- “We have no competing fighting chance against China in 15 to 20 years. Right now, it’s already a done deal; it is already over in my opinion.” — Nicolas Chaillan, former first Chief Software Officer for the Air Force, who resigned in protest over the Pentagon’s slow pace of technological development, citing China’s fast advancements in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and general capabilities in cybersecurity, Financial Times, October 10, 2021
- “By the time the Government manages to produce something, it’s too often obsolete.” — Preston Dunlap, the Pentagon’s first Chief Architect Officer, responsible for promoting technological innovation at the Pentagon, who also resigned, labelling the Pentagon “the world’s largest bureaucracy;” The Japan Times, April 19, 2022.
- “Our lack of adopting these [commercial innovations] quickly creates an asymmetric disadvantage if our adversaries adopt them more rapidly… These differences are extremely relevant for conflicts we may face in the next decade where our adversaries effectively employ commercial technologies. For example, when U.S. troops were stationed in Iraq, ISIS sent small drones, which can be purchased on e-commerce platforms like Amazon, with grenades to kill American soldiers in Mosul… The DoD must add new capabilities like these in 1-2 years rather than 1-2 decades.” — Michael Brown, Director of the Defense Innovation Unit at the Pentagon, testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, April 6, 2022.
- “[In the PRC and Russia], private companies… work together closely with their militaries to gain experience with new technologies and concepts. From drone swarming to anti-satellite weapons programs, Russia and the PRC have studied our capabilities carefully and are rapidly modernizing its own military capabilities with a priority both on asymmetry designed to neutralize U.S. overmatch and accessing innovations in its commercial sector… Imagine how well our forces will defend against PLA swarms of drones if we have not experimented with this concept,” — Michael Brown, testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, April 6, 2022.
- “The current sequential process lags commercial product cycles and delivers technology several generations behind which would be the equivalent of supplying flip-phones and fax machines to our warfighters today…” — Michael Brown, testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, April 6, 2022.’https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18512/pentagon-losing-to-china
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‘‘Global Peace’ is the most overrated concept in human history. Consider that the easiest way to create world peace is through a full-scale nuclear war, a few months after which the only life on Earth would be cockroaches and carp – peace then covering the land.
Tenants in apartment buildings sometimes fight, but there has never been a fight between the tenants of a graveyard.
Once we consider that nuclear war is the easiest route to world peace, hopefully, we can all agree that how good a thing world peace is depends at least partially on what ‘world peace’ looks like.
Another way to create world peace would be to have some Stalin-like figure take over the Earth, subjecting the global population to slavery. If everyone on Earth is a slave, other than a small ruling class just large enough to keep a boot heel on all of our collective necks, we would have world peace, and yet our nation was founded by people who felt war was preferable to totalitarianism.
How close are we to totalitarianism? Consider the following five steps to take over the world:
1) Scare the bejesus out of everyone on the planet with Covid-19, created in a lab by the United States and China, and sent into the wild at a particularly advantageous time, politically speaking.
2) Kill a million or so odd Americans, and several million people globally, by denying early treatment options, even when those treatments are known to be effective.
3) Give the World Health Organization the power to control countries – the whole world if necessary – during pandemics, to help control the spread of disease. We are here.
4) Change the definition of ‘pandemic’ to include non-disease global health emergencies.
5) Declare climate change a global pandemic.
How about a world government that only performed a small set of tasks, such as those enumerated in Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution, with hundreds of states, all constrained by the Bill of Rights, protecting the Natural Rights of all people on Earth. This would allow everyone on Earth to go as far as their time and talent can take them, and when most people think of ‘World Peace,’ I would hope some semblance of this is what comes to mind.
The truth is that most of the people calling for world peace have not really thought through what world peace might mean. Such people imagine a land of pixie dust and fairy tales.
I believe the leadership of the Western World views war as increasingly untenable. The prospect of war going nuclear (and leading to peace between carp and cockroaches) is too terrible to even consider, but there has never been a nation that has ever existed outside the threat of war. Even ancient, tribal man banded together first and foremost for protection against other tribes. It is the threat of war upon which societies form, and it is the threat of war that has held societies together for all of human history.
Do the natural resources to bring everyone on Earth to a US standard of living exist? If they do, can we access them without making the Earth uninhabitable? Economic history would seem to indicate that there are sufficient natural resources and that we can absolutely raise the living standards of the world to where the West is today. Human ingenuity is batting a perfect 1.00 in overcoming shortages without destroying our habitat, and in fact, the cleanest nations on Earth are also the richest.
