And at the dead center of it all is Eric Schmidt. Well before Americans understood the threat of Covid-19, Schmidt had been on an aggressive lobbying and public relations campaign pushing precisely the “Black Mirror” vision of society that Cuomo has just empowered him to build. At the heart of this vision is seamless integration of government with a handful of Silicon Valley giants — with public schools, hospitals, doctor’s offices, police, and military all outsourcing (at a high cost) many of their core functions to private tech companies.
– The Intercept: Screen New Deal
Each crisis in the 21st century has been aggressively and ruthlessly wielded into a massive wealth and power grab by the American oligarchy and national security state. The big power grab following 9/11 centered around whittling away constitutional rights via mass surveillance in the name of “keeping us safe”, while the money grab after last decade’s financial crisis concentrated wealth and assets into fewer hands while entrenching financial feudalism and making the Federal Reserve and mega banks even more powerful.
Despite the success of this diabolical and intentional concentration of money and power, there’s still too much privacy, freedom and independent wealth around for the imperial oligarchy to feel comfortable. As such, the current pandemic is being used to put the finishing touches on whatever little political and economic freedom remains in these United States.
The lessons learned from prior crises are being rolled out simultaneously this time around while people remain incapacitated at home due to Covid-19. The 2008/09 financial collapse taught those in power they can get away with unprecedented, unaccountable theft during an economic and stock market crash. Similarly, 9/11 demonstrated people will relinquish civil liberties without much protest when immersed in a state of fear.
As such, a new round of society-wide economic pillaging has occurred and is ongoing, while at the same time an equally nefarious agenda to sell you on a completely new way of living — conveniently brought to you by technocratic big tech oligarchs — is in the works.
During moments of heightened confusion and fear, the public is sold and conditioned in subtle ways to accept some new reality they never asked for or wanted. The “smart city” appears to be a key oligarch bucket list item this time around, and I’ve started focusing more attention on it after watching the following exceptionally creepy clip from Reuters.
5G technology could soon become the foundation for greener, safer, more sustainable cities worldwide pic.twitter.com/0eQIEr1qvA
— Reuters Business (@ReutersBiz) April 30, 2020
There’s a desperate and deliberate attempt to emphasize how “smart cities” will benefit humanity and solve a plethora of problems, but the video’s creep factor simply cannot be ignored. Significantly, the plan here seems to be to just go ahead and create smart cities without asking permission from the residents who live there. Thanks to governor Andrew Cuomo, it appears New Yorkers will be big tech oligarchs’ first guinea pigs.
NEW: @NYGovCuomo has tapped @Google CEO @ericschmidt to head a new Blue Ribbon Commission reimagining New York State’s current systems of health and education.
— Zack Fink (@ZackFinkNews) May 6, 2020
Health care and education represent very big areas of human civilization. Who voted for Eric Schmidt to mold and micromanage New York as if it’s his own personal startup?
As reported by The Intercept:
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who joined the governor’s briefing to announce that he will be heading up a blue-ribbon commission to reimagine New York state’s post-Covid reality, with an emphasis on permanently integrating technology into every aspect of civic life.
“The first priorities of what we’re trying to do,” Schmidt said, “are focused on telehealth, remote learning, and broadband. … We need to look for solutions that can be presented now, and accelerated, and use technology to make things better.” Lest there be any doubt that the former Google chair’s goals were purely benevolent, his video background featured a framed pair of golden angel wings.
Just one day earlier, Cuomo had announced a similar partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop “a smarter education system.” Calling Gates a “visionary,” Cuomo said the pandemic has created “a moment in history when we can actually incorporate and advance [Gates’s] ideas … all these buildings, all these physical classrooms — why with all the technology you have?” he asked, apparently rhetorically.
It has taken some time to gel, but something resembling a coherent Pandemic Shock Doctrine is beginning to emerge. Call it the “Screen New Deal.” Far more high-tech than anything we have seen during previous disasters, the future that is being rushed into being as the bodies still pile up treats our past weeks of physical isolation not as a painful necessity to save lives, but as a living laboratory for a permanent — and highly profitable — no-touch future.
So we get a pandemic and suddenly the governor of New York is like yeah let’s just let a couple billionaires and their organizations decide what society needs to look like. It’s as brazen as it is dangerous.
In my last piece, I warned that the imperial oligarchy would try to sell the public on the ludicrous idea we need to become China to defeat China. Meanwhile, Eric Schmidt hasn’t been particularly shy about his apparent desire to recreate China’s surveillance state in the U.S.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center recently got access through a Freedom of Information Act request to a presentation made by Schmidt’s NSCAI one year ago, in May 2019. Its slides make a series of alarmist claims about how China’s relatively lax regulatory infrastructure and its bottomless appetite for surveillance are causing it to pull ahead of the U.S. in a number of fields, including “AI for medical diagnosis,” autonomous vehicles, digital infrastructure, “smart cities,” ride-sharing, and cashless commerce.
