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Coming Soon: The European Digital Identity Wallet

Kit Knightly

The elite are already running large-scale pilot schemes for the future they want and we don’t. They are not being subtle about this. They are not hiding it.

The plan is a single government-issued app that holds your medical records, employment records, travel records, education records, vaccination records, tax records, financial records as well as (potentially) copies of your signature, fingerprints, facial scans, voice samples and DNA.

All stored handily on your phone…and shared with the governments of nineteen countries (plus Ukraine) and over 140 other public and private partners. Everyone from Deutsche Bank to the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Progress to Samsung Europe.

You will use this app to make payments, apply for loans, pay your taxes, pick up your prescriptions, cross international borders, start businesses, book doctor’s appointments, apply for jobs and even sign digital contracts online.

Businesses and government agencies would access this data from the back-end to conduct “automated background checks”.

The German Federation of Consumer Organizations (Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband, VZBZ) has raised concerns that such an app would “pose privacy and data risks”, to which the only response is “duh, that’s what it’s for!”.

None of this a hypothetical, by the way. It’s Potential.

Just one of the pilot schemes “building prototypes and testing use-cases” for the European Digital Identity (EUDI) Wallet, there are three others at least.

This is the latest development in a roll-out dating back to the birth of Covid and beyond, with the EUID wallet being touted since 2021.

It was freshly brought to my attention a couple of days ago, when I stumbled on this article – Why Would You Need An “EU Wallet”? – by Anton Chashchin.

Chashchin is apparently chair of the fintech investment group N7, and his article is fairly good example of the kind of thing you can expect to see more widely in bigger mainstream outlets as we get closer to EUID’s full-scale implementation. It talks up the costs of fraud and how digital ID schemes will make everything so much safer and more efficient, but bemoans the “lack of harmonization” across borders and systems.

It’s standard stuff.

Interestingly, he also flags up that national-level digital ID schemes received a massive boost from the Covid “pandemic” [emphasis added]:

in Belgium, the rapid adoption of itsme, the online identification system in 2021–2022, was fueled by a government mandate requiring a COVID-19 pass for restaurant visits. Itsme’s digital identity offered the most convenient way for consumers to obtain the pass, doubling the user base from 3 million to 6 million within a year. This demonstrates that consumer adoption follows when a service is needed and backed by government trust.

He’s right. Covid started the digital ID/vaccine pass ball rolling, and it has lost momentum since then. So maybe what we really need to be on the lookout for is the next big “Reason”. A “catastrophic catalysing event”, to borrow a phrase.

What do you think they have planned to make people suddenly need a digital ID wallet?

I guess we’ll find out.

In other digital ID-related news, Jordan has announced digital ID will be implemented and required to vote in their next election.

Cameroon launched their new national ID system just a couple of days ago, which could potentially go fully digital in the near future.

And Tony Blair has been back on his favourite hobby horse, claiming British people will gladly exchange privacy for efficiency.

It goes on and on and on.

I really hope no US readers are thinking Donald and Elon are going to spare you this mess. The Department of Government Efficiency is going to be all over digital identity.

After all, what could be more “efficient” than a single app used for everything? Hasn’t Elon already said he wants X to be the “everything app”?

The only difference is that the US version might be rather more private than public, but is there any real difference any more?

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unwashed
unwashed
Mar 13, 2025 3:53 PM

I’ve seen the most conscious at gigs discuss ‘digital id’ and then head to the bar and use there card on the smartphone to buy drinks. 👎 

Victor G.
Victor G.
Mar 8, 2025 6:17 PM

This is why I almost never devote my time to OG … They provide masterful deconstruction of Power’s moves … with no useful suggestions for opposition, refusal, organizing versus, insurrection, etc.
How ’bout some B.D.S., for starters?

Sam - Admin
Admin
Sam - Admin
Mar 8, 2025 8:27 PM
Reply to  Victor G.

By all means link to sites which supply all the answers! You’re very welcome 😊

Victor G.
Victor G.
Mar 9, 2025 8:25 AM
Reply to  Sam - Admin

Let’s start with this aggregator site, OK?
https://alethonews.com/
and
https://bdsmovement.net/

Victor G.
Victor G.
Mar 9, 2025 2:14 PM
Reply to  Sam - Admin

Let’s add:
The Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund, Ok?
https://www.pcrf.net/

Sam - Admin
Admin
Sam - Admin
Mar 9, 2025 2:17 PM
Reply to  Victor G.

No need to ‘OK’ so pointedly, ya know. It does seem a bit defensive in the circumstances tbh, I invited you to share sites that offer solutions! :))

Victor G.
Victor G.
Mar 10, 2025 6:52 AM
Reply to  Sam - Admin

Ok …

Sam - Admin
Admin
Sam - Admin
Mar 10, 2025 7:08 AM
Reply to  Victor G.

Why must everyone revert to surly teenagers here? XD

daz
daz
Mar 11, 2025 7:47 AM
Reply to  Sam - Admin

the answers are simple: de-digitise; everyone has to do this on an individual basis. while the window is still open, do everything you can to avoid the internet and online apps etc.
nobody wants to do that though – they made slavery so damn addictive eh?

Robin
Robin
Mar 2, 2025 4:47 PM

Just wake up and view: ShatterTheSwarm.com

Ivor
Ivor
Mar 2, 2025 1:30 PM

The Chinese social credit system is how the globalists trialled it.

And COVID was just about extending it globally – manufacturing global consent.

Soon, we will all be like China.

Freedomforafee
Freedomforafee
Mar 1, 2025 4:52 PM

Next door neighbors already implemented digital ID’s.
The province of Quebec Canada has already implemented a central digital id.
https://saaq.gouv.qc.ca/en/saaq/promotion-services/saaqclic

WallyWoo
WallyWoo
Mar 1, 2025 4:34 PM

Rev. 13, -> Trump is the first, Musk the second one. Social security fraud found by DOGE will be the lever to pull the US sheeps in, except for some Christians, this is the reason why Trump will become the antichrist.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Mar 2, 2025 6:15 AM
Reply to  WallyWoo

You are so pathetic in yr hates to Trump.
Trump is speaking straight out, mature, with reason and logic, and so far in his first 4 weeks he have done more for me and everybody on this planet than Biden did in 4 years.
Go home to yr communist hub.

Armistice - another time
Armistice - another time
Mar 2, 2025 9:30 AM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen.

And you’re just retarded. Like many of the rest of Christians who, like obedient sheep, reacted to the trick with the grande parade manifestation of the leftist agenda just as expected, and as the most obedient sheep, went after Donny, who calmly lead them through the wide gates.

SeverelyRegarded
SeverelyRegarded
Mar 4, 2025 1:58 PM

gibberish

flirt
flirt
Mar 1, 2025 10:44 AM

Coming Soon: The European Digital Identity Wallet

whilst the site excepts 99% of donations in digital currency format only for the last 7 + years +.

You silly sausages.
Digital Identity Wallet as in buspass, creditcards, iphone smart phone, passports, drivers licences which bylaw in the U.K and USA you must carry on you at all the times.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Mar 2, 2025 6:17 AM
Reply to  flirt

“What you say is yourself”, an ancient child meme.

Derek Diamond
Derek Diamond
Feb 28, 2025 4:06 PM

“This week I was part of a roundtable discussion with Ontario’s Minister of Agriculture about how to attract and retain young people in rural communities. Much of the discussion revolved around jobs and services (like internet access or community services such as schools).

But the discussion also revealed some bigger structural problems in the way that government policy treats rural communities.” Aric McBay
‘Rural youth retention requires a new perspective
Aric McBay

July 1, 2016

https://www.aricmcbay.org/2016/07/01/column-rural-youth-retention-requires-a-new-perspective/

“According to OMAFRA, there are roughly 75,000 “farm operators” in Ontario. Since the province has a total population of 14 million, this means farmers now make up less than one percent of the population—in fact, closer to half a percent.

That’s not enough to fill one electoral riding, which makes can make it difficult for farmers to advocate for themselves in government. Right now, agrochemical companies like Monsanto or Cargill have more lobbying power in government than farmers themselves.

Clearly this is a problem if we want a fair and sustainable food system. Especially since the issue of diminishing farmer numbers—worsened by rising land prices and an aging farm population—is likely to get worse before it gets better.

One solution to this problem is that more young people should get involved in farming. And we’re seeing that, especially amongst ecological farmers. But this will take time.

There’s another answer, however, and that’s to build stronger collaboration between farmers and non-farmers who care about food and farm issues.” Aric McBay

‘Farmers and eaters working together can build a better food system
 Aric McBay

January 12, 2017

https://www.aricmcbay.org/2017/01/12/farmers-and-eaters-working-together-can-build-a-better-food-system/

“Last year our Community Shared Agriculture farm celebrated its tenth anniversary.”

