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? Dates: November 17, 18, and 19 ? Location: Orlando, Florida, USA (or tune in from home with our virtual ticket options)

Are you ready to unlock the future of economics and finance? Prepare for an unforgettable World Economic Conference experience in sunny Orlando, Florida! This premier event is your gateway to insights, networking, and valuable resources that will supercharge your understanding of the global economy.

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1. Event Admission: Enjoy reserved seating assigned based on the order of ticket sales, ensuring you have a prime view of every presentation.
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The second edition of “The Plot to Seize Russia – The Untold History” is now available for purchase in paperback and hardcover on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. The ebook will be available shortly.

Book description:

“Take care of Russia,” Boris Yeltsin said as he departed his presidency in August 1999. These words were directed at current Russian president, Vladimir Putin. Yeltsin specifically picked Putin as his predecessor to prevent the takeover of Russia.

So, who was Yeltsin warning against? Newly declassified documents from the Clinton Administration prove that there was a plot to rig the Russian election of 2000. These never-before-seen documents confirm numerous attempts to implement pro-Western policies using the Russian oligarchy headed by Boris Berezovsky.

On the other side were the communists who desired a return to the glory days of the Soviet Union. As one of the largest international hedge fund managers, author Martin Armstrong found himself in the middle of perhaps the greatest espionage, or attempt at a regime change for Russia, in modern history.

The Plot to Seize Russia pulls back the curtain to expose the most extraordinary attempt to seize power in modern history, but with the pen rather than armies. These declassified documents reveal a plot that has altered our thinking about the relations between the United States and Russia. The thirst for power comes seething through every line of these papers that alter our perception of reality, change the course of history, and now threaten us with World War III.

I have repeatedly warned that people need to watch Turkey. Most analysts view Turkey as simply another emerging market struggling with inflation, currency volatility, and political uncertainty. They are missing the larger picture. Turkey sits at the crossroads of Europe, Russia, the Middle East, and Asia. When capital shifts, when energy flows change, when geopolitical alliances begin to fracture, Turkey is often standing directly in the middle.

Now Turkey is negotiating with Russia to extend natural gas supply agreements beyond 2026. The discussions involve Turkey’s state energy company BOTAS and Russia’s Gazprom, with future supply volumes and contract terms still under negotiation. Russia remains one of Turkey’s most important suppliers through the TurkStream and Blue Stream pipelines.

Europe spent years proclaiming that it would permanently divorce itself from Russian energy. Sanctions were imposed and pipelines were destroyed. Yet the laws of economics do not care about political slogans. Energy must still move from where it is produced to where it is consumed. Russia still possesses enormous reserves. Europe still requires energy. Turkey increasingly controls one of the most important transit routes connecting those two realities. Today, TurkStream is effectively the last major route carrying Russian gas into parts of Europe.

This is precisely why Turkey has become so important in the emerging multipolar world. Erdogan has spent years balancing relations with NATO, Russia, China, Europe, and the United States. Western leaders often criticize him, yet they continue dealing with him because geography has given Turkey leverage that cannot be replaced. Turkey’s position allows it to act as a bridge between competing power blocs.

At the same time, Turkey is not merely relying on Russian gas. Ankara is expanding energy cooperation with Azerbaijan, investing roughly $30 billion into its electricity infrastructure, strengthening transmission links across the region, and attempting to position itself as the primary energy hub connecting Asia, the Caucasus, the Middle East, and Europe.

Turkey sits directly on the fault line of several major geopolitical trends at the same time. The war cycle, the fragmentation of Europe, tensions between NATO and Russia, instability in the Middle East, migration flows, and the global energy transition all converge in one place. Whenever multiple historical trends intersect in a single region, volatility follows.

What many fail to understand is that Turkey’s future is no longer tied exclusively to Europe. It is building relationships eastward and southward while maintaining one foot inside the Western system. That balancing act may become one of the most important geopolitical stories of the next decade.

People should watch Turkey carefully because it is increasingly becoming the barometer of the new world order. The old postwar structure is breaking apart. The nations positioned between competing power centers often become the biggest winners. Turkey may be one of them, provided it can navigate the storms that are clearly gathering into 2027 and beyond.

