On the five year anniversary -
Operation Lockstep, five years past. I sit down to read the report. What is it?
The tipster from Miami brings up the Operation Lockstep Rockefeller Foundation Report from 2010. It is, of course, missing from the Rockefeller Foundation website (only two items exist from 2010) but still present on Archive.org.
The actual name of the Lockstep report is “Scenarios For The Future Of Technology And International Development.”
PDF backup here:
It was published in collaboration with the Global Business Network (GBN). GBN became part of Deloitte in 2013 through their acquisition of the Monitor Group, after the latter filed for bankruptcy in 2012. “The company listed both estimated liabilities and estimated assets for the consolidated group in the range of $100 million to $500 million, according to a court filing.”
The report is about scenario planning.
“Scenario planning is a methodology designed to help guide groups and individuals through exactly this creative process. The process begins by identifying forces of change in the world, then combining those forces in different ways to create a set of diverse stories - or scenarios - about how the future could evolve.” (p9)
The word you might be more familiar with is “war-gaming.”
There is a real power to working through ideas. What we focus on gains energy. One of the reasons contemporary government leads to so much dissatisfaction is because the ideas about better, fairer governance are few and far between. Very few people work through ideas to the point of comprehension. The ones who do - such as with scenario planning - tend to be paid to do this work. It takes time to struggle with ideas, and since that payment comes from “philanthropic” organizations, we must always ask: Who benefits?
Everything cultural comes from an idea. Our universal primary educational system is an idea. The separation of powers in the federal government is an idea. Both demonstrate the paucity of the human ability to enact the ideals behind the idea.
The adherants of various ideas promote them in the best light possible. Global governance and globalist agendas focus on resiliance, equity, sustainability, multi—lateralism, strengthened cooperation, etc. How could any disagree with these objectives?
You need to read a lot of these documents in order to see how the coercion works, and what is being omitted.
The report goes on to describe in “imaginative” terms four scenarios as they might play out. The Lock Step scenario pictures a pandemic narrative that bears similarities to the one in 2020. I post the screenshots from the report itself below, so that you can see both the similarities and note the differences.
Download the PDF above in order to read the rest, it’s only a few pages..and it ends with:
The remaining three scenarios
Clever Together
Environmental and climate instability is managed with “highly coordinated worldwide strategies” including carbon sequestration and carbon capture, and “smart grids” for energy efficiency and globally coordinating energy monitoring. In this creative scenario, people liked the top down control so much that “Centralized global oversight and governance structures sprang up, not just for energy use but also for disease and technology standards” and “Enormous, benign ‘sousveillance’ systems allowed citizens to access data—all publically available—in real time and react.” (Can you imagine? As you might suspect, this winning scenario goes on to describe how nation states will lose their power, ‘smart cities’ emerge, and people will embrace the UN and other global governance initiatives, as well as NGOs and public private partnerships..but it ends with synthetic meat and food shortages due to ‘rapid growth.’ wtf?)
Hack Attack
Terrorist attacks, earthquakes, tsunamis, and droughts caused by climate change. Countries are bankrupted dealing with the aid costs coupled with their own fixed costs. US pulls out of Afghanistan and the Taliban come into power again. Tainted medicines and vaccines lead to “parents everywhere…began to avoid vaccinating their children, and it wasn’t long before infant and child mortality rates rose to levels not seen since the 1970s.” Or “In 2025, it was de rigueur to build not a house but a high-walled fortress, guarded by armed personnel.” (In this scenario, one of the “good” things is that there is DIY developement of genetically modified organisms. wtf?)
Smart Scramble
Debt burdens prevent the world from pulling out of the 2008 financial crisis. US loses credibility. Xenophobia increases. Unreliable communications, internet has not progressed since 2010. But silver linings: edible vaccines! Mesh networks! (I like mesh networks.)
Now, some would say documents like this hold a sort of ritualistic predictive power. This might be true. But no more than a group of a dozen smart people getting together and working equally hard on developing ideas, based on ideals, that support the true human being.
I wish the entire world read this publication in 2010…Well done framing this in your bit here and in Apophenia Gold
Very thoughtful post Apophenia. "They" certainly tell us what they are going to do. And, it isn't so mysterious. In Jeffrey Sachs's recent address to the EU parliament, he tells us that these position papers from "think tanks" and highly paid intellectuals are "the plan". That's how it works.
He specifically cited Brzezinski's 1997 book "The Grand Chessboard" that outlined what the US, then as the lone superpower, "should" do. And, as Sachs pointed out, he got it ALL WRONG.
https://www.amazon.com/Grand-Chessboard-American-Geostrategic-Imperatives/dp/0465027261