The World Wars to the World Wide Web
Hitler’s rise and the Second World War, the postwar order from the UN to 9/11, the Internet revolution, and the author’s own closing reflections on history’s recurring cycle.
Hitler’s rise and the Second World War, the postwar order from the UN to 9/11, the Internet revolution, and the author’s own closing reflections on history’s recurring cycle.
At the end of the Great War, World War I, Americas president Woodrow Wilson argued for a fair treatment of Germany and the German people, who in his eyes were not the once to blame. Wilson also believed that some sort of League of Nations was needed to prevent future wars. The Treaty of Versailles, however, proved to be a vengeance were mainly England and France imposed hard treatment on Germany. Germany was forced to pay England and France for damage caused by the war. The proud German people had no alternative than to accept the terms dictated by England and France, which became difficult and boosted internal conflicts of radical/socialistic movements.
One successful radical individual, Adolf Hitler, talked with great charismatic of the war as “yet another betrayal” of the German central government. The Jews who had been blamed during many socialistic movements over Europe was also used, by Hitler, as reference to the roots to the conflicts. His way of addressing the bad conditions Germany lived under impressed the German people. Hitler tried to copy Mussolini’s successful “March on Rome” by taking over the control of the Bavarian Government during a beer hall event in 1923, known as “The Beer Hall Putch”. It became a disaster and Hitler was sent to prison for nine months.
There he wrote “Mein Kampf” (“My Struggle”) in were he suggested that there were easy solutions to the complex problems facing the German people in the 1920’s. He blamed the “weak” government and referred to the Great War as “a stab in the back”. Hitler and his National Socialist (Nazi) party increased quickly and along with other radicals he managed to gain majority. By January 1933, Hitler controlled Germany. And one of the first strikes against his own people was to create “the Gestapo”, which consisted of about 1000,000 spies and infiltrants, as a mirror of Stalin’s secret police. The Gestapo along with Hitler’s brutal SA and SS troops outlawed and exterminated opposing forces.
March 23, 1933 the “Enabling Act” was passed by the Reichtag, which formally provided the Nazi party legislative powers and establish both the “Nazi Germany” and Hitler as its dictator. During the night of June 30, 1934, to ensure his total control of any possible inside threat he initiated a blood Purge, known as the “Night of the Long Knives”, which is believed to have resulted in around 400 deaths.
In November the 9th 1938 Hitler initiated the so called “Crystal night” or “the Night of Broken Glass”, what he and his companions saw the “Final solution to the Jewish problem”. A massive nationwide pogrom in Germany and Austria were Windows of Jewish shops and boutiques were crashed. This was the first hint of what today is known as “the Holocaust”. Hitler’s plans for the Third Reich of course including expanding its territory and in September he invaded Poland, which led to World War II.
Many people believed that Germany was treated unfair in the post world war I progress. The Treaty of Versailles in 1919 was devastating for Germany economy. The internal anger towards the German government grew and extremists like Hitler became known to public.
Britain and France feared that Hitler would attack Poland. Both countries declared they would defend Poland from German attack. They attempted to get the dictator of the Soviet Union, Josef Stalin, to join their alliance against Germany, but Stalin signed a separate pact with Germany. In September 1939, Germany attacked Poland from the west, while the Soviet Union attacked from the east. The attack caused Britain and France to declare war on Germany.
They used fast moving tanks coordinated with airplanes to conquer Poland in less than three weeks. The German Blitzkrieg swept across Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, and France by the spring of 1940. The Germans had defeated all of its rivals, except for Great Britain. By June 1941, Hitler ignored his agreement with Stalin and attacked the Soviet Union. Germany was now in the same position as in World War I, fighting on two fronts.
In the first days of August 1941, King George VI, grants permission for his prime minister, Winston Churchill, to meet with US President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Churchill crosses the Atlantic with the battleship HMS Prince of Wales to meet up the heavy cruiser USS Augusta at Newfoundland, Canada. Joseph Stalin was also invited, but did not join. Churchill needed help and had to convince Roosevelt to enter the war and support the British Empire against the Axis powers (Nazi Germany, Japan and Italy). Roosevelt, however, had a different view of the situation and would not accept to join the war. After 4 days of thoughtful work negotiating and formulating paragraphs for a joint declaration, Churchill and Roosevelt signed the so called “Atlantic Charter” the 14th of August.
In brief, the Atlantic Charter contained this:
When the declaration became public it was taken for as a drawback for Churchill as Roosevelt didn’t accept going to war and its paragraphs also literally ended the British Empire. In fact the declaration was a post-war vision, which was the first step towards the United Nations established after the war end in 1945. Adolf Hitler saw the declaration as evidence that UK and USA had been overruled by an international Jewish conspiracy. However, Hitler took the declaration with great fear and did censor-out some of the paragraphs before it was presented within his Empire.
On September 24th, the governments of Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia, and representatives of General Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French met in London and adopted the principals of the Atlantic Charter. As the Atlantic Charter by many politicians overtime has been announced to be a “NEW WORLD ORDER” to succeed the old were the Empires of the world continuously battled for their ideologies. This is of course the root of the existence of the great conspiracy. But as mentioned many times before in this dossier, it’s the one who fear things the most who creates the biggest rumors.
This is, however, no evidence that the great conspiracy does not really exist. So keep on reading...
The Atlantic Charter did create pressure onto Japan, who also saw it as a threat to their Empire. USA who had moved parts of its naval forces closer to Japan was hit by a the well known Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in the morning of the 7th of December 1941.
The information of the surprise attack against Perl Harbor reaches Hitler December 11th. He instantly declared war against USA.
