Hakeem Anwar of AbovePhone.com returns to the de-program to discuss his latest report: “Life Under Digital ID: A Global Analysis with Solutions.” We talk about what digital ID is, the broader question of digital public infrastructure, the control grid vs. the surveillance grid, and the counter-economy that is the only solution to this impending threat to free humanity.
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SHOW NOTES:
Life Under Digital ID: A Global Analysis with Solutions
Russia Moves to Mandate State Biometric ID for Online Age Verification
Brazil Launches National Digital ID System Powered by Blockchain
The Laws of Identity by Kim Cameron (2004)
Aadhaar Mandatory for ITR Filing: What Taxpayers Need to Know for FY 2024–25
“Aadhaar” reporting on corbettreport.com
We have a biometric card here in East Africa with photo, number, date and district of birth, place and date of issue.
You hardly ever have to show this, other than flying domestically or cashing a cheque, so long as you remember the number for simple services such as collecting a parcel couriered.
It does not contain health or vaccination data.
It is more convenient than carrying a passport and slips easily into one’s online wallet. It does not heed to be renewed unlike a driving licence that only lasts a year or three.
Of course its more convenient. Its more convenient to get drive threw fast food then to cook dinner myself. Its more convenient to vote for a politician than to form a community and find solutions outside the system. Its more convenient to buy food from costco than to grow a garden. Its more convenient to sit on the couch and watch Netflix than to do something productive. Its not usually the most convenient routes in life that lead to better outcomes, at least that’s been my experience.
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@JCh129
Well said.
Absolutely!
Hi there! Thanks for your comment, I think your card is part of the ECOWAS bloc of countries that created a joint interoperable biometric ID card. This program was helped funded and developed by the World Bank and its still in early stages.
In the early stages, Digital ID will be convienient and easy – one because not many businesses and systems will accept it, two because you’d want less obstacles for people to adopt them.
Once enough adoption has taken place and the other components of DPI are implemented, unified payments and data exchange – then we’ll reach the stick phase. During this phase your life will become harder if you step out of line.
How many times do we have to say we are in a take down of humanity before the sleeping dog awakes?
It is and has been incremental, much like the process of training animals.
“Don’t you want a location chip in Woofie so you can find him if he gets lost? Then…
“Don’t you want a location chip in Uncle Joe because of his alzheimers?” Then…
“Don’t you want a chip to help you pay for you food, go across a bridge, go to the movies, check into a medical facility faster…” Then…
“You MUST have a dual “security” check in to this or that. Provide your phone number and enter the number we will text you.”
ALL of this is and will be done with fear, just has it has been since the P.A.T.R.I.O.T Act.
The bottom line is and will be…DON’T PARTICIPATE!! Organize, educate.
Change your presumed NEEDS or they will change it for you as you whimper on line or to others.
“A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.”
– Ezra Pound
Here’s a start:
GET OFF THE PHONE (song)
https://old.bitchute.com/video/2QbsxZOkIYjA/
‘Anonymity’ will soon have to be eliminated permanently from languages around the globe.
Yes we are paranoid about the implications of Digital IDs; a surveillance grid, control grid etc.
But let’s never forget that even without Digital IDs we have been surveilled and controlled. Think of the freezing of bank accounts that took place during the Trucker Convoy in Canada a few years ago. The freezing of crowdfunding accounts with millions of dollars (GoFundMe) etc.
Will Digital IDs end terrorism, false flag attacks?
I don’t think so.
they’ve always had the levers to clamp down on dissent but that machinery required a lot of manual work and research. it wasn’t unified or easy.
DPI is a new programmable paradigm that can punish people proactively and in real-time for anything the DPI system touches.
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Hello James, I finally signed up although I should have years ago. In your story Hakeem mentions that brazil is setting up a blockchain to track its peasants. I see this term tossed around endlessly, blockchain this, blockchain that. Why would any government bother using a blockchain? Governments seek to centralize power, so why would they go through all the expense and the effort to decentralize by using miners? And how are the miners rewarded? Thank for all you do!
blockchains or distributed ledgers are useful as public historical records that can’t be changed – like a public audit trail which makes sense to use in a data exchange context.
B-Cadastros runs on Hyperledge Fabric, which is a permissioned blockchain. This means you need an invite, its not public or open like most cryptocurrencies.
So they have the benefit of keeping people’s information and life events publicly on record and only the ‘consortium’ (authorized orgs) can add onto the blockchain.
Right, so there are no miners?
So it’s not a traditional blockchain, and this confuses people, because people associate the btc “blockchain” with the tyranny that governments are trying to foist onto we the people.
Since governments are criminal organizations why would they ever use an immutable blockchain? Governments are thieves and the last thing they want is an immutable ledger with a permanent historical record of their crimes. Plus, governments are all about changing history on the fly, this isn’t possible with something that’s immutable. What advantage do criminals have in running a blockchain over a data center/spreadsheet or something like that?
