April 25, 2023
Dear Friends and Family,
Digital governance is one aspect of the Great Reset where there is little divergence between Klaus Schwab and his critics. Both predict the world moving toward digital surveillance on an individual basis enabled by the world or each country adopting a central bank digital currency. This will give the government access to your bank account, which facilitates them monitoring all your financial transactions – every purchase you make. Additionally, a world ID system is envisioned featuring electronic passports and vaccination records among other things.
These two systems would enable monitoring for specific compliance aspects the government might order such as your carbon footprint for climate change control or vaccination status. If you are out of compliance, they could freeze your bank account as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did in Canada with protesting truckers or shut off your utility service if in violation of lockdown edicts as Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti did during the COVID-19 lockdown. Both occurred during the pandemic.
These type initiatives put us only a step away from a Chinese-type social credit system where all Chinese citizen’s activities and actions are monitored and graded against a set of government metrics. If one maintains a positive credit score it enables them to do desirable things like travel, but if the score is negative, you are punished even to the extent of not being able to get a job. In China the intent is to achieve compliance and eliminate dissent with the Chinese Communist Party’s ideology and/or actions. It is certainly an effective way to maintain power and control.
Happy Learning,
Harley
Dear Friends and Family,
Digital governance is one aspect of the Great Reset where there is little divergence between Klaus Schwab and his critics. Both predict the world moving toward digital surveillance on an individual basis enabled by the world or each country adopting a central bank digital currency. This will give the government access to your bank account, which facilitates them monitoring all your financial transactions – every purchase you make. Additionally, a world ID system is envisioned featuring electronic passports and vaccination records among other things.
These two systems would enable monitoring for specific compliance aspects the government might order such as your carbon footprint for climate change control or vaccination status. If you are out of compliance, they could freeze your bank account as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did in Canada with protesting truckers or shut off your utility service if in violation of lockdown edicts as Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti did during the COVID-19 lockdown. Both occurred during the pandemic.
These type initiatives put us only a step away from a Chinese-type social credit system where all Chinese citizen’s activities and actions are monitored and graded against a set of government metrics. If one maintains a positive credit score it enables them to do desirable things like travel, but if the score is negative, you are punished even to the extent of not being able to get a job. In China the intent is to achieve compliance and eliminate dissent with the Chinese Communist Party’s ideology and/or actions. It is certainly an effective way to maintain power and control.
Happy Learning,
Harley
THE GREAT RESET: IS DEMOCRACY (worldwide) IN DANGER?
DIGITAL GOVERNANCE – EXCERPTS – SEGMENT 10
SCHWAB: DIGITAL SURVEILLANCE:
+ As the coronavirus crisis recedes and people start returning to the workplace, the corporate move will be towards greater surveillance. The surveillance tools are likely to remain in place after the crisis and even when a vaccine is finally found, simply because employers don’t have any incentive to remove a surveillance system once it’s been installed. This is what happened after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001. All around the world, new security measures like employing widespread cameras, requiring electronic ID cards and logging employees or visitors in and out became the norm. At that time these measures were deemed extreme, but today they are used everywhere and considered “normal.” An increasing number of analysts, policymakers and security specialists fear the same will now happen with the tech solutions put into place to contain the pandemic. They foresee a dystopian world ahead.
Most people, fearful of the danger posed by COVID-19, will ask: Isn’t it foolish not to leverage the power of technology to come to our rescue when we are victims of an outbreak and facing a life-or-death kind of situation? They will then be willing to give up a lot of privacy and will agree that in such circumstances public power can rightfully override individual rights. Then, when the crisis is over, some may realize that their country has suddenly been transformed into a place where they no longer wish to live. This thought process is nothing new. Over the last few years, both governments and firms have been using increasingly sophisticated technologies to monitor and sometimes manipulate citizens and employees; if we are not vigilant warn the privacy advocates, the pandemic will mark and important watershed in the history of surveillance. The argument put forward by those who above all fear the grip of technology on personal freedom is plain and simple: in the name of public health, come elements of personal privacy will be abandoned for the benefit of containing the epidemic, just as the terrorist attacks of 9/11 triggered greater and permanent security in the name of protecting public safety. Then, without realizing it, we will fall victims to new surveillance powers that will never recede and that could be repurposed as a political means for more sinister ends.