Once America joined the war, it truly became a global conflict, with participants from every populated continent. The United States, along with Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union became known as the Allied Forces, while Germany, Japan, and Italy were the so called “Axis Powers”.
America decided first to focus on the threat from Hitler. Hitler made his biggest mistake and moved into Russia in June 1941. This ended the Pact between Hitler and Stalin that was established 1939. Hitler’s ambitions to conquer Russia resulted in decreased interest in the Britain. But the otherwise so successful army of Germany faced hard conditions during the winter. This was most likely the bloodiest and most dreadful part of the whole war. Having Stalingrad in mind tears are hard to stop. The late year 1942 marked the turning point in the war, which was confirmed by the so called “Sportpalast speech” held by Joseph Goebbels at the Berlin Sportpalast in mid February 1943.
Goebbels concluded: “Two thousand years of Western history are in danger,” and blamed Germany’s failures, in typical Nazi fashion, on the Jews.
While Hitler faced problems in the east; Roosevelt, Churchill met with Stalin to synchronize their efforts in how to defeat Hitler. The Agreements made between them during a conference in Teheran, Iran the 28th of February 1943 initiated planning for operation “Overlord”.
“We the President of the United States, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, and the Premier of the Soviet Union, have met these four days past, in this, the Capital of our Ally, Iran, and have shaped and confirmed our common policy.” — Declaration of the Three Powers, December 1, 1943
Iran, were the conference was held, was declared independent by the three leaders during the conference.
“The Three Governments realize that the war has caused special economic difficulties for Iran, and they are agreed that they will continue to make available to the Government of Iran such economic assistance as may be possible, having regard to the heavy demands made upon them by their world-wide military operations, and to the world-wide shortage of transport, raw materials, and supplies for civilian consumption.” — Declaration of the Three Powers Regarding Iran, December 1, 1943
The 6th of June 1944 operation “Overlord” was put into action. The so called “D-Day” or “The Great Crusade” as General Eisenhower himself called it had finally begun and the coasts of Normandy were invaded by the allied forces. Allied bombers destroyed cities from the air, while their armies later marched across Germany towards Berlin.
The western front met up with the Russian Army at the river Elbe, near Torgau in Germany, the 25th of April 1945 before the final strike against Berlin. When Hitler learned the enemy was within thirty miles of his underground bunker, he shot himself to death. The Nazi terror was over. Germany surrendered the 8th of May 1945. The Nuclear bombs dropped at Hiroshima the 6th of August and at Nagasaki the 9th of August led to the Japanese surrender the 15th of August 1945. The World War II were about 70 million people lost their lives was finally ended.
Since approximately 1200BC a series of Jewish kingdoms and states existed in the region. But during the total failure in the so called “Great Jewish Revolt” against the Roman Empire around year 70 resulted in a wide scale expulsion of the Jews. Thru over the centuries they did immigrate back to the region and in year 1881 20-25.000 inhabitants out of 470.000 were Jews. Since World War I the Zionism movement among the Jews worked constantly with the British Empire to get their own state in the region. In 1917 the “Balfour Declaration” endorsed a Jewish homeland in Palestine. No real state, but better than nothing. This increased the immigration to the new Jewish homeland.
The raise of Nazism created waves of immigrations to the region and by the end of the World War II the number of Jews were about 600.000. The number of Jews in the region caused increased violence between Jews and Arabs. In 1948 UN Declared the State of Israel in the territory formerly known as Palestine. Israel is the only Jewish state in the world and about 80% of the inhabitants are Jewish and the rest is Arabs and Christians. The state of Israel and the surrounding region is still today a conflict, both territorial and religious.
Freemason activity within Israel seems common, which by conspiracy theorists of course is mapped to be apart of the great conspiracy. In fact Freemasons themselves claims to have been involved when King Salomon’s Temple was built in around 950 BC.
Parallel to the progress of the war, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin met in Yalta in southern Ukraine, February the 4th 1945. The result of the so called “Yalta Conference” was a Europe divided by east and west, but also the institution of United Nations. It was obvious that West didn’t trust the East and vise versa. The controversies around and after this conference by time led to the so called “Cold War”, which was a mind war led by intelligence agencies.
The secret operation named “Gladio” was a NATO and CIA sponsored initiative, which today is known to have been a “stay-behind” operation, were agents were left in the Eastern parts after the war to infiltrate society for intelligence purposes. Both sides became almost paralyzed by the threat of undercover agents within their territory. Secret police institutions like the KGB, FBI, Stasi and Securitate were initiated in both the eastern and western countries with the task to find and eliminate initiatives just like the operation “Gladio”. This led to persecution of civilians within almost all nations of the world. The social ideology of the East made this threat enormous which was reflected in the actions against the local citizens. The history of the USA citizens Ethel and Julius Rosenberg is just one of countless examples from the Western side. Thinking of the secret police institutions and their work during the “Cold War” really give the shivers.
Of course this could not last for long. In the early 1980s Lech Walesa, in Poland, initiated a wave of Solidarity within the communism world. He was awarded with the Nobel Peace Price in 1983. His work with the “Solidarity Trade Union” is by many seen as one of the big triggers that led to the fall of the Berlin wall in November 1989. The fall of the wall became the official acknowledge that once again we, the citizens of our societies, had won another great mind battle against a corrupt elite.
Great Moravia along with Bulgarian-, Swedish- and the Venetian Empire are all Empires that have influenced the development of European and ultimately the Global Society. But, I have left them out of this dossier. I am sorry to say that I also have left Japan, China, Arabia and India out of this dossier. There is a lot to tell about the history surrounding these large powers, both in politics and view of life, but time has limited my work on the history part of the dossier.
