Inside Russia’s “digital transformation”
Everything is going according to plan.
Riley Waggaman
Things are getting very digital in Russia. For your reading convenience I have decided to compile important updates about Russia’s “digital transformation” into a single blog post. Thank you for reading and have a relaxing Friday.
Putin signs decree on creation of a “digital” domestic passport
Last Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a plan that will allow Russians to use a digital ID instead of a paper one. The “digital [domestic] passport” (Russia has a domestic passport system) will be stored on the State Services (Gosuslugi) mobile application.
Putin’s decree gives the government three months to compile a list of situations in which a digital ID is a valid form of identification.
Russia’s Ministry of Digital Development announcing Putin’s decree on the creation of a digital passport (source: Telegram)
Officials have stressed that the digital passport is completely voluntary and no one will be penalized for using a paper ID.
The scheme can be traced back to 2021, when the Ministry of Digital Development proposed the creation of a new form of ID—a physical card with a chip that would replace the paper passport. However, the plan was abandoned because the identity cards were too expensive to make. Last year, Putin instructed the ministry to draft a decree for the introduction of a digital ID.
Katyusha.org commented on the introduction of this new QR code-based ID system:
Now we see that the second part of this project, where a smartphone with an application and a QR code in it turns into an electronic ID card, is being carried out strictly according to plan. Apparently, the trial run with checking QR codes during the Covid chaos worked well: now the system can be introduced on an ongoing basis.
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It is no coincidence that the Federal Law on expanding the use and collection of biometrics, adopted at the end of 2022, despite mass protests from citizens and social activists, included a clause equating biometric identification with the presentation of a passport. Now we see that digitalizers will continue to refuse plastic cards and encourage citizens to do so.
The logic of digital sectarians is clear. You can simply scan your face before each payment, it will become a card and a key to a person’s ID in the “bright” biometric future. After all, the passport application will, by and large, not be necessary to show when biometrics are submitted to the Unified Biometric System. So the construction of an electronic concentration camp in Russia according to global patterns does not stop, despite the well-known geopolitical picture.
It should also be noted that although proponents insist a digital passport is more convenient than a boring paper one, a growing number of Russians feel uneasy about the introduction of electronic identity papers.
source: Kommersant
We’ll have to wait three months to learn how this digital ID will be used and in which situations it will be valid. Stay tuned.
Biometric payments: Coming in December
Big biometric news, compliments of Vedomosti:
Payment for travel using biometrics in the capital’s metro, as well as for goods and services in online and offline stores, will be available to a wide range of citizens from December 1. Russians will be able to use this payment method if their face and voice casts are in the Unified Biometric System (UBS). The authorities approved the plan at a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Grigorenko, his representative told Vedomosti.
The meeting was attended by the director of the department for the development of digital identification technologies of the Ministry of Digital Development, Dmitry Dubynin, the head of the Federal Tax Service Daniil Egorov, the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank Olga Skorobogatova, the general director of the Central Bank Vladislav Povolotsky, the deputy chairman of the board of Sberbank Stanislav Kuznetsov, as well as representatives of the NSPK, the Ministry of Transport and the FSB.
Just to summarize:
- A biometric payment option for the Moscow metro, as well as for other goods and services (online and in stores), will be made “available to a wide range of citizens” starting on December 1.
- You need to have your biometric data stored in the Unified Biometric System (UBS) to qualify for this exciting new payment system. UBS is operated by a joint-stock company and the government does not have a majority stake in this for-profit enterprise—which is weird.
- All of this was decided at a meeting attended by a senior Sberbank executive.
Coincidentally, Sber is leading the crusade for cashless payment systems in Russia. Herman Gref has been a busy boy:
source: gorvesti.ru
Paying with stuff with your face “can significantly save time and simplify the shopping process,” the manager of the Volgograd branch of Sberbank told local media. The first biometric payment terminals have already been installed in two shopping centers in Volgograd, and by the end of this year Sber plans to bless the region with 3,000 similar devices.
The unfortunate reality is that there are already plans underway to install biometric payment systems in all of Russia’s major supermarket chains. Russia is on the cusp of leaving the “niche phase” of biometric payment methods, as Expert.ru explained in a September 18 article:
Even to the naked eye it is clear that biometrics is no longer just a niche. Russians are beginning to use related technologies more and more often. For example, today you can use biometrics to pay at store checkouts and in the subway.
Large retailers—VkusVill, Magnit, Lenta, Perekrestok, Pyaterochka—launched pilot projects for payment with biometrics at checkouts back in 2021. In the summer of 2023, Sberbank decided to introduce biometrics in stores as part of an even more aggressive strategy. The bank plans to install several thousand new terminals in stores in all regions in the autumn, allowing them to read biometrics from customers.
VisionLabs [formerly co-owned by Sber] told Expert that they helped X5 Group scale its “smile payment service” to 15 thousand self-service checkouts in 4,100 stores of the Pyaterochka and Perekrestok retail chains.
“At the pilot launch stage, its implementation made it possible to reduce the time for paying for purchases by two to two and a half times, and increased NPS (customer loyalty index) due to the introduction of a more convenient payment method. About a thousand purchases in stores every day are made using biometrics. The service is now available in all regions where X5 Group operates,” said Alexander Parkin, head of research projects at VisionLabs.
VisionLabs is conducting a similar experiment in the Moscow metro. The company has introduced the FacePay system, which allows you to pay for travel using your face—money is automatically debited from your Troika, linked to your personal account in the Moscow Metro application.
You can also pay in person for travel on the MCC, Aeroexpress, and Moscow river transport.
The press service of the Moscow Metro told Expert that since the launch of the biometric fare payment service on October 15, 2022, more than 74 million passes have been made in this way. Now payment using facial recognition works at all metro stations and the MCC. Over 320 thousand users are connected to the service, and they make about 137 thousand passes every day on weekdays.
Thus, payment using biometrics in Russia is already quite popular today. And interest in it, especially among people under the age of 35, is only growing.
