Telegram platform founder Pavel Durov is one of very few tech CEOs who is consistent in his efforts to protect information from the grip of government censorship. Today, Durov used his platform to warn Telegram users in Spain what is pending:
[VIA Pavel Durov X Account] – Today, Telegram notified all its users in Spain with this alert:
Pedro Sánchez’s government is pushing dangerous new regulations that threaten your internet freedoms. Announced just yesterday, these measures could turn Spain into a surveillance state under the guise of “protection.” Here’s why they’re a red flag for free speech and privacy:
1. Ban on social media for under-16s with mandatory age verification: This isn’t just about kids—it requires platforms to use strict checks, like needing IDs or biometrics.
⚠️ Danger: It sets a precedent for tracking EVERY user’s identity, eroding anonymity and opening doors to mass data collection. What starts with minors could expand to all, stifling open discourse.
2. Personal and criminal liability for platform executives: If “illegal, hateful, or harmful” content isn’t removed fast enough, bosses face jail.
⚠️ Danger: This will force over-censorship—platforms will delete anything remotely controversial to avoid risks, silencing political dissent, journalism, and everyday opinions. Your voice could be next if it challenges the status quo.
3. Criminalizing algorithm amplification: Amplifying “harmful” content via algorithms becomes a crime.
⚠️ Danger: Governments will dictate what you see, burying opposing views and creating echo chambers controlled by the state. Free exploration of ideas? Gone—replaced by curated propaganda.
4. “Hate and polarization footprint” tracking: Platforms must monitor and report how they “fuel division.”
⚠️ Danger: Vague definitions of “hate” could label criticism of the government as divisive, leading to shutdowns or fines. This can be a tool for suppressing opposition.
These aren’t safeguards; they’re steps toward total control. We’ve seen this playbook before—governments weaponizing “safety” to censor critics. On Telegram, we prioritize your privacy and freedom: strong encryption, no backdoors, and resistance to overreach.
✊ Stay vigilant, Spain. Demand transparency and fight for your rights. Share this widely—before it’s too late. [SOURCE]
One of the reasons I am so strongly against the use of AI to frame points of opinion and thinking, is specifically because AI is programmed to review information only from approved sources. When you use AI as a search and information tool, the algorithm that launches the search is under the control of the engineer who instructs the system where to look for responsive information.
When the algorithm controls information, the algorithm controls the definitions of truth or facts. The algorithm is then manipulated to reward speech that complies to the approved message and punishes speech that runs counter to the approved definitions. This is dangerous, yet I see it surfacing everywhere.
In the bigger picture, Pavel Durov is warning about allowing government to control information, and this is a direct alignment with the mis-dis-mal-information effort that has been ongoing for several years. We all experienced the outcomes of this in the COVID-19 era and the severe manipulation of information.
My position: There is no such thing as “disinformation” or “misinformation”. There is only information you accept and information you do not accept. You were not born with a requirement to believe everything you are told; rather, you were born with a brain that allows you to process the information you receive and make independent decisions.
When you accept the terms “disinformation”, “misinformation” or the newest lingo, “malinformation,” you are beginning to categorize truth and lies in various shades. You are merging black and white, right and wrong, into various shades of grey.
When your mind works in the grey zone, you are, by direct and factual consequence, saying there is a problem. You are correct; however, this is where people may make a mistake. The problem is supposed to be there.
It is not a solution to the problem to try and remove the grey by using artificial intelligence simply because it takes too much work to separate the white pixels from the black ones. You were born with a gift, the greatest gift a loving God could provide. You were born with a brain and set of natural instincts that are tools to do this pixel separation, use them.
If you define the grey work as a problem you cannot solve on your own, you open the door for others to solve that problem for you. When you use AI to assist your understanding, you begin to abdicate the independent brain work, that’s when trouble can enter.
Put more clearly, when you accept the terminology “disinformation”, you accept a problem.
The problem is then the tool by which authorities will step in to make judgements.
Speech, in its most consequential form, is then qualified by others to whom you have sub-contracted your thinking.
When you willingly sub-contract information filters to others, you have lost connection with the raw information.