The reasons given for China’s competitive edge are myriad, ranging from the sheer volume of consumers who shop online; “the lack of legacy banking systems in China,” which has allowed it to leapfrog over cash and credit cards and unleash “a huge e-commerce and digital services market” using “digital payments”; and a severe doctor shortage, which has led the government to work closely with tech companies like Tencent to use AI for “predictive” medicine. The slides note that in China, tech companies “have the authority to quickly clear regulatory barriers while American initiatives are mired in HIPPA compliance and FDA approval.”
More than any other factor, however, the NSCAI points to China’s willingness to embrace public-private partnerships in mass surveillance and data collection as a reason for its competitive edge.The presentation touts China’s “Explicit government support and involvement e.g. facial recognition deployment.” It argues that “surveillance is one of the ‘first-and-best customers’ for Al” and further, that “mass surveillance is a killer application for deep learning.”
A slide titled “State Datasets: Surveillance = Smart Cities” notes that China, along with Google’s main Chinese competitor, Alibaba, are racing ahead.
As I write this, the American public is being manipulated into accepting a dystopian surveillance technocracy in the name of defeating China and a virus. It’s as evil and insane as it sounds, but they’re absolutely going for it.
While this all sounds inevitable and beyond our control, it’s really not. The ability to do this stuff relies on people being so scared and confused they’ll accept anything. As such, it’s imperative to understand what the agenda is and then refuse to accept it. At the very least, demand a citywide referendum on any proposed “smart city” implementation. The idea that society should suddenly be “reimagined” by a handful of billionaires simply due to a pandemic is the opposite of freedom and self-determination. It is straight up authoritarian oligarchy and as anti-American as you get. Reject this maniacal process with everything you’ve got.
If your entire way of life can be suddenly “reimagined” around you without your consent simply because some governor snaps his fingers, you’re little more than a slave on someone else’s plantation. As described in a recent article, we can’t just object to what the topdown centralizers want for us, we also need an alternative vision. I think that vision should center around ideas of localism and decentralization.
The best way for me to describe 2020 is we’re all walking through some sort of portal. On the other side could be a hellish centralized surveillance slave panopticon, but we could also create a localized, decentralized human renaissance.
I’m voting for the latter.
— Michael Krieger (@LibertyBlitz) May 1, 2020
If we fail to have our own vision, if we fail to have the courage to stand up and create the world we want via individual action, others will be more than happy to decide the future for us.
As you can see, they’re already working on it.
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I would agree with you that Eric Schmidt’s vision of an “AI managed America” is utterly undemocratic and un- American. But the problem for the country is that a high percentage of Americans “love their tech”, and would simply assume that “more tech is better”, and not think about it as you have.
Americans remain gullible, complacent, and distracted and they like it that way. They would have to be personally affected in a negative way to reject an “AI mediated way of life”.
Personally, I do not have a smart phone, tablet, or home computer, and I am thinking about giving up my car. We can all do this, at least in part – this would blunt much of the oligarchy’s plans for us. We just need to start doing it.
Chris, I think you are basically advocating the same thing as Michael, just in different words. In one word you are both saying DISENGAGE.
I agree fully with both of you, but question the need to convince the other 85% before we start.
What is left out from this discussion is the monumental body of scientific evidence that mm waves used for the latter stages of 5G implementation are highly hazardous to health and will likely create a much sicker, much dumber and a far more auto-immune-diseased society, wherever it is implemented. I wonder if that is part of the agenda
Thank you for bringing that up. To those of us aware of harmful effects from modern mobile communications systems, the IoT and beam-formed mm-wave aspect of so-called “smart” cities is what terrified us most. The effects include brain fog, early-onset dementia, heart problems and immune dysfunction, leading to higher susceptibility to viruses. If all that people can think to do is demand vaccines of dubious efficacy, people everywhere, not just the cities, are well and truly screwn.
I have been noticing that migratory birds seem to be having trouble where I live (Japan) this year. I don’t know, but fear it might be the 5G satellites being tested for military purposes. The pollinators have mostly disappeared from our fields, and many other people are noticing that too.
But all they say is “it must be global warming.” We have to fight harder to get word out to the public ab out the dangers of microwave radiation and especially 5G.
Time is of the essence now. These people are moving forward with their objectives at a rapid pace. They are making a full out war against humankind. We have to act quickly.
Yes, we do need to form communities. Yes we do need to decentralize. We need to quickly become organized and self sustaining. We need to develop an underground railroad of sorts, one for moving both people and supplies. We need to establish safe zones, in hidden places far away from the cities, where we can build camps and where we can find refuge.
We are coming under attack. This is an all out assault on freedom and the free people of the earth. Recognize it as such and recognize that if you want to remain free, you will have to leave society behind. This is a hard truth to accept, but you have to recognize it.
They have won the narrative war, they control most television and radio content, and they control Facebook, Google, YouTube, Twitter, (and most of big tech). The majority of people fully believe in this lockdown. We are now strangers living in their society. We can either conform, or we must leave. We are no longer welcome here.