Not great.
source: Expert.ru
The digital ruble: Testing underway, “coloring” still on the table
The digital ruble—alternative media’s favorite centralized, programmable and traceable Central Bank token—was successfully used to pay for a haircut in Yekaterinburg:
The press service of Sinara Bank reported that for the first time in Yekaterinburg a citizen used the digital ruble to pay for the services of a beauty salon. According to her, the client, using the bank’s mobile application, transferred money to the entrepreneur’s account in digital rubles at Delobank (part of Sinara Bank). […]
Real transactions with digital rubles for individuals and legal entities began in Russia on August 15. The mass introduction of the digital ruble is planned for 2025. Among the first 13 banks that are testing the introduction of the digital ruble are Alfa Bank, VTB, Promsvyazbank (PSB), Sinara Bank, Ak Bars. Pilot testing is taking place in 11 Russian cities, and several hundred people have opened digital wallets.
Meanwhile, the Bank of Russia has already reneged on its promise that it would never, ever, ever (!) place restrictions on what Russians can use their digital rubles for. The idea of “coloring” digital rubles was a hurtful myth back in April, but now it is something that will be explored later on in the CBDC’s implementation:
Very promising. (source / source)
Cashless Moscow Region buses
Local media has reminded Moscow Region residents that cash is strictly verboten on buses:
source: innoginsk.ru
Noginsk is about 15 minutes from Edward HQ, by the way…
This blog has written before about cash-intolerance on public transportation in Russia. Remember when independent journalist Thomas Röper claimed there were zero cash bans in Russia, and the very idea of such a ban ever existing was ludicrous? That was funny.
The Transformation is chugging along.
Riley Waggaman is your humble Moscow correspondent. He worked for RT, Press TV, Russia Insider, yadda yadda. In his youth, he attended a White House lawn party where he asked Barack Obama if imprisoned whistleblower Bradley Manning (Chelsea was still a boy back then) “had a good Easter.” Good times good times. You can subscribe to his Substack here, or follow him on twitter or Telegram.
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”Russia has a domestic passport system” ? What other passport system would it have? a foreign passport system???!!
In China is even worse. We should not forget that the covid scam started in China.
https://pennybutler.com/ccp-wuhan-flu/
The covid scam didn’t start in China. It started in the WEF planning documents from years ago. Also in docs from Rockefeller Foundation and European vaccine lobby.
It was the WESTERN mainstream media that started showing fake videos of people dropping dead while walking down the street allegedly in China.
Meanwhile it was Christian Drosten’s team in BERLIN that started working on the first “covid” PCR test from Jan 1, 2020. His protocol was published by WHO on Jan 13, 2020. Drosten is the same guy who kicked off the hysteria around sars in 2003.
The very first genome sequence of sars-cov-2 (Wuhan-Hu-1) has as a co-author Edward Holmes, close buddy of Drosten….
China figured out the scam pretty quickly. In February 2020 they threw out Drosten’s dumb test and only did CT scans to see who needed pneumonia treatment. They offered vitamins and alternative medicines immediately to people with flu symptoms.
They were blamed for sars 2003 so I understand why they played along. Moreover, half their technocratic elite in charge of managing the pandemic are no different to “scientists” here, they just want a good career and money and go globetrotting around to conferences. For example, one of their top “scamdemic experts” George Gao is a WEF stooge not a Communist Party of China stooge. CPC mostly focuses on infrastructure, agriculture, heavy industry etc. Gao was at the plandemic planning conference at John Hopkins in 2019.
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China also NEVER had a national vax mandate or vax mandates to keep your job.
Who cares about this fucking third-class shithole…
Inside U.K USA “digital transformation”Everything is going according to plan.selling the lookey see over there scam with Russia deflection whilst UK / USA goes full spectrum digital.
where is the articles on U.K’s digital Gulag ..? under the Torys or will that effect the monthly donation of 4000 needed to run things..?
Anybody who wants to write articles like the ones you want to see should go to the RF. As Waggaman demonstrates again and again there’s a lot more freedom of the press there …
I had some travel problems. In one case I needed to use a touch screen to puchase a ticket. However the screen did not respond normally to my touch. I had to ask someone to touch the screen for me. I was not sure what happened. Maybe my electric field was the wrong frequency for the screen. It was quite worrying since I wanted to leave urgently and barely got a ticket in time. On another occasion the problem was a metro station that did not sell new cards. Other stations had them but I found myself in one that would not sell me a ticket without an existing card. It was late and there was dodgy people around. I had to search thru all my bags to find a card or else be stuck overnight in this dodgy station. Such experiences added to my anxiety and caused me to leave the country altogether.
“and caused me to leave the country altogether”
In other words, “I voted with my feet”.
Tunnel Vision:
American Cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough spoke to the EU about the clot shots. It was reported by the Epoch Times. MSM did not find the event worth reporting on, apparently.
They will never stop lying. They are still pushing this poisonous clot shot on infants. They would rather continue killing children 6 months and older to protect themselves from prosecution for crimes against humanity. They have immunity from liability but not murder. Knowingly and wantingly killing and maiming is murder. They are all lying to protect themselves. As evil as it gets.
Start with Fauci and work on down the line. CDC. WHO. FDA. AMA. MSM. Academia. Big Pharma. Corporations. Biden. Knowingly and wantingly. No doubt about it. They are all in on it and they are all lying. Murderers.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/covid-vaccines-and-future-boosters-are-not-safe-for-human-use-dr-peter-mccullough-testifies-in-eu-parliament-5492281
What about Trump? It was on his watch. And he has called himself the “King of the Covid-19 vaccine”, that saved millions of lives. I’d start with Trump, then Fauci, then Birks, then the rest.
Start with Fauci. Trump is smart enough reverse a bad call. Not Congress. Biden has no clue, as everyone knows. But, if needed, we can kick Trump under the bus as well. Problem is Trump is our best chance at ousting the climate tyrants. Just heard recently in an Off-Guardian comment that 80% of Congress has received campaign donations from Big Pharma. Fox is in the hen house. Start with Fauci. Ban mRNA. Revoke Big Pharma’s license to kill so that they can be sued. Most of the products are junk, anyway. Start somewhere. But shooting ourselves in the foot and allowing the left to maintain control would be disastrous. We are about to face the most tyrannical move the world has ever seen: a Climate Emergency declaration. Trump won’t do that and if Biden does before the end of his term, Trump will repeal it. But I understand how you feel. This is about the lesser of two evils.
Trump will repeal it LOL
drain the swamp by making sure your vaccinated just like the daily wire big pharma whores who promoted it to there not so wise fanbase..
“you’re vaccinated”
“their not so wise fanbase”
Wardropper selector….
https://off-guardian.org/2023/09/24/this-week-in-the-new-normal-73/
https://off-guardian.org/2023/09/20/uk-quietly-passes-online-safety-bill-into-law/
Only one way to find out. If you keep your head in the sand you won’t. If the Democrats keep control we are doomed.
Like it or not, at this point in the game, Trump is the only hope.
ladies and gentleman …….
This is what mindcontrol looks like.
I am it. The deep state. Look to me for direction.
I am laughing so fucking hard.
Your summation is so fucked.
What a dumbass.
Trump is el numero uno traitor to humanity for what he did. There is no reversing what he did. Anyone who is against this giant crime by Big Pharma et al, should not give Trump any benefit of the doubt. He needs to be put away first and foremost. Any talk about him being president again is as absurd at it gets. Anyone that votes for him is voting for Big Pharma. Hey, same as Biden, but that makes no difference. Evil is evil.
Megyn Kelly calls out Trump for GASLIGHTING America about COVID lockdowns – “you actually gave Fauci a presidential commendation before leaving office” – NaturalNews.com
Does not matter. At all.
Everyone is attacking Trump from every angle but he is still leading in the primary polls by double digits.
It is time to suck it up and face the numbers.
Hold your nose.
Lesser of two evils.
Otherwise, you will be in a bread line hoping to find some cricket powder to feed yourself and your family.
Democrats want you on your knees so they can force the Green New Deal down your throat and have have swallowed the United Nations prophesy of doom. What is the latest estimate? Jesus Joe says it will be soon.
Trump withdrew the United Nations funding to send a message. He will do it again.
Trump withdrew our support of the Paris Accord. He will do it again.
John Kerry (and Al Gore) needs to be thrown out on his Ass. Trump will do that.
Trump will not assign our medical sovereignty to WHO through a Treaty.
It is likely that mRNA technology would become a thing of the past under Trump.
Trump will end the police state.
Otherwise, we are fucked.
As bad as it sounds, Trump IS our only hope.
TDS will get us nowhere.
Serious question: What politician can develop the popularity needed to overcome the tyrannical leadership we are suffering under?
This is the future of the world.
Unless………….you like the direction we are going.
If that is the case, you better get in the basement before the sky hits you.
So, you’re a Big Pharma supporter are ya. And anti-justice as well. Funny, why are you here? This is an anti-Big Pharma blog.
And actually, TDS is for those that support Trump, they’re the ones who are deranged. No offense.
Again. Your ignorance protrudes. You have no idea.
Probably controlled op or a Q-anon-er. They actually think Blue=bad Red=good or some silly thing. Yes, Republicans are coming to save us. LMAO!
You’re as bad as the Wokies. “My way or you are a xxxxx.” Ridiculous. Did the Q-anon team send you?
Trump is one of them – it’s bizarre that you leave him off the hook and even believe he’ll somehow reverse things. The first thing to know is that parties don’t matter. Both are bought. Second, the deep state has reps in all parties. Third, Fauci is nowhere near the top. Start with Fauci? He’s a bag man. Trump is either a dupe or the architect of the entire hoax.
Dr Tom Cowan’s ‘Response’ to Psyop Traitor Satanist ‘Dr’ Peter McCullough! [20.09.2023]: https://rumble.com/v3jl6b6-dr-tom-cowans-response-to-psyop-traitor-satanist-dr-peter-mccullough-20.09..html
Read a headline today that “cases are surging” while de santis advises people not to get the shot. Never mind what a “case” really is and never mind the damned thing doesn’t mean one doesn’t get “it” for fucks sake. Anything to stir up the idiots who faithfully watch the MSM that told them they’re not immune. Have we reached peak stupid yet? Sadly, no.
Peak stupid? We’re way off. In Australia, they are still dying in excess at 20% over normal.
How many of those excess deaths are due to the jab?
Love DeSantis. He has done great things for Florida. But he is weak in charisma. Otherwise, the best choice. Without the needed charisma, he can’t get elected on a national scale. I will vote for him in the primary but I don’t expect big things.
The MSM is still doing it’s best to keep the fear porn going. When the sick “Whoopie” story broke you knew it was starting over again. Think of the show’s viewership: If Mama is scared then we all should be scared and if Mama is scared she ain’t happy. If Mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.
The goal is to make ballot harvesting normal, according to most alt media political pundits. As of now some states are planning on sending absentee voter applications to everyone in their database (Including those that are dead.). I live in Michigan. I received, approximately, 3 dozen absentee voter applications from 3 three different (Zuckerberg funded) not for profits.
The whole “case” thing. Again. Faulty PCR testing is being abused once again. A couple weeks again Biden announced the release of funding for building up our stock of tests. If that is not telltale, I don’t know what is. I suspect that Fauci is still acting as a “special” consultant. I can just hear him now, “You need to test”.
Gotta keep Mama happy.
Saw this today:
https://oversight.house.gov/release/wenstrup-reveals-new-allegations-that-dr-fauci-potentially-influenced-cia-covid-19-origins-investigation/
Saw it. Pathological liar. They are all in on it. They are all murderers and they know it. Why else would they continue killing babies.
McCoullough the virus pusher? You do realise he is a major fraud I hope?
why people have to so imbecil to give up privacy,rights .
Privacy rights, like every other aspect of freedom, ended the day the people asked their government to do something for them – instead of demanding the government do it.
Clot Shot Injuries
Surely this space could be better utilized on articles on clot shot injuries. My health has deterorated markedly since I was forced to be clot shot two years ago. My rheumatologist is booked out until December. I was easier to get appointments previously. It was speculated early that the clot shots could cause or exacerbate auto immune conditions. I have also had nasty respiratory conditions since I was clot shot.
