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Skybird 06-25-23 08:58 AM

UN to link digital identity to bank account
 
The blog "Tichys Einblicke" (Tichy's Insights) tells this wet dream fairy tale, which unfortunately is not a fairy tale, but a terrible dictatorial reality. Especially Europe is extremely eager to become a digital all-surveillance tyranny like China. Many politicians are too stupid to realise this, the rest lie to the people without remorse and without scruples. Serfdom and dictatorship is what all political parties want to enforce on us.

https://www.tichyseinblick.de/kolumn...o-digitalpakt/

A translated link to the text seems to be not possible. Also, I fear, territory barriers.


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UN to link digital identity to bank account

The adoption of the new UN Digital Pact is planned for next year. A briefing shows where the journey could lead: Ecological agriculture is to serve as a fig leaf for the technical optimisation of humanity. A digital identity is to be linked to bank accounts.

It is yet another "consensus document that is supposed to make governments more accountable". That's how Regine Grienberger, the cyber ambassador at the German Foreign Office, explains it. Yes, this title really exists: German ambassador in cyber uncharted territory, so to speak. You might also call her the representative for cyber foreign policy. But what she says means more than her title. The document she is referring to is the Global Digital Compact (GDC), a global digital treaty that the United Nations has been trying to get off the ground for a few years now.

A "Summit for the Future" is planned for 2024, at which UN Secretary-General António Guterres wants the digital treaty to be adopted by the "world leaders". One can imagine the associated decision-making process as a wish-come-true for the digital community. Expressed in fashionable formulaic language: What can you do with "digital"? For example, you could fish plastic parts out of the ocean with satellite images and learning machines, they say. Irrigation systems can also be optimised and prevented from leaking, in other words, they can be made more economical. And drones can monitor crops to see how much water they need. That, too, seems like a sensible technical project. Besides, there are also simple more-is-more messages that would not have needed UN experts: "The availability of internet leads to more jobs."

Even the left-turning to pro-government digital conference re:publica is still wondering whether this is about "global buzzword bingo" - i.e. empty verbiage - or a "real design opportunity for a #SustainableDigitalAge"? Here, the ecologistic sustainability economy is swept out as a moral fig leaf to make the loss of freedom seem acceptable.
The human being as a watering plant irrigated by the state

But the UN Digital Pact is about more than technical measures and technological innovations. It is about politics, i.e. about people living together. In the end, according to the UN plan, human beings will also be technologically "optimised", becoming cyborgs consisting of a physical body and a digital identity. These are measures that "may" affect everyone, to quote a favourite word of the authors of the pact.

A UN briefing on the Digital Pact states (translated from English here): "Digital identities linked to bank or mobile money accounts can (!) improve the delivery of social services and serve to better reach eligible beneficiaries. Digital technologies can (!) help reduce data leakage, errors and costs in the design of social programmes."

So, where the state provides something (social benefits), it also wants to get something, namely control over the fact that these benefits are not exploited, do not trickle away in the social sand like the irrigation water through a hole in the irrigation hose. People and citizens are thus understood as watering plants irrigated by the state. So, in order to better control this process of citizen watering, a "digital identity" linked to the personal money account is to be created. Of course, it is thus in the world and can spread further. If we now add the considerations of a social credit system based on the Chinese model, we quickly arrive at a comprehensive monitoring system that can and should reward and punish.

Incidentally, a first attempt in this direction has already been made in Germany: When it came to paying out Corona aid of a few hundred euros to students as well, applicants could (!) only log into the programme using a digital identity. Observers noted that something was to be introduced here through the back door.

The UN Digital Pact also talks about "new platform-based vaccine technologies and smart vaccine production techniques". What does this have to do with digitalisation? Vaccines, according to all that is known, only work in analogue. Others say that the digital motive is also the dominant one here via the "vaccination passport". The injection of any substance thus only serves to make it measurable, to measure the citizens who have had to register every time they move across national borders and who may soon have to do so again.