Note too that the richest nations are also always the freest.
There is a correlation between freedom, wealth, and environmental awareness.
But let us say, hypothetically, that the current leadership of the Western World was convinced that 1) nuclear weapons make war untenable, 2) the resources to bring the world up to the standard of living freedom would afford either do not exist or cannot be extracted without destroying the globe, and 3) any economic system in which the ‘moral and intellectual elite’ are not the ones with the wealth and power is inherently unfair.
Someone who believes those three things would want world peace, but they would not want the masses to be free.
When all of the information we are given access to – all news, all media, all uncensored social networking – is all based on narratives, they are also, almost by definition, a part of the SAME narrative.
Now that we have established that the leadership of the Western World views itself as a ‘moral and intellectual elite’ in a world where war is untenable, and where freedom leads to extinction, and now that we have also established that everything we hear (other than those few voices that have not yet been shut down) are all a part of the same single overarching narrative, we are left with the reason the left is doing what the left is doing. It also starts to make sense why so many business people are falling in line – not only are they facing overwhelming pressure from the leadership of the entire Western World to do so, but they are also facing the prospect of their bloodlines being a part of the ruling elite for the foreseeable future.
The Western Elites are building a new nobility.
Many of the things the left is doing revolve around their obsession with world peace. The Middle East is a hotbed that could easily become the catalyst for the next world war, so of course, we must appease Iran and eradicate Israel. These two things are considered central to stability in the Middle East.
Putin is against the Western desire for a world government, so of course, we must drag him into a war of attrition in Ukraine, using economic sanctions to force the rest of Russia’s leadership not only to remove Putin from power, but to then appease the West such that the West will let Russia rejoin the family of nations.
China has the world’s largest population, so Xi Jinping must be both appeased and constrained. If I had to guess, I would think we are going to give China control over Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Brunei, and Indonesia. This would give China complete control over the South China Sea. Xi Jinping may even be content with that – anyone who can read a map can tell that these are Xi Jinping’s short and medium-term plans today.
I think the Western Elite envision a world with, at least for the near term, two centers – the Americas, Europe, and Russia (at least the part West of the Ural Mountains) banding into one region, and Asia along with Africa forming the other. Beijing would be the center of the Asian/African region, and the center of the Euro-American part would be either Washington DC or Brussels. If both regions are ruled the same way, then look at what China is doing by blending communism with fascism, and using a social credit scoring system to keep the public controlled, as our future. Once the world is split into these two regions, those two regions can negotiate a merger, and world peace can be achieved.
Freedom and liberty are not on the table, and neither is dissent. Joe Biden may have put his Disinformation Board on hold – but he did not kill the idea entirely. The Ministry of Truth will be making a comeback. Also, note that the government has openly admitted working with Twitter (pre-Musk) and Facebook to censor content, which is a pretty clear indication that the government decided Joe Biden would be President at some point prior to November 2020.
The American People have hopefully turned the corner on Cultural Marxism and are finally starting to see it for what it is, but note that much of what Cultural Marxism wanted to accomplish, it already has, in terms of breaking down the family unit, destroying Judeo/Christian values and morals, and breaking Western Society of its individualistic nature.
The Western Elites are now moving into their end-game, and we must be prepared to pivot as well if we are going to ensure that the elite does not succeed.’https://www.americaoutloud.com/what-the-new-world-order-will-look-like/
‘This week, the global elites descended on Davos, Switzerland for their annual pow-wow and, as always, they used the occasion to promote their agenda for centralisation and control.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) event was once again a who’s who of the global elite, with business leaders, political figures, and celebrities all rubbing shoulders.
The WEF founder Klaus Schwab opened the event by declaring that the future will be “built” by those in attendance at Davos — a clear sign that these elites see themselves as the architects of the future, with the rest of us just going along for the ride.
Australia’s taxpayer-funded e-Safety Commissioner then suggested that human rights online should be “recalibrated”, particularly when it came to free speech.
The CEO of YouTube also spoke about censoring people.
You’d expect the Davos crowd to want to “recalibrate” our right to free speech. They only want free speech to suit the needs of the elite and censor any dissenting opinions that don’t fit their narrative.