Don’t take me wrong, but it is among my greatest beliefs that the future of these powers are more interesting than their past. The development in east Europe sure is interesting and hopeful. I think many citizens of these parts will, in the next 10-20 years, experience what the western Europe have experienced between the 70’s and the 90’s. The feeling I get when writing this, is the type of envy that we all experience when we are about to watch one of those really great movies for the second time, together with someone who hasn’t seen it at all. Japan is already a great power and highly involved on the international arena. Arabia, which I think has been suppressed in history, will most likely regain much of their historical pride as the masses get more interested in history.
China… China… China… Well I don’t think I underestimate the world elites when I speak about China as the most interesting part of the world today, in terms of society development. I guess it is Chinas leadership which is the key to the wide interest. A leadership which appeals too many of the, to history, known negative words as: Communism, dictatorship, iron fist autocracy. This along with the enormous economical growth is really a dangerous walk on a sharp edge.
However, China has shown signs of relaxation and hopefully they will understand that they have to do something like what the Roman Emperor Augustus did when he, to ensure himself a different destiny than Caesar, offered his extraordinary powers back to the senate. This act made him one of the greatest leaders of history. I predict a dramatic change of Chinas leadership before year 2020, either by a reform initiated by the leaders themselves or by some kind of revolution. My hope is that China leaders signals to the world that they have understood how the world works and that they have initiated a reformation process which will turn the republic of China into a federation or at least a federal republic. And I think they will, and maybe sooner than we can expect.
I think there is a possibility that China will use the possibility and present a “new China” when they have the whole world’s media machinery in Beijing for the XXIX Olympic Games 2008. Of course such an act would be met with doubt and suspiciousness. But if they play their cards wisely, they may pull it of. If they are smart and really want to gain the greatest global respect, I think they could boost their reform with an announcement that they plan to, in cooperation with Russia, US and EU, form a “Commonwealth of Asia” initiative. An initiative which, if successful, would lead to the third large “Commonwealth” union after “Commonwealth of Nations” and the “Commonwealth of Independent states”. Hopefully Iraq will play major a role in possible a forth “Commonwealth” union of the Middle East. If than isn’t a bright solution for the future global society, then what!!?
Yes, I think it’s likely that China may challenge the world with a new model of society. Think of a society divided in two. One part, the major, free and democratic and one structured and controlled, both supervised by a top Elite. As citizen of the controlled parts one would get all types of benefits and possibilities, which would encourage the membership which anyone can apply for. The backside would be that you are bound to follow the detailed laws and regulations. If you do not, membership will be questioned.
“It is as easy to be free in a controlled world as it is to be enslaved in a free.”
The key to success in such a challenge would be the top Elite and its abilities to gain public and world trust. If it would be composed by selected leaders of both the controlled and the democratic side and if it would use a sort of public domain openness, I think it may be very successful. I even think such a society model quickly would spread to other parts of the world, especially as the controlled areas easily would integrate with other controlled areas that follow the same type of laws and regulations. The main reason to the success would be that it’s easier to create a new controlled society, than it is to convert one into be controlled, which seems to be popular these days all over the globe. The launch of such society model would be presented to the world as an idea, a test, as no society model yet has been fully successful, someone has to try and China today have both the strength and courage to do it.
No dought that governments around the world have understood that working together is the only way forward. However, no one has the correct path written down and we’re all in the hands of ourselves and our elite.
United Nations was established in October, 1945 as a post war institution were nations could meet and line up their paths with each others. Conspiracy theorists claim UN along with numerous Think tanks and other extremist groups host the great conspiracy. It’s an interesting thought, but such a conclusion is most likely made up of people who find a united world to be a threat to them. Criminals, extremists and religious fanatics are possible dictators of such a conclusion. However, UN has had problems since its creation and will have problems in the future also. To understand why, one must understand more about society and the human mind.
The above unions, working tightly together, constitute almost total control of the world today. Beside these unions we have China and Middle East states.
China is probably today’s biggest mindbender, which may develop to become the worlds last large scale geographical conflict. Their mass population and low cost production is by many seen as a threat to world stability. My guess is that China, in short term, will become a close friend with Russia, which could raise an east - west conflict again, but hopefully instead it will establish stable relations within the CIS and the rest of the world.
The Middle East conflicts may seem large scale, but are in fact not a big threat to world stability. Not in the sense of states and population. The Eastern renaissance and reformation is ongoing and is in many cases pushed to the limits by other frustrated powers in the world. The biggest reason for that is because the Middle East hosts religious conflicts, which may cause a longer path towards global stability. My guess is that we will se a Commonwealth union of Middle East initiative, were a reformed Iraq may get a prominent role. I see a bright future of states and governments in the world. However, I also see a clouded future in the power of the mind.
Conflicts since World War II faced an increased media cover which led to a new factor to handle within conflicts. Media’s coverage changed the opinion, which was reflected onto politics which later changed the war itself. Media’s role has increased over the time and the understanding of how to handle this the best way has put brilliant minds over the globe into deep thoughts. I don’t think one never will find a best practice, other than not bringing the media into the conflicts, which may cause even bigger effects. Media is here to stay and along with the Internet revolution, the gap between the elites and the grassroots has dramatically decreased.
The so called “Think tanks” are organizations and groups who combine, process and present their own view of a specific subject. Most of them call themselves researchers, but in many cases they are just a group of intellectuals with a fancy name. The term “Think tank” comes from the 1950s and is by many believed to go hand in hand with the media revolution as it then became hard to handle complex questions. It can be seen as: “it’s easier to blame a Think tank for a bad decision than take the blame yourself”. The rapid increase of using Think tanks by the elite creates thoughts about who actually runs the society. Some relate Think tanks directly to secret Orders like the Illuminati and the Freemasons and even to be successors to intelligence organizations from the Cold War.
