It was “a bitter irony,” author Seamus Bruner wrote in his Controligarchs: Exposing the Billionaire Class, their Secret Deals, and the Globalist Plot to Dominate Your Life, book that many of the same companies that profited from “Agenda 2030-compliant farming techniques” had previously made their money from the “dirty” agricultural technologies they now denounce.

“For decades, Rockefeller (Foundation) interests had secured dozens of patents relating to nitrogen fertiliser production. But those patents had expired,” he wrote.

“That’s the throughline for all of these guys: They don’t want competitors,” Bruner told The Defender. “And that’s why patents play into all of this stuff. Bill Gates only invests in the fake meat companies after they’ve received patents for their protein chains.”

Gates invested $23 million in Monsanto, which pioneered the patenting of seeds, according to Bruner. “So they want patented foods and then they want to ban the competition, extinguish the cows,” he said.

To underscore his point, Bruner said Ireland was ready to slaughter anywhere from 40,000 to 200,000 cattle “all on the altar of climate change.”

Agenda 2030 is heavily focused on a “net zero” future, Bruner said, meaning the balancing or elimination of carbon emissions. “This is about taking control of both the energy sector and the food sector and they’re using the same threat of climate change to do it.”

“Having the fertilisers to the seeds to the protein chains all patented leads to a massive consolidation for just a very few players who … are already in bed with the governments that are pushing these policies,” he said.

Bruner discussed the broad array of efforts unfolding under the guise of Agenda 2030 and “build back better” slogans and how they are the total opposite of what they seem.

“Who would be against ‘build back better’? ‘Green’ – who’s against green? I mean, nobody wants to live on a dirty planet, nobody wants pollution,” he said.

Bruner believes that the problem with the climate change narrative is that it is an unfalsifiable hypothesis. “You can’t even question it,” he said.

He pointed to people like Greta Thunberg who “get their talking points from a World Economic Forum white paper” and who are “always saying the Earth is going to end in 10 years, he said, “but you reach the 10-year waypoint and New York City isn’t underwater. So they constantly keep shifting the goalposts.”

People in the WEF concluded that climate change wasn’t sufficiently scary, Bruner said, but that the pandemic fright provided “a great opportunity to mobilize resources.”

Bruner gave the example of the Inflation Reduction Act – a name no one could argue with – with $450 billion earmarked for various climate change programmes. “It’s really just corporate welfare, welfare for oligarchs,” he said. “Why the heck do these guys need our money?”

As for Gates’ investments in meat alternatives like Beyond Meat and TerraPower, which their promoters claim will save us from climate change, Bruner said taxpayers helped fund these but “We won’t ever see a return on that investment.”

These are examples of “stakeholder capitalism,” one of the “pillars of the Great Reset,” Bruner said, along with “going green,” ESG (environmental-social-governance investment measures) and the “fourth industrial revolution” – including artificial intelligence (AI) and the “Internet of Things.”

“Stakeholder capitalism is absolutely an inverted term,” he said. “It’s not capitalism at all, but state-run capitalism, with the business leaders and the NGOs, the academic institutions and the government – and we don’t get a seat at the table. The profits are privatised and the losses are socialised,” he said.

“Stakeholder capitalism looks strikingly like China’s tyrannical ‘state capitalism’ model (which was actually developed with the help of Kissinger, Rockefeller and the WEF) and is enjoying popularity among governments,” he wrote.

“Birth control” is another inverted term,” Bruner said. “It doesn’t sound like population control but then they persuade people they shouldn’t even want to have kids.”

“The Rockefeller Foundation focus-tested terms like ‘family planning’ and ‘funding maternal health’ – not ‘population reduction’ obviously, right?” he said.

Bruner said years of propaganda have convinced people that they don’t want to have children. Soros is another example of people who are “up to the opposite of what they’re claiming to be about,” Bruner said. “No one could be against names like ‘The Democracy Initiative.’”

Bruner wrote that Soros, was “conspicuously quiet on the issue of climate change” because he has heavily invested in fossil fuels. But after investing in green energy, Soros helped the Obama administration “crush the coal industry … then grabbed the stocks for pennies on the dollar.”

Bruner shared his concerns about AI and transhumanism, promoted by Big Tech and specifically led by Meta’s Zuckerberg and his vision of the metaverse, and by WEF agenda contributor Yuval Noah Harari.

Harari celebrated the pandemic because it convinced people “to accept [and] to legitimise total biometric surveillance,” wrote Bruner, quoting Harari from an October 2020 video. “If you want to stop this epidemic, we need not just to monitor people, we need to monitor what’s happening under their skin,” Harari said.

In a 60 Minutes interview from 2021, wrote Bruner, Harari said in the future, people “may be able to purchase immortality through biotechnological upgrades.” In just a few generations humanity may see a new class structure where poor people still die, but the rich, “in addition to all the other things they get, also get an exemption from death,” Harari said.

As far-off as some of these concerns may seem, Bruner pointed to the rapid development of generative AI as a more imminent danger, a topic he covers in detail in The Dystopian Present chapter of Controligarchs.

Quoting OpenAI’s Sam Altman from a July article in The Atlantic, Bruner said: “A lot of people working on AI pretend that it’s only going to be good; it’s only going to be a supplement; no one is ever going to be replaced … Jobs are definitely going to go away, full stop.”

“It’s pretty dark because as you use AI in your job, you’re training your replacement,” he added. “AI is now passing the bar exam. It’ll come for the lawyers, it’ll come for every sector.”

Estimates range from 40 per cent to as high as 80 per cent of jobs being lost to AI, Bruner said. “So what happens when everybody loses their job?”

“You are already starting to see videos percolating up on social media of mostly young people sobbing in their cars because they’re being evicted and can’t afford rent,” he said, adding that in some areas rents have doubled or tripled, and many can’t afford health or car insurance – if they can afford a car at all.

“Now imagine that on a much grander scale as more people lose their jobs. Now you’ve got a million squabbling for 1,000 jobs,” which will increase calls for a “universal or unconditional basic income [UBI], according to Sam Altman,” Bruner said.

While a lot of people are celebrating that idea as a positive development, he said, some in the tech industry are talking about a UBI payment in the range of $13,500 a year.

“You’re not going to be getting the same salary once a robot can do 1,000 people’s jobs,” he said.

Despite the harrowing narratives Bruner explored in his book, he said he is bullish on the future of humanity.

“I’ve got a lot of hope for the future. I don’t think we’re going to put up with it,” he said, referring to the agenda on offer by the “controligarchs.”

Bruner emphasises the importance of being an “evangelist” for the truth.

“Everybody needs to get the word out about what these guys are up to,” he said. “But you’ve got to be armed with the facts and figures to back it all up, otherwise you’re going to sound like a conspiracy nut.”

Bruner said he hopes his deeply referenced book, where he also shares ideas for taking back our institutions and control over our lives, will be a useful resource for helping more people wake up.

Bruner sees the emergence of a “thirst for authenticity, a thirst for realness among people” – a wave that is pushing back against the rollout of fake AI bot posts on social media, against fake meat, fake food and fake science, he said.

“We’ve got a big uphill battle ahead of us, but the number of people who are aware of the subjects I talk about in the book – like those who rejected the vaccines and boosters – it’s very encouraging,” he said, adding, “Once someone is awake to the truth about what’s going on, they can’t really be put back to sleep.”

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