Governments always know exactly where to find soldiers during economic decline. They look for debt, unemployment, hopelessness, and young men with no future. That has always been the pattern throughout history. Rome did it. Napoleon did it. Britain did it. The United States targeted poor communities for Vietnam and Iraq. Now, Russia is openly doing the same thing by forgiving massive debts for men willing to go fight in Ukraine.

Putin has now signed a decree wiping out debts up to 10 million rubles, roughly $140,000, for new military recruits and even their spouses if they sign contracts with the Russian Defense Ministry for at least one year. That is economic recruitment. They are effectively saying to indebted young men: fight for the state and we will erase your financial problems.

This is what governments do when war collides with economic stress. Military recruitment always surges where opportunity collapses. Young men drowning in debt, unable to afford housing, unable to build families, and unable to see a future become the ideal targets for governments needing manpower.

The Kremlin needs a constant supply of men while trying to avoid another politically dangerous mass mobilization. Instead of openly forcing millions into the army, they increasingly rely on financial incentives, debt forgiveness, bonuses, housing promises, educational incentives, and economic desperation.

This is not unique to Russia whatsoever. Canada is moving in exactly the same direction economically even if the political class pretends otherwise. Youth unemployment in Canada has exploded higher over the past several years while housing costs have become completely detached from wages. In many parts of Canada, young people cannot even dream of owning a home anymore. Rent consumes enormous portions of income. Debt burdens continue rising. Real wages have failed to keep pace with inflation.

Then, suddenly, military recruitment begins rising sharply. That is not a coincidence. Governments always recruit most successfully during periods of economic hopelessness because the military starts to look like one of the few stable paths remaining for many young men. Canada itself has seen military recruitment improve recently after years of severe shortages, particularly as economic uncertainty, geopolitical fears, and deteriorating job prospects spread among younger demographics. The political class frames this as patriotism. In reality, economics is always lurking underneath.

During the Great Depression, military enlistment surged globally because civilian economies collapsed. During the Great Recession in 2008, the United States military disproportionately recruited from poorer regions devastated by deindustrialization and debt. Recruiters never set up offices primarily in wealthy neighborhoods. They go where economic pain exists.

Russia is simply becoming more direct about it. The frightening part is how normalized this becomes during prolonged war cycles. First it begins with bonuses. Then debt relief. Then special privileges. Then prison recruitment. Russia has already moved through much of this progression during the Ukraine conflict. Wagner heavily recruited convicts, prisoners, migrants, and economically desperate foreigners from poorer countries throughout Africa and Asia.

Reports now show Russia recruiting vulnerable migrants and foreign workers aggressively because economically vulnerable populations are always easier to pressure into military service. Governments understand human desperation very well.

Meanwhile the political elites who advocate endless war rarely send their own children anywhere near the front lines. That has also been true throughout history. The burden falls overwhelmingly on working class young men who often see enlistment as their only remaining path toward stability, income, housing, education, or debt relief.

The war cycle feeds on economic despair because hopeless populations are easier to mobilize. That is one of the oldest lessons in history.

I grew up in New Jersey and raised my children there. I watched politicians make promises, raise taxes, expand government, and drive businesses and productive people out of the state. Every year it became more expensive, more corrupt, and more hostile to anyone trying to build something. The state has fallen into absolute ruin to the point where I am hesitant to visit.

In a new low for the Garden State, New Jersey voters have selected Adam Hamawy as the Democratic nominee for Congress in the 12th District. The controversy surrounding his campaign stems from reports that he volunteered in the 1990s with the Benevolence International Foundation, an organization that was later shut down after authorities found it functioned as an al-Qaeda support network. The 9/11 Commission Report noted that the organization was funneling money to Osama bin Laden during the 1990s ahead of the worst terrorist attack on US soil.

Hamawy traveled with Omar Abdel Rahman otherwise known as the “blind sheikh” during a 1991 conference in Detroit called “Towards a Global Islamic Economy.” Hamaway later swore under oath that Rahman did not discuss jihad or terrorism, but transcripts prove otherwise. In fact, Rahman gave an entire lecture that day on the methods of successful jihad and martydom. Why was a man seeking a seat in US Congress willing to stand up as a defense witness for a man whose followers carried out the 1993 World Trade Center bombing that killed six people and injured more than a thousand? The political establishment now insists that such questions are somehow off limits, yet these are precisely the questions any serious electorate should be demanding answers to before handing someone a seat in the United States Congress.

