It was with great pleasure that I returned to Sonia Poulton’s Wake Up show to discuss the rise of the digital state in 2025. A special shout out to Carey from Wells for this one!

In a half hour discussion, we got into:

* deliberate scrambling of cognition via the trans agenda;

* why not to waste time petitioning the Government;

* Blair, digital ID, interoperability, and a single global system of digital control;

* Palantir and the creation of a digital surveillance state;

* Trump as the facilitator of technocracy;

* the Ukrainian digital state;

* the Global Government Technology Centre and the Agentic State;

* AI, automated killing, and the information-liquidation model;

* why AI is not to be trusted, even as institutions appear to be placing blind faith in it;

* social media as a social containment mechnanism;

* Grok’s AI assistant Ani;

* AI, loneliness, and psychosis;

* Apps, smart devices, addiction, and dependency;

* the power of mass non-compliance - reject “smart”!

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