Amazon Web Services, a cloud computing service that powers much of the infrastructure behind millions of websites went down today, and here’s why that should really bother you

By now you know that today’s Prophecy News Podcast did not happen because of the massive outage this morning from Amazon Web Services, a cloud computing company that controls about half of the world’s internet traffic. They are still trying to determine if it was a cyberattack or a system-wide failure, but either way it shows one, big, fat and scary fact. If you want to control the world, all you need to do is to control the internet, and you’ll have it. That’s the memo.

“Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.” 2 Corinthians 2:11 (KJB)

We use Amazon Web Services as the core of our web traffic, and we count on it to deliver the millions of hits we get every month in a timely and efficient manner. But we are ‘small potatoes’ compared to large commercial sites, and government sites. Sites that control our national defense and homeland security. Let me give you something to consider that’ll keep you up at night.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has become a major power player inside the U.S. federal government, embedding its cloud infrastructure deep within the operations of key departments and defense agencies. Through massive contracts such as the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) program—valued at up to $9 billion across multiple vendors—and a newly forged $1 billion “OneGov” agreement with the General Services Administration (GSA), AWS now fuels the digital backbone of federal data, artificial intelligence, and military operations. Its dedicated GovCloud regions, designed to meet strict FedRAMP and DoD SRG security standards, serve agencies ranging from the Department of Defense to the U.S. Army and a host of civilian federal offices. What began as a commercial cloud venture has evolved into a strategic infrastructure partner for Washington, giving AWS unprecedented reach into the very systems that manage national defense, intelligence, and the day-to-day machinery of the American government.

Today millions like us at NTEB are inconvenienced with not being able to bring our regular content because of the outage at AWS, but Lord willing we’ll all be back up soon. But imagine what will happen when the internet is taken over and taken down because bad actors are staging a coup against the government, seizing control of the military and defense sites. Imagine what life will be like in that moment. It’s coming.

‘Half the internet’ goes down after Amazon cloud outage leaving millions

FROM THE DAILY MAIL UK: The outage has also affected popular Amazon services, including Amazon.com, Amazon Alexa, Ring and Amazon Prime Video. The issues began shortly after 8am BST (3am ET), according to DownDetector, with more than 6,000 reports from affected US customers.

Another 1,600 users and counting are affected in the UK, according to DownDetector, a site that monitors internet outages.

Jake Moore, tech expert and security advisor at ESET, thinks the huge outage is likely due to an ‘internal error’ at Amazon, but said we can’t rule out a cyberattack at this stage.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, he said: ‘While a cyberattack can’t be ruled out until AWS releases its full post-incident report, there’s no current evidence of hacking, data breaches or coordinated attacks.’

DownDetector gets network status updates from social media platforms, reports submitted to its website and other sources around the web. It ‘only reports an incident when the number of problem reports is significantly higher than the typical volume for that time of day’.

According to the site, the issue stems from problems at Amazon’s massive data center site in Northern Virginia (us-east-1), a critical hub for the global internet. In all, 75 per cent of the reported problems are coming from us-east-1, while the remainder are coming from two other US sites. READ MORE

Amazon Web Services takes down the internet

Amazon Web Services has now issued a further update, stating in a post at 10:29 a.m. ET that it is once again experiencing network connectivity issues in the US.

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When you combine Memetic Warfare with Artificial Intelligence, you have a weapon system designed to implant thoughts inside your head that present as your own

The weapons of warfare in 1914 were tanks and machine guns, the weapons of warfare in 1939 were jet fighters and nuclear bombs, and the most dangerous weapons of warfare in 2025 flash across our screens and mobile devices a thousand times per day. Maybe you have never heard of AI memetic warfare, but it’s battling to take control of your thoughts in ways you can’t even being to imagine.

“Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;” 2 Corinthians 10:5 (KJB)

We are the ‘always on’ generation, the first people group in human history to be living out their lives in relentless digital astonishment, connected to a global computer system to such a degree that preventing transhumanism is now literally impossible. I used to know one person who refused to be wired in, refusing to own even the most basic of cell phones, but even he is now online.

