thewakingtimes--2020-08-07--ATOMIC BOMBINGS AT 75: John Pilger – Another Hiroshima is Coming – Unless We Stop It Now

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When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967 , the shadow on the steps was still there .
It was an almost perfect impression of a human being at ease : legs splayed , back bent , one hand by her side as she sat waiting for a bank to open .
At a quarter past eight on the morning of August 6 , 1945 , she @ @ @ @ @ @ @ granite .
I stared at the shadow for an hour or more , then I walked down to the river where the survivors still lived in shanties .
I met a man called Yukio , whose chest was etched with the pattern of the shirt he was wearing when the atomic bomb was dropped .
Nine years later , I returned to look for him and he was dead from leukemia .
Only one reporter , Wilfred Burchett , an Australian , had braved the perilous journey to Hiroshima in the immediate aftermath @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the Allied occupation authorities , which controlled the “ press pack ” .
For this , his press accreditation was withdrawn , he was pilloried and smeared .
His witness to the truth was never forgiven .
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was an act of premeditated mass murder that unleashed a weapon of intrinsic criminality .
It was justified by lies that form the bedrock of America ’ s war propaganda in the 21st century , casting a new enemy , and target – China .
During the 75 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lie is that the atomic bomb was dropped to end the war in the Pacific and to save lives .
The National Archives in Washington contains documented Japanese peace overtures as early as 1943 .
None was pursued .
A cable sent on May 5 , 1945 by the German ambassador in Tokyo and intercepted by the U.S. made clear the Japanese were desperate to sue for peace , including “ capitulation even if the terms were hard ” .
Nothing was done .
The day after Hiroshima was obliterated , President Harry @ @ @ @ @ @ @ overwhelming success ” of “ the experiment ” .
The “ experiment ” continued long after the war was over .
Between 1946 and 1958 , the United States exploded 67 nuclear bombs in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific : the equivalent of more than one Hiroshima every day for 12 years .
The human and environmental consequences were catastrophic .
During the filming of my documentary , The Coming War on China , I chartered a small aircraft and flew to Bikini Atoll in the Marshalls .
It was here that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s first Hydrogen Bomb .
It remains poisoned earth .
My shoes registered “ unsafe ” on my Geiger counter .
Palm trees stood in unworldly formations .
There were no birds .
I trekked through the jungle to the concrete bunker where , at 6.45 on the morning of March 1 , 1954 , the button was pushed .
The sun , which had risen , rose again and vaporised an entire island in the lagoon , leaving a vast black hole , which from the air is a menacing spectacle : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ beauty .
Gene Curbow , a meteorologist assigned to monitor the test site , said , “ They knew where the radioactive fall-out was going to go .
Even on the day of the shot , they still had an opportunity to evacuate people , but [ people ] were not evacuated ; I was not evacuated… The United States needed some guinea pigs to study what the effects of radiation would do.
” Like Hiroshima , the secret of the Marshall Islands was a calculated experiment on the lives of large numbers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , which began as a scientific study of mice and became an experiment on “ human beings exposed to the radiation of a nuclear weapon ” .
The Marshall Islanders I met in 2015 — like the survivors of Hiroshima I interviewed in the 1960s and 70s — suffered from a range of cancers , commonly thyroid cancer ; thousands had already died .
Miscarriages and stillbirths were common ; those babies who lived were often deformed horribly .
Unlike Bikini , nearby Rongelap atoll had not been evacuated during the H-Bomb test @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s skies darkened and it rained what first appeared to be snowflakes .
Food and water were contaminated ; and the population fell victim to cancers .
That is still true today .
U.S. official archive film I included in my film refers to the islanders as “ amenable savages ” .
In the wake of the explosion , a U.S. Atomic Energy Agency official is seen boasting that Rongelap “ is by far the most contaminated place on earth ” , adding , “ it will be interesting to get a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in a contaminated environment.
” American scientists , including medical doctors , built distinguished careers studying the “ human uptake ” .
There they are in flickering film , in their white coats , attentive with their clipboards .
When an islander died in his teens , his family received a sympathy card from the scientist who studied him .
I have reported from five nuclear “ ground zeros ” throughout the world — in Japan , the Marshall Islands , Nevada , Polynesia and Maralinga in Australia .
Even more than my @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has taught me about the ruthlessness and immorality of great power : that is , imperial power , whose cynicism is the true enemy of humanity .
This struck me forcibly when I filmed at Taranaki Ground Zero at Maralinga in the Australian desert .
In a dish-like crater was an obelisk on which was inscribed : “ A British atomic weapon was test exploded here on 9 October 1957 ” .
On the rim of the crater was this sign : For as far as the eye could see , and beyond @ @ @ @ @ @ @ plutonium lay about , scattered like talcum powder : plutonium is so dangerous to humans that a third of a milligram gives a 50 percent chance of cancer .
The only people who might have seen the sign were Indigenous Australians , for whom there was no warning .
According to an official account , if they were lucky “ they were shooed off like rabbits ” .
Today , an unprecedented campaign of propaganda is shooing us all off like rabbits .
We are not meant to question the daily torrent of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the torrent of anti-Russia rhetoric .
Anything Chinese is bad , anathema , a threat : Wuhan … .
Huawei .
How confusing it is when “ our ” most reviled leader says so .
The current phase of this campaign began not with Trump but with Barack Obama , who in 2011 flew to Australia to declare the greatest build-up of U.S. naval forces in the Asia-Pacific region since World War Two .
Suddenly , China was a “ threat ” .
This was nonsense , of course .
What was threatened @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of itself as the richest , the most successful , the most “ indispensable ” nation .
What was never in dispute was its prowess as a bully — with more than 30 members of the United Nations suffering American sanctions of some kind and a trail of the blood running through defenceless countries bombed , their governments overthrown , their elections interfered with , their resources plundered .
Obama ’ s declaration became known as the “ pivot to Asia ” .
One of its principal advocates was his Secretary of State @ @ @ @ @ @ @ WikiLeaks revealed , wanted to rename the Pacific Ocean “ the American Sea ” .
Whereas Clinton never concealed her warmongering , Obama was a maestro of marketing .
“ I state clearly and with conviction , ” said the new president in 2009 , “ that America ’ s commitment is to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.
” Obama increased spending on nuclear warheads faster than any president since the end of the Cold War .
A “ usable ” nuclear weapon was developed .
Known @ @ @ @ @ @ @ means , according to General James Cartwright , former vice-chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , that “ going smaller [ makes its use ] more thinkable ” .
The target is China .
Today , more than 400 American military bases almost encircle China with missiles , bombers , warships and nuclear weapons .
From Australia north through the Pacific to South-East Asia , Japan and Korea and across Eurasia to Afghanistan and India , the bases form , as one U.S. strategist told me , “ the perfect noose ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ – which , since Vietnam , has planned America ’ s wars – is entitled War with China : Thinking Through the Unthinkable .
Commissioned by the U.S. Army , the authors evoke the infamous catch cry of its chief Cold War strategist , Herman Kahn – “ thinking the unthinkable ” .
Kahn ’ s book , On Thermonuclear War , elaborated a plan for a “ winnable ” nuclear war .
Kahn ’ s apocalyptic view is shared by Trump ’ s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo , an evangelical fanatic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the End ” .
He is perhaps the most dangerous man alive .
“ I was CIA director , ” he boasted , “ We lied , we cheated , we stole .
It was like we had entire training courses.
” Pompeo ’ s obsession is China .
The endgame of Pompeo ’ s extremism is rarely if ever discussed in the Anglo-American media , where the myths and fabrications about China are standard fare , as were the lies about Iraq .
A virulent racism is the sub-text of this propaganda @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they were white , the Chinese are the only ethnic group to have been banned by an “ exclusion act ” from entering the United States , because they were Chinese .
Popular culture declared them sinister , untrustworthy , “ sneaky ” , depraved , diseased , immoral .
An Australian magazine , The Bulletin , was devoted to promoting fear of the “ yellow peril ” as if all of Asia was about to fall down on the whites-only colony by the force of gravity .
In the Sydney Morning Herald @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who spread Chinese influence in Australia as “ rats , flies , mosquitoes and sparrows ” .
Hartcher , who favourably quotes the American demagogue Steve Bannon , likes to interpret the “ dreams ” of the current Chinese elite , to which he is apparently privy .
These are inspired by yearnings for the “ Mandate of Heaven ” of 2,000 years ago .
Ad nausea .
To combat this “ mandate ” , the Australian government of Scott Morrison has committed one of the most secure countries on earth , whose @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hundreds of billions of dollars ’ worth of American missiles that can be fired at China .
The trickledown is already evident .
In a country historically scarred by violent racism towards Asians , Australians of Chinese descent have formed a vigilante group to protect delivery riders .
Phone videos show a delivery rider punched in the face and a Chinese couple racially abused in a supermarket .
Between April and June , there were almost 400 racist attacks on Asian-Australians .
“ We are not your enemy , ” a high-ranking strategist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if you [ in the West ] decide we are , we must prepare without delay.
” China ’ s arsenal is small compared with America ’ s , but it is growing fast , especially the development of maritime missiles designed to destroy fleets of ships .
In 2019 , the U.S. staged its biggest single military exercise since the Cold War , much of it in high secrecy .
An armada of ships and long-range bombers rehearsed an “ Air-Sea Battle Concept for China ” – ASB – blocking sea lanes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ off China ’ s access to oil , gas and other raw materials from the Middle East and Africa .
It is fear of such a blockade that has seen China develop its Belt and Road Initiative along the old Silk Road to Europe and urgently build strategic airstrips on disputed reefs and islets in the Spratly Islands .
Modern China ’ s epic achievements , its defeat of mass poverty , and the pride and contentment of its people ( measured forensically by American pollsters such as Pew ) are wilfully unknown @ @ @ @ @ @ @ alone is a commentary on the lamentable state of Western journalism and the abandonment of honest reporting .
China ’ s repressive dark side and what we like to call its “ authoritarianism ” are the facade we are allowed to see almost exclusively .
It is as if we are fed unending tales of the evil super-villain Dr. Fu Manchu .
And it is time we asked why : before it is too late to stop the next Hiroshima .
John Pilger is an Australian-British journalist and filmmaker based in London .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ www.johnpilger.com .
In 2017 , the British Library announced a John Pilger Archive of all his written and filmed work .
The British Film Institute includes his 1979 film , “ Year Zero : the Silent Death of Cambodia , ” among the 10 most important documentaries of the 20thcentury .
Some of his previous contributions to Consortium News can be found here .