Not even this website would DARE upset the real powers. ” the shots were sooooo last year”.
Everything coming into view now is dependent on a population too weak and sick, or dead, to fight back.
Sorry to hear that. Who forced you to get the shot if you don’t mind me asking?
Multiple Forces
The ugly witch Gladys B who was “premier” at the time disallowed the unclotshot
from travelling outside their local government areas. A measure even Orwell didn’t dream of. My employer which was also pressuring me used this as an excuse to bar me from the premises and forced me to take leave. Even our little birding club forbade us from attending meetings and outings. My son was strongly in favour of the clot shots. As was my brother in distant New York. My rheumatologist also barred the unshot from seeking his services. It was monstrous. I doubt if anyone in the USSR or in modern Russia was subjected to this. I succumbed. So much evil has been forgiven and forgotten.
I am a fellow vicitm. I felt bullied by the state ( French state) and got 1 shot plus the booster. It was becoming very difficult to do anything/ go anywhere with out a vaccine pass and you needed one to get into hospitals ( I had hospital appointments at the time). I hope it was just harmless …but who knows what the hell it is? What do you think about BoJo being filmed having the vaccine? Do you think he really did get a Covid vaccination ? I am a bit sceptical about his admission to intensive care for Covid / whether he needed to be admitted to intensive care in the early days
Top operatives like BoJo undoubtedly were allowed saline.
If OffG started including articles on clot shot injuries, in no time at all there would be no room for anything else.
I’m sure there’s a server space reason why the blog only includes one article per day (at most).
TPTB couldn’t be everywhere all at once…so they created bandwidth.
I would suggest sprouting since you could genetically modify many seeds quickly. These seeds could then help with what ever your issue is (psychological, chemical or biological etc`). Maybe you already have some lentils in the cupboard and could begin right away. Basically just sprout the seeds in a glass with your saliva in. Once they grow you can rinse and eat them. Course it mght be better to grow some properly in soil so they have time to grow the proper healing food. This is just to get you started.
https://wholefully.com/sprouting-101/#What_can_I_sprout
The Wagnerization of Political Order:
‘By sourcing his weaponry from the Kremlin while maintaining his own recruitment pipeline from the Russian army, Prigozhin grew increasingly autonomous from the state even as he remained subsidized by it.
This is the essence of Wagnerization: using the power of state patronage to feed and legitimize your own corporate body, until it can exist independently of it.’
‘As the mandate of state-adjacent corporate increase to fulfil increasingly complex tasks, the form they take on will make them increasingly [difficult] for the state to police them.’
https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/09/22/the-wagnerization-of-political-order/
Pushback in European supermarkets.
Lidl and Aldi (German discounters, very popular) are, I think, the only supermarkets to have no self service tills.
I think I can see their strategy.
It’s nothing to do with ethics or surveillance( They both have “loyalty” apps)
No. It’s about maximising profits.
If your in a rush it may be tempting to use a self check-out.
If you’re doing a weekly shop you don’t want all the mallarky of juggling your shopping onto the ridiculously small “bagging areas”.
French supermarket Casino did an experiment recently where they banned cash payments.
50 locals loaded their trolleys to overflowing and presented themselves and their cash at the tills.
Casino are now accepting cash again.
A casino that lost!
That’s gotta be a world first.
I live in France. There are self service counters in the Lidl near me ( unless they have taken them away recently). I don’t think that there are self service counters in the Aldi near me ( only been there once ….ended up in the area by accident recently…and it is a LOT cheaper than the supermarket I usually go to. ( However it didn’t have half the things that the one I usually go to has) Fabien Roussel, MP in the French parliament and member of the communist party caused a stir recently- he was reported to have called on citizens to occupy local govt buildings to protest about high prices.
Alas, they do have self service tills.
What’s wrong with self service tills?
Not in England there not there full scale self service.
“We will forever destroy because we want a world of our own” — Maurice Samuel
The beauty of the usury system is the only way it can fail is if they want it to fail, they can print endlessly, debt-stack, it begs the question, when will they call in the debt? We know its sometime between now and 2240, it isn’t gonna happen anytime soon, theres too many people working, with roofs over their heads, an offensive tribe has the moral right to defend themselves, they need Digital-ID/Currency, surveillance, and other tricks to put refuseniks into the gulag, so they cant be of risk, when they do collapse it.
Autocrats love AI enabled surveillance of everybody else: that the nature of present Homo sapiens ego mind, not only the super alpha males.
The WEF motto is: “autocrats of the world, unite!”
Here old, cancelled Patriotism throws a spoke in the expensive wheels, these regional group egos of plebs are quite annoying for WEF types.
Putin is an autocrat but not a WEF player. There are more – not in the PRC alas.
Only solution: get rid of all egos, only than a better symbiotic solution can and will emerge. Evolution, can you speed up a bit please? The present species’ system breakdown is helping, to show the existing ‘mission impossible’ for mind and greed.
Evolution is going exactly according to the plan, for good or for bad, for better or for worse, you can not speed it up, or slow it down, it is what it is and since we are all still here.
We should all be thankful that it got the chance to continue and that we get to enjoy todays comfortable life style, the alternative todays people would not, and could not endure.
If its successful you eventually reach judgement day, if not, you go back to the would nots and could nots.
We have it easy, we ought to just take it easy.
‘ Autocrat’ sounds so much nicer than ‘Wef player’. There can be benign autocrats I think! Ofcourse the Wef players are a subset of autocrats
I always have a laugh when an outsider relies on Google Translate to understand day-to-day life in Russia.
First of all, the word “passport” just means “identity document.” For instance, my friggin’ house has a “passport” and obviously my house isn’t going on vacation abroad. Meanwhile, you need your ID in Russia only rarely, so what’s the problem with having it “on hand” in digital format when you deal with crap like paying taxes, paying your electricity bill, or paying off a speeding ticket or dealing with crap at the bank? Hardly the END OF THE WORLD, jesus. I don’t carry around my ID every day because why would I? If you lose it, it’s a major pain in the ass to get a new one. So yah, a digital version sounds pretty darn convenient.
