To say this is bad is an understatement. I don’t even really know how to quantify this. But think of the worse surveillance AI system in a city like London covered with more cameras than you can imagine. Next overlay a real time social credit system like China has and we’ve began to experience in different forms in the west over the past two years. Finally, you synthesize all that with even more overarching control and knowledge about every penny that you spend and that data is ultimately owned and controlled by the US Federal Reserve, which is not a federal institution but a privately chartered reserve bank which is owned in turn by the most powerful 24 member banks on Wall Street.

While we are talking about interesting facts about the US Federal Reserve, again private institution, did you know that they have their own federal law enforcement force that reports directly to them? It was created by the Patriot act. Citation:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/3162

(Sec. 364) Amends the Federal Reserve Act to provide for uniform protection authority for Federal Reserve facilities, including law enforcement officers authorized to carry firearms and make warrantless arrests.

There is a whole other tail about how they got their permanent federal 1811 status under Obama but that’ll be another article.  Suffice to say, this Central Bank Digital Currency, is merely a part of a larger multinational push from many different directions. Here we see the Federal Reserve teaming up with credit card companies and other private banks.

https://watcher.guru/news/global-banks-partner-with-new-york-fed-for-12-week-digital-dollar-pilot

 

Here we see yet another attack on individual freedom this time being spear headed by the UN https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-g20-panel-calls-for-global-digital-health-passports

In the EU the populous and multiple member states firmly rejected this call for use of digital ID/health passports that they tried to push through during the past 2 years. Their dear leaders don’t care.

https://reclaimthenet.org/the-eu-ignores-pushback-plots-digital-id-for-2024/

 

Again, don’t think for a minute that oh this won’t happen here, we have the Constitution. Here is Colorado grossly violating citizens civil rights.

https://reclaimthenet.org/the-state-of-colorado-embraces-apples-digital-id-tech/

Or New York, but its ok, because its for your safety… I feel like we’ve heard that line a lot lately.

https://reclaimthenet.org/how-the-nypd-covers-up-the-extent-of-its-biometric-surveillance/

 

Here are the shining Beacon of the top “developed nations”, the G20 summit. There is this encouraging story. The headline is

https://reclaimthenet.org/facial-recognition-tech-is-deployed-at-g20/

 

One final example that includes a name many will recognize, Palantir, and data that everyone should be rather keen on protecting who knows what, their private medical data. However, its not Palantir that’s the bad guy here, its the British National Healthcare System, you know the “free”, not free, health care. Palantir just happened to win the contract from the NHS, but the government funded and run NHS is saying that if you are a patient treated by NHS then you have no right to own your own medical information and that they own it and are free to use it however they like.

https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-state-health-patients-will-have-no-say-over-data-being-shared-with-palantir/

 

Like many of the challenges the United States, the West, and really the world faces at this time in history it can feel like there are an almost innumerable amount of challenges we face and assaults from all sides. However, I would contend, for as complicated and numerous as the issues may appear, they really come back to the same basic questions that were discussed, argued and eventually motivated our founding fathers to declare their independence from the United Kingdom and fight the Revolutionary War.

 

I will leave you with these first two paragraphs from the Declaration of Independence, I encourage you to read the whole thing and reflect on some of the issues they enumerate in that document to some of the issues I highlighted that different people are facing from their own governments in different parts of the world.

“The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–”

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript