What’s up for the economy, technocratic surveillance strategies, and the war on the middle class?
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There’s a lot going on under the radar as we wind up the year 2025, especially with regards to war, the economy and the continued takeover of society by artificial intelligence, to the detriment of that forgotten document that underpins our republic, the U.S. Constitution.
Here’s my breakdown of how it’s playing out and likely to continue playing out in 2026.
The nations are preparing for war
The Russia-Ukraine peace negotiations we see taking place are a deception. They are seeking to give Ukraine a breather, a “Minsk 3” type of deal, if you get what I mean. The goal is not a permanent peace, but a temporary ceasefire that gives Ukraine a chance to regroup, reorganize and rearm.
NATO military committee chairman Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone recently hinted that NATO may need to make an offensive “pre-emptive strike” against Russia. Putin’s response left no room for confusion. He said this will trigger World War III. He said Russia is not looking for war with Europe, but if the Europeans insist on attacking Russia, his forces are ready to make a robust defense of the homeland.
We also see China gearing up. Moving more vessels into position around Taiwan. They also announced they are moving AI-powered robot soldiers into the border area with India.
All of the nations appear to be gearing up … preparing for war.
The U.S. is chief among them, saber rattling against Venezuela and other countries in Latin America. The strikes on SUSPECTED drug boats on the high seas, will now be done on land as well, Trump said. Shoot first, ask questions later.
The message out of Trump’s new Department of War is consistent: We make war in order to be peaceful. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Could it be more Orwellian?
WHY WAR? It all boils down to a fight over resources and who gets to call the shots in the new world order that is quickly developing – the digitized, tokenized, collateralized, transhumanized, depopulated world order.
The economy is slowly collapsing
Debt is rising at an unsustainable pace. Rents are rising. Food prices are rising. Electricity rates are rising. Local property taxes are rising. The only thing that seems to be going down in most markets are home values. Taken in totality, this amounts to a war on the middle class.
So far in 2025, 1.17 MILLION JOB CUTS have been announced by corporate America. That’s 54 percent higher than last year. This will continue in 2026.
The debt bubble is getting ready to collapse. They know it. And that’s why they’re going to war. It has happened this way throughout history.
This is what happened in 1930s Germany with a collapse of the German currency and it set the stage for Hitler and World War II. Debt. Crushing debt.
Debt that the lender and the lendee both know can never be paid back. That’s a dangerous point to arrive at. You hear young people taking about it on TikTok.
And it’s not just government and consumers who are swimming in debt. The AI tech companies are financing their expansion of AI with money they don’t have, increasing their borrowing by crazy amounts.
SEE VIDEO explanation below by Vanessa Wingardh.
We see conservatives, Republicans, in Congress retiring… up to 46 now… they know what’s coming.
The AI Takover
It started in earnest, the great replacement, in 2025 and it will only accelerate in 2026, adding to the economic misery. This is the anti-human beast system moving forward, advancing at warp speed. It won’t stop until it incorporates all ID systems and is connected to a digital-programmable currency.
President Donald J. Trump declared in a Truth Social post today that he is preparing an executive order to ban all regulation of AI by the 50 states.
One rule book? What happened to federalism? What happened to the 10th Amendment? Since when can a president bypass, by executive fiat, the constitutionally granted powers that lie with the states? This is an America I no longer recognize. The Republic is on life support and its citizens are asleep. The globalist puppet politicians have handed the keys to the republic over to Big Tech and allowed them to trample on our rights. Freedom of speech, freedom of movement, the freedom to be anonymous, it’s all monitored and regulated now by oligarchs with access to obscene technological capabilities and a hall pass from government to use it as they wish.
And I’m not alone in thinking this way.
John Whitehead, the legendary constitutional attorney and civil rights advocate, writes in a December 8 essay:
“…what good are rights on paper when every branch of government is allowed to ignore, circumvent, chip away at or hollow them out in practice? Two hundred and thirty-four years after the ratification of the Bill of Rights on December 15, 1791, the safeguards meant to shield ‘We the people’ from government abuse are barely recognizable.”
