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The U.S. secretary of state and a Bilderberg surveillance tech oligarch have both made some very interesting admissions about the burgeoning protest movement against the U.S.-backed slaughter in Gaza and the problems it poses for the empire they help run.

During a vitriolic rant about university demonstrators at the Ash Carter Exchange on Innovation and National Security on Tuesday, Palantir CEO Alex Karp came right out and said that if those on the side of the protesters win the debate on this issue, the west will lose the ability to wage wars.

 

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For those who don’t know, Palantir is a C.I.A.-backed surveillance and data mining tech company with intimate ties to both the U.S. intelligence cartel and to Israel, playing a crucial role in both the U.S. empire’s sprawling surveillance network and Israeli atrocities against Palestinians. 

Karp is a billionaire who sits on the steering committee of the Bilderberg Group and regularly features at the World Economic Forum and other platforms of plutocratic empire management.

“We kind of just think these things that are happening, across college campuses especially, are like a sideshow — no, they are the show,” Karp said during his rant. “Because if we lose the intellectual debate, you will not be able to deploy any army in the west, ever.”

Everyone should listen very carefully to Karp’s words here, because he’s giving the whole game away. He’s making it very clear how crucial it is for the empire to stomp out this protest movement and the zeitgeist upon which it rides, because the very existence of the imperial war machine depends on it. 

At a time when most imperial spinmeisters are trying to dismiss the importance of this movement and what young people are doing on college campuses around the world, this is a really extraordinary admission from someone who lives deep in the guts of the imperial hydra.

Such conferences are great for obtaining useful information from swamp monsters that you don’t normally hear, because when they’re surrounded by like-minded empire goons they tend to get a lot more loose-tongued than they are when they’re more aware that they have an audience of normal people. 

We saw this illustrated again in a conversation between Sen. Mitt Romney and Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the McCain Institute last week, during which both acknowledged some facts that generally go unstated by such creatures.

After bemoaning Israel’s lack of success at “PR” regarding its Gaza assault, Romney just came right out and said that this was “why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut down potentially TikTok or other entities of that nature” — with “us” meaning himself and his fellow lawmakers on Capitol Hill. 

“How this narrative has evolved, yeah, it’s a great question,” Blinken responded, saying that at the beginning of his career in Washington everyone was getting their information from television and physical newspapers like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. 

“Now, of course, we are on an intravenous feed of information with new impulses, inputs every millisecond,” Blinken continued. 

“And of course, the way this has played out on social media has dominated the narrative. And you have a social media ecosystem environment in which context, history, facts get lost, and the emotion, the impact of images dominates. And we can’t — we can’t discount that, but I think it also has a very, very, very challenging effect on the narrative.”

Notice how he said the word “narrative” three times? That’s how empire managers talk to each other, because that’s how they think about everything.

This is because empire managers are always acutely aware of something that normal human beings are not: that real power comes from manipulating the stories — narratives — that people tell themselves about their reality. 

They understand that humans are storytelling animals whose inner lives are typically dominated by mental narratives about what’s happening, so if you can control those narratives, you can control the humans.

They understand that power is controlling what happens, but true power is controlling what people think about what happens. 

They understand that whoever controls the narrative controls the world.

That’s what’s going on with all the mass media propaganda, Silicon Valley algorithm manipulation, plutocrat-funded think tanks, and mainstream culture manufacturing in New York and Hollywood. A few clever manipulators understand that you can control a society by controlling its dominant narratives.

Our rulers don’t think about things like normal people think about them. They don’t think in terms of doing the right thing or acting in a way that benefits everyone. They don’t think in terms of truth and honesty or the lack thereof. 

They only think in terms of what stories people are telling each other, and how those stories can be changed in a way that advances the interests of the empire they manage.

Empire managers — and highly manipulative people in general — do not use language in the way that normal people use it. Normal human beings use language to connect and communicate, whereas manipulators use it only to extract things they want from people and exert control over them. They do this by working to control the narratives that people have about their material reality.

That’s why when Romney and Blinken are talking to each other about why people are so upset at Israel, it never even occurs to them to discuss how Israel’s public image is being hurt by its own actions, or to suggest that it could improve that image by simply ceasing to behave in a monstrous way. 

All they talk about is “the narrative” of what Israel is doing, and how people having the ability to share ideas and information with each other online makes that narrative harder to control.

So while normal people are looking at the bloodshed and horror in Gaza and screaming it needs to stop at the top of our lungs, our rulers are hearing us and thinking, “Oh no, we need to find a way to get them to stop believing that narrative and get them to believe another one.”

That’s what we’re seeing with all the attempts to stomp out free speech both at demonstrations and online. They understand that if they lose control of the narrative, they won’t be able to deploy their armies anymore.

