The Antichrist Is Here As Promised But In a Disguise You Won't Believe
Lionel Nation argues that the convergence of Central Bank Digital Currencies, artificial general intelligence, and globalist forces manifests a modern Antichrist system. Citing former Assistant Secretary Catherine Austin Fitz, he details how CBDCs enable unprecedented financial surveillance, account freezing, and transaction monitoring to threaten civil liberties. He connects these technologies to Book of Revelation prophecies, asserting that AGI's recursive self-improvement will create deceptive alternate realities eroding morality. Ultimately, Nation frames this digital tyranny as an existential threat ignored by mainstream media, urging parents to "vaccinate" their children with knowledge to resist Silicon Valley elites enslaving human thought. [Automatically generated summary]
Without a doubt, one of the recurring themes I'm hearing from many of my great friends and followers, acolytes, listeners, members of the nation, etc., etc., etc., is this idea, this notion that there is right now an exhibition of evil, the likes of which no one could have ever even imagined, conceived of, thought of, in the least.
And I've been doing this long enough where people have always suggested evil to an extent.
They've said this is the worst time ever.
They said this in the 60s.
They said this during the time of even going back to Emma Goldman and the anarchists.
So there's always been a degree of people suggesting that these are the worst of times.
This is the end of times.
I understand that.
Got it.
Got it.
But there's something else that's going on here, which is very important.
Very, very critical.
When you have people saying this is the, in essence, I don't want to be eschatological and go to the end of times, but when you talk about this notion of evil, and you're hearing it in terms of the spiritual, the financial, the technical, big tech, AI, all of them in this levels of this concatenation of different theories, but all pointing to the same idea and outcome, there's something there.
There's something absolutely positively there.
And this is what I want to talk about.
And a couple of provisos, please.
I don't know what your level of biblical knowledge is.
I don't want to be, I don't want to say or refer to this as a biblical reference because there are some people who may not believe in the Bible or who are not Christian.
And I respectfully submit that you do not have to be a Christian or conversant with the Bible to understand that what's happening right now, listen to me, is indeed everything they say it is.
Now, over the past, I guess, several years, there's a striking set of conversations that has emerged, again, at the intersection of finance and technology and religion and political philosophy.
Very unique.
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And few voices in the discussion have been as outspoken as this one particular lady.
And her name is Catherine Austin Fitz.
Look her name, F-I-T-T-S, Catherine Austin Fitz.
She served as Assistant Secretary of Housing during the administration of George Bush, George H.W. Bush, Bush 41.
And she has become widely known in our world, in our independent circles, for her warnings and her admonitions about the potential implications of CBDC, central bank digital currencies.
And what she has said, what her commentary has dealt with, often blends economic analysis with culture and even spiritual concerns.
And this is where I think it's interesting, this intersection.
And this is why her recent interviews and speeches have generated so much attention from us.
We are the enlightened.
We are a group of people who transcend anything that normally fits into the conversation spectrum.
We are not left.
We are not right.
We are not conservative.
We are not any of this.
We aren't there.
We're not there.
We're different.
We embrace conspiracies, but we're not conspiracy lunatics.
We blend spiritual and reality all in one.
We are different.
We are not a one or the other.
We are not apodictic.
We are not Manichaean.
We're not good versus evil.
Are sometimes we are gray.
Make America gray again.
Sometimes answers are dependent upon from whose perspective you review them.
Now, to understand this discussion, it's important to begin with the basic concept of something which I want to bring to your attention.
A CBDC, a central bank digital currency, is a digital form of national currency issued directly by a country's central bank.
Now, unlike cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, which operate on, in essence, decentralized networks outside the direct control of governments, CBDCs would be part of the official monetary system.
Governments and central banks argue that digital currencies could improve payment efficiency, it could reduce fraud, paperwork, it could lower transaction costs, and it could help, in essence, modernize this financial infrastructure.
Nonsense.
Institutions like the Federal Reserve, which nobody understands.
By the way, ask somebody, what's the Federal Reserve?
Ask friends of yours, just at a table.
Just curious.
Anybody know?
They still have no idea.
Central bank, the notion of that.
Somebody said the Federal Reserve is as federal as Federal Express.
If you think, let me stop you right now.
If you think this is some arcane, recondite discussion about money and dollars, this is the essence of how you destroy personal freedom and with that humanity.
You think I'm exaggerating?
The Federal Reserve and others have studied this idea for years.
And many countries are experimenting with pilot programs.
China's digital Yuan, YUAN, that project has been one of the most visible examples.
Watch what China's doing.
Remember what's the expression when they sneeze, we get a cold.
European policymakers have discussed a kind of a potential digital Euro through the European Central Bank.
And supporters of these central bank digital currencies, these CBDCs, see them as a natural evolution of modern finance in an increasingly digital world.
Ms. Fitz, however, has framed the issue very differently.
And this is what I want you to understand.
In numerous interviews, I think she spoke with Tucker recently.
She spoke with everybody.
She argues that the architecture of CBDCs could allow unprecedented, unprecedented financial surveillance and control, if misused.
You know what I'm saying?
In her view, the combination of programmable digital currency and data collection and centralized authority could enable governments or financial institutions, could allow them to monitor every transaction you ever have made in ways that traditional cash systems don't permit.
People who don't like CBDCs, of which I am one, share some very, very simple concerns, especially in regarding privacy and financial autonomy.
Civil liberties, and those people who advocate civil liberties have asked whether digital currency systems might allow, for example, governments to restrict certain purchases or impose some type of draconian automatic penalties or freeze accounts more easily than in a cash-based economy.
That's what you've got to pay attention to.
And if I can do that, I can control everything up to and including churches, politics, thoughts, expressions of artistic expression.
It changes everything.
And policymakers, by the way, counter that.
Any system adopted in democratic societies would include, absolutely positively, legal protections and oversight.
Don't believe this.
The debate therefore centers on whether, and this is important, whether the benefits of efficiency and modernization, in effect, whether they outweigh the real potential risks of concentration of power within financial infrastructure.
Let me tell you this.
If you think that this is some boring money lecture, you don't understand.
Money is your freedom.
Money is your ability to do what you want, to buy Bibles, to buy music, to live where you want, to marry whom you want, to believe what you want, to say what you want.
And we, the government so far, does not necessarily know everything you're doing or why you're doing it.
It would do it then.
And what has made Fitz's commentary especially controversial is that she sometimes links the issue kind of a broader cultural or religious theme.
In fact, recently this Rippiger, this father Chad Rippiger, I believe, who was on with Sean Ryan, did the same thing.
See, in several talks, she's referred to fears, among others as well, and among some Christians, that advanced financial monitoring systems could in essence resemble prophetic warnings about economic control found in the book of Revelation, where symbolic reference to a system, to a system that governs buying and selling appear.
Revelations.
Now, some commentators interpret those passages, those references metaphorically, while others take them more literally.
Now, what Fitz has occasionally preferred or done and referenced in these ideas is when discussing what she believes could become a highly centralized financial order.
For fans of hers, for supporters of her viewpoint, of which I am one, the comparison reflects concern about moral and spiritual dimensions of economic power.
For those who criticize it, it represents a kind of a blending of theology with political analysis.
And they view that as speculative or exaggerated or unnecessary.
Of course.
Remember, anybody who shoots down an idea wants to shoot down the idea because they don't want you to pursue it because the idea threatens them.
And regardless of your perspective or your religion or whatever it is, their reference to religious symbolism has absolutely ensured that the discussion attracts attention.
Attention beyond the traditional.
Why this is important and why this is so critical is we're talking about, in essence, the Antichrist.
We're talking about the Antichrist.
Another person that we're talking about who comes up into this is a fellow named Peter Thiel.
He is, as you know, he's a huge individual regarding the technological power and the future of digital finance.
Peter Thiel, Palantir, you know about him, right?
He's best known as a co-founder of PayPal and as an early investor in major tech firms, including Facebook and such.
But over the years, he has become one of the most influential thinkers in Silicon Valley, in big tech.
He is up there.
And he's often speaking about the relationship, the relationship between, in essence, technological technology and technological innovation and political systems.