Hamawy has denied any wrongdoing and says he was simply delivering medical supplies in Bosnia, and he has never been accused or charged with any crime. Nevertheless, the fact that such a connection even exists should have disqualified any candidate from serious consideration. Instead, he was embraced by the progressive wing of the Democratic Party and won the primary.

The issue here is larger than one candidate. It speaks to the complete collapse of standards in politics. We have reached a point where the establishment endlessly lectures ordinary citizens about extremism and misinformation, while simultaneously excusing associations that would have instantly destroyed a political career only a decade ago. The same political class that demands surveillance, censorship, and endless security measures suddenly discovers nuance whenever the controversy appears on their side of the aisle.

New Jersey has become a case study in political decay. The state already ranks among the highest-taxed jurisdictions in America. Residents face some of the nation’s highest property taxes, businesses continue relocating elsewhere, and population growth has lagged behind many southern states that offer lower taxes and fewer regulations. Yet instead of discussing affordability, economic competitiveness, or why so many people are leaving, political debates increasingly revolve around ideological purity tests and identity politics.

Perhaps this is simply the latest chapter in New Jersey’s long political history. The state produced some brilliant entrepreneurs, financiers, and innovators. It also perfected machine politics, patronage networks, and some of the highest taxes in the country. Looking at what passes for leadership today, I cannot help but think New Jersey is becoming a warning sign for the rest of the nation.

The tragedy is that many of the people still living there are hardworking families simply trying to survive. They are paying the bills for a political system that seems increasingly detached from reality. As for me, every time I see another headline coming out of Trenton or Newark, I am reminded why leaving New Jersey was one of the best decisions I ever made.

??? Meanwhile in Ireland

Security team made up of most foreign Migrants beat a Farmer trying to access his own land.

‘They’ have imported an army to deploy against indigenous Citizens and it’s begun.

You will start seeing more of this everywhere. pic.twitter.com/WQxpqrOysk

— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) May 23, 2026

The European Union has now reached the point where it openly tells nations how many migrants they should accept and what they must pay if they refuse. They no longer even pretend that member states are sovereign countries. Ireland, a nation that fought for centuries to determine its own destiny, is now being told that decisions about its borders, communities, housing, and future will be made by bureaucrats in Brussels.

Under the EU Migration and Asylum Pact, Ireland will participate in what Brussels calls a “mandatory solidarity mechanism.” Each year, the European Commission determines how many asylum seekers should be relocated across participating member states. Countries are expected to contribute either by accepting relocated migrants, providing operational assistance, or making financial contributions. The current framework establishes a minimum annual EU-wide target of 30,000 relocations and a financial contribution of €20,000 for each migrant turned away. While Ireland is not assigned a fixed permanent quota in advance, it is now part of a system where Brussels can determine what contribution is expected from Dublin under the annual solidarity mechanism.

This is what centralized planning always becomes. Every empire eventually reaches the stage where the people making decisions are so far removed from reality that they begin governing through formulas, quotas, and statistics instead of common sense. They sit in offices creating migration targets while ordinary citizens are trying to find housing, afford rent, secure medical care, and keep their communities intact.

Ireland is already facing one of the worst housing crises in its modern history. Rents have surged to record levels. Home ownership has become unattainable for many young people. Homelessness has climbed to unprecedented levels. Public services are under strain. Yet the answer from Brussels is not to address the causes of these crises. The answer is to import additional obligations and then punish any nation that refuses to comply.

The bodycam footage of Henry Nowak has just been released.

An 18-year-old who was stabbed FIVE TIMES called the police for help.

His attacker told officers Henry was a racist.

So they handcuffed the victim.

Henry told them over and over:

"I've been stabbed."
"I can't…

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 1, 2026

The above video is quite disturbing but it has sparked a new wave of resistance across the United Kingdom. Henry Nowak, an 18-year-old kid, was stabbed five times by a migrant. The police officer refused to help Nowak and claimed he was racist for accusing the migrant of violent assault. Not only did officers refuse to help Henry Nowak, but they also arrested him as if he were the aggressor. Henry Nowak died in handcuffs.

