Since writing this article, Trump has claimed he has a warm place in his heart for Tik Tok and will aim to save its fate from a US ban. This would not be the first time that Trump has made a campaign enemy using rhetoric i.e. China, while actually appeasing them. The bottom line here is the Trump Administration needs China to provide cheap labor to keep America’s CEO and Wall Street high on the hog with record profits. I believe his real economic target might well prove to be the dismantling of Europe’s democratic strength. However that does not negate the fact that the US technocrats are all backing him to ensure America’s global Big Tech/AI takeover in direct competition with China. Read on:
Edgar Cayce (1877-1945), known as “The Sleeping Prophet,” predicted that while the ideal of democracy would never be lost, the American people would lose their democracy and that the US’s global power would be transferred to China, which would eventually become the seat of Christianity. The latter part of this may well prove beneficial. For a very long time now Christianity in the West, especially the Christian-right in the US, has been polluted by ignorance, bigotry and political aspirations and is showing no signs of turning itself back towards the Light - even the term Christian-right is bizarre in and of itself. It was also predicted by Michael Bookbinder, whom I worked with for many years, that the US States would divide against each other, some aligning with the Light, others with the dark. We have been experiencing this phenomenon particularly since 2015/16. Of course, many who look through the lens of politics will see their own States as “light” and the opposition’s States as “dark.” I don’t believe that anyone looking through such a glaucomic lens of political opposites will see the truth of the matter. However, I do believe that both these predictions are coming into focus and not because of either political party. Behind the scenes, I don’t believe they are as antagonistic as they’d like us to believe, but they have created a civil war amongst the populace. Divide and conquer is the name of their game and more recently it has been aggressively promoted and very successfully so.
The MAGA shout is less a shout to make America Great Again, because that won’t happen, but for a small group of technocrats to dominate the geo-political landscape through AI technology, against the rise of the Dragon (China), hence the proposed Tik Tok ban - frankly I’m on the fence about who I’d rather have access to my data, America or China. This is one case where the devil you know might be worse than the devil you don't know, if that is the only choice. As I’ve said before, Big Tech will become Big Government. They were never going to stand by and just try to influence politics and for the first time in history technology will no longer be a tool, but a fully integrated way of being and living. Trump is likely going to deregulate technology to set the stage for the biggest attempt at a global power grab we’ve yet seen. But, America will eventually lose global power to China’s iron shirt. Why? The Dragon doesn't fight itself. The Trump administration and the US political machine does.
As part of this process, Elon Musk has been tasked to set up his DOGE department, no doubt another nod from the self-appointed Dogefather, to his once pet puppy Dogecoin. Musk has claimed that his newly forged DOGE department will shave $2 trillion of government spending from the budget. Hmmm? We shall see, but in the meantime, I have four questions:
Will Musk include cutting government subsidies to his own businesses and pet projects for his life-sized toy businesses?
Where will these savings go, other than tax cuts for the rich, and how will the working-poor and homeless working-poor benefit from these cuts, if at all or will they be worse off?
How do these claims stack up against the recent spending budget which Musk and Trump tried to get passed, whereby the President-elect would not just have a raised debt-ceiling, but NO debt-ceiling at all throughout the entire term of his second presidency?
How does increasing the corporate allowance for American businesses investing in China, which benefits Musk’s own business interests, serve Trump’s America First policy?
While Musk successfully torpedoed the initial spending bill at the end of 2024, thankfully 38 Republicans refused to pass the no debt-ceiling clause. But, there is a very concerning contradiction here. Far from cutting $2 trillion in government spending, this smacks of an administration that wants no strings on the public purse and no accountability for what it intends to do with that money. It’s going to be a spend-baby-spend administration, except of course for all the government agencies from which they personally won’t benefit. Hypocrisy is alive and well in America! Good to know we have not lost a familiar, old friend - it’s grinning right at us in the political mirror, no matter who is in power. This is the same hypocrisy that Musk has used while seemingly flip-flopping on AI. Whilst he has warned of the dangers to humanity that this technology poses, I believe this is a front, a game he is playing to come across as the only one to trust. He alone will lead us through the exodus out of Egypt and the evil clutches of AI with his xAI, which he has said will seek only truth, and love humanity - excuse me while I hurl my bile of contempt into a bucket.
Musk even had the temerity to post on X asking his followers “Please post a bit more positive, beautiful, or informative content on this platform,” which was right around the same time that he wrote a post telling another X user to “Go fuck yourself in the face,” after Musk posted his support for H1B visas, which seemingly contradicted the Trump administration’s America First policy. How very enlightened! I wonder if he got some help writing that from xAI, if not let us not forget that xAI is listening and learning how it should better love humanity from its master!
