PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS - Institute for Political Economy

What will the next Pandemic Hoax be?

There will be another run at us.  Review this material so that we are not so easily deceived a second time.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-mysterious-death-dr-fauci-most-notable-critic/5871158   

Pfizer’s Crimes Against Humanity

https://www.globalresearch.ca/pfizer-papers-crimes-humanity/5871364 

Bill Gates Wants to Censor Naomi Wolf

Bill Gates Calls for “Vaccine Misinformation” (by which he means the truth) to be Censored in Real-Time by AI

https://www.globalresearch.ca/bill-gates-calls-vaccine-misinformation-censored-real-time/5868057 

5G Danger: 13 Reasons 5G Wireless Technology Will be a Catastrophe for Humanity

https://www.globalresearch.ca/5g-danger-13-reasons-5g-wireless-technology-will-be-a-catastrophe-for-humanity/5680503

Can Trump Succeed?

Paul Craig Roberts

There’s many a slip between cup and lip

I have been speaking with MAGA Americans and, as I suspected, there is little comprehension of the vast impediments to renewal.  The swamp that Trump is to drain is entrenched and institutionalized, but Trump supporters think that with Trump elected and the Senate and House in Republican hands the job is done.

Nothing could be further from the truth.  The majority of Republicans in the Senate and House are RINOs, not Trump supporters.  They are part of the establishment and comfortable in it.  Mitch McConnell is forever as he is in the process of demonstrating.  This Wednesday McConnell is holding the election of the Senate Majority Leader.  His two candidates, chosen without any input from Trump, are John Thune and John Cornyn, neither being MAGAs.  Senator Rick Scott, more likely to be helpful to Trump, is running against the establishment’s candidates.  If the establishment prevails, Trump’s strong appointments are likely to be blocked or to languish unconfirmed.  The prospect of being blocked can discourage an appointee from accepting the appointment.

The establishment can also hamstring Trump by rushing through many unfriendly judicial appointments.  Trump Americans need to understand that the enemy has not folded its tents and left the field.

Here is Trump himself warning:

President-elect Donald Trump on Nov. 10 publicly mentioned one condition for the next leader of the Senate Republican Conference: He or she must clear the way for recess appointments for Trump administration officials.

“Any Republican Senator seeking the coveted LEADERSHIP position in the United States Senate must agree to Recess Appointments (in the Senate!), without which we will not be able to get people confirmed in a timely manner,” Trump wrote on social media platform Truth Social on Nov. 10, addressing the upcoming Senate leadership vote.

He noted that such votes can take “two years or more,” which is “what they did four years ago, and we cannot let it happen again.”

“We need positions filled IMMEDIATELY!” he wrote.

Aside from the request, Trump also said that Republicans should not confirm any judges in the coming months before his inauguration “because the Democrats are looking to ram through their Judges as the Republicans fight over Leadership,” adding, “THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE.”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-sets-condition-for-next-senate-republican-leader-5757426 

I know from experience that there are many ways in which things can go wrong.  

Note General Flynn’s warning:  

 https://www.zerohedge.com/political/general-flynn-delivers-bone-chilling-post-election-warning 

The euphoria that Trump and his supporters are experiencing can easily lead to deadly mistakes.  Appointments that face confirmation challenges can be avoided in the interest of not having a defeat before the new administration is underway.  Consequently, when the new administration is underway, it will lack the strength it needs to succeed.  

The Biden regime can enter into Ukraine and Middle East agreements that lock-in the Trump administration.  

A weak appointment as Attorney General and the Trump administration is finished before it begins.

In order to succeed, Trump will have to bring the power of the people against the establishment.  This means he will have to fight.  With the wrong appointments the fight will never begin.

Compromise for the sake of unity will be the weapon of the establishment and the presstitutes.  Trump said he was going to unify the country.  How does one unify with enemies who tried to kill you and who are opposed to the Constitution of the United States?  Perhaps Trump should have thought about this before he handed the unity weapon to his enemies.

Trump and his supporters must not forget that Trump is leading an insurrection against the establishment.  

My Pleasant Dream of America’s Revival Under Trump Was Followed by a Nightmare

Paul Craig Roberts

Mike Whitney, one of the few intelligent and realistic commentators in the United States and Western World, has raised a worthy and demanding question.  Did the Deep State permit Trump to win so that they can use him to recruit  America’s young men to fight a war for Israel against Iran, a task beyond Kamala’s capability?

Whitney makes a case that those of us excited by our expectations of Trump’s presidency will find deflating.  Read it here:  https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/trumps-triumph-and-the-firing-of-yoav-gallant/ 

I myself have been wondering how Trump was going to make America great again when he supports Israel’s genocidal wars.  How is a country great, especially in a moral and spiritual sense, when it provides the money and weapons used by Israel to genocide Palestine, to bomb women and children in Lebanon, and to attack Iran in the belief that Washington will come to Israel’s rescue?

No such country can be great.