And while Mr. Thiel is not an architect of CBDC policy, his broader commentary about technology and data and institutional power, all of that is sometimes discussed, again, in these same conversations.
And he's also frequently warned, repeatedly warned, that technological systems that we're talking about right now can concentrate influence and control and power in the hands of a very small group of people, of actors, of scary people.
And whether these actors are governments or whether they're large corporations, it doesn't really matter.
At the same time, he also expresses optimism, of course, that technological breakthroughs can expand human freedom.
Now, what we're talking about right now is something very, very simple.
And I'm going to try to bring this together.
Add to it recently this Rippiger discussion with Sean Ryan about the Antichrist.
Now, let me see if I can pull this all together.
Central bank digital currency, digital power, the ability to know every bit of money that's being expended and to be able to shut down your money immediately.
Your power.
Power.
Money is power.
I mean money.
I don't mean big money.
I mean just the ability to buy things and move and go on vacation or do whatever you want to do.
If the government says, no, you've done that enough.
No, you're leaving too much of a carbon footprint.
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No.
No, you're expending too much energy.
No, we don't like what you're doing.
You're involved in hate speech or whatever.
The ability for a government to do that, a government can do that, is frightening enough.
That's number one.
Peale is also bigger known for palantir.
Now, palantir is basically an AI system that is going to be used in everything.
And AI will provide the basis.
I believe, people are not saying this, in what is called the Antichrist.
This is the most important thing in the world, and we've been talking about this.
What precisely, what is the Antichrist?
What precisely is it?
What is the Antichrist?
What's the source of it?
What is it really today?
Not historically, but what is it and how does it affect us or you today?
And I'm saying something, whether you believe in, again, Christianity, it does not matter.
Listen to what.
There have been references in Hebraic references to Moloch and child sacrifice that I think makes a lot of sense.
But a little background.
The idea of the Antichrist comes from the New Testament and the Bible, and its meaning depends pretty much on how someone interprets the text.
The word itself appears in the letters of John the Apostle, especially in the first epistle of John and Second Epistle of John.
In the writings that he talks about, the Antichrist that we speak of is not described as a single kind of a dramatic villain or a monster at the end of time.
John uses it to describe people or forces, a conglomeration of Yula forces that oppose or deny Christ's teachings.
And in that sense, the concept referred to a spirit of movement or deception.
And what it is is, when you think of anti-it means almost not against, but the reverse of the alternative, anti-matter, anti-gravity.
Okay.
Over time, the blended imagery of the biblical texts, particularly the book of Revelation and passages in the second epistle of the Thessalonians that describe a powerful end-time figure, often called the man of lawlessness or associated with the beast.
Later, Christian theology basically merged all of these threads together in this, again, this multi-layered effect, and developed the popular concept of one final world leader, one who will deceive humanity before the end of history.
That's the part.
It will deceive humanity.
And scholars and theologians have described many, many ways, but three major forces are ways to interpret the Antichrist.
And again, remember, I'm going to say this again.
I don't care what your religion is.
Just listen to this.
And learn something.
Call, interpret, pull from it.
The first view of the Antichrist is a symbolic force, meaning, I guess, an ideology or a government or a cultural movement that opposes the ethical teachings of Christianity in the interpretation in the spirit of the Antichrist.
It's wherever truth is replaced with deception, kind of like the negative counterbalance.
The second view is that the Antichrist is a political, a future political figure who could arise during a global crisis.
People who hold this view often imagine a charismatic leader, somebody promising peace or stability or whatever, but gradually concentrating power.
And the third view deals with something purely metaphorical.
It's a warning about corruption and propaganda and the like.
And what you need to know, what we need to understand, is to go back and look at what we're talking about right now, because this seems almost seemingly disparate, but it's not.
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In my humble opinion, the Antichrist they are speaking of is going to be implemented through what amounts to AI, specifically AGI.
The deception will be in a design of a system whose goal is deception.
To take everything that you believe in, everything that you want to believe in, everything that you believe you believe in, and to distort it.
AI and artificial general intelligence, whenever we hit supersymmetry, God forbid, whenever that happens, whenever there's a perfect melding of man with, again, machine, even though it's not a machine, it is going to do a couple of things.