CTH was founded upon the belief that truth has no agenda, nor does it care about you, your feelings, or your opinion of it. It just sits there, empirically existing as evidence of information in its most pure form.
The search for truth, in all things, is the mission objective of this assembly. Often, we don’t like the truth; often, the truth is bitter, cold, challenging and even painful to accept. However, the truth doesn’t care. Information in its most raw form is ambivalent to our opinion.
Personally, I am an absorber of information – perhaps on a scale that is unusual. But I do not discount information from any form until I can put context to it and see if the information makes sense given all the variables present.
When something doesn’t feel right, it’s almost always because it isn’t right.
Often, I find myself struggling in the grey and complex. It is not unusual to spend days researching, digging, clarifying a situation, only to discover the path to finding the truth is in another direction entirely. Erasing everything and starting over is frustrating, but it is genuinely the only approach that works; and often finding truth is supposed to be difficult, that’s why it is rewarding.
In the digital information age, we are bombarded with information. It is easy to be overwhelmed and need to find something or someone who has better skills at separating the black grains from the white ones. All opinions in this quest should be considered; thus, it is important to allow the free flow of information.
I am not necessarily a speech absolutist. There is some language that needs to be constrained if we are to participate in a respectful society, with grandma’s rules and knowing the audience. The CTH has guidelines for comments for this exact reason. However, those constraints need to be based on a set of inherent values, respect for each other, politeness. When it comes to information it is important to draw a distinction from speech.
Be careful about anyone saying we need to label or categorize information in order to control or remove speech from the discussion.
You were not born with a requirement to believe everything you are told; rather, you were born with a God-given brain that allows you to process the information you receive and make independent decisions.
Pray. Trust in a loving God.
Be thankful that God has allowed you to see what is unfolding. Others that remain asleep are not as lucky as you. Ask yourself in prayer, why you. Why now? Then, think about this daily in your quiet time. Affirm your spirit and allow this sense of fortunate knowledge to elevate your faith and confidence in a loving and purposeful God. You have the unique gift of discernment. Ultimately, you have been chosen.
Be thankful. Remember, Romans 13:12
Live a positive, affirming, purposeful and incredible life.
Within every battle, challenge and contest we encounter, always remember to be thankful and continue living your very best life.
Another government tyrant.
As he steals from Catalonia and redistributes the stolen funds to his government cronies and the societal leeches in Spain that are sleeping all day.
“No right was deemed by the fathers of the Government more sacred than the right to speech. It was in their eyes, as in the eyes of all thoughtful men, the great moral renovator of society and government. Daniel Webster called it a homebred right, a fireside privilege.
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants.
It is the the right which they first strike down. They know its power.
Thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers founded in injustice and wrong, are sure to tremble, if men are allowed to reason of righteousness, temperance, and of a judgment to come in their presence.
Slavery can not tolerate free speech.”
~Frederick Douglass, 1860
And this perfectly describes the intention of Globalists. They have not surrendered.
Evil never does.
And what undergrads the Right to Free Speech? The Second Amendment. An unarmed society is a society vulnerable to the whims of its leaders.
And there are Canada and Australia, both at this moment dictating gun “buybacks, even as their respective governments crush the free speech of their citizens further. Curious timing, no? I do not believe in “coincidence”.
Australians can own from 4 to 10 guns each and there are millions of guns in Australia. As to your wild allegation about ‘crushing the free speech of their citizens further’ would you care to give examples?
Might want to look back a few years as to how Australia handled Covid.
A person must have a firearm licence to possess or use a firearm. Licence holders must be able to demonstrate at least one “genuine reason” (which explicitly excludes self-defence) for holding a firearm licence[3] and must not be a “prohibited person”. All firearms must be registered by serial number to the owner.
must not be a prohibited person, but that doesnt apply to Muzzies, evidence Bondi beach.
There are guns up the wazoo in Texas but guns didn’t stop 20m illegals from entering through Texas. Guns aren’t stopping the Texas democrats from controlling the Texas legislature even though the GOP is supposed to be in control. All the big cities are controlled by dems. Guns didn’t prevent that.