He adds that our Founding Fathers made a historic effort to keep government in its lane with strong constitutional chains.
“In 2025, those chains have been cut link by link. These links were not severed in secret. They snapped under the weight of executive orders issued without congressional authority, judicial doctrines that shield misconduct from accountability, and a Congress that no longer defends its own constitutional prerogatives.”
The globalists are building the digital surveillance state at warp speed and they’re doing it under a Republican administration while keeping us distracted by other issues. They tested it out under Trump 1.0 during the Covid lockdowns, and now they are building the final dystopian version under Trump 2.0. Whether it happens under Trump or some future president, the digital infrastructure Trump is building will be weaponized and used to clamp down even harder on freedoms of all kinds than what we saw during the Covid scamdemic.
The devaluation of work and human agency
One of the most precious gifts given to us by God is the work of our hands, and the creative work of our minds.
This helps give us value as human beings.
AI, as a manmade replica of God’s design for human work and creative ability, aims to eliminate the need for human agency. Thus, the need for humans altogether will eventually be seen as a liability on the earth. This is one reason they love war. It’s a great way to depopulate.
I think a lot of people will figure out that AI is a poor imitation of human agency. You can already see some of the hype fading, but will it be too late? That’s the question.
Will our will to work be so warped and degraded because we’re all dependent on this twisted demonic version of how work and creativity get done in our world?
I think that’s the danger.
I think the globalist technocrats will come close to destroying humanity, but they won’t succeed.
There are other dangers, too. Like building out the infrastructure for a truly dystopian global surveillance system, with all these AI data centers being used for what will eventually be a social credit scoring system and the means of enforcement for 15-minute cities. Herding people into ZONES and punishing the uncooperative ones as they did during Covid.
Covid was a DRY RUN for what they want to do to us. You don’t follow the new rules, you can’t function in society.
Also, AI is taking over global militaries. The globalists are testing out the new weapons systems in Gaza and Ukraine. Eventually, these weapons, such as AI drone swarms and Palantir-type target lists, will be turned on other people groups considered expendable. Useless eaters, as Yuval Noah Harari described them.
We won’t even be having the debate about shooting at drug boats off the coast of Venezuela once AI is making the decisions on targets. Think about that. Again, this removes human agency. Thus, it removes the need for the type of public debate that naturally occurs in a democratic republic. This debate is considered too messy and time consuming for the technocratic oligarchs. They would rather turn all government decision-making over to machines. It’s so much more efficient!
Now is the time to withhold your consent to all systems that request your biometric data. Otherwise, we will all be herded into a digital gulag run by algorithms and it will be impossible to get out of.
The more we can learn to do outside of the system the better off we will be when digital ID/money becomes mandatory and we find ourselves locked out of many societal systems. That will include all systems like Social Security and others having to do with the federal government, as well as many, and eventually all, state governments. You simply won’t be able to use these systems much longer without a biometric digital ID.
Are you ready for that? Hopefully we don’t get to that point in 2026 but I can’t see it being stalled off longer than 2030.
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Hello Leo , I’ve said it before that I believe that world war 3 has already begun. Europe is being put on war footing against Russia. European countries are arming up and Europeans are being told to stock up on food supplies in preparation for war.
In Ireland certain politicians are trying to do away with the ‘triple lock system’ in which Ireland declare themselves to be a neutral nation who refuse to engage in war.
The propaganda in Europe is ongoing whereby Putin is being portrayed as a threat to Europe. This is laughable when I consider how NATO have built up their presence on Russia’s borders and Putin is forced to protect Russia’s borders. NATO are the ones who caused this tension, to begin with.
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The more I look into what’s behind our news about our global dysfunction, the more it seems that the world is increasingly ruled by organized crime—both on the thuggish street level and in high places. Especially in high places. Even our president talks and acts like a mafia don and he listens to corrupt and stupid advisors who run schemes of their own. There was only one person in our government who sincerely and fiercely fought organized crime and its infiltration into government. That was Robert F. Kennedy. As a result, he had a short life. There was only one president in modern times who sincerely pursued peace—JFK–and he was killed for daring that. I don’t see how our Constitutional form of government can hold up much longer under the weight of all the lawlessness and loss of the sense of true value. The American experiment is fast coming to an inglorious end. We started out with high ideals and we’re ending up back into the feudalism our ancestors worked so hard to escape.
Unfortunately, the new feudalism is being fueled by an ever escalating high-tech. The new serfs cannot escape the comprehensive surveillance systems, once these system are firmly in place and connected with each other. We have all been dragged along by increments into this high-tech prison, as we have lost any control or say in it because much of it was conceived in secret and is beyond the understanding of most.
Yet, for now, daily life goes on. For the most part, ordinary life looks deceptively normal, if more tattered and poorer than it was 50 years ago. We do not live under bombardment or in famine at present, so we think all is well when, under the surface, things are actually abnormal. It seems like there are two different universes operating parallel to each other—one is evil and promotes death, one is goodness and promotes life. Evil continually encroaches upon the good world, making existence confusing, unrooted and crushingly expensive for ordinary folks to live in while the evil ones skim billions to themselves at our expense and send our children to their useless wars. And we mostly accept this state of affairs without much question.
History shows that revolutions seldom originate from peoples who are ground down by abject poverty—they are too exhausted by mere survival to lift up their heads, It comes from those of us in this generation who can still pray, read, study and write to persuade others to wake up before its too late, so that the succeeding generations don’t find themselves eternal victims of ignorance, poverty, hopelessness and slavery from which there may not again be any chance for escape.
Let us be realistic. And daring. We will NOT escape tribulation. Instead: “…we must through many tribulations enter into the kingdom of God” Acts 14:22 So let us brace ourselves to the task and overcome the evil of our generation.
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The Media {with very few exceptions…. Leo / Worldview Weekend / being among them} indeed put us through a “DRY RUN” with Covid. For those of us who really want to know how close we are to the 2nd Advent, we need only to read about the 1st Advent in the Holy Bible : Simeon, the devout Jew, to whom the Holy Spirit had revealed that he would not see death until after he had seen the Lord’s Christ, went to the Temple and held the Baby Jesus in his arms. (Luke : 2 : 25 – 32). King Herod (wicked smart) inquired of the Chief Priests and Scribes regarding the birth of the Messiah (Matthew 2 : 3 – 6). Meanwhile, learned men from the East had followed the stars. (Matthew 2 : 1 – 2; 7 – 12) The “signs of the times” are everywhere…..
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Now is the time for digitally-marked [SS#] chattel, that are happily held captive and enslaved from cradle to grave within Beast-Big Brother’s inescapable Socialistic Security System, to wake up and understand the diabolical purpose of the Orwellian Fourth Reich’s WHO systems that blockchain their biometric data. For they have compliantly been herded into Socialism’s eugenic digital gulag run by benevolent AI algorithms. Blessed are they who hear and respond to Christ’s life-saving voice in Revelation 18:4-; and who obediently flee out of Antichrist’s idolatrous Socialistic Security System unto eternal life.
During the Orwellian “Digital Age” of Neo-Babel’s Global Village all global-e-commerce merchandise, including the souls of men, must be digitally-marked with the identification number (SS#; SIN#) of Socialism’s Security System. Mentally engraved within the consciousness of their hearts (their forehead’s memory) and embedded within their hand-held credit card is the digital name of the Marxist UN Beast. No man can legally buy, sell, engage in the cashless global-e-commerce, obtain a drivers license, a bank account, a passport, an airline ticket or be hired for employment without being branded for life with the Beast’s SS#. From cradle to grave the digitally-marked souls of Neo-Babylonians are happily enslaved as dependent-wards within the Marxist Beast’s Socialistically-Secured UN Global Village.
