Digital Identification is a tough one, because it is predicated on the truism that "My enemy' s enemy is my friend", that is, we don't want unknown migrants arriving and circulating in society, and digital ID is portrayed as the enemy of undocumented individuals.
Hence, digital ID must be the friend of anyone who is opposed to mass anonymous migration.
It's quite a compelling argument, and needs an equally compelling rebuttal.
Therein lies the orchestrated conundrum. Each country has been profiled for best strategy to feed digital ID to the masses. Just as each country was psychologically, culturally, and economically profiled for how to roll out the military operation called 'covid' and get poison into arms. For digital ID, the various stratagems I've seen from country to country are: Border control biometric entry-exit system to solve illegal immigration, Online safety act to protect the children, Bank account restrictions and biometric requirements such as face scan and finger print scan for payments over $1000 to purportedly protect the people from scammers and hackers, a way to bank the unbanked as a tool to end poverty, universal basic income and stimulus vehicle, vaccine passports, identifying anonymous 'hate speech' rabble rousers......
In response to your last point directly - it may not seem like a compelling rebuttal in our age of perceived technological wonderment (warped into totalitarian dystopia) - but opposing and enforcing mass anonymous (presumably meant as illegal?) migration, the border patrol and immigration agencies have to do it the old fashioned way - checking **physical forms of ID** against databases. Face to face interviews with airport immigration personnel to determine legitimacy of persons entering country without harboring malintent.
I believe we must insist of 'sacrificing' the perceived 'efficiency' of being able to run everyone on the planet's iris scans, finger prints, and biometric facial templates through inter-agency, international centralised databases, by instead doing the manually intensive labour of more analogue immigration checking methods - hybridised with internet capabilities and databases naturally, but not at the expense of the whole world's inhabitants having their biometrics harvested, just in case they might be a bad guy, i.e. everyone is guilty unless proven innocent, indefinitely, ad inifinitum.
I agree with the general thrust of your argument, but that still leaves us the problem of how to get There from Here, because conveniences of a technological kind tend to operate as a one-way ratchet; once a convenience has been widely adopted, it is impossible to get rid of it, since people have forgotten how to do without it.
Now we have calculators, we can't do mental arithmetic. Now we have automatic train doors, people would be scared of trains with manual doors, people rapidly become petrified if their phone is out of signal range, and so on and so on.
In short, I don't think we (in the West, certainly) have people capable of conducting tough face-to-face interviews, and turning people down in person. Such is the demoralization (and, some would argue, feminization) of Western society, that those sort of hard decisions have become all but impossible, and extremely hard to relearn.
Musk also just happened to coincidentally offer to supply his Starlink (or whatever it's called) technology to replace Verizon's contract for updating the US air traffic control system. Or part of it. It's not clear from the articles I've read what exactly Verizon is sucking at and why they're about to be fired. Depending on the source it's either just computer terminals "for ATC communication" or all the planes are gonna crash. Either way, I don't trust Musk as far as I can throw him. It's unbelievable the way conservatives are barking like trained seals for that guy, just because they think he's *their* guy. If it were a Democrat in the White House and that Soros fembot doing the same things Musk is, conservatives wouldn't be so sanguine about it. It's pathetic and embarrassing that they're so susceptible to the messiah syndrome. As for the Stargate data harvesting, well, it'll just be taking over from the NSA, which already has massive centers for that. Americans are already thoroughly and intrusively spied on.
As for getting AI to make "cancer vaccines," I'm sure they'll try, but it's bullshit. AI is all hat and no cattle. It can make interesting pictures of hot guys with their shirts off, but that's all it's good for. I really urge anyone worried about AI to read Ed Zitron on the subject. His article "The Subprime AI Crisis" doesn't directly say or even imply that tech's pushing AI into "vaccines" because it's worthless at everything else (and will be fatal at medicine), but as you read about the desperation of Silicon Valley to show *something* for the hundreds of billions of dollars AI is costing them, it becomes pretty clear that trying to wed pharma and AI is a Hail Mary play. That's not to say that the kakistocracy isn't dangerous and that it won't try using even fake technology to kill us all. They used PCR and viruses already, and there's not much faker than that except AI.
Good observations. The cult of Musk is strong. Musk's starlink could support the global control grid as coverage expands; often having been offered up after crises and war as altruistic with no strings attached- other writers have delved into this potential trojan horse. I would like to cover more of the Musk saga, the DOGE phenomena, and the AI pivot to pharma coupling as you rightly pointed out. Peggy Hall and CJ Hopkins are over the target with those linked articles I added at the end on these sub-topics that warrant more research.
Welcome back! I had gathered that you were busy earning fiat in a hopefully less polluted and more seaside area of Thailand. You summarized the turn of events in this Trump 2.0 times very well and haven't missed a beat. Perhaps the sea and sun is good for you!
Speaking of which I have been busy bee painting the restaurant in Phuket. I haven't done much except basic cleanup and setting the stage but I still think I could put that place together to be beautiful. If you ever fancy a getaway to lovely Phuket perhaps we could do another podcast!
Thanks for the warm welcome Amy :-) I actually earned my fiat in a super polluted Chonburi - I'll have to have one more rant about the pollution in the Thailand news roundup coming soon. I would like to spend some of this fiat on sun and sea in Phuket with my wife - I'll be in touch over email when we're ready for the trip. Another in person podcast would be great! Keep up the busy bee renovations, I look forward to catching up soon.
