Who Rules the World?
Culture of Change - Episode 2 Show Notes
Last week on Culture of Change, we discussed the tactics used by corporations to drive change based on Pritchett and Pound’s High Velocity Culture Change.
We looked at what “they” are doing – but who are “they”? That is the substance of episode 2.
Public-Private Partnerships
The World Economic Forum talks about public-private partnerships regularly. In every sector of every industry, corporations and governments are coming together, supported by charitable organizations, NGOs, and pseudo-governmental entities to bring about the Great Reset to the New World Order.
This is the future they are building.
Mar 2016: The importance of small public-private partnerships
Dec 2021: How public-private partnerships can give more people better healthcare
Jan 2022: How to scale public-private partnerships for global progress
Jan 2022: How to harness the transformative potential of public-private partnerships
Jan 2023: Data and public-private partnerships are the future of cybersecurity
Jan 2023: Public-private partnerships…socio-economic challenges in Central America
In a more stunning example, a report entitled, “Strategic Infrastructure: Steps to Prepare and Accelerate Public-Private Partnerships” was released in April of 2013.
Apr 2013: Strategic Infrastructure: Steps to Prepare and Accelerate Public-Private Partnerships
That really got me thinking. The big push to bring about our current US Election System began in Colorado in 2013. And our current US Election System is one of the best examples we have of public-private partnerships in action.
Today, we are digging into that example.
The US Election Machine
On Friday, Holly at Altitude published a detailed OpEd on Badlands Substack entitled, “Blockchain Good, Blockchain Voting Bad.” There is much to consider when it comes to Blockchain Voting, and tomorrow Holly will be joining the Great Space Debate on Blockchain Voting in Twitter Spaces.
We are not going to talk about Blockchain Voting here, but rather I want to dig into the US Election Machine visual that accompanied Holly’s article.
From Holly’s piece:
“When technology was introduced into our elections through the Help Americans Vote Act (HAVA) in 2002, three things happened:
U.S. Elections turned into a multi-billion-dollar industry overnight.
HAVA set up the conditions that allowed an overly complicated, complex, privately developed, owned, and managed election “machine” to develop.
Elected and non-elected election officials with almost no technical skills and zero cyber security expertise were put in charge of evaluating, recommending, selecting, purchasing, running, managing, auditing, and verifying the tech mandated by HAVA to run our elections. This problem persists today.
HAVA fundamentally changed the voting system designed by our Founding Fathers. Voting went from a decentralized civic process where citizens voted at their local precincts, on paper, on election day, with their votes hand-counted by local election officials and volunteers to a centralized, tech-driven, now corrupted ‘election machine.’”
The visual is a complex view with four concentric circles.
RING 1: The main components central to driving the election machine.
RING 2: Functionality, action, and data that falls outside of the direct control of election officials.
RING 3: Execution layer – the people, processes, functions, equipment, software, and funding reach and affect the most local levels of the election system.
RING 4: The meta factors that work to contain the system. There is variability and complexity within each that serves to control, protect, enforce, and manage the status-quo election system.
A Relevant and Highly Specific Example
Now, elections are just the example here. Within these four concentric circles, you have government officials, election vendors (corporations), pseudo-governmental entities, NGOs, consultancies, and more.
The structural changes go back to 2002 with HAVA. Openly embracing public-private partnerships as the future goes back to 2013. Now 10 years later, in 2023, the science is settled that public-private partnerships are a non-negotiable mechanism for modern government.
Be sure to tune in next Sunday as we look at the who and how of Climate, Netzero, and ESG – the foundational cause of the Great Reset to the New World Order – through the lens of organized change management and corporate control.
It’s fitting, then, to leave you with this quote from Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth (2006):
“Consider what happened during the crisis of global fascism. At first, even the truth about Hitler was inconvenient. Many in the west hoped the danger would simply go away.”
The great evil never goes away. It just evolves.
Watch Culture of Change on Badlands Media, Sundays at 6PM ET. Show notes and references are available on my substack following each show. Follow me on all the socials @asheinamerica.