Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
Don’t let the alarmist sound of this column’s title put you off. It is not a “conspiracy theory.” This column is a factual report as you will see if you read on.
Everyone needs to understand that the ruling elite in the US are implementing a decision to redefine democracy in a way that eliminates democracy, makes Congress superfluous, voting pointless, and discards the Constitution as an outdated document inconsistent with the power the ruling elite intend to wield over Americans and the rest of the world.
The decision has been made to redefine democracy from the will of the people to protecting “the sanctity of democratic institutions.” Precisely, what are “democratic institutions”? They are not the institutions, such as Congress and representative government or the rule of law and an independent judiciary, that we currently regard as democratic institutions. “Democratic institutions” are the institutions of the censorship industry, such as the military/security complex, State Department, NATO, CIA, FBI, IMF, World Bank, NGOs, the Atlantic Council, the Aspen Institute, the presstitutes, Black Rock, JP Morgan/Chase and other of the consensus-building institutions that set agendas and control the narratives. To express disagreement with the consensus these elite institutions build is considered to be “an attack on democracy.” In other words, “democracy” is the property of the elite institutions, and the sanctity of these elite institutions must be protected from the people defined by Hillary Clinton as “the Trump deplorables.” The will of the people is eliminated from the picture.
It might surprise you, but universities (Stanford, for example, is fully involved), major corporations especially the tech companies and social media, law schools, medical associations, and governors and members of Congress associated with the WEF accept the redefinition of democracy that excludes the will of the people. They also agree that the Constitution is inconsistent with the power they intend to wield over citizens. As I write the State Department is busy at work obstructing the House of Representatives inquiry into the executive branch’s use of taxpayers’ money to censor what we may hear about Covid, the Covid “vaccine,” election fraud, the Ukraine war, Iran, Russia, China, etc. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/2860918/state-department-obstruct-censorship-investigation-house-gop/
On February 16, Tucker Carlson interviewed Mike Benz, the world’s leading expert on the censorship industry. Here you have a complete and accurate explanation of who rules us–and No it is not the Rothschilds and the Bilderbergs–and why the US government has decided to deep-six the First Amendment: https://tuckercarlson.com/uncensored-the-national-security-state-the-inversion-of-democracy/
The decision has been made, and it is currently being implemented. It means that suppression will be used to convert the entirety of the Internet and social media into a propaganda ministry serving official narratives. All of the hope that libertarians had of the freedom to speak that the Internet would provide has turned out to be unrealistic. You can see already the trouble Elon Musk is in for permitting free speech on X. The government has launched investigations of Musk and his companies with the intent of forcing him out. Both the state of California and the EU have moved against Elon Musk to force him via enormous financial penalties to turn over to the censorship industry the information that the previous owner was supplying, information used in AI programs to determine who to ban and what tweets to take down.
Soon the alternative and social media will exist only as propaganda sites for the “consensus-building elite institutions.”
The disintegration of Western civilization is proceeding so rapidly that I cannot keep up with it even as a full time job. As I reported yesterday ( https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/02/18/french-democracy-establishes-medical-tyranny/ ) the French government has just criminalized medical truth, and WHO is about to do so in May of this year. People will no longer have control over their own health decisions.
The US government not only keeps the US border wide open for “people of color,” Washington also supplies the NGOs who are recruiting the immigrant-invaders with hundreds of millions of dollars with which to provide the immigrant-invaders with food, water, medical care, and sleeping accommodation along the mapped routes. https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/02/18/the-genocide-of-the-west/
It can’t happen you say? But it is happening right in front of our eyes.
Insouciant gullible Americans are expert at fleeing from unsettling bad news. Thus, they pave their own path to tyranny. Tyranny is easy to establish over peoples who have confidence in their Constitutional rights and integrity of their institutions. The more patriotic the population is, the more susceptible it is to deception and betrayal by government. Try telling patriots what is happening to them, and they will call you a commie for speaking badly about their beloved country.
Christian evangelicals have no opposition to the evil that is engulfing us, because they have been brainwashed that they will escape it by being wafted up to Heaven. The growth of evil is actually their escape from a sinful world into Heaven. The more evil, the sooner their escape.
For most of the rest, liberal interventionists and hegemonic neoconservatives have taught that America is exceptional and indispensable, so how can anything go wrong.
Combine these awareness-blockers with the fact that uncomfortable truths are a bad news turnoff, and that censorship is being established as a national security matter with the argument that it makes us safe and “protects democracy.”
Consequently, the criminalization of truth is rushing ahead. Even the word “truth” is slated to become a hate word that cannot be spoken.
Any information that you have saved that helps you to understand the tyranny that is engulfing us should be stored in thumb drives and not in the cloud as all information undermining of the “consensus-building institutions” will be consigned to the memory hole.
