Bill Gates Warns of a Return to the Dark Ages, by Him

The projection of this man is always his tell.

Bill Gates warns the world is going ‘backwards’ and gives 5-year deadline before we enter a new Dark Age

Bill Gates is the Dark Ages pattern:

  • Monopoly as feudalism – concentrated control over essential infrastructure, toll-taking on all who use it, no meaningful accountability to those affected by his decisions.
  • Knowledge suppression – patent enforcement over life-saving medicines, IP regimes that restrict rather than spread capability, foundation grants that shape research agendas toward his priorities.
  • Unaccountable power – $200 billion directed by one person’s judgment about what humanity needs, operating outside democratic structures while influencing government policy.
  • Epistemological capture – defining the metrics by which “progress” is measured, so his interventions are axiomatically good by definition.

When he says we might “slide back” without his programs, it’s like a plantation owner saying emancipation would be the wrong direction. He’s describing what happens when his control slips – not humanity’s trajectory. His conflation of personal loss with human regression is the whole game.

The post-conviction Epstein meetings, the Windows OS security degradation, the foundation’s parallel governance – these aren’t contradictions to his humanitarian brand. They’re the consistent pattern underneath it: accumulate power through means that cause harm, then rebrand as savior from the conditions you helped create. His “agriculture” investments… should remind you of what led to the French Revolution.

He’s warning about himself.

The call is coming from inside the Windows.

A Field Guide to Trump Kennedy Center State Propaganda

You’ve noticed something feels off in state run press releases and social media posts. The words don’t match the actions. The accusations describe the accuser.

Welcome.

As a disinformation historian, I’d like to help explain what you’re seeing.

The Techniques

Accusation as Confession. Whatever they’re loudly accusing others of doing, they’re doing. This isn’t hypocrisy, as hypocrisy requires shame, which they can not handle and avoid like kryptonite. This is their use of projection as strategy. The accusation preemptively exhausts the vocabulary of criticism, making the accurate counter-charge sound like “not me, u.”

The Firehose. Flood the zone with so much nonsense (e.g. Steve Bannon shit) that verifying anything is inflated and expensive, becomes a full-time job. The goal isn’t to convince you of any particular lie. It’s to make you conclude that truth has a price so high it is unknowable, so you might as well believe whatever’s convenient and cheap. Resource exhaustion is the point, like the boxer who prances around a ring with fake throws to reduce boxing skill to a bad dance contest.

The Memory Hole. Yesterday’s definitive statement, or even the last hour, becomes inoperative. When confronted with the contradiction, act as if the questioner is being tedious. “Why are you still talking about that?” Every tick of the clock is positioned as ancient history. Time destroys accountability if you let it.

The False Equivalence. One side attempted a coup; the other side was rude on Twitter. One intends crime, the other objects to crime. “Both sides need to tone down the rhetoric.” This framing makes you the reasonable one for refusing to name the actual problem.

The Isolated Incident. Each atrocity exists in a vacuum. Pattern recognition becomes conspiracy theory. The forest is just a very, very large collection of unrelated trees. The more you see and prove a relationship, the more you are attacked as messenger of unwelcome news.

Demanding Impossible Proof. No evidence meets the bar. Exposed documents are “out of context.” Confessions are “sarcasm.” Threats are “jokes”. Even video or audio evidence requires us to consider “what happened before the recording started.” The bar moves until you give up.

The Loaded “Just Asking Questions.” Insinuation without commitment. “I’m not saying [horrible thing], I’m just asking why no one is allowed to talk about [horrible thing].” Or “I will not speak of [horrible thing]”, which is of course speaking of it. This lets the speaker inject the premise while maintaining deniability.

The Preemptive Delegitimization. Before the investigation concludes, before the election happens, before the court rules: declare the alignment, state the political part, say it is rigged. Now any unfavorable outcome proves the conspiracy rather than disconfirming it.

The Kafka Trap. Denial is proof of guilt. “The fact that you’re so defensive shows you have something to hide.” Silence is also proof of guilt. The only acceptable response is a confession.

The DARVO. Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender. The aggressor becomes the victim. Resistance to aggression becomes the real aggression. If you speak, you are the aggressor. If you don’t speak, you are the aggressor. This is the beating heart of fascist rhetoric.

How to Know It’s Propaganda

Ask what the statement does rather than what it says.

We see clearly in Grenell’s official Trump Kennedy Center statement that he says “we welcome everyone” while doing the work of establishing that participation is mandatory and non-participation is partisan aggression.

You just made it political and caved to the woke mob who wants you to perform for only Lefties. This mob pressuring you will never be happy until you only play for Democrats. The Trump Kennedy Center believes all people are welcome — Democrats and Republicans and people uninterested in politics. We want performers who aren’t political — who simply love entertaining everyone regardless of who they voted for.

The statement performs exactly what it accuses others of doing. The accusation is a confession.

The false words create cover for the harmful action.

Watch for the nested contradiction. “The Trump Kennedy Center believes performers shouldn’t be political.” If you can state the position and its negation (Trump renaming) in the same sentence, you’re not looking at confused thinking. You’re looking at a loyalty test dressed as a principle.

Notice who has to explain themselves. Power doesn’t justify; it demands justification from others. The institution that renamed itself after a sitting president doesn’t explain why that’s not political. The person who dares to decline to perform must explain why that is.

In particular, when Bela Fleck said his reason to cancel was to avoid politics, the heated response was extremely political attacks on him to agitate an angry political mob against him, all of which asserted that he was the one being political.

The “woke mob” propaganda framing of Trump propagandists is particularly instructive, a throwback to McCarthyism. It preemptively delegitimizes any objection as external pressure rather than individual conscience, denying moral agency in a target’s own decision.

This framing was heavily used in radical “anti-Communist” propaganda attacking Americans during the “black ball” era. An artist or scientist showing independent thought would be accused of being brainwashed or a puppet, pathologizing them to erase their voice and authority. It also was deployed around the world during 1960s decolonization.

Any non-white nationalist independence movement tended to be re-classified by Nixon and Kissinger as “mob” thought instead, to cruelly invert the entire reason and goal for independent states existing. It preemptively delegitimized any objections to American interference as external pressure rather than individual conscience, denying non-white state leaders were mentally able to make their own decisions.

JD Vance recently has been unloading the term “brainwashed” to slander an American citizen who dared to attempt to flee aggressive shock troops. They executed her at close range and then Vance immediately both pathologized her as unable to think independently, while also he called for prosecution of her as a criminal mind.

If she’s actually brainwashed, she’s a victim of manipulation and not responsible. If she’s a criminal, she made deliberate choices. Vance holds both positions in the same breathless propaganda because the goal isn’t coherence—it’s delegitimization of American citizens from every possible angle.

She was executed physically and then her character assassinated. The state kills someone fleeing, then the Vice President attacks her mental capacity. That’s not spin. That’s the state justifying its violence by destroying their victim’s humanity posthumously.

The Hard Part

You will want to believe this is incompetence. It’s more comfortable to think they don’t know what they’re doing.

They know.

The contradictions aren’t bugs; they’re features. The point is to make you engage with the contradiction rather than the action, to spend your energy proving hypocrisy to people who already know and don’t care.

Sartre wrote about exactly this. And I warned for over the past decade that Big Data tech was bringing it back.

Conclusion slide to my award-winning presentation on Big Data Integrity Breaches, from KiwiCon 2016

The only response to bad faith is to name it and stop playing. You cannot debate someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into. You can only describe what’s actually happening, clearly, for the people still watching.

Which, if you’re reading this, is you.

Dictator Checklist: Trump is America’s Pineapple Face

In December 1989, the United States invaded Panama. I not only remember it well, I remember the years prior ROTC recruiters asking “are you ready to do something meaningful” and watching my classmates rush for the opportunity to grab a parachute.

In 1989, America said a checkpoint killing was an act of war requiring head of state removal. What is it in 2026?

Manuel Noriega’s face, scarred as a child, meant he was bullied as a kid for having “Pineapple Face” — a term American officials used freely when they explained why his regime change was so necessary and urgent.

The official justifications centered on Noriega’s forces killing an American citizen at a checkpoint. Moreover, the U.S. was outraged by Noriega’s Dignity Battalions targeting and attacking politicians who dared to oppose him. Photos and video circulated of the injustice, the cruelty of a leader amassing centralized power.

And finally, there was the nullification of election results. If the January 6th assault by Trump militants to seize the Capitol after an election just came to mind, you’re on the right parallel.

Fast forward to January 2026, and ICE agents killed Renee Nicole Good, a U.S. citizen and mother of three, at a checkpoint in Minneapolis. It was at least the fourth fatal shooting by federal immigration officers in five months.

Look at the 1989 Time magazine cover and then read that paragraph again. Trump shock troops have set up checkpoints based on political targeting and killed American citizens multiple times in just a few months.

The current U.S. administration, as if reading the Noriega playbook (cough CIA cough), has even rushed to falsely label an innocent woman a domestic terrorist. It’s as unbelievable as any Noriega bulletin. The American Vice President has declared federal shock troops who target and shoot a citizen are “protected by absolute immunity”. Stephen Colbert has called it “obey or die in America, and if you die that’s proof that you didn’t obey.” The killing is being set up to be both punishment and evidence of guilt.

The same week, the U.S. President announced that senators who vote against his unauthorized and illegal war authority should be removed from Congress. His administration has meanwhile defied one in three federal court orders issued against it. A loyalist serving as Speaker of the House has mused about eliminating federal courts entirely. He said no courts is a plan, while he also says anyone who interferes with such a plan will be prosecuted… in court. Get it? This is Kangaroo court logic, made infamous by the 1943 execution of Sophie Scholl.

The United States invaded Panama for far less. And at the time it barked loudly about Pineapple Face being the grave threat to Americans, the man who had to be stopped. I suppose I could use a bingo card for this, but a checklist seems more useful right now.

Dictator Checklist
Pineapple Face Noriega (Panama) Trump (USA)
Citizens killed at shock troop checkpoints PDF killed Marine Lt. Robert Paz at checkpoint (Dec 1989) ICE killed U.S. citizen Renee Nicole Good at their checkpoint (Jan 2026); at least 4 people killed by federal agents in 5 months; 9+ people shot by shock troops while in vehicles
Victims labeled as aggressors Claimed falsely Paz’s vehicle threatened soldiers DHS Secretary Noem falsely called Good’s actions “domestic terrorism”; Trump falsely claimed she “viciously ran over” officer; Vance falsely called it “a tragedy of her own making”
Shock troops claim absolute immunity PDF operated with impunity under martial law Vance asserts ICE agent “protected by absolute immunity” and executions are “just doing his job”
Legislative opposition targeted and attacked Troops and Dignity Battalions attacked National Assembly members who opposed Noriega Trump celebrated January 6th, pardoned criminals who attacked the capitol, and declared senators voting against him “should not be reelected”; Republicans change votes in fear of “the Massie treatment”
Military action politicized, without representation Used PDF for internal repression and regional operations Uses ICE and CBP for internal repression and regional operations. Venezuela illegal invasion, war without congressional notification; kidnapped foreign head of state (Maduro); struck Caribbean boats as “drug war” killing over 100 civilians since September without approval
Judicial orders defied Nullified 1984 election results; ignored constitutional court Defied 1 in 3 court rulings (57 of 165); Over 225 judges ruled detention policy illegal yet policy continues; DOJ official allegedly said, parroting Noriega logic, “tell the courts ‘f*** you'”
Judges personally attacked Removed Supreme Court justices Sued entire Maryland federal district court; filed misconduct complaint against DC chief judge Boasberg; Speaker Johnson: “We can eliminate an entire district court”
Appropriations/legislature circumvented by corruption Drug money (including $200K/year payroll from the CIA) funding parallel state apparatus Oil money, crypto, big tech. DOGE slashed congressionally-approved programs without authorization; cut billions in statutory funding unilaterally, Trump creates external executive budget and funding including “bank accounts for the huge profits from seizing Venezuelan oil”
Wrongful detention/deportation of protected persons Detained and tortured political opponents. CIA assets jailed. Deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia (protected by court order) to El Salvador via “administrative error”; 55% and growing believe ICE wrongfully arrests U.S. citizens
Suppression of press Shut down opposition newspapers and radio “News outlets that challenge Trump have been banished or put under investigation”. 60 minutes cancelled reporting that wasn’t explicitly approved and edited by the White House
Public disapproval ignored Widespread domestic opposition; rigged 1984 election 52-53% disapprove of ICE; 72% concerned about court defiance, yet policies intensify regardless
Mass deployment of federal forces for political repression Dignity Battalions and troops operated to violently eliminate opposition 2,000 federal agents deployed to terrorize political “opposition” areas such as Minneapolis-St. Paul; “Operation Midway Blitz” in Chicago; mass deployments to LA, Portland, New Orleans

Notably, Noriega was a U.S. asset for many years, paid handsomely through corrupt channels under George Bush at the CIA, before suddenly becoming inconvenient when George Bush became President. The parallel there writes itself.

The checkpoint killings are the most obvious and direct parallel. Noriega’s forces killing Lt. Paz was a trigger for George Bush ordering Operation Just Cause. Today we read about ICE, just like Noriega’s goon squads, killing at least four people in five months, including a U.S. citizen.

Where’s the just cause now? Where’s Junior Bush calling for regime change?

Noriega was recruited by the CIA in the 1950s and was paid handsomely while he tortured and killed left-wing political leaders during the 1970s-1980s, as well as facilitated/expanded illegal drug imports to America. After a sudden suspicious plane crash killed Panama’s puppet head of state in 1981, Noriega soon after de facto became ruler. President George Bush, former head of the CIA, in 1989 ordered Noriega be deposed and assassinated. Panama was invaded and seized yet the elite Delta Force failed over a dozen times to kill him. America then pleaded with him to turn himself in so they could have a trial to send him to jail (convicted on charges related to his CIA role of increasing drugs into America).

I mean, I wonder who does the Bush family recommend come in 2026, to invade us and remove America’s pineapple face?

ICE Execution Video Release Proves Victim Was Fleeing

In my previous analysis of the checkpoint execution of Renee Nicole Good, I noted that frame-by-frame video analysis showed that the ICE officer Jonathan Ross premeditated shooting, and that the vehicle was fleeing at the moment he opened fire.

Now we have Ross’s own video footage.

It’s worse than I described.

First he filmed her. Then he shot to kill her when she tried to leave. Then he called her a bitch. That’s not the sequence of a man in fear. That’s the sequence of an execution.

Why Was He Filming?

Ross approached Good’s vehicle and walked around it while holding up his camera to record. Think about what that means.

Every law enforcement expert knows a person who genuinely fears a vehicle is about to run them over does not hold up their camera in a hand to document the moment. They react. They move. They need their hands ready. They don’t calmly walk toward the vehicle to compose the best angle for a head shot.

Ross held up his camera because he felt safe enough to be the one filming. He was in fact acting as an authority curating a situation he wanted documented. That’s not defense, since shooting video and bullets from a safe distance both exhibit a position of authority and power. Both were exhibits of control, neither from fear. It’s premeditated killing with a media strategy.

His Own Video Shows Him Walking Into Position

The footage captures Ross moving across the front of Good’s vehicle. He wasn’t stationed there. He wasn’t caught in a sudden threat. He walked into position while filming.

His own evidence proves he put himself in front of the car. Voluntarily, slow and casual. With a camera in his hand.

The video demonstrates that the officers didn’t perceive Good to be a threat, said John P. Gross, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School who has written extensively about officers shooting at moving vehicles. “If you are an officer who views this woman as a threat, you don’t have one hand on a cellphone. You don’t walk around this supposed weapon, casually filming,” Gross said.

The Wheel Turns Hard Right

Through the windshield of his own footage, you clearly can see Good behind the wheel.

As Ross approaches, she very visibly turns the steering wheel, hard to the right. It has the unmistakable look of someone who wants to AVOID Ross. It’s not subtle, it’s obvious and he’s aiming, focused on it.

She was trying to escape around him, and he saw that. He unholstered his weapon in the moment that he thought she would leave him. The camera angle then shifts, making noises from his own movements to shoot, as he takes aim and fires his weapon.

This is not ambiguous. This is not a matter of interpretation. His own recording shows a woman steering away from him, and he executed her.

Look at the expression in these frames. That is terror, a reaction to being terrorized by officers pounding on her door and yelling at her. That is a woman trapped by armed men screaming, as she tries to find a way out that doesn’t involve harming anyone.

She found that way out. She turned hard right when she saw she had a safe path. Ross unholstered, pivoted to her left side to take a precision deadly firing position, and pointed at her head to kill her. All shots were in aggression.