The pandemic could open an era of active health surveillance made possible by location-detecting smartphones, facial recognition cameras and other technologies that identify sources of infection and track the spread of a disease in quasi real time. Historian Yuval Noah Harari is one of them. It’s worth exposing his argument in detail:
DIGITAL GOVERNANCE – EXCERPTS – SEGMENT 10
SCHWAB: DIGITAL SURVEILLANCE:
+ As the coronavirus crisis recedes and people start returning to the workplace, the corporate move will be towards greater surveillance. The surveillance tools are likely to remain in place after the crisis and even when a vaccine is finally found, simply because employers don’t have any incentive to remove a surveillance system once it’s been installed. This is what happened after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001. All around the world, new security measures like employing widespread cameras, requiring electronic ID cards and logging employees or visitors in and out became the norm. At that time these measures were deemed extreme, but today they are used everywhere and considered “normal.” An increasing number of analysts, policymakers and security specialists fear the same will now happen with the tech solutions put into place to contain the pandemic. They foresee a dystopian world ahead.
Most people, fearful of the danger posed by COVID-19, will ask: Isn’t it foolish not to leverage the power of technology to come to our rescue when we are victims of an outbreak and facing a life-or-death kind of situation? They will then be willing to give up a lot of privacy and will agree that in such circumstances public power can rightfully override individual rights. Then, when the crisis is over, some may realize that their country has suddenly been transformed into a place where they no longer wish to live. This thought process is nothing new. Over the last few years, both governments and firms have been using increasingly sophisticated technologies to monitor and sometimes manipulate citizens and employees; if we are not vigilant warn the privacy advocates, the pandemic will mark and important watershed in the history of surveillance. The argument put forward by those who above all fear the grip of technology on personal freedom is plain and simple: in the name of public health, come elements of personal privacy will be abandoned for the benefit of containing the epidemic, just as the terrorist attacks of 9/11 triggered greater and permanent security in the name of protecting public safety. Then, without realizing it, we will fall victims to new surveillance powers that will never recede and that could be repurposed as a political means for more sinister ends.
The pandemic could open an era of active health surveillance made possible by location-detecting smartphones, facial recognition cameras and other technologies that identify sources of infection and track the spread of a disease in quasi real time. Historian Yuval Noah Harari is one of them. It’s worth exposing his argument in detail:
Surveillance technology is developing at breakneck speed, and what seemed like science-fiction 10 years ago is today’s old news. As a thought experiment, consider a hypothetical government that demands that every citizen wears a biometric bracelet that monitors body temperature and heart rate 16 hours a day. The resulting data is hoarded and analyzed by government algorithms. The algorithms will know that you are sick even before you know it, and they will also know where you have been, and who you have met. The chains of infection could be drastically shortened, and even cut altogether. Such a system could arguably stop the epidemic in its tracks within days. Sounds wonderful, right? The downside, of course, is that this would give legitimacy to a terrifying new surveillance system. If you know, for example, that I clicked on a Fox News link rather than a CNN link, that can teach you something about my political views and perhaps even my personality. But if you can monitor what happens to my body temperature, blood pressure and heart rate as I watch the video clip, you can learn what makes me laugh, what makes me cry, and what makes me really, really angry. It is crucial to remember that anger, joy, boredom and love are biological phenomena just like fever and a cough. The same technology that identifies coughs could also identify laughs. If corporation and governments start harvesting our biometric data en masse, they can get to know us far better than we know ourselves, and they can then not just predict our feeling but also manipulate our feelings and sell us anything they want – be it a product or a politician. Biometric monitoring would make Cambridge Analytica’s data hacking tactics look like something from the Stone Age. Imagine North Korea in 2030, when every citizen has to wear a biometric bracelet 24 hours a day. If you listen to a speech by the Great Leader and the bracelet picks up the tell-tale signs of anger, you are done for.