Note: at the 47-48 minute mark in the interview, the redefinition of democracy is explained. As there are more US government agencies committed to the death of the First Amendment than you have ever heard of, watch the one hour video several times in order to gain an appreciation of how deep the rabbit hole is.
Note: The Atlantic Council, one of the main anti-democratic “consensus-building (false narrative) organizations,” is possibly associated with the Burisma/Hunter Biden scandal. Burisma, a Ukrainian company, put Hunter Biden on its board and paid him large sums of money for his father’s protection against prosecution of the company by Ukrainian authorities. US Vice President Biden actually admitted on TV, indeed he was proud of it, that he used billions of dollars in US taxpayers money to threaten Ukraine to withhold the US aid unless Ukraine fired the prosecutor, an offer Ukraine could not refuse. Atlantic Council board members Sally Painter is under investigation by the US Justice (sic) Department for illegal lobbying on behalf of Burisma. She and former Atlantic Council board member Karen Tramontano created a partnership between the Atlantic Council and Burisma.
Burisma contributed $300,000 to the Atlantic Council. Perhaps it was the purchase price for Burisma officials to speak at Atlantic Council forums and for prestigious Atlantic Council members to speak at a Burisma conference in Ukraine in 2018. All of this to show American protection of the company to Ukrainian prosecutorial authorities.
In 2021 the United Arab Emirates Embassy donated more than $1 million to the Atlantic Council, and the UAE’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs added another $100,00-250,000. This might have been the purchase price for the Atlantic Council to use its influence to have the UN choose the UAE for the location of its 2023 climate change conference.
Apparently, the Atlantic Council did not make the required or proper disclosures of the UAE’s donations.
The Atlantic Council, a principal member of the anti-democratic censorship industry is supported by the hapless, unaware American taxpayers by grants of taxpayer’s money from the Departments of Defense, State, and Energy and by the US Agency for International Development. Thus, it is clear that “our” government in Washington is financing the replacement of American Democracy subject to the will of the people with the government’s protection of the elite institutions that have changed the definition of democracy to mean the service of their agendas.
Here are other major donors to the Atlantic Council:
Adrienne Arsht, Facebook, Goldman Sachs, the Rockefeller Foundation, the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the United Arab Emirates, a Swiss company System Capital Management, Abu Dhabu National Oil Company, the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the US Department of State, the Embassy of Bahrain, the Embassy of Japan, the Finish Ministry of Defense, the Lithuanian Minister of Defense, the Norwegian Ministry of Defense, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Chevron Corporation, Google, Crescent Petroleum, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Raytheon Technologies, John F.W. Rogers (Goldman Sachs), Carnegie Corp of New York, Delegation of the EU to the US, Foreign Ministry of Germany, JP Morgan Chase Foundation, US Department of Defense, US Department of Energy, Charles Koch Foundation. Amazon, Verizon, Pfizer, Aramco, Lockheed Martin, Omidyar Network.
All of this information is available on the Atlantic Council’s website: https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/atlantic-council/
So, No, it is not a conspiracy theory.
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I wake up to this and Tucker Carlson’s interview with Mike Benz. What to do? Start inflicting a million cuts, one cut at a time, by millions of us. A hangnail here, a paper cut there. Irritate and laugh at these fuckers. Humiliate them in public spaces.
I dunno, just saying.
Yes…………all good suggestions.
Conduct your own quiet personal revolution/insurrection until the real ball opens.
A simple act of defiance is LOSING your “smart-phone” ……….which in reality is a SERVILE-PHONE.
The maggot parasites hate when are not part of their control matrix.
No matter how dumb they look on the surface, all 4G LTE phones are general purpose, Turing complete and fully programmable computers. Even the 20 USD candy bar and flip phones.
The equivalent of a turn of the century, Pentium 3 full tower with a wireless expansion board is now a little circuit board barely bigger than a stick of gum, with an over the counter retail price of 15 USD. “Smart” has become easier, cheaper and more necessary than dumb.
In the first world if you haven’t already lost your ability to connect to 3G, you soon will.
All base phones that get service from coax cable or fiber optic providers work as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and are hence based on “smart” technology. The US has removed the legal requirement to provide Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS), analog over copper wire loop, and providers are increasingly refusing to service existing installations, never mind install new.
In the first world if you haven’t already lost your POTS you soon will.
You can still get phones that don’t act as Skinner boxes, and they’re even enjoying a bit of resurgence in popularity, but don’t be fooled by appearances; you aren’t going to get phone service that does not plug you into the Matrix.
Best to have a cheap $20. flip phone under $10. a mo. for emergencies or short calls like” I am running late, will see you soon, etc”. I am not a phone freak and ones that are addicted to phones are no longer in my circle.
Become ungovernable.
