3rd YearEagle Forum Report successor to The Phyllis Schlafly Report 200 W. Third St., Ste. 502 • Alton, IL 62002 • (618) 433-8990 • [email protected] • EagleForum.org February 2019 Volume 3/Number 2 Behold, the Power of Technology Smart Cities = Enslaved Citizens By Patrick M. Wood, Author of Technocracy: The Hard Road to World Order Why? Because the FCC’s actions are unconstitutional and cities are being eople who have a modern smart- second). That’s really fast! How- stripped of the little sovereignty they P phone normally think of 5G as ever, 5G blows out the same data at have left. Thus far, the FCC is unde- nothing more than a progression from 10,000,000,000 bits per second, or terred in its position. 3G and 4G. Offering fewer dropped 10 Gbps (Gigabits per second). This Smart City technology is brought calls, faster data transfer, and more is 100 times faster than 4G. Second- to us exclusively by Big Tech corpo- convenience. 5G is the fifth genera- ly, 4G has a typical “ping” factor be- rations in the name of Technocracy tion of wireless technology. tween 10ms and 50ms (milliseconds) and Sustainable Development. With This thinking barely scratches that measures the time needed in or- the surface. There must be a greater der to send a single packet reason why CEOs of major cellular of information. 5G drops carriers are breaking their necks to that time to 1ms. railroad the fastest implementation In spite of the cutthroat in history of a new communication American race between standard. wireless providers like This reason has little to do with AT&T, Verizon and T-Mo- your personal cellphone and every- bile, China has declared thing to do with the so-called Internet that it intends to emerge of Things (IoT) where all electronic as the global leader on 5G devices will be connected together in rollout to its own 1.4 bil- real-time. Collectively, the IoT is the lion citizens. China is also core technology used to implement mass-producing the technology to the advent of sophisticated Artificial Smart City makeovers. sell to the rest of the world. Intelligence (AI) programs, massive “Real time” is a magical tech In the U.S., 5G is being heavily amounts of data collected from sen- term. 5G is at least one order of mag- promoted by the Trump Adminis- sors of all types can be analyzed in nitude faster than anything before it. tration. The Federal Communica- real-time, displaying the results in It is comparable to everything being tions Commission issued a ruling in a multi-dimensional model. What connected directly by fiber-optic ca- September that blocks cities from are sensors? Cameras, microphones, ble where as soon as you touch the charging higher fees for installing self-driving vehicles, license-plate send key, your data transmission is 5G infrastructure. Loud protests have readers, cell phones, Bluetooth devic- received at the other end, faster than a been registered from the U.S. Con- es, Smart Meters and all connected blink of your eye. ference of Mayors, the National As- devices in Smart Homes. Let’s do some math. 4G can sociation of Counties, the National Thanks to real-time connec- transfer data at 100,000,000 bits per Governors Association and the Na- second (which is 10 megabits per tion Conference of State Legislatures. (Continued on page 2) 2 Eagle Forum Report February 2019 tions between autonomous vehicles, its original mission in 1938: Editor’s Note: road censors and central computers Technocracy is the science of so- equipped with AI, they will be able cial engineering, the scientific op- The new 5G technology is an to navigate any and all roadways eration of the entire social mech- extremely dangerous international with authority and impunity. They anism to produce and distribute threat. Former acting CIA Direc- tor Michael Morell explains that will also inform on you every inch goods and services to the entire if China gets a jump start on the of the way. population. In China, where all of this mas- rollout of 5G, then it will have the Scoffers may argue that history capacity to monitor communica- sive surveillance is weaponized does not mean anything and there is tions, sabotage industrial systems, against civilians, Technocrats have no relevance to modern times. If they and “will have a significant head implemented a Social Credit Score understood history, they would not say start economically, in cyberse- assigned by algorithm, to all 1.4 bil- such a thing. For instance, consider curity and in signals intelligence lion inhabitants. By 2020, China in- ‘ride-sharing’ schemes where nobody — i.e., in promoting its economy, tends to have 600 million facial rec- owns a vehicle and everyone shares a protecting its secrets and stealing ognition cameras installed, or about common pool of community owned those of its rivals.” one camera for every 4 citizens. All autos. This idea is not new. Technocrats China is using these technolo- of them will transmit their images in had it in their sights as early as 1934: gies in awful ways against its own real-time to central computers run- citizens. SenseTime, a Chinese The Automotive Branch of Trans- ning sophisticated AI programs. Each technology company specializing portation would provide a network person in the big-data database will in AI and facial recognition, is of garages at convenient places all have their personal data pulled from partnered with the Chinese gov- over the country from which auto- every conceivable location in the na- ernment for national surveillance mobiles could be had at any hour tion. By the time that they know who of its citizens capturing data with of the night or day. No automo- you are, what you are, what you do, 170 million closed circuit TV cam- biles would be privately owned. eras and newer systems which in- what you think and what you intend When one wished to use an auto- clude smart glasses worn by police to do, their AI algorithms will calcu- mobile he would merely call the officers on the street. This offense late and assign to you a Social Credit garage, present his driver’s li- can enable the State to determine Score that will limit or expand what- cense, and a car of the type needed each citizen’s ability to buy and ever privileges you will have from would be assigned to him. ‘When sell in the marketplace. that time on. he was through with the car, he The Trump administration would return it either to the same is keenly aware of these threats garage or to any other garage that and is working to discourage our allies from partnering with the happened to be convenient, and Communist Chinese technology surrender his Energy Certificates companies. in payment for the cost incurred Eagle Forum Report is grate- while he was using it. ful for Patrick Wood’s clear ex- I will suggest that the modern planation that G5 is far more than world cannot be even remotely under- a cellular phone speed upgrade. stood except in terms of Technocracy Lt. Gen. Campbell offers expert and its inevitable outcome: Scientific knowledge of the values of tech- Dictatorship. Every major meme in nology used for national security global geo-politics, economics and with stringent legal protections globalization, devolution of nation- and Congressional oversight to The Social Credit Score system is al sovereignty, etc., is dancing to the protect citizens. We must conclude coming to America as well, unless we Technocrat drumbeat. that G5 can be used for good such somehow convince our own officials As to today, 5G is about to deliver as for the military, but also for hor- that this is a horrible idea that will ut- the ultimate tool for total control over rors as is currently being imposed terly destroy the American dream. Americans, and it has nothing to do on Chinese citizens. Eternal vigi- Nothing has changed in the 85 with your cell phones getting a speed lance is mandatory! — Cathie Adams years since Technocracy, Inc. defined upgrade. Volume 3/Number 2 Eagle Forum Report 3 solidated into the National Imagery Who is Minding the Data? and Mapping Agency, which was by John Campbell, Lt. Gen., USAF (Ret.) renamed in 2003 the National Geo- spatial-Intelligence Agency to better he St. Louis Post-Dispatch ar- nesses, prepare the site, and work reflect its core competency of Geo- T ticle “Feds, city finalize deal to through the myriad of local issues spatial-Intelligence, or in intel-speak, transfer land for $1.7 billion NGA that would have been a challenge for GEOINT. The NGA motto “Know the project,” describes a four-year effort the federal government, independent Earth…Show the Way…Understand by city and Missouri state officials to analyses indicate that the economic the World” is a pretty good summa- retain one of St. Louis’s largest em- benefits will outweigh the costs and ry of the GEOINT concept and is one ployers, the National Geospatial-In- the NGA will maintain and expand of the core intelligence community telligence Agency and win the com- its historic ties with its largest facility “INTs”, alongside HUMINT (human petition for construction of a new, outside the Washington, D.C. area: a intelligence), SIGINT (signals intelli- expanded NGA facility. The article “win-win” result that’s the objective gence), and MASINT (measurement is a positive account of the complex of any public-private partnership. and signals intelligence). financial, political, and legal issues Does the expansion of the NGA’s One of the facilities rolled up into that the project supporters had to facilities imply new or enhanced ca- the NGA was the Defense Mapping overcome and emphasizes the long- pabilities that somehow pose a threat Agency facility in St. Louis, which term economic benefits that will ac- to the privacy of U.S. citizens? For produced a variety of products used crue when the project is completed those folks who be- in 2024-25 — especially when the lieve that the agen- alternative could have been losing the cies of the U.S. Intel- 3,100 NGA employees currently em- ligence Community ployed in St. Louis. use their capabilities Two questions emerged: the cost — in violation of to the taxpayer for this project (after the law — to intrude all, $1.7B is real money) and whether on U.S. citizens, somehow the growing capabilities of nothing I can say in the NGA — part of the 17-agency U.S. a short op-ed will Intelligence Community — could make a difference; affect the privacy of our citizens. however, it may be Regarding the cost, it is safe to useful to provide say that, like many government proj- some background on ects, it is very likely to increase over what the NGA does and why the new by the government, from the aero- the life of the project, but $1.7B for St. Louis facility will provide capa- nautical charts that I used as an Air very specialized construction of a bilities that will benefit our nation. force aviator, to NASA’s lunar charts, facility that meets the stringent gov- I served for