Source: COVID-19: The Great Reset by Klaus Schwab and Thierry Melleret (2020)
CRITICS: DIGITAL CURRENCY:
In 2022, President Biden issued an “Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets” the cited “climate” six times and called for the study and eventual creation of a U.S. “central bank digital currency.” In public remarks at the time of the order, Biden stressed that “digital assets” have profound implications for “financial inclusion and equity, and climate change and pollution.” The Biden administration was working with environmental groups, industry and labor unions to develop a new climate-friendly and equity-based “central bank digital currency.”
“Why would you be working with all of these people … on a new currency? The only reason you would be working with them on that is because the currency is going to be programmable. It’s going to be programmable, controllable, trackable, traceable, and you’ll be able to manage it, set restrictions for it – anything you want” warned Justin Hawkins, the director of the Heartland Institute’s Stopping Socialism Project.
Climate change concerns are also being used to manipulate the financial system in other ways. Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy explained how BlackRock founder and CEO Larry Fink is the “King of the Woke Industrial Complex” and acts as the puppet master behind the scenes of Corporate America. “He is CEO of the world’s largest asset manager and what they do is they cause companies to bend the knee to woke orthodoxy because BlackRock says that we won’t invest in your company, unless you abide by these progressive standards, or we will dock the pay of the CEO or fire a CEO who refuses to bend the knee.” Fink has publicly admitted that he believes coercion is necessary to achieve his agenda. “Behaviors are going to have to change, and this is one thing we are asking companies. You have to force behaviors, and at BlackRock we are forcing behaviors,” Fink explained in 2017 at a New York Times forum. “You have to force behaviors, and if you don’t force behaviors, whether it’s gender or race or just any way you want to say the composition of your team, you’re gonna be impacted,” Fink said.
An integral part of the Great Reset is central-bank control of digital currency that will give governments the power to turn off your personal banking on a whim. “So, what are the Central Bank Digital Currencies? Well, in a way, it’s like turning all money into food stamps. It can allow for all sorts of constraints to be placed on currency, including where, when, by whom, and on what it can be spent,” explained Alexandros Marinos, the CEO of the technology company Balena everyone is mandated to accept a medical procedure or lose access to their assets, or even the ability to buy food until they comply?” Marinos asked.
The Canadian truckers’ “Freedom Convoy” protest against vaccine mandates and other COVID-19 restrictions provided a preview of the banking aspects of the Great Reset, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s administration punished the truckers by freezing their bank accounts and ability to fundraise. “The Canadian government, especially by invoking the Emergencies Act, has ushered in coming totalitarianism,” wrote Annelise Butler of the Center for Technology Policy at the Heritage Foundation. “The act … put into effect to crush the convoy, empowered the Canadian government to ‘temporarily override civil rights, restrict travel, forbid public assembly, and force businesses to act without compensation.”
Donations of $10 million for the trucker’s protest to the crowd-funding site GoFundMe were withheld by GoFundMe, acting at the behest of Trudeau’s government. An alternative fundraising company GiveSendGo tried to fill the void and raise millions, but Canadian officials then began to freeze the accounts of anyone who was involved in or donated to the trucker convoy. GiveSendGo was forced to refund the donations it received.
Source: The Great Reset by Marc Morano (2022)
CRITICS: THE SOCIAL CREDIT SYSTEM:
A Climate Change Credit Card:
Get ready for a China-style social-credit system when it comes to your personal spending habits and how they impact “climate change.” A new credit card called Doconomy (DO) is “working in tight collaboration with Mastercard” and in alliance with the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The credit card was released in 2021 so you can monitor the effect of every purchase you make on your personal CO2 budget. The Doconomy credit card enables “all users to track, measure and understand their impact by presenting their carbon footprint on every purchase.”
The World Economic Forum (WEF) praised the CO2 monitoring card. “While many of us are aware that we need to reduce our carbon footprint, advice on doing so can seem nebulous, and keeping a tab is difficult. DO monitors and cuts off spending when we hit our carbon max,” the WEF statement on the Doconomy website reads.
The Chinafication of the West:
German economics professor Antony P. Mueller said, “This new world order of digital tyranny comes with a comprehensive social credit system. The People’s Republic of China is a pioneer of this method of surveillance and control of individuals, corporations, and sociopolitical entities.” In short, China is demolishing the West from within, and the West is all too willing to commit suicide.
“China’s social credit system is about power and conformity,” Republican congressman of Tennessee warned. “It’s an attempt to shape citizens into the CCP’s ideal subject: don’t ask questions, disobey or think for yourself.” As Green explained, “Very bad behavior, such as political dissent, can get someone and their family members blacklisted, making it difficult for them to function in society.” The congressman pointed out that “cancel culture in the U.S. might not be as far advanced as China’s social credit system, but it has a similar aim – ensuring conformity to one ideology.”
This social credit system was visible in real time in California in 2020, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti issued a plan to shut off utility service to homes in violation of COVID-19 lockdowns on private gatherings. Garcetti authorized “the city-controlled Department of Water and Power to shut off utilities to homes and businesses that host unpermitted gathering in violation of county and city stay-at-home orders.
Source: The Great Reset: Global Elites and the Permanent Lockdown by Marc Morano (2022).
CRITICS: ESTABLISHING A SURVEILLANCE STATE?
The World Economic Forum’s “Global Risks Report 2019” acknowledged that a surveillance state can be manipulated by tyrannical rulers. “Authoritarianism is easier in a world of total visibility and traceability, while democracy may turn out to be more difficult,” the WEF report stated.
“They have another innovation, which is digital currency. And once they have digitized our currency and gotten rid of the cash economy, they have absolute control over us because they’ll be able to tax every transaction. The banks will be able to cash in on every transfer of wealth, every transaction, no matter how minuscule not matter how small. But also, they’ll be able to shut down your bank account and starve you, and you’ll have no access to cash,” Kennedy warned.
Source: The Great Reset: Global Elites and the Permanent Lockdown by Marc Morano (2022).
World ID System: The “State in a Smartphone” effort was led by Mykhailo Fedorov, the vice prime minister and minister of Digital Transformation for Ukraine. He is also a “Young Global Leader” for the World Economic Forum and was a panelist at the WEF “Scaling Up Digital Identity Systems” session.
Fedoro said during his presentation to the World Economic Forum in 2021:
CRITICS: DIGITAL CURRENCY:
In 2022, President Biden issued an “Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets” the cited “climate” six times and called for the study and eventual creation of a U.S. “central bank digital currency.” In public remarks at the time of the order, Biden stressed that “digital assets” have profound implications for “financial inclusion and equity, and climate change and pollution.” The Biden administration was working with environmental groups, industry and labor unions to develop a new climate-friendly and equity-based “central bank digital currency.”
“Why would you be working with all of these people … on a new currency? The only reason you would be working with them on that is because the currency is going to be programmable. It’s going to be programmable, controllable, trackable, traceable, and you’ll be able to manage it, set restrictions for it – anything you want” warned Justin Hawkins, the director of the Heartland Institute’s Stopping Socialism Project.
Climate change concerns are also being used to manipulate the financial system in other ways. Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy explained how BlackRock founder and CEO Larry Fink is the “King of the Woke Industrial Complex” and acts as the puppet master behind the scenes of Corporate America. “He is CEO of the world’s largest asset manager and what they do is they cause companies to bend the knee to woke orthodoxy because BlackRock says that we won’t invest in your company, unless you abide by these progressive standards, or we will dock the pay of the CEO or fire a CEO who refuses to bend the knee.” Fink has publicly admitted that he believes coercion is necessary to achieve his agenda. “Behaviors are going to have to change, and this is one thing we are asking companies. You have to force behaviors, and at BlackRock we are forcing behaviors,” Fink explained in 2017 at a New York Times forum. “You have to force behaviors, and if you don’t force behaviors, whether it’s gender or race or just any way you want to say the composition of your team, you’re gonna be impacted,” Fink said.
