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Here is the technocratic mega-city being built in Saudi Arabia

The globalist agenda

Published 12 June 2023
– By Editorial Staff
Some pictures of the city plan. Left: a comparison of the 500 meter high glass-clad 'city wall' with the Empire State Building in New York.

The city of Neom will be home to 9 million people in the Saudi desert. The giant building is portrayed as a high-tech wonder, while critics point to almost dystopian mass surveillance around the clock and the project’s links to shady globalist organizations. The unusual city plan is based on a line just 200 meters wide, but it will be 170 kilometers long and 500 meters high.

The project is mainly promoted as ‘climate smart’, with no cars and automated services controlled by artificial intelligence. An express train will also run through the long, narrow city, allowing residents to get from end to end in a short time. City residents will never have more than a five-minute walk to shops and supermarkets. The entire long line will be enclosed by a giant glass wall that can extend 500 meters above the ground.

The crown prince of the Wahabi theocracy, Mohammed bin Salman, is the face of the idea and the one who presented the details of the project. So far, 500 billion dollars have been invested in the project.

At the same time, the project is being criticized for including the forced displacement of at least 20,000 people to carry out the construction – mainly from the country’s formerly nomadic huwait minority.

At least one of the activists highlighting the loss of thousands of people’s homes due to the giant construction project has been killed by Saudi security forces under unclear circumstances and several have been arrested and detained. According to unconfirmed reports, several local people have been executed for refusing to sell their homes to the Saudi state.

Mass surveillance – 24/7

The giant city is intended to function as a gigantic and advanced surveillance society. It will collect residents’ data – and pay them for it.

– Without trust, there is no data. Without data, there is no value, explains Joseph Bradley, Executive Director of NEOM Tech & Digital CO who will oversee the implementation of the new technology platform.

This technology enables users to review and easily understand the intention behind the use of their personal data, while offering financial rewards for authorising the use of their dat, he continues.

Facial recognition will be widely used in Neom. Photo: facsimile/Youtube

The basic investment from the Saudi government is mainly to develop the necessary infrastructure. The real big money will come from private investors and the vision is for a ‘smart city’ designed to be controlled mainly by artificial intelligence – using data to manage power, water, waste, transportation, healthcare and security.

According to The Star, data will be collected from users’ homes, mobile phones and from cameras with facial recognition technology and various other sensors. This extensive mass surveillance is needed to “anticipate users’ needs”, according to project officials.

“A terrible idea”

Critics also point to Saudi Arabia’s particularly poor human rights record, including persecuting, imprisoning or even killing political dissidents.

– The surveillance concerns are justified. It is, in effect, a surveillance city, says Vincent Mosco, who researches the social impact of technology.

Marwa Fatafta, policy officer at the digital rights organization Access Now, agrees, saying that people in the high-tech city are being tricked into sharing their private information.

It sounds like a privacy disaster waiting to happen. Adding money as an incentive is a terrible idea; it distorts the right of people to freely consent, and normalises the practice of selling personal data for profit.

According to Joseph Bradley, residents will be asked to share their location data, health status and movement patterns – and if someone hasn’t moved in a while, a drone will be sent out to “check on” them.

In Noem, drones will be used to “check on” residents. Photo: Ellen MacDonald/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

– How can I trust that the data will only be shared for as long as I want, and only with the third parties or services that I have chosen? asks Faisal Al-Ali, a 33-year-old marketing specialist from Dubai.

There are also other concerns about Neom – in other ‘smart’ cities, residents have often complained of feeling depressed, isolated and deprived of human contact when everything is controlled artificially and without human intervention.

– Human connections are a key social infrastructure. Complex data infrastructure does not usually cater to important social and cultural needs that are paramount to urban life, says Samira Khedr, Professor of Sociology at Ain Shams University in Cairo.

Other ideas put forward as potential opportunities in the city include flying taxis and robotic maids doing household chores and artificial control of the weather above the city.