Digital Identification is a tough one, because it is predicated on the truism that "My enemy' s enemy is my friend", that is, we don't want unknown migrants arriving and circulating in society, and digital ID is portrayed as the enemy of undocumented individuals.
Hence, digital ID must be the friend of anyone who is opposed to mass anonymous migration.
It's quite a compelling argument, and needs an equally compelling rebuttal.
Therein lies the orchestrated conundrum. Each country has been profiled for best strategy to feed digital ID to the masses. Just as each country was psychologically, culturally, and economically profiled for how to roll out the military operation called 'covid' and get poison into arms. For digital ID, the various stratagems I've seen from country to country are: Border control biometric entry-exit system to solve illegal immigration, Online safety act to protect the children, Bank account restrictions and biometric requirements such as face scan and finger print scan for payments over $1000 to purportedly protect the people from scammers and hackers, a way to bank the unbanked as a tool to end poverty, universal basic income and stimulus vehicle, vaccine passports, identifying anonymous 'hate speech' rabble rousers......
In response to your last point directly - it may not seem like a compelling rebuttal in our age of perceived technological wonderment (warped into totalitarian dystopia) - but opposing and enforcing mass anonymous (presumably meant as illegal?) migration, the border patrol and immigration agencies have to do it the old fashioned way - checking **physical forms of ID** against databases. Face to face interviews with airport immigration personnel to determine legitimacy of persons entering country without harboring malintent.
I believe we must insist of 'sacrificing' the perceived 'efficiency' of being able to run everyone on the planet's iris scans, finger prints, and biometric facial templates through inter-agency, international centralised databases, by instead doing the manually intensive labour of more analogue immigration checking methods - hybridised with internet capabilities and databases naturally, but not at the expense of the whole world's inhabitants having their biometrics harvested, just in case they might be a bad guy, i.e. everyone is guilty unless proven innocent, indefinitely, ad inifinitum.
I agree with the general thrust of your argument, but that still leaves us the problem of how to get There from Here, because conveniences of a technological kind tend to operate as a one-way ratchet; once a convenience has been widely adopted, it is impossible to get rid of it, since people have forgotten how to do without it.
Now we have calculators, we can't do mental arithmetic. Now we have automatic train doors, people would be scared of trains with manual doors, people rapidly become petrified if their phone is out of signal range, and so on and so on.
In short, I don't think we (in the West, certainly) have people capable of conducting tough face-to-face interviews, and turning people down in person. Such is the demoralization (and, some would argue, feminization) of Western society, that those sort of hard decisions have become all but impossible, and extremely hard to relearn.
Musk also just happened to coincidentally offer to supply his Starlink (or whatever it's called) technology to replace Verizon's contract for updating the US air traffic control system. Or part of it. It's not clear from the articles I've read what exactly Verizon is sucking at and why they're about to be fired. Depending on the source it's either just computer terminals "for ATC communication" or all the planes are gonna crash. Either way, I don't trust Musk as far as I can throw him. It's unbelievable the way conservatives are barking like trained seals for that guy, just because they think he's *their* guy. If it were a Democrat in the White House and that Soros fembot doing the same things Musk is, conservatives wouldn't be so sanguine about it. It's pathetic and embarrassing that they're so susceptible to the messiah syndrome. As for the Stargate data harvesting, well, it'll just be taking over from the NSA, which already has massive centers for that. Americans are already thoroughly and intrusively spied on.
As for getting AI to make "cancer vaccines," I'm sure they'll try, but it's bullshit. AI is all hat and no cattle. It can make interesting pictures of hot guys with their shirts off, but that's all it's good for. I really urge anyone worried about AI to read Ed Zitron on the subject. His article "The Subprime AI Crisis" doesn't directly say or even imply that tech's pushing AI into "vaccines" because it's worthless at everything else (and will be fatal at medicine), but as you read about the desperation of Silicon Valley to show *something* for the hundreds of billions of dollars AI is costing them, it becomes pretty clear that trying to wed pharma and AI is a Hail Mary play. That's not to say that the kakistocracy isn't dangerous and that it won't try using even fake technology to kill us all. They used PCR and viruses already, and there's not much faker than that except AI.
Good observations. The cult of Musk is strong. Musk's starlink could support the global control grid as coverage expands; often having been offered up after crises and war as altruistic with no strings attached- other writers have delved into this potential trojan horse. I would like to cover more of the Musk saga, the DOGE phenomena, and the AI pivot to pharma coupling as you rightly pointed out. Peggy Hall and CJ Hopkins are over the target with those linked articles I added at the end on these sub-topics that warrant more research.
Welcome back! I had gathered that you were busy earning fiat in a hopefully less polluted and more seaside area of Thailand. You summarized the turn of events in this Trump 2.0 times very well and haven't missed a beat. Perhaps the sea and sun is good for you!
Speaking of which I have been busy bee painting the restaurant in Phuket. I haven't done much except basic cleanup and setting the stage but I still think I could put that place together to be beautiful. If you ever fancy a getaway to lovely Phuket perhaps we could do another podcast!
Thanks for the warm welcome Amy :-) I actually earned my fiat in a super polluted Chonburi - I'll have to have one more rant about the pollution in the Thailand news roundup coming soon. I would like to spend some of this fiat on sun and sea in Phuket with my wife - I'll be in touch over email when we're ready for the trip. Another in person podcast would be great! Keep up the busy bee renovations, I look forward to catching up soon.