Secondly, LOTS of countries have cashless public transportation and have had it for decades. Nothing whatsoever to do with “digital” or even the internet. Instead, they rely on paper tickets you buy at kiosks or other places (sometimes corner shops, etc), but NOT ON BOARD the bus. This is so the bus driver can focus on driving the bus, not juggling a wad of money (or hiring a second person to do this task) or risk getting robbed, etc.
So a “digital” bus ticket is just buying a ticket via your phone instead of a paper one at the kiosk. Sounds convenient to me, especially after years of having to walk all over town to find a kiosk or catching buses at night after the kiosks close and praying a ticket inspector doesn’t hop on board.
Third, you already know goddamn well that the CBDC in Russia is primarily for cross-border payments as well as stuff like B2B settlements. In the future, yes, it may impact regular folks in their day-to-day life, but that’s a long, long, long way off.
Fourth, there is an “elite” segment of Russian society, of which 99% of their members live in St. Petersburg or Moscow, who like digital payments and high-tech stuff. So yah, paying with your phone or a face scan to ride the metro or get money out of the ATM is cool to them. Guess what? Millions of other people in those cities aren’t so fancy (and many are old-timers from the Soviet days who don’t even have a phone), and none of these digital things are required for them to do these things. It’s just for the “iphone crowd” who also do shit RIGHT NOW like go out to dinner and pay for it with their Apple Watch.
Last but not least, you need to chill out on this obsession with Russia and Herman Gref. The biggest digital payment system in the world is in INDIA, not Russia (or China), but you never say a peep about them. There are over a BILLION people’s biometric records in India’s Aadhar system so go write your chicken little sky is falling diatribes about that.
In India cash cannot be suspended because there would be mass street protests and voters would use the ballots. Politicians also love cash, by the suitcases full.
Western intelligence agencies also love love love cash.
Doesn’t Riley Waggaman live in Russia, have a Russian wife & speak fluent Russian?
Yes, I would like to see how far Riley gets with his cutting edge journalism of cut and paste of machine translated articles without a translation service….while sitting safely outside Russia.
Because as well know Russia is EVIL, Putin is EVILER, Putin be a WEF stooge and they all in it together. The ongoing war is a mirage.
India’s overnight removal of the larger denomination cash notes was outright theft. It did nothing to go after the large tax evaders. But hey apart from Modi (BAD) India is not (yet) evil because there exists the possibility that it could be used by NATO as a battering ram against Russia and China, even if as well know on OG through Riley and Iain that Russia and China are in cahoots with NATO /WEF…..or something…..
Riley is back in Russia.
Sounds like the sky is falling in India then, man. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t everywhere else.
India lost their soul under the British rape and rule and have never recovered since.
No, no. The Indians may have been EVEN more snobbish than the Brits even before the Brits ever got there. I think they could have even taught Louis XVI something about lavish lifestyles and decadence.
Omigod. Somebody who actually knows something. So Russia isn’t so bad after all. How do you like that? I kind of had the feeling it wasn’t so bad. There is altogether too much Chicken Little stuff going on around here.
Because Russia is doing a lot of good things compared to other countries doesnt mean they are not evils. There is more behind the curtains than meet the eyes. There cant be smoke without a fire. Just saying!
Riley speaks Russian, his son and the son’s mother are Russian.
Sensible comment. But carrying a non-digital or chipped ID is already compulsory in some countries.
‘chicken little sky is falling’ Is that the Russian way of saying chicken licken or am I mixing up my tales?
Let’s hope that Russia, like the US, is so big that it will find itself too incompetent to enforce everything. Incompetence has its purposes.
Luckily your neighbor will be there to snitch on you.
Centralisation undermines capitalist plunder. Unfortunately, it may also shield incompetence
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I would make a donation to this site if they sacked Riley Waggaman and acknowledged the existence of the neocons.
I searched the site for the word ‘Neocons’. 204 results. So I guess you have to stump up 🙂
https://off-guardian.org/?s=neocons&submit=Search
Most of them are old articles. It appears that there has been a change of stance.
i think exposing the folks involved with the City Of London (COL) might be just as important as exposing the NEOCONS. It is often said by many that the COL controls and pulls the strings of the NEOCONS. The NEOCONS do not move, breath, soil their diapers or sleep without the explicit permission of the COL.
Of course. But the neocons are the visible sense organs and appendages of the banksters. They drove the 2014 Ukranian coup which led to the events of today.
Riley? Really?
So Riley riles you?
He’s just a ‘humble correspondent’ doing his job.
Riley? Really?
“correspondent”? hahaha
Blackmailing the media. People like you dont understand the politicians we have are ourselves.
Corporate journalist’s keyboard: https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1609719900775542784
Slightly off topic.
A fascinating, albeit naive view, from inside class privilege:
https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/09/class-and-privilege-from-one-of-the-one-percent/
Their feelings of insecurity are pathetic.
I cant help but notice worried tales about increases in shoplifting in the “news” lately, and it has me wondering if they somehow are part of the propaganda campaign in favour of the national digital ID soon to be imposed on Australians…
Will we have to flash our IDs every time we enter a shopping centre, or a supermarket ?
I suppose there will be, at the entrances, those huge 1984 posters proclaiming “We are watching you”, and others such as “We know where you live.”
If enough of the destitute get arrested for shop-lifting without trying to escape, the police, courts and prisons will be overwhelmed.
California (to name one) has gone out of its way to make shoplifting much easier: it has raised the amount shoplifted before ceasing to be a misdemeanor to become a felony to $900 (from $200).
Thieves of the West Coast Unite!
‘Each government is supported by the armed men, ready to execute its will by force, the class of people, raised to kill everybody their superiors order to kill. They are the police, and primarily, the army. The army is nothing more than a collective of disciplined killers. Its training is the training of its murderers, its victories are murders. The army always stands and now stands at the heart of the power. The power was always in the hands of those who commanded the army; and always all rulers, from the Roman Caesar to Russian and German Emperors, are preoccupied chiefly with the army. First and foremost the army supports the outer power of the government. It does not allow the power to be taken from it by another government. War is nothing more than a dispute between several governments** about the authority over the subordinates.***In the sight of such meaning of the armies, each state is brought to the need to increase its troops and increasing the troops is contagious, as already one hundred and fifty years ago noticed Montesquieu. But when people think the government keeps the army only for protection against outside attacks, they forget that the troops governments [employ are] primarily for self-defense against their own suppressed and enslaved citizens.’
Leo Tolstoy. ‘Superstition and the State’ (1910)…
** Can be read as ‘gangs’…
*** War is a fight over who is gonna be The Boss
War is a fight over who is gonna be Your Boss…
There are two ways of reading History:
One: It is one long story about those who crushed all others to become the Top Dog
Two: It is one long story about the defeat of all who struggled to be free from domination…
(anon)…
Wasn’t there a story on the BBC today about how Sweden is going to get its army to help the police now because of a ‘ gang problem’. I guess there will be a lot more deaths and we will be scared to go out. Btw in the French city where I live I see armed soldiers wandering around in groups ( usually about 8 in total). Don’t like it
Ha ha ha pretty much everybody believed that the Ukra war was ‘the real war’ and ‘ omg real nuclear threat’ and it’s NATO Vs Russian nationalism values clash.
Really as horrific as the lockdown era is…the revelations are worth it.
There is cash intolerance on the parking meters in a local town. You gotta download an ap. My god. It’s not just that they are intrusive surveillance state stuff. It’s that they are clumsy and difficult to operate and depend on you owning a complex and expensive piece of equipment.
Stop parking! It is that easy!
Sure. I’ll just have my chauffeur keep circling the block while I go fulfill my jury duty.
George Orwell:
If you want a picture of the future imagine a boot stamping on a (masked) human face forever.
Now shut up and #eatthebugs
Yes. Exactly. Seems most people commenting on this page have failed to discern the problem… Digital identity = Numerical boot stamping your face…
richi sunaks step dad is big in china keeping the human meat drones digital life on or off for bad think
H.E Mr. Vladimir V. Putin, President of The Russian Federation visited the corporate headquarters of Infosys Technologies Limited, a global IT consulting and software services company, today. Mr. N. R. Narayana Murthy, Chairman and Chief Mentor of Infosys Technologies welcomed him to the campus. During the hour-long visit, accompanied by a business delegation and the Russian media, Mr. Putin met with the senior management of the company. Mr. Nandan M. Nilekani, CEO, President & Managing Director, Infosys Technologies, provided an overview on the Indian IT industry and the company to the President.
Thereafter, Mr. Putin was taken on a tour of the campus, which included a visit to Infosys’ Global Management Centre, which offers world-class facilities for Infrastructure Management to Infosys’ clients. He also addressed a gathering of young Infoscions, in which he emphasised the need for India and Russia to work together on innovative new technologies.
Earlier, welcoming the President to Infosys, Mr. N. R. Narayana Murthy, Chairman and Chief Mentor, said, “Mr. Putin’s visit to India is an affirmation of the special relationship between our two countries. India and Russia share several common values and have already successfully leveraged each other’s strengths across various industry sectors. However, there are avenues that remain unexplored. In order to progress further, we must focus on greater co-operation between the two nations. This calls for open-mindedness and a careful analysis of the economic benefits for the two nations. As our bilateral relations expand in scope and depth, surely Information Technology will be one of the areas in which both countries can collaborate for talent and knowledge.”
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But when this is done in Russia, alt media in the West say “Is all good.” 😀 Thanks for shedding light, Riley.
Remember multiculturalism? We don’t hear much about that nowadays.
Has it been replaced by identitarianism, protected categories, and castes… as a pretext for Digital ID?
This campaign is outdated.
The latest campaign in my area is “particle pollution”. All mechanics here are jumping around whining “particle pollution”, demand cleaning of your inner engine which which is bad for an old motor, particle filter forced by the law, and the leftists are whining clean air.
Your alternative update on #COVID19 for 2023-09-23. 338x cancers. Obama, $5m & Wuhan lab. Sudiksha Thirumalesh deserved better. Russell Brand & Magna Carta (blog, gab, tweet).
Meanwhile, the war that dare not speak its name has no good news neither for City of London/US/U.K./ NATO/ controlled Ukrainian Nazi regime nor for its military!
https://southfront.press/ukrainian-army-lost-at-least-83-thousand-servicemen-in-counteroffensive-russian-mod/
We don’t have internal passports in the US but failure to carry valid ID at all times can lead to some ‘inconvenience’ if and when you have any contact with the authorities. This would vary from not being allowed entry to some buildings to being detained by the police while they figure out who you are and, of course, an inability to buy alcohol. The universal ID card is the driver’s license and its sufficiently important that the state’s DMV will issue a non-driving license at nominal cost to those who can’t drive. So far, so good….but wait, there’s more.
In order for the license to actually mean anything it needs to have a “Real ID” endorsement. This type of license is tied into a Federal system and is in fact a unique Federal ID card (its unique in the sense that the Real ID part is common to all states and carries a unique Federal Document Number — your ‘Citizen Number’, as it were). Until recently the license has always been a physical card but we’re now being offered through a pilot program a digital alternative, essentially a phone application that works using biometric markers to show a unique generated QR code that identifies you. (Some border states have licenses that can act as passports for entry to Canada, BTW.)
There’s more, of course. Entry into the US at airports like LAX uses biometrics to match a passport with a holder. We’re actually a bit behind the curve in the US as far as technology goes but I see from the article that the Russians are well up to speed with the possibilities. Welcome to the Brave New World!
“The propaganda of Communism throughout the world, in organization and direction is in the hands of Jewish agents. As for anyone who does not know that the Bolshevist movement in Russia is Jewish, I can only say that he must be a man who is taken in by the suppression of our deplorable press.” — Hilaire Belloc
The Australian government is already talking-up the advantages of a national digital ID ahead of it’s imposition…It is claiming over 10 million already have a Mygov ID that gives them access to government services; the newer model will include its use for private sector services etc… You see, it’s all about making things efficient – and who doesnt like efficiencies ?…(Keeping The Message simple)…
And opting-in will be Voluntary**
“Softly, Softly, catchee monkey !”