The “Bilderberg Group” is a well known Think tank, who conspiracy theorists point out as being involved in the great conspiracy. Combined by rich and powerful individuals of the globe like for example: Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle, David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, Queen Beatrix, Bill Gates and Carlos M. Collazo. The group’s activities, meetings and agendas have always been surrounded with great secrecy.
However, as usual, mapping the Bilderberg Group to the great conspiracy is yet another misconception normally created by those who fear a working and equal rights society the most.
One can truly make a difference. The British director Jeremy Gilley launched a film project in 1999, to document a journey from nothing to the establishment of world peace. The project which started as an idea, which even Jeremy himself doubted would work, soon evolved into a world wide accepted Peace Day. Stories like this one really create hope for main kind.
However, even if I feel that this is one of the right moves, I fully agree with Ahmad Fawzi, Director of the News & Media Division UN DPI in the final scene:
“People have to get up and say that they want peace. But they also need to understand the cultures that form conflicts, in which they possibly without knowing it are apart of.”
I think, to be able to create world peace, we must confront the dark history once and for all and agree on from a certain time in the future to begin to look forward with a sense of not blaming one and other of things done in the past, but instead concentrate on trusting each others in the future. I think the religious leaders of the world, which are the major cultural formers, need to go first in this mission and especially the Roman Catholic Church as their moral and ethic judgments has spread most suffering in history. Even today they divide people using their old methods. Homosexuality and abortion are only two of many areas in were their statements create conflicts, instead of spreading words that unify people. Religion should not be propaganda machinery.
I think its here we have to start. Either we must create state borders for religions with dividing spiritualism, which most likely is impossible, or they have to learn to understand how the world is created by the Lord Almighty. The world has grown from its childhood and does not longer need the old doctrines used by religious leaders. Its time for the religious leaders to understand that they also need to follow the world as it ages. If those old holy writings instead had been written now, what would they have contained? If one think that anyone of those old profound individuals, who wrote the sacred texts, would liked that their ideas was used to create disorder and conflicts, I guess we never will be able to create peace on earth.
Please you religious leaders of the world, grow up. We need you to guide mankind, but not if you do not understand your own responsibilities.
I must mention Dan Browns book “The Da Vinci Code” as a historical event, just because it has caused so much attention. One can wonder why as it is really just another book in the shelf. I along with many others find something beyond the book and its story that raise questions and that’s what’s interesting. It’s not about the possible truths in the book. It’s more about the history itself. One gets the feeling that, Dan Brown, Simon Cox and others knocks on the door to something big. A feeling which seems to well directed to be coming from them. It’s like there is some other force or power who want to raise the masses understanding of the history, without stepping on to many and to big toes at once. The Catholics negative response towards the “Da Vinci Code” is evidence enough for me and many others to get even more interested.
A commonly used line: “History is written by the winners.” Looking at the fact that the Catholic Church really revised and recanted its version (the history) of Mary Magdalene as a prostitute in 1969 was my own trigger that initiated the work with this dossier. The bloodline path itself, which the Da Vinci Code is built around, however, was not the primary reason, which one would understand by now.
The many years of instability in the Middle East since the end of World War II peaked when the giant shock strike against the heart of the free world was committed. Many of us citizens of the Western world had put the thought of this type of terror in our homeland aside long time ago. The obvious became clear; the fundamental class differences in the world must be handled or else this type of anger will most probably increase in the future. Strikes at Madrid in 2004 and London in 2005 act as evidence that the target is the western civilization and not just the USA, which some say. This may seem radical, but looking at it from another view, the strikes come very suitable in times when the leaders of the world need support from the masses.
It is a dangerous game to host different thoughts about the background of the strikes. Conspiracy theorists dwell in such and I, myself; have problems to fully reject them. However, again, by linking them to conspiracy theories instead of terrorism one just commits another mistake. If I would have been a fundamental terrorist, I would definitely have done other things. But, I don’t think like such, which disqualifies my own judgment, I hope. More about so called “False flag” operations later in this dossier.
Along with the terrorism threat, the world countries show a dramatic increase in supporting the Middle East states renaissance and reformation process. It’s a difficult process which probably will take many years. But as soon as it is rooted, which I think it already is, the progress will follow an inevitable path towards “westernalization”, if there is such a word. History has done it many times and I have problems to predict any exception in this case. The longer it takes to align all involved in the process, the greater frustration will be built up and on the other side a cultural evolution can’t be forced thru to quickly as it may create even greater frustration.
During my own growth from childhood to an adult, I’ve heard continuous complains about the fast development in society. One can mention countless of stuff that before was “not needed”, but today is considered “vital”. Having this in mind one can imagine what enormous development speed the Eastern world will face and the frustration that comes with it. The Baltic countries, since the fall of communism, have just begun walking on the inevitable path and beside all peaks of good and bad I dwell in happiness thinking of their courage and future. It’s a feeling of happiness that I can’t wait to share with the Middle East states.
On the 25th Oct 2005 - Iraq officially approved the new drafted constitution. Wow, this really gave hope to the process! Even if there is a long way to stability, these first few steps are be most worth taking. The cost has been high, as soldiers and civilians from many nations have paid with their lives. All involved, no matter of which side their on, will forever be printed in one of the most vital parts of modern history. Maybe as great as when Constantinople’s Church was forked from of the Roman Catholic Church.
This eastern renaissance certainly is moving forward with tremendous speed. I must put my finger on a great example of this movement - the DOHA Debates. These debates run by BBC World, localized Qatar (Middle East) and broadcasted worldwide, certainly have created a free speech forum for constructive discussions regarding all the vital questions of life in the centre of Middle East. Quotation from DOHA page on Internet:
“The purpose of the Doha Debates is to allow a public exploration of the important issues in the Arab and Islamic worlds and apply the principles of free speech and democratic decision-making through the use of this traditional debating format. The purpose is also to create a sense of social responsibility that will carry through to real life.”
