Tatsu’s Newsletter Podcast

December 2, 2025 “On my arrival in Gabon, in 1913, I was astonished to encounter no cases of cancer… This absence of cancer seemed to me due to the difference in nutrition of the natives compared to the Europeans.”— Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Peace Prize recipient “We have given them junk food, and they have given us the privilege of watching them develop Western diseases.”— Denis Burkitt, British s...

November 25, 2025 “Cancer is a disease of civilization.”— Stanislas Tanchou, Paris physician, 1843 “The various forms of cancer are becoming alarmingly more frequent.”— British Medical Journal, 1892 “We have made tremendous progress against cancer.”— American Cancer Society, 2020 [Same year: U.S. cancer deaths hit all-time high of 600,000] [Part 2 of 6] New parts publish every Tuesday and Thursday...

November 20, 2025 “There is no treatment.”— Edwin Smith Papyrus, c. 1600 BC “Cancer was practically unknown until compulsory vaccination with cowpox vaccine began to be introduced. I have had to deal with at least two hundred cases of cancer, and I never saw a case of cancer in an unvaccinated person.”— Dr. W.B. Clarke, Indianapolis, 1909 “Despite decades of research and over $100 billion spent, t...

November 18, 2025 On November 16, 2025, Donald Trump abruptly reversed his position on releasing the Epstein files, telling House Republicans to vote for declassification. After nearly a year of resistance, including claiming the documents could “destroy lives,” the reversal came just four days after Epstein’s estate dumped thousands of damaging emails. The timing wasn’t coincidental. Hidden in th...

November 11, 2025 After last week’s election, it seemed to be Zohran Mamdani was the story. Or perhaps it was the old adage, “It’s the economy, stupid!”. But what if there was a deeper story involving tariffs, gold, crypto, and the US Dollar? And in a nearly truly global and complex financial system, Trump, politicians, bankers, and voters missed a crucial point. That the elections results, a comp...

“A key difference with central bank digital currency is that the central bank will have absolute control on the rules and regulations that will determine the use of that expression of central bank liability. And also, we will have the technology to enforce that.” — Agustín Carstens, General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements, October 2020 October 30, 2025, 3:47 PM EST Bitcoin just b...

“I think you can be much more successful in leading a person, if you do not tell him the truth.” - Hjalmar Schacht, testimony at Nuremberg, explaining his financial deceptions to American prosecutor Robert H. Jackson Author’s Note: This is adapted from my upcoming book with the working title, “An Anthropology of Financial Power & World Wars, 1871-1945”. If you would like to support my work, please...

“I couldn’t sleep at night knowing what we were hiding from the public—that this system was designed for control, not convenience. But when civil society organized, when citizens refused to accept the government’s framing, they actually won.”— Composite quote reflecting sentiments from digital rights activists in successful resistance campaigns A Different Story Parts 1-5 of this investigation doc...

“They promised us jobs. What they gave us was a system where our worn fingerprints from years of manual labor can’t be read by their machines. Now we can’t even prove we exist.”— Composite quote reflecting documented experiences of manual laborers excluded by Aadhaar biometric authentication failures in India The Promise vs. The Reality Financial inclusion. Digital empowerment. Streamlined access...

“The combination of a mandatory biometric ID with the Unified Identity Platform creates a massive surveillance ecosystem. Authorities can access this interconnected web of databases without requiring a court order and without any mechanism to notify a citizen that their data has been accessed.”— R3D (Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales), Mexico The Architecture of Surveillance A Digital ID sy...

“This represents infrastructure of digital totalitarianism. The system allows for comprehensive tracking of individuals’ digital activity and creates an internet kill switch on an individual level.”— China Media Project on the national cyber ID system Three Pillars A social credit or social scoring system requires three architectural components: * A unique identifier linking an individual across a...

“This multi-stage process reveals that the ‘voluntary’ label is often a temporary marketing strategy for an adoption phase, not a permanent feature of the system’s design. The final and most compelling step is the integration with CBDCs, which would make the Digital ID an indispensable tool for basic economic participation.”— Analysis from research into global Digital ID and CBDC convergence The P...

“This infrastructure is inherently dual-use: it can be architected to empower individuals with control over their data, but it can just as easily be configured to enable unprecedented levels of state and corporate surveillance, social management, and economic control.” — Comprehensive analysis of Digital ID legislation and technical specifications across 23 countries The Invisible Infrastructure F...

September 29, 2025 “After checking the channels marked by the French and Moldovan authorities, the intermediary told me that in exchange for this cooperation, the French intelligence would ‘say good things about me’ to the judge… This was unacceptable.”Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, on Western intelligence attempts to censor Moldovan opposition voices When Exit Polls Tell One Story and Brussels Tells...

“The potential for disruption to our country’s telecommunications posed by this network of devices cannot be overstated.” - Sean Curran, Secret Service Director, understating the actual capabilities by 1000x What They Actually Found: A Telecommunications Death Star Every major newspaper and news website is lying to you right now. They’re parroting the Secret Service’s cover story about “UN surveil...

September 16, 2025 “All the world’s a feed, and all the men and women merely content.” — William Shakespeare, updated for 2025 Charlie Kirk and Iryna Zarutska memorials vandalized Photo: Telegram Tyler Might Have Been Targeting the Wrong Guy Tyler Robinson inscribed four messages on the bullet casings he left behind after assassinating Charlie Kirk. The 22-year-old’s ammunition told the story of A...

September 10, 2025 When Tesla unveiled the Cybertruck, the internet immediately knew what it was looking at. Within hours, memes showed the angular monstrosity in post-apocalyptic wastelands with armed ISIS militants. The joke was that this vehicle looked designed for civilizational collapse. The joke stopped being funny when people started dying. “The phenomenon of being certain you’re right when...

September 8, 2025 "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." - Alvin Toffler I used to worry I was behind on AI trends. Every morning I’d wake up, check Twitter, and see another breathless announcement about some new model or tool I hadn’t tried yet. Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Cursor AI, Claude Code, I use th...

September 5, 2025 Note: This analytical essay examines patterns in juvenile homicide data from 2016-2022. All statistics come from verified government sources. Case examples are from documented news reports. Expert perspectives are drawn from published academic work. In November 2022, a sixteen-year-old boy in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, shot and killed his thirteen-year-old ex-girlfriend. What made t...

September 4, 2025 "The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives humanitarian awards in the evening." — Teju Cole "In my experience, the worst f*****s are the do-gooders." — William S. Burroughs "We were not laboratory rats. We were human beings." — Grigory Yavlinsky, Russian economist, on shock therapy Moscow’s winter had already tighten...

September 3, 2025 [This is Part 5 of a 5-part series on the hidden history of money and power, concluding our investigation that began with "Before Money: 5,000 Years of Social Control."] "He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past." — George Orwell, 1984 "He who controls the money controls all of the above." — Every central banker, quietly A Beijin...

August 27, 2025 [This is Part 4 of a 5-part series on the hidden history of money and power, continuing from “Revolution and Greenbacks: America’s Monetary Insurgency.”] “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” — Often attributed to Gandhi (though he likely never said it) “Unless they change the laws. Then you lose.” — Every monetary reformer ever The bri...

Apologies for the distortion on the audio podcast! Not sure what that oddity is! August 7, 2025 [This is Part 3 of a 5-part series on the hidden history of money and power, continuing from “Knights Templar and Kings Created Financial Systems More Sophisticated Than Your Bank.”] “I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people eve...

August 5, 2025 [This is Part 2 of a 5-part series on the hidden history of money and power, continuing from “Before Money: 5,000-Years of Control.”] “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” — William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun The Houses of Parliament burn in 1834, ignited by the incineration of centuries-old tally sticks - the “primitive” monetary system that funded the British Empire for 7...

July 31, 2025 [This is Part 1 of a 5-part series on the hidden history of money and power, following my investigation into how financial crises are engineered in “Recession by Design.”] Please subscribe if you like my content. “You think your world is safe? It is an illusion. A comforting lie told to protect you. Enjoy these final moments of peace. ” — Khan, Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) A 5,000-...