Moreover, no such country can be disengaged from war. It seems the US military/security complex expects to keep the war profits flowing by committing Trump to a war with Iran. There are plenty of Washington-hardened Zionist neoconservatives in positions of power and influence in Washington to override resistance to the war agenda.

Mike Whitney provides scenes of Israeli celebrations of Trump’s election. Trump’s election is regarded as a green light for war with Iran.  The crazed Zionist Netanyahu fired the more sensible Israeli defense minister for telling him that the Israeli military was already over-extended, without a credible war plan,  and must not risk war with Iran.  

Will Trump understand how serious the situation is?  Does Trump and his advisors realize that their foreign policy is being set in place by the Deep State prior to the inauguration in order to keep the war profits flowing?

Does Trump realize that for his supporters making America great again includes military dominance? MAGA Americans are tired of losing wars. They want to win. The military/security complex will have Trump supporters in the streets waving the flag.  They will wave the flag and expect Trump to win.  It is all part of making America great again. It is a war  recipe for disaster.

Will my pleasant dream reported on these pages of America’s prospects of renewal under Trump’s leadership be followed by a nightmare of Trump sucked into disastrous war for Israel’s ambitions and the US military/security complex’s profits?  Is America’s dominance and success at war part of “making America great again?”  If it is, there will be no renewal of America.

A supervisor for the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) ordered her subordinates to deliberately ignore hurricane-stricken households if they had Trump signs

https://www.rt.com/news/607431-daily-wire-maga-hurricane-victims-discrimination/ 

This is why the Democrat liberal/left lie machine wants to ban RT and Sputnik.  Americans must be kept from the truth.

The Ever-Widening War

Paul Craig Roberts

Sunday Nov. 10:  According to Reports three Moscow international airports have suspended operations due to an Ukrainian drone attack

https://www.rt.com/russia/607425-moscow-drones-attack/ 

The Kremlin has failed to explain why Ukrainian drone attacks deep into Russia are permissible without any consequences to the West, but not missile attacks deep into Russia.  

The illogical position Putin finds himself in is eroding his credibility.  Putin’s official position for three years is that Russia is not at war, merely involved in a Special Military Operation. Consequently, Russia has withheld the military force that would have made it impossible for Kiev to continue the conflict. Instead of limiting the conflict and saving lives, the long war has cost many more lives and permitted the US and NATO to get heavily involved.  The limited military operation has thus proven to be a disaster.

Putin will succeed in evicting all Ukrainian forces from the Russian areas now reunited with Russia.  But how does he go from this to neutralizing and demilitarizing Ukraine?  

Trump offers Putin no Ukraine NATO membership for 20 years.  Does that mean that Russia accepts NATO membership for Ukraine in 20 years?

It would have been so much better if Putin had sent in the Russian Army to prevent Washington’s overthrow of the Ukrainian government and installation of an anti-Russian government.  Failing this, Putin’s forced intervention to protect the Russian population in Ukraine should have been decisive, using sufficient force to end the conflict immediately.  

Instead, Putin’s blunder has presented a situation difficult to unwind.  

We are left with a situation in which Trump has to recover from the extraordinary mistakes of his appointments in his first term, and Putin has to find a way to recover from the extraordinary mistake of his Special Military Operation.  

Let’s hope they can find a way.

The US and NATO involvement makes it difficult to resolve the conflict as Putin has refused to resolve it by force.  Which side is going to lose face by compromising? To whose disadvantage will a compromise play in the media?

Will this consideration prevent a settlement? 

Can There Be an American-Russian Reset?

Paul Craig Roberts 

The New York Post reports that Russians are floating the idea of a “reset” with the US made possible by Trump’s election as President.  Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund said that Trump’s “convincing victory shows that ordinary Americans are tired of the unprecedented lies, incompetence, and malice of the Biden administration.  This opens up new opportunities for resetting relations between Russia and the United States.”  https://nypost.com/2024/11/06/world-news/russia-floats-idea-of-reset-with-united-states-after-trump-declares-victory/ 

Trump and Putin are in favor of this, and so is the Russian media which is asking these kind of questions:

“What does the Trump administration mean for the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine? Do you think he will be able to broker a peace, or at least a ceasefire, in at least one of those conflicts?

“Do you expect the US to scale back its defense commitments in Europe under Trump? If so, will this create an opportunity for European countries to move ahead with some sort of of vision of collective security that does not rely on the US? Perhaps something in line with Macron’s proposals?

“Do you expect any changes in the US-NATO relations? Will  the alliance’s new secretary general, Mark Rutte, be able to effectively deal with the Trump White House?”

My response is that these are relevant questions. Trump has these intentions.  Does he have the means?

Trump has confidence, but he also has ego and blusters, two traits unsuitable to dealing with Putin, Xi, and the Iranian Supreme Ruler.  

