Is AI Fear Porn Prepping us for a Major Psy-Op?

Is AI Fear Porn Prepping us for a Major Psy-Op?

Kit Knightly

And so we’re back in the world of scary AI

I know, I said I wasn’t going to write about this anymore – and, I know, I have a series on water bankruptcy to continue – but they just won’t let it go, so neither can I.

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.

“Rogue AIs” have become the lab leak theory of the tech sector, a sci-fi horror premise that flies in the face of reason, pretending to vague ideas of “revelations” and “accountability”, while encouraging panic as a response and social control as a solution.

Little did I know that at the exact moment I was writing those words, the Wall Street Journal was prepping to publish an opinion piece headlined:

The Next ‘Lab Leak’ Could Be AI – Recent sandbox breaches demonstrate the need for federal guardrails.

That’s funny to me.

In other ‘scary AI’ stories this week, the Washington Post was flabbergasted to discover that ChatGPT interactions are being used in court proceedings.

Yes, apparently AI companies are doing what ALL the big tech companies have been doing for DECADES and is snooping on our data and interactions. But suddenly it’s news.

A new study from Yale has found that – OMG –  AI chatbots maybe manipulating users as a form of advertising!

…again, just like all the big tech firms do all the time and have done for years.

A senior staff member from OpenAI has told the Guardianwe should all prepare for “persistent” AI-powered cyber attacks unless we “implement new safety standards”.

And the Times is warning that AI could be used by “unsophisticated” terrorists to build bombs or bio-weapons.

But the BIG news is that Big Billy Billions has shared his BIG thoughts.

Yes, Mr Gates himself has – allegedly – penned a long essay on the future of AI, and how potentially scary it could be. He begins…

The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical.

There’s a lot to unpack in this thing (you really need to read it), from his call for “Human Reserved” jobs, to his idea to tax AI usage and robots, but mostly his thoughts on the need for regulation.

Preferably global regulation:

even a country that gets its own house in order will still be exposed to risks that cross borders. This is why an international organization will need to be built in parallel.

That’s “the message”. You can ignore most of the other 10,000 words.

It echoes the sentiments of over 1300 AI “insiders” who have all signed an open letter calling on governments to cooperate in regulating AI and force the industry to slow down its progress, citing the risk that “capability development rapidly accelerates beyond our ability to understand or control the resulting systems.”

This clearly feeds back into the “rogue AI agents” story.

Interestingly, and possibly worryingly, Bill Gates essay compares AI to nuclear weapons:

There’s an inspections regime for nuclear weapons, regulations for international aviation, and agreements that protect the ozone layer. A new global organization for AI will need elements of all three and more.

Maybe even more worryingly Billy is far from the only person to make this comparison in just the last couple of days.

It’s becoming a common refrain. Surprisingly common. This next piece even conflates the risk, suggesting AI makes an accidental nuclear launch possible

But never fear, the Atlantic has a solution:What is the “only way” to control this technology? The subhead makes it clear:

What humanity needs is an international AI nonproliferation treaty.

A “non-proliferation treaty”…like with nuclear weapons.

Writing in the Guardian, Timothy Garton Ash – one of the least sane Guardian columnists I’ve ever responded to, and that’s really saying something – makes the same exact comparison. He asks:

Are we headed for an AI Hiroshima?

…and seems pretty sure the answer is “yes”.

What exactly IS an “AI Hiroshima”? I’m not sure, and he doesn’t say. But, and stop me if you’ve heard this one before, he does know the best way to avoid it:

acting together to control the superhuman power we are creating.

A similarly panic-ridden opinion piece in the New York Times headlines:

We know the risk of AI. We need to act.

[NOTE: That’s the original headline, they have since changed it to “The Warning Lights Are Blinking Again”, I don’t know why, maybe the original was too silly even for them]

Written by Jen Easterly, former director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the article stresses that the “warning signs” are flashing on AI, and we need to act now before something bad happens.

She’s not overly specific on what this bad thing could be, but it’s clearly going to be HUGE because the things she compares it to are 9/11 and the 2008 financial crisis.

Despite not really knowing exactly what we should be afraid of, she’s fairly clear on what should be done:

What we need urgently is an A.I. early-warning mechanism that assembles weak signals, imagines what they could mean together and forces decisions before the picture is complete.

The point of this system would be to…

turn public-private partnership […] into real, operational collaboration: information sharing that was timely, relevant and, above all, actionable.

Doesn’t that sound lovely?

For anyone losing track, so far we’ve compared AI to 9/11, the 2008 financial crisis AND Hiroshima. Without ever – EVER – going into specifics about why it would be remotely like any of those things.

It’s very odd. I’m not sure I can recall this level of fear with so little actual articulation of what we’re supposed to be afraid of.