 

Crown Prince Mohammed and oligarch Yasir Al-Rumayyan Photo: Kremlin/Public Investment Fund/CC BY 4.0

Links to powerful globalists and corporations

Saudi Arabia will reportedly provide an initial USD 500 billion from its sovereign wealth fund, which is headed by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and oligarch Yasir Al-Rumayyan. The latter has declared that the fund will work more closely with financial companies such as Blackstone and SoftBank. He himself also sits on the board of SoftBank.

Mohammed bin Salman, who is not only the crown prince but also the country’s defense minister, has been instrumental in the creation of Neom and how the city will be run primarily by artificial intelligence and robots. He personally has close ties to the Davos-based ultra-globalist organization World Economic Forum and has on several occasions sat in meetings with the WEF’s top representatives to discuss “economic development” and other issues. The World Economic Forum as an organization also openly collaborates with Neom and lists the project as a partner on its website.

It is also noteworthy that Klaus Kleinfeld, who was appointed chairman of the Saudi Project Neom in 2017 and personal advisor to the Saudi Crown Prince the following year, has also served on the boards of two World Economic Forum foundations until 2016 and 2017 respectively. Kleinfeld has also served on the steering committee of the notorious Bilderberg Group and is still listed as a key WEF staff member.

Kleinfeld will, according to the Saudi regime, “assume greater responsibility for improving technological and economic development in Saudi Arabia”.

It is clear that the power elite in Davos are very positive about the project. The leaders of both SoftBank Group and BlackStone Inc. have praised the megaproject, which will also include a ski resort, swimming lanes for commuters, glow-in-the-dark sand, artificially controlled weather, and “smart” and robotic solutions for virtually all societal functions.

Kleinfeld at the World Economic Forum 2014. Photo: World Economic Forum/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Vision: A city “where we can see everything”

The vision, according to Neom’s board, is an automated city “where we can see everything” – and according to the documents, a city where crimes and violations are automatically recorded by a computer and people are monitored 24 hours a day.

Furthermore, Neom will be the world’s first “independent international zone”. Although it remains to be seen exactly how independent it will be, Saudi jurisdiction will not prevail in the city – instead it will have its own legal system developed jointly by “local and international investors”.

The Millennium Report interprets this as meaning that Neom will not be an official part of Saudi Arabia and asks why the Wahabi dictatorship is willing to give up a huge piece of land that will not be under their own control.

“That actually doesn’t sound like such a fun place to live after all. In fact, it basically sounds like the sort of dystopian nightmare that I have always been warning about”, they remark.

Globalist and transhumanist Klaus Schwab. Photo: WEF/Greg Beadle/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

World Economic Forum President and Founder Klaus Schwab has previously stated that “man and machine will merge” and that the fourth industrial revolution will “lead to a fusion of our physical, digital and biological identities”.

“As the capabilities in this area develop, police and courts will be tempted to use the technologies to assess the likelihood of criminal activity, determine guilt, or perhaps even retrieve memories directly from people’s brains”, he writes in his book Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

In Neom, at least some of these plans now seem to become reality.

In addition to the 170 kilometer long, 500 meter high and 200 meter wide city "The Line", Neom will also have an international airport, a large ski resort, a port and a large industrial city called Oxagon. 6500 hectares of land in the area will also be used for cultivation - primarily for genetically modified crops of various kinds.

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Merz: Defiant EU nations could be hit with economic punishment

The globalist agenda

Published 28 May 2025
– By Editorial Staff
Merz at the World Economic Forum in Davos earlier this year.

German Chancellor and former BlackRock executive Friedrich Merz is threatening to support a freeze on EU funding for Slovakia and Hungary if the countries continue to oppose EU leaders’ sanctions policy against Russia.

On Monday, Merz removed restrictions on Ukraine’s use of German long-range weapons deep inside Russia, a decision the Kremlin described as a “serious escalation”. Slovakia and Hungary have also taken a critical stance toward the West’s policy in the Ukraine war.

However, Merz does not appreciate the criticism and issued a clear warning to Bratislava and Budapest, stating that EU countries considered to be in breach of the rule of law could face infringement proceedings.