I didn’t Consent to any of these crimes against men and women. Notice that I didn’t say humanity. Calling yourself a human is another trap. Look it up in Black’s Law dictionary and you will see why a human can’t own land free and clear. We are men and women created in the image of Yahuah (God), not the creatures that the abominable ones label us as.
DING! DING! DING! AND, be READY to TELL a federal judge, TO HIS FACE, he’s a *(^(% demon!
I have! And I ENJOYED my weekend in jail, as did the few inmates and jailers. man, I got anything I WANTED, double meals, candy, tv, radio, anything!
AND, the LAST hole punch on my man card WAS jail! ALL in!
Democrats, the party of repression and corruption
Republicans, the party of stupid.
We’re fucked.
Both are attributes of the same party. The gop isn’t really stupid either. They are just the other side of hard communism. They are communist party B – soft communism. They will get us to the same place , only at a later time. They are every bit the traitors , as the dimwitocraps are.
Good cop bad cop
Yes, it’s criminal intent, not stupidity.
Also voting is useless since this country has been taken down in 2020 (covid lockdowns, fearmongering,etc) without a shot fired. The economy is trashed, housing and car market sliding down.
The first step in journey requires you to walk away from something as much as towards.
If you can leave some part of your participation in the existing paradigm behind, do it. No matter how small, begin today.
https://oldschoolcounselor.substack.com/p/it-is-time-for-asymmetrical-non-violent
Here you have a complete and accurate explanation of who rules us–and No it is not the Rothschilds and the Bilderbergs
Whew, that’s a relief.
Besides which, PCR is wrong. That there are others besides Rothschilds and Bilderbergers doesn’t mean that they aren’t part and parcel of who rules us.
https://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/meetings/meeting-2022/participants-2022
“Whew”
Rhymes.
^^^^THAT!
Is what we call the “class of ’68”. EXTREMELY PROUD, Brookings 1960, Engels 1962, RJFK/RFK/MLK/MX, and MANY, many others.
Total lie. Twitter is not a free speech platform. It’s slightly more free than it was before Musk but people have been banned from Twitter and many people are just shadow banned.
The Romans , the ancient Chinese , and the ancient Egyptians , all used foreign adversaries as mercenaries , and they all were overtaken by them. We haven’t learned a damn thing , thousands of years later.
It’s a strategy that can work for centuries, though.
Obama’s “civilian” army is here!
Anything the elite has or does can be cured by a five gallon gas container and a road flare.
And industrial woodchippers.
Disagreement with their consensus is more like an attack on their insanity. Just because these loonies agree with one another doesn’t make them right. They need to be eliminated before they eliminate us.
Paul Craig Roberts has a tendency to exaggerate, so I hope this is an example of that rather than something that will come to pass. He’s interpreted the Carlson-Benz interview to mean that the deep state will effectively shut down any opportunity to dispute the official narrative on the internet. Any “wrong think” will be immediately censored on every social media platform. This includes X, where Europe (and California) have been conscripted to fine the pants off Elon Musk to force him to abide by the new censorship rules. Alex Jones warned of this when he became the first major figure to be censored on social media. At the time naysayers said there was no way TPTB had that much power to censor every possible outlet on the internet. Well, they’re certainly getting closer to achieving this. Whether they’ll complete the nefarious task is the question.
“It can’t happen you say? But it is happening right in front of our eyes….”
Yes, but so went the “near thing” American Revolution [with some 30% of then population against and another 30% deliberately remaining “neutral”, and that somehow didn’t completely fail. I think one needs to return to and acceptance of Jefferson’s “tree of liberty” and “blood of patriots” perspective [among endless other historical 11th hour incidents] before pushing the doomsday scenario so completely. On a very definite other hand, hard historical reality demands acknowledging pretty much everything you write as something for daily consideration and vigilance…..
A nation that loves lies has been given over to them. And America loved the lie of tolerance. It has tolerated women’s rights and homosexuality. It has tolerated corrupt politicians in the name of women’s suffrage. It has tolerated a corrupt money system based on debt. It has tolerated false teachers and false pastors who are in it for money and sordid gain. And America has tolerated false religions that make a mockery of Almighty God. There is no turning back from this and not one sign or indication of repentance. Proud arrogant women and homosexuals parade down the streets of our nation shaking their fist in the face of God while demanding the right to kill babies and molest little boys.
This is not survivable and America will not be spared any more than the nations of history from before. The storm clouds of Gods wrath are already in place and we can clearly see the lightning and hear the distant thunder. It won’t be long now.
10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 13 Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. 14 Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, 15 and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. 16 In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17 Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
How America “evaporates” in 45 minutes:
At 30 seconds BEFORE Iran/China greenlights the 30 million illegals to simultaneously strike America militarily, the “translation” of the remnant Church occurs….
All the illegals can do is fight/fight off each other, as well as fight satan’s other minions, already here. ALL of the US infrastructure would be collapsed within 30/45 minutes, the REST of the planet thinks America’s gov’t has kidnapped ALL of the planet’s children with a “wunderwaffe”.