three years as the se- to the terrain maps used for precision ernment security requirements seems nior military representative at the CIA targeting during Desert Storm. reasonable. However, it’s much more where I worked closely with the NGA I was on the Joint Staff during the significant to me that this project is a and was later on the NGA Advisory war in the Balkans in the late 1990s perfect example a public-private part- Board for a time after I retired from and at CIA after 9/11, and had exten- nership between the federal govern- the U.S. Air Force in 2003. Howev- sive experience with NGA, and saw ment, state, and local governments er, much of my experience with the the power of the fusion of the INTs and the private sector to accomplish NGA and its predecessor agencies to provide military commanders and what would have been impossible came from my time as an Air Force national leadership a nuanced picture for any of them alone, with a result fighter pilot and on the Joint Staff in of the battlefield and the world. As a that will have long-term benefits for the Pentagon. friend said: “NGA really came of age all, and indirectly the U.S. taxpay- The modern NGA took shape in after 9/11” and it became a leader in ers. For example, the story indicates 1996 when several disparate agen- producing and pushing out products that while the city of St. Louis spent cies with missions related to mapping $114M to buy property, relocate busi- and imagery interpretation were con- (Continued on page 4) 4 Eagle Forum Report February 2019 to the soldiers and airmen in the field marine charts, much like the ones I More worrisome is the incredi- so they would have current, accurate used for years, although today they ble amount of personal information data to aid in targeting and recon- are likely to be in digital form rather that is easily available today. With naissance. In fact, another friend of than on paper. Most importantly, they free commercial imagery, anyone can mine spent a good part of the early maintain the geospatial foundational tell what kind of car is in your drive- months of the war in Iraq ferrying databases that underpin the exquisite way, what your front door looks like, hard drives with imagery and maps capabilities we use to understand and and what is in your back yard. Social to users in the field when electronic move about the earth. media platforms collect data on the transmission could not keep up with So with all this power, does the myriad details of your life, and com- the data flow. By the time I retired NGA intrude on the privacy of U.S. mercial data aggregators build exqui- in 2003, the concept of multi-INT citizens? As part of the intelligence site composite pictures of your social intelligence fusion cells seamlessly community, the NGA is connections, financial situation, delivering warfighter products was subject to the le- and political beliefs. Big standard operating procedure. gal and oversight data analysis and artifi- Aside from support for our sol- processes which cial intelligence diers, the NGA has a variety of peace- govern the con- comb through time missions including providing duct of foreign intelli- all that informa- strategic warning of critical world gence collection and tion to tease out events, domestic support to counter- limit the domestic patterns and de- terrorism, counternarcotics, cyberse- use of its capabilities velop connec- curity and border security, and plan- to carefully controlled tions. While ning for major special events like the and supervised NGA operates Super Bowl. When disasters strike circumstances. under stringent in the U.S. and abroad, the NGA as- So, if you’re not an legal restrictions and sists humanitarian and disaster relief international terrorist or narcotics Congressional oversight, commer- efforts by providing current imagery trafficker, the “three letter agencies” cial industry seeks only to maximize and derived products to assist first re- of the intelligence community — in- profits. I’m a lot more worried about sponders and recovery efforts. They cluding the NGA — should not have Google and Facebook than I am about still produce the aeronautical and much interest in you. the NGA. preacher acknowledged that as a FaceBook Freezes Franklin private corporation, Facebook can by Martin Barillas, reprinted with permission from the author and LifeSiteNews “certainly do what they want,” but said he hopes it will produce a new he Asheville Citizen Times Bill 2, which required people to use standard for content “based on God’s reported that Facebook banned restrooms conforming to their sex T word.” He stressed that he accepts Franklin Graham for 24 hours in rather than alleged transgender status. Facebook’s apology, something he December after judging that he had Graham wrote in his original post on also wrote on Facebook twice. violated its “hate speech” standards. A Facebook that “a nation embracing He added, “The Bible is truth, and statement by a Facebook spokesman sin and bowing at the feet of godless I hope they would look to the Bible claimed that a company staffer had secularism and political correctness and get some instruction from God’s mistakenly dropped Graham from the is not progress.” word.” platform. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Graham is the son of the famed was a vocal opponent of House Bill 2. evangelist Billy Graham. 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