Update: Ex-National Security Analyst Tweets “Slash the Tires, Empty the Gas Tanks, Arrest the Drivers, and Move the Trucks.” Freedom Convoy

Cohen defended the bulletin at the Feb. 15 online occasion, hosted by George Washington University’s Program on Extremism. He said the DHS now has “hard analysis” linking violence to narratives about government’s response to COVID-19, the 2020 political race, immigration, and race.

"We have tied those narratives specifically to the overwhelming majority of domestic violent extremism incidents," he said.

"These narratives have, in fact, inspired violence."

According to Cohen, the threats of information are coming from all directions.

"We also see efforts from 'foreign and domestic threat actors' to exacerbate fractures in society by promoting content online and through different parts of the media ecosystem for the purposes of sowing discord, undermining the credibility of the government, and undermining our relationship with allies," he said.

"And these socio-political narratives they're promoting online have actually encouraged acts of violence."

But while the DHS is concerned that conspiracy theories cause terrorism, Cohen insisted that his department is not attempting to chill public dissent.

"Our job's not to police thought. Our job is to prevent acts of violence. We don't monitor individuals engaging in constitutionally protected speech," he said.

"We've put in place a series of protections to make sure that as we're evaluating online content, it's only relating to threats, and we're only handling that information in a privacy, civil liberties-protective way."

Cohen further accused public critics of DHS strategy of being disingenuous.

"For public figures, particularly those who know better, to suggest that the DHS is trying to investigate people for their political beliefs-quite frankly, it's irresponsible, and it may contribute to the volatility of the threat environment," he said.

Cohen also spoke about the DHS’s warning about trucker protests ahead of the Super Bowl. He said U.S. law enforcement officials have been monitoring trucker protests with their Canadian counterparts, who are treating the demonstrations as matters of national security.

“While there were some people simply there to express their displeasure with vaccine mandates, there were also significant levels of online and physical participation by ideologically motivated violent extremists,” Cohen said of the Canadian protests.

“We began to see calls for similar types of activities in the United States to either expand or replicate what’s going on in Canada.”

Cohen said he saw a similar situation in the United States: Legitimate protest blended in with calls for violence.

“When you start seeing woven into the threads of the planning of these events actual calls for specific violence-referring to the Super Bowl as the ‘Satanic Bowl,’ using calls that coincided with threats against the pharmaceutical industry and government institutions-then it’s something that we have to evaluate and track,” he said.

There were no terrorism events at the Feb. 13 Super Bowl-a fact Cohen attributed to the DHS’s memo.

“Our paying attention to the problem served as deterrence,” he said.

A CNN reporter who worked for the Obama administration quickly retracted a tweet encouraging people to cut the tires of Canadian truckers protesting COVID-19 vaccine regulations.

“Earlier today, I tweeted something that has been used by others to suggest I was promoting vigilantism. I was not. People have the freedom to protest. Governments have the responsibility to protect public safety.” Juliette Kayyem wrote on Twitter Thursday evening, “That was what I intended to say.”

Earlier on Thursday, Kayyem criticized the truckers and called for them to be stopped. It comes after a group of truckers shut down the Ambassador Bridge between the United States and Canada for roughly five days.

“The convoy protest, applauded by right wing media as a ‘freedom protest,’ is an economic and security issue now. The Ambassador Bridge link constitutes 28 percent of annual trade movement between US and Canada. .”  She added, “Slash the tires, empty the gas tanks, arrest the drivers, and move the trucks.”

Other Twitter users, including those who claim to be truckers, instantly mocked her post. It would be impossible to move the vehicles if their gas tanks were drained, according to some. Others pointed out that commercial vehicles’ tires are often inflated to roughly 100 PSI, implying that slashing one of the drivers’ tires could result in serious bodily harm.

Kayyem is a lecturer at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and serves as a national security analyst for CNN. She previously worked for President Barack Obama’s Department of Homeland Security.

Thousands of truckers and demonstrators came in Ottawa, Canada’s capital, around two weeks ago, and have remained stationed downtown and near Parliament in an attempt to protest the country’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates and passports, which are among the tightest in the world.