ATOMIC BOMBINGS AT 75: John Pilger – Another Hiroshima is Coming – Unless We Stop It Now
John Pilger, Guest
Waking Times
When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect impression of a human being at ease: legs splayed, back bent, one hand by her side as she sat waiting for a bank to open.
At a quarter past eight on the morning of August 6, 1945, she and her silhouette were burned into the granite.
I stared at the shadow for an hour or more, then I walked down to the river where the survivors still lived in shanties.
I met a man called Yukio, whose chest was etched with the pattern of the shirt he was wearing when the atomic bomb was dropped.
He described a huge flash over the city, “a bluish light, something like an electrical short”, after which wind blew like a tornado and black rain fell. “I was thrown on the ground and noticed only the stalks of my flowers were left. Everything was still and quiet, and when I got up, there were people naked, not saying anything. Some of them had no skin or hair. I was certain I was dead.”
Nine years later, I returned to look for him and he was dead from leukemia.
“No Radioactivity in Hiroshima Ruin” said a New York Times headline on September 13, 1945, a classic of planted disinformation. “General Farrell,” reported William H. Lawrence, “denied categorically that [the atomic bomb] produced a dangerous, lingering radioactivity.”
Only one reporter, Wilfred Burchett, an Australian, had braved the perilous journey to Hiroshima in the immediate aftermath of the atomic bombing, in defiance of the Allied occupation authorities, which controlled the “press pack”.
“I write this as a warning to the world,” reported Burchett in the London Daily Express of September 5,1945. Sitting in the rubble with his Baby Hermes typewriter, he described hospital wards filled with people with no visible injuries who were dying from what he called “an atomic plague”.
For this, his press accreditation was withdrawn, he was pilloried and smeared. His witness to the truth was never forgiven.
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was an act of premeditated mass murder that unleashed a weapon of intrinsic criminality. It was justified by lies that form the bedrock of America’s war propaganda in the 21st century, casting a new enemy, and target – China.
During the 75 years since Hiroshima, the most enduring lie is that the atomic bomb was dropped to end the war in the Pacific and to save lives.
“Even without the atomic bombing attacks,” concluded the United States Strategic Bombing Survey of 1946, “air supremacy over Japan could have exerted sufficient pressure to bring about unconditional surrender and obviate the need for invasion. “Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts, and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey’s opinion that … Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war [against Japan] and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.”
The National Archives in Washington contains documented Japanese peace overtures as early as 1943. None was pursued. A cable sent on May 5, 1945 by the German ambassador in Tokyo and intercepted by the U.S. made clear the Japanese were desperate to sue for peace, including “capitulation even if the terms were hard”. Nothing was done.
The U.S. Secretary of War, Henry Stimson, told President Truman he was “fearful” that the U.S. Air Force would have Japan so “bombed out” that the new weapon would not be able “to show its strength”. Stimson later admitted that “no effort was made, and none was seriously considered, to achieve surrender merely in order not to have to use the [atomic] bomb”. Stimson’s foreign policy colleagues — looking ahead to the post-war era they were then shaping “in our image”, as Cold War planner George Kennan famously put it — made clear they were eager “to browbeat the Russians with the [atomic] bomb held rather ostentatiously on our hip”. General Leslie Groves, director of the Manhattan Project that made the atomic bomb, testified: “There was never any illusion on my part that Russia was our enemy, and that the project was conducted on that basis.”
The day after Hiroshima was obliterated, President Harry Truman voiced his satisfaction with the “overwhelming success” of “the experiment”.
The “experiment” continued long after the war was over. Between 1946 and 1958, the United States exploded 67 nuclear bombs in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific: the equivalent of more than one Hiroshima every day for 12 years.
The human and environmental consequences were catastrophic. During the filming of my documentary, The Coming War on China, I chartered a small aircraft and flew to Bikini Atoll in the Marshalls. It was here that the United States exploded the world’s first Hydrogen Bomb. It remains poisoned earth. My shoes registered “unsafe” on my Geiger counter. Palm trees stood in unworldly formations. There were no birds.
I trekked through the jungle to the concrete bunker where, at 6.45 on the morning of March 1, 1954, the button was pushed. The sun, which had risen, rose again and vaporised an entire island in the lagoon, leaving a vast black hole, which from the air is a menacing spectacle: a deathly void in a place of beauty.
The radioactive fall-out spread quickly and “unexpectedly”. The official history claims “the wind changed suddenly”. It was the first of many lies, as declassified documents and the victims’ testimony reveal.
Gene Curbow, a meteorologist assigned to monitor the test site, said, “They knew where the radioactive fall-out was going to go. Even on the day of the shot, they still had an opportunity to evacuate people, but [people] were not evacuated; I was not evacuated… The United States needed some guinea pigs to study what the effects of radiation would do.”
Like Hiroshima, the secret of the Marshall Islands was a calculated experiment on the lives of large numbers of people. This was Project 4.1, which began as a scientific study of mice and became an experiment on “human beings exposed to the radiation of a nuclear weapon”.
The Marshall Islanders I met in 2015 — like the survivors of Hiroshima I interviewed in the 1960s and 70s — suffered from a range of cancers, commonly thyroid cancer; thousands had already died. Miscarriages and stillbirths were common; those babies who lived were often deformed horribly.
Unlike Bikini, nearby Rongelap atoll had not been evacuated during the H-Bomb test. Directly downwind of Bikini, Rongelap’s skies darkened and it rained what first appeared to be snowflakes. Food and water were contaminated; and the population fell victim to cancers. That is still true today.
I met Nerje Joseph, who showed me a photograph of herself as a child on Rongelap. She had terrible facial burns and much of her was hair missing. “We were bathing at the well on the day the bomb exploded,” she said. “White dust started falling from the sky. I reached to catch the powder. We used it as soap to wash our hair. A few days later, my hair started falling out.” Lemoyo Abon said, “Some of us were in agony. Others had diarrhoea. We were terrified. We thought it must be the end of the world.”
U.S. official archive film I included in my film refers to the islanders as “amenable savages”. In the wake of the explosion, a U.S. Atomic Energy Agency official is seen boasting that Rongelap “is by far the most contaminated place on earth”, adding, “it will be interesting to get a measure of human uptake when people live in a contaminated environment.”
American scientists, including medical doctors, built distinguished careers studying the “human uptake”. There they are in flickering film, in their white coats, attentive with their clipboards. When an islander died in his teens, his family received a sympathy card from the scientist who studied him.
I have reported from five nuclear “ground zeros” throughout the world — in Japan, the Marshall Islands, Nevada, Polynesia and Maralinga in Australia. Even more than my experience as a war correspondent, this has taught me about the ruthlessness and immorality of great power: that is, imperial power, whose cynicism is the true enemy of humanity.
This struck me forcibly when I filmed at Taranaki Ground Zero at Maralinga in the Australian desert. In a dish-like crater was an obelisk on which was inscribed: “A British atomic weapon was test exploded here on 9 October 1957”. On the rim of the crater was this sign:
WARNING: RADIATION HAZARD
Radiation levels for a few hundred metres
around this point may be above those considered
safe for permanent occupation.
For as far as the eye could see, and beyond, the ground was irradiated. Raw plutonium lay about, scattered like talcum powder: plutonium is so dangerous to humans that a third of a milligram gives a 50 percent chance of cancer.
The only people who might have seen the sign were Indigenous Australians, for whom there was no warning. According to an official account, if they were lucky “they were shooed off like rabbits”.
The Enduring Menace
Today, an unprecedented campaign of propaganda is shooing us all off like rabbits. We are not meant to question the daily torrent of anti-Chinese rhetoric, which is rapidly overtaking the torrent of anti-Russia rhetoric. Anything Chinese is bad, anathema, a threat: Wuhan …. Huawei. How confusing it is when “our” most reviled leader says so.
The current phase of this campaign began not with Trump but with Barack Obama, who in 2011 flew to Australia to declare the greatest build-up of U.S. naval forces in the Asia-Pacific region since World War Two. Suddenly, China was a “threat”. This was nonsense, of course. What was threatened was America’s unchallenged psychopathic view of itself as the richest, the most successful, the most “indispensable” nation.
What was never in dispute was its prowess as a bully — with more than 30 members of the United Nations suffering American sanctions of some kind and a trail of the blood running through defenceless countries bombed, their governments overthrown, their elections interfered with, their resources plundered.
Obama’s declaration became known as the “pivot to Asia”. One of its principal advocates was his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, who, as WikiLeaks revealed, wanted to rename the Pacific Ocean “the American Sea”.
Whereas Clinton never concealed her warmongering, Obama was a maestro of marketing. “I state clearly and with conviction,” said the new president in 2009, “that America’s commitment is to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.”
Obama increased spending on nuclear warheads faster than any president since the end of the Cold War. A “usable” nuclear weapon was developed. Known as the B61 Model 12, it means, according to General James Cartwright, former vice-chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that “going smaller [makes its use] more thinkable”.
The target is China. Today, more than 400 American military bases almost encircle China with missiles, bombers, warships and nuclear weapons. From Australia north through the Pacific to South-East Asia, Japan and Korea and across Eurasia to Afghanistan and India, the bases form, as one U.S. strategist told me, “the perfect noose”.
The Unthinkable
A study by the RAND Corporation – which, since Vietnam, has planned America’s wars – is entitled War with China: Thinking Through the Unthinkable. Commissioned by the U.S. Army, the authors evoke the infamous catch cry of its chief Cold War strategist, Herman Kahn – “thinking the unthinkable”. Kahn’s book, On Thermonuclear War, elaborated a plan for a “winnable” nuclear war.
Kahn’s apocalyptic view is shared by Trump’s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, an evangelical fanatic who believes in the “rapture of the End”. He is perhaps the most dangerous man alive. “I was CIA director,” he boasted, “We lied, we cheated, we stole. It was like we had entire training courses.” Pompeo’s obsession is China.
The endgame of Pompeo’s extremism is rarely if ever discussed in the Anglo-American media, where the myths and fabrications about China are standard fare, as were the lies about Iraq. A virulent racism is the sub-text of this propaganda. Classified “yellow” even though they were white, the Chinese are the only ethnic group to have been banned by an “exclusion act” from entering the United States, because they were Chinese. Popular culture declared them sinister, untrustworthy, “sneaky”, depraved, diseased, immoral.
An Australian magazine, The Bulletin, was devoted to promoting fear of the “yellow peril” as if all of Asia was about to fall down on the whites-only colony by the force of gravity.
As the historian Martin Powers writes, acknowledging China’s modernism, its secular morality and “contributions to liberal thought threatened European face, so it became necessary to suppress China’s role in the Enlightenment debate …. For centuries, China’s threat to the myth of Western superiority has made it an easy target for race-baiting.”
In the Sydney Morning Herald, tireless China-basher Peter Hartcher described those who spread Chinese influence in Australia as “rats, flies, mosquitoes and sparrows”. Hartcher, who favourably quotes the American demagogue Steve Bannon, likes to interpret the “dreams” of the current Chinese elite, to which he is apparently privy. These are inspired by yearnings for the “Mandate of Heaven” of 2,000 years ago. Ad nausea.
To combat this “mandate”, the Australian government of Scott Morrison has committed one of the most secure countries on earth, whose major trading partner is China, to hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of American missiles that can be fired at China.
The trickledown is already evident. In a country historically scarred by violent racism towards Asians, Australians of Chinese descent have formed a vigilante group to protect delivery riders. Phone videos show a delivery rider punched in the face and a Chinese couple racially abused in a supermarket. Between April and June, there were almost 400 racist attacks on Asian-Australians.
“We are not your enemy,” a high-ranking strategist in China told me, “but if you [in the West] decide we are, we must prepare without delay.” China’s arsenal is small compared with America’s, but it is growing fast, especially the development of maritime missiles designed to destroy fleets of ships.
“For the first time,” wrote Gregory Kulacki of the Union of Concerned Scientists, “China is discussing putting its nuclear missiles on high alert so that they can be launched quickly on warning of an attack… This would be a significant and dangerous change in Chinese policy…” In Washington, I met Amitai Etzioni, distinguished professor of international affairs at George Washington University, who wrote that a “blinding attack on China” was planned, “with strikes that could be mistakenly perceived [by the Chinese] as pre-emptive attempts to take out its nuclear weapons, thus cornering them into a terrible use-it-or-lose-it dilemma [that would] lead to nuclear war.”
In 2019, the U.S. staged its biggest single military exercise since the Cold War, much of it in high secrecy. An armada of ships and long-range bombers rehearsed an “Air-Sea Battle Concept for China” – ASB – blocking sea lanes in the Straits of Malacca and cutting off China’s access to oil, gas and other raw materials from the Middle East and Africa.
It is fear of such a blockade that has seen China develop its Belt and Road Initiative along the old Silk Road to Europe and urgently build strategic airstrips on disputed reefs and islets in the Spratly Islands.
In Shanghai, I met Lijia Zhang, a Beijing journalist and novelist, typical of a new class of outspoken mavericks. Her best-selling book has the ironic title Socialism Is Great! Having grown up in the chaotic, brutal Cultural Revolution, she has travelled and lived in the U.S. and Europe. “Many Americans imagine,” she said, “that Chinese people live a miserable, repressed life with no freedom whatsoever. The [idea of] the yellow peril has never left them… They have no idea there are some 500 million people being lifted out of poverty, and some would say it’s 600 million.”
Modern China’s epic achievements, its defeat of mass poverty, and the pride and contentment of its people (measured forensically by American pollsters such as Pew) are wilfully unknown or misunderstood in the West. This alone is a commentary on the lamentable state of Western journalism and the abandonment of honest reporting.
China’s repressive dark side and what we like to call its “authoritarianism” are the facade we are allowed to see almost exclusively. It is as if we are fed unending tales of the evil super-villain Dr. Fu Manchu. And it is time we asked why: before it is too late to stop the next Hiroshima.
About the Author
John Pilger is an Australian-British journalist and filmmaker based in London. Pilger’s Web site is: www.johnpilger.com. In 2017, the British Library announced a John Pilger Archive of all his written and filmed work. The British Film Institute includes his 1979 film, “Year Zero: the Silent Death of Cambodia,” among the 10 most important documentaries of the 20thcentury. Some of his previous contributions to Consortium News can be found here.