‘Our farm’s community is worth being proud of
Aric McBay

May 1, 2017

https://www.aricmcbay.org/2017/05/01/our-farms-community-is-worth-being-proud-of/

Aisle 24 readies for grand opening at The Well
CSNC Staff

11/14/2023

https://ccentral.ca/aisle-24-readies-grand-opening-well

Going cashierless: Aisle 24 CEO, John Douang, on the future of retail
Rebecca Harris, Canadian Grocer

2/23/2023

https://ccentral.ca/going-cashierless-aisle-24-ceo-john-douang-future-retail

Wyoming Windbreakers cover Townes Van Zandt’s Rex’s Blues

https://youtu.be/NMgr4btUOTU?si=pjtYoqvZiTbPJLkZ

Derek Diamond
Derek Diamond
Mar 2, 2025 3:08 AM
Reply to  Derek Diamond

Where Does Your Food Come From?
Max Wilbert

Sep 02, 2023

https://maxwilbert.substack.com/p/where-does-your-food-come-from

‘Life on the line

“Facing down governments and industry, this First Nation makes a promise: There’ll be no development in the Ring of Fire without its consent”

Logan Turner

Sept. 12, 2022

https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/a-divisive-road-to-ring-of-fire-ontario

The History of Food in Canada Is the History of Colonialism
Corey Mintz

March 12, 2019

https://thewalrus.ca/the-history-of-food-in-canada-is-the-history-of-colonialism/
Mar. 12, 2019

BusinessMarch 2020
Why Grocery Shopping Is on Its Way Out
Cory Mintz
eb. 20, 2020
Feb. 20, 2020

https://thewalrus.ca/why-grocery-shopping-is-on-its-way-out/

“The one-cent Whopper Detour campaign only lasted nine days, but it was a big success. The Burger King app was downloaded over 500,000 times in the first five hours alone and over 1.5 million times during the initial nine days. It has been downloaded over 6 million times since.

The return on investment was 37:1, meaning the sales at Burger King were 37 times higher than the cost of giving out one-cent Whoppers, as the 200 per cent increase in sales continued to hold after the one-cent Whopper campaign ended. This meant an additional $15 million-worth of annual sales through the app.

One of the most amusing aspects of the campaign was a print ad Burger King created to promote the Whopper Detour. It showed the famous McDonald’s sign that said “Billions Served” and changed it to say: “Billions Swerved.”

Under the Influence

Burger King found a way to offer Whoppers at McDonald’s
Jun 16, 2022 

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/undertheinfluence/burger-king-found-a-way-to-offer-whoppers-at-mcdonald-s-1.6490695

I compared the signature burgers at McDonald’s and Burger King. The Whopper easily beat the Big Mac.
Erin McDowell 

Jan 8, 2025, 

https://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-big-mac-vs-burger-king-whopper-review-2025-1

Don’t get fooled by fast food ‘farm-washing’
 Aric McBay

April 1, 2016

https://www.aricmcbay.org/2016/04/01/dont-get-fooled-by-fast-food-farm-washing/

Anthony Bourdain: My war on fast food
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/jun/12/anthony-bourdain-war-fast-food

Anthony Bourdain reads from “Don’t Eat Before Reading This”
June 12, 2018

https://www.splendidtable.org/story/2018/06/12/anthony-bourdain-reads-from-dont-eat-before-reading-this

Frankenfish or food of the future? The risks and rewards of Canada’s genetically engineered salmon
Sarah Cox

Dec. 22, 2020

This is the second part of The Narwhal’s three-part series on the future of sustainable salmon.

https://thenarwhal.ca/gmo-salmon-canada/

The Gift of Salmon
By Kathleen Dean MooreJonathan W Moore, and Art Wolfe

Apr 30, 2003 

https://www.discovermagazine.com/environment/the-gift-of-salmon

BLAZE FOLEY – The Moonlight Song

https://youtu.be/yMbz6B50qY0?si=7F3PI61lKGsxXiXd

judith
judith
Feb 28, 2025 12:37 PM

What if you don’t own a smart phone?

They cannot implement this stuff on a flip phone can they?

God, I’m glad I am “of a certain age” because people are so understanding that I do not have a qcode or scanning capability on my phone. That I don’t use APPS and never will.

They can eye roll and smile condescendingly all they want. I love being a little old lady with a change purse.

Owen
Owen
Feb 28, 2025 4:44 PM
Reply to  judith

Brava, right there with you girl!

Armistice - another time
Armistice - another time
Mar 1, 2025 4:25 AM
Reply to  judith

This is the spirit.
I’m younger than people of a certain age, as you put it, but I also don’t have a smartphone. I had once, for about a week or two, because it’s terrible.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Mar 2, 2025 6:25 AM
Reply to  judith

They just outdate the phone. I just received a message if I dont update my phone by downloading IOS18 within 4 weeks, some services will no more function.
The IOS18 include fingertouch ID and more shit. Im still working on how to get around it.

Rhys Jaggar
Rhys Jaggar
Mar 6, 2025 10:02 PM
Reply to  judith

It’s getting more difficult though. Selling a house now expects sellers to use conveyancing apps. More and more WiFi routers at home are non compatible with older technology.

But AI is still useless when it is useless and humans always solve the problem in 5 minutes. If you can actually talk to them.

suzaloop
suzaloop
Feb 27, 2025 8:10 PM

Yet Trump inauguration party was sponsored by the biggest crypt0 currency exchanges and digital wallets and he and his trannie launched digital meme coins via your phone which took 9 billions in sales in 72 hours.
Wasnt Trump davos speech 2025 about Cryptozoic aka digital ID ? yes

hey (Nigel garage) we mean kit mentioned euro wallets as that really does sell and do a the alex jones and overlook what issue is really important I am sure the eurowallet is more important than normalaztion of the phone + credit card + digital coin now normal and cool due to Musk and Trump and his trannie Melanie meme coin..

Armistice - another time
Armistice - another time
Mar 1, 2025 4:31 AM
Reply to  suzaloop

Excellent monitoring and accurate prioritization (exactly the silent, light and soft way is the most insidious, sticky and strong; almost as if they apply inverted Tao methods).

By the way, do you know Fergus? Fergus McFlea?

Irene
Irene
Feb 27, 2025 7:55 PM

Are there any dating sites for the conspiracy-minded? Just asking.

Thom Crewz
Thom Crewz
Feb 28, 2025 12:05 AM
Reply to  Irene

If they existed they’d be full of spooks gathering info.

Rhys Jaggar
Rhys Jaggar
Mar 6, 2025 10:10 PM
Reply to  Thom Crewz

Most unprincipled online con sites have spooks making money by never going on dates but extracting money from the honest innocents. I guess they have to work their way up to the plum human trafficking gigs….

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Mar 2, 2025 3:09 PM
Reply to  Irene

Only here at OffG. Photo pls.

Rhys Jaggar
Rhys Jaggar
Mar 6, 2025 10:08 PM
Reply to  Irene

Shall we subvert OffG into a conspiracy-minded dating ad space?

‘SWM, never believed in Global Warming, Iraq war, called ACLB a ‘f***ing c**T from a NE hole’ etc, seeks suitably cynical 28 year old with ‘Daddy complex’ for extremely non PC relationship. Repliers to seek cognitive behavioural therapy to avoid imminent madness-by-proxy’

ana
ana
Feb 27, 2025 10:53 AM

I hear that this digital wallet will be installed everywhere by the end of 2025 in Serbia since our government signed a bunch of quisling agreements, unbeknownst to the general public.

SeamusPadraig
SeamusPadraig
Feb 27, 2025 5:25 PM
Reply to  ana

Yup. Beware of Vucic. He sometimes talks a good game, but I’m convinced he’s a Globalist in sheep’s clothing.

judith
judith
Feb 28, 2025 12:38 PM
Reply to  SeamusPadraig

Aren’t they all?

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Mar 2, 2025 3:11 PM
Reply to  judith

They probably know something we dont know, and its too sensitive to tell a public.

SeverelyRegarded
SeverelyRegarded
Feb 27, 2025 10:49 AM

Trump binned plans for CBDC in USA. Web3 wallets allow users to really own their own data in a way we do not at the moment. For instance, what does OffG do with the info its users leak here? I expect it is monetized somehow: Web3 will allow the wallet holders to get a share of that money, or to deny it to 3rd parties. We are already under surveillance – Web3 wallets are a way out. Nobody will choose a government wallet, everyone wants a trustless open source solution which blockchain offers.