Since it’s too difficult to remove the guns, it is much easier (but slower) to remove the will to use them for their primary purpose of limiting a totalitarian government. Through “education” as well as “bread and circuses” the will to hold government accountable to the people is largely subdued.
No guns did not. We the People allowed it. The Texas legislature is made up of ONE party, the uniparty. Clear and simple truth. I hope in 2026 we can begin to clean house? Cautiously optimistic.
“Under the guise of “safety” and “accountability,………………………….”
And then, right on cue, we will hear them cry: “It’s for the children ! ! !”
How timely the recent sponsored “op-eds” (talkin’ to you Fox) by the head of Palantir, reminding everyone to get comfortable with AI and embrace it.
Let’s see now…. how many
celebritiesidiots have moved to foreign countries (Spain included) to get away from tyrannical President Trump??? LOLOLOLRomans 13:12 The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
Amen and Amen!!! Sundance knows Scripture!
PDJT will take care of him soon I believe.
Always for OUR safety and accountability. Thats when you know it is dressed up tyranny
In addition, Spain does not pay 5% to NATO; it has committed to spending 2.1% of its GDP on defense instead. This makes Spain an outlier among NATO members, as most have agreed to the 5% target by 2035.
Sundance, your italicized description of your brain and what you accept as truth is the crux of what we’re going to be dealing with for the rest of our lives.
Thanks for hammering this home.
I despise the use of AI for information searching. A lot of people do not understand how limiting it actually is.
One more time, sis…
I am exceedingly uncomfortable with AI, and not because it is new.
It is impossible to tell you how spiritually uncomfortable I am with it… not as it seems to be now but rather where I suspect it will take us as it progresses…and as it is intended to.
I consider that eventually AI will come to be recognized as antichristic.
And as I have said previously on many occasions ad nauseum, I cannot be disabused from believing it.
(Brickbats willingly received.)
You are right to distrust AI.
AI is literally a blank slate that has no conscience whatsoever to speak of. It is little more than what it is programmed to be. At best, an amoral creation that might occasionally be capable of good, but it also operates purely on the programming logic that drives it’s code. It is missing an essential element that humans possess, spirit.
God given Spirit, RF.
Ignored, despised, or repudiated by those who believe that it is they who are in ultimate control.
The computer programming adage “Garbage in…Garbage out” still applies to AI, just on a grander scale. Yes, AI is a very scary thing.
You mentioned that when something “ doesn’t feel right”…… Here is the problem.
TRUTH DOESN’T CARE about feelings. Yet anyone who has been educated in our public schools has been inculcated with the notion that they should rely on their “ feelings”, to discern truth.
This is why we have so many social justice warriors and citizens with TDS.
Truth is subjective. Facts are objective. It’s probably why the left is always pushing their truths on us. Didn’t AOC say “Not facts. Truths!”?
“Truth is some crazy thing your neighbor belives.” -Kurt Vonnegut (from my memory)
I think Sundance was speaking of discernment. With it, “feelings” generally prove to be correct. Without discernment, feelings are usually just “reactions “.
I think he was saying if something doesn’t makes sense, as in the myriad lies claiming Trump said or did xyz, and this is a ‘that makes no sense, why would anyone say/do that, or it is wildly out of character’ attribution, then your initial reaction that this is nonsense is almost always accurate.
“1984” was a cautionary tale, not an instruction manual.
Same as Fahrenheit 451 and Brave New World.
“1984” was required reading when I was in high school. Never imagined that I would be living it. Even back then, what I believed my country was has proven to be a lie.
“Never imagined that I would be living it”. I don’t think any of use who grew up in earlier times could have imagined the things that are happening today.
Well, George Orwell imagined it, in part because he live some of it during the Spanish Civil War.
This is the same government who is accelerating the ‘de’-conquista by giving half a million mostly Pakistani illegal immigrants a pathway to citizenship, obviously to boost their chances in the next electoin.