The Sequence His Own Camera Recorded

  1. Ross approaches vehicle while filming—calm enough to hold a camera steady
  2. Ross walks across the front of the vehicle—voluntarily positioning himself
  3. Good turns steering wheel hard right—attempting to flee away from him
  4. Ross pivots to her left side, at a clear distance and in no danger, and fires into the vehicle that is moving AWAY from him
Source: BBC Expert Video Analysis

Every element of self-defense doctrine requires an imminent threat you did not create and cannot escape.

Ross fails at all of it. He created the geometry himself, filmed himself doing it, and shot a woman whose own evasive action is visible in his footage. The only self-defense act in Ross’ video is by his victim trying to get away from his aggression.

Evidence Against Interest

In legal terms, a statement or evidence “against interest” is considered highly credible because people don’t usually create evidence that harms their own case.

Ross apparently believed this footage helped him. He filmed it. Presumably he or DHS released it thinking that filming an execution of an innocent woman supported their fault narrative.

Instead, it proves:

  • He had time to film (no sudden emergency)
  • He walked into position (created the confrontation)
  • She turned away (flight, not attack)
  • He shot as she left (not defense)

His own footage is a confession.

What He Said After He Shot Her

Audio from the scene captures what sounds like Ross saying “Fucking bitch” toward Good after he shot her.

This registers as the opposite to being in fear. Again, like with his camera and the gun use, it indicates the mindset of trying to compel control or dominance over the situation.

People don’t curse their attacker like this in contempt when they are defending. That’s the language of assault. We don’t hear a cry for help, a gasp, or even a fearful shake. Ross didn’t check himself for injuries, he took an aggression stance, fired from a stable position clear away, and then moved towards his target. These words, if indeed confirmed from Ross, are the words of someone asserting dominance over a victim, not someone processing a threat or dangerous experience.

Vance’s Lie Is Now Provable

Vice President Vance said Good decided to “throw her car in front of ICE officers.” He aggressively attacked the victim of the execution, pathologizing her to destroy her reputation, slandering her as “a little brainwashed.”

Ross’s own video shows ICE officers threw themselves at her, and shows her turning the wheel away from them to leave and avoid them. Ross shot an innocent woman in the head at close range because why? Who in this tragedy is actually brainwashed?

The Vice President of the United States is lying about a woman his shock troops killed using evidence that proves the opposite of what he claims. The shooter’s own footage shows her fleeing.

What This Means

The administration’s narrative still requires that Good drove at Ross. Yet their own evidence shows she drove away from him.

This is not a disputed reconstruction. This is not a forensic inference. This is the shooter’s own camera showing the victim steering away from him and his calculated decision to step into a firing position to kill her.

Renee Nicole Good died trying to escape. Jonathan Ross filmed himself murdering her. And the Vice President of the United States is trying to pathologize the victim for not letting armed men drag her out of her car and shoot her in the head on the street instead.

The video doesn’t lie. JD Vance does.

Of Course This is The Ninth Shooting

The execution of Good marks the ninth time ICE agents have opened fire on people since September 2025. Four are dead.

The Chicago cases showed the pattern.

In September, ICE killed Silverio Villegas González in Franklin Park. DHS claimed the agent was “seriously injured” after being dragged by the vehicle. Body camera footage showed the agent calling his injuries “nothing major.”

In October, Border Patrol agent Charles Exum shot Marimar Martinez five times in Brighton Park. Body cam footage showed Exum saying “Do something, bitch” before shooting. He later texted colleagues: “I fired 5 rounds, and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.” When deployed to another city, he wrote: “Cool. I’m up for another round of ‘fuck around and find out.'”

Exum faced no discipline. The charges against Martinez were dropped. Her attorney, watching the Minneapolis video, said: “Of course this happened. It is going to continue to happen.”

Panama December 1989

Self-defense doctrine holds you cannot provoke a threat and then claim defense. By that standard, a leader who deploys violent shock troops, defends their killings with lies, and pathologizes victims is not acting in defense of the American people. He is the threat. In 1989, according to President Bush, a checkpoint killing of an American was sufficient grounds for state invasion and regime change.

In 1989, America said a checkpoint killing was an act of war requiring head of state removal. What is it in 2026?