(** voluntary – as defined by government Newspeak.)
In Maryland you have to show your Birth Certificate (original only) and two other pieces of information to get or renew a driver’s license. I couldn’t have gotten mine renewed if I hadn’t been born in another state (California), which did not have a Birth Certificate per se but only a Birth Registration.
(Yes, I know a Certificate and a Registration are the same thing. But bureaucrats are locked into words like nobody’s business.)
Tyrants are what tyrants do.
If you cannot see the tyranny at this point, then you are just another NPC Zombie.
But, but … we are told that the Russian Federation is just a giant gas station operated by illiterate peasants and that the monster Putin has sent everyone to the gulag …
Or maybe Russia (thanks to the ridiculous sanctions) is a fast growing economy with standards of living at least equal to those in Scotland and the people want to avoid the decadence, corruption and immigrant invasion promoted in the West.
Whatever … there is as much chance of stopping the digital malarkey as King Canute had of halting the incoming tide!
Canute is misrepresented. He was pointing out that he could not stop the tide.
Similarly, there is no way Putin can stop the digital tide, but we can die refusing.
Thats exactly what we are gonna do. THIS IS SPARTA!
The Global Economy imposes the same requirements on every nation-state that participates…Russia is no different…Why do some think otherwise ?
As we see with smart fones, laptops, etc, they’re useful ‘communication’ devices. But they are dual-use technology…We use them to ‘communicate’ – and the state uses them to spy on us…Sort of Sugar Coated Poisons…
Only weak minds think the digital malarkey cannot be stopped.
History has proven that tyrants do not return power back to the people peacefully.
People cannot comply their way out of digital tyranny.
First and foremost, people must actually perceive tyranny as tyranny. It’s doubtful you could find more than a handful of people who equate digital with tyranny.
It is tyranny of course; but getting people to see it as more than merely a new-fangled way of doing things is next to impossible.
“It’s made my life so much easier” is a mantra fixed in concrete in most people’s minds – especially when they have to work two or three jobs just to feed their families. Cutting even a few minutes off their daily routine is not to be dismissed as irrelevant.
We shouldn’t let that worry us; we have a sacred duty to perform. Those who can’t see this tyranny as tyranny are weak minded, peasants and NPC zombies who can’t be counted on. They’re not needed though; Founding Fathers only needed 3% to overthrow British rule. Therefore it is enough to gather that amount of strong minded, healthy, moral people to save humanity.
After that,… well after begins the serious work. We shall have to deal with the opposition of the immoral and the weak who accommodated within the tyranny and saw our liberation mouvement as reactionary; but they are weak minded and peasants and thus a rough (re)education in specialised centers should be able to take care of setting them right.
PS: I “miss” this writing style, à la John Wayne; It’s so easy on the mind😀.
So you’re into “re-education” camps.
Are you another tyrant in training?
Yes, and you won’t find many honest enough to admit it while in the opposition and while the current tyranny is on-going.
Anyone asserting that a 3% backed-revolution overthrowing a tyranny can itself avoid being a tyranny plays too many videogames, watches too many Hollywood war movies or simply needs to read non-mainstream History books.
Some reflections on historical reality:
Interview With Historian Christopher Hill by Penelope J. Corfield (1988)
While living in South America, I once had an ant infestation in the kitchen. At first, I had a “reactionary reaction”: – the kitchen is reasonably clean and so ants shouldn’t be present; that’s not the state of a kitchen is supposed to be in. So, I decided to use every product, though not the commercial ones, to get rid of the ants, including bleach; to no avail. New ants kept coming out even while the place was cleaned and stayed clean. Then, a less reactionary and more patient thought occurred to me; that living in a latitude where ants of all kinds abound, one should be extra thorough in the cleaning department, more than in other latitudes; also, investigating ants, I discovered they have a very sensitive and powerful sense of “smell” for food; that even after strongly rubbing a spot with a clean wet cloth, ants can still smell food there; that they have a long memory and are very persistent and insistent in sending their scouts back to a perfectly clean place for days, weeks and even months, just in case they should find food there again.
After a few months of a disciplined and patient routine of conscientiously keeping the place, after use, as clean as a whistle, the number of ants coming in began to slowly diminish. After their visible number became small enough, I concentrated on the spots they were coming out from and spent a few weeks patching every hole or crack from where they were coming out, after “pushing” them back in so as to make sure none was “locked out”.
Problem solved without having to cause ant sacrifices.
If I kept that reactionary attitude of “ants shouldn’t be here, so let’s remove their visible presence wherever it is found,” I would never have solved the problem, me killing them and them reproducing themselves. I had to understand the problem, face and understand reality, embrace what is and forget what should be.
I have also live some years in Latin. Unlike you I experienced the insects there as very aggressive and unpleasant.
They have big malign spiders, baratas, cockroaches, malaria/dengue mosquitoes.
A window left open for fresh air unsupervised can result in an insect swarm making your bathroom black of insects.
There are so many insects mainly from amazonas and 98% of them are bloodsuckers, so thats why we see them as unfriendly creatures jeopardizing our health. https://youtu.be/LJRmgqAf3SA.
Yes agreed, but I wouldn’t use terms like unfriendly or aggressive. Insects and animals don’t choose their behaviour; they just are what they are. They don’t have the notion of private property and a building – and the living room – is to them just part of the jungle. I think the attitude is what counts as not to be exasperated but understanding. IMO, no technology or product can secure bug-free spaces for long periods, that’s why disinfection companies have to be called in periodically, specially in summer.
Bugs are prevented from getting in by those nets one applies to windows and other apertures but you want to have the windows open without these nets, and in spring, or in wet summer, oh brother, as you say the outside is swarming with life and gets into your place.
