Blair and Ellison have a shared vision for the future, and it is one that most of us would never vote for if given the chance (which, of course, we won’t be)
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You know the world is in a dark place when in the space of just a few days Tony Blair, an unrepentant war criminal and profiteer, is proposed as chairman of a “board of peace” for Gaza while Larry Ellison, the world’s second richest man, takes a controlling stake in TikTok’s US operations. Both are fervent Zionists as well as long-standing business associates, and they are on a mission to transform the world in ways most of us would probably recoil from.
A Regime Run by “Affluent Foreigners” with “Palestinians at the Bottom”
During his second term in office, Tony Blair considered allowing Israel to take over “five main settlement blocs in the West Bank” which would “become part of Israel”, according to newly released British government documents. He is also an honorary patron of a charity, the UK branch of Israel’s Jewish National Fund (JNF), that displays a map on its website including the occupied Golan Heights, West Bank and Gaza Strip as part of Israel.
Blair will now head the Gaza International Transitional Authority (Gita), a regime run by affluent foreigners with Palestinian executives at the bottom, as Liza Rozovsky reports for Ha’aretz:
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s plan for running the Gaza Strip after the war proposes a multilayered, hierarchical structure in which senior international diplomats and businesspeople are on top and the Palestinians running things on the ground are at the bottom.
According to the document, which Haaretz is publishing in full for the first time, the Gaza International Transitional Authority (GITA) will be run by an international board.
Its chairman will be Gaza’s top political executive, but he will work “in close consultation” with the Palestinian Authority. As Haaretz has previously reported, Blair himself is slated to hold this position, according to an Israeli government source. (Tony Blair’s draft Gaza plan obtained by Haaretz)
Among other things, the chairman will be responsible for diplomacy – with other countries, with international organizations and with donors. This includes “strategic security diplomacy with external actors, including Israel, Egypt, and the United States.”
GITA will operate under a mandate from the UN Security Council and be given broad powers, including responsibility for coordinating security in Gaza and passing legislation that will govern residents’ lives.
It remains to be seen whether Blair will accept the governor/viceroy role or prefers a more hands-off position such as an “adviser”. One thing that is clear is that he will not be welcome by the overwhelming majority of Palestinians, for obvious reasons.
Regaining Narrative Control
Ellison’s buyout of TikTok’s US assets is no less controversial given he is the largest individual donor to the Israeli Defence Forces and one of six Jewish billionaires that have “quietly become the backbone of Israel’s wartime spending and tech innovation”, according to the Jerusalem Post. As Wikileaks points out, the takeover is all about regaining narrative control, particularly around Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza and multi-front conflicts in the Middle East:
Ellison, who made his fortune developing Oracle – a database system he originally built for the CIA – already controls CBS, Paramount, MTV, Comedy Central, Showtime, Nickelodeon (which makes kids shows) as well as Channel 10 in Australia and Channel 5 in the UK. Ellison is also expected to finalize control over Warner Bros. Discovery (including CNN, HBO and the Discovery channel) before the end of 2025.
Even before the forced sale is finalised, censorship of TikTok content critical of Israel, including of the deal itself, has reached extreme levels as the platform moves to align with its prospective new owners. Fox – a Murdoch asset – is also seeking to join the Ellison consortium, a move that could enable cross-promotion between Fox and TikTok, further tightening the Israeli-aligned information bubble.
Disapproval of what Israel is doing in Gaza has risen to 60% of the US population, nearly double the approval rate of 32%.
The U.S. still has over three years of Trump left. Israeli-aligned Jewish billionaires control OpenAI, Google, Meta/Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp, Palantir, CBS, HBO, and most of Conde Nast (Reddit, Vogue, The New Yorker, Wired, GQ, Vanity Fair) as well as numerous Hollywood studios, regional papers and radio stations.
Ellison’s Dark Vision for OUR Future
But it is what Ellison and Blair are doing together that is getting a lot less attention, despite the fact it could end up impacting all of our lives. Ellison has donated or pledged a staggering £257million for the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, which appears to be securing him significant access to, and influence, over the Starmer government.
In late February, we published a post titled “Larry Ellison’s Dark Vision for OUR future”. Ellison, we noted in the first paragraph, “has a vision for the future, and it is one that most of us would never vote for if given the chance (which, of course, we won’t be)”:
It essentially involves harvesting and storing all of a nation’s data, including all of its citizens’ most personal data, in one place, and then letting AI programs scour all over it. That data, he says, should include economic data, electronic healthcare records, including our genomic data, spatial information, agricultural data and info about infrastructure.