thewakingtimes--2020-08-10--The Pressing Dangers of Technocracy

The Pressing Dangers of Technocracy

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— an economist , financial analyst and American constitutionalist — has devoted a lifetime to uncovering the mystery of what is controlling most of the craziness we ’ re currently seeing , and which has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic .
He ’ s written two books on this topic : “ Technocracy Rising : The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation ” and “ Technocracy : The Hard Road to World Order.
” I was intrigued by his work as my own approach is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of any given problem .
Wood ’ s foray into the ideology of technocracy began with a chance meeting with Anthony Sutton at a gold conference in the early 1970s .
Sutton has written several books about political science , primarily about the Trilateral Commission , which Wood had studied from a financial angle .
They developed a relationship and eventually wound up collaborating on a newsletter and two books , “ Trilaterals Over Washington : Volumes 1 and 2 , ” which have recently been re-released .
So , what is “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , technocracy is a movement that got started in the 1930s during the height of the Great Depression , when scientists and engineers got together to solve the nation ’ s economic problems .
It looked like capitalism and free enterprise was going to die , so they decided to invent a new economic system from scratch .
They called this system “ technocracy.
” It was to be a resource-based economic system .
Rather than basing the economic system on pricing mechanisms such as supply and demand , this system is instead @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
In a nutshell , under this system , companies would be told what resources they ’ re allowed to use , when , and for what , and consumers would be told what to buy .
Scientists Stand Above All Other Individuals As explained by Wood , the technocrats “ had this crazy idea that they were better than everybody else.
” This philosophy and mindset can be traced back to Henri de Saint-Simon , a French philosopher from around 1800 .
Saint-Simon is considered the father of scientism , social sciences @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in one of his essays , “ A scientist … is a man who foresees .
It is because science provides the means to predict , that it is useful , and the scientists are superior to all other men.
” This was the mindset of technocrats in the 1930s , and it ’ s the same today .
In essence , science is used to manipulate society and keep the economic engine running .
While technocracy began in the U.S. , the first country to ever implement it was Nazi Germany under @ @ @ @ @ @ @ important to realize that technocracy is not Republican or Democrat .
It ’ s not Marxist or Capitalist .
It ’ s not a Nazi philosophy .
It ’ s an independent ideology .
When technocracy first began in the U.S. , it was a membership organization .
At its peak , there were more than 500,000 card-carrying , dues-paying members in the United States and Canada .
Incidentally , the head of technocracy in Canada was the grandfather of Elon Musk , founder of Tesla and SpaceX .
Around the same time @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Germany .
The Trilateral Commission ’ s co-founder Zbigniew Brzezinski , a Columbia University professor , brought the concept of technocracy into the Commission in 1973 , with the financial support of David Rockefeller .
The Trilateral Commission more or less took over the Jimmy Carter administration , and has dominated the political structure ever since .
Regardless of their party affiliations , U.S. presidents have been members of the Trilateral Commission .
Carter , Ronald Reagan , George H.W .
Bush and Bill Clinton were all members .
Within two weeks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 11 Trilateral Commission members to top-level positions in his administration , equivalent to 12 % of the Commission ’ s entire U.S. membership.1 The ramifications of this are described in Wood ’ s article,2 “ Obama : Trilateral Commission Endgame.
” Personal Freedom Is the Enemy of Technocracy It ’ s important to realize we ’ re fighting an enemy that has literally spent the last several generations compiling their power base .
They ’ ve done it progressively , slowly and very consistently over time with the endgame in mind at all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ them to amass more and more power .
heir last great power grab in the U.S. was the 9/11 tragedy .
It allowed them to push through the Patriot Act , which sacrificed many of our freedoms in one fell swoop .
They ’ re in the process of doing it again with the current pandemic .
It ’ s quite clear the pandemic is being used to move us toward an authoritarian tyranny .
However , the COVID-19 pandemic has provided a platform that will dwarf their 9/11 power-grab and radically increase @ @ @ @ @ @ @ civil liberties and control our society .
If you find this line of reasoning interesting , I think you will enjoy the video below from Really Graceful , which reviews whether or not you ’ d even notice if you were living under tyranny .
It ’ s also crucial to understand that the only reason they ’ ve not yet been able to overtake the U.S. is because of our Constitution .
We ’ re the biggest barrier worldwide to implementing technocracy , which is why there ’ s been so much @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
To give you just one rather hilarious real-world example of the technocratic “ science says ” strategy , here ’ s a sentence from a recent article in The Sun:3 “ People who refuse to wear a face mask to reduce the risk of coronavirus have lower cognitive ability , new research has found.
” Not only is it laughable because it ’ s illogical , it ’ s also completely irrelevant , since there ’ s not a single well-designed study showing that mask wearing lowers the spread of viral infections @ @ @ @ @ @ @ see my interview with Denis Rancourt .
Initially , science is used to issue suggestions , but those suggestions rapidly turn into mandates .
We ’ ve repeatedly seen that with vaccines , for example .
But the COVID-19 pandemic has also revealed there ’ s a much larger plan that includes implantable digital identifications , medical records and vaccine passports , digital currency and banking — all of which will ultimately be tied together so that algorithms and automation will be able to keep everyone in line , everywhere , all the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In her book , “ The Age of Surveillance Capitalism , ” professor Shoshana Zuboff exposes the stunning capacities currently available to surveil , analyze and manipulate our behavior .
It ’ s crucial to realize that as bad as it is today , the predictive power of technology is advancing at an exponential rate , which means their ability to manipulate behavior is increasing at a pace we can not fully comprehend .
For instance , years ago , if you searched for a holistic medicine topic , many of my articles @ @ @ @ @ @ @ search .
In June 2019 , Google quietly started to eliminate Mercola.com from search results .
I discussed this in “ Google Buries Mercola in Their Latest Search Engine Update , Part 1 and Part 2.
” Sustainable Development Isn ’ t What You Think Wood also explains why “ sustainable development ” goals , which sound like a good thing , really aren ’ t .
The United Nations has declared that sustainable development is going to be the new economic system of the future .
It ’ s a resource-based economic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what the technocrats are doing is making an end run around national sovereignty .
Rather than a frontal assault on the system , which has never been successful , they ’ ve simply eroded national sovereignty piece by piece .
Wood also reviews what we can do to save our republic and thwart the steady march of technocracy : One of the most important elected local officials that you should concern yourself with is your sheriff .
They are responsible for enforcing tyrannical edicts from local , state and federal government , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has no power .
City councils also have a lot of power .
They can pass binding resolutions to protect citizens against the technocratic agenda .
What is Agenda 21 ?
It is the keystone document for Sustainable Development .
It was developed in 1992 at the Rio de Janeiro conference of the United Nations ’ first Earth summit .
This became the agenda for the 21st century .
The doctrine that came to be known as Agenda 21 came from a book written by Trilateral Commission member Gro Harlem Brundtland , called @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a lot of information in this interview , so be sure to listen to it in its entirety , or read through the transcript for more .
Also consider picking up one or both of his books , “ Technocracy Rising : The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation ” and “ Technocracy : The Hard Road to World Order.
” Wood ’ s nonprofit organization , Citizens for Free Speech , is another excellent resource where you can learn more about your constitutional rights and how to communicate your ideas to others .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Free Speech also offers a laminated No Mask Card that you can wear on a lanyard , explaining your First Amendment Right to disobey local mask mandates .

