Biometric identification: It’s what Russia craves?
Nobody asked for this but we're getting it anyway
Riley Waggaman
The nations of the world are racing each other to see who can tag their respective cattle in the safest and most voluntary and convenient way. Meanwhile, the cattle bicker on the internet about which rancher has the best and most moral cattle tag.
“So it goes.”
I suppose it’s a matter of taste, really. After all, deciding who gets to tag you is still a choice, technically. Sort of.
In Russia, great advances have been made towards implementing a biometric cattle tag, which is arguably the most convenient cattle tag ever devised because the cattle don’t have to haul around a piece of paper anymore—their face is their tag. If that’s not convenient I don’t know what is.
It’s a proven fact that biometric cattle tags are safe, convenient, 100% voluntary, and implemented gradually so as not to cause suspicion or distress among the cattle.
Allow me to demonstrate.
It’s for your convenience
By now I hope you have realized that your civil liberties privileges are being stripped from you because your government cares deeply about your safety and loses sleep over the possibility of you being inconvenienced.
Moscow is similarly altruistic and selfless:
source: tourism.interfax.ru
The Russian government announced at the end of March that citizens would be permitted to register at hotels, spas, campsites, tourist centers, and medical clinics using biometric data stored in the “voluntary” Unified Biometric System.
State agencies & friendly bank cheer for “transition to biometrics” in Russia
Russia’s Unified Biometric System (UBS), a commercially operated national biometrics database (no, I’m not joking—more on that later), has been billed as a safe and effective way to identify the proles.
As usual, the relevant authorities hailed the “convenience” of biometric IDs. The Ministry of Economic Development told TASS that biometric check-in at hotels and other institutions will “allow guests to independently register at any convenient time without queues and waiting”.
Of course, Russians will always be allowed to register at hotels and treatment centers without getting retina-scanned, but why would they want to be inconvenienced?
But just remember: biometric identification is the key to convenience, and only Russian citizens whose data has been entered into the completely voluntary Unified Biometric System will have access to this extremely convenient method of registration, Rospotrebnadzor noted in a press release.
Ungrateful Russians give friendly centralized biometrics database 1-star Yelp reviews
It has come to our attention that some Russians are not adequately thankful for the newly ratified biometrics law that keeps them extremely safe and secure.
While we’re on the topic, by the end of the year Russians in several regions will be able to interact with their local bureaucracies without presenting a domestic passport; they’ll just need to smile for the camera…
source: nakanune.ru
But just to be 100% clear: Russians will never been forced to switch to biometric identification; this is about convenience and optimization and giving cherished citizens choices.
It’s also for your safety
Biometric ID is not just a very convenient and easy way to confirm your identity to your rancher, it’s also a great way for your rancher to keep an eye on you as you walk around minding your own business:
source: interfax.ru
In Moscow, the local rancher is always thinking about your safety and convenience:
“In Moscow, in recent years, billions of photo and video images, both cars and people, have been processed, and the quality of recognition, for example, of faces and cars has reached 99.8%, that is, almost 100% recognition,” Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said at the plenary session of the Forum of Innovation financial technologies Finopolis [on November 8, 2023].
This is all part of Sobyanin’s dream of creating a biometric utopia in which health insurance companies can set monthly premiums based on data taken from implanted medical devices:
Anyway, let’s not give too much credit to Moscow. Other parts of Russia have recognized that facial recognition isn’t a “luxury”—it’s a “necessity” in order to protect against dangerous “new risks”:
source: mkset.ru
Again, this is for your safety. As mkset.ru explained:
“It is also worth noting that the facial recognition system in no way leads to the abuse of civil freedom.”
Are you taking notes? Good, because Perm Krai is accelerating safety for your safety:
source: ura.news
I ask you to intensify your work regarding the implementation of the Safe Region program. All funds are provided in the budget; it is necessary to ensure the purchase and installation of CCTV cameras with facial recognition as quickly as possible. This measure is vital,” Makhonin addressed the Minister of Territorial Security Viktor Batmazov.
…and it’s also completely voluntary
Look: If you don’t want to be face-ID’d, you don’t have to be. It’s completely voluntary. So far, the Unified Biometric System—which is operated by a joint-stock company— boasts approximately 50 million morsels of voluntarily submitted biometric data:
February 15, 2024. source: interfax.ru
…Except that it’s possible that some of this voluntarily submitted data may have been submitted without consent:
March 24, 2024. source: ura.news
Aren’t cattle tags great?
Whether they are American cattle tags, or EU cattle tags, or Eskimo cattle tags, or Ukrainian cattle tags, or Brazilian cattle tags, or Russian cattle tags, all responsible cattle agree that cattle tags are becoming more convenient, more safe, and more necessary during these turbulent and uncertain times.
And these are certainly precarious times for the cattle.
The original cattle tag was marketed as a temporary ID designed to keep an eye on WWI-era spies, draft dodgers, and refugees. Then this temporary “wartime” document magically became the international passport system that we know and love today.
Please familiarize yourself with the history of modern cattle-tagging, because it’s important to understand that we’re entering the cattle-tag End Game; the Opening and Middle Game happened 100 years ago:
It’s not great, to be honest. But life goes on.
Riley Waggaman is an American writer and journalist who has lived in Russia for close to a decade. He has contributed to many websites, including Anti-Empire, Russian Faith, Brownstone Institute, Unlimited Hangout, and Geopolitics & Empire. He worked for Press TV, Russia Insider, and RT before going solo. You can subscribe to his Substack here, or follow him on twitter or Telegram.
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Just goes to show that whoever you are, whatever country you’re from all the same agendas are being pushed. It is no coincidence. Everyone is singing from the same hymn sheet and should we sit back and take it, the one world government is going to happen.
Russia or the USA … Or every country that have the technology????
Some or much of this is already taking place in India through the use of Aadhaar biometric identification system.
My gut says this is doomed to fail sooner or later, and will backfire on the oligarchy-controlled authorities across countries.
There has to be a first time: the first billionaire trapped, shunned and unable to get anything done even through his faithful robots.
As usual the Luddites at OffG attack the machinery instead of changing the power structure. Like the Pharisees who tempted Rabbi Yeshuah to question the coinage instead of questioning their way of life.
Strange, this myth about humans that we are free and not “cattle’ like other herd animals, The only way to preve your freedom is to act like a free person: the way of the cross, like Socrates the shoemaker or Yeshuah the carpenter’s son.
“To be a contented member of a flock must above all be a sheep” — Albert Einstein.
The physical means by which one one proves one’s “identity” — birth certificate. ID, drivers license, physiognomy or DNA sequence – do not matter in the cause of freedom. What really matters is the spirit of freedom and any action driven by that spirit. Such actions occur in time and place but work out through Eternity and are truly judged only at The End of Days..
“Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and to God what belongs to God” — New Testament.
Hey, it’s voluntary! In many restaurants now in my US city, the only way to see the menu is thru one’s Smart Phone. Many banking transactions also require Smart Phones. I ordered a drink in a bar recently and was charged a service charge for paying in cash! Just like showing verification that you got the jab during lockdown was the only way to participate in many normal social activities. No, you are not being forced, but living will be more difficult…
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I had some sympathy for a restaurant I went to in Turkey late last year. They had a menu accessible through “smart” phone. But when the economy was so volatile that the cost prices could fluctuate wildly from week to week, I could kind of understand not being able to constantly update paper menus. All by design from a high level I’m assuming.
I should point out, the use of “smart” phone rdering was preferred, but totally optional. No extra charge.
I must also point out that the new inability to edit comments is a disappointing downgrade to the OffG comment section.
You’ve got to persist with the edit button Mr/Ms/Non Binary Chairman
Temperamental technology, apparently.
And sociolog.
Your second comment got more upmarks than your first — and with good reason.
PS I gave your first comment its first uptick, and for this reason: it shows that one method (video) may be more convenient than another (paper). Luddites despise and suspect “convenience” (see article)..
I only voted for Drusha’s comment because you voted for it. I always vote where the majority are.
These “conveniences” soon will be necessities. I didn’t mention you could consider that bar that charged me extra for paying in cash were (at least) trying to accommodate their customers who wanted to pay in cash. I have been to brewpubs that don’t accept cash at all!
Do governments really give a shit what 90% of the populace is doing?
After all, the 90% follow instructions as we know.
Corporations, on the other hand, like to keep track so they can sell us more useless stuff.
The remaining 10% are probably viewed as outliers, and unless they have access to weapons (as in the US) they would probably be deemed as harmless radicals or contrarians.
Mussolini famously said: “Fascism is when you can’t slip a cigarette paper between the interests of government and business.” Yes, governments really do give a shit, not because they care about the well being of their populations, but because they want to control them, to profit from them.
Plenty of incessant capitalist propaganda about fascism. We need to wake up.
https://www.unz.com/article/was-fascism-the-height-of-abomination/
From the comment section of the article you link to:
“What we need is True Fascism.”
Ok, then!
From the article,
“communism is against private property”. The author really needs to quote some authorities here. But that might detract from his thesis and we can’t do that, can we?
Am I wrong in assuming that Communism asserts that the private ownership of the means of production will not bring about the greatest good for the greatest number? Given the centuries of empirical evidence can this be doubted?
The means of production cannot be in the hands of private individuals whose objective is their personal, exclusive enrichment. That is the simple, correct, and liberating tenet.
For someone who is so fond of communism, it’s pretty sad that you don’t know what their main documents say, while demanding “authority quotes“.
Here, from Communist Manifesto.
1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.
…etc.
Corporations have long since ditched selling stuff in favour of boosting their “worth” by playing at the big stock exchange casino.
The latest thing is to sell our data and commodifying us.
Governments and industry buy and sell personal and confidential data without consent or knowledge already.
They’ll fine and tax people into financial oblivion under social-digital credit, while they switch to a rentier economy where we’ll own no property, cash, savings or assets.
An algorithm will eventually determine when, where and how we die. That’s why the push for euthanasia laws worldwide. They call it VAD in Australia. They’ll potentially cut off pensions or digital tokens if you don’t get the latest poison jab. Death by injection or starvation. Your choice. That’s the ultimate purpose of biofascism. Total slavery then extermination if you are no longer profitable enough for the “technocracy”.
How exactly did you get your head so fucked up? Were you such a nutcase from early on, like did you play with Satan dolls instead of Barbies when you were little? Or did something happen in your life that triggered your paranoia and instigated your submersion into the sort of paranoid shit you keep pushing? Maybe you fell lovelorn because a government official’s son did not respond to your advances when you had the hots for him, propelling you on a path of research into the evil deeds of all them kill gates, anal schwabs, and the rest of them motherfuckers?
I wonder! There are a lot of individuals fucked up the same way you are – in the English speaking world, that is, I haven’t encountered this sort of madness anywhere else – but you’re the empress of them all. Nobody is as fucked up as you!
Incidentally, you’re not necessarily entirely wrong about some of the stuff fermented by your paranoid brain in the sense that some assholes would like to see some of it happen; the trouble is that you peddle all this shit as reality.
Be that as it may, I’m awaiting impatiently your report on how the fuckupedness of your mind originated and subsequently developed into such monstrously paranoid dimensions!
Here we fuckin’ go again! Another fucking fuck making fucked up, expletive laden comments.
Holy fuck!
This one is still wearing his muzzle while driving alone in his car and is on 9th booster, because govt. said it will keep him safe from the deadliest virus that’s ever been made.
Also cost-cutting. The staff become robots, only doing what can’t already be automated.
Harmless, until they expose the toxic Covid jabs.
As long as a person is a Godless materialist, the government and the corporation are totally happy about it.
Why the CCP is so keep on digital medical reports of healthy citizens? Organ harvest for Party toppers and high payers. They have mobile ORs and mobile crematoria…
Alipay Users are in Danger as well! The Truth about CCP’s Theft of Human Organs
As long as it is the truth I am ok with it all. I am resistance.
Looks like Anatoliy Golytsin was 100% correct again, and the (Bolsheviks) are still at it.
How many more cattle tags do we need besides DNA, Finger Prints, Retinas, SS#, Passports, Drivers Licenses, cell phones, Birth and Death Certificates, Diplomas, Marriage Licenses, Registries, any telephonic or internet participation, financial records, medical records, military records, educational records, credit and debit card records, library records, legal records, police and intelligance agency records, church records, transactional records, housing records, event participation records, insurrance records, Citizenship and Immigration records etc. ? Feeling tagged and monitored enough?
Never enough…
Tax payments?
TV viewing habits?
Shopper ‘reward’ records?
Yeah man.
It seems pretty common now to be asked/offered to participate in a biometrics program when purchasing things online. Retina scans, facial recognition things. Of course, I’ve said fuck that, but it doesn’t take much to imagine how most of the population will just look at the convenience without understanding the consequences. Warn people, talk to your kids, friends, anyone and explain to them that Big Brother is breathing down their fucking necks.
The real problem is that most people probably wouldn’t care even if they understood the consequences.
Even worse, most people will embrace the consequences and disapprove of the ones who don’t.
I think Australia can easily compete with Russia when it comes to control over its population:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/5aECv35h6rmP/
So we’re importing Control Freaks now?
At least we know she learned from the best.
Someone should tell her Trump would employ her in the blink of a lie.
Why single out Russia for this? China, India, Singapore, the EU etc. have digital ID too.
Doesn’t prove that Putin or Modi are gears of the WEF club.
Because there are a lot more people like who have illusions about Russia than ones who have illusions about the other nation states you mention.
That’s what the WEF wants you to think, that they are all powerful, fool.
Russia does not need an overt relationship with the WEF when they are fully signed up to the UN Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030.
In addition, they have their own WEF, called the St Petersburg International Economic Forum.
Davos for the BRICS and Global South. The forum takes place every year and Antonio Guterres attends along with premiers and presidents from many countries including China.
At least in 2024 all attendees will not be required to take a Covid-1984 PCR test, unlike in 2023 when they were mandatory.
https://forumspb.com/en/
Ahh they are only copy pasting everything West and Global to the extent they are banned from participating in Gay 7 and other Forums. They want to be equal partners in the global communist government to come.
They weren’t copying and pasting the actions of the West during the Plandemic. They were acting in lockstep.
With regards to the cull juice, they were first off the starting blocks with Sputnik V, beating the West in the race to inject the cull juice into their population.
China with Sinovac, Sinopharm and CoVax were also early out of the starting gates. China even started developing two of them in 2019 prior to the Plandemic. A convenient ‘coincidence’…nothing to see here.
Both China and Russia also had since 2006 to prepare a vaccine against the plannedemic, and create partnerships with Western Astra Seneca.
But you would see only the public timeframe and opening.
A famous France Architect says in a discussion Russia copy not the good but only the bad European Architecture.
Russia’s ideas of sending criminals from prison to the war front is another copy paste.
Private Mercenaries Company is another copy of the West.
CEO, CFO m.m. other academia Titles are also copy paste from West. A.s.o.
The wedge issues have always been used as distractive psyops on the local level, national and now international level.
So people don’t question why they’re taxed and controlled by a cabal of racketeering psychopaths. That’s how divide and conquer scams work.