So we have to leave. We have start something new, and we have to do it fast. Let’s not wait any longer. Let’s join together and form something much better. It is, at this point, our only hope. May God help us in this endeavor.
Get Organized – https://youtu.be/HPuM1CpeH8M
“So we have to leave.”
No. We have to stay, and speak up, Chris.
This is our America. It is as much worth defending now as it was in the 20th century when it faced existential threats. Running away like a fugitive and leaving my country to these usurpers does not resonate with me. It is dead wrong. It can only lead to great suffering. There is no reason why we can not stay and fight for our rights and our liberty.
Andrew Cuomo is not invulnerable when New York has by far the highest number of Covid cases and Covid deaths in the United States. As I recall NYS and South Korea each had their first covid case in early February, yet South Korea with a population of about 60 million people has had less than 300 hundred covid deaths while NYS with a population of about 20 million has almost 22,000 covid deaths. There needs to be an examination of how Cuomo exercised his power as Governor here. How could this happen with a Governor who is on TV trying to sell himself as an excellent problem solver. The result here indicates that there was a grave failure in basic problem solving in New York State.
There is no place to run to !! The time to run from these sick people is over, …confrontation,..civil war is the only recourse left .
This is precisely not “ The time to run away “ yet i feel first world nations are complacent and haven’t got the stomach to do what needs doing .
FYI- 5G technology does not function well at all due to a variety of reasons, and it is extremely expensive to maintain.
So don’t get caught up in the 5G aspect. They don’t need 5G to do what they want to do. The infrastructure is already in place.
“No, we have to stay, and speak up, Chris”
You underestimate the severity of the situation, and you underestimate the ruthlessness of the people perpetrating this scheme. You think they intend to respect or even tolerate dissent. They do not and they will not.
They are using this virus narrative to cover for the roll out of an authoritarian regime. Actual resistance will be much more trying than just “speaking up”. Do you really think you will resist this from the comfort of your own home? Will you still watch your favorite TV shows at night, while you casually push back against the global elite’s centuries old agenda to create a centrally controlled one world government? Think again. Sooner or later anyone who hopes to resist this will have to get out.
I couldn’t agree more! Nonetheless, it is important to understand how one is being screwed! I feel sorry for those soles who jump from one party’s candidates to the other party’s in “hope” of relief, never asking themselves if it ever worked in the past 40, 50, 60 years; unless of course they were hoping for tax relief or bigger welfare programs
Sacha’s Stone documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2Z_cSL24eo
Shoshana’s Zuboff on Surveillance Capitalism:
Luc Montagnier HIV Nobel Prize Winner Says Virus “Bio-engineered” in Lab
“there’s still too much privacy, freedom and independent wealth around for the imperial oligarchy to feel comfortable”
This sums it up very good! These folks live in fear of losing whatever control, ascendance they think they have gained through tricks and manipulation over the rest of us. And undoubtedly some kind of satanic inspired commitment to herd mankind in some way contrary to our deepest aspirations as human being. They have huge amount of resources at their disposal which they use to buy the best brains available to create all the machinery of domination they’re selling us as progress. Can we stop them? I’m not sure but we must certainly try!
Chris, I do not underestimate the severity of the situation.
It comes down to “fight or flight”, and I choose to fight by speaking out against their agenda.
As far as I’m concerned the glass is half full, because now they are showing all of their cards.
“Who is demanding a hundred devices in his home that spy on him and record his actions? With 5G, the ultimate goal is: every device in every home that uses energy will be “its own computer,” and the planetary grid will connect ALL these devices to a monitoring and regulating Energy Authority.” ~ Jon Rappoport
David Rockefeller: “Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution [30-60 million killed by their own government], it has obviously succeeded not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering high morale and community of purpose. Chairman Mao’s leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history.”
That article was published in the NY Times on August 10, 1973, right around the beginning of neoliberalism, or the agenda to convert the US into a Chinese-style government. Why? Control.
The tumultuous 60’s decade struck fear in the hearts? of capitalists, as the people dared to enter the political arena to press their rightful demands, including environmental protections and ending an illegal war. All of this spelled one thing – diminished profit.
https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/05/11/the-chinese-system-comes-to-america/
But actually, Technocracy originated in the 1930’s, was rejected, but resurfaced in the 70’s.
Technocracy: the Road to a “Scientific” Dictatorship.
Patrick Wood has been sounding the alarm on this for DECADES.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9LdAjWNOTc&t=352s
“The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.”
~ Zbigniew Brzezinski’s book, Between Two Ages, 1970
UNDERSTANDING THE RITUAL ASPECTS OF THE CORONA PSYOP
The virus isn’t a psyop, it’s a (mistakenly released?) bioweapon made in a lab.
If the lockdown response is a conspiracy, it means that just about every country on earth is in on it together. How likely does it sound to you that the US, China, UK, India, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Turkey, Israel, and others are all secretly on the same team?