Now, this is an interesting combination. The so called “Group of Eight” (G8) consists of seven (!) of the world’s leading industrialized nations: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America + Russia. The combination of world leaders (G8) and the Bob Geldofs event named “Live8” can’t be seen as anything else but a well directed combination. However, Geldofs energy which blomstered in 1985s “Live Aid” wasn’t really there during “Live8”. One can wonder if the reason is that he is 20 years older or if he does share the same enthusiasm when being just a square in a chessboard of events?
Who directs such a combination? Who came up with the idea to put Paul Hewson alias U2/Bono as head of the World Bank? One can wonder? It’s to complex to think either positive or negative thoughts about why these combinations appear. Some refer to G8 as the world leadership and relate the “G” in G8 to the “G” in the Freemason logo. I think this is an interesting thought, but can it serve as evidence for the great conspiracy? No!
It may serve as evidence that the gap between the elite and the grassroots has decreased to a level were almost anyone can be apart of the world leadership elite, which is good. Bono’s tremendous work with aid, may serve as evidence that global humanity is possible. So maybe it’s just another step on the inevitable path to award him with a square in the chessboard of the world elite.
The Internet has its roots in the ARPANET created by US Department of Defense in the 1950s. The idea behind ARPANET was to create a communication technology decentralized to such a grade that it could survive and still be operative in the case of war, were enemy attacked communication itself. This technology, named “packet switching” evolved into today’s Internet. On top of the Internet, some guys at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) developed a technique to link documents with each others in late 1980s. This technique which purpose was to link references into the actual document became the World Wide Web, the “Web” in 1993. Now information could be linked and presented in a common way using a common communication technology. After 1995 Internet grew to enormous proportions and today Internet still grows, but today Internet already has secured its holdings and now new techniques are created and presented each day.
The open source movement is really interesting. Its base consists in communities of developers who create software which then are completely free to download and use. However, the concepts are more like free speech than free beer. I think this movement will be the next revolution within IT. Two interesting threads of the software market of today are:
I predict an inevitable future, a lot closer than we are able to expect, were the above two threads merge into a situation were commercial software, as known today, will seize to exist and be conquered by Open Source projects. Redhat certainly is one of those companies who are on the edge of understanding this.
SETI@Home, developed at UC Berkeley 1995, is a home client application which helps SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) researchers to decipher radio signals. Decipher radio gathered from space needs unlimited computer power. SETI@Home was the first successful decentralized application that used the Internet to operate. Over 5 million computers are or have been connected to this enormous project. This is good evidence that the masses of the earth can work go beyond boundaries when working together.
Having the media revolution in mind, you can imagine when most citizens of the earth carries a mobile with a camera, which in seconds can snap a shot and post it to a central place reachable all over the world. This is a new way of global surveillance and news coverage and also a pierce right into integrity itself. The evolvement of this will be most interesting to follow.
Search engines like Yahoo and AltaVista became large when the masses found out the possibilities with the Web. Searches could result in billions of matching pages. Today I see “Wiki”-solutions like the Wikipedia.org as successors to the search engines and I really encourage you to become a “wikipedian”. Much of the background to this dossier is found using wikisolutions. Another path from the search engines has developed into features like “Google Earth”, which really put the mind in deep thoughts. Quite impressive I must say. Were would this end..?
Today a web site may consist in a merger of information from many different sources. So called “RSS feeds” and others alike backend standards create complex matrix of news and articles. Web advertising also became complex organism as Google released the “Adsense” mass advertising service. And this is the just some of the stuff on the Net. What more is there and what more is to come? Our present time surely is going thru an interesting period. I sometimes wonder what historians of the future will call it.
From a freedom of speech point of view, Internet is a problematic channel to use. In the same time as it seems to be the perfect choice, as Internet today reaches everywhere, it is a giant mistake to think information flow uncontrolled thru it. The possibilities of control, censorship and order are almost unlimited. The late 2005 discussions in media concerning the Chinese Google search engine that only show information that is authorized by the Chinese government is a good example.
“I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she’s too young to have logged on yet. Here’s what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say ‘Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?’” — Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation
I foresee that the subject of Speech freedom will grow to become one of core fundaments of Internet’s – “be or not to be” – in the near future. Projects like tor.eff.org and freenetproject.org among others may turn out to be the needed factor to make Internet a trustful channel even for the freedom of Speech. I think we soon will see Internet sites with a “Freedom of Speech” certification logo attached, which tell us that we are able to surf truly uncensored end-to-end using a “Freedom of speech” plug-in installed.
I predict a dramatic change regarding customer service delivered from software companies (maybe in other market segments also). Standardization and Open Source Solution is known to increase the “outside” pressure onto the software business, but I also predict a new “inside” threat that the software companies will need to handle. All of us who have been responsible for software, especially within bigger companies, have been forced to experience good and bad support centers of the software companies. My own experiences concern the enterprise management area, which is a rather high cost area in terms of software. I predict that these services and service centers will have played out their key role within 10-15 years.
This because, the customers today are on the edge of understanding that software’s are much better than what they expect of them today and that some software companies do not want their software’s to be “too stable” as it leads to less maintenance income. I predict that customer service will changed to become a service were the software companies will be calling, visiting or even have representatives at the customer sites to ensure that the software’s behave as expected and is used effectively. If there is a problem, the service will include fixing it and service metrics such as MTBF (Mean time between failures) and MTTR (Mean time to recover) will decide which software’s that will survive on the market.