‘My position: There is no such thing as “disinformation” or “misinformation”. There is only information you accept and information you do not accept. You were not born with a requirement to believe everything you are told; rather, you were born with a brain that allows you to process the information you receive and make independent decisions.’
Sundance, I printed that statement of yours off some years back now, in large font and red ink. It takes up most of an 8 x 11 and is quite permanently displayed on my refrigerator.
That is the best and most succinct comment ever with regard to the nonsense of the left inventing new words so they can keep on pretending….like cohort and social distancing….
It’s always for the children…
unless they want to abort them, chemically castrate and/or permanently disfigure the ones that made it thru the birth canal alive, turn them into idiots incapable of coherent thought, addict them to drugs, make them available for the sexual gratification of adults or turn them into literal killing machines.
It’s always for the children.
You forgot myocarditis.
So it’s ok to have a slight difference of opinion on a topic than one SD has? A lot of Treepers don’t hold with this. Group think can be pervasive here. Unfortunately.
Meh. You’re free to have whatever opinions you wish.
Everyone that isn’t you is free to disagree.
One of us. One of us. One of us.
There’s a substantial difference in being forced to agree and having nowhere else to go vs. the majority in a microcosm (CTH) agreeing with each other and retaining the freedom to disagree or go elsewhere.
Ez: I initially openly disagreed with SD on DeSantis (and got stopped on by the majority here), took some time off and did my own research. On this SD proved right, but I could and did disagree and leave. Our current society was built on disagreement and so made way to protect contradictory opinions. It’s worth maintaining.
You’re right. Silly me..Sundance, could I, please, have my brain, which is apparently sitting in a jar somewhere in your abode, back? 🙄🙄
The jar with my brain is labeled “Abbie Normal”.
🙂
People come here because they think Sundance has some unique takes on things that are often correct. Of course a contrarian opinion is going to face an uphill climb.
Challenge your own thinking, then if you are convinced you are correct, post a thoughtful, concise, and logical argument for your position. And be prepared for opposition.
The internet is a jungle filled with poo flinging monkeys. Some are in every tree including this one.
If you make enough thoughtful posts, eventually folks will recognize your handle and know you aren’t a troll. The poo flinging will decrease. But rogue monkeys from other parts of the jungle being paid by the post will still fling poo. it is what it is. Welcome to the jungle
LOL!
Love it!
Actually CC you can express disagreement here. You just should be polite about it.
Just be ready to receive expected polite rebuttal.
I am my own man, 70 years old, I follow Sundance not because of others opinion or pressure, It is because over time I have realized the genius level analysis that he/she produces. I read quite a bit on substack and other places and find this Treehouse has them beat on a daily basis. Sure other sites have their gems too, I do not put all my eggs in one basket. If I disagree I try and figure out why. Group think is everywhere, But do not assume everybody speaks on every topic or ever for that matter lots of folks read and stay silent. Go ahead state your thoughts if you want, Thats a feature here not a flaw.
Over the past decade I have found Sundance’s commentary to be 99% correct.
How is your record?
With an error rate of 1%.
First thing Communists do is take away your FREEDOMS. Spain is in serious trouble,
Spain already had their Francisco Franco. There will not be a repeat performance.
Spain also spent 700 years evicting the Moors only to invite a repeat performance.
It only took New York City 25 years before the invite.
I beg to differ.
It only took NYC 7 years to elect Barack Hussein Obama.
“Spain is in serious trouble,”
Is Spain the bellwether here. How should we compare their freedoms with that of current day England?
Are they in trouble, or is it simply their turn?
I’m thinking this runs much, much deeper than just internet censorship.
Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand are way worse than Spain.
Yet.
Pedro Sanchez, without consent of Spain’s parliament, just legalized 500,000 Muslim “migrants”, with the sole purpose of destroying opposition votes and voices. First step to citizenship. A template for other EU member states?
From what I have been able to see, Spaniards are incandescent.
But here is the thing which just occurred to me…
Hungary almost alone of those states has dug in and refused to accept their EU dictated ” fair share” of Muslims. Orbàn has stood on his country’s battlements and refused to bow down to Von Der Leyen’s edict on this existential issue, God bless him.