“I have to tell [the] AI model as much about my country as I can,” Ellison said in a recent onstage discussion with his old friend Tony Blair at the World Governments Summit. “We need to unify all the national data, put it into a database where it’s easily consumable by the AI model, and then ask whatever question you like. That’s the missing link.”
Ellison believes that the benefits of such a system will include improved healthcare, thanks to treatments tailored to individuals, as well as the ability for governments to increase food production by better predicting crop yields. And at the World Governments Summit he was touting those benefits to senior representatives of many of the world’s governments, with Blair by his side helping to lubricate the sales pitch.
The octogenarian tech titan has an almost religious faith in AI, describing it as “maybe” the most important discovery in the entire history of humankind — more important, seemingly, than fire, the wheel, language, steam, electricity and the atom. He is also aggressively pushing for governments, particularly the US and the UK, to embrace AI-enabled control and surveillance technologies, with a significant onus on biometric identifiers — something both countries have already been doing for some time, with help from Ellison.
Now, Ellison wants to take AI-enabled digital surveillance and control systems to a new level by totally centralising them, despite the obvious security implications. He also envisions a world without passwords and personal identification numbers (PINs) in which access to IT systems and tech platforms will be based purely on our biometric identifiers. As he says in the clip below of his recent chat with Blair, “this is the last year you will ever log onto an Oracle system with a password… biometric logins are the future.”
Ellison also talks about the need for national governments to have their own “sovereign” data centres to power their AI systems, which will no doubt provide Oracle, the world’s largest database management company, lots of new income streams.
In an Oracle financial analysts meeting in September, Ellison told investors that AI will usher in a new era of surveillance that he said, gleefully. will ensure “citizens will be on their best behaviour.” It is almost as if Ellison read Orwell’s 1984, Huxley’s Brave New World, Phillip K Dick’s Minority Report and a host of other dystopian novels and came away with a new business model.
Now, Ellison’s vision is rapidly becoming a reality on both sides of the Atlantic, as the world’s second richest man flexes his financial muscles not only in the development of AI data centres, digital health, online surveillance systems and biometric identifiers but also with big moves in the traditional and social media space.
Mandatory Digital ID for Work
Meanwhile, as we warned last Tuesday (Sept 23), the UK’s Keir Starmer government is going all-in on digital identity. Two days later, Starmer said this:
Starmer’s announcement directly contradicted his government’s previous claims that adoption of digital ID would not be mandatory. Government ministers have spent the past three days tying themselves in knots over the issue, with one even saying that it will be mandatory to have a digital identity but not mandatory to use one.
Serious concerns have been raised about the potential implications for the millions of UK citizens who do not have smartphones. From London Loves Business:
Elizabeth Anderson, CEO of the Digital Poverty Alliance said, “The introduction of digital IDs sets a dangerous precedent, potentially only allowing people the right to work if they can afford and use a smartphone.
That ignores the 19 million people who are suffering from digital poverty and lack a smartphone, connectivity or skills, creating a black hole in the labour market and a significant portion of the population who are immediately excluded even further.”
“The people most impacted are those on low incomes, older people, young people paying for their own phone bill, refugees and domestic violence victims, as they are the most likely to not have access to a smartphone.”
“A serious concern is where this will definitely stop at the right to work? Or in reality, will it stretch to accessing the NHS, applying for benefits or pensions, or applying for training? Many of us take for granted these essential services, but the steps taken to implement a digital ID system could have a worrying impact on millions of people who are already being left behind.”
The Labour government’s announcement of mandatory digital ID for work coincided almost perfectly with the publication by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change of a report titled “Time for Digital ID: A New Consensus for a State That Works”. The report’s executive summary claims that UK “citizens are rightly expecting the government to deliver common-sense solutions [in the digital space] or make way,” presumably for a government that will:
Digital ID is one such solution – and there is a massive political upside for those who embrace it. Build a system that works and voters will respond.
A modern digital ID does three things. It allows people to prove that they are who they say they are, prove that certain things about them are true, and seamlessly and securely access services on that basis. Far from reflecting the “papers, please” caricature of an ID card, digital ID is the foundation of a new system that brings fairness, control and convenience to people’s everyday interactions with each other and with the state.
There is so much brazen propaganda in these two small paragraphs alone that it is hard to know where to begin. First off, you have to admire the slyness of the authors for slipping in the word “control” between the two reassuring words, “fairness” and “convenience”, as the intended benefits of the digital identity system, presumably hoping readers won’t notice it.
After all, the centrally controlled digital identity systems being rapidly erected around the world are all about control. A full-fledged, government-backed digital identity system could end up touching just about every aspect of our lives, from our health to our private and public communications, the information we are able to access online, our dealings with government, the food we eat, the goods we buy and even our ability to participate in the economy…
Nick Corbishley 