– Withdrawing European funds is always an option… If it is necessary, then we will deal with it, he added.

He also emphasized that “we cannot allow the decisions of the entire EU to depend on a small minority” and hinted that there could be “clearer words and possibly also harder conflicts” if the two countries do not change course.

“The end of democracy in Europe”

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán have long criticized EU leaders for prolonging the war with military and economic support for Kiev without any visible progress.

Fico, who survived an assassination attempt in May 2024, has taken a more neutral stance than his predecessors since coming to power in 2023. Under his leadership, Slovakia has reduced its military support for Ukraine and promised to veto new EU sanctions that could damage the country’s economy. Fico has also visited Moscow twice since December to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, which has sparked anger and criticism from both the EU and NATO.

The Slovak prime minister rejected Merz’s threat to withdraw funding and called the attack unacceptable.

– If someone wants to push a policy where only one opinion is allowed, that’s the end of democracy in Europe, he told reporters during a visit to Armenia on Tuesday.

“Not the path to unity and cooperation”

He argued that a policy where only one opinion is allowed is as dangerous for Europe as a third world war, and that German leaders must accept that not everyone shares their views.

Slovakia is not a little schoolchild that needs to be lectured. Slovakia’s sovereign positions do not stem from vanity, but are based on our national interests“, Fico stated, continuing:

When you hear such aggressive remarks, it feels like we are not heading into good times. The words of the German Chancellor are absolutely unacceptable in modern Europe. If we don’t obey, are we to be punished? This is not the path toward cohesion and cooperation”.

Pro-NATO candidate wins dramatic re-election in Romania

The globalist agenda

Published 19 May 2025
– By Editorial Staff
Nicusor Dan celebrates the election victory with his supporters.

Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan, an outspoken supporter of the EU and NATO, has won the Romanian presidential election after an intense and polarized campaign. With just over 54 percent of the vote, he defeated his national conservative challenger George Simion.

The re-election was held after Romania’s Constitutional Court annulled the original election last fall. The independent candidate Calin Georgescu initially led by a large margin, but the election was later declared invalid due to alleged Russian interference, accusations that have not yet been proven.

The ensuing political crisis has been described as the deepest in Romania in decades. George Simion (AUR), who has spoken out against further military support for Ukraine and suggested appointing Georgescu as prime minister, won the first round of the re-election with a clear lead.

Nicusor Dan, an independent centrist liberal with a strong EU profile and advocate for NATO, has received support from, among others, Moldovan President Maia Sandu and a majority of pro-EU leaders.

According to preliminary official results, Nicusor Dan has won with approximately 54 percent of the vote. George Simion congratulated his opponent and commented that the election “reflects the will of the Romanian people”, even though he had previously questioned the election process.

Nicusor Dan thanked his supporters for their “outstanding mobilization” and promised to work for a “united and honest Romania” with respect for the law and citizens’ rights.

Allegations of interference from both East and West

Allegations of an illegitimate election process and influence campaigns from both the West and the East have characterized the election campaign, contributing to a sense of mistrust and uncertainty among voters.

George Simion has also accused Moldovan authorities and media of conducting an illegal campaign to favor Dan among voters with dual Moldovan and Romanian citizenship, something Moldova has denied. At the same time, Romania’s security services have warned of Russian influence, particularly in connection with the disqualified candidate Georgescu, allegations that Moscow has rejected.

 

 

Telegram founder Pavel Durov also recently claimed that France had attempted to silence conservative voices in Romania ahead of the re-election by pressuring the platform to block political channels. Durov stated that they had refused and called the attempt a threat to freedom of speech.

Polish presidential candidate burns EU flag: “Down with Eurocommunism”

The globalist agenda

Published 13 May 2025
– By Editorial Staff
Grzegorz Braun has become world famous for his controversial and spectacular actions.

Grzegorz Braun, Polish presidential candidate and Member of the European Parliament, burned the EU flag outside the historic Wujek coal mine in Katowice last week.

The action, which was shared on social media, was carried out as a dramatic protest against what Braun calls the EU’s “bureaucratic tyranny” and “ideological occupation” of Poland.

In a video posted on Braun’s official channels, he is first seen tearing down an EU flag inside Poland’s Ministry of Industry in Katowice, wiping his shoes on it, and then setting it on fire outside the building. In the text accompanying the video, he wrote: “Down with Eurocommunism! This is Poland”.

– We will never in Poland exhibit signs against us of an enemy organization. This organization has led to the liquidation of Poland, such emblems are not surrounded by any protection of rights in Poland, he declared.

According to Braun, the flag burning is a symbol of resistance to the EU’s environmental policy, which he believes threatens Polish industry.

– This is Poland, not Brussels! We will not tolerate symbols of hostile structures, the politician shouted during the protest.

During a press conference, Braun argued that the EU is forcing political measures on Poles that are killing the country’s traditional industries and attempting to erase Poland’s national identity. The Wujek coal mine, a symbol of Polish labor and energy, was deliberately chosen as the setting to highlight the historical contrast with the EU’s climate agenda.

A controversial figure

Braun’s action is part of his Eurosceptic campaign ahead of the Polish presidential election, in which he continues to describe the EU as an “occupying power” and focuses particularly on attacking what he sees as supranational interference in national decisions. However, Braun only has between 1 and 3 percent of voter support in opinion polls, making his chances of becoming president highly unlikely.

The incident occurred after the European Parliament decided to lift his parliamentary immunity, allowing him to be prosecuted for an incident in December 2023. At that time, Braun used a fire extinguisher to extinguish Jewish Hanukkah candles in the Polish parliament – an act that attracted a great deal of attention.

– The people participating in the Satanic cult should be ashamed, he declared in connection with the incident.

The Nordic Times also drew attention to Braun earlier this year when, during the European Parliament’s annual memorial service for the victims of the Holocaust, he chose instead to focus on the ongoing genocide in Gaza, but was shortly thereafter escorted out of the chamber.

Klaus Schwab under investigation for corruption – by his own globalist organization

The globalist agenda

Published 24 April 2025
– By Editorial Staff
Schwab denies all allegations - and threatens to sue the board if they proceed with the investigation.

Members of the Board of Directors of the infamous World Economic Forum confirm the launch of a formal investigation against founder Klaus Schwab.

Whistleblowers accuse the globalist forum’s frontman of widespread corruption, including using the organization’s money for private cash withdrawals, massages, nights in luxury hotels and expensive trips abroad.

Yesterday, Schwab resigned with immediate effect after having led the powerful organization in Davos since 1971. The reason, reportedly, is a letter from a whistleblower raising alarm about serious financial and ethical misconduct – in which the 87-year-old and his wife are accused of systematically funding their exclusive private lifestyle with the organization’s donations.

For example, the Villa Mundi, located near the WEF headquarters in Geneva, was allegedly used privately by the Schwab family – even though it was purchased for the equivalent of €50 million of the organization’s money.

In addition to luxury consumption, Schwab is also said to treat his employees unacceptably – women close to him have reportedly been treated particularly badly.

The allegations have been deemed so serious that Schwab is now being investigated by the organization he himself once founded – and the board confirms that it has called in several legal experts for the purpose.

In a statement, the WEF says it “takes the allegations seriously” – but is careful to stress that these are as yet unproven and that it “will await the outcome of the investigation to comment further”.

Threatens to sue the board

Klaus Schwab himself denies all the allegations and claims they are completely unfounded. He claims that he has not misappropriated the forum’s assets at all and has also threatened to sue the board if they choose to proceed with the investigation.

In this context, it should be mentioned that Schwab is generally considered one of the world’s most high-profile globalists and technocrats – and The Nordic Times has over the years highlighted his activities in a series of articles.

He has often been recognized as a horror example of the international elite’s plans for the world – for example, when he proclaimed that his disciples are “penetrating the cabinets” of world’s governments or that “the fourth industrial revolution will lead to a fusion of our physical, digital and biological identities“.

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