Slapdash
Slapdash
Feb 27, 2025 12:44 PM

I do not share your faith in crypto.

You appear to be describing the very essence of a Public Private Partnership where corporations replace government (albeit acting on behalf of government which, in turn, is acting on behalf yet more corporations – maybe even the same ones) to monitor and control us, however much you may believe such a system will allow you to ‘own’ your data.

I keep hearing about blockchain and how safe and effective it is at protecting us. My view is that if it’s digital, then it can be hacked or, at the very least monitored.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 27, 2025 4:32 PM
Reply to  Slapdash

There are backdoors in all Smartphones and Laptops required by Western military intelligence for “national security”.
Without no one knows what they use it for, its a “military secret” you know.

Thats why they are so afraid of the Chinese enter the Western market:
Military spying backdoors.
Latest shown by long distance controlled tiny deadly bombs in Hezbollah member’s phones and walkies.

Slapdash
Slapdash
Feb 27, 2025 4:53 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen.

I’m with you.

SeamusPadraig
SeamusPadraig
Feb 27, 2025 5:27 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen.

That’s right. We are all Palestinians now. 😥

mgeo
mgeo
Feb 28, 2025 4:52 AM
Reply to  SeamusPadraig

Isn’t that anti “Semetism”?

Rhys Jaggar
Rhys Jaggar
Mar 6, 2025 10:12 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen.

You have to be a thick f**L to trust Smartphone technology.

SeverelyRegarded
SeverelyRegarded
Feb 27, 2025 6:32 PM
Reply to  Slapdash

>It can be hacked
You don’t understand the purpose of bitcoin. $2T bug hunt yielded no vulnerabilities so far.

Slapdash
Slapdash
Feb 28, 2025 11:05 AM

The key point there being ‘so far’.

I get that you’re a fan and I did write that this is just my view. I’m not an expert at Bitcoin. But I do have eyes and a memory.

The Germans thought the enigma code was unbreakable and everybody was allowed to continue to believe that for decades after the war ended. Just because a back door or a hack hasn’t been announced yet, doesn’t mean there isn’t one. It’s the black sheep fallacy again.

As for the purpose of Bitcoin, you’re correct – I don’t know what it is. But then neither do you. You know what you’ve been told. But they are not necessarily the same thing.

I do find it rather coincidental that right at a time when our owners are attempting to transition us into a digital system, even though they hadn’t told us at the time it came out, along comes Bitcoin [fanfare].

All of a sudden, everybody is fine with the concept of cryptocurrency – it’s decentralised, it’s unhackable, it provides complete annonymity and control, it’s the future etc etc. Looks a lot like de-sensitisation to me.

Like I said – this is just my view. You seem to know a lot more about this than I do – at least you have a better understanding of what everybody has been told about this. I wouldn’t dream of telling you what to do or how to think – we each find our own way, with varying degrees of success.

I’m just wary of anything which purports to be a ‘solution’, particularly nowadays given the direction of travel; and particularly if that solution looks very much like the one thing against which we should all be fighting.

SeverelyRegarded
SeverelyRegarded
Mar 4, 2025 4:34 PM
Reply to  Slapdash

The key point there being ‘so far’.

It’s been 16 years. You really should have a reason for believing the things you believe.

I know what the purpose of bitcoin is from a functional analysis perspective: it replaces fiat and destroys the corrupt banks and governments. Did you bother to read Satoshi’s whitepaper ?

Slapdash
Slapdash
Mar 4, 2025 4:56 PM

Maybe it’s just a slow burn – we know that change is planned for decades in advance. Sometimes longer.

Of course bitcoin looks great in a functional analysis – it wouldn’t be much of a trojan horse if it looked shit.

I’d be really interested to hear what you actually know about Satoshi that appears to have eluded the majority of others. Anybody can write a white paper and put a name on it – particularly if nobody knows for sure who that ‘name’ actually is. I refer you to my previous point – if you’re going to introduce a trojan horse that people will buy into, make it look legit and attractive; not dodgy and rubbish.

Rhys Jaggar
Rhys Jaggar
Mar 6, 2025 10:16 PM

So long as Fiats were backed by physical gold, inflation was limited. It’s just that a few folks decided to decouple them.

The question with Bitcoin will concern whether powerful humans can do that to the cryptocurrency too, removing its scarcity and turning it into digital fiat?

YCMGH
YCMGH
Mar 7, 2025 6:27 PM
Reply to  Rhys Jaggar

scarcity as a basis for currency isn’t a strong point. inflation as a basis for store of value seems solid but the increase of value is just the other side of inflation.

crypto value aside from scarcity, greed, and waste seems to hold v. little value beyond abstraction.

SevereleyRegarded
SevereleyRegarded
Feb 27, 2025 8:10 PM
Reply to  Slapdash

it can be hacked

please bro you gotta believe me, it can be hacked bro, I swear, please

SevereleyRegarded
SevereleyRegarded
Feb 27, 2025 8:47 PM
Reply to  Slapdash

Public Private Partnership… monitor and control us

Is Apple monitoring its users? How is BTC like PPP?

YourPointBeing
YourPointBeing
Feb 28, 2025 6:11 AM

Who owns and runs the network that BTC RELIES on to operate?

Hairy socially inept men in black t-shirts?
Or global corporations?

Are you really this thick?
I’d ask for moar training from your bosses if i was you

YourPointBeing
YourPointBeing
Feb 28, 2025 6:18 AM
Reply to  YourPointBeing

Who owns and runs the GRID that BTC RELIES on to operate?

Who designs and manufactures the ICs that BTC RELIES on to operate?

Perhaps you need to read RFC 1149, and get yourself a few pigeons……..

SeverelyRegarded
SeverelyRegarded
Mar 4, 2025 4:01 PM
Reply to  YourPointBeing

It is the hairy men in basements that kept bitcoin alive all these years, yes, and the global corporations want to shut it down, yes. So who was the shill again?

SeverelyRegarded
SeverelyRegarded
Feb 28, 2025 10:36 AM
Reply to  Slapdash

Replacing governments with corporations is a step in the right direction, as long as the ‘corporations’ offer a better representative democracy.

A network state is a highly aligned online community with a capacity for collective action that crowdfunds territory around the world and eventually gains diplomatic recognition from pre-existing states.

The Network State

Slapdash
Slapdash
Feb 28, 2025 11:48 AM

Any system is open to abuse, particularly if the majority are empathetic, outcome-focused people who all want the best for themselves and everybody else equally.

But that’s not how the world works. In a high trust environment, such as the one I think you’re describing, it only takes one or two sociopaths to take advantage of that high trust environment to their (but nobody else’s) benefit. We have seen this scenario played out countless times throughout human history.

Now, I’m not advocating for no system at all. That would be carnage. Any system that involves a committee is inherently flawed. The best you can hope for is to mitigate those flaws to the greatest degree possible.

The best example of that working that I can come up with off the top of my head would be England in the mid 1800s, before the advent of entrenched political parties – you can read about it. The main problem with that system was that it worked. The problem wasn’t ours – it was that of those who wanted domination. So they usurped it and led us to where we are today.

It seems to me the answer is not corporatism, which is basically what we have now – with a wafer thin veneer of politics to hide it’s shame, but an actual representative democracy without party politics, special interests, quangoes, entrenched bureaucracy and all the shit that goes along with it.

Sadly, I think that opportunity has been lost. We had it once and we broke it. This why we can’t have nice things anymore.

SeverelyRegarded
SeverelyRegarded
Mar 4, 2025 3:09 PM
Reply to  Slapdash

high trust environment

No. The Network State does sound a bit happy-clappy, but crypto is based on bitcoin’s proof of proof-of-work, which is not a friendly protocol at all.

Lowery-Softwar A Novel Theory on Power Projection(1).pdf

SeverelyRegarded
SeverelyRegarded
Mar 4, 2025 4:09 PM
Reply to  Slapdash

I’m describing how to destroy the government but all I get is down-votes here.

Slapdash
Slapdash
Mar 4, 2025 4:59 PM

Not from me.

As far as I’m concerned, we’re merely having a difference of opinion.

Everyubody wants better governance, that actually does what it’s supposed to do – be an instrument of the peoples’ will. Sadly we don’t have that anymore.

Still not convinced that replacing governments (and they do need to be replaced) with corporations would be a smart move.

YourPointBeing
YourPointBeing
Feb 28, 2025 6:08 AM

everyone wants a trustless open source solution which blockchain offers

No one i know does.
Or even knows what that means

Are you a paid shill or just a sad lonely basement dweller?

I’d suggest the former.

I’ll smoke you out, you dirty rat

SeverelyRegarded
SeverelyRegarded
Feb 28, 2025 10:21 AM
Reply to  YourPointBeing

have fun staying poor forever

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Mar 2, 2025 6:38 AM

Poor in regard to flat screen money yes?

SeverelyRegarded
SeverelyRegarded
Mar 4, 2025 3:54 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen.

bad money drives out good

Gresham’s law – Wikipedia

Thom
Thom
Feb 27, 2025 9:29 AM

Meanwhile, in today’s Guardian, the prize for hypocrisy goes to… This in a publication that ruthlessly censors and bans readers who challenge their incredibly narrow world view (or, more to the point, that of their deep state backers).

“Jeff Bezos is muzzling the Washington Post’s opinion section. That’s a death knell”
Margaret Sullivan

ana
ana
Feb 27, 2025 11:00 AM
Reply to  Thom

“The billionaire declared that only opinions that support “personal liberties” and “free markets” will be welcome in the opinion pages of the Post.” This is just another form of totalitarianism.

SeverelyRegarded
SeverelyRegarded
Feb 27, 2025 12:12 PM
Reply to  ana

You vill not tolerate, tolerance

SeverelyRegarded
SeverelyRegarded
Feb 27, 2025 1:04 PM
Reply to  ana

Supporting personal liberty is totalitarian?

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 27, 2025 4:37 PM

This is the way a Liberal sees it. War is peace, water is dry, the heaven is green..

Rhys Jaggar
Rhys Jaggar
Mar 6, 2025 10:21 PM

There are times when free markets are not the best solution. Beeps seeks to deny that and muzzle dissent. He is an oligarch who is driven to create private monopolies – the very opposite of free markets.

The Real Edwige
The Real Edwige
Feb 27, 2025 9:17 AM

“catastrophic catalysing event”.

This is of course a reference to the Project for a New American Century and its call for a new Pearl Harbor which was followed by 9/11 within about a year.

So how’s the “Project” looking? Well, if Trump stands for anything it appears to be the controlled demolition of US global hegemony and a return to hemispheric power status. So they were 75% out. Can we expect mea culpas from the neocons? Of course not – they’ll fail upwards as always. The point was never “a new American century” but a permanent revolution which was why so many neocons were also, in a superficial contradiction, Trotskyites. The C21st brings for the USA not global hegemony but a position in the de facto North American technate. Musk’s talk about closing large number of US overseas’ bases still needs to happen but my guess is that much of it very probably will. The internal dismantling of an empire like this only really has a parallel in the “winds of change”… which maybe suggests the same hand is on the tiller here.

A return to hemispheric power has that one glaring exception however. There’s still that battle in the Valley of Megiddo to engineer, the Armageddon of Revelation that some of these lunatics seem to have as their ultimate endgame followed by the building of the third temple. Maybe the E.U. army will step in (curiously there’s a 2001 film which shows just that eventuality). Kit sounds understandly sceptical about an E.U. army given how often this has been talked about before but the times they are a-changin’….

Nobel Prize Winner
Nobel Prize Winner
Feb 27, 2025 11:01 AM

Any “EU army” will likely be mostly Ukrainians.

Jonathan
Jonathan
Feb 27, 2025 5:14 PM

“Any “EU army” will likely be mostly Ukrainians.”

Ukrainians who will despise us for the destruction of their country. What could go wrong?

Maybe national police will be scrapped too, in favour of EU police. Again, Ukrainian.

But does Ukraine still have any men in their prime to fill these roles?

SeverelyRegarded
SeverelyRegarded
Feb 27, 2025 1:06 PM
Slapdash
Slapdash
Feb 27, 2025 4:57 PM

There are rumours that this song was written by an Intelligence agency and given to the Scorpions as a means of encouraging the Russian public to press for ‘peace’.

Probably just a conspiracy theory though because those things don’t happen in real life 😏

Ronan
Ronan
Feb 27, 2025 8:34 AM

No “honestly” please have this one one me…

The Prosecco prophecies…

It’s catchier than, yeah you know.

I only attacked once attacked..

entitlement
entitlement
Feb 27, 2025 7:43 AM

The only difference is that the US version might be rather more private than public, but is there any real difference any more?

USA version that has been out for 20+ year you mean and if you traveled out of Gchq you might actually find out,
Does anyone who writes this type of stuff actually travel or live in the real world.?
or do they all suffer from cyber psychiatry and believe and regurgitate everything from the same media they tell you not to trust, but trust them.
Eye retina and finger print (20 years) and now covid vaccines is a condition of entry in the land of the free.
I was the only one who had a printed copy of a boarding pass due to not having the latest phone and they tried to bully a email address out of me.

Just like incentives for using card payment and being punished for using cash (U.K tube is 6 pound single jounrey and (2£ digital smart card so a 4 pound saving for using digital) they’ve now made the que for the non comfortmentist harder to the point some of the staff are surprised when they see a print out copy, however as the desks in major airports still have normal people working, they can help.
IT is the airports and hotels now that do scan qr code entry scan and are not manned, that leaves you with extra time to find numbers for the just in case there is a issue and even with iphone smart there is many issues.

Last time I was in Spain (3 years ago) the main train route where automated aka card only.
I have been able to get though quicker my way as the ques for mobile scan takes longer when the machine is a fault and that has happened so many times to the point they just pretend to look and wave people through.

it is all about compliance and herd mentality.

U.K and E.U has a special assistance service and you do not have to be special to use it. They will help with fast tracking when traveling and help.

My experience has shown the digital id is aimed at the new generation and some of this lot (offgers) who have twitter accounts and registered for the X blue tick and cant go anywhere without ipnoney smart phone.

e.U baddie boogie blame game when USA and U.K is one of the worse offenders.

SeverelyRegarded
SeverelyRegarded
Feb 27, 2025 1:14 PM
Reply to  entitlement

You did post here by plugging your typewriter in to a potato, right?

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 27, 2025 5:22 PM

Keep your friends close, but keep thy enemy even closer.
We are just using it as it should be used, as a simple tool to be used where it fits better in.

suzaloop
suzaloop
Feb 27, 2025 8:13 PM

Solar power windup.

mgeo
mgeo
Feb 27, 2025 6:29 AM

What could go wrong? An unstoppable device virus? Failure of electricity? Anarchic destruction of the database? An EMP pulse from a solar CME?

Johnny
Johnny
Feb 27, 2025 6:38 AM
Reply to  mgeo
Charlotte Ruse
Charlotte Ruse
Feb 27, 2025 5:20 AM

WeChat becomes WeChumps. 😁

Big Al
Big Al
Feb 27, 2025 4:47 AM

“And Tony Blair has been back on his favourite hobby horse, claiming British people will gladly exchange privacy for efficiency.”

Now seriously Brits, who the fuck does he think he is?

Reminds me of something else,

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”  Ben Franklin

Good God, the contrast is astounding.

I guess the equivalent from Big Ben in today’s world would be, “Those who give up essential privacy for efficiency, don’t deserve shit.” Ben would probably cut to the chase now too.

I wonder though, what happens when there is no more privacy or liberty, what then? What can they possibly say at that point, which may be nearer than we want to ponder.

I can only think of one thing.

Elongated Muskrat
Elongated Muskrat
Mar 1, 2025 6:28 AM
Reply to  Big Al

TB needs a few efficient kicks in the privates…

YourPointBeing
YourPointBeing
Feb 27, 2025 1:02 AM

OT:
This is a pathetic performance considering how long “LL” has had to prepare.
Pretty sure its just a coincidence “LL” has the same initials as Lucy Letby.
And that L is the twelfth letter of the alphabet, so that “LL” could be rendered as “33”
Nothing to see or hear, here

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cj0qjn5y1g6o

SeverelyRegarded
SeverelyRegarded
Feb 27, 2025 1:18 PM
Reply to  YourPointBeing

meds, schizo

suzaloop
suzaloop
Feb 27, 2025 8:14 PM
Reply to  YourPointBeing

LL
or an x rectangle or LL

YourPointBeing
YourPointBeing
Feb 28, 2025 6:03 AM
Reply to  YourPointBeing

If you think about it, a swastika is for Ls stuck together.
Let the mockery continue

DESTROY THE WHO
DESTROY THE WHO
Feb 26, 2025 11:32 PM

Weather forecast is Potentially Fear and Loathing, more news at 10!

Johnny
Johnny
Feb 26, 2025 11:18 PM

Do the $uiturd$ really give a shit about what the Useless Eaters are doing, where they’re going or even what they’re saying.

I doubt it.

Isn’t tracking and monitoring about selling more stuff, fomenting fear at their convenience, and distracting the slaves (via infotainment) from mass rebellion?