And for good reason: because the Axis of Resistance countries have done more good for their people than ours have done recently.
It is time for the Affluent Flutulent Freedom Loving West to show its Love of Freedem by installing a more competent, less restrictive Leadership.
Because he lives in and reports on Russia?
And OffG is not interested in such trivial questions as these:
How did Russia free itself from economic misery under the Anglo Zio Capitalist invasion of 1990?
How did Putin manage to jail or exile more Oligarchs than the rest of the world combined?
How has Russia managed not only to survive economic boycott by the AZC West but to thrive as well?
How has Russia managed not only to defend some small nations (eg, Syria, Niger, Ukraine), against invasion by NATZO and its Fascist proxies (eg
ISIS, Azov) but also to build them into a large Axis of Resistance?
How is it that a backward downtrodden “mess of Russians” (– Shakespeare) have been invaded by the greatest military Leaders of the advanced freedom loving West (Adolf Gustav of Sweden, Adolf of Germany, Napoleon of France, Obomba of U$A) yet turned the tables each time?.
How did this “gas station masquerading as a country” manage to produce more advanced weapons with better strategy than the combined Enlightened West?
“We accepted invitations to Paris and Berlin, and we are expecting an invitation to London” — A saying in the Russian Army..
But OffG ignores such questions as Trivial Pursuits, because they divert attention from a sinister Higher Aim, pithily expressed by a banker’s son who really is one of those conspiratorial Word Leaders that OffG thinks Putin belongs to:
“We’re all in it together” — UK PM David Comoron
Putin received money from Bank of England, the Doos and Rothschild 🤖 .
Money open all and when I say all I mean ALL, doors and gates. When it walks like money, talks like money, looks like money, what is it Gentlemen?
If it quacks like money it’s probably a duck.
Just a NB. To the question why Russia survived Hitler, Sweden France, Nato, etc.: Mud and winter. https://avatars.mds.yandex.net/i
https://avatars.mds.yandex.net/i?id=f5f3c3a78a7bab53b1286077b90c712bc4b72e13-10878377-images-thumbs&n=13
Tested (Scamdemic).
Tagged (Identified, labelled and programmed).
Led to the slaughter.
Paranoid control freaks rule. Okay?
Yes, but NOT a WEFfer = Global control freak.
If we are not in a Psychological Based Totalitarian War yet, where most National Governments are not only not representing the people who actually voted for them, what was the point of the Greeks coming up with at least a few ideas re the concept of DEMOCRACY???
Who is Representing us – the Great unwashed from Oldham? (I admit I do like George Galloway, and even Craig Murray) but neither of them are going to save us.
Now we have got an electric war, and if for example Putin, wants to bomb most of the electricity generation stations in Ukraine with loads of drones and missiles, he probably can, if he hasn’t already done so.
I suggest the useless British Government who apparently have all been genetically modified to bow to the woke Multi-Billionaires, get some Candle Sticks in to Power The Houses of Parliament.
Whilst I realise their Net Zero objectives, everything runs on windmills or solar power, is the ultimate madness, unless you have decided to Sail to New Zealand on a Sailing Boat (it has been done before), you are probably better off moving to Gambia, and making friends with the locals.
If what’s left of The UK Powerstations stops working, cos the morons in our Government have told The Russians, The Chinese and the Iranians say the most horrible things to them, do you think The Americans could give a shit?
The Americans can’t supply Electricity to us from the USA
When all the lights go out, Nothing will work – no money – no food no water.
The vast majority of people will die. – as is the clear agenda
Riley Waggaman, whilst I really like the stuff that you write, and I think you are very brave, have you tried the Russian ice pools yet?
My 18 month old ganddaughter was extremely proud of herself today, on her first swimming lesson with her Dad. Her older brothers had to go to school
She was very proud of her swimming costume
Biometric identification: what fucking hypocrites.
Your whores = internet alt media personality’s and pseudo truth advisers where the first to sell out and pay Musk and co 160£ for there blue tik DIGITAL verification to then have a blue tik digital Biometric identification certification… = normalize it for you to do.
Its convenient compared to the stones you get in your shoes if you dont comply.
Goodbye to Putin, Lavrov, Maria, Stelkov, game over. The Sovjet bureaucrats won.
What at first is voluntary, will be later mandatory.
It’s not genocide if the government says it’s not genocide…
Vaccines dont kill if the government says vaccines dont kill…
It’s terrorism if the government says it’s terrorism…
It’s democracy because the government says it’s democracy…
Digital ID’s mean:
Nowhere left to hide…
Digital currencies mean:
Nowhere left to hide…
There are plenty of places to hide. First thing every day. Walk in the park under the trees. Not a soul in site. What bliss. Went into the cafe while it was still empty. Better still. Travel in my own car. Use local fruit and vegetable shop. Again, no herding. Use trains outside of herd time. Read book in the park. The morons don’t read books, plenty of space.
When and why do the masses stare into the gadgets they so crave! Well, either they are mad or I am/
Well the UK beat the Russians too it.
This whining about digital this, biometric that, and the virtual other thing is really myopic shit. People ought to step the fuck back and see things from a broader perspective, as opposed to drowning themselves in this shortsightedness.