But it makes me think there may well be be some AI-related “incident” in the near future, only maybe they haven’t yet  decided what it will be.

Easterly’s use of the 9/11 parallel may be only an hysterical overreaction, a topical reference to the looming 25th anniversary or an almost instinctual reinforcement of the feebly weak “failure of imagination” narrative. Or it may be something else. Perhaps an indication of potential scale.

Should we expect some kind of AI-related false flag psy-op?

One approaching 9/11 in size that is blamed on an AI agent going “rogue”?

I’m not going to predict such a thing, but I’m certainly not ruling it out.

The Entire Financial System Is Chained to Government Debt

The Entire Financial System Is Chained to Government Debt

Martin Armstrong

The Bank for International Settlements is warning that near-record public debt and the growing role of hedge funds and other nonbank financial institutions have created what it calls a “fiscal-financial stability nexus.”That is sanitized bureaucratic language for a system in which governments, banks, pension funds, insurers, hedge funds, and central banks are all chained to the same mountain of sovereign debt. 

If government bonds begin to fail, the losses will not remain confined to some account at the Treasury. They will spread through the institutions holding the public’s savings and eventually force central banks to choose between the currency and the financial system.

Government debt is treated as the foundation of modern finance. Banks use sovereign bonds as collateral, pension funds hold them to match future obligations, insurers depend on them for income, and hedge funds trade them using enormous leverage through repurchase markets. Regulators assign government debt privileged treatment because they have declared it “risk-free,” but no investment is free of risk. The label exists because government needs financial institutions to purchase its bonds, and admitting that sovereign debt can become unstable would expose the fraud supporting the entire system.

The BIS estimates that the probability of a financial-stress event comparable to the Global Financial Crisis occurring within three months is roughly ten times higher when public debt relative to GDP is elevated. The probability rises from approximately 0.3% under lower-debt conditions to 3.8% when government debt is high. The risk increases further when nonbank financial institutions hold a larger share of the market because many depend on leverage and short-term funding that can disappear the moment bond prices move against them.

This is also where digital currencies and capital controls enter the picture. When voluntary demand for government debt becomes insufficient, the state will search for methods to direct private savings into approved securities. A financial system built around identified digital wallets and programmable payment rails would make it far easier to restrict capital movement, limit withdrawals, and steer money toward government obligations. They will call it financial stability because admitting that the objective is financial repression would provoke revolt.

The Sovereign Debt Crisis will spread through the financial system because sovereign bonds have been embedded into everything. The state borrowed the money, regulators declared the debt safe, institutions bought it with the public’s savings, and central banks promised to rescue the market if anything went wrong. The entire structure depends upon confidence that government will always honor its obligations without destroying the value of the currency used to repay them. Once that confidence breaks, there will be nowhere inside the conventional financial system to hide.

Another Two Historic Churches Explode Into Flames...

Another Two Historic Churches Explode Into Flames...

 Steve Watson

In downtown Grand Rapids, fire tore through a 133-year-old building owned by LaGrave Avenue Christian Reformed Church late Wednesday night. While in Pennington, Alabama, the Ebenezer Baptist Church - a congregation founded in 1850 - was reduced to a total loss in a late-night blaze days earlier.

The official language surrounding the causes is already familiar: under investigation, unknown. The buildings are not coming back.

LaGrave Avenue Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan is a whopping 133 YEARS OLD and the cause of the devastating fire is "unknown" This keeps happening

MULTIPLE historic churches have now burned in recent days and weeks, and several instances were deemed arson. They want more churches to burn. America is a Christian nation and must stay that way

The historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Pennington, Alabama, has been completely destroyed in a late-night fire.

The congregation was established in 1850 and had served the community in Choctaw County for more than 175 years.

The Grand Rapids fire started around 10:55 p.m. Wednesday night, in the former Seventh-day Adventist building near Oakes Street and Sheldon Avenue - a masonry structure the city archives date to about 1894, originally All Souls Universalist Church.

Grand Rapids Professional Firefighters Local 366 said Rescue Company 2 arrived to "a large church with heavy smoke and fire showing from the basement windows." Crews pushed an interior attack with hoselines in the basement and on the main floor. The fire was already in the walls and void spaces.

Nineteen crews worked the scene. Off-duty firefighters were called in. The floor collapsed. Part of the roof came down. Two firefighters were struck by falling brick and are expected to recover; local reports later put the injury tally at three. Battalion Chief Kathleen Thompson said crews had to pull out and fight the fire from the outside. The secondary building is expected to be a total loss. The main LaGrave sanctuary next door was spared.

Investigators are still looking at the cause. No ruling of arson has been announced. The phrase on the record is the same one now attached to so many of these scenes: unknown.

