If you were surprised by the financial crisis, wait until you hear what's coming next Futurologist Richard Watson journeys into tomorrow's world
After a week when it's been impossible to predict which financial giant will still be standing at the end of the day, let alone the year, it would seem like a fool's errand to talk about decades down the line
These days, if you raise your gaze to the horizon, you'll find experts warning of a host of problems: melting ice caps, global pandemics, terrorism, the end of oil, meteor strikes, even robot uprisings
It's all too easy to become paralysed by such possibilities - and yes, there are ideas, discoveries and events over the horizon that we can't possibly comprehend. But while the future is unknown and unwritten, we can begin to trace its outline, and prepare the first drafts
For example, the financial services industry has been in quite a state recently. Despite today's troubles, we can say that we'll always need banking and insurance. But will we get them from the same places? Asda and Tesco already sell insurance alongside carrots and spaghetti, and are certain to expand their offerings
What would happen to the big banks if Wal-Mart, Apple, Microsoft, Google and Vodafone all applied for banking licences to deliver services such as electronic payment, as I believe they will? And will we still need high street branches staffed by human beings once artificial intelligence really kicks in, and you can talk to a machine that's checking the market every second for the best loan or insurance policy?
********************************************************************** REAL ID: CONNECTING THE DOTS TO AN INTERNATIONAL ID **********************************************************************
History offers many examples of societies which have sought to increase security by sacrificing freedom. America itself provides many pertinent instances. However, our founding fathers have not left us without wisdom on this issue. Ben Franklin has famously stated, "People willing to trade freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both." REAL ID undoubtedly exemplifies a scenario in which a difficult tension exists between freedom and security. By commandeering every state's driver's license issuing process, REAL ID threatens the results warned by Franklin - loss of both freedom and security. It has become the biometric enrollment phase of a plan to implement a terribly invasive tracking system, largely without public knowledge or approval. REAL ID is merely the current face of a far larger, international government and private economic effort to collect, store, and distribute the sensitive biometric data of citizens to use for the twin purposes of government tracking and economic control. At issue are much more than standardized or non-duplicative driver's licenses. This effort extends worldwide, threatening every person alive today. Although very legitimate security concerns exist in this age of terrorism, this Act extends far beyond terrorism prevention or protection of the innocent. Keeping that broad picture in mind, let us move to some background behind the face of REAL ID implementation in America
************************************************************** Nokia RFID Phones And Cashless Payments Are Ready **************************************************************
The text below is from Nokia’s European site and it speaks for it’s self: credit cards, loyalty cards, and travel card details stored in your mobile phone allowing for “touch” purchases and file transfers. Convenient RFID tracking conveniently accessed by outside devices
Gustav evacuees issued with wristbands tagged with RFID chips and sent to FEMA trains
One World Government RFID 666 part 1
One World Government RFID 666 part 2
One World Government RFID 666 part 3
Mass chipping of Americans has begun - NATIONAL REAL ID enforced
YOUR PAPERS PLEASE - A NAZI MICROCHIPPED FUTURE
**************************************************** Transportation Worker Identification Credential Is Step Toward Implementing Real ID Act ****************************************************
(NaturalNews) The Department of Homeland Security has recently announced that the Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) compliance and enforcement date for the Coast Guard's Lower Mississippi River Captain of the Port Zone will be Dec. 30, 2008. If you don't know what TWIC is, it's not surprising, since efforts have been made to keep you in the dark unless you need access to port facilities. This is because TWIC is the baby step that if successful will eventually lead to full implementation if the Real ID national indentification card
TWIC is a biometric transportation security credential developed in accordance with the legislative provisions of the Maritime Transportation Security Act and the SAFE Port Act. Any individual with unescorted access to secure areas or facilities and vessels, and
***************************************************** Satellites track Mexico kidnap victims with chips *****************************************************
Rueters By Mica Rosenberg 22 Aug 2008 00:36:26 GMT
QUERETARO, Mexico, Aug 21 2008 (Reuters) - Affluent Mexicans, terrified of soaring kidnapping rates, are spending thousands of dollars to implant tiny transmitters under their skin so satellites can help find them tied up in a safe house or stuffed in the trunk of a car
Kidnapping jumped almost 40 percent between 2004 and 2007 in Mexico, according to official statistics. Mexico ranks with conflict zones like Iraq and Colombia as among the worst countries for abductions
********************************************************** THE FINAL DESTRUCTION OF THE MIDDLE CLASS **********************************************************
Americans are confronted with what appears to be the worse economic situation since the Great Depression. What will history say about the U.S. credit crisis turned global financial crisis? At every turn investors are faced with new problems, new crises, and less than desirable solutions which include debt, deflation and a transfer of wealth
With regard to debt, the American taxpayer has been made the lender of last resort for international bank Bear Stearns and now the two Government-sponsored Enterprises-GSEs, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. On top of the $29B for Bear Stearns, Fannie and Freddie’s debt of $5.4T has been effectively transferred to the balance sheet of the USA. This is equal to the entire publicly traded debt of the U.S. which is also the same as the total of America’s mortgage-related assets. In addition to personal debt, every American now has a financial responsibility for Bear Stearns and Fannie and Freddie
Ubiquitous Computing: Big Brother's All-Seeing Eye (part 1)
Ubiquitous Computing: Big Brother's All-Seeing Eye (part 2)
The U-Life South Korea plans to spend $25 billion on New Songdo, the world's largest "ubiquitous city," with computers linking home life and life on its streets Construction, 40 miles from Seoul, is to be done in 2014
*************************************************************** Korea's High-Tech Utopia, Where Everything Is Observed ***************************************************************
New York Times By PAMELA LICALZI O'CONNELL Published: October 5, 2005
IMAGINE public recycling bins that use radio-frequency identification technology to credit recyclers every time they toss in a bottle; pressure-sensitive floors in the homes of older people that can detect the impact of a fall and immediately contact help; cellphones that store health records and can be used to pay for prescriptions
These are among the services dreamed up by industrial-design students at California State University, Long Beach, for possible use in New Songdo City, a large "ubiquitous city" being built in South Korea
A ubiquitous city is where all major information systems (residential, medical, business, governmental and the like) share data, and computers are built into the houses, streets and office buildings New Songdo, located on a man-made island of nearly 1,500 acres off the Incheon coast about 40 miles from Seoul, is rising from the ground up as a U-city
********************************************** Gold vs Debt - The Death of Paper Money **********************************************
by Douglas V Gnazzo, Honey Money Report Sept 17, 2008
Today we are witnessing why in paper fiat-land debt is a four letter word; and a nasty one at that. The only thing the Federal Reserve has accomplished since its creation in 1913 is the loss of 95% of the dollar’s purchasing power; and they are hard at work destroying what little is left. Incompetence does not even begin to describe their actions
This means that you and I – all of us, except the elite few – are becoming poorer by the day. Our standard of living is decreasing – not increasing. We owe more than we own: a prescription for debt-servitude – not the accumulation of wealth
It has been over 50 years since Adolf Hitler took his life in a small underground bunker near Berlin. And while, for many, the Holocaust that he planned and executed against the Jewish population of Europe is a thing of the past - a dark chapter of our history that serves a reminder of man's inhuman potential - for others, it is a subject of unrelinquished sorrow and tireless investigation. It is in the latter camp that we find Edwin Black, author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated international bestseller IBM and the Holocaust. The book, which documents IBM's direct links to Hilter and his so-called 'Final Solution' by providing the Third Reich with census machines and punch card technology, caused IBM to issue a formal statement claiming that the Nazis controlled the operations of IBM Germany during the war. But Edwin's research shows that Thomas J. Watson, founder and president of IBM during the company's financial relationship with the Nazis, exercised more hands-on control of the operation than they care to admit. In his GuerrillaNews directorial debut, Paul Shore interviews the author and deploys GNN's trademark design aesthetic in what is sure to be one of the most controversial documentaries about U.S. corporate complicity with the Nazi regime. IBM and the Holocaust was cut to the pulsing hypnotica of Mitchell Akiyama
IBM’s Hollerith Machine - To help systematize the persecution and extermination of 'undesireables'
IBM Custom Punch Card for Nazi SS Race Office
Nazi prisoner tattoos coordinating with the IBM punch card
IBM works closely with the American Nazis in the CARLYLE GROUP
RFID Chips and the NEW SWASTIKA - GET YOUR NEW NAZI PRISONER TATTOOS AT NEARBY FEMA CAMPS
************************************************** RFID: "Smart Cards" in a Surveillance Society **************************************************
If incorporating personal details into an RFID (radio-frequency identification) chip implanted into a passport or driver's license may sound like a "smart" alternative to endless lines at the airport and intrusive questioning by securocrats, think again
Since the late 1990s, corporate grifters have touted the "benefits" of the devilish transmitters as a "convenient" and "cheap" way to tag individual commodities, one that would "revolutionize" inventory management and theft prevention. Indeed, everything from paper towels to shoes, pets to underwear have been "tagged" with the chips. "Savings" would be "passed on" to the consumer. Call it the Wal-Martization of everyday life
********************************************************************** REAL ID: CONNECTING THE DOTS TO AN INTERNATIONAL ID **********************************************************************
History offers many examples of societies which have sought to increase security by sacrificing freedom. America itself provides many pertinent instances. However, our founding fathers have not left us without wisdom on this issue. Ben Franklin has famously stated, "People willing to trade freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both." REAL ID undoubtedly exemplifies a scenario in which a difficult tension exists between freedom and security. By commandeering every state's driver's license issuing process, REAL ID threatens the results warned by Franklin - loss of both freedom and security. It has become the biometric enrollment phase of a plan to implement a terribly invasive tracking system, largely without public knowledge or approval. REAL ID is merely the current face of a far larger, international government and private economic effort to collect, store, and distribute the sensitive biometric data of citizens to use for the twin purposes of government tracking and economic control. At issue are much more than standardized or non-duplicative driver's licenses. This effort extends worldwide, threatening every person alive today. Although very legitimate security concerns exist in this age of terrorism, this Act extends far beyond terrorism prevention or protection of the innocent. Keeping that broad picture in mind, let us move to some background behind the face of REAL ID implementation in America
Despite efforts by proponents of implantable identification microchips to popularize them, most Americans are strongly against the use of VeriChip
In 2004, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted clearance for VeriChip, an identification system using implantable Radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology, consisting of a handheld reader, a microchip approximately the size of a grain of rice (containing a unique 16-digit ID number), which is implanted in the right arm, and a database
*************************************** Should grandpa be microchipped? ***************************************
Chicago Tribune April 14, 2008
Chipping Fido is considered an act of love. Chipping Grandpa, however, has been described as "Orwellian," "creepy" and even “satanic
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Regardless, human "tagging" was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2004 to make it easier to retrieve medical records. An estimated 2,000 people worldwide have volunteered to have tiny RFID (radio frequency identification) chips embedded just below the tricep, including 111 dementia patients and their caregivers at Alzheimer's Community Care in West Palm Beach, Fla
Privacy advocates, who protested at the Florida care center, argued that Alzheimer’s patients can’t necessarily give informed consent. Implanting a chip, they say, is a violent, invasive act. Critics also worry about potential long-term effects on health, even though they’ve been used with pets for more than a decade
The RFID Mark of The Beast starts with the children - XMark (A VeriChip Company!!) Dan Gunther attempts to ease the Sheeple into accepting RFID Chips by selling them as protection first for newborns
Adam Savage of the 'MythBusters' TV show on Discovery channel explains what happened when they wanted to do a show on RFID - It will shock you, This is nothing more than a step closer to the Mark of the Beast that the Bible talks about in the book of Revelation - Chapter 13 - HE SAID ALL THE CREDIT CARD COMPANIES WERE PRESENT DURING THE FILMING OF THAT EPISODE!!
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