being made by the other side. Other family members have seen their own message chats hacked by strangers.

Five — This very story has been hacked as I tried to publish it. It’s been twice unpublished I believe (either by hackers, software provider WordPress or by platform provider Google). I will give these companies a further chance to comment on their alleged flawed systems / behavior and I have done so previously.

I feel my human rights — to say what I want as a journalist — have been thwarted for more than 15 years, both while at Bloomberg and beyond. I was fired in May 2020.

Six —

Thames Water Bankers Appear to be Extorting Brits (1)

Seven — Twitter/X has declined to allow me to gain subscribers, even though it’s in its financial interest and its profits have plunged. It stops me from flipping my camera during lives, it censors my xeets; my experience is that owner Mr Elon Musk does not appear genuine when he says he is for freedom and free speech.

X Limits Visibility of Far-Away Tweet by Opposition Politician; The Rise of the Ministry of Truth Ahead of Elections

X (Twitter) is cracking under the pressure of its own apparent censorship

(I will expand this list over the next days and weeks.)

The motive for this bad behavior is clear

While many families struggle to put good food on the family table, corporate profits are surging and fuelling luxury lifestyles.

Higher interest rates from 2022 enabled banks to boost profits by about $280 billion in that yeart and lifted return on equity to an expected 13 percent in 2023, compared with an average of just 9 percent since 2010 (McKinsey). Britain’s homeowners alone took a hit of more than £300bn (2.7 trillion Chinese yuan) in the year since Liz Truss’s disastrous 2022 mini-Budget, according to analysis published last September in the Independent newspaper.

Meanwhile, China’s government is standing up against billionaires and providing real wealth growth internally…truly looking after its people. I’m not saying it’s perfect.

https://twitter.com/MichelleDixy/status/1759598749431533659?s=20 (WordPress and/or Twitter/X has prevented this xeet from being embedded into my story.)

As Assange seeks to avoid extradition, let’s not forget the thousands of 99.9% people hidden from view fighting to speak up against the 0.1%.

I’ve spoken to scores of them and will put them here over the next few weeks.

Forget culture wars. Step outside the matrix. Stay tuned. I’ve started this story calmly. But it’s going to get wilder and wilder — feedback to mathew@carrzee.net — emailed comments or those posted on Carrzee.org get preference in updates of this story.

(Removed “Assange Month” from headline on June 14 to update it for my website while I’m running to be an MP. Earlier, I added a link to my arrest story on May 19, I earlier added X, Thames Water, expanded HSBC section, earlier that some inside the 0.1% [those with real power and money] might be trying to help the 99.9%.)

Caption: art by me and others at the Tate Modern