Also, Trump is a strong personality. Some strong men are comfortable with strong subordinates, but others prefer yes-men.  Trump’s first term was littered with people of weak character and low integrity and they were traitorous.  Did he learn his lesson as he claims, and can he find strong men who will put their reputation in the line of fire?  If so, will he fight for their confirmation by the Senate, or will his advisors convince him that he risks bad publicity and defeats at the beginning of his administration?  

There is some indication of that already in a report that a businessman on Trump’s transition team said that Bobby Kennedy is not to have a position except as an advisor who collects information on harmful food and vaccines.  Little doubt, nominating Bobby as FDA chief or Health and Human Services Secretary would have Big Pharma in every Senator’s office threatening the cut-off of all campaign contributions and their redirection to challengers.  Maneuvering Trump into non-confrontation erodes his image as a fighter for America and will disappoint his supporters.  It is unlikely that Trump’s advisors realize that the Senate’s refusal to confirm Bobby in office would enhance Trump’s power.  He could present the people with the names of the Senators who are actively blocking the restoration of Americans’ health and ask why voters elected obstacles to making America great again.  Trump has the people. He could bring the power of the people to bear on the Big Pharma stooges. 

Another problem is that many, probably most, of Trump’s supporters believe America loses its wars because leaders are too weak to “stand up for America” and properly fight wars.  It is important to Trump to stand up strong for America.  Being tough for America also protects him against media lies that he is a Russian agent or some such accusation, whereas a reasonable deal with Putin opens him to these charges.  Unfortunately, this plays into the hands of the warmonger neoconservatives who have controlled US foreign policy since the Soviet collapse.  Their hawkishness makes them attractive associates for Trump, because together they present a tough front which Trump’s supporters want to see.  Even Trump supporters have been indoctrinated with the belief that Russia, China, and Iran are America’s enemies.

A big problem for Trump in the trouble in the Middle East is that he is so heavily aligned with Israel, as are the US Congress and US media.  There is so much he has to go against, including the powerful Israel Lobby, in order to bring Israel to heel.  Moreover, some analysts are convinced that it is the US that uses Israel in behalf of US hegemony over oil in the Middle East.  If they are correct, to change this policy is an enormous undertaking.

I believe Trump would like to withdraw from NATO. Like Putin, Trump wants to focus on domestic problems and issues.  Whether Trump can put together a government that would support a NATO withdrawal  is not easy to believe.  Many American economic interests benefit from Washington’s rule over Europe and Ukraine. (According to reports US agri-business now owns one-third of Ukraine’s farmland.)  Moreover, the threat to Europe is not Russia.  European ethnic nations are being turned into Towers of Babel by their own governments who allow the countries to be over-run by immigrant-invaders while they warn of Russian invasion. It is unclear that such a nonsensical situation as this can be dealt with politically.

Ukraine, of course, will be played as another American defeat if Putin stays true to his goals of de-militarizing Ukraine and prohibiting NATO membership.  If Trump accepts Putin’s terms, Trump’s opponents will try to play it not as a victory of peace over war but as an American defeat on Trump’s watch.  If Putin accepts a Trump face-saving solution, it likely will play as a Putin defeat, which after three years of sacrifice will be difficult perhaps for Russians to accept.

NATO is Washington’s creation, and the General Secretary is Washington’s Puppet.  Absent the US, NATO is meaningless and cannot possibly take a hostile position toward Russia.  In place of mutual defense, European countries would have to develop civilized relations with Russia.  

To sum up, the questions being asked cannot be answered until we see the government that Trump is able to form.  Moreover, for the next two and one-half months the US government remains in the hands of Democrats and the ruling elite.  This gives them plenty of time to commit the US in directions contrary to Trump’s agendas.  It also gives them time for another assassination attempt.  Trump has no executive power until he is inaugurated in mid-January.  It is important to understand that, unless the ruling elite can tame Trump or box him in, the ruling elite regard Trump’s presidency as an existential threat to themselves. They will not fold up their tents and fade away.

The world’s population supports a reset.  People everywhere are tired of wondering if some fool in Washington is going to commit them to nuclear Armageddon.  Let’s pray that Trump can break the hold that the corrupt American ruling elite has on the United States and the world.  It will require strong men and women, such as Tulsi Gabbard, in strong positions.  A compromised administration will fail. It is past time to end war for US armaments industry profits and the unrealism of the neoconservatives’ ideology of US hegemony.

Here are the Democrat total vote count figures for the last six elections:

2004 Kerry – 59M

2008 Obama – 69.5M

2012 Obama – 65.9M

2016 Clinton – 65.9M

2020 Biden – 81.3M

2024 Harris – 66.4M

Notice anything?

The 2020 President Election Was Stolen

Paul Craig Roberts

The despicable whores called “fact checkers,” who prostitute themselves by telling lies for money said I am a “conspiracy theorist” for reporting the findings of experts that the Democrats stole the 2020 presidential election.  Notice, just reporting the findings of experts makes you a “conspiracy theorist.”