What we have on our hands is a comprehensive transition that includes not only a change of socioeconomic system from capitalism toward technofeudalism, to be later followed by technoslavery, but also a switch from one source of energy, namely oil, to another, which is yet to be determined what the fuck it’s gonna be. That’s the gist of the current turmoil in the world. Digital IDs are only relatively inconsequential part of the whole thing, clearly a part of efforts to corral people, put them on a short digital leash, under close surveillance because whatever is coming will sure as fucking hell be less luxurious than the life human critters have enjoyed thus far, particularly in the West.
One thing is for sure – there’s no going back. Whining that shit ain’t what it used to be is a waste of fucking time. People unwilling to look ahead and clinging to the past will fall by the wayside. A case in point are all the fucking idiots who had themselves injected with the convid shite, most of them to be able to continue enjoying the various perks of the pre-2020 era. Reportedly, they’ve lost 20 years of life on average because of the clot shots. But it’s not much different with others who refuse to let go of the 20th century era, the socialist-capitalist dichotomy, and all the usual suspects they like to run off at the mouth about.
The shrewd person thinks survival, adaptation, finding ways to squeeze through the cracks unscathed, finding a fucking hill to run for. Whining about biometric IDs and pointing the finger at whoever will accomplish shit. Get that through your head. Think of ways of dodging this shit or running away.
Also, in the event that the energy predicament cannot be resolved, and there is a good chance that it will not (as of now, there is no energy source or technology capable of substituting oil), this technocratic crap will become inconsequential simply because there won’t be any juice to power all this shit. So we have on our hands a paradox – if you want the civilizational industrial trajectory to continue, you have to accept technofeudalist control, if you want freedom, you have to forgo the luxuries of the modern (but utterly fucked up) civilization and go back to the fucking cave or on the fucking tree.
While you are waiting, drill baby drill.
Drill-baby-drill backward cretins will be those who fall by the wayside and disappear.
Oil is on its way out, simply because it will run out sooner or later, and those who understand it and are able to adapt and profit from the new paradigm will prevail and survive. It’s not about whether you like this or that or dislike the other thing. It’s the way things go, in this case dictated by physical reality.
Judging by your previous comments all that probably goes right over your fucking head.
And i thought you were just being sarcastic. What a complete MFAH, whether psychBot or brain clot. Hard to top this.
Your hostility toward an entity interfering with your cognitive dissonance is understandable. Life has been mighty good, thanks to the energy-dense oil that has driven the luxury of the past 100 years, and moving on to a life with less perks is something nobody is crazy about – the wild party has been fun. At least in some ways, even though it hasn’t really made people any happier overall.
Alas, the stuff is running out, or will sooner or later, and the world is moving on. Time to wake up and smell the coffee.
It’s not Sociolog’s fault, so don’t take your frustration out on him. It’s only that he can see farther than you and doesn’t suffer from the aforementioned cognitive dissonance.
Oh, you can shove the blood clot back into your asshole.
Military boy, you have to be able to see into the past, to know the future. You are ass backwards when it comes to vision cause most of time your head is up it.
Check out the phenomenon of psychological projection in regard to your incessant obsession with the military.
One certain Karl Popper empirically proved that the past cannot be used to predict the future. It is useful to study the past, for patterns do repeat and our knowledge is in fact derived from past experiences, but none of that allows to foretell the future.
Be that as it may, the aforestated assessment of the current goings-on is based precisely on available historical parallel, namely the energy transition from coal to oil some 100 years ago, which resulted in WWII and reshaped the global socioeconomic and geopolitical structure, including technologies that came as a result.
You’re too fucking stupid to understand any of this. You understand complete shit as to what I’m talking about you endless fucking nitwit and total asshole, and you’re laying into me out of frustration with your helpless pitiful self. Go fuck yourself already, loser.
I have no more compassion for fucks like you. I’m very sympathetic with people who might not quite understand things, but no mercy for cocksuckers who take their fucking ignorance out on others, like your cocksucker self.
“…. the past cannot be used to predict the future….
Be that as it may…. available historical parallel….”
i.e. the past can be used to preduct the future.
But it really can, convincing low level IQ’s such as yours, that’s the hard and impossible part, private.
It is blatantly apparent now that Socio-Log’s ‘understanding’ of the world is confined within the algorithms that have been used to program it.
Question is:
Who or what is gonna utilise all those multi trillion dollar freeways, motorways, highways, tunnels and bridges all over the planet?
Good question. Tunnels and especially bridges are okay, always useful. Highways – weird. A judicious species aware of the constraints of its natural habitat would be building waterways.
Dont hold your breath waiting military boy, or you might not see another birthday.
We are going to die anyway.
Why not get all the jabs and boosters and QR codes and Face scans they want, live life in luxury hotels and beaches on credit with a cool Harvey Wallbanger.
Sniffing a lot of coke and die young and wild? Just asking.
You get and sniff whatever you want, your prerogative.
The reality of the world as a whole is more or less as described above. You seem to be unable to separate your personal existence from the overall objective reality.
I just notice the same immorality in the West as in the Roman Empire.
Same fxkking shit. https://ivarfjeld.com/2013/07/31/fall-of-roman-empire-caused-by-widespread-homosexuality/ .
So why not bang as many of our wonderful women and drink as many beers while we can?
You’re going to get a lot of heat for this…. Still, its worth noting that raging against the machine isn’t going to be much use, it will merely serve to get you noticed. This technology is not only useful to ‘them’ (and often convenient for ‘us’) but its also presents multiple business opportunities. Since I’ve never known anything to get in the way of what a government wants or a business’s desire to make money stopping ‘it’ is a fool’s errand. Raging against the machine will just get you singled out as ‘someone worth watching’. (Lots of good paying jobs a dependent on a plentiful supply of raw material — you.)
Machines tend to be not as all encompassing and all knowing as they’re portrayed in sci-fi. The quality of the data they work with can be iffy, its why advertises spend big bucks advertising products to you that you either quite obviously don’t need or already have; its too expensive to get it right and the cost of getting it wrong is minimal (to them, at least — one of the biggest cons going is the never ending treadmill of systems upgrades — you’re paying to make their software work, something they blithely call ‘enhancing the user experience’ that’s nothing of the sort). Anything that’s out of the ordinary takes time and energy and potentially is a weakness. Anyway — don’t rage against the machine, get to know it!
“don’t rage against the machine, get to know it”
Not sure if I understand all of what you’re saying, but if the message is ADAPT (as opposed to clinging to something that no longer exists), I couldn’t agree more.
But yourself mention the machine and its weakness: False info and expensive to single out deviations. So no rage, but deviate from the norm is sufficient to make the machine worthless.
“don’t rage against the machine, get to know it!”
Words of wisdom.
“Knowledge of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” — Old Testament.
The Laws of Nature are the work of God.
“People may rage against Nature or they may bless Her but she goes blithely about her work, ignoring the praises or the cursing of mankind” — Dante, Purgatorio.
“Digital IDs are only relatively inconsequential part of the whole thing, clearly a part of efforts to corral people, put them on a short digital leash, under close surveillance because whatever is coming will sure as fucking hell be less luxurious than the life human critters have enjoyed thus far, particularly in the West.”
So you’re in favour of digital IDs?
What does it fucking matter what some inconsequential being like me is in favor of or not?
Digital IDs already exist, dimwit. They’re reality, at least in the area where I’m currently residing. You don’t need no fucking ID. The pigs can pull up your picture and credential online.
This is not about what you like or are in favor of. This is about understanding the world.
If you weren’t the obdurate cretin you are, you’d examine things from a broader perspective, especially in terms of what matters – the energy transition. Because energy is the MASTER RESOURCE that drives everything. We’re in the process of depleting and eventually exhausting the energy of the past era – oil – and efforts are being made to transition to something else. The problem is that there is no something else. There is nothing equivalent, let alone better (more energy-dense), than oil. The world is scrambling to come up with something. So far, we have various forms of solar and nuclear, but they won’t cut it the way it is. It appears that a complicated mix of the various available technologies might be able to keep the civilization afloat, but it will be a complex system, nothing like the simple drilling of a well and collecting fucking oil spurting out of it, which was the case some 100 fucking years ago.
So, if such a system is put in place, it will require greater control. Who gives a fuck whether somebody is in favor of it. It might be the only solution, if it works at all. Things might work if all people were on board with behaving in a rational economical way, but that ain’t the case. People are fucking gluttonous twits and stupid fucks who understand shit. Just look at yourself to get an idea (regarding the latter, not sure about the former).
People who understand shit, want to control you with it, like oil, and its here to stay right up to the biblical end.
Find yourself somebody else to hump their leg, you fucking mongrel.
“What does it fucking matter what some inconsequential being like me is in favor of or not?”
Pretty much negates everything else you say.
You realize that you’re world has shrunk into attempts to piss on my leg, don’t you?
I realize that you don’t know where to put an apostrophe.
Funny how your so uptight about rules they rammed into your normie skull, isn’t it …?
Fuck grammatical rules, me says.
Can’t you be yourself for a second for once?
You mean the rules of language without which we wouldn’t be able to communicate?
You’ll have find a 6 foot duck to locate a bigger quack than him.
Well he’s harmless really and it passes the time.
I’m not so sure he’s as harmless as you want to make him seem, him and his fraternal tribe intentionally cause chaos so they can ride to rescue with their own mechanism.
He burst onto the scene cursing and hollering needing us to explain our usefulness to him as if his tribe already had the answers and wanting to know if we were worthy to join them.
You turn this into a financial charade and war or worse is the only solution.
Its these people who make war possible, without them there would be peace. So harmless is doubtful, and only time can correct it so we do have that.
Translation apps have become quite good lately and I’m sure hyper-robotic personalities use the best of them.
Apostrophes can be difficult for humans and probably, for now, nearly impossible for robots and the nerds that provide them algos and code.
I agree about gluttony
But we could be brought around
But they’re going kill us anyway
After this long whining outburst like a fish caught in the net, we know you love Digital ID by heart deep inside your soul.
But also that you will live in denial the rest of your life and never admit it..
You should go and eat worms.
Unfortunately, that’s not true. Rather, the majority of people are Big-State, Nannyists.
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https://unherd.com/newsroom/boris-johnson-is-out-of-step-with-the-public-on-smoking-bans
Or take civil liberties more generally. According to YouGov, more of us support than oppose policies such as compulsory ID cards, CCTV in all public spaces and a national database of every citizen’s DNA. Significantly, these measures are more popular among Conservative voters than Labourites, and more so among Leavers than Remainers.
https://ygo-assets-websites-editorial-emea.yougov.net/documents/Internal_SecurityMeasures_230818_W.pdf
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https://www.dw.com/en/swiss-reject-plan-to-abolish-covid-health-pass/a-59960103
Nov 28, 2021
Swiss reject plan to abolish COVID health pass
The Swiss public firmly rejected a plan to abolish the country’s COVID certificate . . . Sixty-two percent of voters said ‘Yes’ to keeping the health pass, which was introduced in September. and not seek major amendments to Switzerland’s COVID law. The certificate restricts entry to public places, including bars and restaurants to those who are fully vaccinated, recovered from the virus or have a negative test. The referendum took place as concerns rise over the worrying new COVID-19 variant omicron . . .
Opponents of the certificate forced the poll with a petition that garnered 187,000 signatures, way above the 50,000 needed to hold a referendum. They said the pass, which most people use via an app, is discriminatory and amounts to a de facto obligation to get vaccinated. Along with grassroots groups that were formed during the pandemic, the right-wing People’s Party has campaigned for its abolition, despite voting for the certificate earlier this year . . . The campaign even won the support of American anti-vaccination campaigner Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who flew in for a rally in the capital, Bern, earlier this month. . . . Sunday’s poll was the second time in less than six months that the Swiss public has voted on the government’s response to the pandemic.
Correct: If Covid-19 had been a really dangerous virus, stringhent measures would have been justified. What was wrong about Con-19 was that the Chinese authorities — who knew the truth from the start — did not reveal it to their public but allowed the scare to run because the Chinese authorities wanted to roll out a trial Bio-warfare Defense Program.
Two lessons from Con-19:
Even the Chinese Civil Defense program could not stop the spread of an Influenza Virus.
The Lab-made Spike Protein RNA sequence (U$ Patent App by Moderna, 2016) which was inserted both into the Lab-made Corona Virus SARS-2 and into the Lab-made RNA Vaxx is more dangerous than the virus. It was an act of culpable homicide for governments to inject people with such a novel and relatively untested biological agent.
No more Bio-warfare Labs!
Personally, I don’t see much difference between the inherent natures of the UK and Austria. There may be some legal and structural differences which make such policies somewhat less likely in the UK. Also, as Sayers points out, there is a class difference. The difference between the UK and Austria may therefore be a consequence of a different distribution of class.
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Freddie Sayers investigates Austria’s lockdown of the unvaccinated
UnHerd
Nov 17, 2021
Freddie visits the Austrian capital Vienna on the day that the world’s first lockdown for the unvaccinated was introduced, looking for answers. How do ordinary people feel about a third of their population being put in partial house arrest? How does it feel for the people stuck at home? And how did a liberal democracy come to this in 2021?
https://unherd.com/2021/11/inside-the-austrian-lockdown
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Nowak
Manfred Nowak (born 26 June 1950 in Bad Aussee) is an Austrian human rights expert, who served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture from 2004 to 2010. He is Secretary General of the Global Campus of Human Rights (formerly European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation, EIUC) in Venice, Italy,[1] Professor of International Human Rights, and Scientific Director of the Vienna Master of Arts in Applied Human Rights at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.[2] He is also co-founder and former Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights and a former judge at the Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2016, he was appointed Independent Expert leading the United Nations Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty.[3]
Who would have thought that when Apple launched the first iphone that the smartphone revolution would take hold in the way it has? An item nobody knew they needed or wanted until its invention.
The portable Black Mirror device has become a human appendage. Its ‘convenience’ comes with giving up privacy by leaving an all-in-one footprint of a persons digital life. With constant upgrades it has become a 24/7 tracking and monitoring device. By incorporating features such a biometric unlocking (facial recognition or fingerpint), it was the training tool to gain acceptance of the digital gulag.
The human cattle willingly allow themselves to be tagged by using biometrics, since many have been trained to already do it. It happens everytime they stare into their scrying device to unlock it or to access, for example, a banking app. For many, it became too much effort to type a few digits and letters as password.
The smartphone may turnout to be the worst invention foisted upon humanity.
Sacrificing themselves at the altar of convenience in order to save a few seconds of their precious time in exchange for a lifetime of digital slavery. A terrible trade-off.
Plus they are responsible for speeding up the insanity rate, so we got that to look forward too.
This train left the station centuries or rather millennia ago, way way before the invention of the smartphone. It was only a question of time before technology passes from physical to mental.
Thus far, humans have mainly been using their intellectual capacity for ever-increasing their physical well-being, a trajectory that has led to a truly phantasmagorical extent, where we’re no longer improving our well-being. We’re manufacturing and satiating decadent urges. Burning and destroying everything around in the process.
The question is whether people will be able to bring this trend under control and steer it to more reasonable a raison d’etre, an existence free of hardship but not constantly speeding things up, not based on the ever accelerating extraction-processing-consumption-waste cycle, and so on.
This is stuff for people to ponder in the upcoming times.
People? The herd!
However you designate people, people are what they are. The ones that happen to be living at the present time are those you’ll have to live with, plus whatever offspring they manage to produce. In other words, what it is is as good as it gets.
I guess it’s people’s nature to form a herd. Just look at this discussion forum – people form a herd and go apeshit when you tell them something they don’t wanna hear because it contradicts your controversy.
Only a small handful of people are truly independent lone wolves. Why? Because being so is fucking hard. Why? Because the rest of the sheeple hate lone wolves. Or black sheeps. And they go outta their way to make their lives miserable.
Karma a bitch and has a long memory.
Uz mi seres. Vodmrdej se bezmeznej kretene.
Achtung ahead, military boy, tread at your own risk.
Ses nahluchlej nebo nablblej pyco? Instrukce znela vodmrdej se. Mas bejt vodmrdanej.
The design of automobiles peaked in Germany in the 60’s and 70’s. And its been all down hill since then.
Ha! I knew it! Czech language. It’s Plinio/Jacques in it’s latest incarnation.
The manufacturing and satiating of “decadent urges” isn’t a mere “trend”. It’s how consumer capitalism works. And the very class who have been powering this are the very class now telling us we must stop. They demand a “downsizing” so they can carry on their parasitism in a different format and the manufacturing of different demands.
Unlike your contemptuous self, I have more respect of human beings so as not to regard them as powerless creatures who act as the “very class” of yours tell them.
The manufacturing and satiating of decadent urges is a symbiotic process, where people DEMAND it and other people DELIVER. Your division of the world into poor little things on one side of the fence and nasty controllers on the other is simply wrong.
Just look at your fucked up self. You read that fucking Guardian every day – you crave it, demand it, you can’t live without devouring the shit. So they deliver. They stuff as much of their garbage in your face as you’re able to swallow.
Autrement dit, before you start whining about a speck of dust in yer bro’s eye, make sure that you don’t have a fucking beam stuck in your own asshole, if you catch my drift.
I think this is more nuanced. More so chicken and egg.
In the example I cited in another comment regarding the smartphone, people did not ‘demand’ that. The ‘delivery’ came first, the same can be said of the basic mobile phone before that.
In fact, most technology is not driven by demand but is driven by its delivery (invention).
Furthermore, in the case of consumerism and materialism in general it is advertising that creates the demand.
A culture of keeping up with the Joneses constructed over the years and decades by non-stop advertising, sponsorship, product placement and so forth. The idea that owning the latest gadget, household appliance, car, home furnishings, fashion and accessories is cool, sexy and will make one popular, feel important in society and also attractive to the opposite sex (or same sex!).
The invention came and caught on because their was a demand for it. There are lots of inventions that fall by the wayside.
The problem is something else. Basically it’s runaway materialism on the one hand and the disappearance of any form of spiritualism, anything that would counterbalance the obsession with consumption, anything that would make people reflect on the purpose of life.
This is not a question of one group of people being controlled by another. As Anal Schwab says, we’re all in it together.
A rising tide does not float all financial boats.
“Unlike your contemptuous self, I have more respect of human beings”
I can tell by the courteous way you treat others here that you are so full of respect.
“Sacrificing themselves at the altar of convenience ”
Don’t blame the technology. Convenience is a matter of technology ie, digital phone or analogue. But human sacrifice is a government action ie, a matter of tribal morals.
“The ancient Greeks and Romans outgrew human sacrifice, and when the Jews came under the authority of the Graeco-Roman world they too gave up the practice” — Encyclopaedia Britannica, circa 1960.
“Thou shalt not consign thy child to the flames of Melech” — Old Testament,
Russian ID check? Turf war? Repo? Whatever?
First segment in video:
Your Link reads:
“ANARCHY IN RUSSIA! PUTIN’S DRUNK SOLDIERS ARE HARASSING PUTIN’S COPS”
it is typical of the roaring spate of videos from the Advanced Freedom Loving West which were so busy mocking the “mess of Russians” (Shakespeare) that they did not notice the clumsy drunken bear was crushing them and their allegedly “sophisticated” Western “game changer” weapons which have served NATZO so well against tiny countries like Serbia, Libya and Palestine.
“The Russians are not so hygienic as we are, and their homes are not so cozy but they make better tanks” — WW2 Letter from a Nazi tank commander at the siege of Lendingrad, to his wife; he did not survive..
Posted long ago at Riley’s blog, but better late than never. The latest refutation of the “go BRICS” crowd.
There are plenty of people world wide who would choose convenience over efficiency, pay the bill rather than save money. And most of them don’t even want to discuss it, they would rather fight over it than be w/o it. I know, I live with one.
‘Thus convenience doth make cowards of us all.’
Not all. Some people are Spartans.
I know.
I was just being facetious and twisting Shakespearian quotes to suit my porpoise.
Would and do choose convenience and servitude over autonomy, and always would and will. And not “plenty”, almost all.
Off grid and convenience are like oil and water, they dont mix.