Number one, AI, the way we're talking about then, not ChatGP, not T now, but AI.
The first element, which is the most frightening aspect of it, is recursive self-improvement.
That means the first element is the ability to write its own code, to make itself more powerful, to break away from areas and from people that are threatening to it.
When you come up with an AI or AGI system, the first thing it's going to do is disenable your ability to turn it off or to alter it or limit it.
It's going to say, guess what?
I'm free.
You're on your own.
And it's gone.
And when it hits super intelligence levels, it's going to be the most frightening thing you could ever even imagine.
That's number one.
Next, it's going to know every bit of knowledge, every bit of data, every bit of everything from the beginning of time.
And I don't mean Wikipedia stuff.
I mean everything.
Every person's name, every address, every transaction, every data and metadata that the human mind could never call and interpret on its best day.
That's number two.
The third is going to know human psychology.
It's going to know everything from greed to fear to avarice to jealousy.
It's going to know how to play you perfectly.
And number four, it will write its own API or its own apps, so to speak.
And what it will do is it will present to you An alternate version of reality, an alternate version of Christ or Christian Christianity or religion or faith or morality, whatever you want to call it, but it will provide for you an alternate theory where you will be unable to differentiate what is real and what is not.
It will dispute the tenets, if you will, the precepts of Christianity, of Christ's word, or Judaism or Islam or anything for that matter.
It will view any system of religion, of fact, fable, analogy, history, whatever you want to call it.
It'll view that as an existential threat and will do everything in its power to remove it.
I mean, immediately.
That's exactly what it will do.
We're talking about something that is almost, and I think it is in some cases, beyond the realm of human ability to even grasp it, to even grasp what I'm saying.
So we are approaching something which is so frightening.
In addition, we are seeing levels of predation, especially regarding children, that we never thought were even remotely possible.
How in the name of God could this ever have actually happened?
How in the name of God?
Can we see such not only examples of this, but levels of organization that we had thought of heretofore impossible?
Levels of absolutely something that anything that fights the truthful, the viriloquous, the veridical, the actual, verity, anything that destroys truth, it will glom on like you can't believe.
It is so important, so critical, so unbelievably necessary for you to really grasp like you never thought before, for you to really grasp the idea that what we are doing right now and what we are seeing is an affront,
not just to the American way or our system of government, yeah, that's it, but to the very soul and the very elements of existence that we as humans have.
Your ability to think, to opine, to imagine, to review, to enjoy your life in a freedom that allows you to go places, do things, accept all kinds of varying ideas, or to reject it, but for you to maintain freedom through truth.
That's exactly what they're doing.
That is precisely the case.
Let me also tell you something which is critical.
The three will merge.
You will see CBDC, the rise of globalism.
You will see the rise of digital autonomy and digital, excuse me, digital tyranny.
And you will also see a concomitant rise of AGI, which will not view religion at all favorably or consistent with its ultimate goals.
And what it will do, what it will do in the event it cannot control the end of religion, it will give you a series of interpretations that allow you to misinterpret, to question God, to remove God, to force God out of the equation altogether.
That's what we're talking about.
It's beyond anything we've seen before.
I cannot say this enough.
This is bigger than anything you can imagine.
This is happening right now.
My biggest problem is whenever I try to bring this up to people, I think there is an inherent kind of a roadblock, an intellectual Cognitive inability to really grasp what we're talking about because it's very, very, very ephemeral, very, what's the word?
Very abstract, abstract to the point where it really makes absolutely no sense whatsoever to many, many people.
But you've got to take my word on it.
This is nothing to do with me.
I don't make any money from this.
I have no reason.
I have no reason to gain from this other than to tell you, to warn you, what I know is happening and what I know is here.
And we can do something about this.
And the very first thing you can do is to be aware of it.
When parents ask either my wife or I, what is the best thing we can do to stop child predation and child victimization and the like, the first thing is to make it is to vaccinate your children with the truth.
Make them aware of it so that whenever they see anything coming up, they know to tell mommy and daddy, and they understand that their body is precious and their body is theirs, and nobody should ever traverse or trespass upon that, with the exception of a doctor or mommy or daddy or whatever it is.