Masonic Pax American’s Social-Secured citizens are indoctrinated to proudly lay down their patriotic lives in militant defense of licentious Lady Liberty’s Masonic Constitution. Under God’s strong delusion they democratically bow their idolatrous hearts, in a worshipful corporate pledge of allegiance, before the Masonic Statue of Columbia’s sacred image—“Old Glory” (see Daniel 3:16). They are brainwashed chattel, not unlike COVID-19 inoculated beef cattle that permanently bear their master’s digital name stapled to their ear. Contently chewing their cud, these deluded beasts fatten up in the eugenic ‘security’ of the slaughter-house feedlot. Oblivious to the holocaust that awaits their numbered souls, they are like the Third Reich’s ghettoized Jews who were numbered, showered, and thrown into Auschwitz’s ovens. Revelation 18:4-
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“Hopefully we don’t get to that point in 2026 but I can’t see it being stalled off longer than 2030.” Agreed. The Beast system is rolling down the tracks coming at us like that proverbial freight train. But the Antichrist, who ultimately runs the system and turns it into the inability to buy or sell without his mark, cannot be revealed until the Restrainer, the Holy Spirit at work within the Church, is removed. And the 70th week of Daniel, those final seven years leading up to the physical return of Jesus to earth at the end of what most folks refer to as the seven-year tribulation period…that 70th week is about Daniel’s people, the Jews, and Daniel’s holy city, Jersusalem. The Church is home at Abba’s house. Jesus told us, in a perfect picture of the ancient Jewish wedding tradition, He was going to prepare a place for us (the Chuppah) at the Father’s house and one day, with the Holy Spirit left as the gift (Mattan) to remind us of His pledge to come get us, He will “fly the bride” back to the Father’s house for a shabua (period of seven). Maranatha!!! Sure looks like the Church is going home to Abba’s for the marriage very soon.
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For those out there who want the truth, I explain the 70th week in a video titled ‘Daniel 9;27′. You can find it on my YouTube channel ‘True Testimony Ministries‘
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If 70×7 (Daniel 9:24-27) already happened, then we wouldn’t still be required to forgive sin (Matthew 18:21-22) because we would all already have been in sinless immortal bodies by now but clearly that isn’t the case. (Philippians 3:21, 1 John 3:2, 1 Corinthians 15:51-54)
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The thing that has been shall be & there’s nothing new under the sun.
In Genesis chapter 30, Dan’s birth was rooted in impatience for children & an extra wife being given to Jacob.
Children & childbirth are new testament allegory for the return of Jesus (see John 16:21, Matthew 24:8, & 1 Thessalonians 5:3).
New testament Dan is impatient for “children” (the return of Christ) so they teach a pre trib rapture & follow a version of christ that has 2 brides (extra wife); a pre trib gentile bride & a post rapture jewish bride.
Deuteronomy 33:22
King James Version
22 And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion’s whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.
John Nelson Darby’s family estate was called Leap Castle.
In Judges 18’s account of Dan’s conquest of Laish, the words “six hundred” appear 3 times in the chapter. 600 × 3 = 1800…John Nelson Darby’s birth year.
John Nelson Darby formed the “Exclusive Brethren”. In Revelation 7, Dan is the “excluded brethren” who have no inheritance (salvation).
Genesis 49:17
King James Version
17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
In 1827, John Nelson Darby fell from a horse & was seriously injured. During this time, he developed his Danite doctrine known as dispensationalism, which has the church reject it’s allotment in Israel just as their old testament forerunners did in Joshua 19:47.
Old testament Dan rejected their allotment in Israel & instead conquered a large land of plenty inhabited by immigrants known as Laish where they set up a false religion.
New testament Dan rejects their allotment in Israel by teaching that the church & Israel are separate. New testament Dan has spiritually & doctrinally conquered a large land of plenty inhabited by immigrants known as America where they too have set up a false religion.
When Darby fell from the horse, he crushed his leg against a doorpost. Think of the symbolism behind that; Jesus is The The Door (John 10:9) & a false prophet crushed his leg against a door post.
In Numbers 22, Baalam had his foot crushed while riding on a donkey. Darby had his leg crushed after falling from a horse & he later gained noteriety as a prophecy “expert” after giving a series of lectures in Geneva Switzerland, area code 22.
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