Category: TRENDS IN TECHNOCRACY by Joe Doran

Speaking of Nextgov, a featured article on the site this past week detailed a “Franken-army” technology that would fuse bio-lab grown flesh with AI-driven robotics. Army Research Laboratory scientists are experimenting in using living muscle tissue to make otherwise relatively bulky androids more nimble and able to move like living creatures. “Biohybrid robotics” could eventually...

Ever wonder how the deep state and mega corporations coordinate on a practical level? Nextgov.com, though little known to most of the general public, is an important nexus point. The portal serves as a place where government agency bureaucrats can access tech advisories and white papers by leading tech corporations. The site is “sponsored” by...

POST OFFICE PLAYING SPYMASTERS. News broke this past week that the USPS has been running a program called iCOP (Internet Covert Operations Program). Does it target agents of Communist Chinese or members of international drug cartels? No. The initiative, embedded in the Postal Service, exists to target “domestic terrorists.” According to Yahoo News, which broke...

WILL BLOCKCHAIN SAVE THE DAY? Pandemic lockdowns and central bank money printing have rightly been pointed to as reasons to sound alarms about what’s ahead for America and, indeed, the entire world. But there’s always the potential for unforeseen events or agents of change to upend seeming tides of historical inevitability. A recent post in...

The game of out-of-power Republicans in Congress making tough-sounding proposals to engage their base is an old one. So anyone who’s fantasized about “repealing Obamacare,” “term limits,” “balancing the budget,” or “abolishing the IRS” may recognize the latest signs of political kabuki theatre. Republicans will reportedly introduce legislation to reign in corporate power via a...

Out-of-control AI. Total surveillance capabilities built off hyperconnectivity. Bio-engineered disasters. A wider tech-driven divide between haves and have-nots.  Those are just some of the predictions of a new National Intelligence Council (NIC) report Global Trends 2040: A More Contested World. The NIC advises Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines. The report – or at least...

BIDEN INTEL HEADS GRILLED FOR ILLEGALLY TARGETING U.S. CITIZENS. Americans are being spied on and targeted for their political beliefs and activities. That’s the news out of a contentious House Intelligence Committee hearing last Thursday involving Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and NSA Director Paul Nakasone. Ranking Republican Devin Nunes called...

BITCOIN BREAKS HIGHER IN APRIL. As the Biden administration made rounds trying to sell a huge new $2 Trillion boondoggle under the rhetorical rubric of an “Infrastructure Plan,” blockchain currencies ticked up. Bitcoin, which has been mostly stuck in the $53,000 to $58,000 range over the last few weeks, again flirted with all-time highs over...

The World Economic Forum has money-lubricated tentacles in governments around the world and routinely uses that influence to push its agenda, including its cherished “Great Reset.” A new “Global Governance Toolkit for Digital Mental Health” was released by the organization in early April. The 72-page policy advisory takes no responsibility for the crisis-level mental health...

While average Americans were clamped in lockdown for most of 2020, losing their small businesses or laid off or let go from jobs, waiting on meager government checks, the elites were profiting. How much? A 6 April article in The Washington Post detailed some of the divide. As a class, billionaires more than doubled their...