Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, would force telecoms, internet companies, and social media platforms to rebuild their systems so police and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) can access user data more easily during investigations.
It would also require providers to stockpile metadata on every subscriber for up to a year, regardless of whether those people are suspected of anything.
The bill has the backing of police chiefs across the country and CSIS, who have long argued they are stymied by outdated legislation in a digital world.
The government describes this as organizing information “like a filing cabinet, where certain types of information would be available with legal authorization.”
That filing cabinet contains a year’s worth of data showing where every Canadian goes, when they go there, and who they communicate with. On a mobile network, that metadata includes which cell towers each phone connects to and when. Retained at scale, it amounts to a comprehensive surveillance map of the population.
Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree said at a press conference Wednesday that tech companies are “using this as an opportunity to double down.” He added that “Tech giants are misinterpreting some of the safeguards that are already built in, including on ensuring that encryption is not in any way interrupted as part of Bill-22.”
The bill would also allow the federal government to secretly order companies to weaken encryption or create backdoors and Meta’s Robyn Greene told the committee that if the government quietly mandates changes to a platform’s security architecture, Meta would be legally prohibited from telling its own users. Secret orders to weaken security, with a gag clause preventing disclosure. The government calls this “encryption-neutral.”
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Canada Says Critics Don’t Understand Its Surveillance Bill
W.H.O Fears Ebola May Be Spreading Faster and Further Than First Thought
As the world watches the Ebola outbreak which has claimed 131 lives in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a World Health Organization (W.H.O). representative warned Tuesday the deadly malady may be disseminating faster than first thought.
W.H.O. representative Dr Anne Ancia told the BBC the more the agency investigates, the clearer it becomes that cases have spread to other areas at a scale and speed not previously predicted..
Officials said more than 513 cases were suspected in DR Congo as of Tuesday, while one person has died in neighbouring Uganda.
The emergence of cases in urban areas, the deaths of healthcare workers, significant population movement in the area and a lack of vaccines and therapeutics are the main cited reasons for growing fears, AP reports.
The warning comes after W.H.O. chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared the outbreak a global emergency last week and said he was “deeply concerned about the scale and speed of the epidemic,” as Breitbart News reported.
But modelling by the London-based MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis as reported by the BBC suggested there had been “substantial” under-detection, and it could not rule out there had already been more than 1,000 cases.
There is no vaccine for the strain of Ebola virus fuelling the latest rise in cases, but the WHO is evaluating whether other drugs may provide protection.
Speaking to BBC World Service Newsday, Ancia said DR Congo’s Ituri province, the epicentre of the outbreak, is a “very unsecured area with lots of movement of population”, making it difficult for the agency to investigate and help control the disease.
She continued: “The more we are investigating this outbreak, the more we realise that it has already disseminated at least a little bit across border and also in other provinces.”
The outbreak has spread to the province of South Kivu, where the population has been affected by a humanitarian crisis for many years, she added in her BBC interview
Neighboring Uganda is also reporting cases.
Israel Warns of Escalating Terror Threat in West Bank
Israeli security officials have warned of a rapidly deteriorating security situation in the West Bank, citing deepening Iranian and Turkish involvement alongside Hamas efforts to expand terrorist infrastructure and orchestrate attacks across the territory.
According to the Israeli news outlet Walla, defense officials point to a growing role by Iran, Turkey, and Hamas in financing, directing, and sustaining terrorism, while also leveraging Gaza-linked networks to expand coordination, incitement, and operational activity across the West Bank.
With Israeli communities in the West Bank steadily expanding, the local military command is under significant strain, operating with 22 battalions while confronting a wide range of security challenges, including dismantling terrorist infrastructure, disrupting terrorist financing channels, locating weapons caches, protecting settlements, and stopping arms smuggling from Jordan.
Israeli officials have previously warned that large-scale terrorist attacks targeting local communities could serve as a destabilizing flashpoint amid the wars in Gaza and Iran.
Last year, Israeli forces uncovered documents suggesting Hamas is actively preparing plans for raids on settlements in the area.
Israel’s domestic intelligence agency, the Shin Bet, arrested six Arab Israeli citizens last month suspected of transferring millions of shekels from Hamas’s Turkish branch into the West Bank as part of an underground terrorist financing network believed to have smuggled more than three million shekels to fund attacks against Israel.
Experts also point to a growing threat from the Jenin Brigades in the northern West Bank — an alliance of Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas operatives that has transformed refugee camps into bases for shootings, bombings, and ambushes.