Control freaks have two agendas:
Enriching themselves by maintaining total control.

SeverelyRegarded
SeverelyRegarded
Feb 27, 2025 1:20 PM
Reply to  Johnny

It is more about impoverishing everyone else

Veri Tas
Veri Tas
Feb 26, 2025 10:42 PM

Off topic but still moving in the same direction as outlined in this article:

APPLE REMOVES UK ADP SECURITY TOOL

Why?

wil
wil
Feb 26, 2025 10:20 PM

Wow, scanning down the comment section, I wonder if 80% of the world population has any real open critical thought other than the tribal 2-team pissy narrative…
Trump, if he survives 4 years, will, most likely, be ineffective in any substantial way… The 1000 wealthiest families/ the deep state run this show with a very effective Marketing Machine and all meaningful Media…
The Game is essentially OVER for 70% the human population unless Musk and the tech Billionaires decide to create the “Borg”…. Once the Culture/Society went “Digital”, the acceleration to the end of freedom was on…
As someone who was alive to protest Viet Nam, with what little info we had access to back then, now that people have Gigi bits of information at their fingertips, this feels like the DUMBEST SOCIETY in the galaxy….

Johnny
Johnny
Feb 27, 2025 11:54 AM
Reply to  wil

Rumour has it that the good Folks in the next galaxy still believe in democracy.
Now, that IS dumb.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Mar 2, 2025 6:48 AM
Reply to  wil

Why do you wanna save the 70%?
Havent they got what they asked for??
Havent they admitted that a dream world with closed eyes and a dead body is what they always wanted and prefer???

proxi
proxi
Feb 26, 2025 9:00 PM

Wtf is this a Alex Jones chi com moslem shill..?
How the hell did you shill this when 500 billion that is 500 billion is being spent by
your boy Trump and you shilled this very poor excuse of a article to do a KK deflection.
Seriously this may as well be the guardian as at least there I can get some uptodate news.

Jay
Jay
Feb 26, 2025 9:31 PM
Reply to  proxi

It is odd across all “alt” media how nobody is discussing Stargate

judith
judith
Feb 28, 2025 12:46 PM
Reply to  Jay

Last American Vagabond. Catherine Austin Fitts. Peggy Hall. James Corbett. james Even Pilato. Derek Broze. Whitney Webb.

All discussing Stargate et al.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 27, 2025 5:29 PM
Reply to  proxi

When Obama entered the US public debt was -10 trillion. When he left 8 years later it was -20 trillion. Just as perspective to the 500 billion.

“Think BIG Kissinger” – (Nixon about nukes over Vietnam).

DESTROY THE WHO
DESTROY THE WHO
Feb 26, 2025 6:52 PM

The satanic Borg known as “the WHO” continue poisoning black Africans and trying to drum up fear for another “pandemic”coming from those dirty blacks down there..

The horror! Primitive African children eating dead bats!!! yes,really!!

You can see here that the Borg is not human- it repeats the same racist/eugenics, hateful, fear-mongering shit over and over like a machine…

The latest crisis, which reportedly began in Boloko after three children ate a dead bat and died within 48 hours, comes amid other public health challenges in the Central African country.

Symptoms include fevers, chills, headache, body aches, sweating, neck stiffness, coughing, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal cramps. Nearly half of the deaths are believed to occur within 48 hours of the first signs appearing, according to the WHO.

DESTROY THE WHO!!!

Resistance is useless
Resistance is useless
Feb 26, 2025 6:52 PM

In UK – medical records – digital and improving, employment records-digital ,travel records-digital, education records – digital,vaccination records – digital, tax records – digital, financial records – digital, your signature – digital, fingerprints – digital, facial scans -yep digital, voice samples – digital and DNA – not sure but may as well be.

Not coming soon, already here people!

Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis
Feb 26, 2025 6:41 PM

Our Santa Cruz County government has already implemented a digital wallet system for transactions with local government – not mandatory, of course … yet, but “for your convenience.”

Thom Crewz
Thom Crewz
Feb 26, 2025 9:50 PM
Reply to  Michael Lewis

How bad has the CrimeTrailing been in Santa Cruz?

sandy
sandy
Feb 26, 2025 5:47 PM

Smartphones are the only way to implement this nonsense. Are they going to force people to carry smart phones? Just refuse. I do not have one and will never use one. Why do they want the supposed data totality of each person carried on them? Will they disemploy all humans and deploy robots to herd us like sheep dogs, or maybe drones with cattle prod lasers? With all the data mistakes that already exist everywhere, in every record category with human oversight, would automated oversight not be catastrophically erroneous?

Look at all the bankruptcies and projected bankruptcies that have been happening since the Great Recession, then the LOCKDOWN. This seems an engineered incremental process that should shock people out of their acceptance complacency. It’s pretty easy to just stop complying in a targeted fashion. We’re being baited into their cages everyday. Just say no.

Paul
Paul
Feb 26, 2025 6:45 PM
Reply to  sandy

The awake will mostly say no but the asleep are legion and they will say YES! because it will be sold as advantageous to them. Remember the free donuts with jabs etc.

Pilgrim Shadow
Pilgrim Shadow
Feb 26, 2025 7:44 PM
Reply to  sandy

Eventually, all the information is going to go on a chip, to be injected or otherwise placed into into each of us, without which we will not be able to buy, sell, travel, etc.

Clutching at straws
Clutching at straws
Feb 26, 2025 8:12 PM
Reply to  Pilgrim Shadow

Potentialy.

That’s what the covid experiment was about.

OK, the Western population failed the test but there were enough of us to make them think that they can’t get away with it.

I sincerely believe that there are enough of us to really piss on their chips.

Veri Tas
Veri Tas
Feb 26, 2025 10:32 PM

Well, we are five so far ….

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 27, 2025 6:08 PM
Reply to  Veri Tas

You have always been a too optimistic person

SeamusPadraig
SeamusPadraig
Feb 27, 2025 6:27 PM

I sure hope you’re right … but I’d be lying if I said I were optimistic.

underground poet
underground poet
Feb 27, 2025 12:58 AM
Reply to  Pilgrim Shadow

Sounds more like a great reason to stay home and safe and leave the danger to those unfortunate chippers.

Pilgrim Shadow
Pilgrim Shadow
Feb 27, 2025 1:06 AM

“Sounds more like a great reason to stay home and safe…”

In our 15 minute cities, and our homes, replete with smart technology in all the appliances?

underground poet
underground poet
Mar 4, 2025 1:39 AM
Reply to  Pilgrim Shadow

We bow out of smart appliances, by repairing the old ones.

Armistice - another time
Armistice - another time
Feb 27, 2025 4:07 AM
Reply to  Pilgrim Shadow

Yes, but how could it be forced? (It is quite clear how easy it would be to become voluntary, after 20-30 years in a developed “digital economy”, today’s 20-year-olds will queue. “Smartphone, with all social networc, and games, all documents, all accounts, all devices – all in one! Wow, man, Elon is a Tsar”) And, in fact, do you notice how in the right-wing alt-media (I don’t have to call them that anymore, now they are officially behind the government, “in power”, so – mainstream) the topic of future chipping is almost entirely limited to a violent option, but these are only totalitarian farlefts (so we should not drop the wheel).

Only evil left actors are targeted as potential future chippers by the rightist media, given that if you ask all the people in the world – I definitely want to do it, but I can’t – about Elon, and about the chip, they will tell you, “Elon, yes, the one with the chip”, “Chip? – Elon Musk.” Anyone, from Vancouver to Vladivostok, and from Oslo to Cape Town, who has never heard of Ray Kurzweil, will say Elon. That’s why it’s very funny.

..Oops, I forgot you’re rightist, I’m sorry. No, really, only now did I remember. I apologize. (Don’t tell Elon what I said, I don’t want that in my digital file… In fact, I think he does a great job with..whatever it is. I think the only bad chip is the totalitarian chip of Gates&Bezos, Synchrotron or whatever they call it. I can count on the conversation to stay between us, right?)

Pilgrim Shadow
Pilgrim Shadow
Feb 27, 2025 4:30 AM

I dunno…in recent times it was the “leftists” who were ready to throw everyone who wouldn’t get pricked or wear a mask into camps. Many of them still would if they could.

Armistice - another time
Armistice - another time
Feb 27, 2025 5:15 AM
Reply to  Pilgrim Shadow

That’s for sure. Even the seemingly non-aggressive of them (and they, most leftists* are not) when they gather in a group gain the strength of the collective, their minds are almost assembled like Transformers, they gain courage and can be like a pack of wolves if they see you without a mask, or you don’t stand behind Ukraine, or something about the climate.