Look at the graph showing the reported Biden vote count in 2020.  Is there a single person anywhere on Earth stupid enough to believe it?  THERE WAS ZERO ENTHUSIASM FOR BIDEN.  As Trump said, Biden campaigned from his basement.  NO ONE ATTENDED HIS RALLIES, AND HE DISCONTINUED THEM.

Remember, Biden did not campaign.  After his first few attempts, his public rallies ceased, because no one attended and the cameras could not hide the absence of people.  In contrast, every one of the numerous Trump rallies was heavily attended.  So how did Biden get 10 million more votes in 2020 than Trump just received in his high turnout landslide victory?  How did Biden get 15 million more votes than Obama? 15 million more votes than Hillary Clinton?  HE DID NOT !

Remember, numerous experts provided hard evidence of the many methods used to produce the fraudulent Biden vote:  electronic voting machines, street corner drop boxes, interruption of vote counting until truck loads of forged ballots could be delivered, and so forth.

Remember, the presstitute media immediately before the evidence of fraud was presented spoke with one voice over and over: “there was no vote fraud.”  How did the presstitutes know?  The presstitutes made no investigation of the evidence.  The presstitutes just shouted down the evidence. They lied through their teeth.

The only function of the American media is to prevent the American people from knowing the truth. How can a democracy exist when the media is completely devoid of integrity?

How can such a totally corrupt media be tolerated?

Kamala only won in the states where no ID was required to vote. In other words, she only won in states where election officials did not know who was voting and where there was no meaningful voter registration.

Notice that in California Kamala only won along a thin coastal strip. The  majority of the state is red.

Notice that in Virginia Kamala only won in the McClean, Alexandria, and Arlington bedroom communities for the lobby groups that for far too many years have controlled Washington’s decisions in the interest of their own profits.  All the while conservatives were defending business which was selling out every conservative.  The conservatives are still doing it today.

Notice that even in the Northeast, the part of America that Barry Goldwater said should be cut loose and left to float off into the Atlantic, is mostly red.

Nothing could make it clearer that a tiny minority of the country has been been in control to America’s great disadvantage for too many years.

Let’s hope that Trump and his transition team in the euphoria of victory don’t adopt the line being pushed by the whore media to forgive enemies for the sake of unity.  Forgiveness will  present Trump’s back for the many knives that await.

Trump and MAGA Americans have little idea of the power and evil that they are up against. Trump’s agenda is an existential threat to the Ruling Establishment.  The Establishment is institutionalized. Despite Trump’s election the Establishment is still in Power as powerful institutional platforms remain in their hands.  Trump’s euphoria is serving him and his supporters badly.  It is leaving him and them off-guard.  They simply do not comprehend that Trump has launched an insurrection against a powerful entrenched ruling class that most certainly has not folded its tents. Such an insurrection cannot be accomplished with milk toast appointees.

Trump and MAGA America remain vulnerable.

We already see crumblings.  A businessman on Trump’s transition team, according to reports,  said that no appointment will be given to Robert Kennedy, who will just collect information about vaccines and food.  The argument apparently is that RFK, Jr. would be a confirmation problem.  Big Pharma would be in every Senator’s office telling the Senator that if he votes to confirm Kennedy in office, all campaign contributions will be given to his opponent. Trump’s advisors are saying Kennedy’s appointment would begin Trump’s renewal of American with a defeat. Better to sacrifice Kennedy.

Is there no one in Trump’s group capable of understanding that the Senate’s rejection of RFJ Jr. would enormously empower Trump?  He could go on national TV or Tucker Carlson’s site and on X and say:  “Here are the names of the RINOs who blocked my promise to protect you against poisoned vaccines and food. Big Pharma’s agents blocked Bobby’s appointment.  These senators are our enemies.  They are preventing America’s renewal.  We don’t need them.  Get the bastards out of the Senate.”

If Trump is not prepared to fight on this level, there will be no renewal of America.

Complete election analysis available here:

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/election-aftermath-notes-on-the-grand?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1351274&post_id=151259019&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=dx5km&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email 

Hanne Herland, Europe’s Most Significant Journalist,  Speaks

Donald Trump, the Garbage Saint President: All in for the Regular Worker

https://hannenabintuherland.com/culturalanalysis/the-garbage-saint-president-all-in-for-the-regular-worker/ 

Germany Has a Digital Fuhrer

Enforced digitalization will deprive people of privacy and independence, but business profits and government control are more important.

Wissing sagt es erstmals offen: Alle sollen ins Digitale gezwungen und ihrer Privatsphäre beraubt werden

Wissing says it openly for the first time: Everyone should be forced into the digital world and deprived of their privacy

November 3, 2024 An article by Norbert Häring

Until now, it could only be seen in their actions, but now Transport and Digital Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) has spoken out. The government is relying on digital compulsion, wants to put data protection and privacy aside and take away citizens’ options to switch to non-digital offers. “Digital first” is to become “digital only”, the declared goal: more data for digital companies. The fact that Berlin is pushing this forward so ruthlessly has a geostrategic background. By Norbert Häring
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 It is a measure of the deterioration of our society that a minister can openly say something that sounds so exaggerated and pointed without being swept away by a storm of indignation. According to a press release from his ministry, Wissing said on the occasion of the publication of the ” 2nd progress report on the federal government’s digital strategy ” on October 18th :

“Millions of citizens are using new digital services such as the Deutschlandticket, Bund-ID or e-prescription. It is time to turn the digital strategy into a ‘digital-only’ strategy. We must consistently dismantle analog parallel structures and rely on completely digital processes. This is not only more efficient and saves costs, but also improves data availability. Only if we become a fully digital country can we develop Germany into a leading AI location and strengthen our position in international competition.”

Accordingly, Wissing also praises the digital coercive measures of the government and especially his ministry as successes:
“Over 13 million people use the digital Deutschlandticket – conveniently on their smartphone or as a smart card.
Since June 9, 2024, the BahnCard will be offered exclusively digitally. This saves 30 tons of plastic per year.

Digital vehicle registration has broken the million mark. Drivers have saved time and money over 1.5 million times with i-Kfz. The fees for registration, change of ownership or deregistration are up to 70 percent lower online than at the counter.”

It could hardly be made much clearer that the government’s digitalization strategy is not about the needs of citizens, but about satisfying the data greed of corporations and the government. And if you are not willing (to go digital), I will use force, is the motto. Accordingly, privacy, voluntariness and data protection do not appear at all in the progress report and only in a few clichéd asides in the digital strategy . According to the digital strategy, the ” profitable use ” of data includes improving the availability of data and creating “new legal regulations for a modern and opportunity-focused data economy”. “Opportunity-focused” means concentrating on the possible advantages and accepting disadvantages such as the loss of privacy and control over one’s own data without complaint. Another way of putting this is that “data should be easier to combine and thus more usable for everyone” and that “isolated data islands” should be put to an end.

With almost unsurpassable stubbornness, the ministry writes : “We want to give everyone the same opportunities in the digital world” – and only in the digital world. Those who cannot or do not want to use the digital world will not be given the same opportunities and should not be given them. At best, they will be offered help with digital networking. Millions of citizens are forced to use the Deutschlandticket in the Deutsche Bahn’s data kraken app on a smartphone and to disclose their mobility data to Deutsche Bahn and the US digital corporations that use the data. Protests from many associations are simply ignored. Most users of student semester tickets , even ten-year-old schoolchildren and customers of railways and transport associations that offer no alternative to the digital ticket, are forced to use smartphones. Anyone who does not have a sufficiently modern smartphone is excluded from the offers.

Authorities use the pretext of service-oriented digitization to isolate themselves from citizens . Anyone who does not have a modern smartphone can often no longer receive their shipments sent by the partially state-owned DHL group. The postal law was specifically changed to address this, but DHL is allowed to ignore the regulations without penalty . Many trade fair companies are doing away with box offices and forcing visitors to strip off with their data .

The extreme energy consumption of AI applications is not mentioned anywhere. But a mere 30 tons less plastic per year is supposed to be a reason to force millions of BahnCard subscribers to use their smartphones and the DB Navigator app? For comparison: That’s roughly equivalent to the plastic packaging waste produced by 850 people in the EU per year. Wissing thinks we’re idiots.

The electronic patient file and the e-prescription are also based on forced happiness . The latter has become a must, the former is being introduced as an opt-out procedure, whereby everyone who does not expressly object on their own initiative receives the file. Otherwise, very few people would have ordered them. With the electronic ID function, the option to opt out has been completely abolished.

Everywhere, authorities and transport companies are eliminating the option of paying in cash and forcing citizens to hand over their data to financial and IT companies. Consistent dismantling of analogue parallel structures is what they call this “progress”. The progress report reveals the reason why so many transport companies are eliminating or reducing the option of paying in cash. Wissing’s ministry will provide funding if you do this:

“A new call for funding for the digitalization of municipal transport systems has been launched. The aim is to improve existing transport infrastructures through intelligent technologies and to promote multimodal mobility solutions, e.g. through innovative information and ticket services.”
Even the new funding guidelines of the “AI Lighthouses for Environment, Climate, Nature and Resources”, which are hard to beat in terms of non-intelligence (NI), and which I reported on when they were introduced , are cited in the progress report as successes of the digital strategy.
The geostrategic background

When a government so determinedly pursues an agenda that goes against the wishes of its own citizens, the profit interests of the corporations and, in particularly blatant cases, military and geostrategic goals are usually the decisive factors. Both are likely to be the case here. The interest of the big data octopuses such as Microsoft, Google, Apple, Paypal and Visa in all of our data is obvious. It goes without saying that the federal government is not focusing on the advantages for foreign corporations, but rather on the advantages for German digital start-ups. But these are negligible compared to the former, especially since successful start-ups are bought up or pushed out by the large corporations anyway.

But it’s not just about the power and profits of the hugely influential US corporations here. Since 2018, two commissions in the USA led by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt have been investigating a geostrategic question of the utmost importance for the USA : How can we prevent China from overtaking the USA in digital technology and artificial intelligence in the near future, thereby inevitably depriving the USA of economic and military dominance in the world? The answer from the National Security Commission on AI, or NSCAI for short, and the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP) is: The reason China is overtaking is that non-digital infrastructures are relatively poorly developed in China, there is little data protection, and the close cooperation between the government and corporations in the provision and use of citizens’ and companies’ data.
The counter strategy is to learn from China. Between the lines, but clearly, one could read in the reports that analogue alternatives must be dismantled, data protection ignored and the government’s cooperation with digital companies intensified. In order to coordinate activities in this direction with the US allies, including our government, a Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) was created by the US military and intelligence services.

What Wissing announced as a strategy when presenting the digitization progress report is fully in line with the strategy proclaimed by the aforementioned commissions to preserve US dominance in the world: less data protection, all data to the corporations and eliminating analogue alternatives for citizens. Anyone who knows even a little about the IT business has no doubt that this is primarily to satisfy the data hunger of US corporations. Processes such as those at Gaia-X, the European “ecosystem for business models and products based on data”, ensure that it stays that way.

Gaia X was originally intended to ensure greater European IT sovereignty. But then the large US IT companies were brought on board, or rather let on board, certainly under strong pressure from Washington. The German government refers to this very Gaia X in its digital strategy for networking data islands and creating open data availability. It is also symptomatic that the German government and Berlin are supporting a center for global government technology at the World Economic Forum in Berlin . The World Economic Forum is the lobby of the largest global corporations, the largest of which include the US IT companies.

This article first appeared at Norbert Häring .

Norway Goes in Opposite Direction from Germany and Escapes from Digital Tyranny

RT DE 20.10.2024

Norway’s digital turnaround: return to cash and the analog world

By Rainer Rupp

Norway has been at the forefront of the digital age since the beginning, pursuing the vision of a cashless and digitized society and is considered one of the most advanced countries in Europe in this area. Now, however, the downsides and dangers have been recognized.

With a remarkable change in the law, the Norwegian government recently strengthened the rights of citizens to an analog life and to cash payments. The new law makes the notices “No cash accepted” or “Card payment only” posted in shops and at checkouts throughout Norway illegal. This is not only a departure from total reliance on digital payments, but also a remarkable social change.

The dark side of a cashless society

            In Germany, too, it is no longer considered a conspiracy theory that it cannot be the case that the exercise of fundamental rights, participation in social life and use of public infrastructure (trains, post office, medical care) is dependent on whether people have internet access, carry a smartphone, have a certain app installed and also know exactly how to use all of this.

            This digital compulsion, forced upon society by powerful financial and economic interests, means a tangible disadvantage and even the complete exclusion of large social minorities from public services. This affects not only old, sick or visually impaired people who cannot use the technology, but also people who simply cannot handle the corresponding techniques, or even poor people whose money is not enough for such things. But it even affects tech-savvy people who are well-versed but do not want to constantly send personal behavioral data all over the world or indiscriminately install new apps on their devices in order to avoid being excluded from public life and necessary services.

            For private service providers, digitization is a goldmine, because the savings from eliminating office rents and workplaces are enormous. In the brave new digital world, there is no friendly lady or nice gentleman in an office in the next town where the analog person could previously call or drop by for advice or information. Even the telephone number provided, which many a soul lost in the digital quagmire desperately calls, is answered by a computer programmed to put the customer on hold and finally throw him off the line without having achieved anything, with the request to find a solution to his problem on the company’s own website. The reason: these so-called “information centers” of the providers are also totally understaffed in order to maximize profits.

            The additional profits that corporations are making as a result of digitization presuppose that helpful spirits must be found everywhere among the digitally illiterate: among relatives, neighbors, caregivers, etc., who voluntarily and free of charge do the work that used to be done by the service providers’ employees from their offices or during home visits to customers.

            The whole thing is reminiscent of the Merkel scam: “We can do it.” In this way, the gigantic extra work of taking in and caring for over a million migrants in a single year was done everywhere by volunteers with free labor, and not infrequently also using their own finances to provide the people with the essentials. However, there was a difference between that and the current exploitation of the willingness to help: in the “We can do it” case, the state organs were kept from collapse. Only the corporations benefit from the voluntary overtime of the digital helpers, and that makes the rich even richer – at the expense of the solidarity prevailing among the population. This is another important reason why the development towards a purely digital society with digital compulsion as a consequence must be stopped at all costs. Corresponding initiatives in this direction already exist, including in the Bundestag.

            The change in Norway

            Until recently, hardly anyone would have thought that Norway, one of the world’s leading countries in terms of digitization, would ever take a step back towards cash. After all, according to a survey by the Norwegian central bank, only three percent of the population paid with cash when they last purchased a real object. But the new amendment to the Financial Contracts Act ensures that cash will once again play a greater role as legal tender and offers citizens the option of paying in cash, even if other payment options are available.

            This step is more than symbolic. It marks a shift away from the unconditional acceptance of the digital world and a renewed focus on avoiding the marginalization of entire population groups. Even in a digitally savvy country like Norway, there are people who cannot or do not want to keep pace with modern technologies, while others have become so immersed in digitalism that the majority do not even notice how dependent they have become on it. Such a development may seem like natural progress, but dependence on digital tools has enormous drawbacks, for example if there is a power outage for a period of time.

            The new legislation aims to support people who have difficulties with digital payments. This is by no means limited to older people or those who are not tech-savvy. It is an expression of the increasing awareness that not everyone is benefiting from the digital revolution. While the younger generation has grown up with the speed and convenience of card payments, there are a significant number of people who continue to rely on cash. Around 600,000 Norwegians, about ten percent of the population, have difficulty using digital payment methods. For them, cash is not just a means of payment, but also a matter of self-determination.

            It is noteworthy that Norway is now recognizing that this development is not without risks. In the discussion about the new law, the fact that cash is the only means of payment that works independently of electricity and the internet also played a role. It remains stable even when the grid fails or digital attacks paralyze the infrastructure. In times of cyberattacks and increasing global uncertainties, cash is therefore invaluable to society.

            The invisible barrier

            With the digital imperative, modern societies have created an invisible barrier that favors those willing to give up their data and keep pace with the latest technology. But what does this mean for our freedom? What happens when basic rights and services are only accessible if you are willing to submit to the digital surveillance network?

            Norway’s U-turn sends a strong signal to the rest of the world. Although digitalization brings many benefits, it is not a panacea. If we want to avoid a world in which people without a smartphone have no access to fundamental rights or services, then we must all follow Norway’s example and stop the digital tsunami. In Germany, too, there are already organizations such as digitalcourage that want to stem the digital tsunami – albeit still under the radar of the system media.

            Digital courage refers, for example, to Article 3 of the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany, which prohibits the disadvantage and discrimination of people, regardless of skin color, faith or origin. According to digitalcourage, this article should be supplemented to include a ban on discriminating against people in their basic services if they do not use a particular device or digital platform. Therefore, the organization calls on the Bundestag to include a right to life without digital coercion in the Basic Law!

Currently, however, developments in this country are continuing in the opposite direction: in more and more places, we are being forced to log in, register online or download an app – and in doing so, disclose personal data. And all this in order to use services that are part of basic care!

The Insane Latvian Government Is Planning to Send Female Soldiers to Fight the Russian Army

Where does this insanity come from?

Why do Europeans elect insane governments?

https://www.rt.com/russia/607281-latvia-plan-women-conscription/ 

Have a look at the excrement that Australia sent as its ambassador to America

https://www.rt.com/news/607280-australia-ambassador-trump-posts/ 

Neoliberalism Has “Become a Totalitarian Ideology” — Vladimir Putin

Paul Craig Roberts

At the Valdai Forum Putin said that neoliberalism stifles national sovereignty and traditional values and erodes national cultures, thus eliminating diversity.  “There is no room for difference in the neoliberal order. It seeks to flatten diversity rather than celebrate it.” Washington’s unipolar system “only serves a small number of powerful elites.”  Now that Putin has come to these realizations, perhaps he will replace his neoliberal central bank director.

Putin thanks Washington for the economic sanctions that forced Russia off the mistaken path of globalism. “The sanctions have forced us to look inward, to focus on developing domestic industries.”  Globalism is a one-way street to economic death.  For Americans the consequence was the offshoring of American industry and middle class jobs, pressure on state and local budgets, and the loss of a trained work force.

Putin says that he respects Western civilization–probably more than do graduates and professors of Western universities. The problem is not Western culture. The problem is with the aggressive policies of Western governments.  Putin is puzzled that such weak political and military countries are so aggressive toward such a powerful unified country as Russia.

Putin said Trump was a capable leader who has shown courage and resilience.  Putin declared willingness to work with Trump to normalize relations and put them on a more constructive path.

Now that both powers have capable leaders perhaps the world can escape from war.  Peace is possible if Trump can escape from the US military/security complex and the warmonger neoconservatives.

The Resurrection of Slavery in America:  Humans for sale in the USA:  Watch Line in the Sand, a documentary by James O’Keefe

https://hannenabintuherland.com/currentaffairs/humans-for-sale-in-the-usa-watch-line-in-the-sand-a-documentary-by-james-okeefe/ 

Jeff Bezos realizes that the Liberal Media Lie Machine has lost its Credibility

https://hannenabintuherland.com/currentaffairs/jeff-bezos-realizes-that-the-liberal-media-lie-machine-has-lost-its-credibility/ 

The Democrat Election Theft Mechanisms Were Swept Away in a Tsunami of Trump Votes

https://hannenabintuherland.com/religion/the-biden-harris-regime-has-done-its-best-to-overthrow-america-and-to-install-a-sodom-and-gomorrah-tower-of-babel/ 

A Tsunami of Trump Votes, Marvel at the Massive Audience

https://hannenabintuherland.com/currentaffairs/a-tsunami-of-trump-votes-marvel-at-the-massive-audience/ 

Are Trump and MAGA America Sufficiently Realistic to Survive and Restore Our Nation?

Paul Craig Roberts

Dear Readers:  Without doubt here is the best and most comprehensive election report available:  

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/election-aftermath-notes-on-the-grand?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1351274&post_id=151259019&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=dx5km&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email 

This report will arm you against the flood of lies that will come from Democrats, media, and liberal-left Internet sites. 

Kamala won only in the Democrat states that required no ID to vote, but was crushed everywhere else.

The information also shows that without any doubt the 2020 election was stolen by the Democrats.

The information also shows that without any doubt the print and TV media are a lie machine.

What we are up against is a Democrat Party and a media totally devoid of integrity.  We are up against people who lie and assassinate for power.

If Trump is persuaded to forgive these people for the sake of unity, he will be signing a death warrant for America.

The American people, Trump, and his appointees must comprehend how totally evil, how totally anti-American the Democrat Party, media, and liberal-left are.  They are our deadly enemies who intend the overthrow of our country.  They themselves say so over and over.  We should listen to them.  We have no greater enemies.  Finding enemies abroad when our dangerous enemies are institutionalized in our country in powerful positions is an act of suicide.

Watch the establishment and media try to lure Trump away from domestic enemies to combating concocted foreign enemies.

Watch the establishment and media try to define the real problem confronting us as obtaining Trump’s necessary concessions to achieve “unity.” Watch Trump’s advisors fall for it.  There is no such thing as unity with those who intend to destroy you.  

Dutch Health Minister Fleur Agema Admits: “We Must Follow NATO, US and NCTV Orders; Covid is a Military Operation”

New Dutch Health Minister Admits: “We Must Follow NATO, US and NCTV Orders; Covid is a Military Operation”

The Dutch Health Minister has revealed a damning fact about the Covid Deception:

The Dutch Minister of Health revealed that Covid was a far worse and far larger public deception than critics have realized. It was “a military operation” against the people. This is not a conspiracy theory. This is real. In the Netherlands, the Covid release program was run by the intelligence agency NCTV.

One of the first to comment on Agema’s appearance on X was Woo researcher Cees van den Bos. Under the heading “the coup d’etat,” he characterized the NCTV as a “bamiluk” of NATO: “This country will only be free if the NCTV is completely abolished and these kinds of shadow governments never get a foothold again. This is the biggest obstacle that stands in the way of a democracy,” he said. He added that there is no control over the NCTV: “The NCTV has carte blanche, as has been shown during corona.” According to Van den Bos, people who think corona is over (“let’s stop talking about it”) are waiting for another hard “reality check.” He thanked Agema for her “candor.”

Van den Bos previously pointed out – also in this newspaper – that the NCTV was in charge during the coronavirus crisis, in the person of Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg, who had succeeded Dick Schoof as NCTV boss in early 2019. At the end of 2022, Van den Bos accused the NCTV of having committed a “coup d’etat.” The crisis management was almost everywhere in the hands of the military and intelligence services, and in our country it rested with the NCTV. In addition to the day-to-day management of the crisis organization, the NCTV even counted it as its task to coordinate the parliamentary process (“timing and mutual congruence”). The intelligence service set up a separate team for this, according to a report from mid-March 2020. Commenting on the parliamentary vote, it said: “Ambition and agreement are not surprising.” It was likely intended to prevent unexpected motions or amendments to new legislation.

In early 2023, journalist Elze van den Hamelen described NATO’s role in this newspaper, based on investigative work by Van den Bos: “The documents show that since at least 2019, more than a year before the coronavirus pandemic, the government has set up a large organization to “combat disinformation.” The initiative for this came from NATO and the EU, Van den Bos shows: “It was a military operation aimed at its own population. Not to turn people off, but to influence their behavior.” During the coronavirus pandemic, NATO set the guidelines for the covid response and coordinated the “Stratcom” (strategic communications). “The guidelines were circulated through the member states’ foreign ministers.” Does this explain why Sweden, which only joined NATO this year, was the only country in Europe to adopt a more lenient policy during the coronavirus crisis?

Critics from the medical world have meanwhile reacted sharply to Agema’s revelation, including medical ethicist Wendy Mittemeijer: “For the first time in four years, I hear a public admission that the NCTV was in charge during the corona crisis, and that it had to be carried out. It was a military operation. This was not allowed to be said for four years. That was a conspiracy theory. I appreciate the honesty of the minister, that this is being admitted and that he was not in charge.

The news of Agema also fits in with what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly stated about the production of the coronavirus vaccines in the US. According to him, this was a military operation, with close involvement of the US Department of Defense (DOD) and the military-industrial complex. Defense, according to him, was in full charge and paid pharmaceutical companies for their brand names, so people would think they were getting something from Pfizer or Moderna.