I lived with cockroaches, the flying ones. In their case you get to check the drains and openings and use the nets there. I suffered years with mosquitoes and can tell you all their differences, sizes, colours, the different effects of the biting, the kind of burning you get for each, the behaviours, preferred places for biting, the kind of weather they are expected in, etc, etc, without reading a single line about them; just sheer experience. At the end, I just learned to live with them, and sleep in their presence (you wouldn’t want to abuse the AC, if you have one, or the fan because of the bill). I let the little spiders thrive insides but the jumping ones or the big ones, I catch in a glass and throw them outside. Also, stinkbugs. For bees and the like you just let them get out by opening the windows and watch out not to get bitten.
I even had an unpleasant experience with swallows which a former tenant had allowed, or simply allowed themselves, to nest in the curtain box. How these guys (not the same as those who built the nest) can get back to the same place to nest after traveling thousands of kilometers is beyond me…. But let’s leave it for another time.
It struck me the whole issue is constantly dividing the population up in two categories:
An synthetic A-team, the vaccinated, digitized, roboticized, zombies with access to their Smart cities, laboratory food, public e-transport/travel and synthetic world.
An organic B-team, the un-vaccinated, physical paper ID, left out in the cold but organic world, with organic small shops, self transporting/travelling, self reliant.
Kremlin emphasizes its voluntary. Cash will prevail. They are not in Gulag yet.
The Russian people are in a gulag as much as any other nation in the world.
It is a gulag by consent. People are complying their way into the gulag.
Has Putin thrown Armenia under the bus?
Armenia was once the biggest empire east of Rome, reaching into Turkey, Iran, Syria, Lebanon and Israel. It was the first country in the world to adopt Christianity as a state religion in 301.
It was whittled by mongolian Turks who inflitrated the Seljuks and formed the commercial empire of the Khazarian khagans,
Is Putin Christian as he claims – or a puppet of Chabad, as Brendon O’Connell claims and Whitney Webb ignores?
If you honestly intend to get to the clockwork of Putin – you must not be shy!
Russia stands aside as Azerbaijan takes Karabakh/Artsakh, sending locals fleeing to safety.
Has Russia ‘prioritised’ its relations with Turkey and Azerbaijan…
Or has Armenia ‘gambled’ with own future and the region’s stability?
What’s with the Trans-Caspian pipeline and how does that fit with Israel’s ambitions?
The plan to shift Europe’s energy axis from East-West to South-North.
“Tragedy As Armenians Flee Karabakh”
https://moneycircus.substack.com/p/eurasia-note-83-tragedy-as-armenians
Putin was raised by a Chabad Rabbi.
Figure it out.
The death toll from the petrol station blast in Karabakh expected to rise significantly with 20 dead, 200 injured, more than 100 listed as missing. Cause of explosion as people were preparing to leave the territory for Armenia is unknown.
The Armenian government — another product of Soros, Inc. — has thrown Armenia under the bus.
Sounds just like the WEF
Here we go again
“We have to wake people up before this whole Fascist plan creates such hardship, people ground down to their point in history when they have nothing to lose but to kill.”
The Rockefeller Plan for the BRICS New World Order, in their own words…
“Take note of how the passage says “combined so as to be able to deal with those problems that increasingly the separate nations will not be able to solve alone.” Here they are telling us that they’ll be purposefully creating increasingly difficult problems to compel the nations to accept the NWO. We’ve certainly been witnessing that, haven’t we?”
Mainstream globalist propaganda reveals East/West conflict is a farce
For anyone who might still believe that the US/NATO versus Russia/BRICS geopolitical confrontation is real, here is a little blast from the past…
It is the cover from the January 9, 1988 issue of The Economist magazine. Note the phoenix rising from the ashes of burning national currencies, including the dollar.
Mcduff’s Mindfields, ep 181: “Rockefeller and the BRICS”
Well, this is proof positive that Russia is nothing more than an arm of the global banking cabal running the show all over the world.
Not quite.
But it certainly proves the Annie Oakley dynamic of world history: “Anything you can do I can do better!”
Haven’t the USA and Russia been trying to one-up each other for generations? This rapid digitalization can certainly be seen in that context.
Or it can be seen as Russia being a testing ground for what the central bankers wish to inflict on all humanity.
Time will tell.
If you still think there is a possibility that Putin, a KGB man, that became a billionaire off the backs of the Russian people, is a good guy, then you are part of the problem.
Its China that’s gone cashless. Everyone else is playing catchup. China’s cashless system has provision for tourists who need a payment card but don’t have any way of getting one since they’re not residents of that country (the implication that the payment card is a whole lot more than a payment card).
One thing that politicians and pundits need to learn is being first doesn’t necessarily mean being best. We’ve had plastic in the US for ages but its only recently that we’ve got the ‘not so hackable’ cards with chips in them with networked terminals rather than dial-up to manage payments. So when we deny an adversary such as China our technology we’re really encouraging them to develop the Mark 2 version, the one with fewer bugs that works a whole lot better, rather than forcing them to go back to their caves to barter with stones with holes in them.
“significantly save time and simplify the shopping process,”
Especially when supermakets repeatedly – and it’s difficult not to feel deliberately – understaff checkouts so any shopping trip now involves a lengthy queue for those refusing to go automated. Some even deploy staff to pester shoppers into using the automated checkouts rather than actually staffing the human ones.
Businesses have been streamlining in order to increase their profits for decades at least – long before anything even remotely digital appeared.
Starting with making as many of their employees as possible “part time” so as to avoid paying for health benefits.
Something far more significant than self-checkouts happened a few decades ago: Personnel Departments became Human Resources. Thus officially relegating human beings to the status of things.
I mentioned the transition from “Personnel” to “Human Resources” to a relative the other day.
Words matter.
Person-nel vs. human “resource(s)” = you’re now a tool, a component that can be replaced. Similar to an item, if you will.
What are your objections to the automated ones?
check out recent putin and dog erdogan press conference.
any flags with stars are angled usa usa style as in baphomet
babylon of the fallen
while you are checking things find an image of the chabad moscow the building is bigger than nm rothschilds city of london tower
https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/t_JD_ArticleMainImageFaceDetect/499353 Doo Centre for Digital Ruble Economy.