One should pay close attention to where this dead-eyed man focusses his dead-eyed gaze. Along with Trump, Musk has scapegoated both illegal immigrants (of which he was one at one time) and the “scourge” of the homeless as key economic reasons for America’s problems, suggesting that detention encampments will be set up on cheap Federal land to house/detain these people. I don’t follow conspiracy theorists, but for decades now they have been talking about FEMA-style tent camps being set up to corral and detain those that the so-called New World Order of elites deems unfit for their society. It certainly seems that the conspiracy theorists hit upon something which might well become a reality in the very near future, especially as AI takes a grip on the job market, which will inevitably lead to an explosion in the homeless population who will have nowhere to go, as so many cities across the US are making their plight illegal. Over the years I’ve had many conversations with people on the subject of illegal immigration. I’ve always found the conversation ends very abruptly when you say “Now you know how the Native Americans must have felt and still feel when the white people walked onto their lands without permission, killed them and the Buffalo herds upon which most of them relied. Or as Colonel Richard Irving Dodge said, “Kill every buffalo you can! Every buffalo dead is an Indian gone.” He must have been a real catch.
Musk has also been commenting on the Rotherham child sex abuse scandal in the UK, calling for a deeper inquiry into the case. Granted there is absolutely a need for this, but this, in my opinion, is not his motivation here. If he were so concerned about child sex abuse, why has he not commented on the more recent case, in his adopted homeland, of Lawrence Hecker the disgraced Catholic priest in the New Orleans’ Archdiocese who covered up (amongst thousands of other cases) his decades long child abuse and who died before sentencing. Instead, he is bringing up an older case in the UK involving Muslims which I would suggest is going to be used, in part, for the next round of the Trump administration’s travel bans and tightening of homeland security against Islam. As an aside, there has been much commentary on this subject targeting the multicultural problems in Britain e.g. Pakistani Muslim men abusing young, white girls. It is a truly disturbing case, but let’s have some perspective here. Child sex abuse has infected every echelon of our global society from the Catholic Church, Indigenous peoples, British private schools and white pedophile rings comprising senior politicians, senior police officers, judges and members of the Royal family. The number of cover-ups over the decades have been astonishing, including the British government going even further back than Thatcher slapping D-Notices on journalists silencing them with the Official Secrets Act.
It is also an attack on the current Labour Prime Minister who was head of the CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) at the time of the Rotherham case. But again, this is very timely, as Musk seems intent on rocking every democracy by supporting extreme right-wing political parties first in Germany and now in the UK - political parties that he wants in power because they will pay homage to the Trump administration and more importantly himself as a one-man global power. He even went so far as to suggest he would make a political donation (purportedly worth $100M) to Nigel Farage’s UKIP party at a recent Mar-a-Lago meeting. Astonishingly, Farage even said in public that “He [Musk] will help us enormously because he’s a hero figure, especially for the youth who really do admire this man and if it comes to him helping us financially, that’s fantastic.” How this is not election interference of a foreign nation I do not know - let us NOT forget that big donors of political parties, Super Pacs and lobbyists are not really donors. These are investors and investors want a return on their investments. The bigger the investment, the bigger the return. Thankfully, Musk then tweeted “Free Tommy Robinson,” which backfired on his relationship with Farage, who rightly wants no part of Robinson’s political support. Tommy Robinson who has served several stints in prison is an extreme right-wing fascist and while some including Musk might want to believe he is something of a political prisoner, he is no Nelson Mandela and is not seeking reconciliation of any kind. The danger of a man like Musk who can promote or crash anything he wants with a tweet is becoming extreme, particularly from someone who controls so much information flowing through his Starlink satellite network. And just in case anyone has forgotten Musk offered his 100% support to Kanye West when Kanye announced his presidential run, proving that perhaps he is not a man possessed of much discernment.
Musk’s focus on Muslims and Trump’s staunch support of Netanyahu brings up the subject of the Judeo-Christian Holy wars against Islam (and vice-versa) which is now as old as the hills, but it is rearing a particular ugly new head over the proverbial parapet, at the moment. As always, these wars on either side are led by a small group of people who do not represent the true nature of Islam, Judaism or Christianity. What is concerning is any criticism, for instance, of Netanyahu’s government’s action in Gaza is now considered antisemitic, and by calling someone antisemitic post WWII you are effectively calling them a Nazi. While I’m sure there is an element of that in the hearts of some, it is nevertheless a very dangerous precedent to set. Calls for peace are being interpreted as support for Hamas which cannot be further from the truth. Indeed, Trump has stated that US universities will lose funding should they allow pro-Palestine protests to continue during his administration. Jimmy Carter was criticized as antisemitic, even as recently as his passing at aged 100, although no one has yet leveled that accusation against Amnesty International or Bernie Sanders (an American-Jewish Senator) for their criticism of Netanyahu’s administration and the genocide in Gaza. The next step in this process will be to quash criticism of Trump’s government and the Christian-right who supported him into power, and which seeks to dismantle the separation of church and state in the US. It is a gradual whittling away of the first amendment right to free speech and peaceful protest. I have many close Jewish friends including someone whom I considered to be the most Spiritually influential person in my life, who died back in 1999. Nevertheless I am against the killing of innocent civilians no matter who is doing the killing, and like always it is those very few corrupt individuals on either side who are orchestrating these heinous acts and dragging the rest of us into supporting their personal conflicts. Imagine if Obama had banned criticism of his administration on the grounds that any and all criticism was racist. It would have been laughable would it not have set such a dangerous precedent. We are indeed entering a dangerous phase where free speech is going to be crushed unless you happen to own X or run a government. The rest of us will be like the proverbial small-mouthed frogs, afraid to speak up for fear of political reprisals and losing our jobs/careers, because of our calls for peace and calls to stop the killing, on either side of a conflict. Calls which in the very near future may well result in accusations and prosecutions as hate crimes. In my opinion we need to come together as citizens from all walks of life, to break bread together, and shun these corrupt governments, including our own, for what they are. We need to stop believing their lies which have led us into numerous conflicts, WMD’s (Bush & Blair’s weapons of mass destruction) being just one example. This is the only way, I believe, we will find freedom and peace. It certainly won’t come from a politician, a billionaire or anyone on the Christian-right.
