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As technology continues to advance, so too does the ruling class’s ability to invade our privacy.

Over the last couple decades, it has become much easier for governments and corporations to monitor and track individuals' activities, both online and offline. These advancements in technology have certainly benefitted us in many ways, but they have also raised concerns about the erosion of privacy and the potential for abuse of power. 

It would be old news at this point to rehash the details of the “great reset,” or how world leaders and members of the decidedly globalist World Economic Forum are seeking to bring humanity into a brave new digital world.

This globalist agenda has been discussed extensively, focusing on the integration of technology and data to reshape various aspects of society. From promoting digital currencies to advancing artificial intelligence, their vision aims to “revolutionize” industries, governance, and even individual lives. However, it is crucial to consider the potential implications and challenges that will inevitably arise from such a transformation. 

The self-appointed ruling class has long obsessed over the ways technology could potentially strengthen their grip on Western, and even global society. Deep State politician Zbigniew Brzezinski, in his seminal work Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technotronic Era, delves into the concept of a "technetronic society" where technology and its control play a central role in shaping social and political dynamics. His legacy is carried on today by the likes of Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab and Yuval Noah Hirari; but the concept of technocracy did not originate with Brzezinski, he only built upon something that had already captivated the ruling class for half a century.

Well before all of these modern freaks and weirdos came on the scene, there was a mogul named Randolph Hearst and an academic named Nicholas Murray Butler.

Hearst was the owner of Hearst Communications, which owned 30 major newspapers in the largest cities in America. He’d become increasingly desperate to save his media empire, in the wake of a deep economic depression, and reputational damage from having run sensationalized stories, along with faked interviews and pictures. This style of reporting distorted real events, with readers being unable to recognize fake news, nor care, with the world being detached from reality (any of this sounding familiar?) (#)

In the same year, Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University, was endorsing a new economic system being planned by scientists and engineers. The new system was touted as a cure to all America’s economic woes, replacing capitalism and free markets. The new system was called “Technocracy,” and it would end up piquing Hearst’s interest.

Hearst saw an opportunity to capitalize on the growing interest in Technocracy and decided to publish a series of articles exploring its potential. The articles generated widespread curiosity and sparked intense debates among intellectuals and the general public alike. 

Technocracy is the science of social engineering, the scientific operation of the entire social mechanism to produce and distribute goods and services to the entire population…

“What is Technocracy”, The Technocrat Magazine, 1930

Naturally, what Technocracy would look like has evolved with the times. I don’t think that even Zbigniew Brzezinski could have fathomed where technology was going, let alone Hearst and Butler, but here we are today in a world where the nightmarish potentials of the emerging technocracy seem to grow exponentially with each new technological leap.

In this article, I will catch you up to speed on the latest technocratic news and trends that have gone largely unmentioned in the mainstream. Strap in, folks, things are moving faster than you might have imagined.

Digital IDs for Newborns

Without fail, whenever another freakishly tyrannical western-sponsored program is adopted in Africa, Bill Gates always seems to be involved somehow. His involvement in these programs raises suspicions and fuels speculation about his true intentions and motives; many question whether his philanthropic efforts are genuinely aimed at helping Africa or if there are hidden agendas behind his actions.

If only Gates' track record in Africa wasn’t so thoroughly marked with failures and human rights violations, maybe people wouldn’t be so quick to assume the worst. 

Check out the videos below for a brief summary of Gates’s activities in Africa

Gates’s latest pet project is a government-backed digital ID program that was announced in Kenya after a recent series of “closed-door meetings” with President William Ruto. The digital ID program aims to provide every Kenyan citizen with a unique identification number that can be used for various government services and transactions.

Gates assures us that this initiative will help “improve efficiency, transparency, and accountability in the country's governance system, ultimately benefiting the citizens…” which sounds nice, but there has been little mention of how exactly this will benefit said citizens.

I suppose we are left to use our imaginations, though, unfortunately, it is far easier to imagine how this initiative is just a small part of a broader plan to bring the entire world into a digital control system.

This type of digital control system, which we’ve seen floated around for the better part of the last decade, allows ruling classes to monitor and manipulate various aspects of the slave class's lives, ensuring their obedience and compliance. It provides a means to regulate information flow, restrict access to resources, and enforce societal norms that perpetuate the existing power dynamics. But don’t worry, Bill Gates said the Kenyans will ultimately benefit.

How will the Kenyan population benefit from this initiative?

Well, one aspect of the digital ID scheme includes a  biometric vaccination system for newborns to replace birth certificates, while also helping to track children from birth to 5 years old in order to ensure all children receive their vaccines.

According to the Kenyan Daily Post, Gates’ role in assisting the Kenyan government in its development and rollout of Maisha Namba was announced only recently after the series of “closed-door meetings” with Kenyan ruler William Ruto.

“The billionaire, who is known to champion GMO [genetically modified organism] foods, has met Ruto in a series of meetings since he came to power with most of the engagements shrouded in secrecy… The deal will connect the government to key technical experts and partners who will offer professional advice to guarantee a smooth rollout,”

Biometric Update suggests that the citizens of Kenya are less than thrilled about Maisha Namba’s rollout, as human rights groups are arguing that the tech could lead to “discrimination and the erosion of privacy”:

Maisha Namba is a unique personal identification number assigned to every Kenyan citizen. The number is assigned to the Maisha Card as a digital identity credential. The country has been preparing for the US$6.8 million launch of the biometric digital ID system for the past several months. At the beginning of October, however, Kenyan authorities postponed its launch due to “unfavorable circumstances.”

The project has been met with skepticism in some parts of the country. Residents of the eastern Kenyan city of Garissa say that they are not ready for the Maisha Namba rollout due to poor infrastructure and network availability.

…Rights groups have also been expressing concern over the possibility of discrimination and the erosion of privacy. The organizations argue that the government is repeating the mistakes of Kenya’s previous ID system Huduma Namba, which was declared unconstitutional by the country’s High Court in October 2021 for conflicting with its Data Protection Act.

The article goes on to say,

The government has also promised that 3rd-generation ID card will not be mandatory and will not require individuals to register anew. It will instead rely on the current civil registration system.

This language is common when something that will have a dramatic effect on society is being implemented—promises that not everyone is required to opt in … until suddenly, it has become increasingly difficult to operate in the system without the new tech. It’s an ever-steady encroachment and today’s assurances will not be tomorrows.

Did you get a say when your landlord installed that Wi-Fi radiating smart meter on your house, or when that 5g Gwen tower was erected in your neighborhood?

The times roll on regardless of whether or not they have your consent.

You’ll see as we continue through our list of newsworthy advances in Technocracy that the concept of a digital ID is really the lynchpin that makes it all work. Once they’ve achieved the critical step of coercing everyone onto this digital control system, each new advancement will come regardless of public sentiment until humanity has become desensitized to their encroachment; imagine the ceaseless barrage of Apple updates many of us iPhone users enjoy, only instead of lording over your smartphone, they are lording over society itself and your ability to interact with it.

Smart Clothing

It’s hard to keep track of all the ways Americans are being spied on by private businesses and government entities in today's digital age. From the collection of personal data through social media platforms and online shopping, to the rapidly improving facial-recognition software used by intelligence agencies, the extent of surveillance is vast. 

This vastness is now seeking to include the house you live in and even the clothes on your back.

Much like all of the other technocratic junk currently being marketed to humanity, these “smart clothes” are painted as healthy and helpful, with the ability to monitor sleep patterns, heartbeat, nutrition and physical activity. This is the bait that will inevitably lure in the first round of subjects to start normalizing the use of smart clothing.

Remember, we live in an age where most people carry on completely unaware of the long-term dangers of electromagnetic radiation; folks carry their phones in their pockets all day long, intimately close to important parts of their anatomy, and there are those who where Bluetooth earbuds for a significant portion of the day—why wouldn’t we just go the extra step and drape ourselves in electro-smog emitting apparel? (#)(#)(#)(#)

Beyond the potential health detriments, there is another reason people should be wary of Smart Clothes, and it involves certain three-letter agencies.

Many of our readers are familiar with Yuval Noah Hirari, the creepy little tech goblin who is an advisor to World Economic Forum (WEF) founder Klaus Schwab. He, among others, have made popular the idea of taking “surveillance under the skin.”

Make no mistake, “surveillance under the skin” isn’t just a wandering idea: there has been extensive talk at several WEF gatherings in Davos about how to implement tech that harvests our biometric data, and smart clothing is merely a stepping stone, a bridge between the Smart Phone and the eventual push for some kind of digital ID chip quite literally under the skin.

According to the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association, “SMART ePANTS could revolutionize the Internet of Things by collecting data to help intelligence, medical and sports communities.”

That’s right folks—the Intelligence Community (IC) has already begun it’s effort to turn your clothing into yet another avenue for the IC to spy on civilians. You can check out the press release HERE.

Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D. recently wrote in Children’s Health Defense publication The Defender:

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) on Aug. 22 announced that the IC’s advanced research and development arm, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), would develop its computerized clothing program — Smart Electrically Powered and Networked Textile Systems, or SMART ePANTS — over the next three-and-a-half years.

IARPA, in partnership with the Naval Information Warfare Center, Pacific, awarded research contracts to develop and manufacture the computerized clothing totaling over $22 million to Nautilus Defense and Leidos, Inc., according to an Aug. 9 Pentagon announcement.

SRI International, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Areté received undisclosed amounts to develop the technology, according to an article in The Intercept.

Investment giants Vanguard and Black Rock — which benefited from the sale of COVID-19 vaccines and have ownership stakes in technology companies developing vaccine passports and digital wallets — are listed among Nautilus Defense’s and Leidos’ top investors.

An article published in January in PubMed hyped the potential of electronic textiles as a “New age of wearable technology for healthcare and fitness solutions,” touting their uses in products as varied as diapers, masks and bedding, and for such applications as “monitoring health conditions, treating chronic diseases, rehabilitation, and improving health and social lifestyles.”

Smart diapers? Are we really doing this?

Smart Homes

The concept of the Smart House has been around a lot longer than Smart Clothing, but still merits attention, especially in light of recent warnings from international researchers.

IMDEA Networks and Northeastern University scientists were able to demonstrate a variety of security and privacy threats due to the local network interactions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and mobile apps.

As per STudyFinds:

“When we think of what happens between the walls of our homes, we think of it as a trusted, private place. In reality, we find that smart devices in our homes are piercing that veil of trust and privacy — in ways that allow nearly any company to learn what devices are in your home, to know when you are home, and learn where your home is,” says David Choffnes, associate professor of computer science and executive director of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at Northeastern University, in a media release.

“These behaviors are generally not disclosed to consumers, and there is a need for better protections in the home.”

"In the Room Where It Happens: Characterizing Local Communication and Threats in Smart Homes," the research team's comprehensive study, was presented last month at the ACM Internet Measurement Conference in Montreal.

Researchers were able to uncover a number of previously-unreported security and privacy issues with practical ramifications by delving into the nuances of local network interactions among 93 different IoT devices and mobile apps for the study.

In contrast to the widespread belief that local networks are secure spaces, the research identifies additional risks associated with IoT devices unintentionally exposing sensitive data within local networks by using common protocols like UPnP or mDNS. These risks include the disclosure of UUIDs (Universally Unique Identifiers), unique device names, and even household locations. Without the users' knowledge, corporations engaged in surveillance capitalism can obviously make use of these.

The study emphasizes how local network protocols can act as backdoors to obtain information, like home locations, that is ostensibly protected by permissions granted by mobile apps.

“Analyzing the data collected by IoT Inspector, we found evidence of IoT devices inadvertently exposing at least one PII (Personally Identifiable Information), like unique hardware address (MAC), UUID, or unique device names, in thousands of real world smart homes,” explains study co-author Vijay Prakash, PhD student from the New York University Tandon School of Engineering.

“Any single PII is useful for identifying a household, but combining all three of them together makes a house very unique and easily identifiable. For comparison, if a person is fingerprinted using the simplest browser fingerprinting technique, they are as unique as one in 1,500 people. If a smart home with all three types of identifiers is fingerprinted, it is as unique as one in 1.12 million smart homes.”

This research has ramifications that go beyond the confines of academia. It highlights the necessity for manufacturers, software developers, operators of IoT and mobile platforms, and regulators to take decisive action in order to improve the security and privacy of smart home devices and homes. Vulnerable IoT device vendors and Google's Android Security Team have already been notified of these vulnerabilities by researchers in a responsible manner, leading to security updates for some of these items.

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Like it or not, forced technocracy is the trajectory, and you will not be properly able to prepare your families and communities for its advent by ignoring this immutable fact. Sure, you can move out to the country and unplug—hell, I intend to do so myself—but you must remain alert, aware, and involved.

We are in the midst of world wide 5th-generational warfare folks, and no wars are won by turning a blind eye to your enemies technological advancements.

I believe that Technocracy itself is doomed to fail, but whether or not it will take the whole world down with it remains to be seen.

Sources:

• Kenya’s digital ID boosted by Gates Foundation but govt struggles to convince citizens https://www.biometricupdate.com/202310/kenyas-digital-id-boosted-by-gates-foundation-but-govt-struggles-to-convince-citizens

• Bill Gates Pushed For Digital IDs In Kenya For NEWBORNS: https://www.activistpost.com/2023/10/bill-gates-pushed-for-digital-ids-in-kenya-for-newborns.html

• biometric vaccination system for newborns https://www.biometricupdate.com/202306/pilot-phase-of-biometric-vaccination-system-for-kenyan-newborns-goes-live

• SMART ePANTS May Be the Perfect Fit https://www.afcea.org/signal-media/smart-epants-may-be-perfect-fit

• IARPA LEADS FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND EFFORT TO FASHION SMART CLOTHING https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/press-releases-2023/3717-iarpa-leads-first-of-its-kind-effort-to-fashion-smart-clothing

• New research reveals alarming privacy and security threats in Smart Homes https://networks.imdea.org/new-research-reveals-alarming-privacy-and-security-threats-in-smart-homes/

• ‘Smart home’ warning: Major study exposes alarming security threats https://studyfinds.org/smart-homes-security-threats/

• In the Room Where It Happens: Characterizing Local Communication and Threats in Smart Homes https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3618257.3624830

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