So please don’t make the mistake of thinking your attempts to disrupt their narrative control aren’t working. Don’t let anyone tell you your protests don’t make a difference or your dissident speech poses no threat to the powerful. If what you’re doing wasn’t working, empire managers wouldn’t be losing their minds right now.

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This article is from CaitlinJohnstone.com.au 

 

https://consortiumnews.com/2024/05/10/caitlin-johnstone-an-empire-fears-students/

 

 

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Participants in the 2025 Bilderberg Group meeting

 

 

AGENDA

• Transatlantic Relationship

• Ukraine

• US Economy

• Europe

• Middle East

• Authoritarian Axis

• Defence Innovation and Resilience

• AI, Deterrence and National Security

• Proliferation

• Geopolitics of Energy and Critical Minerals

• Depopulation and Migration

 

PARTICIPANTS

Abrams, Stacey (USA) CEO, Sage Works Production

Albuquerque, Maria Luís (INT) European Commissioner Financial Services and the Savings and Investments Union

Alcázar Benjumea, Diego del (ESP) CEO, IE University

Alverà, Marco (ITA) Co-Founder, zhero.net; CEO TES

Andersson, Magdalena (SWE) Leader, Social Democratic Party

Applebaum, Anne (USA) Staff Writer, The Atlantic

Attal, Gabriel (FRA) Former Prime Minister

Auchincloss, Murray (CAN) CEO, BP plc

Baker, James H. (USA) Former Director, Office of Net Assessment, Department of Defense

Barbizet, Patricia (FRA) Chair and CEO, Temaris & Associés SAS

Barroso, José Manuel (PRT) Chair International Advisors, Goldman Sachs International

Baudson, Valérie (FRA) CEO, Amundi SA

Beleza, Leonor (PRT) President, Champalimaud Foundation

Birol, Fatih (INT) Executive Director, International Energy Agency

Botín, Ana (ESP) Group Executive Chair, Banco Santander SA

Bourla, Albert (USA) Chair and CEO, Pfizer Inc.

Brende, Børge (NOR) President, World Economic Forum

Brzoska, Rafal (POL) CEO, InPost SA

Busch, Ebba (SWE) Minister for Energy, Business and Industry

Caine, Patrice (FRA) Chair & CEO, Thales Group

Calviño, Nadia (INT) President, European Investment Bank

Castries, Henri de (FRA) President, Institut Montaigne

Chambers, Jack (IRL) Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Reform and Digitalisation

Champagne, François-Philippe (CAN) Minister of Finance and National Revenue

Clark, Jack (USA) Co-Founder & Head of Policy, Anthropic PBC

Crawford, Kate (USA) Professor and Senior Principal Researcher, USC and Microsoft Research

Donahue, Christopher (USA) Commander, US Army Europe and Africa

Donohoe, Paschal (INT) President, Eurogroup; Minister of Finance

Döpfner, Mathias (DEU) Chair and CEO, Axel Springer SE

Eberstadt, Nicholas N. (USA) Henry Wendt Scholar in Political Economy, AEI

Ek, Daniel (SWE) CEO, Spotify SA

Ekholm, Börje (SWE) CEO, Ericsson Group

Eriksen, Øyvind (NOR) President and CEO, Aker ASA

Feltri, Stefano (ITA) Journalist

Fentener van Vlissingen, Annemiek (NLD) Chair, SHV Holdings NV

Fraser, Jane (USA) CEO, Citigroup

Freeland, Chrystia (CAN) Minister of Transport and Internal Trade

Friedman, Thomas L. (USA) Foreign Affairs Columnist, The New York Times

Gabuev, Alexander (INT) Director, Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center

Hammer, Kristina (AUT) President, Salzburg Festival

Harrington, Kevin (USA) Senior Director for Strategic Planning, NSC

Hassabis, Demis (GBR) Co-Founder and CEO, Google DeepMind

Hedegaard, Connie (DNK) Chair, KR Foundation

Heinrichs, Rebeccah (USA) Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute

Heraty, Anne (IRL) Chair, Sherry Fitzgerald ana IBEC

Herlin, Jussi (FIN) Vice Chair, KONE Corporation

Hernández de Cos, Pablo (ESP) General Manager Elect, Bank for International Settlements

Hobson, Mellody (USA) Co-CEO and President, Ariel Investments LLC

Hoekstra, Wopke (INT) European Commissioner for Climate, Net Zero and Clean Growth

Hunt, Jeremy (GBR) Member of Parliament

Isla, Pablo (ESP) Vice-Chair, Nestlé SA

Johansson, Micael (SWE) President and CEO, Saab AB

Jonsson, Conni (SWE) Founder and Chair, EQT Group

Karp, Alex (USA) CEO, Palantir Technologies Inc.