Keir Starmer has come out to offer crocodile tears only after the bodycam footage was released. For those outside of the UK–the murder took place SIX MONTHS AGO! Then it took Starmer two days to respond because he was forced into a corner by public outcry. Starmer disarmed his population but made a carveout for Sikhs to carry “ceremonious knives.” Meanwhile rape cases are through the roof and women cannot even carry pepper spray. The failed UK government flooded the borders with dangerous criminals. They forced citizens to pay for the invaders’ tax-subsidized lives. No one is permitted to complain or they will be a dreaded “racist” because to be white means you should be filled with shame for existing.

Labour policies are precisely why authorities prioritized alleged racism over a violent attack. You can assault three police officers ON CAMERA and walk away without charges if you’re a migrant. If you’re a white Brit who posts an image online that may be deemed offensive, then you will be removed from society. People are now attending vigils with masks on as they fear Starmer’s Gestapo will arrest them for racism. It is safe to say Starmer hates British people and is an anti-white apologist. His two-tiered justice system ensures that Brits are no longer safe at home.

Apparently this video isn’t enough evidence to convict the guy in blue for assaulting all three police officers

Yet Lucy Connolly got two years in prison for an off colour tweet – prosecutions Keir Starmer encouraged

Labour’s two tier justice system has to end…

— Chris Philp MP (@CPhilpOfficial) May 29, 2026

Europe’s leadership no longer appears capable of recognizing the consequences of its own actions. Citizens across the continent have repeatedly expressed concern over migration levels. Elections throughout Europe have increasingly become referendums on border policy. Governments have fallen. Political parties once considered fringe have surged into the mainstream. Yet Brussels responds by centralizing even more authority.

The pattern is familiar because history is full of examples. Centralized governments always believe they possess superior wisdom. They assume local populations are incapable of making decisions for themselves. They insist that every problem can be solved through regulations, mandates, quotas, and directives. Then they are shocked when public anger explodes.

The people did not create Europe’s migration crisis, nor did they create the wars that have displaced millions. The people did not design the foreign policies that destabilized entire regions. Yet ordinary citizens are expected to absorb the consequences while being told that resistance is somehow immoral.

The lesson of history is simple. When governments stop listening and start imposing, they eventually discover that public patience is not unlimited. Europe’s leaders would be wise to remember that before they continue down a path that is dividing the continent more with every passing year.

The latest polling continues to show that Marine Le Pen remains one of the strongest political forces in France. Depending on the matchup, candidates from the National Rally remain highly competitive and, in some surveys, lead potential rivals heading into the 2027 presidential election. Even many of Le Pen’s political opponents openly acknowledge that the nationalist movement is closer to power than at any point in modern French history.

Europe is entering a period where governments increasingly fear their own voters. As economic conditions deteriorate, energy costs rise, migration pressures intensify, and living standards decline, establishment parties are discovering that the public no longer automatically accepts the old political order. When that happens, the temptation becomes overwhelming to remove opponents through legal mechanisms rather than defeating them at the ballot box.

Marine Le Pen’s legal battle has now become one of the most important political stories in Europe. Prosecutors have asked French courts to uphold a five-year ban that could prevent her from running for president in 2027. If upheld, the ruling would effectively remove one of the country’s leading candidates from the race despite her continued strength in the polls.

The establishment insists this is merely the impartial application of law. Perhaps. Yet ordinary people look around Europe and see a different pattern emerging. They watched anti-establishment parties rise in Italy, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Romania, and France. They see courts, bureaucracies, intelligence agencies, and supranational institutions increasingly involved whenever those movements gain momentum. Whether one agrees with Le Pen or not is beside the point. The issue is confidence in the democratic process itself.

When voters believe a candidate is being removed administratively because they might win, confidence collapses further. Once people conclude elections are managed rather than decided, the political system enters a very dangerous phase. History is full of examples where governments attempted to preserve stability by limiting political competition. It rarely ends well.

France faces a July court decision that may determine whether Le Pen remains eligible to run. Even her political rivals are already adjusting their strategies based on the possibility that she could be excluded from the election entirely. Jordan Bardella is increasingly being positioned as a potential replacement candidate if the courts rule against her.