I wouldn’t consider myself very technologically advanced in the digital world because being in my 7th decade I am well aware that everything digital is nonessential, if not just a grande distraction from the real world.
Having said that, I switched to using only Linux operating systems over 20 years ago. I am currently typing this using a Pi 5 single board computer that fits into my pocket. I will up load it via a VPN in Bratislava, Slovakia. So I’m not that stupid either.
I don’t use any ‘smart’ devices, only recently buckled to the pressure and now have a flip top mobile ‘dumb’ phone. I don’t use social media. My trackable digital footprint is quite slim I suspect.
So why am I not trembling in fear of the dystopian Digital ID locomotive coming down the track? I’m not too worried because I don’t believe digital technology is now, or ever will be robust enough to be an effective controller of humanity. It will always have glitches, always be too prone to hacking and malfunction. Annoy the wrong person and a data centre burns to the ground, (if it doesn’t combust on its own).
Yes, zillions will be spent on despoiling our environment with massive data centres and the evil but stupid ones will do everything in their power to ensnare us in their digital net. But it will be all in vain. People will continue to live and fall in love and make families, grow food, build houses entertain each other, be alive – unlike the dead digital world trying to simulate life.
The digital technate being put together has no hope of being successful because it is based on a false paradigm of reality.
I could write more but I’ll leave it there.
BTW, James Corbett sir, if you read this, take a look at writer Shannon Rowan, American I think, who has recently published a book called The Red Shoes: Our Devil’s Dance with Technology and How We Can Stop It. I listened to her in a interview the other day and ordered her book. She’s brilliant and could make a great contribution to your Solutions Watch theme. Just saying .
@kumro
>>I don’t believe digital technology is now, or ever will be robust enough to be an effective controller of humanity.>>
It already is :-/
Like me, you are not in the generation brought up on it with helicopter parents using iPads and iPhones with games on them as “baby sitters.” You’ve seen all the pics of a bunch of kids sitting down all with phones in their hands.
Those victims of the controller’s dark agenda to reduce the population and take over humanity are sliding into a very dark place of lost innocence and hope for the future. They are sick with Celebrity and Social Media addiction; Internet anonymity that breeds no civil or respectful accountability; phone addiction; the psychological damage from needing to be liked, etc.
Think about it. The majority for most, not all, of their ideas about life come from movies and TV shows. I’ve been singing and writing about this for decades,
Take a listen:
I MISS THE OLD DAYS 1367 (song)
https://old.bitchute.com/video/o2Z7IlZLjadH/
yes indeed, there are many glitches. in the report you can look at the app store reviews of the India or Denmark Digital ID app. its between 1 and 2 stars and people hate it.
yet because 90%+ of the population use it already, there’s little escape. this is why its important to warn others BEFORE these things get adoption.
Look, if you want to post a lot here and advertise your website, fine, but don’t “reply” to me with nothing about what I have said. OK?
Look, smarty pants, Hakeem did not reply to you.
kumro:
” It will always have glitches, always be too prone to hacking and malfunction. “
Hakeem:
“yes indeed, there are many glitches…”
🙂 🙂 🙂 How long have you waited to talk trash to me???
If you really were civil, but you are not, you would have just said “I think you made a mistake.” But Nooo, this hiding behind anonymous Web ID’s gives people false bravado.
It looked like his post was right under mine, my bad, so why do you give a crap about what I say and to whom?
He didn’t reply so I must have hit the spot anyway hey?
Perhaps the next time before you load your gun and take a shot at somebody (especially the guest of the show)
you will err on the side of caution?
(If you really are civil).
I am also in my 7th decade. I use various flavors of linux under Qubes-OS on certified hardware. I basically do not do social media. But that has not always been true.
When my teenage daughter wanted to get on “that new thing” faceblook, I signed up too (though I never posted much – just lurked and viewed/read a lot)… I stopped going on FB in May 2020 because I could not put up with their BS any longer (I now go on FB maybe once or twice a year just to see how bad it has gotten).
I used to have a cheap smartphone that I used to check email, listen to podcasts, browse the web (and sometimes make or receive a phone call). On a road trip in 2023 that cell phone died, so I bought the cheapest cell phone I could find & transferred my trac-phone # to it. On this phone I have only used it as a phone or as a camera – I have never accessed email, podcasts, nor the internet from it and the wifi is always off.
In fall of 2024 I went on a 6 week road trip around the southwest USA. I had this “phone only” cell phone with me. I used my visa card to buy fuel for my truck. At some campgrounds, in the evening, I used wifi on my laptop to check email.
Shortly after I returned home, I went on FB (just to see how bad it has gotten)… During that one session, FB showed me 8 different places that I had recently visited! One or two could be a co-incidence – 8 times means they had data about where I had traveled. Where did they get this data? Possibilities include: tracking my “essentially dumb” cell phone; tracking my visa card usage; tracking where I was accessing the internet. But a couple of those places that “they” tracked me to were hundreds of miles from where I used my visa card or accessed the internet from – so that indicates tracking of cell phone data… or maybe automatic license plate readers… or they just made a lucky guess! Maybe all of the above!
The point is that even with relatively “dumb” technology, a lot of data about all of us are being collected, collated, shared, (probably sold), and USED without our consent or knowledge, ALREADY! Maybe check out the book: Means of Control by Byron Tau.
My understanding is that NOTHING is truly private anymore. For instance, “The Linux Foundation is listed as a partner organization on the World Economic Forum (WEF) website.” Protonmail is being pressured to install back doors in its products, etc. etc. etc.
How do we know who is Really behind something like GrapheneOS? And a BIG question that goes along with ALL of this is: What happens if and when biometric ID is required to get onto the internet or have a cell phone? We have ABSOLUTELY ZERO pipelines to get onto the internet without THEIR infrastructure, so I am wondering why this isn’t being addressed. I wish I weren’t this cynical, but things aren’t looking great for the home team, especially when so many people have forgotten how to connect and communicate in person.
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Zano seems sketchy.
It feels scammy to me because there’s multiple posts by Zano / Zano enthusiasts trying to assure people that it’s not a scam.
Which is pretty scammy, in my opinion.
It’s working GREAT for me! There are always good and bad posts about everything! I LOVE IT!
I was, kind of, joking. Maybe it’s ok. It can’t be worse than having a Citibank account. (Or can it?)
I’ve got a few different crypto wallets, with coin that yo-yos 5% in both directions, and really only use them to exchange things with people who are too paranoid about using PayPal (which is probably evil, too)
I’m sure Zano has got its virtues.
I’m just skeptical of some of the people you have mentioned above. Wouldn’t trust them as far as I could throw them. Mentioning some of those people is not a selling point, for me.
Observed during the declared pandemic was not just the mass compliance yet there was a parallel infrastructure that spontaneously appeared. A good example was at a local brew-house where the business put up signs to wear a mask and socially distance yet the patrons didn’t participate. There was a specter that compliance was necessary but those who were there didn’t. The business gave the appearance of following along but they did not enforce it. What mattered to them was that the business kept going.
The hidden part that was felt during that time was that being capable and willing to interact is what kept things going. It was said by the owners that people had turned them in by allowing the business to continue operating without forcing compliance and so they had to give the appearence that they were going to be tougher about it. What it boiled down to though is that they needed customers to stay in business and the customers kept coming.
It got ludicrous to a point where they had to set up a make-shift covered serving area outside where everyone was huddled in close proximity to each other. There was a heater in there because, at the time it was during the friged coldness of winter, yet everyone in it kept going on like there was nothing to worry about. It was during that time, knowing the agenda of the scamdemic, that something unexpected came through that people will make survival possible in their community.
Personally it was thought that mandating the jabs was going to be a big backfire because that would alleviate the gullible. I really hate using the term “alleviate” and that phrase “take out the gullible” yet I think it’s appropriate for the context. There’s no reward here for being politically correct and after all it was politics that told people the jab must be taken. My sense of it is that this is a spiritual war.
Those who were fully committed to the idea that authority is outside of themselves were and are the most susceptible to unquestioned obedience. It must be said too that your, speaking to you James production on how Rockefeller medicine, and the allopathic medical system, came to be got me to question the legitimacy of it all.
The point I want to make in my comment is that there will be parallel ways to operate. What was fine tuned during that time and I think fits aptly well in the verging digital gulag is that this isn’t so much what we’re up against yet more of an opportunity to open our eyes on how to operate in the parallel systems.
On a philosophical note.. Freedom can’t be grabbed and held onto. It can’t be taken away. Freedom can only be surrendered so long as it is. I think that the ways to operate without surrendering freedom will prevail. It won’t be as convenient as we’ve known before yet the reward for not surrendering freedom will be far more meaningful than surrendering freedom for convenience.
David Icke was right. Again.
Solutions to almost everything (Funny)
Guitar play with lyrics sung by AI
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jwtSUEc8EVc
Am a Tolkien fan and this slightly altered meme (?) comes to mind from the Lord of the Rings;
Lord of the Strings – One AI to control them all… one Device to find them… one Cloud to bring them all and in their darkness bind them.
Comes down to who really controls our tech? And how vulnerable is it? A Great Tech Reset may be on it’s way….
James,
Jeff Berwick (The Dollar Vigilante) put some of your “The Only Solution…” video on his latest video posting. Gave you some good chat also.
It starts at 25:31
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgqZLZPc23Q
Rejecting digital ID is the next hill I die on.