Ebenezer Baptist Church in Pennington, Choctaw County, caught fire around 10 p.m. on Tuesday of last week. Jerry Snowden, chairman of the deacons, said: "It's a total loss." The congregation had served the community for more than 175 years. Firefighters were still killing hot spots the next morning so the fire marshal could walk the ruins. Church members posted memories of baptisms, funerals and the brick walls their families had helped raise.

Two more churches in America are now rubble. And it keeps happening.

Last week in Cleveland, the former Friendship Baptist Church - a mid-1890s structure that began as a synagogue before becoming a Baptist sanctuary - was destroyed in an early-morning fire. Nearly sixty firefighters responded. The roof collapsed. The remnants were demolished.

Officials first called the cause unknown. Cleveland Fire Lt. Mike Norman later confirmed it was incendiary. "The motives are not believed to be financial. This was not a fire set for insurance money or to acquire the land." He called the loss "irreplaceable" and put the damage at about $500,000.

Buffalo's former St. Ann's Church and Shrine, built in 1886, was hit twice in four days in July after earlier damage this year. Investigators ruled the July fires arson. The Diocese of Buffalo sold the church, school and convent in November 2022 for $250,000 to Buffalo Crescent Holdings, Inc., a company affiliated with the Downtown Islamic Center, which planned an Islamic community centre for Buffalo's Bengali community. The site had been vacant since parish life ended in 2013.

Buffalo Common Council Majority Leader Leah Halton-Pope said she had just told city officials the building would probably be set on fire again. "I know it's been said that it was arson, which is to be expected."

New York City has taken its own losses. On June 19 the 173-year-old South Bushwick Reformed Church in Brooklyn, a Greek Revival landmark, was gutted in a three-alarm fire that brought the steeple down. The FDNY later confirmed it was intentionally set.

Pastor James E. Steward II said: "It was more than just a building. It's lives and generations of lives that have been touched." After the ruling he added: "Now we understand it is intentional, which brings another layer of grief to myself, as well as the congregation and the community."

He also said, "Whoever is responsible for this ultimately has to answer to God," and "We have no known enemies." The city rejected a restoration plan based on an independent engineer's assessment and ordered demolition.

Weeks earlier, the vacant First Reformed Church of Astoria in Queens - organized in 1839, rebuilt after an 1888 fire - suffered a major fire that began in a vacant rectory and raced into the church.

This is happening everywhere. The United Kingdom has been subject to this same script for months.

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PUSHBACK: Fed-Up Spanish Citizens Charge Beach in Ceuta, Disperse the Invaders and Set Fire to Their Shacks, Clash With the Police (VIDEOS)

PUSHBACK: Fed-Up Spanish Citizens Charge Beach in Ceuta, Disperse the Invaders and Set Fire to Their Shacks, Clash With the Police (VIDEOS)

Paul Serran

Taken to the Limit, Spaniards in Ceuta fight back.

We all know the catastrophic story: in late July, no less than 70,000 Moroccan and Algerian invaders swam or paddled into the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta, totally overwhelming the border patrols or the emergency services.

The scenes shocked the world and showed for everyone to see the suicidal character of Socialist Pedro Sánchez’s immigration policies.

Read: 22 EU leaders Turn on Spain’s Sánchez Over His Migration Failure – Floating Barrier Installed in Ceuta Against Migrants – Western Intel: Morocco ‘Facilitated’ Invasion

A few days later, most of the invaders were sent back across the border to Morocco, and Sánchez galivanted to vacation in the Canary Islands.

However, thousands upon thousands of invaders remained in the enclave – and, as the locals soon pointed out, those were the absolute worst ones.

They turned Ceuta’s beaches into filthy, squalid slums, with makeshift shacks and huts, with human waste covering the sand and floating in the sea.

Near the water, they held ‘fight clubs’ where they faced each other in combat.

Is it any wonder that inhabitants of Ceuta have finally had enough?

A series of viral videos doing the rounds on social media show hundreds of citizens charging the beach slum, expelling the invaders, tearing down the shacks and huts, in some cases burning them.

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Mark Hitchcock: Massive Debt And America Not Mentioned In Future Prophecy

Debt That Explains Why America Isn't in Bible Prophecy

Mark Hitchcock

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America's national debt has topped $40 trillion — $90,000 added every second, $7.8 billion every day. But beyond the economics, Dr. Mark Hitchcock asks the question most people aren't asking: could this be the reason America is absent from Bible prophecy?

Every great power in history, the Ottoman Empire, Spain, France, Britain, collapsed after interest payments on national debt exceeded defense spending. The US crossed that line in 2024. Ferguson's Law says what comes next. And the Bible may have already described it.

Dr. Hitchcock also examines how the Rapture would immediately devastate the US economy, how the global debt of $350 trillion sets the stage for the Black Horse of Revelation, and what runaway hyperinflation in the end times actually looks like.