The broader trend is what concerns me. Across Europe, confidence in institutions continues to decline while support for populist and anti-establishment parties rises. The French establishment may succeed in preventing Marine Le Pen from running. What they cannot prevent is the underlying trend that created her support in the first place. Rising living costs, migration concerns, energy insecurity, sovereign debt burdens, and growing distrust of Brussels are not going away because a court issues a ruling.

The question facing France is becoming very simple. Will voters be allowed to decide the future of their country, or will that decision increasingly be made by institutions that claim to be acting in the name of democracy while simultaneously limiting the choices available to the electorate? That question extends far beyond France. It is becoming one of the defining political questions of our time.

There was a time when the American Dream meant buying a home, raising a family, and building a future. Today, an increasing number of Americans are discovering that simply keeping health insurance can cost more than the roof over their heads.

The latest data shows that Affordable Care Act marketplace premiums are soaring into 2026. Insurers are raising premiums by an average of roughly 20% to 26%, depending on the market, marking the largest increases in years. Some estimates suggest that if subsidy programs are not renewed, millions of Americans could see their monthly insurance bills more than double. In some cases, families are now paying more for health insurance than they pay on their mortgage.

The politicians sold Obamacare as the solution. They promised lower costs, more competition, and affordable healthcare. Instead, what we witnessed was the exact opposite. Deductibles exploded, premiums climbed year after year, and the insurance market consolidated into fewer and fewer players. The average American now faces a system where they pay thousands of dollars annually in premiums only to discover they still have to meet deductibles that can run into the many thousands before coverage even begins.

The entire structure was built on the assumption that enough healthy people would enter the system to offset the costs of those requiring expensive treatment. That never worked as advertised. Young and healthy Americans increasingly opted out whenever possible because the costs became absurd. The result has been a shrinking risk pool and rising premiums that feed on themselves. Insurance companies openly admit they are raising rates partly because they expect healthier people to abandon coverage as costs rise.

Government intervention always leads to higher costs. Education became unaffordable after federal student loan programs flooded universities with guaranteed money. Housing prices exploded after decades of government intervention in mortgages and interest rates. Healthcare followed the same path. The government subsidizes demand while simultaneously regulating supply, creating a system where costs simply continue rising regardless of who occupies the White House.

Then the number one reason families fall into bankruptcy is illness. These insurance companies will fight doctors tooth and nail, refusing to cover life saving procedures. One of the most outspoken critics of the modern health insurance system has been Dr. Elisabeth Potter, a Texas-based surgeon who specializes in breast cancer reconstruction. Potter gained national attention after revealing that United Healthcare contacted her during surgery to question whether a cancer patient truly needed an overnight hospital stay. United then threatened Potter for posting a video of the incident on social media, warning her to take it down before they intervened. She took the opposite approach and became a patient advocate.

Potter has argued that physicians now spend countless hours battling prior authorizations, denials, and bureaucratic obstacles rather than treating patients. She has described the system as one where corporations with a fiduciary duty to maximize profits are effectively making medical decisions for patients they have never examined. Her criticism struck a nerve because it confirmed what millions of Americans already suspect: the greatest obstacle to receiving care is often not the illness itself, but navigating an insurance system that has become so complex and profit-driven that even doctors are struggling to work within it.

More than 24 million Americans are enrolled in ACA marketplace plans, with roughly 22 million receiving subsidies. Without government assistance, many could not afford coverage at all. That is the dirty secret. The system increasingly survives not because it became affordable, but because taxpayers are subsidizing costs that continue moving higher every year.

Meanwhile, healthcare spending in the United States now exceeds $5 trillion annually. Every participant in the system demands a larger share of the pie, and the bill is ultimately passed to the consumer. This is part of the broader sovereign debt crisis that our models have warned about for decades. Governments continually create programs that appear affordable in the beginning, only for the true costs to present themselves later.

Understanding the World Economy

An Introduction to Cycles of Confidence

Most people are taught to view the economy through headlines, political debates, and short-term events. Yet beneath the daily noise are long-term cycles that influence markets, governments, business activity, and even society itself.

Join Martin Armstrong for a special educational event designed to introduce attendees to the concept of confidence cycles and how they shape the world around us. This presentation will provide an accessible overview of the theories and observations that have made Martin Armstrong one of the most recognized independent economic thinkers in the world.