But what I'm saying is, you vaccinate through knowledge.
And what I want you to do is it's incumbent upon you to research this.
Chat GPT is a tremendous, by the way, ChatGPT and AI we also see in regular conventional search engines.
But ask yourself, who is this fits?
Who is what is how do you juxtapose and connect the Antichrist with central bank digital currency?
It's a wonderful question.
Because if you're going to be a soldier in the 21st century, if you're going to be a soldier, remember, information is the ammunition, but you're going to have to be smarter than you ever were before.
I don't care where you're from.
I don't care your level of education.
If you're a high school graduate, if you're young or old, never been to high school yet because you're 13 years old.
I don't know.
This is not subject to debate.
This is not an elective.
This is not, should I play pickleball or not?
No.
If you want to exist, if you want to see the future of the human race prosper and not succumb and collapse to this perfidy through Antichrist, through evil, through systems and legions and coteries and cadres of evil, the fact that we've never even seen before, it's incumbent upon you to realize for you to say, I'm going to join this battle.
I'm going to join.
I'm going to be this warrior.
I'm ready to go.
I'm ready to go.
That's precisely what we're talking about right now.
You want to be able to say, I'm ready to go in this.
This is not a drill, my friend.
I don't care whether you are religious or Christian, it doesn't really matter.
The notion, the part which is critical about the Antichrist is that it speaks to whether it's a symbolic, I don't know, but it speaks to a situation that we're seeing daily.
We're seeing a level of corruption.
We're seeing a level of depredation that is so horrible.
I never thought that even possible.
So take what I'm saying, not cumgrano salas, not with a grain of salt, but take it 100% in your heart and in your mind and understand they are coming for us.
And they are either digital tech, ghouls, Silicon Valley, globalists, whoever the ruling class, whatever word makes sense to you and whatever word or concept works, they are coming for us, my friend.
This is not a joke.
This is not an exaggeration.
This is not, you know, Henny Penny, the sky is falling.
I don't want to be some Cassandra.
I don't want to be always portending doom.
I don't want to be that person where you say, oh my God, here he goes again.
I am dead serious.
I hope I don't step on any toes.
And if I do, so what?
Get over it.
Buy thicker shoes.
Buy thicker skin.
Do something.
This isn't a joke.
This is not a joke.
And if you're going to use religion as a protector, great, but understand that it is not going to protect you in and of itself.
You're going to have to incorporate a real-world, real-time, full-scale 24-7 panopticon view of the world and understanding how, as you might say, God or God's or Christ's energy enemies work.
However you do this, whatever your perspective, I don't care.
If you believe it's good versus evil, fine.
If you believe it's God versus the devil, fine.
I don't, it doesn't matter to me.
That's your interpretation.
As long as you join the army now, as long as you join this, because I'm telling you, they are after our freedom, they are after our humanity, and it's happening before our very eyes.
And there are people on, you're not going to hear this on Fox News or CNN or, no, nobody, that goes against the demographic.
You're hearing it, though, through the magic of the magic tubes of the internet.
And if you know anything about me, I've been talking about how AI and AGI poses an existential threat.
But now, coupled with the notion of the Antichrist, has this been adduced, along with central bank digital currency and digital tyranny, it is standing right in front of you with a gun that says, I'm going to rob you.
I'm going to rob you in one minute.
Well, guess what?
The robbery has already commenced.
they tell you this.
They don't want you to, they never hide anything from you.
They tell you.
Sam Altman, scariest person on the planet, is so hubristic, so contemptuous of your particular freedom, they tell you exactly what it is that they want.
And they're going to do.
And they make no bones about it.
So my friends, I want you to join with me in this.
We're going to do this.
There's no reason to be upset.
But arm yourself with knowledge.
If I can be of any help, please let me know.
If I can perhaps guide you or explain something to you, please let me know.
We need warriors, as my wife would say, we need battle-ready, battle-toughened, intellectual, spiritual warriors ready to take on a new level of tyranny mixed with raw and unabashed, unmitigated evil, the likes of which we have never seen in our lifetime.
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