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INTRODUCTION

Planetary Lockdown, Geoengineering and

“The Deep State”

Just as, at the dawning of a new geological era, the whole world collapses in a gigantic crack,
new mountains rise up while gaping abysses open up, and new plains and seas take shape, so
will the present structure of Europe be capsized in an immense cataclysm. . .The only chance for
Germany to resist this pressure will be to seize the initiative and take control of the inevitable
upheaval from which will come a new dawning of history.
— Hermann Rauschning, Hitler Speaks / Voice of Destruction, 1939

We’ve arranged a society on science and technology in which nobody understands anything
about science and technology, and this combustible mixture of ignorance and power sooner or
later is going to blow up in our faces. I mean, who is running the science and technology in a
democracy if the people don’t know anything about it?
— Carl Sagan to Charlie Rose, May 27, 1996

Before leaving office, the 44th President issued a shot over the bow of the incoming President by
striking the word “limited” from the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), thus publicly
reinstating the “Star Wars” program of thirty-three years ago—and on Christmas Eve, no less.

Republican Congressman Trent Franks, who introduced and shepherded the policy changes in the House, said he drew
inspiration from former president Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative of the 1980s, which was intended to
use lasers and other space-based weaponry to render nuclear weapons “impotent and obsolete.” Known as “Star
Wars,” the initiative cost taxpayers US$30 billion, but no system was ever deployed. 1

Eighteen days later, mainstream media began normalizing the geoengineering we’ve been
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undergoing for two decades in the name of “easing climate change.” Since then, space news has
been hot and heavy: in February, increased ozone over 3.5 million square miles of the Pacific
Ocean and the Western U.S. (“the most unusual meteorological event we’ve had in decades”); 3
in March, “magnetized Rossby waves on the Sun” making it easier to “predict space weather
much further in advance” (National Center for Atmospheric Research):