Martin Armstrong – Armstrong Economics July 24, 2026
There was a time when America’s industrial titans built railroads, steel mills, and oil companies. Today, influence is measured in data, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, media, and information. Few families illustrate that transformation better than the Ellisons.
Larry Ellison built Oracle from a small software company into one of the world’s largest technology firms. His background and rags-to-riches story are quite interesting. Today Oracle is one of the dominant providers of enterprise databases and cloud infrastructure, serving governments, financial institutions, healthcare providers, defense contractors, and many of the world’s largest corporations. Oracle’s software touches enormous portions of the global economy. When governments collect taxes, hospitals manage patient records, banks process transactions, or corporations analyze data, Oracle systems are often operating behind the scenes.
Larry Ellison’s personal fortune has placed him among the wealthiest individuals in the world for decades. His influence extends well beyond technology. He has invested billions in real estate, owns nearly all of the Hawaiian island of Lanai, has backed medical research, invested heavily in artificial intelligence, and has maintained relationships with political and business leaders from both parties. The TikTok debacle this year was solved when the power was handed over to Ellison’s conglomerate. The sheer data this family has access to is staggering. Wealth at that level naturally provides access to decision makers across government and industry.
Then we come to his son, David Ellison, who founded Skydance Media in 2010. The company produced or co-produced major franchises including Mission: Impossible, Top Gun: Maverick, and Star Trek, before expanding into television, animation, gaming, and streaming. This was never merely a wealthy man’s son playing Hollywood producer. Skydance became the vehicle through which the Ellison family entered the machinery of American culture.
The Skydance takeover of Paramount for $8 billion brought CBS, CBS News, Paramount Pictures, Paramount+, Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, BET, Showtime, and decades of film and television rights into the Ellison orbit. The father built an empire around the storage and processing of information. The son moved into the business of selecting, packaging, and distributing information to the public. That combination should concern everyone, regardless of politics. Oracle occupies a critical position within the technological infrastructure used by governments and corporations, while Paramount reaches millions of people through news, entertainment, sports, children’s programming, and streaming. One side of the family empire helps manage the data. The other side can help shape the narrative.
This is how oligarchies emerge in the modern world. They do not need to abolish elections or openly seize control of government. They acquire the infrastructure, the platforms, the studios, the databases, and the channels through which society communicates. Politicians then come begging for access, favorable coverage, campaign support, or technological assistance.
I have written extensively about the growing surveillance state because data is the new instrument of political control. Oracle does not merely sell office software; its databases and cloud systems sit beneath governments, banks, hospitals, corporations, and defense institutions, processing information on countless individuals. This does not mean Larry Ellison personally searches through anyone’s private records, but it does mean his empire occupies a powerful position within the infrastructure where that information is stored and managed. Governments no longer need to kick down every door when they can pressure a handful of technology companies to surrender the data voluntarily or obtain it through the courts. Now his son controls a media empire capable of influencing what millions of Americans see, hear, and believe about that very system. The father’s world helps store the information while the son’s world can shape the public narrative, and anyone who cannot see the danger in combining those two forms of power is refusing to understand how a modern surveillance state is constructed.
Some will say there is no evidence that the Ellisons have committed any crime merely by owning these businesses. That misses the entire point. A concentration of power does not become dangerous only after somebody is convicted. The problem is creating a structure in which a handful of unelected families can exercise more economic, technological, and cultural influence than entire governments. America once feared monopolies because people understood that concentrated economic power eventually becomes political power.
The Ellisons did not invent this system, but they have become one of its clearest examples. Larry Ellison built the technological empire. David Ellison extended the family’s reach into media and culture. When one family can occupy both the infrastructure of information and the institutions that distribute it, we are no longer discussing ordinary entrepreneurial success. We are looking at the architecture of modern power.
Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune
https://fortune.com/2024/09/17/oracle-larry-ellison-surveillance-state-police-ai/
Billionaire Drools That “Citizens Will Be on Their Best Behavior” Under Constant AI Surveillance
https://futurism.com/the-byte/billionaire-constant-ai-surveillance
I assume it was a US citizen who said recently the American Dream was to move to China. That’s what these tech bros have done.
Nice try in promoting this dude as some sort of self made tech business billionaire. His ass is no such thing. He is of “intellegence” , a planted agent, handed to him all the propaganda and looting tools , just as many of the so called tech people have had. All these “businesses” are not real. .
Andy Burnham opens door to benefits crackdown and tells claimants they can go to work
Story by Oliver Partridge •
Fine but where are these jobs ?
you imported in milions of toerag migrants and gave out work jibs and homes o them
what do you think positive discrimination was about.
It’s amazing how far a junk database-system can take you..
Just ask Harry Bellison.
Bulgarian smuggles 54 guns and 764 rounds of ammunition into UK in spare tyres
Story by Ciaran McGrath
© NCA
A Bulgarian man has been jailed for 12 years after trying to smuggle 54 handguns and 764 rounds of ammunition into Britain hidden inside spare tyres. Petar Petrov, 57, from Varna, was stopped by Border Force officers at Dover’s Eastern Docks on February 4 as he arrived in a rented Mercedes Sprinter.
A scan of the van revealed anomalies. Officers found 24 pistols packed into one spare tyre under the vehicle and a further 30 in another tyre at the rear. Each handgun had a loaded magazine .the weapons were fully functional and lethal the migrant gang were preparing for the coming civil war they said
The haul also included 764 rounds of 9mm ammunition and pamphlets on explosives
Petrov was carrying a black lock knife in a holdall and another knife in the glove box, plus €1,000 believed to be part payment for the smuggling run. He made no comment in the interview.
He was convicted at Canterbury Crown Court on July 10 of smuggling firearms and ammunition and sentenced on Friday.
NCA senior investigating officer Tracey Gasson said: “Thanks to some brilliant work by Border Force colleagues this haul of deadly weapons and a massive amount of ammunition have been kept off the streets of the UK.
“The organised crime group behind the smuggling attempt have lost a trusted courier and a big pay day.
How many times does government need to be told
we dont want these people here
he looks like a crook .
so we normal people can understand
that we once + for all are superfluous .
UN human rights chief says Israel must end occupation and house demolitions in Palestine and Lebanon
Story by Kareem Chehayeb •
The United Nations’ human rights chief said Monday that Israel must end its occupation of large areas of southern Lebanon halt the demolition of homes, and all israeli terrorism stopped.
just days before Lebanese and Israeli officials are set to hold another round of direct talks.
Volker Türk spoke to The Associated Press as he wrapped up a visit to Lebanon, his second in just over a year. He met with government officials, civil society representatives and Lebanese people displaced by the Israeli war on the area and the Hezbollah group.
The visit came about a week before Lebanese and Israeli officials are to meet in Rome for talks on implementing a framework deal reached June 26. It laid out a plan for the deployment of Lebanese military forces in areas in southern Lebanon and the withdrawal of Israeli forces, alongside the disarmament of Hezbollah, Hezbollah would be mad to disarm
can israel ever be trusted ?
no way
Most truthers must agree that we are ruled mainly through stealth. Podcasters such as Shawn Ryan are waking up to say that it is all lies and that the US has become a very Satanic place, as is Israel, and in most Western nations as well. Most other people tend think that morality (meaning Right & Wrong) is a private matter and that the bottom line to justify anything is in the use of power to get what best serves their interests. They simply do not care about all of the lies and deception. If there was another 9/11 false flag it would take them another 20 years even to suspect it was an inside job with the Israelis doing the wet work. It is always deception first and then violence and destruction to rain down on the victims clutching on to their own existence. What can be more Satanic?
Those in power can get away with their deceptions but only with a deceitful people, a people who are really at the heart of things “amoral”. What we notice is that “truth” is not really “the first causality of war”, but it is essentially the first causality of dishonest people eager to accept and spread any lie they feel will advance their interests. Once a person or a nation becomes “amoral” with respect to the universal laws of God regarding their fellow humans, the truth also becomes a very relative matter and the exclusive privilege of the powerful, and then out flies “reason” as well, and the crimes against humanity become more and more heinous and blatant. Covid and Gaza are really the same thing.
Is this not our history over the past 125 years? Who has been running things in our world over that period of time? Which people control the finances and the governments of our nations? What people really control the media? Who is really in power? Is it the decent people who, like God, hate evil, and like God, according to the psalms, “hate all who do evil”? Are not all of the corridors of power, and all ways which lead to those corridors, filled with “deceitful and bloodthirsty people the Lord detests”?
“No truth can be found in their mouths,
their heart is all mischief,
their throat a wide-open grave,
all honey their speech”. [Psalm 5]
The people who are now running things in our nations, those who have usurped their powers over us through deception, fear mongering and oppression, in the place of truth, freedom and justice, are NOT the people who wrote the psalms, or any scripture which constitute the foundations of Western civilization, decency or freedom.
So, where is that voice of justice and what is right, where are the voices of all of those those who say they are a people who are subject to the true God of truth, goodness, justice and mercy? Has that voice not been systematically snuffed out by those who occupy all of our corridors of power in our nations, and in particular, those who regard themselves as “the chosen” even though it is clear that by their works they must be wretched in the sight of God himself?
For all of the deceits, injustices, and exploitations of the ruling class, can they not see that God’s “chosen” has nothing to do with race, genetics, or a so-called “holy land” in any material sense? What corrupts things comes from a crookedness and evil within us, and what makes any of us holy and good comes from what we replace it with.
As said in Book of Wisdom [The Wisdom of Solomon] – They shall have “the experience of it” meaning the “experience of death”, while the souls of the just will NOT go down to that hell which is the absence of God and the absence of the source of all life and being, but WILL be lifted up into everlasting life.
“Love righteousness, ye that be judges of the earth: think of the Lord with a good (heart,) and in simplicity of heart seek him. For he will be found of them that tempt him not; and sheweth himself unto such as do not distrust him. For froward thoughts separate from God: and his power, when it is tried, reproveth the unwise. For into a malicious soul wisdom shall not enter; nor dwell in the body that is subject unto sin. For the holy spirit of discipline will flee deceit, and remove from thoughts that are without understanding, and will not abide when unrighteousness cometh in. For wisdom is a loving spirit; and will not acquit a blasphemer of his words: for God is witness of his reins, and a true beholder of his heart, and a hearer of his tongue. For the Spirit of the Lord filleth the world: and that which containeth all things hath knowledge of the voice.” [1: 1-7, King James version]
“For God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity. Nevertheless through envy of the devil came death into the world: and they that do hold of his side do find it.” [2: 23-24]
“But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure is taken for misery, and their going from us to be utter destruction: but they are in peace. For though they be punished in the sight of men, yet is their hope full of immortality. And having been a little chastised, they shall be greatly rewarded: for God proved them, and found them worthy for himself. As gold in the furnace hath he tried them, and received them as a burnt offering. And in the time of their visitation they shall shine, and run to and fro like sparks among the stubble. They shall judge the nations, and have dominion over the people, and their Lord shall reign for ever. They that put their trust in him shall understand the truth: and such as be faithful in love shall abide with him: for grace and mercy is to his saints, and he hath care for his elect. But the ungodly shall be punished according to their own imaginations, which have neglected the righteous, and forsaken the Lord.” [3: 1-10]
Mathis adds good commentary:
https://mileswmathis.com/ellison.pdf
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Scott Adams too…
: )
it seems Karma law has changed its directives .
according to hinduism the very merited souls
were reborn as kings Buddas, Avatars, Gurus etc.
but now Karma seems to bless mostly jews, started
by Rothschild clan + continuing with the rest of
jew mafia . they get rich + powerful by easy means .
not like a hard working coal miner or asian female
riceplanter . so fuck KARMA . I dont believe in it .