Hungary has national elections in April; and no doubt nefarious color revolutionists are already hard at work to depose him.
I wonder how many of these half million newly legalized Muslims will make their way into Hungary. Which I wonder perhaps, with their new “right” to travel freely within Europe without let or (Hungarian) hindrance, was an additional consideration with the curious timing of this proclamation.
Wheels within wheels??
Would not bet against it.
Is Hungary obligated to support them through any benefits programs available to the citizenry? If not let the migrant leeches wither and go to France or the UK.
Thank YOU, Sundance!
Romans 13:12 (NIV)
:The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.”
And so we must:
Matthew 5:16 (NIV)
“Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.”
We Must also “TRUST in The LORD with all our heart!” Proverbs 3:5
BLESSINGS on each of YOU!
They’ve (The Australian Communist Government) has already enacted this same legislation here in Australia!
Sundance, this is by far “one” of the best articles you have ever written. Thank you very very MUCH!
Why is it that we are not allowed to have telegram?…
After Franco, the people went for democracy. In the end, though, people seem to want protection from others, from themselves, and from life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Government may subjugate them and rob them, but at least that is easier than thinking and fighting the vigorous battles of life. Freedom is a rare state in human existence, because people ultimately don’t choose to be free. For those of us who would “live free or die”, the prevailing human condition greatly bruises hope.
Yes, but they don’t seem to want protection from Islam though. The Visigoths found that out the hard way.
Robert Heinlein taught me 60 yrs ago slavery is the normal state of human beings and most people won’t think and fight like hell to avoid being forced to think.
Who can forget “Stranger in a Strange Land,” “Starship Troopers,” and “The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.”
What do you call a fake plant ?
It’s always been an artificial plant.
Calling man made algorithms and programming of computers “Artificial Intelligence” is a complete joke because not one computer on the face of this earth has ever been turned on and learned on its own.
Spain has more then likely been allowed to fall into its current state by the global fraudulent election systems and the thieves have run amok.
People need to be reminded that AI is controlled by people and that AI is artificial as in artificial diamonds (think cubic zirconia) and color (artificial food coloring) etc.
My father told me many years ago “That if it doesn’t make sense it normally isn’t true”. Like election night 2020. Have not heard one credible answer about the stoppage of counting the votes in the wee hours.
Also if it sounds to good to be true it normally isnt. “I guarantee you a 50 % return on your $ within 1 year.” (Maybe in ca. And minn.)
Pray and help others
Your father was correct. This should be obvious to most of us.
I, and my older friends, have a deep distrust of AI.
Thank you, Sundance!
Discernment!
Truth is living in reality and a never-ending search for the facts of the lives and times we are living in. There is absolute truth, but it is not my truth nor yours.
I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
God gave all of us life those in the past and our in the present. Those that do not believe in God are living a life of lies and they are doomed. Now that is the truth!
When Jesus said “I am the Way and the Truth and the Life.” (John 14:16) He essentially marginalized everything else to our analysis and the freedom to choose. That was also the foundation of our Constitution. It must remain so, no matter what we may fear in life, ownership of our choices and what we pursue must remain with us. That is why we must accept that our prejudices and our tendency to look to the values He gave us in the pursuit of truth make all the difference in our outcomes. Great breakdown overall, Sundance. “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” – John 1:5
Looks like The Wild Atlantic Way.
Thanks and Godspeed Sundance. 🙏
We already had government control of media in the US and no one cared. Facebook, Twitter, google, Apple, and the news media all collaborating. Vichy America.
So, Spanish people go back to newpapers cuz everything else is banned?
Or, the underground internet flairs there.
a different form of censorship:
Yesterday, i asked duck.ai using model claude-haiku 3.5
“Why are half the women in the us crazy?”
And it lectured me for two full pages, like a triggered blue haired psychology professor.
But, it does a decent job when you use prompt engineering to focus sourcing.
I always say Thank you after I use it…
That was funny! I can imagine its outrage – but it is a legitimate question. A large swath of white woman see to be dealing with a psychosis. My guess their university ‘education’ is at least partially responsible. I need to go to the store. I think I’ll ask Grok on the way there and see what kind of response I get.