Having just mentioned the passing of Jimmy Carter it is worth noting that Trump also made mention of his passing, referring to the presidency of the United States as an “exclusive club.” This should tell you everything you need to know about his motivation for power. It is NOT an exclusive club. It is however an office with a constitutional remit to serve the American people - ALL the people.
America and indeed Britain have for decades deposed governments behind the scenes with coups d’etat instigated by the CIA and MI6. Musk is now using his massive wealth estimated to reach the trillion-dollar mark by 2027-2029 to fund domestic AND foreign elections in plain sight. Trump, at the same time, is playing his hand at a real-life game of RISK by setting his sights on bringing Canada into the US fold, “buying” Greenland and “taking back” the Panama Canal - for anyone interested they should read about the history of the Panama Canal, the Darien Project. Scotland lost its independence over it. Trump’s comments that Canada will have better national security as the 51st State, (along with lower taxes) is farcical. Canada as part of the United States will be dragged into International conflicts far more than if it remained independent, or rather part of the Commonwealth. While I’m no Royalist, perhaps Trump needs to have a chat with King Charlie III about that particular land grab, which of course was a land grab in and of itself way back when. Perhaps Trump should also have a read of his “God Bless the US Bible” he’s been flogging, which is printed in China and should be subject to tariffs but probably isn’t. Apparently America doesn’t have any printing presses left! He might, however, pay particular attention to the 10th Commandment which Moses took the trouble of bringing back down the mountain in an old pair of sandals that probably didn’t have a lot of tread left on them after walking out of Egypt. I believe it says something along the lines of “Thou shalt not covet….Greenland, Canada, or the Panama Canal.”
There are many who believe that the Trump administration has come to dismantle the so-called “Deep State,” to free the American people. The dark ones aren’t that stupid, and political power isn’t given to those who intend to undermine their power, even under the guise of democratic elections. While the populace grew weary of a government stuck in its old ways they had to act and provide an updated manifesto that would appeal to the masses but behind the scenes would keep them in power. Trump is not the only Teflon don. Every politician worth their salt to those behind the power of global governments have been protected or pardoned by show trials. Don’t be fooled.
What is becoming apparent is the disingenuous nature of the Big Technocrats now lining up on bended knee to pay homage to Trump for the deregulation of their industries, salivating over the imminent global power grab and large government contracts. Big Tech as a ruling global body is particular frightening considering that technology will infiltrate and run every aspect of our lives, including Neuralink-style chips linking us into mainframe computers. Do you really want the likes of Musk and Zuckerberg in your head monitoring then controlling your thoughts and movements through AI technology? If you do, all power to you. Go for it, but count me out. There is also something fundamentally Feudal about the homage being paid to Trump by these people with APDD (adult personality deficit disorder) and frankly it’s also rather pathetic. Like most politicians they have no moral or Spiritual backbone.
In my opinion, the only way forward is to remain in the Light, to stay true to that energy of Self no matter how difficult things might get. At the end of the day if you go back far enough in time, or forward far enough in time, we will all be wrong about everything and in that there is both safety and peace.
And finally to end a very serious article, on a humorous note, as AI takes ahold, I only have to wonder if it’s possible to make an AI robotic sex doll meow?
Postscript: in a press conference, January 7th, 2025 Trump responded to a question saying that he wouldn’t rule out military action and financial coercion to take Greenland and the Panama Canal, but would only use financial pressure to bring Canada down. At the very least these threats are being used to destabilize the markets. It’s a tactic long used by Wall Street: generate a rumor, panic the markets and dump the stock price. and vice-versa. Trump has always played dirty, having learnt from the best i.e. Roy Cohn, and nothing is going to change that and getting what you want using threats and cohesion is an extremely childish and immature way of doing business. So yes, the global pussy grab has begun and he’s not even in office yet. This is:
One Giant Leap (Backwards) for Mankind
It is incomprehensible to me that anyone could now possibly see Donald Trump as a force for good either for America or in the world at large after refusing to deny that he would not use military action and/or financial coercion against the sovereign nations of Canada, Panama and Denmark/Greenland. This is NOT rhetoric. These are dark, abhorrent, colonia…
Gavin J. Chalcraft is an artist and CEO/Executive Producer at Golden Ratio Media Group, a film, television, and theatre production company. Prior to working in the arts, he owned and ran Isosceles Consulting, a global brand development and management consulting firm.
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