This event is not limited to investors, traders, or finance professionals. It is intended for anyone interested in understanding the forces that drive economic change, including students, business owners, retirees, professionals, entrepreneurs, and curious minds seeking a broader perspective on the world economy.

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• The role confidence plays in economic and political change

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Nobody elected Google to manage the ecosystem. Yet here we are.

Alphabet, Google’s parent company, has quietly spent the better part of a decade developing what it calls the “Debug” project. The latest proposal seeks approval to release tens of millions of laboratory-bred mosquitoes across California and Florida. We are told not to worry because these are the “good” mosquitoes. We are assured they are male mosquitoes and therefore do not bite. We are told they carry a naturally occurring bacteria known as Wolbachia that will interfere with reproduction and reduce mosquito populations.

For generations, governments and corporations have repeatedly assured the public that interventions into nature would be harmless. DDT was once considered a miracle. Countless pesticides were approved before later being restricted. Entire rivers were polluted in the name of progress. Every generation is told that the experts have everything under control until something goes wrong.

What makes this case particularly remarkable is who is behind it. This is not a public health agency. This is not a university research department. This is one of the largest technology companies on earth. The same corporate structure that dominates online advertising, search results, artificial intelligence, data collection, mapping, cloud computing, and digital communications now wants to engineer mosquito populations on a massive scale.

The project itself is run by Verily, Alphabet’s life sciences division. Debug combines software engineers, robotics specialists, AI systems, automation experts, and mosquito biologists. They have spent years building automated mosquito factories capable of producing millions of insects per week. Computer vision systems sort male from female mosquitoes while robotic systems manage breeding and deployment. This is industrial-scale biological engineering that will now become a social experiment.

The problem according to Google: “Mosquitoes kill more people than every other animal combined. One species, Aedes aegypti, carries diseases such as dengue, Zika, yellow fever, and chikungunya which make hundreds of millions of people sick every year. And these diseases are spreading faster than ever.”

Their stated objective is to reduce mosquito populations without widespread pesticide use. Studies involving Wolbachia have shown reductions in mosquito populations and lower transmission of certain diseases. Singapore reported reductions in dengue risk exceeding 70% in areas where Wolbachia programs were implemented. The CDC has acknowledged that Wolbachia-based mosquito suppression can reduce target mosquito populations and notes that these mosquitoes are not genetically modified.

Why should the public automatically trust any institution that asks for permission to alter the natural environment on this scale?

This is not the first time modified mosquitos have been released on the population. Bill Gates has been involved in mosquito projects for years, long before Google entered the arena. Through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, he has funded research into both genetically modified mosquitoes and Wolbachia-based mosquito programs designed to suppress malaria, dengue, Zika, and other mosquito-borne diseases. Gates has openly championed the release of engineered mosquitoes, arguing that technology can be used to alter insect populations and reduce disease transmission. The Foundation supported projects involving biotechnology firm Oxitec, which developed genetically modified mosquitoes carrying self-limiting genes intended to collapse wild mosquito populations over time. Gates has also heavily promoted the World Mosquito Program, which breeds millions of Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes and releases them into communities throughout Latin America, Africa, and Asia.

Whether one agrees with these programs or not, what is remarkable is the philosophy behind them. A handful of billionaires, technology companies, and global foundations increasingly view nature itself as something that can be engineered, modified, and optimized. Gates has praised facilities producing more than 30 million mosquitoes per week and has argued that mass releases are necessary to combat future disease outbreaks. Google is now pursuing its own large-scale mosquito deployment through Verily’s Debug project. The public is being asked to trust that these interventions will work exactly as intended, yet history is littered with examples of experts assuring everyone that there was nothing to worry about until unforeseen consequences emerged years later. The issue is no longer simply mosquitoes. It is the growing belief among technocrats that every aspect of the natural world can be redesigned from the top down by unelected institutions operating far beyond public scrutiny.

We are living through a period where public trust has collapsed. Governments concealed information during COVID and unleashed a deadly cocktail of mRNA vaccines on the global population. Pharmaceutical companies received legal protections that ordinary businesses could only dream about. Regulators routinely move through revolving doors into the industries they supposedly oversee. The public has been repeatedly told to trust experts who later turn out to be wrong.

Now the same population is expected to calmly accept the release of tens of millions of engineered insects because another collection of experts says everything is safe.

What could possibly go wrong?