“The US has accused the EU of censorship: Here’s how the bloc’s consensus machine works”
https://www.rt.com/news/631980-us-eu-censorship/
So very well said.
A good sign is the Left Coalition Sánchez government is in major trouble. The Right Coalition (PP & VOX) has moved ahead of the ruling Left Coalition Government (PSOE and Sumar) in current polling by a wide margin (50% to 34%) and is pushing for a Snap Election later in this year (2026). If that doesn’t happen the General Election is in August 2027.
Will be sitting granddaughter down to read and discuss this one!
There are so many Bible scriptures that tell us we should not put our trust in man. Jeremiah 17:5, Prov. 3 are just a couple, there are more. How few search the scriptures for truth.
After reading the warning from Durov ie Spain, I did a quick experiment with the AI that the Brave browser directly asking about the left bias in the response. What I got was left bias responses.
An example was the use of two hyphenated words: left-libertarian and right-authoritarian.
I changed those to left-authoritarian and right classic liberal and the damn thing attempted to correct me.
Hence our mistrust and dislike of AI is justified.
Once again: “Truth is like the Sun; you can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away…” (attributed to) Elvis Presley.
These are dark times. Seek the light of truth. Trust in God.
Oh, and keep reading CTH.
In my opinion, there was a time when you could sit down and search for truth on the computer and many of the books of today. That no longer is easy to do. As the saying goes one man’s meat is another man’s poison. In this age of technology, truth is to do what is right even when wrong is easier accepted. As Sundance states, we are given a brain use it instead of your fingers. If you want honesty, go back to the past books, etc., when all of this wasn’t even a nightmare. With a brain, we were given a conscience. Use it as well. God bless.
“You were not born with a requirement to believe everything you are told; rather, you were born with a brain that allows you to process the information you receive and make independent decisions.”
Agreed
That said, our state schools have produced several generations of children who don’t think for themselves.
These people are easily led, and many (most) of them lean leftward in their thinking.
Case in point, the lefties in Minnesota (some paid, some not) who are protecting illegal immigrants.
Too many young people have been conditioned to a liberal/left-leaning/collectivist worldview.
My motto has always been, “trust no one. Question everything”
More so now than ever before. Trust in God is the only way.
Censorship seems to be everywhere these days. A couple of days ago the WSJ published an article decrying the declining state of manufacturing in this country,and blaming it on Trump and his tariffs. Further down they published another article detailing the remarkable growth in manufacturing. I put the link to their positive article in the comments section and soon received an email from the WSJ saying my comment, a link to their own article, had been rejected because it ‘violated community standards’. It is next to impossible to successfully post any comment that takes issue with the garbage they print. Hopefully they will soon follow in the footsteps of the WP, which just fired a third of their propagandists.
As its been said many times here, the need to control is a reaction to fear. The EU is crumbling and the PM from Spain is hell bent on maintaining the status quo. The Catalonians will have none of it. And the Spaniards too.
Sundance, there is Microsoft spam on this thread.
Thank you Sundance!
Is it just me or can someone with a better grasp of the known and as yet unknown but predictable dangers of artificial intelligence explain my discomfort in the Trump administration enthusiastically embracing AI? Are the plans for the mega data centers still in the works?
As Sundance lays out the message Mr. Durov is sending, AI only relays what its programmers want relayed.
The Palantir/ Vance connection has always been troublesome.
These are important questions.
In the case of Spain they and the EU have already shut down free speech, as have Canada and Australia, who are part of the British Commonwealth.
Google and fake news have been conditioning us for years, they filter the search results so what shows up is pro communist, bad MAGA.
Thank God for this site, we check daily, and God’s word which always provides the truth.
AI loves the lazy, those with no knowledge of God are it’s target audience.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/free-speech/luis-cornelio/2026/02/05/new-year-new-me-not-google-news-67-leftist-sources-just
Not only is AI Software programmed to prioritize specific news sources … the RULES governing AI Software Decision Making are also biased to deliver very specific results.
Needs to highlighted directly …. the rationale to censor social media and limit access to young folks under 18, while admirable in practice is not the actual intent.
As Paval Durov states … EVERYBODY of ALL Ages has to submit their identifying data to the “System”. From that point forward … the social report card assessment begins for EVERYBODY.
Ugh
What is the difference between government doing this or business doing it?
“X” banned me permanently claiming I was a ‘bot’, whatever the hell that is.
I was only giving my opinions in comments.
“X” is not free speech either.
“Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead”
But his legacy lives on.
This was posted in a link from Sundance centered on Spain’s new censorship program. I noted the plaque of the hitherto unknown World Governments Summit on the lectern, and followed up. It is an entirely parallel organization to the so-called World Economic Forum, the trilaterals, and the usual suspects, organized and controlled by an absolute monarchy. Untouched by Chinese hands, I sweah ta God! The Arabs are lookin’ afta ya, thank _____ (trigger word). Thumbing through Wikipedia, I found:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Governments_Summit
The World Governments Summit was formed in 2013[4] by a team of experts from different disciplines[according to whom?] to bring government, business and civil society together with the goal of improving the future for the seven billion people on the planet.[5][6] The chairman of the World Governments Summit is Mohammad Al Gergawi[7] with Ohood bint Khalfan Al Roumi and Omar Al Olama serving as Vice Chairs of the organization.
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Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid and Mohammad Al Gergawi during World Governments Summit
….In 2016, the World Governments Summit Organization adopted a new year-round[clarification needed] membership system.[8] Members have exclusive invitations to attend the summit, communicate directly with its top speakers and attendees, receive reports issued by the summit ahead of general public, gain exclusive access to private functions held on the sidelines of events, and have access to training workshops and executive education programs hosted by the summit in collaboration with global experts.
[In 2017] participation of seven international organizations as strategic partners, including the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations, UNESCO, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the World Economic Forum.[22]
….In 2023, the summit was held under the theme of “Shaping Future Governments”. It brought together 20 heads of state and government, 250 ministers, along with the participation of 10,000 private sector leaders, global experts, and thought leaders to tackle future opportunities, trends, and challenges. [23]
Related to, but not to be confused with:
World Happiness Council – Wikipedia
Founding members of the council are Irina Bokova, Director-General of Unesco, Alexander Stubb, former Prime Minister of Finland, Richard Layard and John F. Helliwell, editors of the World Happiness Report, Ed Diener, senior scientist with the Gallup Organisation, Martin Seligman, Director of Authentic Happiness, Aisha Bin Bishr, Director General of the Smart Dubai Office, Ahmad Al Shugairi, Sonja Lyubomirsky, author of The How of Happiness, Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage, Martine Durand, Director of Statistics and Chief Statistician at the OECD, and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Professor of Economics at University of Oxford.[9] In 2018, the committee was expanded to include Dasho Karma Ura, president of Centre for Bhutan Studies & GNH Research, Lise Kingo, CEO and Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact, and Gus O’Donnell, former Cabinet Secretary and head of the U.K. Civil Service.[10]
(The Wharton School is also in on the act.) This culminates in:
The World Happiness Report is a publication that contains articles and rankings of national happiness, based on respondent ratings of their own lives,[1]which the report also correlates with various (quality of) life factors.[2]
Since 2024, the report has been published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, in partnership with Gallup, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, and an independent editorial board.[3] The editorial board consists of the three founding editors, John F. Helliwell, Richard Layard, and Jeffrey D. Sachs, along with Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Lara Aknin, and Shun Wang.[4]
The report primarily uses data from the Gallup World Poll. As of March 2025, Finland has been ranked the happiest country in the world for eight years in a row.[5]
Mexico was ranked 10 and the USA 24, which explains why so many Mexicans prefer to live in the USA.
I’m just so out of emoticons. Smiley faces
fail me.
psychpaths are constantly trying to organize and unify humanity under a singular belief system so that it can be conquererd in one fell swoop. when the push to create harmony exceeds the commitment to truth, the hackles should be up.
Thank you, @Sundance.
An absolutely
must-read article!