And so on.. But that still doesn’t negate the validity of my curious observation about right-wingers, after all

(*by leftists I mean the latest wokeist trends; just to clarify, because I know that here, among the commentators, there are people from older generations, from the authentic left, so to speak, who have nothing to do with the modern ones; so as not to offend anyone)

Armistice - another time
Armistice - another time
Feb 27, 2025 5:29 AM

But it was produced, in the end – I have no doubt. People with natural woke talents were organized through diligent continuous propaganda to get exactly this grotesque-sinister appearance of a mad herd, to exert on you on the right the influence they had, and now to have exactly the attitude you have. Conspiracy theory? It is certainly not difficult to implement (when you have the structure and the possibilities for its implementation). Benefits? The “collective soul” of the target group – the right collective. Stronger, more united and more ready to face the gloomy future, for which this film with the crazy left is organized for him. It could be a conspiracy theory.

Armistice - another time
Armistice - another time
Feb 27, 2025 5:49 AM

Just to add (last): on this basis, many things could be done of their own free will (especially if the threat of trans-left lurks constantly, and they have not disappeared after all, and “so that the dark period of 2020-25 never happens again…”, etc.). And most of all: on this basis, many things can be done that cannot be done by force at all. Chipping is definitely one of them (at least this, the standard neuralink type; for more subtle and insidious methods it is different, but with them there is always a danger of failure, resistance, while with voluntary, with “benefits”, etc. – not.)
At least these are the conclusions I came to

SeamusPadraig
SeamusPadraig
Feb 27, 2025 8:22 PM

They already started chipping Swedes in the hand five years ago — completely voluntarily, I might add. Of course, once it attains critical mass, they could simply make the chipping compulsory, or quasi-compulsory, if you catch my drift.

mgeo
mgeo
Feb 28, 2025 5:06 AM
Reply to  SeamusPadraig

Officially, the jab was not compulsory; that’s democracy. The bigger the crime or heist, you only have to share more of the loot.

Sweden has advised other countries not to reduce cash to the extent it has. But once the old suppliers, equipment, procedures and skills are lost beyond a tipping point, it will be chaos.

Armistice - another time
Armistice - another time
Mar 1, 2025 6:33 AM
Reply to  SeamusPadraig

Yes, it is possible.

SeamusPadraig
SeamusPadraig
Feb 27, 2025 8:18 PM

That’s exactly what they did to the Germans from 1918 to 1933: perpetual economic chaos and leftwing insanity (Russian Bolshevism plus the Sparticist Rebels). It worked like a charm back then. No reason why it shouldn’t work again. Human nature hasn’t changed, after all.

Armistice - another time
Armistice - another time
Mar 1, 2025 6:36 AM
Reply to  SeamusPadraig

Mm, yes, exactly. An old but renovated method, with all available improved and new means. It definitely looks like, as I describe it, at least to me.

Rhys Jaggar
Rhys Jaggar
Mar 6, 2025 10:33 PM
Reply to  SeamusPadraig

If the aim was to instal Hitler and precipitate WWII, yes it did work like a charm. Versailles Treaty of Victor’s Justice is where the evil conspirators left their marks.

les online
les online
Feb 26, 2025 8:58 PM
Reply to  sandy

Why carry a smart fone everywhere when Mr Elon thinks a pellet-size ‘wallet’
can be implanted under your skin ? It will go to bed with you, do continual
bio-metric monitoring, and, will let you know when you should turn yourself
in at the local Termination Centre to be turned into bio-friendly garden
compost (or, if your remains are full of the toxic big pharma drugs, after
composting, they’ll be incinerated)…

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 27, 2025 6:37 PM
Reply to  les online

No Mr.les online. Whatever you are trying to explain or sell we wont and dont buy it. The answer is still and will forever be no.

mgeo
mgeo
Feb 28, 2025 5:09 AM
Reply to  les online

Smart pellets will also dole out the latest wonder medicines, especially to those deemed mentally sub-optimal including the forgetful.

Renn
Renn
Feb 26, 2025 11:50 PM
Reply to  sandy

Getting rid of smartphones is a nice idea, but to me it seems difficult to implement in practice, because of how “obligatory” technologies like smartphones have already become. In the case of smartphones, the idea of “two-factor authentication” is perhaps the most difficult to avoid. For example, many banks already require you to have a smartphone to log in. Similarly, there’s companies that require their employees to use 2FA to be able to access work accounts. And going without bank accounts or employment is possible, sure, but a lot more difficult than just “not having a smartphone”…

sandy
sandy
Feb 27, 2025 6:44 PM
Reply to  Renn

This is key area where we have power to thwart the agenda by not complying. Being an employee will require use. But we are not employees of our banks or any other service that requires two-factor authentication. Like Google’s recent decision to block incoming emails it considers “inauthentic”. I never use Google for anything and always go to a different vendor which almost always are less fascistic. My bank cards, my credit union, any service i use must allow standard non-smartphone/text authentication, and they do. This form of surveillance/”security” is failing miserably. Recently, BofA required i come in to a BofA branch physically to apply for a credit card they solicited me to have. Automated phone support has disappeared. I have been hacked so many times i trust nothing but cash, limited non-RF swipe transactions, and check. It all works and my problems, and there problems are less. You can assert your non-consent and stop doing personal business with them. Work is authoritarian so just use the thing at and for work, only. It’s a pain in the butt but less than the digital overlords’.

mgeo
mgeo
Feb 28, 2025 5:16 AM
Reply to  sandy

One service provider only provided maintenance through a “chat”, i.e., I had to type in every detail instead of speaking to the person handling the chat.

judith
judith
Feb 28, 2025 12:54 PM
Reply to  sandy

I have an iphone 7. Oldest i could get.

I do not have apps and won’t install them. Don’t scan. Don’t bank or pay with phone.

I do not get much flack. I just tell bankers, clerks, front desk staff, et al that I dn’t want their app and will not use code scans.

There always seems to be a way around it. You just have to stand your ground.

And when I get the voice message, on a customer service call “For more convenience and a faster transaction please go to our website….” I just keep yelling “I want to speak to a LIVE PERSON” into the phone until I speak to a live person.

Where there’s a will, there’s a way. For now.

mgeo
mgeo
Feb 28, 2025 5:12 AM
Reply to  Renn

When microsoft was under the great “visionary”, it used to finance those producing malware. Today’s security climate such as 2FA follows from that.

Ronan
Ronan
Feb 27, 2025 8:18 AM
Reply to  sandy

During Lockdown, I forget her first name but her second was Morningstar,on twitter ventured the view that they’ll give smartphones away in cereal packs. It’s a key plank. Yous right. Doubt my friends will let this through either.

sandy
sandy
Feb 27, 2025 6:47 PM
Reply to  Ronan

They give them to homeless people. That’s a telling fact. Just say no! … as they used to say.

Ort
Ort
Feb 27, 2025 8:27 PM
Reply to  Ronan

Her name is Cory Morningstar. FWIW, a quick search shows no recent activity (if you’re interested), but I think she has “X” and Patreon accounts. 🤔

SeverelyRegarded
SeverelyRegarded
Feb 27, 2025 1:25 PM
Reply to  sandy

Your up-voting bot is malfunctioning

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 27, 2025 6:43 PM

It not that important. I hope not someone intend to use upvotes in Court.

Nevertheless I like the malfunction, because it gives me an opportunity to upvote my own comments when I find them to be fantastic intelligent, and when dumb sheeple dont like them..

sandy
sandy
Feb 27, 2025 6:48 PM

Apparently so… 🙂

Slapdash
Slapdash
Feb 26, 2025 4:39 PM

Apropos of nothing in particular, but does anybody know where a person might buy shares in farming and incendiary/illumination implements?

Specifically, pitchforks and torches.

It would definitely be a highly speculative investment, granted – given the propensity of the villagers for bending over and taking it (figuratively speaking) but, well, you never know.

Asking for a friend.

Clutching at straws
Clutching at straws
Feb 26, 2025 5:06 PM
Reply to  Slapdash

I would strongly advise your ‘friend’ to look to a country, indeed a continent, far away.

Europe’s chances of rising up are vanishingly small.

Witness the recent elections in UK and Germany.

Slapdash
Slapdash
Feb 26, 2025 5:12 PM

I agree entirely.

But as my friend pointed out, the problem with a globalist takeover is … well the clue’s in the name.

I’m sure such a place must exist in some inconspicuous part of the world, but those who have already escaped there are keeping very quiet about it in case the rest of us decide to escape there too, which woud eventually ruin the ambience. I imagine.

