On the Ace of Clubs Protocol

It is finally time to start to take action. In the past year I have compiled the book Creating Ethics, built my website and planned for the most part how to construct the autonomous nations with what little I have. While I have discussed the nature of autonomous nations in other essays, and I’ve discussed the various psychological techniques I have developed as well, what we need to really get things going is not psychology or politics but the generation of a product and a brand. I once attempted such a thing with music before my health failed me, and I know I will be using music again. For the time being, I believe the first product that we need to focus on is journalism. But we can’t do journalism in the old fashioned way or the new fashioned way; we need a wild card and for that I have developed the S.T.A.M.P., Sovereign Thought Against Manipulated Politics.

Now the S.T.A.M.P. movement is going to be built upon a cellular structure, which is to say that each unit within the S.T.A.M.P. structure is going to be autonomous and self-replicating, small in number and capable of operating autonomously. They will use investigative journalism as a means of epistemic hygiene, charity as a means of moral hygiene, and industry as a means of power accumulation. Therefore the act of doing journalism and charity are meant to tune the minds of the S.T.A.M.P. members into the mode of thinking and operating necessary for doing the activism and political gambits that will eventually be necessary to form autonomous nations.

Now the Ace of Clubs protocol starts with journalism. It does this to gain visibility first before focusing on the charitable aspects of the organization once a good number of individuals are participating. No way of going about this is going to be easy. There are laws in place that protect the monopoly of information and charitable activities so that large businesses are the only ones that are legally capable of doing so in a conventional manner. Therefore, it is going to be necessary to do things in a very unconventional manner in a way that has yet to be done. In regards to the charitable activities, collecting funds is off the table and so the money must come from the industrious wing of the cells. In order to distribute funding, institutionalization would also be necessary and so that too is off the table. Therefore the funds must be used to do research rather than actually distribute resources directly to populations. Therefore the charitable wings would be offering support to the unhoused populations through offering services in exchange for anthropological study and systemic investigations into the factors that lead to homelessness in Canada.

Now as for the Ace of Clubs protocol, I’ve named it as such because the entire S.T.A.M.P. gimmick is that of a playing card deck’s symbology. I did this intentionally to evoke the mythology of the tarot and subsequently biblical imagery to build upon my own mythos of the divine emanation of altruism. I think it is important to add character and artistry to everything we do in life, and my life is an art form, one of embodying a character and implementing a strategy meant to achieve an aesthetic change in life through an institutional change in government. And so the Ace of Clubs protocol is a way of starting the clubs wing of the cell which is the investigative journalism wing. The hearts would be the charitable anthropology wing, the diamonds would be the industrious wing that will create products and sell them and manifest the brand identity itself, and the spades would be the administrative and communicative wing of the cell.

The actual operations of each one of those wings is going to be an individual essay of its own. The Ace of Clubs protocol serves as a means of self-initiating so that a single person can begin the process of cell formation through self-analysis and investigative journalism. To do this the goal is to create an operational portfolio, a document outlining the entire process of the Ace of Clubs protocol going from research to self-examination to investigation and publication of the first media literacy piece. This operational portfolio is done subject to peer review after a number of other individuals have been guided through the process. There will then be a process of peer review and self-bidding for positions within the cell to select who will run the Ace of Hearts, the Ace of Diamonds and the Ace of Spades protocols, as well as who retains the rank of Ace of Clubs.

The first step of the Ace of Clubs protocol is prerequisite philosophical homework which includes a read-through and note-taking about the text Creating Ethics. This ensures familiarization with the theory and acts as a filter for those who are not willing or in disagreement with the work. Through gaining a firsthand understanding of structural absurdist ethics and Amovera, the beginner can understand the philosophical root of autonomous nations theory, the scope of the project, and ultimately the nature of the S.T.A.M.P. movement that they will be taking part in.

The next step is an educational journey through some case studies which they ought to self-direct through their own research. In the beginning they must understand the difference between misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation. The difference of these is: misinformation is an accidental dissemination of false information, disinformation is an intentional dissemination of false information, and malinformation is the malicious dissemination of true information that was otherwise kept confidential.

Next is an investigative study into Russian counterintelligence. These include Operation Infection, which was a Russian disinformation campaign to spread the disinformation that AIDS was an American bio-weapon deployed in Africa and the developing world just to distrust and seed anti-American sentiment. An even older disinformation operation was the release of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion by the Tzarist secret intelligence to create a great distrust in the Jewish community and deflect from Russian domestic issues at the time. Then there’s the more contemporary studies into how the Internet Research Agency of Russia generated false grassroots support for both the Black Lives Matter and the Blue Lives Matter movements to try to influence the 2016 elections by sowing discord and division in society. Next, and finally, is the study into the Russian conflation of environmental and indigenous issues in order to counter the Canadian oil lobby and prevent Canadian oil from reaching foreign markets, to ensure European dependence on Russian gas.

During these investigations the method of OSINT should be studied to gain accurate information. This includes the use of the Wayback Machine, social media analytics, and platforms’ native search engines to gain information on these counterintelligence operations. This information should include how the illusion of grassroots movements is generated using bot networks, sock puppet accounts, and economic and platform connections. It is worth studying the geography of influence, the testimonials of Internet Research Agency defectors, Twitter and Facebook’s files that showed their attempts to counter counterintelligence, and how bilingual narratives can be used to weaponize division.

After familiarization into counterintelligence and foreign manipulation of domestic politics is complete, the next step is to perform a bias audit. The bias audit is meant to identify at least 100 groups of individuals within society that fall under a series of categories of political, religious, racial, ideological, and professional groups. The individuals undertaking this bias audit rate themselves as honestly as possible on a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is aversion, 5 is tolerance and 10 is attraction. They are then to go through, assess the extremes and note any patterning of their biases. They are then to write a short reflection essay of about 2,000 words to discuss how the bias audit has affected their understanding of their own bias.

At the end of this process it finally becomes time for them to put their own research methodologies to use and launch their own investigation. To begin it is best to start with something that is already in the public record, and use OSINT tools to try and verify the claims made by the sources. They can then write a report which can be posted online on the S.T.A.M.P. website which then can be linked by QR code to a pamphlet that they can write on the topic, or a zine if they’re ambitious enough to make one, which they can then publish by printing and disseminating pamphlets IRL while abiding by their municipality’s bylaws and restrictions to maintain legitimacy.

The final step then is creation of the operational portfolio where all of this information is compiled into a file, to be sealed and stored for safety until a time has come where at least 5 members have gone through this process. Now anyone who has gone through this process and has been peer-reviewed by those five members and graded can be called a layman in the S.T.A.M.P. club. Those who have not gone through this process and otherwise want to observe or simply help out and participate are called seekers. It will later be discussed how the licensing process will be developed within the S.T.A.M.P. cells, and how one can be licensed to be an operator, grader, or administrator of the cell.

So the Ace of Clubs protocol serves only to put into place the initial training and self-verification of the very first wing of the cell, the clubs wing. There is a similar protocol for the hearts, spades, and diamonds. Those will be discussed at a later date. However, upon the peer review process where the cell agrees upon a grading method, grades each other and assigns each other rank from ace to 10 where ace is the highest, and 2 to 10 represents how high of a grade they achieved in the initial peer review process. By the end of the Ace of Clubs process you will have one individual capable of being ranked by others should they also proceed with the process. The end goal is to create a cell that is at first capable of its own investigative journalism, and eventually capable of doing good charitable and economic work to eventually will work towards the creation of a very specific kind of company: the Personal Warranty Company. Now this is outlined in much greater detail in the book, but the Personal Warranty Company is the core anti-corruption mechanism that is supposed to serve as proof of concept for the autonomous nations model.

All of that is distant and abstract dreams of a future that may not ever be. Even with a single cell operating there will be a means to fight against counterintelligence in our domestic space. This means of organizing and using offline means to counter online algorithm manipulation and gain a foothold by using physical media distribution may be the only way we have left of attracting attention to these kinds of clandestine activities. A citizens’ initiative is deeply needed, a citizens’ intelligence initiative whose mind is kept sharp with investigation, whose heart is kept soft through charity, and whose power can only increase through good industry. This is the genesis of the S.T.A.M.P. movement. This is the beginning of what may yet become the autonomous nations of Canada.