Protesters began flocking to important U.S.–Canada crossing sites, including the Ambassador Bridge, approximately a week ago.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, who has yet to meet with the protesters, has come under fire for his handling of the problem, claiming without evidence that the demonstrators are racist and misogynistic.

“People of Ottawa don’t deserve to be harassed in their own neighborhoods, don’t deserve to be confronted with the inherent violence of a swastika flying on a street corner or a confederate flag or the insults and jeers just because they’re wearing a mask. That’s not who Canadians are,” Trudeau remarked during a speech in Parliament on Monday.

This is a direct display of the radical left’s tendency to show their evil nature. Granted, there are extremists on both ends of the spectrum. However the left side of the isle is seemingly straying away from all frameworks by which society has established itself upon. Prayers go out to every freedom loving individual putting themselves in harms way to maintain and observe our medical autonomy.

It’s imperative that we take note of China’s use of DNA sequencing data to potentially produce an additional, more effective bioweapon. This armed the Chinese communist party with the ability to find any face, as long as they’ve attained DNA samples from the subject before hand. But as we know, the CCP has already done that among other jurassic measures. So the question remains, why has the American public not been made aware of the lengths that the CCP has gone to attain our data?

The answer to that is simple, it’s entirely too heavy of a topic to drop onto the American public. This single topic of conversation alone is enough to make someone who takes interest in technology wonder what is next for America. Considering the divide we’ve seen in society due to COVID-19 propaganda. The person next to you on a bus could be experiencing life in America completely bought into Fauci’s lies. But your choice to refuse vaccination could become troublesome for the sleeping sheep. Only because the lying “omniscient” medical practitioners suggest as such. Stay inquisitive in the word of God, and the world around you.

Since at least the turn of the century, China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has been experiencing a significant restructuring.

For starters, it has spent years pursuing a mechanization and “informationization” “double construction” strategy. This “two-track” strategy called for near-term modernization of “existing equipment combined with the selective introduction of new generations of conventional weapons,” as well as a longer-term transformation of the PLA along the lines of the “revolution in military affairs” based on information technology (RMA).

Officially, the PLA targets mechanization and “major progress” toward informationization by 2020, “complete military modernization” by 2035, and “world-class” military status by 2049.

The PLA is currently focused on “informationization” in accordance with this timeline. Informationization refers to the application of information technologies to combined military operations on land, sea, air, space, cyberspace, and the electromagnetic spectrum. It also entails equipping the PLA with new capabilities for long-range strike and disruption by leveraging technology improvements in microelectronics, sensors, propulsion, stealth, and, most importantly, cyber.

In short, the PLA is attempting to move from being a platform-centric force to being a more network-centric force, or a military in which the crucial characteristics of force are the network linkages among platforms, rather than the platforms themselves, as part of its long transition from People’s War to limited local wars under conditions of informationization.

China’s 2015 defense white paper made informationization explicit in PLA operational ideas, deemphasizing land operations in favor of re-emphasizing sea- and air-power. The PLA Navy (PLAN) was to “gradually shift its focus from ‘offshore waters defense’ to the combination of ‘offshore waters defense’ with ‘open seas protection,” while the PLA Air Force (PLAAF) was to “endeavor to shift its focus from territorial air defense to both defense and offense and build an air-space defense force structure that can meet the requirements of informationized operations.”

In addition, “informationized warfare” places a larger emphasis on both space and cyber operations. “outer space is a critical domain in international strategic competition.” China’s 2019 defense white paper declares flatly. As a result, space weaponization is becoming a more common occurrence and a significant future battleground, with China planning to achieve the capability to “enter, exit, and openly use outer space.” At the same time, cyberspace is seen as a “key area for national security, economic growth, and social development,” so the PLA is stepping up its efforts to develop cyberspace capabilities.

Even as it works to implement “informationized warfare,” the PLA is already planning for the next phase of its modernisation, which it refers to as “intelligent” or “intelligentized” warfare. “War is evolving in form towards informationized warfare, and intelligent warfare is on the horizon,” China’s 2019 defense white paper states.

Chinese President Xi Jinping pushed the PLA to speed up the development of military intelligence at the 19th Party Congress in 2017, and this “authoritative exhortation” has “elevated ‘intelligentization’ as a guiding idea for the future of Chinese military modernization.”

Intelligent warfare entails the militarization of the so-called “fourth industrial revolution” in particular (4IR). Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, quantum computing, cloud storage, autonomous unmanned systems, 5G networking, and other 4IR technologies are among the most important.

The 4IR will be critical in China’s future efforts to obtain a technological edge over its competitors. “The Chinese believe artificial intelligence (AI), big data, human-machine hybrid intelligence, swarm intelligence, and automated decision-making, along with AI-enabled autonomous unmanned systems and intelligent robotics, will be the central feature of the emerging economic and military-technical revolutions,” according to a report published in 2019 by the Center for a New American Security.

China considers AI to be a crucial technology that could have significance in its strategic competition with the US. Chinese military analysts believe AI will be the key to China’s military overtaking the United States as the world’s most capable armed force. As a result, China has set forth an ambitious plan to become the world leader in AI by 2030.

Beijing unveiled its “New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan” in July 2017. This plan has three main strategic goals: first, to bring China’s AI sector up to global state-of-the-art levels by 2025; second, to achieve major breakthroughs in basic AI theory by 2025; and third, to make China the global leader in AI theory, technology, and application, as well as the world’s major AI innovation center, by 2030.

Aside from AI, China is attempting to become a world leader in other 4IR technologies such as quantum computing, 5G, robotics, and biotechnology, among others. Beijing sees its strategies to lead in AI and these other technologies as mutually reinforcing; as a result, it is heavily investing in associate technologies, companies (both domestic and foreign), and human capital (for example, through its “Made in China 2025” initiative) in order to realize those global superiority ambitions.

It would be premature to claim that China will soon catch up to the state-of-the-art in defense technology. Despite its claims to being a “informationized” or “intelligent” military, the PLA remains a platform-centric force. Over the last two decades, the majority of its modernization efforts have been focused on developing new combat aircraft, warships, submarines, missiles, and armor. It will take years, if not decades, for the military to become networked or intelligent.

Furthermore, the process of informationization or intelligenceization has been evolutionary in nature: older weaponry and military equipment are gradually replaced, updated, and enhanced, or else augmented by and subordinated to more technologically advanced systems.

Nonetheless, the PLA appears to be making headway toward becoming a really intelligent armed force—a long-term approach, to be sure, but one backed by the Xi regime’s long-term commitment.

America is too busy deciding what gender it is to take initiative and harness the fourth industrial revolution. The possibilities are quite literally endless for the Chinese if they harness the technology available to them. Artificial intelligence is a very dangerous phenomena, however if China seeks to tame it America needs to compete. AI integration with humanity is the goal for the CCP, it’s a race that cannot be stopped now that it is started.

This video is about the origin of AI and what caused China to take it more seriously. Examples like AlphaGo are what demonstrated the sheer power of computing. AI is capable of finding solutions to problems that no human has thought of before. Sounds to me like we are creating an omniscient sentient being with capabilities of solving complex problems in our society that wouldn’t be solved otherwise. Looks to me like someone needs to be there to ride the beast. Revelations 17 should put that into perspective for you as you watch the ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have not yet received royal power, but they are to receive authority as kings for one hour, together with the beast.

My advice would be for all to not focus your eyes too hard on all of the controversy. Just get a broad, wholistic perspective on who is out there, who is influencing you, and how you can prepare for the whats to come. I cannot make you look into the tech industry and find the red flags. But just know, our tech savvy youth are finding that there is more work to be found on the “www” than in their areas. So if you’re not looking out for yourself, you wont even know you’ve been blindsided by this AI machine.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is reshaping every sphere of human life — from government to commerce; from education to healthcare. It is even impacting human values, opportunities, relationships and identities by modifying virtual as well as physical worlds of human beings. It is in my firm belief that Christians won’t get access to much of the technologies to come. By choice of course, because that is the nature of the puzzle God has laid out for us. We’ve been given free will to live for the world and repent there after. But to be born again, solidifies your role in this world. We’ve identified ourselves based on the values the bible emphasizes, and used them for the foundation of our very identities. To walk away from that is the unthinkable. Stay inquisitive in the word of God, and the world around you.