Memes have been around for quite some time, but around 2014–2016, the idea of memetic warfare emerged — the deliberate use of memes to influence elections, shape narratives, and drive ideological movements online. Intelligence communities and military analysts began to study memes as “information weapons”, recognizing their power to steer emotion and public opinion. A paper published on the NATO Strategic Communications site entitled ‘It’s Time To Embrace Memetic Warfare’ gave us this startling insight. “Cyber warfare is about taking control of data. Memetic warfare is about taking control of the dialogue, narrative, and psychological space. It’s about denigrating, disrupting, and subverting the enemy’s effort to do the same. Like cyber warfare, memetic warfare is asymmetrical in impact. It can be highly effective relative to cost. The attack surface can be large or small. Memetic warfare can be used in conjunction with troops, ships, aircraft, and missiles, or it can be employed without any kinetic military force at all. It operates in the communications battlespace.” Simply put, the battlefield is now inside our heads, and it’s for control of your thoughts. Let me show you what I mean.

Let’s say tonight you decide to make something like Stuffed Pepper Soup, something you’ve never made before. Do you want to make it because you actually have a craving for it, or is it because of a post on social media that planted that thought in your head that you’ve forgotten about? How about this. Do you love and support the nation of Israel, or do you strongly dislike the Jews? Now, do you think either of those things because of what’s in your own heart, or, were those thoughts, for good or for evil, planted in your brain by memes and social media exposure? Here’s a good question, how do you know your thoughts are even your own thoughts? Answer – You don’t.

“Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Ephesians 6:11,12 (KJB)

Right now on social media, there are multiple fronts exploding in this ongoing war. The first is a relentless push to legitimize Mormonism in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s supportive comments about it before he was killed. Another is a huge meme-based push to give Donald Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, and another on the normalization of robots in our daily lives. Of course, the biggest one at the moment is likely the Free Palestine push which normalizes hatred and violence against the Jews and Israel. Other very powerful memetic deceptions include the Flat Earth, the sainthood of Charlie Kirk, and just about anything from the United Nations.

In the old days, propaganda needed newspapers, radio, and posters. Today, it only needs the screen you carry in your pocket and hold in your hands. A meme shared by millions becomes more powerful than a sermon, more persuasive than a fact. It can redefine gender, rewrite history, and even recast evil as good — all in under ten seconds. Simply put, it is one of the most-destructive weapons ever created.

That’s not just social media influence. That’s spiritual subversion.

Each meme carries an invisible payload — an idea that bypasses the intellect and embeds itself in the imagination, shaping how people see the world. The more it’s shared, the stronger the infection. The battlefield is your feed; the front line is your mind. The Devil doesn’t need to destroy the Bible — he only needs to drown it in memes, half-truths, and viral confusion. Memetic warfare is Satan’s latest upgrade to the ancient art of deception, using algorithms instead of fruit trees.

“This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.” James 3:15 (KJB)

To sum it up, Christian, Memetic Warfare is much more than a trend. It’s a sign of the times, a preview of the coming Antichrist system — a world united not by truth, but by shared deception. The global hive mind is being prepared, trained to react, not to think. Having now identified the problem, and it’s a big one, how do we combat it? Glad you asked.

First and foremost, start every day with a Bible study in your King James Bible, everything you read there are thoughts of God. We find that the Bible is likened to bread, water, honey, a shield, a sword, and everything else we need to successfully wage this war we find ourselves in.

“Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.” Job 23:12 (KJB)

Secondly, you need a strong prayer life, one where you are more connected to God than you are to social media. Paul says that we will have the “peace of God” when we commit ourselves to Him with “prayer and supplications with thanksgiving”. One of the first casualties in memetic warfare is internal peace. Every one of the apostles were able to go to their deaths with perfect peace even though they lived in mind-numbingly chaotic times. Their minds were stayed on Jesus Christ.

“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.” Isaiah 26:3 (KJB)

Last but not least, understand that a full 50% of everything you read on social media is overtly false, about 35% of it is truth mixed with error and/or lies, and about 15% of it can be trusted. Push back on what you are presented with, don’t fall for everything like a fish biting at the worm because it’s wrapped around something shiny that catches your eye. In Matthew 24, Jesus says that the first sign of the end times is deception, and that’s exactly what meme warfare is, a deception.

“And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.” Romans 13:11 (KJB)

World War Meme – The Soul Trap

In a world where information is the ultimate weapon, a new battle is raging. Not on the battlefield, but in the digital realm. Memetic warfare: where humor meets ideology, and a single image can change the course of history. Who will control the narrative? Who will win the war of minds? Prepare for a psychological operation like no other. Memetic warfare: the fight for truth, the fight for control, the fight for your mind.

Meme Warfare – How Countries Are Weaponizing Memes

Memes are hilarious and somehow they perfectly capture the mood and vibe of the current culture. The internet is contently flooded with remixes of memes and variations of the same art with new text, making entirely new connections. Memes are an incredible way to share information, and in today’s insane video we’re going to show you why Memes actually aren’t so funny! Check out why Memes can be weaponized and how you can avoid being brainwashed by secret political agendas packaged as friendly little Memes.

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And just like that, Palantir AI military software now powers the militaries of nearly 40 nations and NATO with their highly invasive and secretive technology

You know those dystopian movies where one technology company creates a product or products that are adopted by the militaries of other nations so that by the end of the movie that same technology company now effectively controls all the world’s militaries and then exploits that for their own personal agenda? Yeah, that’s not a movie, that’s Palantir in 2025 getting billion dollar contracts from other nations to supply them with AI technology to power their armies. The keys to the kingdoms have been delivered.

“For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.” Revelation 17:17 (KJB)

As of September 2025, at least six nations use Palantir military technology: the United States, United Kingdom, Ukraine, Israel, Norway, and Denmark. Additionally, the technology is used by NATO for military planning among its 32 member nations. The total number of countries with Palantir military technology is not fully disclosed due to the secretive nature of the company’s defense work. If you have the time, visit The Marshall Project site for a full listing of Palantir links that’ll send a cold chill down your spine.

Confirmed nations using Palantir military technology:

• United States: The Department of Defense has long used Palantir, and the U.S. Army recently awarded the company a 10-year contract worth up to $10 billion for AI-powered data integration.
• United Kingdom: In September 2025, Palantir announced a new partnership to invest up to $2 billion in the UK and establish its European defense headquarters there. The company works with the UK military on AI-powered planning and targeting.
• Ukraine: Palantir’s technology has been a crucial component of Ukraine’s military effort since the 2022 Russian invasion, primarily for targeting and intelligence analysis.
• Israel: Palantir’s Gotham platform is provided to Israel’s military and intelligence agencies to support “war-related missions,” including advanced targeting capabilities.
• Norway: The Norwegian Customs uses Palantir’s Gotham system for screening passengers, vehicles, and freight.
• Denmark: The Danish National Police has used Palantir software since 2017 for its predictive policing project, and the government is integrating the technology into military and intelligence services.
• NATO: The military alliance is implementing Palantir’s Maven Smart System to improve AI-driven planning and decision-making across its 32 member nations.

Here on Day 2012 of 15 Days To Flatten The Curve, we’ve gone from watching dystopian end times movies to living inside one, exactly how the Bible says that it will be in the last days. The professing Church is lukewarm and on the sidelines, and the spirit of Antichrist continues to rise. Speaking of the Antichrist, the co-founder of Palantir, Peter Thiel, has becomes his official spokesman. That’s how close we are to all of this wrapping up.

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When you contribute to this fundraising effort, you are helping us to do what the Lord called us to do. The money you send in goes primarily to the overall daily operations of this site. When people ask for Bibles, we send them out at no charge. When people write in and say how much they would like gospel tracts but cannot afford them, we send them a box at no cost to them for either the tracts or the shipping, no matter where they are in the world. We have a Gospel Billboard program. We are now broadcasting Bible studies, Podcasts and a Sunday Service 5 times a week, thanks to your generous donations. All this is possible because YOU pray for us, YOU support us, and YOU give so we can continue growing.

But whatever you do, don’t do nothing. Time is short and we need your help right now. The Lord has given us an open door with a tremendous ‘course’ for us to fulfill that will create an excellent experience at the Judgement Seat of Christ. Please pray for our efforts, and if the Lord leads you to donate, be as generous as possible. The war is REAL, the battle HOT and the time is SHORT…TO THE FIGHT!!!

“Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;” Titus 2:13 (KJB)

“Thank you very much!” – Geoffrey, editor-in-chief, NTEB