I have said it many times during the last 5-10 years. Linux will be the operating system of the future. I think the rather new Ubuntu distribution will be the first distribution that has the power to reach a larger audience and if so I will mark it as the first step towards the inevitable. The Ubuntu team is active in many areas and has recently done some great work on a thin client (LTSP) model which I would mark as events that could make it easier to initiate a mass deployment of Linux on clients. Which Linux flavor that eventually will be the successful one, I think, has to do with how it is aligned to the fundamental questions of mankind.
In recent years, some of the world’s leading A.I. developers have themselves described the technology they are building as potentially existentially dangerous. This is no longer just science fiction. These are statements from the people standing at the very front of the development of these systems.
“The bad case — and I think this is important to say — is, like, lights out for all of us.” — Sam Altman, OpenAI, 2023
“I think there’s a 25% chance that things go really, really badly.” — Dario Amodei, Anthropic, 2025
“Eventually, I think human extinction will probably occur, and technology will likely play a part in this.” — Shane Legg, co-founder of Google DeepMind, 2011
Long before them, Stephen Hawking put it in a single sentence:
“Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.” — Stephen Hawking, 2016
We therefore find ourselves in a strange and historically unique situation. For the first time, mankind has created a technology that could potentially surpass it in precisely the quality that made it the dominant species on the planet: intelligence.
This is problematic on several levels, but perhaps above all because it is so hard to imagine the road from where we stand today to the point where mankind no longer has control over the intelligence it has created. What makes the reasoning even more dizzying is the time frame that some of the most prominent people in A.I. development point to themselves. Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, has said about the arrival of artificial general intelligence — A.I. that matches the human mind across the board:
“There’s a very good chance of it being within the next five years. So that’s not long at all.” — Demis Hassabis, Google DeepMind
Five years is an almost absurd time span for such a scenario. It is hard to draw a credible timeline from the A.I. systems we have today to a future where mankind has lost its advantage. How would it actually happen?
Will A.I. begin to construct its own robots and factories and then turn against us, like the scenario in Terminator? Will the machines one day rise against their creators and start a war against mankind?
It is easy to dismiss such images as science fiction. But behind the idea of robots hunting humans lies a far more elusive question. What happens when man, for the first time in history, creates something that may become more intelligent than himself? That is where the real problem begins.
There is another road to the end, one that is not as much science fiction. Perhaps it is even the road that is harder to discuss, because it is not about the machines suddenly turning against us. It is about what happens when man himself gains access to a tool so powerful that the limitations of the individual begin to disappear.
In many ways, A.I. turns the little man into a kind of superhero. A person who lacks deep knowledge in a field can suddenly carry out tasks that used to demand years of education, experience and specialization. They can write software, analyze vast amounts of information, create advanced images and texts, design solutions and attack problems that they themselves may not even fully understand.
This is not really the first time man has discovered the power of a tool that amplifies his own ability. More than two thousand years ago, Archimedes was credited with the famous words:
“Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the earth.” — Archimedes
It is an image of the lever, but also of perhaps the most fundamental principle of technology: man does not need to possess all the force himself in order to exert it. He needs to find the tool that amplifies his own ability.
What makes A.I. so special is that the lever it offers is no longer primarily physical. It is intellectual.
Man has always been limited by his own abilities. We have had to learn, train, experiment and gather experience. Knowledge has been something that must be built up over time, and that has been unevenly distributed between people. A.I. is starting to change this. It makes advanced knowledge, analysis and problem solving available to almost anyone who can formulate a question.
We have an expression for a task that is nearly impossible: finding a needle in a haystack. The image is simple and everyone understands it. A small needle disappears among enormous amounts of hay, and finding that particular needle demands time, patience and often a good portion of luck.
But what happens when A.I. can find the needle in a second?
And not just in one haystack.
In every haystack. At the same time.
This is perhaps the most underestimated aspect of the A.I. revolution. It is not only about machines being able to do things man could not do before. It is about people who could not do these things before suddenly being able to do them.
A person no longer needs to be a programmer to create advanced software. They do not need to be a researcher to process large amounts of scientific information. They do not need to be a designer, writer, analyst or engineer to start working in these fields.
“Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” — John 8:32
These words are about something far greater than merely revealing what is true. Truth can also mean freedom. Perhaps this applies even to the criminal, even if the truth at first may lead to a conviction. In the long run, it may still be the truth that makes it possible to leave crime behind and return to real freedom. As long as no one knows who the criminal is, he can keep walking around as a seemingly free man.
But what happens when we gain access to our new super tool?
The speed camera of the past, where the police stood by the roadside checking one car at a time, can be replaced by systems that automatically measure the speed of every vehicle around them at once — whether they travel ahead, behind or in the opposite direction. The same system can identify vehicles and licence plates and instantly compare the information with earlier events.
But it doesn’t stop there.
Imagine the same principle used to analyze camera footage from entire cities. A.I. can recognize people and vehicles, detect recurring patterns of movement and then compare them with information from completely different places and times. A vehicle that passed a crime scene can be connected to another camera many miles away. A person who was never of interest to the police can suddenly emerge as part of a pattern stretching across hundreds of events.
The same goes for financial crime. Millions of transactions can be analyzed at once. Accounts, companies, payments and transfers can be set in relation to each other, and patterns that used to be invisible can step forward. Where a human investigator might see individual transactions, A.I. can see the whole network.
Even old criminal investigations can get a new life. Material that has been lying in archives for years can be analyzed again when new information appears. A name, a face, a phone number, a vehicle or a geographical position that once lacked significance can suddenly connect to something else. What used to be thousands of separate data points can be turned into one coherent story.