The group’s operations are reportedly sustained by a complex financing system that moves Iranian funds through Palestinian banking channels, siphons off Israeli-collected tax revenues, and makes use of international facilitators.
“By sustaining this West Bank front through Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad networks, Tehran forces Israel to fight simultaneously across multiple fronts, drains resources that could otherwise consolidate gains in Gaza, and keeps the Palestinian issue politically radioactive enough to sabotage broader Arab-Israeli alignment,” Jose Lev Alvarez, a writing fellow at the Middle East Forum think tank, explained in a recent article.
“Tehran [then] advances its axis-of-resistance doctrine at minimal cost — no Iranian boots, no direct missile exchanges, just calibrated chaos designed to obstruct any credible day-after plan for Gaza and derail normalization agreements with Saudi Arabia or Gulf states demanding Palestinian stability,” he continued.
Last year, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) warned that Iran was driving a growing terrorist threat in the West Bank, with concerns that Iranian-backed arms smuggling could enable an Oct. 7-style attack.
Israeli intelligence and security forces have since intensified operations across the territory amid fears that Iranian-supplied weapons are increasingly reaching Palestinian terrorists and escalating the risk of a large-scale assault.
Israeli intelligence assessments have also warned that terrorists operating in the West Bank are believed to possess weapons capable of breaching Israeli defenses, including what officials described as “standard Iranian weapons.”
According to Joe Truzman, a senior research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), a Washington, DC-based think tank, Israeli officials should be closely monitoring the West Bank as Hamas regroups and rearms in the Gaza Strip after more than two years of war.
“Hamas and its allied factions understand that igniting violence in the territory would divert Israel’s attention during a critical time of rebuilding the group’s infrastructure in Gaza,” Truzman told The Algemeiner last year.
“The release of convicted terrorists to the West Bank under the [Israel-Hamas] ceasefire agreement may be a factor in the resurgence of organized violence in the territory,” he continued.
According to a survey released last year by the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, 70 percent of all respondents — and 81 percent of Jewish respondents — expressed fear of an Oct. 7-style attack coming from the West Bank. In contrast, 53 percent of Arab respondents said they were not worried about such an attack.
In response to these concerns, the IDF has established a special command to address potential threats in the West Bank and launched a nearly unprecedented counterterror operation in the northern part of the territory.
'Counterfeit Deceptions'
No prior generation has been fed this many endings simultaneously. That is not an accident. It is a feature.
The prophet Daniel was told something curious about the time of the end. The angel did not warn him about ignorance. He warned him about its opposite: “But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased” (Daniel 12:4). The end-times signature is not a darkening of information but a flood of it, and a generation drowning in the current. Knowledge increases. Wisdom does not. And in that gap, counterfeits flourish.
To be clear, even counterfeits can be part of the actual end times. I would be remiss to say that AI, for example, will not be a tool of the Principalities and Powers to deceive and control us in the end. But there’s a difference between recognizing the components and adhering to the fearmongering of each individual incident. We have the Bible and the prophecies therein to let us see things for how they really are.
The Cosmic Counterfeit
In February 2026, President Trump directed the Pentagon to begin releasing government files related to UFOs, UAPs, and “alien and extraterrestrial life.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed the Pentagon would comply. Congress folded three separate UAP transparency provisions into the FY2026 NDAA. NASA continues to fund astrobiology research with announcements of “potential biosignatures” timed for maximum cultural penetration. Hollywood is preparing a Spielberg film titled “Disclosure Day.” Even Barack Obama showed up on a podcast to opine that aliens are probably real.
The merger of UFO disclosure and astrobiology is the cleanest counterfeit on the menu, because it strikes directly at Genesis. The Bible opens with a claim that man was made uniquely in the image of God, on a planet uniquely prepared for him, in a cosmos uniquely declaring God’s glory. Every “we are not alone” headline is a quiet renegotiation of that claim. The implication is never spoken aloud, but it does not need to be. If life is everywhere, then man is nothing special. If man is nothing special, then the Incarnation is provincial mythology. And if the Incarnation is mythology, then the Cross is theater.
Scripture is not silent on what often appears in our skies. Paul wrote that we wrestle “against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” The intelligences behind these phenomena are not new arrivals from Zeta Reticuli. They are old, fallen, and patient. The disclosure narrative is preparing the world to receive a deception that requires an alternative origin story for humanity, and the groundwork is being laid in congressional hearings while believers argue about whether to take it seriously.
The Machine Counterfeit
Silicon Valley no longer pretends its language is secular. The men building artificial intelligence speak openly in religious cadences about “alignment,” “sentience,” “the singularity,” and the moral obligations of machines. Doom-prophets warn of extinction. Utopians promise paradise. Both demand the same thing: that humanity submit to a global governance regime competent enough to manage the new god being summoned in their data centers....