An integral part of the Great Reset is central-bank control of digital currency that will give governments the power to turn off your personal banking on a whim. “So, what are the Central Bank Digital Currencies? Well, in a way, it’s like turning all money into food stamps. It can allow for all sorts of constraints to be placed on currency, including where, when, by whom, and on what it can be spent,” explained Alexandros Marinos, the CEO of the technology company Balena everyone is mandated to accept a medical procedure or lose access to their assets, or even the ability to buy food until they comply?” Marinos asked.
The Canadian truckers’ “Freedom Convoy” protest against vaccine mandates and other COVID-19 restrictions provided a preview of the banking aspects of the Great Reset, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s administration punished the truckers by freezing their bank accounts and ability to fundraise. “The Canadian government, especially by invoking the Emergencies Act, has ushered in coming totalitarianism,” wrote Annelise Butler of the Center for Technology Policy at the Heritage Foundation. “The act … put into effect to crush the convoy, empowered the Canadian government to ‘temporarily override civil rights, restrict travel, forbid public assembly, and force businesses to act without compensation.”
Donations of $10 million for the trucker’s protest to the crowd-funding site GoFundMe were withheld by GoFundMe, acting at the behest of Trudeau’s government. An alternative fundraising company GiveSendGo tried to fill the void and raise millions, but Canadian officials then began to freeze the accounts of anyone who was involved in or donated to the trucker convoy. GiveSendGo was forced to refund the donations it received.
Source: The Great Reset by Marc Morano (2022)
CRITICS: THE SOCIAL CREDIT SYSTEM:
A Climate Change Credit Card:
Get ready for a China-style social-credit system when it comes to your personal spending habits and how they impact “climate change.” A new credit card called Doconomy (DO) is “working in tight collaboration with Mastercard” and in alliance with the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The credit card was released in 2021 so you can monitor the effect of every purchase you make on your personal CO2 budget. The Doconomy credit card enables “all users to track, measure and understand their impact by presenting their carbon footprint on every purchase.”
The World Economic Forum (WEF) praised the CO2 monitoring card. “While many of us are aware that we need to reduce our carbon footprint, advice on doing so can seem nebulous, and keeping a tab is difficult. DO monitors and cuts off spending when we hit our carbon max,” the WEF statement on the Doconomy website reads.
The Chinafication of the West:
German economics professor Antony P. Mueller said, “This new world order of digital tyranny comes with a comprehensive social credit system. The People’s Republic of China is a pioneer of this method of surveillance and control of individuals, corporations, and sociopolitical entities.” In short, China is demolishing the West from within, and the West is all too willing to commit suicide.
“China’s social credit system is about power and conformity,” Republican congressman of Tennessee warned. “It’s an attempt to shape citizens into the CCP’s ideal subject: don’t ask questions, disobey or think for yourself.” As Green explained, “Very bad behavior, such as political dissent, can get someone and their family members blacklisted, making it difficult for them to function in society.” The congressman pointed out that “cancel culture in the U.S. might not be as far advanced as China’s social credit system, but it has a similar aim – ensuring conformity to one ideology.”
This social credit system was visible in real time in California in 2020, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti issued a plan to shut off utility service to homes in violation of COVID-19 lockdowns on private gatherings. Garcetti authorized “the city-controlled Department of Water and Power to shut off utilities to homes and businesses that host unpermitted gathering in violation of county and city stay-at-home orders.
Source: The Great Reset: Global Elites and the Permanent Lockdown by Marc Morano (2022).
CRITICS: ESTABLISHING A SURVEILLANCE STATE?
The World Economic Forum’s “Global Risks Report 2019” acknowledged that a surveillance state can be manipulated by tyrannical rulers. “Authoritarianism is easier in a world of total visibility and traceability, while democracy may turn out to be more difficult,” the WEF report stated.
“They have another innovation, which is digital currency. And once they have digitized our currency and gotten rid of the cash economy, they have absolute control over us because they’ll be able to tax every transaction. The banks will be able to cash in on every transfer of wealth, every transaction, no matter how minuscule not matter how small. But also, they’ll be able to shut down your bank account and starve you, and you’ll have no access to cash,” Kennedy warned.