Klöckner, Julia (DEU) President Bundestag

Kostrzewa, Wojciech (POL) President, Polish Business Roundtable

Kotkin, Stephen (USA) Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Kratsios, Michael (USA) Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Kravis, Henry R. (USA) Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chair, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.

Kudelski, André (CHE) Chair and CEO, Kudelski Group SA

Kuleba, Dmytro (UKR) Adjunct Professor, Sciences Po

Leeuwen, Geoffrey van (INT) Director Private Office of the Secretary General, NATO

Lemierre, Jean (FRA) Chair, BNP Paribas

Letta, Enrico (ITA) Dean, IE School of Politics, Economics & Global Affairs

Leysen, Thomas (BEL) Chair, dsm-firmenich AG

Lighthizer, Robert (USA) Chair, Center for American Trade

Liikanen, Erkki (FIN) Chair, IFRS Foundation Trustees

Lundstedt, Martin (SWE) CEO, Volvo Group

Marin, Sanna (FIN) Strategic Counsellor, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change

McGrath, Michael (INT) European Commissioner for Democracy, Justice and the Rule of Law

Mensch, Arthur (FRA) Co-Founder and CEO, Mistral AI

Micklethwait, John (USA) Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg LP

Minton Beddoes, Zanny (GBR) Editor-in-Chief, The Economist

Mitsotakis, Kyriakos (GRC) Prime Minister

Monti, Mario (ITA) Senator for life

Nadella, Satya (USA) CEO, Microsoft Corporation

Netherlands, H.M. the King of the(NLD)

O’Leary, Michael (IRL) Group CEO, Ryanair Group

Ollongren, Kajsa (NLD) Fellow, Chatham House; Senior Fellow, GLOBSEC

Özyeğin, Murat (TUR) Chair, Fiba Group

Papalexopoulos, Dimitri (GRC) Chair, TITAN S.A.

Paparo, Samuel (USA) Commander, US Indo-Pacific Command

Philippe, Édouard (FRA) Mayor, Le Havre

Pouyanné, Patrick (FRA) Chair and CEO, TotalEnergies SE

Prokopenko, Alexandra (INT) Fellow, Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center

Rachman, Gideon (GBR) Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator, Financial Times

Rappard, Rolly van (NLD) Co-Founder and Chair, CVC Capital Partners

Reiche, Katherina (DEU) Minister of Economic Affairs and Energy

Ringstad Vartdal, Birgitte (NOR) CEO, Statkraft AS

Roche, Nicolas (FRA) Secretary General, General Secretariat for Defence and National Security

Rutte, Mark (INT) Secretary General, NATO

Salvi, Diogo (PRT) Co-Founder and CEO, TIMWE

Sawers, John (GBR) Executive Chair, Newbridge Advisory Ltd.

Scherf, Gundbert (DEU) Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Helsing GmbH

Schimpf, Brian (USA) Co-Founder & CEO, Anduril Industries

Schmidt, Eric E. (USA) Executive Chair and CEO, Relativity Space Inc

Schmidt, Wolfgang (DEU) Former Federal Minister for Special Tasks, Head of the Chancellery

Šefčovič, Maroš (INT) European Commissioner Trade and Economic Security; Interinstitutional Relations and Transparency

Sewing, Christian (DEU) CEO, Deutsche Bank AG

Sikorski, Radoslaw (POL) Minister of Foreign Affairs

Şimşek, Mehmet (TUR) Minister of Finance

Smith, Jason (USA) Member of Congress

Stoltenberg, Jens (NOR) Minister of Finance

Streeting, Wes (GBR) Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

Stubb, Alexander (FIN) President of the Republic

Suleyman, Mustafa (USA) CEO, Microsoft AI

Summers, Lawrence (USA) Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University

Thiel, Peter (USA) President, Thiel Capital LLC

Toulemon, Laurent (FRA) Senior Researcher, INED

Uggla, Robert (DNK) Chair, A.P. Møller-Maersk A/S

Valentini, Valentino (ITA) Deputy Minister of Enterprise and Made in Italy

Vassy, Luis (FRA) Director, Sciences Po

Verhoeven, Karel (BEL) Editor-in-Chief, De Standaard

Wallenberg, Jacob (SWE) Chair, Investor AB

Wallenberg, Marcus (SWE) Chair, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB

Weder di Mauro, Beatrice (CHE) President, Centre for Economic Policy Research

Weel, David van (NLD) Minister of Justice and Security

Wilmès, Sophie (INT) Vice-President, European Parliament

Zakaria, Fareed (USA) Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS

Zeiler, Gerhard (AUT) President, Warner Bros. Discovery International

 

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