DESTROY THE WHO
DESTROY THE WHO
Feb 26, 2025 11:41 PM
Reply to  Slapdash

If you have the money it is very much possible. Germans and Israelis are already taking the best spots so you’d better hurry..

Slapdash
Slapdash
Feb 27, 2025 11:59 AM

If that’s true then it’s probably too late to start now – all the sunbeds will have towels on them already!

Armistice - another time
Armistice - another time
Feb 27, 2025 6:06 AM
Reply to  Slapdash

Do you have any professional specialty? Because there are good hopes that in the near future Don&Vlad(P.) may begin to restore the hazar kaganate and you can go there to work. It should be safe for workers, without forced vaccinations and other.. Any experience in rare earth mining?

Slapdash
Slapdash
Feb 27, 2025 12:03 PM

I’m afraid digging up rare earth minerals is not my particular specialisation (if I could be said to have one at all) at this point in time. Not much call for it where I live.

Maybe I’ll invest in a pick axe and a spade. Just in case.

Armistice - another time
Armistice - another time
Mar 1, 2025 6:38 AM
Reply to  Slapdash

.. Torches, pitchforks, pickaxes, shovels.. We will deliver them to your door, I will send you a black van with a red light without registration, where did you say you live? (And are there other people with whom you are considering something? Where do they live???)

Slapdash
Slapdash
Mar 1, 2025 3:41 PM

Sounds like a great service.

Will I have to pay extra – a sort of Prime subscription – to get them next day?

I’ll ask around and get back to you with a delivery address.

Veri Tas
Veri Tas
Feb 26, 2025 10:34 PM

Mexico seems good. They’ve at least just banned GMO corn imports and, some time ago, banned the planting of GMO crops.

mgeo
mgeo
Feb 28, 2025 5:19 AM
Reply to  Veri Tas

Those upstarts don’t want GMO maize (corn). Next, they will be rejecting arsenic-tainted rice.

SeamusPadraig
SeamusPadraig
Feb 26, 2025 6:01 PM
Reply to  Slapdash

Well, there’s a 48-hour waiting period for pitchforks and torches now. They have to check your ID against their new Federal pitchfork/torch database, just to make sure you’re not some kind of radical or something. You can thank the Dems for that one! 😂

Slapdash
Slapdash
Feb 26, 2025 6:13 PM
Reply to  SeamusPadraig

If there is a sudden increase in demand for pitchforks and torches, you can bet Nancy Pelosi will be all over it (probably the week before it happens, weirdly – how does that keep happening?) and add a few more zeroes to her personal portfolio.

Maybe tracking her investments is the best way to capitalise on the farm/illumination market.

I could wait 48 hours for that. That is to say, my friend could wait 48 hours.

Ronan
Ronan
Feb 26, 2025 4:32 PM

If you aren’t minimising your digital footprint then you assist it.

antonym
antonym
Feb 26, 2025 4:14 PM

The EU wants to copy communist China in that? Doesn’t surprise me at all, same mentality.

Scoobis
Scoobis
Feb 26, 2025 4:00 PM

NOT NO…BUT, FUCK NO!

Scoobis
Scoobis
Feb 26, 2025 4:00 PM

NO THANK YOU…I’LL PASS…!

Armistice - another time
Armistice - another time
Feb 27, 2025 5:02 AM
Reply to  Scoobis

Yes, but doesn’t it depend only on who uses these technologies? Is he good and will cut bread with the knife, or bad and to kill? I ask because I saw that you support Donald (which I don’t mind about), so if he does something like that, then wouldn’t it be for Good? I’ve seen a lot of people who think in this wise and rational way, and that’s why I’m asking. I’m not that wise.

Scoobis
Scoobis
Feb 27, 2025 8:25 PM

Thanks for the question. Yes, I do support Trump. I also have my eye on everything he does. Thus, the old adage trust but verify. All the lies and bullshit we have been subject to have given me a very healthy dose of skepticism. It took me 4 or more years to become fully awake, and I have no intention of resuming slumber. That said, yes, in a way it does matter who is applying the technology. We have to keep in mind however the inherent nature of humans, and the fact that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. What might start off as good intention often turns to corrupt shit…in fact I hear the road to hell is paved with this stuff.

Armistice - another time
Armistice - another time
Mar 2, 2025 8:59 AM
Reply to  Scoobis

This comment field here has become so saturated and with such long branches, like a blossoming spring tree, that I lost where this conversation was. I apologize. And you’re right (especially since two choices are actually offered that differ – and the other is “the left”, so you choose what seems to oppose it; clearly).

I do not think that the rule “who uses them how” applies to these technologies, and I do not think that one and the other elite are actually opposed each other. Time will pass, we will find out. But, besides, when I think about it.. For example, the elite or elites, as well as their main servants along the chain, disappear, evaporate, and the people below are left alone to deal with the inherited socio-political realities in the technological order thus developed. What will happen, how will it develop? Will there not again be strong and smart people among us, ordinary people, who will unite and occupy the top, doing something very similar to what the elite/elites are now doing and planning? Looks like.

ImpObs
ImpObs
Feb 26, 2025 2:32 PM

I can’t see another “pandemic” going down well, or even working at all, unless there are real people dropping in the streets by the hundreds and thousands.

It’d have to be on the back of “National Security” concerns IMO, be that an official declaration of war, either under Atricle 5, or after another “catalysing event” on the scale of 9/11.

Can anyone think of an extremely costly (£1.5M per week aparently) crumbling symbol of the “Great British” establishment that would be a convinient target? Since they just voted to empty it for 6yrs this building could fit the bill.

Iran hasn’t been mentioned much recently, and it’s the only target of the PNAC’s regime change list still surviving, so I’d put money on them being the pasty enemy du jour.

But there are so many hot spots, and with the likelyhood of peace breaking out in Ukraine, giving them time to re-arm an gee up an EU army, it gives them plenty of time for a WW2 style reduxed escalation into WW3 ~2027 when the western financial system is due to reach it’s mathmatical implosion certainty. Since that would hit so many birds with one false flag event stone, it remains the most likely scenareo.

Slapdash
Slapdash
Feb 26, 2025 3:00 PM
Reply to  ImpObs

Don’t underestimate the upcoming bird flu pandemic.

Apparently it’s incredibly deadly – partricularly for farm chickens and the ‘back yard’ chickens that people have been forced to register with DEFRA. Not so much for every other type of bird on the planet. I don’t imagine they are going to start culling swans any time soon.

Oh, and cows as well – they can get it. And I assume it makes them fart even more than normal. Bovine bastards.

I wonder if they will be able to develop a safe and effective mrna vaccine for it before we all die horribly.

Scoobis
Scoobis
Feb 26, 2025 4:02 PM
Reply to  Slapdash

Do I detect a hint of sarcasm afoot?

Slapdash
Slapdash
Feb 26, 2025 4:31 PM
Reply to  Scoobis

It’s entirely possible  😏 

Chris Chadwick
Chris Chadwick
Feb 26, 2025 6:26 PM
Reply to  Scoobis

And amouth…

mgeo
mgeo
Feb 27, 2025 5:28 AM
Reply to  Slapdash

One child purportedly died of measles. People can purportedly infect cats with (the latest) bird flu. The pharma shareholders wait with baited breath for news that meat has run out after the culls. Or that more people have been infected; some doctor please oblige.

Jonathan
Jonathan
Feb 26, 2025 4:05 PM
Reply to  ImpObs

I doubt MPs will ever move back into the Houses of Parliament. Not unless they’re rebuilding it as a fortress (up to modern standards.)

We should have stormed Parliament in 2019 when most MPs stuck the middle finger up to democracy. We failed. Then in 2020 they learned to govern remotely. So that ship has sailed.

Given our government’s unhidden contempt towards the British public, they are not going to expose themselves to even the tiniest theoretical risk of repercussions for their treason.

I wouldn’t be surprised if even now they are building TV studios that replicate the Houses of Parliament, just as Biden had his absurd fake Whitehouse set.

SeamusPadraig
SeamusPadraig
Feb 26, 2025 6:04 PM
Reply to  ImpObs

It’ll either be that, or else rationing owing to ‘shortages’ — probably food rationing.

ImpObs
ImpObs
Feb 27, 2025 8:59 AM
Reply to  SeamusPadraig

The food rationing box will get ticked when they lpay the war card.

Jonathan
Jonathan
Feb 27, 2025 5:34 PM
Reply to  SeamusPadraig

I am constantly being emailed by UK Power Networks to register on the Priority Services Register, which “provides extra help and reassurance during power cuts.”

Good to know I’ll get reassurance as I’m freezing to death.

Now they are sending letters too. They promise that “thousands of people in my area have already joined.” (They wouldn’t lie just to nudge me into joining, would they?)