Source: The Great Reset: Global Elites and the Permanent Lockdown by Marc Morano (2022).
World ID System: The “State in a Smartphone” effort was led by Mykhailo Fedorov, the vice prime minister and minister of Digital Transformation for Ukraine. He is also a “Young Global Leader” for the World Economic Forum and was a panelist at the WEF “Scaling Up Digital Identity Systems” session.
Fedoro said during his presentation to the World Economic Forum in 2021:
Our goal is to enable all life situations with this digital ID,” said Fedorov, adding, “The pandemic has accelerated our progress. First of all, people are really demanding digital, online services, a high-quality product, a product that is so convenient that a person will be able to disrupt their stereotypes, the breakthrough from their fears, and start using a government-made application.
Wow! You’re talking about a centralized system totally controlled by the government that not only tracks and knows everything about you but can freeze your account as it sees fit! Not only that, but these Ukrainian Digital ID services will also feature vaccination, electronic passports, and Ukrainian Covid Certificates. Ukraine was pioneering a system that governments all around the world could use as a template to control their populations.
Now factor in a digital World ID, a vaccine passport that expires if you’re not updated on your boosters and is also tracking your GPS movements to know if you’ve been at the wrong gatherings or protests. It can measure how far you’ve traveled and if you’re committing the cardinal sin of too much carbon emissions. Say, to, buy, travel, or translate with “the wrong” company, and your credits can be taxed, or frozen. This becomes a tool for outside of the scope of monetary policy: it become a digital gulag.
But to make this just a little scarier, let’s talk about the Chinese Social Credit Score System, which will certainly tie into your digital money. This is from a December 2021 Business Insider article:
Now factor in a digital World ID, a vaccine passport that expires if you’re not updated on your boosters and is also tracking your GPS movements to know if you’ve been at the wrong gatherings or protests. It can measure how far you’ve traveled and if you’re committing the cardinal sin of too much carbon emissions. Say, to, buy, travel, or translate with “the wrong” company, and your credits can be taxed, or frozen. This becomes a tool for outside of the scope of monetary policy: it become a digital gulag.
But to make this just a little scarier, let’s talk about the Chinese Social Credit Score System, which will certainly tie into your digital money. This is from a December 2021 Business Insider article:
The Chinese Communist Party has been constructing a moral ranking system for years that will monitor the behavior of its enormous population – and rank them all based on their “social credit.” Like private credit scores, a person’s social score can move up and down depending on their behavior. The exact methodology is a secret – but examples of infractions include bad driving, smoking in non-smoking areas, buying too many video games, wasting money on frivolous purchases, and posting on social media.
Being discredited or blacklisted in China makes it nearly impossible to get a job, travel, buy things from stores, get a mortgage, or have children. You could find your Internet speed slowed down or be prevented from boarding an airplane. That’s not to mention the public shaming component, as there is even an application that shows you the names and photos of everyone around you who is low on social credits, or in financial debt. All of this is done through algorithmic data, which allows China to monitor everything and build profiles of citizens. Today, massive surveillance cameras are not needed. Your phone is a GPS system, and everything is trackable and traceable through your Internet and financial history.
Now think about the fact Justin Trudeau openly stated that the government he admires most is China. Think about the fact that countries all over the world are scrambling to launch digital IDs, vaccine passports, and Central Bank Digital Currencies. Global elites see this as a necessary control tool to retain total power over the population and all social behaviors. Do you see how this all ties back to a digital wallet, which is a front for a social credit score system?
Source: The Great Reset and the War for the World by Alex Jones (2022).
The unabbreviated version of the above can be found in the pdf document below.
Now think about the fact Justin Trudeau openly stated that the government he admires most is China. Think about the fact that countries all over the world are scrambling to launch digital IDs, vaccine passports, and Central Bank Digital Currencies. Global elites see this as a necessary control tool to retain total power over the population and all social behaviors. Do you see how this all ties back to a digital wallet, which is a front for a social credit score system?
Source: The Great Reset and the War for the World by Alex Jones (2022).
The unabbreviated version of the above can be found in the pdf document below.
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