The Pressing Dangers of Technocracy
Dr. Mercola, Guest
Waking Times
— an economist, financial analyst and American constitutionalist — has devoted a lifetime to uncovering the mystery of what is controlling most of the craziness we’re currently seeing, and which has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
He’s written two books on this topic: “Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation” and “Technocracy: The Hard Road to World Order.” I was intrigued by his work as my own approach is to seek to understand the foundational cause of any given problem.
“I think that’s a really important takeaway for listeners,” Wood says. “Don’t just confine your view to the microcosm, like what’s in front of you. Always try and look for the big picture … Once you have the big picture, it’s hard to unsee it. Once you see it, it’s hard to not see it. It guides everything else you do within your life at that point, and that’s really important.
It’s certainly important in medicine, because if a doctor or researcher doesn’t really understand the whole picture, how can he understand a little part of the picture when you get right down into some nitty-gritty detail? It’s very difficult.”
Wood’s foray into the ideology of technocracy began with a chance meeting with Anthony Sutton at a gold conference in the early 1970s. Sutton has written several books about political science, primarily about the Trilateral Commission, which Wood had studied from a financial angle.
They developed a relationship and eventually wound up collaborating on a newsletter and two books, “Trilaterals Over Washington: Volumes 1 and 2,” which have recently been re-released.
“Having been mentored by somebody like Anthony Sutton, who was a world-class researcher, left indelible marks on my life. I couldn’t do what I do today without his coaching, instruction, watching him do things, watching his mind work,” Wood says.
“He would sit down every morning and spend his two or three hours just flipping through the newspapers. Looking for stories in the front page, back page, middle page, classifieds, whatever. He was really intent on keeping his mind focused on his subject, and digging in the right places and stuff. So that’s helped me today, to do what I do.”
Definition of Technocracy
So, what is “technocracy”? As explained by Wood, technocracy is a movement that got started in the 1930s during the height of the Great Depression, when scientists and engineers got together to solve the nation’s economic problems. It looked like capitalism and free enterprise was going to die, so they decided to invent a new economic system from scratch.
They called this system “technocracy.” It was to be a resource-based economic system. Rather than basing the economic system on pricing mechanisms such as supply and demand, this system is instead based on energy resources and social engineering. In a nutshell, under this system, companies would be told what resources they’re allowed to use, when, and for what, and consumers would be told what to buy.
“They actually proposed to use an energy script instead of money, and let energy be the determining factor on what was produced, bought and sold, and consumed, and so on. But being engineers and scientists, in 1938 when this definition came out, which I’m going to read, they had capsulized what they viewed as the scientific method and the scientific approach.
It’s important to see that today, because we see the same subtleties, the same mindsets, the same thinking processes that they had back then. I will contend that’s a very dangerous thing. It’s a dangerous thinking process. But here’s what they concluded in 1938:
‘Technocracy is the science of social engineering. The scientific operation of the entire social mechanism, to produce and distribute goods and services to the entire population.’
First off, you’ll see that it’s the science of social engineering. That ought to be enough to make the hair stand up on the back of your head, because who wants to be scientifically engineered by somebody that you don’t know, somebody that doesn’t know you, but rather has this idea that they can reform you, remake you?
But most importantly, you see the economic aspect that they had in mind, the scientific operation of the entire social mechanism — that’s all the people in society — to produce and distribute goods and services to the entire population.
This was an economic system from the get go, not a political system. And what’s really important to see in that — the big takeaway here — is that technocracy viewed politics and politicians as an unnecessary, irrelevant, and even just a stumbling block to getting on down the road with society.
They proposed to get rid of all the politicians. Just dismiss them. Dismiss the Senate, the Congress, all the elected officials. They basically wanted to set up an organization chart, like a corporation would have today, where you have the president and you have vice-presidents doing different things. Then you have directors over certain departments and so on.
And they would just disappear the political system per se, leaving no citizen representation of government. Of course, that means the Constitution [is] immaterial, too, because that defines the political structure.
In fact, they openly called on FDR to declare himself dictator, so that he could just implement technocracy. He didn’t take them up on it. We can thank God for that. We only got the New Deal instead. By comparison, it’s much better … So, this was the genesis of technocracy and technocrats.”
Scientists Stand Above All Other Individuals
As explained by Wood, the technocrats “had this crazy idea that they were better than everybody else.” This philosophy and mindset can be traced back to Henri de Saint-Simon, a French philosopher from around 1800. Saint-Simon is considered the father of scientism, social sciences, transhumanism and technocracy.
He said in one of his essays, “A scientist … is a man who foresees. It is because science provides the means to predict, that it is useful, and the scientists are superior to all other men.” This was the mindset of technocrats in the 1930s, and it’s the same today. In essence, science is used to manipulate society and keep the economic engine running.
Top Technocrats Rescued Through Operation Paperclip
While technocracy began in the U.S., the first country to ever implement it was Nazi Germany under Hitler. However, it’s important to realize that technocracy is not Republican or Democrat. It’s not Marxist or Capitalist. It’s not a Nazi philosophy. It’s an independent ideology.
When technocracy first began in the U.S., it was a membership organization. At its peak, there were more than 500,000 card-carrying, dues-paying members in the United States and Canada. Incidentally, the head of technocracy in Canada was the grandfather of Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX. Around the same time, a technocratic organization also got started in Germany.
“As Hitler rose to power, he realized that the technocrats, as an organization, would be competitive with him becoming a dictator. So, he outlawed the Technocratic party in Germany. At about the same time, technocracy was outlawed in Canada [for two years]. For a number of reasons, they thought that somehow the two were connected and that technocracy in Canada would be supporting Hitler …
It was discovered later by historians that these technocrats, who were banned from meeting, were actually very active during the course of World War II, during Hitler’s reign. They were the statisticians, the mathematicians, the physicists, the engineers for business and so on; that really enabled Hitler’s expansion and dictatorship.
That’s not to say that they were all in lockstep with his goals, but they had a good time supporting all those things, because they were highly prized by Hitler and his leadership.
During the war, they found out also that these technocrats were communicating between the columns of power in Nazi, Germany. Hitler was rather paranoid about keeping all of those different areas separate so they would not communicate, but they did communicate during the war.
After the war … a top-secret operation [took place] in the United States … called Operation Paperclip, which brought some 1,200 of these top scientists and engineers from Germany to the United States. They sanitized their resumes and installed them into positions of scientific prowess in the United States, like at the national technology agencies.
So, the very same people that were helping Hitler do what he did, completely bypassed the Nuremberg trial. Some of them should have been there, I’m sure. But they were brought to the United States and given high positions of prestige, to continue to practice their science and engineering.”
Beauty and the Beast
The Trilateral Commission’s co-founder Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Columbia University professor, brought the concept of technocracy into the Commission in 1973, with the financial support of David Rockefeller.
“Brzezinski wrote this book called ‘Between Two Ages — America’s Role in the Technetronic Era.’ It caught Rockefeller’s eye. And so, Rockefeller and Brzezinski became like the beauty and the beast. They went on to form the Trilateral Commission, which declared, from Day 1, that they wanted to foster a new international economic order.
They said that repeatedly in their literature, and this is what got Sutton excited, and me too. What is this new international economic order you’re talking about? What do you mean? We have an economic order. It seems to be working. Why do you want to change everything? What is your idea here?”
The Trilateral Commission more or less took over the Jimmy Carter administration, and has dominated the political structure ever since. Regardless of their party affiliations, U.S. presidents have been members of the Trilateral Commission.
Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton were all members. Within two weeks of his inauguration, Barack Obama appointed 11 Trilateral Commission members to top-level positions in his administration, equivalent to 12% of the Commission’s entire U.S. membership.1 The ramifications of this are described in Wood’s article,2 “Obama: Trilateral Commission Endgame.”
“What happened here is that they were after the mechanism, because America was the greatest economic engine in the world at that time,” Wood explains. “They wanted to get control of the economic engine of the world so that they could manipulate it for their own benefit and convert it, transform it if you will, into technocracy …”
Personal Freedom Is the Enemy of Technocracy
It’s important to realize we’re fighting an enemy that has literally spent the last several generations compiling their power base. They’ve done it progressively, slowly and very consistently over time with the endgame in mind at all times. They engineered circumstances that allow them to amass more and more power.
What the technocrats are doing is making an end run around national sovereignty. Rather than a frontal assault on the system, which has never been successful, they’ve simply eroded national sovereignty piece by piece.
heir last great power grab in the U.S. was the 9/11 tragedy. It allowed them to push through the Patriot Act, which sacrificed many of our freedoms in one fell swoop. They’re in the process of doing it again with the current pandemic. It’s quite clear the pandemic is being used to move us toward an authoritarian tyranny.
However, the COVID-19 pandemic has provided a platform that will dwarf their 9/11 power-grab and radically increase their ability to continue to erode our civil liberties and control our society. If you find this line of reasoning interesting, I think you will enjoy the video below from Really Graceful, which reviews whether or not you’d even notice if you were living under tyranny.
Technocratic Infrastructure
It’s also crucial to understand that the only reason they’ve not yet been able to overtake the U.S. is because of our Constitution. We’re the biggest barrier worldwide to implementing technocracy, which is why there’s been so much focus on dismantling the freedoms of Americans.
“The strategy has been to build infrastructure for their system. Infrastructure is the schematic diagram that makes things work. For instance, we have roads in our country. We have railroads. We have physical roads. We have freeways. We have telecommunications systems. We have telephone lines. We have airports and things that connect everything together.
The concept of infrastructure is basic to any economic system. You have to have some type of infrastructure, so that the whole system will work. And so, today when the government passes a $2 trillion infrastructure bill, you and I will think, ‘Oh, finally, we’re going to get those potholes fixed on our street or something.’
In the technocrat mind, in the larger scheme, setting up the infrastructure involves so many more things today than it ever did.
For instance, the infrastructure of technocracy now has to do with anything called smart: smart growth, smart cities, smart phones, smart devices, the internet of things that ties everything together, all of the sensors and the cameras. This is the new infrastructure of the digital era. It’s all technology based, I might add.
So, infrastructure started way back when the Trilateral Commission was first started. A case in point: One of the early founding members of the commission was [the late] Caspar Weinberger, who happened to be the president of Bechtel Engineering. That’s the largest private engineering company in the world. They’re huge. They’re are private. Nobody knows much about them. But they were part of the Trilateral Commission group …
They’ve always realized that without building this infrastructure, they have nothing. They can get nowhere. They must have it in order to move on down the road. We’ve seen this emphasis on infrastructure ever since 1973 in ways that people hardly can understand anymore, because it’s so technological.
But the infrastructure being laid today includes such things as the internet of things, where sensors and everything connect together to feed data back to, who knows, some mainframe somewhere.
All of the financial transactions, all of the data transactions [get sent] back to some computer somewhere where artificial intelligence is sitting on top of it all to make sense of all the data coming in.
The same artificial intelligence programs now are taking that data, working it, getting some sense of meaning out of it, then turning around and issuing things that we should do in response. In other words, how it should change us.
This is the science of social engineering. It’s engineering by algorithm. They saw this even back in the 1930s, even though there was no such thing as artificial intelligence back then.
They realized that science eventually would be to the point where their algorithms could be automated to the point where they would be able to replace the political structure, to keep everything in line, to keep everything working.
Rule by algorithm. Operation by algorithm. This is the big predominant thing we see today. When something doesn’t fit into the algorithm, you’ll hear the term ‘Science says.’ We should do that thing.”
To give you just one rather hilarious real-world example of the technocratic “science says” strategy, here’s a sentence from a recent article in The Sun:3 “People who refuse to wear a face mask to reduce the risk of coronavirus have lower cognitive ability, new research has found.”
Not only is it laughable because it’s illogical, it’s also completely irrelevant, since there’s not a single well-designed study showing that mask wearing lowers the spread of viral infections. For the scoop on this, see my interview with Denis Rancourt.
Rule by Algorithm
Initially, science is used to issue suggestions, but those suggestions rapidly turn into mandates. We’ve repeatedly seen that with vaccines, for example. But the COVID-19 pandemic has also revealed there’s a much larger plan that includes implantable digital identifications, medical records and vaccine passports, digital currency and banking — all of which will ultimately be tied together so that algorithms and automation will be able to keep everyone in line, everywhere, all the time.
“People who buck the system won’t be able to participate in all the things in society that other people do who got the vaccines and just took the program without questioning. The algorithm will control everybody, will manipulate everybody.
So, it goes from, ‘Science says’ to the algorithm, and then it becomes automated. Then they don’t have to say ‘Science says’ anymore. They just push the button. The algorithm takes care of it and you get the shot and that’s the end of it.
This business of infrastructure is very sophisticated. Today it’s called supply chain, by the way. That’s a big term you’ll hear, too. The supply chain, moving goods and services to get just in the right place, just in time.
No warehouse is necessary. Just kind of ship it and it’s there exactly the day you need it. This has all been automated as well. It’s part of the infrastructure they need to implement technocracy one day.”
Data Is the New Oil
In her book, “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,” professor Shoshana Zuboff exposes the stunning capacities currently available to surveil, analyze and manipulate our behavior. It’s crucial to realize that as bad as it is today, the predictive power of technology is advancing at an exponential rate, which means their ability to manipulate behavior is increasing at a pace we cannot fully comprehend.
“Data is the new oil of the 21st century,” Wood says. “We said that for years now, and it’s really true. Whoever owns the data, controls the system. Data is more valuable to technocracy than any other commodity that you could conceivably imagine. And Google has been collecting this data for a long time.
They’ve been analyzing it for a long time, and they have a number of techniques now where they can use that data, weaponize it in a sense, turn it back on us and cause it to modify our behavior. And this is right in line with the scientific social engineering concept.
Several years ago, Eric Schmidt [former long-time Google CEO and, later, chairman of Alphabet,] was invited to be a member of the Trilateral commission. He’s also hobnobbing with our government to create systems for surveillance and data collection. Google now has been in a position to weaponize that data … Google does this in several ways.
Not only do they condition the feed that you see when you search for a certain term, but also … when you start to type in a search, it will give you the answers [and] you pick one. It won’t give you the ones that you might really be looking for, but it’ll give you what they think you should pick. This has a huge, psychological impact on people. Just huge.”
What’s the Ultimate Goal?
For instance, years ago, if you searched for a holistic medicine topic, many of my articles would appear at the top of your search. In June 2019, Google quietly started to eliminate Mercola.com from search results. I discussed this in “Google Buries Mercola in Their Latest Search Engine Update, Part 1 and Part 2.”
“You haven’t done anything different. You’re still doing exactly what you did, but Google is treating you as a non-person now,” Wood says. “It reminds you a little bit of ‘1984,’ where Winston worked in the ministry of information and his business half the time was scratching out people from history. They just ceased to exist.
Every record, even their birth record was erased and nobody would ever hear that person’s name again. If they went to look, they couldn’t find him. And then people started thinking ‘Maybe it was just my imagination. I never really knew somebody like that.’
Google has this power to present information that it wants you to hear or see, and they can manipulate minds and mindsets. It’s just amazing. They even said, internally, that they believe they have the power to take the 2020 election away from Trump because of this very feature. Well, wait a minute.
If any person or organization sets themselves up intentionally to overthrow the government of the United States, I think there’s a term for that. It’s called sedition. It might give way to insurrection as well, but that doesn’t bother these people. There’s no ethical guide whatsoever that tells them this is wrong and don’t do it. They feel this is perfectly normal. They’ve got the data, they make the rules.
So, they’re influencing people, they’re nudging people in one direction or another direction. And it’s extremely dangerous because those who are susceptible to that kind of manipulation, once they are in that manipulation channel, they can get them to do anything.
Once it gets a hold of a person and really starts messing with their mind, then they can feed all kinds of stuff into it and get them to do all kinds of things they would not have otherwise done.
And that’s true for Facebook and Twitter and other entities like that as well. But you can’t look at Google, Facebook and Twitter and say these are communists. You can’t do that. They’re technocrats. They march to a different tune completely and they could care less about the political ideology behind it.
I don’t care who you are, what your political persuasion is, but if you start writing against vaccines, for instance … you’ll find yourself censored just right along with everybody else and your stories will disappear. There’ll be shadow banned. There’ll be pushed down the stack where they don’t appear in the searches anymore.
It doesn’t really have to do with a class of people that they’re censoring, it has to do with the topics that are being censored. That’s the key thing here to understand. One of the key topics today that they are so in love with is this idea of global manipulation of the human [gene] pool, to get the medical hooks into your body.
This is social engineering at its extreme, where they’re not only engineering the society around you, the environment around you, they also want to engineer you personally. This is their mindset right now. We’ve seen evidence of this all over the place. I don’t want to go into it and confuse this conversation, but this is where it’s going.”
Sustainable Development Isn’t What You Think
Wood also explains why “sustainable development” goals, which sound like a good thing, really aren’t. The United Nations has declared that sustainable development is going to be the new economic system of the future. It’s a resource-based economic system based on energy.
“A couple of years ago, the head of climate change at the UN, Christiana Figueres, gave a press conference in Europe and she said, ‘This is the first time in the history of mankind that we’re setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years since the Industrial Revolution.’
That’s a direct quote from her lips. I dedicated a chapter in my book to demonstrate that sustainable development is technocracy from the 1930s. It has all the same markers. It has all the same elements in it. It was brought to the United Nation by members of The Trilateral Commission, by the way …
Their vision for the future of society is this sustainable future where they will control all the resources and all the consumption. In other words, they will tell businesses what they’re allowed to build and they will tell consumers what they’re allowed to consume. Period, end of subject. You don’t need to be involved in this. They figure this all out for you in advance.
This is the science of social engineering here. They have the science, you just have to follow and do what they tell you to do. It’s very insidious. Of course, they have nice platitudes like we’re going to eliminate poverty, we’re going to have education for all, we’re going to have jobs with dignity.
That’s all wonderful stuff, but when you get down to the bottom of their so-called sustainable development [and green deal] goals, you see [that] all you have to do to get those things is let us have all the control over the resources and the management of those resources on a global basis.”
Taking Back Local Government Is Key
Importantly, what the technocrats are doing is making an end run around national sovereignty. Rather than a frontal assault on the system, which has never been successful, they’ve simply eroded national sovereignty piece by piece. Wood also reviews what we can do to save our republic and thwart the steady march of technocracy:
“I believe very strongly that local activism is the only way to rebuild our country, if there is going to be any rebuilding at all. Local activism — because this is how they got us. They built [the technocratic system] from the bottom up. We cannot tear their house down from the top down. It’s simply is just not going to happen. They’re too powerful,” Wood says.
“There is no national government or any element of national government that’s going to save us from these technocrats and technocracy. There’s no state government, either, or local government, the way it stands now, unless that local government gets influenced and populated by people who know better and who are willing to tell these others:
‘Go away, you don’t belong here. This is not the way we’re going to run our community, our town, our city,’ whatever it is, and we have access to those people.”
One of the most important elected local officials that you should concern yourself with is your sheriff. They are responsible for enforcing tyrannical edicts from local, state and federal government, and if they choose not to, government has no power. City councils also have a lot of power. They can pass binding resolutions to protect citizens against the technocratic agenda.
“There was a city in California, I can’t remember the name right now, but somebody got to the city council and educated every one of them. The city council held a referendum and passed a binding resolution that says there will be no agency of the city or any other activity of the city that will support Agenda 21. They banned Agenda 21 from their city, lock, stock and barrel. It was just a small city, but I thought, ‘Yeah!'”
What is Agenda 21? It is the keystone document for Sustainable Development. It was developed in 1992 at the Rio de Janeiro conference of the United Nations’ first Earth summit. This became the agenda for the 21st century. The doctrine that came to be known as Agenda 21 came from a book written by Trilateral Commission member Gro Harlem Brundtland, called “Our Common Future.”
Citizens for Free Speech
We cover a lot of information in this interview, so be sure to listen to it in its entirety, or read through the transcript for more. Also consider picking up one or both of his books, “Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation” and “Technocracy: The Hard Road to World Order.”
Wood’s nonprofit organization, Citizens for Free Speech, is another excellent resource where you can learn more about your constitutional rights and how to communicate your ideas to others. For a small donation, Citizens for Free Speech also offers a laminated No Mask Card that you can wear on a lanyard, explaining your First Amendment Right to disobey local mask mandates.
“I started Citizens for Free Speech with the idea that technocracy is attacking the First Amendment,” Wood says. “It’s censoring our ability to communicate. It’s keeping us from communicating with each other and with our government and with our adversaries, those who may not agree with us fully.
Our ability to communicate has been completely decimated in America. We’re so dysfunctional. Everybody’s at everybody else’s throat all the time. There’s no patience, there’s no civil discourse anymore. And I believe that what people really have to learn, if they’re going to be local activists, they need to learn how to communicate their ideas.
Once they get ideas, they need to learn how to communicate those ideas to other people. Maybe those people agree with them, maybe they don’t, but nevertheless, they need to be able to express their ideas in a way that everybody in the room doesn’t get triggered and start hammering on you.
This concept of appropriate communication is what restoring the First Amendment at this point is all about … The First Amendment is under an intense attack by these people. That’s part of their strategy. Get rid of the First Amendment effectively, and what else do you have? Well, you have the Second Amendment. That’s the first thing you see.
I don’t even want to talk about the Second Amendment. I support it totally, don’t get me wrong, but if we lose the First Amendment, the Second Amendment was put there to take care of the loss of the first. And that’s the strategy that the enemy has, to break America down.
[Once you] get rid of the First Amendment, they figure America will fall into chaos, probably armed conflict, and that will make it just right for them to sweep in and take over when people then beg for anybody to put government back together, put the country back together.
So, the idea of supporting and defending the First Amendment is critical right now. People can get the issues, but if they cannot communicate those issues effectively, what’s the point? Why just sit on your couch and know everything there is to know if you have no ability to communicate that to somebody else? …
People … understand the value now, or maybe the necessity, of civil disobedience. This is a very touchy subject. I don’t want to go down the road too much. But we have reached a point where technocracy has pushed us into a corner …
If we do not resist and say, ‘We’re not going along with your program,’ then they will continue to push us into the corner until we simply cannot get out of that corner. The time has come for people to do what they know is right, and to protect themselves first — not to think about ‘the greater good’ all the time …
Once people see through the pseudoscience of face mask and social distancing, contact tracing, and all these mechanisms that are being thrown down at us, once they start to see through the statistical models being totally erroneous, they’re beginning to understand we just need to stop this behavior and not obey them …
We must restore our Constitution, which is the framework for everything else in our nation. We must restore the effective application of the constitution to our society …