J. Michael Evans, president of the Chinese Communist Party-linked Alibaba Group boasted to the elites of the development of a carbon footprint tracker by his company:
“We’re developing, through technology, an ability for consumers to measure their whole carbon footprint. What does that mean? Where they are traveling. How they are traveling. What are they eating. What they are consuming on the platform. We don’t have it operational yet, but this is something that we’re working on.”
Can you imagine such a device in the hands of extreme green zealots that are now ensconced in government?
A panel of elite bankers then told the forum that a centralised digital currency was but five years away. Last year, the British Government and the Bank of England were mulling over the idea of making such centralised digital currencies programmable, meaning the issuer of the funds could determine what you spend your money on, where you spend it and how much you spend.
And, of course, there was a lot of finger-wagging about climate change at Davos, with the irony somehow lost on the many attendees who flew in on their private jets to attend the Swiss talkfest about lecturing us mere mortals about the need to reduce our carbon dioxide emissions.
The spoof Twitter account World Ecommunist Forum perfectly summed up the hypocrisy with this tweet:
Many alternative media journalists and commentators who turned up in Davos were accosted by police who — both frighteningly and bizarrely — wore a badge declaring themselves the “World Economic Forum Police”. Fact checkers tried to cover it up by claiming the badge was merely commemorative but you can be the judge looking at this photo of the badge on a police officer who detained independent reporter Jack Posobiec.
Security was immensely beefed up for the global elite’s version of Woodstock with a 5,000 military personnel on duty and a no-fly zone in force.
The theme of Davos 2022 was supposed to be “Working Together, Restoring Trust”. Obviously they were working on control. But there can no trusting this crowd.’ https://nationfirst.substack.com/p/exposed-what-the-globalists-did-this?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo0MjUyOTI1MiwiXyI6ImNmZWY0IiwiaWF0IjoxNjUzNzE2NzgyLCJleHAiOjE2NTM3MjAzODIsImlzcyI6InB1Yi00NTQxODIiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.XSC-5nTnHs3WO0DnrpHb3kdcotgn5XaoblBN-RStmyc&s=r
‘An Adelaide court has heard a family accused of trying to kill a young Muslim woman in an “attempted honour killing” tried to track her down days earlier, breaking into a house and assaulting someone else in the process.
Five members of the woman’s family – including her father, mother, sister and brother — have been charged with the attempted murder and false imprisonment of the 21-year-old, who was allegedly stabbed in the abdomen several times with a large kitchen knife at the Sefton Plaza Shopping Centre car park in November.
The alleged victim suffered a perforated kidney, lacerated liver and significant internal bleeding.
Her 29-year-old sister asked the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Tuesday to vary her home-detention bail so she could communicate with her husband who is in custody over the alleged offending.’https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/woman-held-younger-sister-while-father-stabbed-her-during-attempted-honour-killing-court-hears/ar-AAXEbxh?ocid=mailsignout&li=AAgfYrC
Our political “leaders” are working with the WEF to eliminate any freedoms we still have!
‘On Monday May 24th, American journalist and political commentator, Jack Posobiec, was detained in Davos, Switzerland at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting.
Much of the world had questions when footage of Posobiec being surrounded by police went viral. The footage was captured by Savanah Hernandez, a reporter on assignment for Rebel News.
The video had been seen millions of times when people began asking questions about the patches the police in Davos were wearing on their uniforms. The patches read “World Economic Forum Police” which lead those critical of the organization to wonder if the sinister group had their own police force.
The questions triggered a “fact-check” by establishment media organizations such as Reuters and Politifact, who were quick to label those questioning the odd patches as conspiracy theorists.
During a drive into Davos, the Rebel News team spoke to a Swiss police officer at a security checkpoint about the badges in question.
The officer explained that the WEF does not in fact have its own police force and that the badges are an accessory for certain Swiss officers during Davos week.
The arrest and viral video were evidently problematic for law enforcement in Davos.
While Hernandez was walking down the main stretch of Davos promenade, an undercover Swiss officer equipped with an earpiece and bulletproof vest called her out by name.
“Savanah, you’re famous in Switzerland,” he said.
Despite Hernandez originally and accurately referring to what happened to Posobiac as detainment, the officer accused her of lying and incorrectly reporting that Posobiac was arrested.
While his accusations were incorrect, the officer’s comments point to intelligence-gathering operations or surveillance being carried out on journalists and reporters in Davos who are properly doing their jobs.’https://www.rebelnews.com/the_truth_about_the_wef_police_force?