Rolling power cuts are coming. It’s planned, and will become the norm.

If you suffer as a result? Well it’s your own fault for not registering on the PSR!

mgeo
mgeo
Feb 28, 2025 5:22 AM
Reply to  Jonathan

Now that cooking gas is evil, you won’t be able to cook or even heat up water.

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
Feb 26, 2025 2:25 PM

And Kit is right. What could be more efficient than AI register your finger touch every time you do something, write something, express something.

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
Feb 26, 2025 2:10 PM

Thanks for the alert Mr. knightly. Appreciated.

Slapdash
Slapdash
Feb 26, 2025 1:43 PM

As long as governments (and, by extension, those entities that dictate government policy) maintain their monopoly over violence – armed forces, police, judicial system, prisons, ‘social’ services etc – how do we counter this threat?

The go-to response is usually touted as mass non-compliance. Under certain circumstances, this can work. It seems to me though that the ‘elites’ are well aware of those circumstances and have laboured to close off all potential avenues of success of no-compliance with this new system of total digital oppression. Full spectrum dominance, if you will.

So, can we counter this threat at all? Or is the best we can hope for to find a way to live our lives in whatever grey areas might be left, assuming there will be any? Or perhaps take our small victories where we find them whilst being otherwise captured by the system?

Some might say there is an alternative of course, but it would probably be a bad idea to mention it on a public forum – more so nowadays. Don’t want to arouse the interest of whatever AI system is currently tasked with monitoring sites such as Off-G for dangerously subversive ideas.

DESTROY THE WHO
DESTROY THE WHO
Feb 26, 2025 11:46 PM
Reply to  Slapdash

Any kind of insurrection is not going to be on the internet. We are literally wasting time with this sad substitute for human communication.

Big Al
Big Al
Feb 27, 2025 2:39 AM
Reply to  Slapdash

You mean like a fucking REVOLUTION? Hell, hardly anyone has the guts for it.

Slapdash
Slapdash
Feb 27, 2025 11:56 AM
Reply to  Big Al

I suppose that’s what happens when you get the perfect storm of high tech bread and circuses, to keep the great unwashed fed and amused; coupled with sophisticated indoctrination in subservience and obedience to authority, almost from birth.

You could probably add (in the UK at least) our much lauded ‘Blitz Spirit’ whereby we ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ under almost any circumstances – are praised for it, in fact.

Revolutions tend to happen where life is hard. However much people whinge about being poor (because they only have a 42″ LED TV rather than a 55″, or they only have the one car, or can only afford one foreign holiday a year), the standard of living for the vast majority of people here is orders of magnitude above that of the populations of most of the rest of the world.

mgeo
mgeo
Feb 28, 2025 5:24 AM
Reply to  Slapdash

The biggest threat is to the minds of children and adolescents, because of the barrage of unreal commercial propaganda.

Rob
Rob
Feb 26, 2025 1:36 PM

Tony Blair, isn’t that ass irrelevant these days?
Shit they even dug up old Larry Ellison, who looks like the villain of the Stephen King movie about a reservoir being poisoned…
Are the propagandists out of “talent”?

Pilgrim Shadow
Pilgrim Shadow
Feb 26, 2025 1:45 PM
Reply to  Rob

Tony Blair ?He’s distilled Evil, and whenever you catch a whiff of brimstone, you’ll find him somewhere nearby. If Tony’s in favor of it, it’s probably bad for every living thing on the planet.

Thom Crewz
Thom Crewz
Feb 26, 2025 10:07 PM
Reply to  Pilgrim Shadow

Rumor has TB is so evil that all plants die upon him entering any building.
Any meetings with him are planned months in advance so all indoor shrubbery can be kept out of harms way.

Thom Crewz
Thom Crewz
Feb 26, 2025 10:09 PM
Reply to  Thom Crewz

it*

Slapdash
Slapdash
Feb 26, 2025 1:45 PM
Reply to  Rob

In a sane world, Blair would have been consigned to the dustbin of history long ago.

Seems to me that talent is not a pre-requisite for air time. Ideological purity, on the other hand …

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
Feb 26, 2025 2:08 PM
Reply to  Rob

Tony is still skating the world. As far as I can see they open their doors for him everywhere;
Presidents, Palaces, Nationa TV Programmes. Kazakhstan, Sudan, Japan, m.m.
People see him as their hero, saviour, and peacekeeper. And people ask me what do I see in Trump?

Scoobis
Scoobis
Feb 26, 2025 4:04 PM
Reply to  Rob

As long as they keep wheeling out Killary Clinton…well, you get my meaning.

Jonathan
Jonathan
Feb 26, 2025 4:10 PM
Reply to  Rob

A willingness to do wrong opens up all manner of highly rewarding career choices. Tony Blair will never be ‘unemployed.’

Chris Chadwick
Chris Chadwick
Feb 26, 2025 6:51 PM
Reply to  Jonathan

Very well put sir!

Veri Tas
Veri Tas
Feb 26, 2025 10:38 PM
Reply to  Rob

Australia keeps recycling its evil little helpers, too, I’ve noticed over the years.

Clutching at straws
Clutching at straws
Feb 26, 2025 1:33 PM

The worrying thing is, I know perhaps ten or more people who would pre-order such a convenience.

Maybe they already have.

TRT
TRT
Feb 26, 2025 4:00 PM

The majority will definitely go for it. Good luck trying to convince them it’s a bad idea. I hate to say it but Blair is right about most people willing to sacrifice their privacy. Covid showed us what to expect.

Scoobis
Scoobis
Feb 26, 2025 4:04 PM

That would be the bovine herd who hopefully will contract bird flu…

Clutching at straws
Clutching at straws
Feb 26, 2025 5:10 PM
Reply to  Scoobis

Unfortunately it includes my parents and other close family who were bullied into the covid operation by the government, NHS and MSM, who they’ve been brought up to accept as the voice of authority.

Chris Chadwick
Chris Chadwick
Feb 26, 2025 7:27 PM

Exactly. It wasn’t that long ago I would have been one of the first in line for the ‘vaccines’. I was a champion for anything ‘peer-reviewed’ as that’s how I was educated and trained.I still love science – proper science that is. It’s now one of my go-to lines when people call me a conspiracy theorist etc as I know EXACTLY how many of them think and why they think it. I can genuinely empathise. That said, I believe that most people who are vocal about pushing the mainstream narrative are not normal folk but shills, grifters or bots (and those directly involved of course). Most genuine people do listen when you explain things to them, regardless of what they believe their understanding is, and many have genuine concerns which understandably they can’t quite rationalise given their experience of the world. I tried to explain it to my Mum but even her son can’t compete with the voice of the BBC. I think there is hope to correct this but as time goes by and more and more avenues of mass communication are closed it is going to become very difficult. Perhaps the most frightening thing of all (other than the censorship) is the indoctrination of children. This is just how they got me and it took a long time for me to get the blinkers off. I was fortunate that back in the day You Tube still hosted the likes of James Corbett and many other contributers who sadly anyone with questions nowadays about what’s going on will likely never even hear of. Long Live Off-Guardian and our family. ✌️

Jonathan
Jonathan
Feb 26, 2025 4:22 PM

I admit that I once thought an ID chip in the hand would be pretty damned cool.

I still might – if it weren’t One ID To Rule Them All, and if it didn’t also contain a massive database about every aspect of your life.

If a chip was more like a disposable burner phone number and could be swapped out without surgery, then it would have merit. But these days we know that every technological development will be exploited as a way to abuse the public.

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
Feb 26, 2025 5:26 PM

Well, after the Covid scam we can at least save our energy of trying to warn and save even our nearest.comment image

Clutching at straws
Clutching at straws
Feb 26, 2025 6:50 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen

It’s sad, innit ?

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 27, 2025 7:07 PM

It is. I had a biblical moment. My dearest aunt, uncle, cousin, youngster, colleges, religious co-fellows, all jumped on.

Then I read Christ’s declaration :
“Do not suppose I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword”
For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—”.

Christ off course didnt by purpose wanted to divide people, but he knew the truth would divide even close family. Many would and will cling to the lie.
Yes it’s sad, but true.

les online
les online
Feb 26, 2025 9:07 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen

Photos like these are an antidote to having to feel any concern
about the decline of national birth-rates in our highly-intelligent.
top-of-the-food-chain species…

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Mar 2, 2025 3:25 PM
Reply to  les online

Yes.. But we have to go silent and under cover with that conclusion. Someone could easily accuse us for inhuman attitudes yes?

It is a battle fought by a great evil, struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness. But if what is human in human beings has not been destroyed even now, then evil will never conquer.”
― Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate