CBDCs, Digital IDs, Social Credit Scores
Attorney Marta Belcher joins The Agenda podcast to unpack financial surveillance’s vast infrastructure and warn of the potential ramifications of central bank digital currencies.
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Read MoreThe White House appears to be clearing the runway for a central bank digital currency (CBDC). In March, President Biden signed Executive Order 1406, which required the Secretary of the Treasury, Attorney General, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the Chief Technology Officer to provide a series of reports on the feasibility and desirability of issuing a CBDC. In September, the White House outlined its policy objectives for a CBDC and tasked the Treasury with leading “an interagency working group to consider the potential implications of a U.S. CBDC, leverage cross-government technical expertise, and share information with partners.” The time and effort
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Read MoreBREAKING NEWS QR Codes coming to a remote Canadian island in the heart of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Île de la Madeleine! This is real, not a conspiracy theory Time to stand united, rally behind our fellow Canadians. Let’s strategize how to halt this trend and send a clear message: Canadians will not embrace QR codes or a social credit system. #NoToQR This video explains that visitors to the island won’t require a code to enter; however, tourists must show a QR code for departure. Residents, on the other hand, only need to present their driver’s license with an island address. The exit check is implemented to confirm the absence of any municipal infractions, which officials claim is to support the island’s infrastructure. There are discussions among officials asserting that this process is akin to presenting identification for air or sea travel. However, a woman argues that those are services we opt to use, distinct from leaving our homes. They engage in a back-and-forth; the official labels her statement as an opinion, but she counters it’s a fact. The official dismisses her and essentially shuts her down, treating her as if she were a child.
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Read MoreEven as U.S. health agencies and the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) are being heavily criticized for their botched response to the Covid-19 pandemic, WHO officials are ramping up pressure on all nations to sign a WHO pandemic treaty and amendments to the WHO’s International Health Regulations (IHR), which will give them more authority to track, quarantine, force vaccine use and censor free speech during WHO declared pandemics.
U.S. Plan to Drive the Global “Health Security” Agenda If WHO Treaties Fail
Even though there is Increasing public opposition to the WHO’s plan to expand its legal authority to tell eight billion people what to do whenever WHO officials declare a “public health emergency” – which includes eliminating freedom of speech and electronically monitoring everyone’s vaccination status and requiring people to carry a digital “vaccine passport” in order to travel or enter public spaces – it looks like the U.S. government is going to get the job done whether the WHO manages to get enough countries to sign the WHO/IHR treaties or not.
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Read MoreEveryone see the French Canadian QR code video going around? I asked a French activist to help me translate and talk about it. Here’s my convo with Pierre Barns.
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Read MoreThere’s a new global push for digital currencies, and SWIFT is now planning to roll out a new platform that will connect the emerging central bank digital currencies into a single global network. The system is expected to be launched in one to two years. Already, more than 90 percent of the world’s central banks are exploring digital currencies, and the new network shows plans are in place to coordinate these in all parts of the world.
In this special discussion, we sit down with Donald Kendal, co-director of the Socialism Research Center at The Heartland Institute, to discuss central bank digital currencies and what the recent developments mean for the free world.
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Read MoreWhatever happened to the WEF? One minute they were everywhere in the media and now they have all but disappeared from public discourse. After the pandemic agenda was defeated and the plan to exploit public fear to create a perpetual medical autocracy was exposed, Klaus Schwab and his merry band of globalists slithered back into the woodwork. To be sure, we’ll be seeing them again one day, but for now the WEF has relegated itself away from the spotlight and into the dark recesses of the Davos echo chamber.
Much of their discussions now focus on issues like climate change or DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion), but one vital subject continues to pop up in the white papers of global think tanks and it’s a program that was introduced very publicly during covid. Every person that cares about economic freedom should be wary of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) as perhaps the biggest threat to human liberty since the attempted introduction of vaccine passports.
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Read MoreThe World Economic Forum (WEF) has boasted that 98 percent of all central banks have now agreed to advance the unelected globalist organization’s “cashless society” agenda.
The WEF has revealed that most of the world’s central banks have been preparing to eliminate physical money and are now ready to make the switch to “digital cash.”
The revelation was made in a new white paper from the WEF which declares that nations around the world will soon be forced to adopt a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) in place of traditional money.
In the report, titled “Modernizing Financial Markets With Wholesale Central Bank Digital Currency,” the WEF asserts that a CBCD will replace all other forms of money to serve as a global single digital currency system.
“CeBM is ideal for systemically important transactions despite the emergence of alternative payment instruments,” the WEF report states.
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Read MoreA planned project by the Canada Border Services Agency would see Canadians use facial recognition technology to identify themselves through their smartphones when crossing the border.
“The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is working to make travel smoother while keeping the border safe. We are putting in place tools and technologies to build the border of the future,” a spokesperson from the agency told The Epoch Times.
On April 16, Public Services and Procurement Canada initiated a $25 million competitive solicitation process to find suppliers to create facial recognition technology for the CBSA. The system would allow travellers crossing the border to match a photo from their electronic passports with selfies taken using their phones.
The CBSA said it wants to evaluate smartphone and mobile facial recognition technology for capabilities like image acquisition, quality, and matching, as well as fraud detection.
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Read MoreThe US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is continuing collaboration with Big Tech concerning the use of biometric surveillance technology, but also the development of digital IDs for passengers.
On its site, the TSA revealed that its officials traveled to California recently where they met with representatives of Apple and Google to talk about continuing work on implementing digital ID on people’s phones.
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