The five counterfeits look unrelated only if you study them in isolation. Step back, and the pattern is unmistakable. Each one names a threat. Each one defines salvation as submission to a global authority. Each one delegitimizes any local, traditional, Biblical resistance. And each one trains the population to see Christians who will not bow as the obstacle to humanity’s survival.
Paul was specific about what is coming. He warned of a working “with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivability of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie” (2 Thessalonians 2:9-11). The strong delusion is singular in Paul’s grammar but plural in its execution. It is not one lie. It is an ecosystem.
Terry James: Extraterrestrial or Interdimensional?
The Great Deception: How Multipolarity, BRICS, and the Russia-China-Islam Axis Are Selling the Same Old World Order
The Multipolar Illusion
James Corbett calls it “multipolaritis.” In his April 2026 report, he warns that people excited about BRICS nations sticking it to the West are missing the bigger picture. He writes: “Do you think the BRICS nations are going to save us from the New World Order? Then you might be suffering from multipolaritis.” Corbett points out that the term BRIC was invented by Goldman Sachs economist Jim O’Neill in 2001. Far from being an organic opposition, it emerged from Western financial circles. Putin’s Eurasian Economic Union was explicitly modeled on the European Union, complete with similar bureaucratic structures. These are not anti-globalist projects. They are parallel integration schemes designed to create regional superstates as steppingstones to broader control. [1]
The Geopolitics and Empire March 23, 2026 article Multipolarity As World Government 3.0 & Its Pied Pipers drives the point home even harder. It calls promoters of multipolarity the new “pied pipers.” They tap into legitimate anger from centuries of Western exploitation. Yet the solution they offer simply merges East and West under the same transnational elite. There are no good guys among the major powers. Every major nation is run by its own oligarchic cartel. [2]
This deception gains extra force through another deeper ideological fusion. An emerging alliance between communism (in its modern Russian and Chinese forms), radical Islam, and Russian Eastern Orthodox religion is being promoted by so called philosopher Alexander Dugin. His Eurasian movement frames Russia as the defender of traditional civilizations against Western liberal decay. It calls for a multipolar world where great “civilizational states” stand together. Some of the most famous podcasters with millions of viewers worldwide, Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones, have presented Alexander Dugin (AKA Putin’s brain) as a great philosopher who has a solution to save the world from the evil western oligarchy. On the surface, this sounds appealing to anyone who rejects globalist wokeness and endless NATO expansion. In practice, it pulls Orthodox Russia, communist China, and Islamic states into coordinated institutions like BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. These structures do not dismantle supranational control. They expand and rebrand it.
They Operate Inside the Same Global Systems
Look at the concrete evidence. Russia and China repeatedly pledge support for the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In their February 2022 joint statement, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin called for accelerated implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda. They pushed cooperation on poverty reduction, vaccines, climate change, green development, digital economy, and infrastructure. China’s Global Development Initiative is explicitly framed as a way to advance the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. [3]
BRICS countries as a group have repeatedly committed to the 2030 Agenda and work through the UN framework. Islamic member states in BRICS, such as Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, participate in the same sustainable development programs, climate initiatives, and global governance forums. They do not reject the system. They help shape and legitimize it from within. [4] [5]
China leads the world in its digital yuan central bank digital currency (CBDC) with massive pilots. Russia develops its digital ruble. Both explore cross-border links, often through platforms tied to broader international efforts. Many Islamic countries, especially in the Gulf, actively test and adopt similar digital payment systems. These tools enable tracking, programmable money, and greater financial surveillance.
They align with the same “digital transformation” and “sustainable finance” agendas promoted by the World Economic Forum and UN bodies. All sides engage with the World Health Organization on pandemic preparedness, digital health certificates, and global health governance. They attend the same climate summits pushing net-zero targets, carbon tracking, and sustainable development policies that expand government and technocratic oversight. [6]
People who hate the current oligarchs convince themselves that Putin, Xi, and their partners will break the system. In reality, these leaders want a better seat at the global table, not to burn the table down. The average person in Russia, China, or Iran remains under tight control by their own domestic elites. Ordinary citizens gain nothing from swapping one set of masters for another.
This is the hard truth. If you despise the Western financial oligarchy and its institutions, do not fall for the Eastern or multipolar alternative. It is the same roadmap with new drivers. The goal remains a managed, multi-regional global governance system where real power stays with a small international class while populations are divided into manageable civilizational blocs