Speaking of which, the World Health Organisation (WHO) is reportedly planning to make the EU vaccination certificate the basis for a global certification network. In July 2021, digital certificates for "Covid vaccinations", tests or a person's convalescent status were rolled out across the EU. Now the WHO wants to take over the technical infrastructure of the project. The idea of the Greek Kyriakos Mitsotakis, which Ursula von der Leyen was happy to adopt, could thus ultimately lead to the formation of a global data octopus.

The UN briefing from May also states that there should be open-source vaccines whose data are published digitally. In this way, production is to be accelerated and, if necessary, quickly expanded. This, too, is an ideology that refers to the complete supply of a commodity that people have not necessarily been waiting for.


The creation of the Pact is presented in a particularly modern (and fashionable) way as a so-called "multi-stakeholder process", by which is meant the involvement of non-governmental representatives. Everyone knows that this is above all an instrument that makes the process itself even more opaque than it already is - part of the NGOisation of political decisions.

In the end, even the effective participation of these agents from "civil society" is not guaranteed. Perhaps they only serve as a fig leaf ... Thank God, others will say. For these "non-state" agents are even more unknown than the state actors and by no means always independent of the states. State actors include, for example, the UN ambassadors of Sweden and Rwanda, who are leading the development of this new UN pact.

All this is happening far away in New York or Geneva boardrooms. One can literally watch democratic control slip through the fingers at this point. Meanwhile, the State Department also offers roundtable discussions on the subject in Kenya, India and Mexico. But in the end, the effects of the global treaty are to be expected locally, as Regine Grienberger's sentence quoted at the beginning makes clear. The national governments are to be bound by it and can pull out the Digital Pact themselves at any time where they want to justify themselves and show a guideline for their actions.

mapuc 06-25-23 09:21 AM

Only thing I can say is:

This was scary to read-Where are we heading ? What future lays ahead of our children and their children ?

Could imagine following:

It has come to our knowledge that you haven't taken your mRNA Vaccine. If you don't do so within the next 14 days your account will be closed until the vaccine has been taken.

Markus

Jimbuna 06-25-23 09:23 AM

Don't men to appear cynical but this is mere speculation at the present time.

1984 is long past.

Skybird 06-25-23 10:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mapuc (Post 2873683)
Only thing I can say is:

This was scary to read-Where are we heading ?

Chinese conditions.

em2nought 06-25-23 01:02 PM

I am not a fan of what they want to do to us peasants at all. :timeout:

Skybird 06-25-23 01:43 PM

It is frightening what the future of even the Western states promises to become in the foreseeable future. Digitally controlled and monitored serfdoms, where the individual subject no longer has the means to resist, to escape, to not conform.

And it is, over here in Germany, the SPD and the Greens who since years threaten the electorate with that they, the parties, must pick up and take everybody on their ideologically bandwaggon, for the unnowing subkjects best interest of coruse, and that not one individual should be accepted to be left behind. They explicitly threaten these things since years.

Its like the Borg. All must become part of the collective, must be connected, must express and defend the Borg mind, there shall be no option to not be part of it.

Orwell was so right. Its a nightmare we head into. Times darken. Freedom passes by, and then is gone. The amnopunts of state-run manipulation and subtle violence will be unimaginablel, now that we must not use hot glowing irons or firign squads anymore to bring and keep the party into control. The state terror will come in dusguise and right under those well-sounding labels that express qualities that the state indeed explicitly is about to destroy.

I just wait for psychopharmaceuticals entering the discussion to become state-sponsored legitimate tools of of mass control, mind control, and ensuring conformism.

Skybird 06-25-23 01:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jimbuna (Post 2873684)
Don't men to appear cynical but this is mere speculation at the present time.

1984 is long past.

Only as long as the ministry of truth has not edited the year 1984 out of the calendar and historical annals. Then the year never happened and is no part of the past anymore.



Like for exmaple there are no males and females anymore, dig it - genders have been edited out of the politically correct science which the party approves.

Exocet25fr 06-25-23 01:48 PM

I read about that too :k_confused::timeout:in french media this week......!

