Grounded by Design: How 'De-growth' Ideologues Are Sabotaging America's Skies
The ATC “modernization” plan and the real agenda flying under the radar.
At a Glance:
Trump’s 2025 aviation plan isn’t patriotic reform, it’s a reboot of Obama’s failed NextGen.
The FAA's slow-motion collapse is engineered to end personal flight.
Club of Rome’s Degrowth frames your freedom to fly as a planetary threat.
New skyward technologies (SETI, HAYSTAC, STARGATE) aren’t benign, they’re surveillance tools and they’re funded by you.
The Artemis Accords are the SDGs for space.
The false alien narrative is used to justify a spiritual and geopolitical coup.
The skies are being sealed shut- not by incompetence, but by design. Trump’s 2025 aviation plan equals more control now, and no flying later.
Donald Trump recently announced a major push to “modernize” America’s air traffic control system. At first glance, this looks like a patriotic fix for a broken system. But dig deeper and you’ll find that it’s not a course correction, it’s a continuation of the same globalist transformation that began under Bush and was accelerated by Obama. It’s the next phase of a global technocratic agenda that began decades ago.
📘 What is Trump really modernizing? The exact same infrastructure Obama tried to overhaul under the NextGen label.
NextGen was never about optimizing air travel for citizens. It was always about consolidating control, embedding ESG-friendly oversight, and moving toward AI-managed skyways where human oversight is minimized.
Trump’s 2025 plan recycles NextGen’s language of “efficiency,” “safety,” and “resilience,” but now frames it as a necessary modernization to defend national sovereignty and competitiveness. It’s a bipartisan psyop, the language has changed, but the architecture remains.
🚨 Decode the Language of Control
“Efficiency”
Code Translation: Automation that replaces human judgment with AI systems. Fewer workers, less oversight, more centralized control.“Safety”
Code Translation: Pretext for invasive surveillance. From biometric scans to predictive profiling, "safety" becomes the excuse for digital policing.“Resilience”
Code Translation: Permanent adaptability to engineered crises. Your rights, routines, and freedoms must bend to "resilient infrastructure" that serves global governance.“National Sovereignty”
Code Translation: Repackaged globalism. Sovereignty is invoked to mask the adoption of UN-aligned systems under the banner of America First.“Competitiveness”
Code Translation: Technocratic arms race. Used to justify taxpayer funding for elite infrastructure, cloud, AI, satellites that normal citizens won’t control or benefit from.
Under Obama, the FAA launched NextGen with billions in spending, promising cleaner airspace and digital upgrades. Under Trump 2025, the same contractors (Raytheon, MITRE, Leidos) are back in the mix, only now with populist branding and “America First” wrapping paper.
What’s still in the plan?
AI-managed surveillance networks
Carbon-monitoring integrations
Biometric passenger tracking
Enforced compliance with global climate reporting metrics
Same system, new salesman. The ATC “modernization” plan is not about flying freely, it’s about making sure only those compliant with digital governance get to fly at all.
Air Travel Is Dying on Purpose
If you've recently experienced a delayed flight, chaotic rescheduling, or an unexplained cancellation, you're not alone. This isn't just systemic incompetence. What if the collapse of air travel in America isn't an accident, but part of a deliberate globalist agenda to make personal flight a thing of the past?
This is the reality beneath the surface: America's air traffic control system is being dismantled in slow motion to meet the ideological goals of the Degrowth movement.
Degrowth is an ideology that calls for intentionally reducing economic activity and consumption in order to meet environmental and social goals at the cost of personal freedom, mobility, and prosperity. Degrowth is promoted by globalist think tanks like the Club of Rome, academic elites, and institutions aligned with the United Nations, particularly through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and climate policy networks.
The same forces pushing 15-minute cities, cognitive cities, smart surveillance grids, and carbon quotas are now targeting your ability to fly.
Cognitive cities are AI-driven urban environments that monitor, predict, and manage human behavior in real time. Unlike smart cities, they go beyond automation to enforce compliance with global governance goals through surveillance and behavioral control. Cognitive cities aren’t just smart, they’re pre-crime. These AI-driven environments track, predict, and preempt human behavior, making them tools of control rather than convenience. Under the guise of efficiency, they pave the way for digital authoritarianism.
This isn’t a failure of policy, it’s the fulfillment of a plan: to ground the masses while building a surveillance empire in the skies.
The FAA’s failures are not simply bureaucratic, they are engineered obstacles aligned with Degrowth ideology. The quiet collapse of commercial aviation is being used to normalize scarcity, justify digital monitoring, and funnel mass populations into programmable zones.
Air travel once symbolized freedom. Now, it’s being framed as a climate sin and priced out of reach.
“The era of cheap flights must come to an end.” - Paraphrased from Club of Rome-aligned climate documents
The elites will still fly on carbon offsets and state-sponsored green exemptions.
You? You’ll be forcefully nudged into staying home, most likely via behavioral economics.
Behavioral economics is dangerous because it transforms psychology into a weapon of control. What begins as subtle nudging quickly escalates into overt coercion using insights about human bias to manipulate choices without consent. Governments and corporations enforce “desired behaviors” through economic punishments (like fines, taxes, or denial of services) and movement restrictions (such as carbon passports or digital IDs). The result is a system where freedom becomes conditional, and compliance is rewarded, not with liberty, but with permission to participate.
Degrowth: The Ideology That Hates Flight and LIFE
In essence, Degrowth isn’t about efficiency, it’s about moral austerity imposed through carbon accounting and behavior modification.
Rooted in the Club of Rome’s early calls for limits to growth and now embedded in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the ideology promotes intentional economic contraction in the name of “planetary boundaries.”
it insists that prosperity must be limited to “save the Earth.” Individual mobility and abundance are painted as ecological evils.
Air travel = freedom
Freedom = non-compliance
Non-compliance = crisis
Degrowth’s goal is to redirect economic activity toward digital compliance, engineered scarcity, and planetary governance, all under the language of “justice” and “sustainability.”
Air travel is one of the top targets. Why? Because it empowers individual freedom, facilitates borderless mobility, and represents middle-class prosperity. In the eyes of global technocrats, that makes it a threat to planetary management.
The Degrowth vision demands reduced consumption, centralized control of energy and transportation, and behavioral compliance, all under the banner of “equity” and “climate justice.” Your mobility is now framed as a carbon crime.
"Economy of Wellbeing" (WEGo) + "Degrowth"
For those who are living in the West and are not aware of DEGROWTH this info is a MUST. Degrowth is a Club of Rome new world order program running in 1st world countries to smash capitalism and bring populations into serf class status. Degrowth is globalist communism in action. And yes, depopulation is a component of the Degrowth operation.
The Sabotage of Air Traffic Control
America’s aviation backbone, its air traffic control (ATC) system isn’t failing, it’s being dismantled on purpose.
Over the past decade, the FAA and its policy partners have allowed chronic dysfunction to fester:
Chronic staffing shortages: Despite years of warnings, the FAA has failed to train and retain a sufficient number of air traffic controllers. The system is running on skeleton crews.
Deliberate bottlenecks: Successful collegiate training pipelines (CTI programs) were deprioritized, replaced by bureaucratic, lottery-style application systems.
DEI interference: Diversity mandates have politicized hiring, often at the expense of merit and speed.
NextGen as a Trojan Horse: Touted as the future of aviation, the NextGen modernization plan diverted attention and billions toward a surveillance-focused AI network that quietly shifts authority from human judgment to algorithmic governance.
This isn’t reform. It’s engineered dependency.
The skies are being cleared, not for passengers, but for surveillance systems.
NextGen Was Never Meant to Succeed
A Technocratic Money Laundering Scheme
📘 “NextGen was never meant to fix aviation, it was designed to justify its replacement.”
Follow the Funding - Billions for Failure
The FAA’s NextGen program has burned through over $40 billion.
Despite the massive investment:
Flight delays have increased
Controller shortages persist
System-wide outages are more frequent
Audits from the Government Accountability Office and internal oversight bodies have flagged:
Cost overruns
Delayed timelines
Unclear benefits
Absence of meaningful return on investment
Meanwhile, contractors with deep ties to the defense-industrial complex have profited enormously:
Raytheon Technologies
Leidos
MITRE Corporation
These are defense contractors, not transportation visionaries. These entities specialize in aerospace, military surveillance, and global systems management, not efficient civilian air travel.
Their mission isn’t modernization, it’s monetization and control.
Sustainable Grift
Like ESG and DEI, NextGen came gift-wrapped in slogans:
“Sustainability.” “Equity through efficiency.” “Resilience infrastructure.”
This is how technocracy operates:
Create the crisis → Promise the fix → Funnel public wealth → Tighten digital control.
This is textbook technocratic strategy:
📘 “Create a crisis. Promise a solution. Launder taxpayer money through fake innovation. Leave the public more dependent and less mobile.”
NextGen, like many green-tinted programs, wasn’t a solution. It was a staged implosion designed to redirect transportation from private control to planetary governance.
Trump’s ATC Plan
A Nationalist Veneer on a Technocratic 2.0 Blueprint
Trump’s 2025 airspace modernization push is not a rejection of Obama-era globalism, it’s a continuation with a new flag wrapped around it.
Though it arrives with populist flair and promises of American revival, it builds directly on the same architecture laid by the NextGen program. The same contractors, the same AI-driven oversight, and the same UN-aligned language of “resilience” and “sustainability.”
This isn’t a pivot. It’s revamped packaging.
The Bigger Plan for the Skies
Orbital Surveillance, AI Enforcement, and Spiritual Subversion
As planes disappear, a cage rises above us, one that sees, tracks, nudges, and punishes. The sky becomes a sanctuary for the technocratic priesthood.
HAYSTAC
Marketed as a quantum sensor to detect dark matter, HAYSTAC is IARPA-tech that can locate even the faintest human activity. Future versions are set to prevent people from living off-grid or migrating outside of approved smart zones.
SETI
SETI is not just about aliens, it’s about data. Its real purpose is to legitimize cosmic evolution narratives, reframe spiritual belief, and advance deep space surveillance under the guise of discovery.
Anomalous radar returns from legacy ATC systems have been conveniently repackaged as “UFOs,” building public support for even deeper skyward scrutiny.
Artemis Accords
These space treaties extend SDG metrics and UN surveillance into orbit. Think global governance, off-world. The language of “peaceful cooperation” masks ESG mandates, AI-run moon mining, and orbital obedience.
STARGATE
Trump’s STARGATE initiative, a $500B datacenter venture backed by OpenAI, Oracle, and Abu Dhabi’s sovereign fund, is the digital nervous system for sky-based control. The name references past CIA remote viewing projects but it’s now reborn as AI surveillance.
This isn’t just about commerce. It’s about dominion through data.
Who's Really Paying For the Skyward Prison?
While these programs are cloaked in scientific or patriotic language, they are being largely funded by American taxpayers, either directly through government agencies like NASA and IARPA, or indirectly through defense contractors, public-private partnerships, and foreign equity deals that rely on U.S. infrastructure.
Whether it’s scanning for aliens or building AI megastructures, the American public is footing the bill for a future it didn’t authorize.
🔬 HAYSTAC
Funded by: IARPA (a division of the U.S. intelligence community)
Fully federal taxpayer-funded
Marketed as dark matter research but being developed as a quantum sensor capable of identifying unauthorized human presence in rural zones
🛸 SETI
Funded by: NASA, NSF, and private billionaires
Partially taxpayer-funded
Promotes alien narratives, channels public funds into surveillance infrastructure, and undermines biblical truth with evolutionary cosmology
🌖 Artemis Accords
Funded by: NASA and U.S. diplomatic corps
Entirely taxpayer-funded
Embeds UN-aligned sustainability mandates into national space commitments
🌐 STARGATE
Funded by: OpenAI, Oracle, SoftBank, MGX, with federal contract dependencies
Partially taxpayer-funded
Massive AI datacenter initiative pitched as a private venture but likely tied to public infrastructure subsidies and U.S. government partnerships
These skyward programs serve a dual purpose:
Control earthly movement under climate, equity, and surveillance narratives
Promote spiritual deception by advancing an alien mythos that undermines the authority of Scripture
Neon skies and soaring heights in techno la-la land.
Cosmic Deception and the War on Faith
What binds all this together?
The alien narrative.
It justifies:
Space militarization
Surveillance expansion
Taxpayer-funded technocracy
By claiming extraterrestrial life exists, they undermine the biblical account of creation, push cosmic evolution, and draw minds into occult frameworks.
“The heavens declare the glory of God.” (Psalm 19:1)
The new regime says the heavens belong to man, and his algorithms.
The Modern Stewards of Ancient Rebellion
The system of Christless discipleship, empowered by the spirit of Antichrist, is being erected all around us. Though its exact boundaries may still seem unclear, many of us feel its presence encroaching. For years, 2025 has been cited as a pivotal marker for entering the new digital framework and drastic depopulation, a shift not merely technological, b…
Eyes Open, Hearts Guarded
We are watching a transition from freedom of movement to permission to move, from open skies to surveilled heavens. But we are not without hope.
The technocrats may dominate the airwaves, but God owns the heavens.
The prince of the power of the air still schemes, but the heavens belong to the Lord. Ephesians 2:2 & Psalm 115:16
Let us remain faithful watchmen. May our discernment grow sharper as the deception grows deeper.
The heavens declare the glory of God, not the glory of technocrats.
Soli Deo Gloria!
Summer Black, Director, Armor of Truth
Trump2025 . NextGen . FAA collapse . Degrowth agenda . ESG surveillance . Air traffic control . Biometric tracking . SETI deception . HAYSTAC sensors . Artemis Accords . Stargate AI . Technocracy . SDGs . Smart cities . Orbital surveillance . Alien psyop . Spiritual warfare . Biblical discernment . Agenda 2030 . Aviation sabotage
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