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When the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world earlier this year , plunging much of the world into lockdown conditions , it seemed that nature was finally being given a major breather – so much so that breathless stories spread across the world about animals taking back their environs , along with memes and social media posts about how “ the earth is healing.
” However , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was much thinner than believed , and instead , the pandemic has given rise to a new , sad side effect – millions of pieces of discarded personal protective equipment ( PPE ) that is littering the planet in shocking ways .
According to a new study published in the Environment , Science & Technology journal , no less than 129 billion face masks and 65 billion gloves – 194 billion units of PPE in total – are being used on a monthly basis around the world , resulting in “ widespread environmental @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of waste material in our oceans and rivers .
To make matters worse , watchdogs with WWF ( World Wildlife Fund ) warned in a report earlier this year : “ If only 1 percent of the masks were to be disposed of incorrectly and dispersed in nature , this would result in up to 10 million masks per month polluting the environment.
” An environmentalist in the UK is already seeing the results of the improper disposal of the mountain of PPE being used and discarded on every month .
Emily Stevenson @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the “ Beach Guardian , ” recently went to collect litter from a beach in Cornwall , along England ’ s southwestern coast , and found no less than 171 pieces of discarded PPE only in the span of one hour – a shocking rise from the six PPE items she had found on a previous beach cleanup .
Emily and her father Rob founded The Beach Guardian project in 2017 , and have organized 200 community cleanups involving 6,000 volunteers .
In recent months , she has noticed how the litter they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bags and straws to gloves and protective face masks .
“ We ’ ve already found evidence of PPE actually sinking below the ocean surface , ” Stevenson said , according to The Independent .
“ This means that there could be a totally unaccounted for concentration of PPE pollution on the seafloor , which can remain as dormant debris for centuries.
” “ Once on the seafloor , it smothers any biological structures such as important Sea Fan beds in the UK , or coral reefs further afield , ” she continued @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a ‘ plasticizing ’ effect when on the seafloor – potentially inhibiting gas exchange between the water column and sediment.
” Stevenson noted that if the entire UK wears one disposable protective face mask per day for a full year , this would result in an extra 57,000 tons of plastic that is difficult to recycle – along with an additional 66,000 tons of contaminated PPE trash .
Well prior to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus pandemic , experts and conservationists were urgently warning that plastic waste was inundating the world ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ carcinogenic toxins and chemicals into the marine environment , with plastic drink containers trapping and confining—and ultimately killing—marine wildlife .
The pollution has reached such monstrous proportions that an estimated 100 million tons of plastic could be found in the oceans , according to the UN .
Between 80 and 90 percent of it comes from land-based sources .
A report prepared for the 2016 World Economic Forum in Davos , Switzerland , warned that by 2050 , plastic waste in the ocean would outweigh all fish .
Stevenson retains hope that given @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people will be more open to embracing a conscientious attitude toward problems on a global scale .