Rockstar 06-29-23 03:43 PM

Governments can program CBDC to restrict undesirable purchases, set expiry dates: WEF ‘Summer Davos’ in China

June 28, 2023


https://sociable.co/government-and-p...r-davos-china/

Quote:

Governments can program Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) with expiry dates and to restrict undesirable purchases, according to a discussion at the World Economic Forum (WEF) “Summer Davos” meeting in China.

Today at the WEF’s 14th Annual Meeting of the New Champions, aka “Summer Davos,” in Tianjing, China, Cornell University professor Eswar Prasad said that “we are at the cusp of physical currency essentially disappearing,” and that programmable CBDCs could take us to either a better or much darker place.

“You could have a potentially […] darker world where the government decides that units of central bank money can be used to purchase some things, but not other things that it deems less desirable like say ammunition, or drugs, or pornography, or something of the sort“
Eswar Prasad, WEF Annual Meeting of the New Champions, June 2023


“If you think about the benefits of digital money, there are huge potential gains,” said Prasad, adding, “It’s not just about digital forms of digital currency; you can have programmability — units of central bank currency with expiry dates.

“You could have […] a potentially better — or some people might say a darker world — where the government decides that units of central bank money can be used to purchase some things, but not other things that it deems less desirable like say ammunition, or drugs, or pornography, or something of the sort, and that is very powerful in terms of the use of a CBDC, and I think also extremely dangerous to central banks.”

“Now we are at the cusp of physical currency essentially disappearing”
Eswar Prasad, WEF Annual Meeting of the New Champions, June 2023


The Cornell professor went on to say that “ultimately, if you have different units of central bank money with different characteristics, or if you use central bank money as a conduit for economic policies in a very targeted way, or more broadly for social policies, that could really affect the integrity of central bank money and the integrity and independence of central banks.

“So, there are wonderful notions of things that can be done with digital money, but again I fear the technology could take us to a better place, but equally has the potential to take us to a pretty dark place.”

While Prasad highlighted that programming CBDC for economic or social policies could affect the integrity of central banks, European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde recently explained that programmability would be left to commercial banks.

“For us [central banks], the issuance of a digital currency that would be central bank money would not be programmable […] Those who can associate the use of digital currency with programmability would be the intermediaries — would be the commercial banks”

Christine Lagarde, BIS Innovation Summit, March 2023


Speaking at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Innovation Summit in March, Lagarde told her fellow panelists that a central bank would not be in charge of programming a digital currency.

“For us [central banks], the issuance of a digital currency that would be central bank money would not be programmable — would not be associated with any particular limitation, whether it’s in time, in type of use — that to me would be a voucher. It wouldn’t be a digital currency,” said Lagarde.

“Those who can associate the use of digital currency with programmability would be the intermediaries — would be the commercial banks.

“And that’s their business. They know how to do that, but if we are to say that a dollar is a dollar, whether it is cash or digital; or a euro is a euro, cash or digital — then for us [central bank] it cannot be programmable.

“It can be associated with conditionality, which is different, but not programmable,” she added.

“By programming CBDC, those money can be precisely targeted for what kind of people can own and what kind of use this money can be utilized“
Bo Li, IMF, October 2022


Speaking at a high-level roundtable on CBDC in Washington, DC in October 2022, International Monetary Fund (IMF) deputy managing director and former People’s Bank of China (PBoC) deputy governor Bo Li said of CBDC programmability:

“CBDC can allow government agencies and private sector players to program — to create smart contracts — to allow targeted policy functions. For example, welfare payment; for example, consumption coupons; for example, food stamps.”

“By programming CBDC, those money can be precisely targeted for what kind of people can own and what kind of use this money can be utilized,” he added.

So, while Lagarde says that central banks have no interest in programming CBDCs, central banks around the world are indeed exploring programmability, even if the central banks themselves are not the ones doing the actual programming.

For example, the Reserve Bank of India is exploring a programmable CBDC with expiry dates.

And in Nigeria, “The individual and merchant wallets of the eNaira have different caps on daily transaction limits and the amount of eNaira that can be held in them, depending on their customer due diligence tier,” according to the BIS November 2022 report on CBDCs in Africa.

“Just imagine that you are able to give your kids some money in digital rubles and then restrict their use for purchase of junk food“
Alexey Zabotkin, Cyber Polygon, July 2021


In July 2021, Bank of Russia deputy governor Alexey Zabotkin gave a real world example of what CBDC programmability could look like when he spoke at the annual cybersecurity training exercise Cyber Polygon.

There, Zabotkin explained:

“This [digital ruble] will permit better traceability of payments and money flow, and also explore the possibility of setting conditions on permitted terms of use of a given unit of currency.

“Just imagine that you are able to give your kids some money in digital rubles and then restrict their use for purchase of junk food, for example.

“That would be a useful functionality for a customer, and of course you can come up with hundreds of other similar use cases.”

Programmability is a key feature of CBDC, where governments, banks, and their customers could have total control over when, where, and how your money is spent.
There can be no individual who is outside of the state. Everything in the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state. :yep:

Skybird 06-29-23 04:56 PM

^ The party. Not the state. The party. Parties have taken over the states.

Defenseless, helpless, naked and subjugated, the "citizen" is supposed to be before the party. Defenselessly at the mercy of the party he must be. So that he must must even kiss the hand that casts him down. Remember the ending of "1984": it ends with Winston loving Big Brother.

The dictatorial powers these developments level the field for, are frightening. Nobody should have illusions. These things will be abused for the worst, that is totally certain. As always.

CO2 accounts and meat accounts will become a reality, too. Not tomorrow, not next year. But it will happen. Schwundgeld (Shrinkage money?) becomes all to easy to enforce. Or total blocks of your fundings. Or simply selective denial of payments.

This is the road into darkness. Realised with a Chinese blueprint in hand.

No opposing criticism is possible anymore then. Unwanted critics just can be economically, finanmcially crushed, being unable to buy anything anymore. Or to travel, to use transportation. Not just critics, but dissidents fearing for their lives. People not agreeing with state-wanted religous convictions.

Its all an Orwellian nightmare coming true. And where people do nto just ignroe it or do not take notice of it, they mostly applaude the financial lies given to them as a foul excuse.

ECB, FED, modern money theoreticists, they all are lying, and they all do it intentionally because they know that they use their malicious lies to doom free people, that is their ultimate goal. Of the many political gangsters there are in politics, these are some of the very worst, the cyankali of the world. Politicians' words can and shall never be trusted. NEVER.



https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E36A6UpX0AQWAbQ.png:large

Rockstar 06-29-23 06:52 PM

The party makes better sense when you think about. It’s hard for one ‘state’ to control everyone. But if they can be divided by party where people choose which side to play for then they can be played against each other and end up bickering amongst themselves.

Skybird 06-30-23 05:02 PM

The diversity of parties all too often is an illusion to trick the masses. Its like in the GDR, where they had an "Einheitsfront" (united front) of several parties - who all submissevely always agreed with and obeyed the only one party that counted, the SED. Thats why I never talk of party in plural when refering to such construction. The diversity is just deception.

If somebody would ask me for the differences (in substance) between the SPD, the CDU, the Greens and the FDP, I must admit I would fail to describe profound differences, they are only on the surface, the basic orientations are the same for all of them. They all depend so strongly on each other now (to form coaltiions) that they all must tolerate and copy the ways and goals of the other. By that they delete their individual differences, and define themselves only by what they agree on with all others. They all therefore are four times one and the same thing with only marginal cosmetical differences. Thats why none of them is neither willing nor capable to adress systematic issues even if these turn into major threats to the country's wellbeing. In my opinion the Bundestag holds such a "Einheitsfront" like there was in the DDR-Volkskammer, the main actor is not a single party like the SED, but the Green-woke Zeitgeist to which they all submit.

One of the very few German politicians for whom I had a certain grade of respect: Richard von Weizsäcker, a man of high education and culture. He said, and I quoted that before but it is so damn true in most if not all of the West: "The political parties have made the state their prey." Party before the state. Party before the people. Party before the common good.

Trust none of them, you will get betrayed.


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