For the next 45 minutes, CONUS is turned into a 3000 mile wide, 4000′ deep pit of boiling gray goo…with all the freed nuke reactors popping up and then descending again, every hour. And it’s very lethal to come within 25 miles/100,000 feet above it afterwards.
We must want it that way because we OUTNUMBER THEM! You think ’bout that.
Here is what happens when you curse Israel.
Emotional blackmail for retards who believe jews’ lies.
So I guess you’ll have to find out first hand then won’t you.
😆🤣😆🤣😆🤣😆
Thinking like that is proof that traumatizing kids works. Any non-jew who is scared of the jews’ tribal deity rejecting them is broken.
No need to fear the Jews. But their redeemer is Mighty beyond description. Mess with Gods chosen people at your own peril.
No good God would associate Himself with jews in any form.
I would suggest that you get to know God as your Savior now, lest ye meet Him as your Judge later.
I’m thinking I would incur no penalty from calling a curse down upon you.
Fear of the LORD IS the beginning of wisdom.
The BEGINNING. You got a LONG way to go.
Roll those dice, bitch!
Johnathan Cahn is wrong about Israel in this dispensation. Today, Israel is fallen and all men have access to God without the Jewish intercessor. In the past Gen 12:1-3 was true and at some point in a future time, the same will hold true as well. Not today however. Don’t fall for it.
Romans 11:11-12 KJB… “I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?”
His name is jonathan CON for heaven’s sake. Jokes on you, and on all who follow the Yiddish Con man. Christians are eating this stuff up. Study history. Grow some discernment. Quit listening to 501(c)3 hirelings aka pastors.
Here’s how corrupt school boards should be dealt with.
Never give them warning of your plans … just hit them upside the head with them and let them wonder WTF happened …
Unfortunately this amounted to nothing. In fact, 400 residents came out in support of the school board…. look at the pic of the “400”. All pyscho looking Womyn.
https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/2021/10/10/hudson-ohio-mayor-craig-shubert-school-board-timeline-book-controversy-642-things-write-about-recall/6057810001/
Just your normal looking crazy bitches with sum beta bois thrown in the mix.
Masked up social distancing nimwits.
“please sir, we need sum mor porn for our chilen”
The only way to the other side is total collapse of all this insanity.
Repeal the 19th. There’s no other way.
The pre-trib rapture theory is massage oil for narcissists. You are just so special that you will not have to face the consequences of the sins you allowed to grow and flourish all around you. Like magic, POOF, you are protected from all accountability, and from the shitshow that you have helped to create by your laziness and your tacit consent. I hear that the brothers Grimm are hiring…
The Bible does not give any reference whatsoever to Christians standing around waiting or preparing for the Antichrist to come. But In fact, the Bible tells us to keep our garments spotless and ready for the return of Jesus Christ. If you want to stay around for the tribulation, that’s up to you. But I can assure you that it will not be the picnic you have been led to believe that it is.
I think you fundamentally misunderstand their blood lust. Everyone gets what they deserve in this world. We just can’t see it all the time.
In democracide, free speech is a gambit. Temporary bribe-sop words that soothe. Until a faction hears or reads words not to their alignment specs.
Until or when – if Ever – The Elites are Exterminated like the Cockroaches that they are – This Evil Sinister Group will continue their Satanic Practices until they reach their goal of 500 Million humans left on Earth for them to Abuse, Subjugate, Enslave, Rape & Murder to satisfy their Evil Lord’s Blood Lust. Send the Beast back down to the Fiery Pits for a Thousand Years! That Requires Prayers. Cheers!
Christ called them a “synagogue”, TO their faces! And then smacked them around with a cat-o-nine tails, kinda like shooting up a main bank today, but not taking anything, they EXECUTED him for THAT!
YOUR GOING INTO SLAVERY WITH OUT A SHOT FIRED,thats the markings of COWARDS,your SLAVE MASTERS WILL BE COMING TO TAKE THEM SOON,AND YOUR ALL TO YELLOW TO STAND UP,what a slap in the face to the founding FATHERS ALL OF YOU ARE..NOTHING BUT THE YELLOWEST PEOPLE ANYONE EVER SAW..THE GOOD NEWS IS YOU”LL ALL BE DEAD SOON…ALL THE FOREIGN FIGHTERS ARE NOW IN YOUR COUNTRY..AND WHEN IT ENDS THANK GOD NONE OF YOU WILL STILL BE ALIVE,you don’t deserve Freedom or Peace,A STONE WALL IS ALL YOU DESERVE ,LIKE ALL COWARDS AND TRAITORS DO….good luck in hell,COWARDS are NOT allowed in heaven…
More predictions from PCR the prophet. Spare me the silliness.
Wrong that happened in Jan. 2021