This is where the real power of A.I. begins to show. It does not necessarily need to know what has happened. It can search for the connections between everything we already know.
The amount of information that can be collected, and the computing power that can be used to analyze it, is enormous. In the past, man’s limited ability to process information was one of the great bottlenecks in fighting crime. An investigator could only read a limited number of documents, examine a limited number of images and follow a limited number of connections. A.I. does not have the same limitation.
When information can be gathered from large parts of society, analyzed in real time and compared with everything else already known, the very meaning of information changes.
The question is no longer how much information we have.
The question becomes what we can discover in it.
Now we shall draw up the most serious problem with the arrival of A.I. Under the previous heading we touched upon the obvious criminals, whom we all want to stop. But there is something far worse — something that, before A.I., never even had a chance to be brought up for discussion.
In ancient Greek philosophy we find the concepts rhēma (ῥῆμα), that which is said or expressed, and logos (λóγος), which among other things denotes word, reason and the context through which we understand reality. Together they lead us to one of philosophy’s most fundamental questions: the relation between what we say and what actually is. Truth, alētheia (ἀλήθεια), is then not only about the words themselves, but about whether our statements correspond to reality. To speak the truth is thus to let the words render what is, rather than what we wish, imagine or want others to believe.
Here also lies the decisive difference between being wrong and lying. The one who, out of ignorance, says something untrue may still intend to speak the truth. But the one who lies knowingly knows, or believes they know, how something is — and still chooses to present it otherwise. The lie is therefore not just an untrue statement, but a deliberate departure from the truth. To lie is to knowingly break the bond between what one says and what one holds to be true.
If the individual, armed with a super tool, can show that someone is lying — because the tool can analyze immense amounts of data points — what happens then?
But what happens when truth is no longer the starting point? If someone knowingly says something other than what is true in order to achieve something, distorts reality to create a narrative, or builds a platform to make people follow and spread a story that is fundamentally untrue — then it is no longer just a mistaken belief. Then words are being used to change people’s picture of reality for a specific purpose.
And if this is done by someone who at the same time claims to stand on God’s side, the question becomes even greater: what, then, is truth? Can truth be adjusted to the goal one wants to reach? Can an untruth become right because its purpose is perceived as good? Or does one stop holding on to the truth right there? If truth is what holds the words together with what is, it cannot at the same time be a means to create a reality that is not. To knowingly distort the truth is therefore not just to say something untrue. It is to knowingly break the bond between the word and what is. And if one does it in the name of God, the uncomfortable question remains:
Whose side is one really on?
If an A.I., based on the information available, reaches the conclusion that the official version of September 11th does not hold — and at the same time can account for exactly which facts and connections led it there — what happens then? It used to be easy to dismiss such claims as conspiracy theories. But an A.I. does not need to conspire to discover that people may have done so. It only needs to process the information and follow the connections wherever they lead.
And if an A.I. concludes that leadership uses untruth as a method to reach political or strategic goals, what happens when the situation is tight and uncertain? A system that searches for what best corresponds to the available data does not take into account who is an adversary and who is an ally. Truth has no loyalty — not to the powerful, and not to those who doubt them either. Where the data hold, it will say so; where they do not, it will say that too.
If we live in a world where untruths are used at the highest level, what happens when the little man suddenly gains access to a super tool that can process information on a scale previously reserved for states, intelligence services and large organizations? What could once be handled through lies, secret agreements and information that never reached the public may suddenly become possible to bring into the light.
Perhaps this is what power fears. Not the robots themselves, but the possibility that the lie can no longer be controlled in the same way.
And this is also where the war may begin. Not because the machines suddenly turn evil, but because people who have built their power on lies may experience the truth as a threat. People who live through the lie, and who do not hesitate to use violence, will also be the people who create the most dangerous machines.
For perhaps the most uncomfortable question is not whether A.I. will tell the truth.
But what happens when it does.
Because that those who lead us would also be the ones who carry the truth is, after all, nothing we can take for granted.
It is no longer a dystopian vision of the future. In Gaza, A.I.-based systems such as Lavender and The Gospel have reportedly been used to identify people and buildings as possible military targets, and to sharply increase the speed of target production. According to testimonies from Israeli intelligence officers, the systems could generate tens of thousands of potential targets, while human oversight in some cases was reduced to a very brief review.
One Israeli intelligence officer described his own role like this:
“I had zero added-value as a human, apart from being a stamp of approval.” — Israeli intelligence officer
Perhaps that is the real question when we talk about A.I. in war. Not whether machines will one day decide who is to die, but how far man is prepared to let a machine rationalize the path there.
In the film The Terminator, the war between machines and man is a vision of the future — a distant day when the machines take over the hunt for human beings. In Ukraine, that vision has already begun to take shape. Faced with massive electronic jamming that cuts the link between pilot and drone, Ukraine has turned to drones equipped with A.I. that can locate, recognize and lock on to targets on their own. When the connection is lost, the machine continues the mission without a human hand on the controls.
Systems such as the Ukrainian Saker Scout have reportedly been used to identify and attack targets fully autonomously, without a human approving each individual strike. What used to require a trained operator, a stable radio link and split-second decisions can now be handed over to an algorithm in a small, cheap drone — produced in the thousands.
It is not a war of robots against humanity. Not yet. Behind every drone there is still a human who sent it out. But the decision in the final second — to strike or not to strike — has already begun to slip out of human hands.
The Terminator was science fiction. The battlefield in Ukraine is not.
What happens when an A.I. tool becomes an expert at identifying and removing obstacles, and is at the same time used by leaders whose goals cannot bear the light of day? A machine needs no agenda of its own. It only needs to be given a goal. If the goal is clear enough, it can begin to map people, connections, weaknesses and possible paths forward far more systematically than any human is capable of.
Deciding that Sweden’s Prime Minister, Olof Palme, had to be removed for a greater future goal to be achieved could, in such a system, be reduced to an optimization problem. What motives exist? Which actors have the opportunity? Which methods have historically worked? How can the event be carried out with the least possible risk of discovery? With access to enormous amounts of historical data, intelligence, behavioral patterns and previous operations, the problem-solving itself may no longer be the hard part. The hard part is that someone first has to give the machine the goal.
That is when the Strategic Obstacle Elimination Tool takes on its real meaning. Not a machine that decides on its own who is to die, but a machine that is exceptionally good at helping the one who has already decided.
A.I. is already used today to create fake identities on social media, produce posts and comments, push political messages and make networks of accounts appear to be real people. OpenAI has documented influence operations in which A.I. was used to create fake personas, profiles, posts and comments, where the accounts even replied to each other to create the impression of an organic conversation. It is thus no longer only about people using A.I. as a tool. A.I. has become part of the operation itself.
A.I. is also used to identify which people are to be influenced, tailor messages to the recipient and scale communication up to hundreds or thousands of accounts. Anthropic has described how A.I. can be used in coordinated networks of fake accounts that behave like ordinary people and amplify the same political message.
This is not science fiction. It is already happening today. The difference from yesterday’s propaganda is that the propagandist no longer needs to write every text, create every persona or carry every conversation himself. The machine can do the work, on a scale and with an endurance that man can never compete with.
And when A.I. no longer just produces the message, but can also find the people, make the contact, shape the conversation and steer it toward a desired outcome, we have gained something other than a new publishing tool.
We have gained a social actor.
Read the last pages again. Target lists produced faster than any human can review them. Drones that find, choose and strike on their own when the radio link goes silent. A tool that can turn the removal of a human being into an optimization problem for whoever holds the goal. Armies of artificial people who never sleep, never tire and never stop talking.
None of this is a forecast. Every part of it already exists, and it is being used now. This is no longer a danger that may come. It is a clear and present danger — and it grows with every model that is released.
The question is no longer whether the machine can be used against us. It is whether we are still awake when it is.
No single human can stand against this alone. Not a government, not an army, and not the companies that build the machines, because each of them is part of the race. What is needed is something none of them can provide: people who think for themselves, who cannot be flattered, frightened or divided, and who hold on to the truth even when a machine offers them a better story.
But we are not empty-handed. Over the past twenty years, in parallel with this dossier, a counter-initiative to exactly this threat has been quietly taking shape — one built not on control or fear, but on understanding, and on a truth that sets free instead of binds. How it came to be, and how it was finally joined to this dossier, is told in The Inevitable Link.
One usually says: “History repeat itself” and learning from the history make one understands why. Below is the general cycle:
I fully agree with the known professor Niall C Ferguson and his view about both the Roman- and the British Empire. Beside all the bad records, they did more good to the regions they colonized and to their citizens. Were many rulers in history have tried to establish themselves as the heir of the successful Roman Empire, I would say the British Empire was the only one who actually did it. On the outside, it may seem as the British Empire is gone. Well it is, but the essence of it has evolved into “the commonwealth” empire and even if the Americans (the old thirteen copies of England) don’t like it, they are highly apart of it.
Still based on the 14th century “commonwealth” nobility (explained later), the new world wide commonwealth empire is an “empire of liberation” were the old quote; “Carry the white man’s burden” has evolved thru; “Carry the rich person’s burden” to become; “Carry the understanding mind’s burden”. Discrimination of race, gender and wealth has been replaced by the power of mankind’s intellect. This modern Empire is mastered by the movement of “Anglobalization” which today hasn’t got anything to do with England or United Kingdom as prefix “Anglo” may indicate. In this context the prefix “Anglo” just defines the protocol that is used to communicate. Compared with the word “Globalization”, I would state that “Anglo” defines the platform that makes “Globalization” possible.
The socialistic threat of the masses will continue to exist and will show its presence in many forms. It’s not socialism itself who is the threat; it’s those who appeal to the masses with arguments which only serve as tools to gain power of their own. “Feminism” is such a movement, which can be used to gain power for hidden agendas. I don’t think it’s possible to grow something like Communism of Nazism today when we all are more alert, but I definitely believe similar seeds still exist. I believe extreme ideas, corruption and other evils are a part of our human kind which can’t be erased or fully suppressed.
I agree with Fergusons point about the American “Mission abort” problem which has developed to a world wide problem. Even if the Americans intentions are good, they have lost their own peoples support for long-term conflicts.
According to me, the American society is at a critical stage. It is close to being instable due to internal conflicts regarding religious faith, which is one of the most vital parts of the society. Were the Americans sees themselves as the freest people in the world, I would state that the increased religious influences are about change this dramatically. This could be compared with the execution of Socrates in ancient Greece. We’re not there yet, but as it looks now, the path to it is plotted.
This is a perfect proof of one of the greatest problems with a free society in its organic evolution. By time citizens of such a society loose their faith in the society elite, which create these problems.
As mentioned above: “History repeats itself” and if this development isn’t stopped, a new loop of history is near. It’s inevitable.
One must confess that it’s obvious that faith shows up as a prominent creator of objecting groups thru history. But don’t blame religion for mankind’s line up beneath leaders of moral and ethics. It’s inevitable. Its how the religious leaders get and handle their positions, which is interesting. Wouldn’t it be great if religions united people instead of separating people with tools of moral and ethics?
One thing in history that comes back, again and again, is the need for secrecy and I foresee that this need will exist until all thoughts are mutually and individually respected and allowed all over the world. To understand why, we know will enlighten us with the existence of secret societies.