With 194 BILLION Masks and Gloves Used Monthly, New Wave of Pollution Hits Oceans and Beaches
Elias Marat, The Mind Unleashed
Waking Times
When the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world earlier this year, plunging much of the world into lockdown conditions, it seemed that nature was finally being given a major breather – so much so that breathless stories spread across the world about animals taking back their environs, along with memes and social media posts about how “the earth is healing.”
However, the scant silver lining of the global lockdown was much thinner than believed, and instead, the pandemic has given rise to a new, sad side effect – millions of pieces of discarded personal protective equipment (PPE) that is littering the planet in shocking ways.
According to a new study published in the Environment, Science & Technology journal, no less than 129 billion face masks and 65 billion gloves – 194 billion units of PPE in total – are being used on a monthly basis around the world, resulting in “widespread environmental contamination” and a catastrophic new wave of waste material in our oceans and rivers.
Although wearing PPE is often essential, remember to take care when throwing away used items. Not only are they hazardous to other people, it's all too easy for discarded masks and gloves to end up in watercourses.
Find a bin, do it properly.#Loveyourriver #PPE #coronavirus pic.twitter.com/QWCXSuWtNp — Wessex Rivers Trust (@WessexRivers) August 7, 2020
To make matters worse, watchdogs with WWF (World Wildlife Fund) warned in a report earlier this year: “If only 1 percent of the masks were to be disposed of incorrectly and dispersed in nature, this would result in up to 10 million masks per month polluting the environment.”
An environmentalist in the UK is already seeing the results of the improper disposal of the mountain of PPE being used and discarded on every month.
Emily Stevenson, a marine biologist widely known as the “Beach Guardian,” recently went to collect litter from a beach in Cornwall, along England’s southwestern coast, and found no less than 171 pieces of discarded PPE only in the span of one hour – a shocking rise from the six PPE items she had found on a previous beach cleanup.
171 discarded face masks and gloves found on Cornish coastline in one hour pic.twitter.com/mUqUvvMHZP — The Independent (@Independent) August 6, 2020
Emily and her father Rob founded The Beach Guardian project in 2017, and have organized 200 community cleanups involving 6,000 volunteers. In recent months, she has noticed how the litter they are collecting has shifted from single-use plastic bags and straws to gloves and protective face masks.
“We’ve already found evidence of PPE actually sinking below the ocean surface,” Stevenson said, according to The Independent. “This means that there could be a totally unaccounted for concentration of PPE pollution on the seafloor, which can remain as dormant debris for centuries.” “Once on the seafloor, it smothers any biological structures such as important Sea Fan beds in the UK, or coral reefs further afield,” she continued. “Also, this debris entails a ‘plasticizing’ effect when on the seafloor – potentially inhibiting gas exchange between the water column and sediment.”
Stevenson noted that if the entire UK wears one disposable protective face mask per day for a full year, this would result in an extra 57,000 tons of plastic that is difficult to recycle – along with an additional 66,000 tons of contaminated PPE trash.
“This has been the first time I have been legitimately frightened by PPE pollution,” Stevenson said. “To see it in the water, in the environment that holds my heart and my passion. To see it at home, on my doorstep. It hit me very hard.”
1⃣5⃣2⃣ plastic gloves and face masks found during today’s #LitterPick… 🌊 This wave of #PPEPollution is relentless… but can be resolved, if we are all responsible with our waste.#PlasticPandemic pic.twitter.com/1sAprnmZ3q — Beach Guardian (@PlasticWaive) August 6, 2020
Well prior to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus pandemic, experts and conservationists were urgently warning that plastic waste was inundating the world’s oceans and water supplies, leaching carcinogenic toxins and chemicals into the marine environment, with plastic drink containers trapping and confining—and ultimately killing—marine wildlife.
The pollution has reached such monstrous proportions that an estimated 100 million tons of plastic could be found in the oceans, according to the UN. Between 80 and 90 percent of it comes from land-based sources. A report prepared for the 2016 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, warned that by 2050, plastic waste in the ocean would outweigh all fish.
Stevenson retains hope that given the unifying effect of the pandemic, people will be more open to embracing a conscientious attitude toward problems on a global scale.
“The saving grace of COVID-19 has been our unity; the whole world has faced the virus together,” she noted. “If we continue with the same global collaboration, we can resolve this. PPE is in all of our lives; we use it or see it every day. But it is for this very reason that we can all do something about it.” “It is those daily, individual, small steps that happen on a global scale that is going to be our greatest ally in this fight against plastic,” Stevenson said.
By Elias Marat | Creative Commons | TheMindUnleashed.com


thewakingtimes--2020-08-10--Man Sentenced to Life in Prison for Selling Less Than a Gram of Marijuana Will Finally be Freed

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A U.S. military veteran who was sentenced to life in prison over less than $ 30 of marijuana is going to be released from prison , his lawyer said .
Derek Harris was arrested in Louisiana back in 2008 for selling undercover officer 0.69 grams of cannabis .
While Harris was initially convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison , in 2012 he was resentenced to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s draconian Habitual Offender Law , which grants judges the freedom to impose far harsher sentences on defendants with prior criminal charges .
However , prosecutors in Vermilion Parish have now agreed to release Harris from prison after he served nine years in prison , after he was granted a new hearing by the Louisiana Supreme Court last month .
Harris ’ attorney , Cormac Boyle , said that District Attorney Keith Stutes ’ office agreed that his client “ received ineffective assistance at sentencing and was entitled to a lesser sentence , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lawyer remained silent when the judge claimed he had no choice but to condemn him to life imprisonment as a habitual offender .
Harris also noted that his previous attorney didn ’ t even remind the sentencing judge that he had a duty to deliver a less severe prison term if the mandatory minimum sentence “ shocks the conscience , ” reports NOLA .
READ : Expert Issues Warning : Decriminalization of Psychedelics is NOT What You Think it Is Boyle noted that his client ’ s case isn ’ t some freak @ @ @ @ @ @ @ long history with the habitual offender law which disproportionately harms Black defendants in the state .
Harris , who had previous offenses of theft and dealing cocaine , had developed a substance abuse problem following his return from Operation Desert Storm , the U.S. operation launched by the U.S. during the 1990-1991 Gulf War in response to Iraq ’ s invasion of neighboring Kuwait .
It was for those reasons that Harris wasn ’ t given the maximum 30-year sentence during his initial sentencing , and was only given a life sentence by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bill had passed .
Harris ’ case illustrates the grave plight faced by Louisiana ’ s roughly 4,700 prisoners serving life without parole , reports Washington Post .
However , his recent victory before the Louisiana Supreme Court could see inmates finally being able to challenge their convictions on the grounds of draconian sentencing Boyle said that Harris will soon be released from state prison and plans to relocate to Kentucky where he can restart his life with a brother and his family .

Man Sentenced to Life in Prison for Selling Less Than a Gram of Marijuana Will Finally be Freed
Elias Marat, The Mind Unleashed
Waking Times
A U.S. military veteran who was sentenced to life in prison over less than $30 of marijuana is going to be released from prison, his lawyer said.
Derek Harris was arrested in Louisiana back in 2008 for selling undercover officer 0.69 grams of cannabis.
While Harris was initially convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison, in 2012 he was resentenced to life in prison under the state’s draconian Habitual Offender Law, which grants judges the freedom to impose far harsher sentences on defendants with prior criminal charges.
However, prosecutors in Vermilion Parish have now agreed to release Harris from prison after he served nine years in prison, after he was granted a new hearing by the Louisiana Supreme Court last month.
The court agreed with arguments presented by Harris’ legal counsel that he had “ineffective assistance of counsel at sentencing on post-conviction review.”
Harris’ attorney, Cormac Boyle, said that District Attorney Keith Stutes’ office agreed that his client “received ineffective assistance at sentencing and was entitled to a lesser sentence,” but at the time Harris’ lawyer remained silent when the judge claimed he had no choice but to condemn him to life imprisonment as a habitual offender.
Harris also noted that his previous attorney didn’t even remind the sentencing judge that he had a duty to deliver a less severe prison term if the mandatory minimum sentence “shocks the conscience,” reports NOLA.
Boyle noted that his client’s case isn’t some freak incident but illustrative of Louisiana’s long history with the habitual offender law which disproportionately harms Black defendants in the state.
“It is certainly time for Louisiana to rethink how it uses the habitual offender law,” Boyle said. “While in theory such a law may be fine, in practice it perpetuates and exposes some of the worst aspects of the criminal justice system.”
Harris, who had previous offenses of theft and dealing cocaine, had developed a substance abuse problem following his return from Operation Desert Storm, the U.S. operation launched by the U.S. during the 1990-1991 Gulf War in response to Iraq’s invasion of neighboring Kuwait.
In his opinion, Louisiana Supreme Court Justice John Weimer noted that Harris’ “prior offenses were nonviolent and related to his untreated dependency on drugs.” Harris was definitely “not a drug kingpin” nor did he fit the profile of “a drug dealer, so far as I can tell,” Weimer added.
It was for those reasons that Harris wasn’t given the maximum 30-year sentence during his initial sentencing, and was only given a life sentence by the trial court after the habitual offender bill had passed.
Harris’ case illustrates the grave plight faced by Louisiana’s roughly 4,700 prisoners serving life without parole, reports Washington Post. However, his recent victory before the Louisiana Supreme Court could see inmates finally being able to challenge their convictions on the grounds of draconian sentencing
Boyle said that Harris will soon be released from state prison and plans to relocate to Kentucky where he can restart his life with a brother and his family.
By Elias Marat | Creative Commons | TheMindUnleashed.com


thewakingtimes--2020-08-10--Scientists Resurrect 100-Million-Year-Old Life Buried Under Seafloor Since Dinosaur Age

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Researchers studying ancient mud from below the seafloor recently made a stunning discovery .
They found that by simply adding food they were able to revive bacteria life that has laid dormant for 101.5-million-years .
Scientists at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology extracted sediment from 70 meters below the seafloor .
At this depth , the sediment represented about 100 million years of time and could not have contained any modern bacteria .
Researchers plied the mud with sugar and ammonia and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ grow , activity that was confirmed by carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis .
Researchers believe the extraordinary microbes are oxygen-consuming aerobic bacteria , which differentiates them from anaerobic bacteria that flourish in seafloor environments where food is abundant .
In their paper on the discovery , they write : The team took precautions to assure that there was no contamination from higher-level sediment and confirm that the bacteria they were looking at was as ancient as the mud samples suggested .
They were able to corroborate that the dormant microbes originated when dinosaurs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ found cyanobacteria , or “ blue-green algae ” that utilizes photosynthetic processing even in the most extreme of conditions .
Given that their growth occurred in the total absence of light , this is yet another mystery in the finding .
“ What we found was that life extends all the way from the seafloor to the underlying rocky basement , ” said oceanographer and study co-author Steven D ’ Hondt said .
“ And what [ lead author Yuki Morono ’ s ] paper now shows is that those organisms are not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sediment , but they ’ re capable of growing and dividing.
” The discovery has profound implications for the perseverance and adaptability of life .
It shows bacteria can slow itself down during an absence of food or energy and hibernate for enormous periods of time .
The research may also have implications for alien microbial and bacterial life , as Earth has now demonstrated that organisms can survive in extremely hostile environments – including boiling-hot hydrothermal vents and in remote areas without access to sunlight or food .
When presented with these @ @ @ @ @ @ @ into a very long deep sleep without dying .
There is no reason to think microbes on exoplanets aren ’ t just as adaptable and stubborn given the right planetary conditions .

Scientists Resurrect 100-Million-Year-Old Life Buried Under Seafloor Since Dinosaur Age
Jake Anderson, The Mind Unleashed
Waking Times
Researchers studying ancient mud from below the seafloor recently made a stunning discovery. They found that by simply adding food they were able to revive bacteria life that has laid dormant for 101.5-million-years.
Scientists at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology extracted sediment from 70 meters below the seafloor. At this depth, the sediment represented about 100 million years of time and could not have contained any modern bacteria. Researchers plied the mud with sugar and ammonia and soon microbial cells began to feed and grow, activity that was confirmed by carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis.
Researchers believe the extraordinary microbes are oxygen-consuming aerobic bacteria, which differentiates them from anaerobic bacteria that flourish in seafloor environments where food is abundant.
In their paper on the discovery, they write:
“Our results suggest that microbial communities widely distributed in organic-poor abyssal sediment consist mainly of aerobes that retain their metabolic potential under extremely low-energy conditions for up to 101.5 [million years].”
The team took precautions to assure that there was no contamination from higher-level sediment and confirm that the bacteria they were looking at was as ancient as the mud samples suggested. They were able to corroborate that the dormant microbes originated when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth.
They also found cyanobacteria, or “blue-green algae” that utilizes photosynthetic processing even in the most extreme of conditions. Given that their growth occurred in the total absence of light, this is yet another mystery in the finding.
“What we found was that life extends all the way from the seafloor to the underlying rocky basement,” said oceanographer and study co-author Steven D’Hondt said. “And what [lead author Yuki Morono’s] paper now shows is that those organisms are not only alive in the deepest form of sediment, but they’re capable of growing and dividing.”
The discovery has profound implications for the perseverance and adaptability of life. It shows bacteria can slow itself down during an absence of food or energy and hibernate for enormous periods of time.
The research may also have implications for alien microbial and bacterial life, as Earth has now demonstrated that organisms can survive in extremely hostile environments – including boiling-hot hydrothermal vents and in remote areas without access to sunlight or food. When presented with these unfriendly conditions, life can essentially go into a very long deep sleep without dying.
There is no reason to think microbes on exoplanets aren’t just as adaptable and stubborn given the right planetary conditions.
By Jake Anderson | Creative Commons | TheMindUnleashed.com


thewakingtimes--2020-08-11--WATCH: World’s Elite Discuss The Davos Plan to Capitalize on Coronavirus and Roll Out the NWO

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People around the globe are waking up the realization that we will never be going back to what we used to think of as normal .
Now that businesses have been closed and lives upended for almost six months , the major international banking and aid organizations are revealing their hand , and they are openly telling us what their version of the new normal will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t see much coverage of it in mainstream news , the annual World Economic Forum held in Davos , Switzerland brings the world ’ s richest and most influential people together to discuss how to influence global events in favor of elitist agendas .
“ ” Well they ’ re all there .
All the movers and shakers of the world are in Davos are one time or another .
Even Prince Charles , the insufferable Prince of Wales , got into the act in Davos in January.
” ~Michael Matt , The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the perfect opportunity to force many of the policies discussed at this forum onto the world ’ s public .
The majority of nations on the planet are under the influence of the organizations and interests present at Davos , and the Davos agenda of bringing about a global ‘ Great Reset ‘ is not secret in any way .
Michael Matt of The Remnant covers this in a thorough collection of video clips of speeches delivered by these influential players , offering plenty of direct quotes on how these people believe the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ agenda .
Of course the Davos agenda includes partnerships with the world ’ s most influential super-national organizations , like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , and Al Gore ’ s Climate Reality Project .
The agenda includes strict economic and travel controls , control over land , cashless world currencies , mandatory vaccinations , and so much more .
Hear it for yourself from the horse ’ s mouth : “ COVID-19 lockdowns may be gradually easing , but anxiety about the world ’ s social and economic prospects is only @ @ @ @ @ @ @ worry : a sharp economic downturn has already begun , and we could be facing the worst depression since the 1930s .
But , while this outcome is likely , it is not unavoidable .
To achieve a better outcome , the world must act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies , from education to social contracts and working conditions .
Every country , from the United States to China , must participate , and every industry , from oil and gas to tech , must be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the World Economic Forum “ Unless we take the action necessary , and we build again in a greener , more sustainable , more inclusive way , then we will end up having more and more pandemics , and more and more disasters from ever , ever accelerating global warming and climate change .
So , this is the one moment , as we ’ ve all been saying , we have to make as much progress as we can.
” ~Prince Charles , Prince of Wales READ : Globalists Reveal That @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Coming In 2021 You can decide for yourself if this is a future you wish to see manifest or not , but in lieu of coverage of how these major institutions continually manipulate human and economic events , here it is .
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WATCH: World’s Elite Discuss The Davos Plan to Capitalize on Coronavirus and Roll Out the NWO
Isaac Davis, Staff Writer
Waking Times
People around the globe are waking up the realization that we will never be going back to what we used to think of as normal. Now that businesses have been closed and lives upended for almost six months, the major international banking and aid organizations are revealing their hand, and they are openly telling us what their version of the new normal will look like.
Although you don’t see much coverage of it in mainstream news, the annual World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland brings the world’s richest and most influential people together to discuss how to influence global events in favor of elitist agendas.
“”Well they’re all there. All the movers and shakers of the world are in Davos are one time or another. Even Prince Charles, the insufferable Prince of Wales, got into the act in Davos in January.” ~Michael Matt, The Remnant
According to Business Insider, Davos is…
“…the invitation-only conference that brings billionaires together with business and political leaders at a Swiss resort. Each year, business leaders and heads of state give lectures and speak on panels about topics ranging from gender equality and venture capital to mental health and climate change. The real magic happens behind closed doors, however: The rich and powerful use the event as a chance to network and hash out their differences out of the public eye.” [Source]
The 2020 global Covid-19 pandemic presents the perfect opportunity to force many of the policies discussed at this forum onto the world’s public. The majority of nations on the planet are under the influence of the organizations and interests present at Davos, and the Davos agenda of bringing about a global ‘Great Reset‘ is not secret in any way.
Michael Matt of The Remnant covers this in a thorough collection of video clips of speeches delivered by these influential players, offering plenty of direct quotes on how these people believe the Covid-19 crisis can best benefit their international agenda.
Of course the Davos agenda includes partnerships with the world’s most influential super-national organizations, like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project. The agenda includes strict economic and travel controls, control over land, cashless world currencies, mandatory vaccinations, and so much more. Hear it for yourself from the horse’s mouth:
“COVID-19 lockdowns may be gradually easing, but anxiety about the world’s social and economic prospects is only intensifying. There is good reason to worry: a sharp economic downturn has already begun, and we could be facing the worst depression since the 1930s. But, while this outcome is likely, it is not unavoidable. To achieve a better outcome, the world must act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies, from education to social contracts and working conditions. Every country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed.” ~Klaus Schwab, Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum
Prince Charles attended in early 2020:
“Unless we take the action necessary, and we build again in a greener, more sustainable, more inclusive way, then we will end up having more and more pandemics, and more and more disasters from ever, ever accelerating global warming and climate change. So, this is the one moment, as we’ve all been saying, we have to make as much progress as we can.” ~Prince Charles, Prince of Wales
Here’s German Chancellor Merkel:
“This transformation essentially means that the whole way that we do business, that we live, that we have grown accustomed to in the industrial age, will have to be changed, we will have to leave that behind us in the next thirty years to go.” ~Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, speaking at the 2020 World Economic Forum
You can decide for yourself if this is a future you wish to see manifest or not, but in lieu of coverage of how these major institutions continually manipulate human and economic events, here it is.
By the way, we wouldn’t be surprised if this video gets removed from YouTube, so please send us a note if you notice it to be gone.
About the Author
Isaac Davis is a staff writer for WakingTimes.com. He is an outspoken advocate of liberty and of a voluntary society. He is an avid reader of history and passionate about becoming self-sufficient to break free of the control matrix. Follow him on Facebook, here.
This article (WATCH: World’s Elite Discuss The Davos Plan to Capitalize on Coronavirus to Roll Out the NWO) was originally created and published by Waking Times and is published here under a Creative Commons license with attribution to Isaac Davis and WakingTimes.com. It may be re-posted freely with proper attribution, author bio, and this copyright statement.