The coming Digital Dictatorship

[midnight rambler]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eViswN602_k&t=6s

[Amanda]

Whitney Webb- Biden Proposal Could Makes US Digital Dictatorship

(fwiw- the "wearable" tech is what Allison McDowell has also been warning about)


https://www.zerohedge.com/political/webb-biden-proposal-could-make-us-digital-dictatorship

Excerpts from article are copied below. It is a long, but worthwhile article. So much info is packed in this piece by Whitney Webb.

A “new” proposal by the Biden administration to create a health-focused federal agency modeled after DARPA is not what it appears to be. Promoted as a way to “end cancer,” this resuscitated “health DARPA” conceals a dangerous agenda.

The Biden administration has asked Congress for $6.5 billion to fund the agency, which would be largely guided by Biden’s recently confirmed top science adviser, Eric Lander. Lander, formerly the head of the Silicon Valley–dominated Broad Institute, has been controversial (https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/02/reports/bidens-nominee-for-new-cabinet-level-science-position-is-epstein-linked-geneticist/) for his ties to eugenicist and child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his relatively recent praise for James Watson, an overtly racist eugenicist. Despite that, Lander is set to be confirmed by the Senate and Congress and is reportedly significantly enthusiastic about the proposed new “health DARPA.”

The Era of Digital Dictatorships Is Nearly HereMaking mandatory wearables the new normal not just for COVID-19 prevention but for monitoring health in general would institutionalize quarantining people who have no symptoms of an illness but only an opaque algorithm’s determination that vital signs indicate “abnormal” activity.

Though this push for wearables is obvious now, signs of this agenda were visible several years ago. In 2018, for instance, insurer John Hancock announced that (https://www.forbes.com/sites/enriquedans/2018/09/21/insurance-wearables-and-the-future-of-healthcare/) it would replace its life insurance offerings with “interactive policies” that involve individuals having their health monitored by commercial health wearables. Prior to that announcement, John Hancock and other insurers such as Aetna, Cigna, and UnitedHealthcare offered various rewards for policyholders (https://www.swissre.com/institute/research/topics-and-risk-dialogues/health-and-longevity/medical-wearables-kelvyn-young.html) who wore a fitness wearable and shared that data with their insurance company.
In another pre-COVID example, the Journal of the American Medical Association published an article (https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/digital/insurers-want-patients-use-wearables-could-be-problem) in August 2019 that claimed that wearables “encourage healthy behaviors and empower individuals to participate in their health.” The authors of the article, who are affiliated with Harvard, further claimed that “incentivizing use of these devices [wearables] by integrating them in insurance policies” may be an “attractive” policy approach. The use of wearables for policyholders has since been heavily promoted by the insurance industry (https://www.pymnts.com/healthcare/2018/insurance-firms-wearables-fitness-trackers-digital-technology/), both prior to and after COVID-19, and some speculate that health insurers could soon mandate their use in certain cases or as a broader policy.
These biometric “fitness” devices—such as Amazon’s Halo—can monitor more than your physical vital signs, however, as they can also monitor your emotional state. ARPA-H/HARPA’s flagship SAFE HOME program reveals that the ability to monitor thoughts and feelings is an already existing goal of those seeking to establish this new agency.
According to World Economic Forum luminary and historian Yuval Noah Harari, the transition to “digital dictatorships” will have a “big watershed” moment (https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2018/8/24/hackable-humans-and-digital-dictators-qa-with-yuval-noah-harari) once governments “start monitoring and surveying what is happening inside your body and inside your brain.” He says that the mass adoption of such technology would make human beings “hackable animals (https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/02/podcasts/dump-davos-1-data-colonialism-hackable-humans-2/),” while those who abstain from having this technology on or in their bodies would become part of a new “useless” class. Harari has also asserted that biometric wearables will someday be used by governments to target individuals who have the “wrong” emotional reactions to government leaders.

[ziero0]

Digital money needs a digital government.

[vacuum]

Great vid about this from today:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaOb_LgQ2jA

[monty]

Gigi Sims

(https://threadreaderapp.com/user/GigiSims10)1/ WEF’s Yuval Harari’s supporters claim his rhetoric is a warning about the dangers of future tech that many warn will usher in totalitarianism but this ignores that Silicon Valley transhumanists, futurists, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, & WEF made him a celebrity historian.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOv1pLEWUAEtYaX.jpg (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOv1pLEWUAEtYaX.jpg)

2/ “Today, [Harari] listened to & praised by the likes of Barack Obama, Mark Zuckerberg, and Bill Gates, who reviewed Harari’s latest book on the cover of the New York Times Book Review.” Ridley Scott is reportedly going to adapt his book Sapiens’ for the screen.” —Slate

3/ In a 2021 interview, Harari invoked a quote from the Communist Manifesto to describe what he believes will be a new religion, a techno religion, that will emerge from Silicon Valley in the future. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOv2Ey6XwAEYGyM.jpg (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOv2Ey6XwAEYGyM.jpg)

4/ “All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.” —Karl Marx. 

http://youtu.be/nfE9pqdbqIk

5/ Andrew Yang also touts the perils of the Fourth Industrial Revolution parroting WEF’s talking points and alarms. Yang & Harari attended and were featured speakers at the Nexis: Israel Deal Makers Summit. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOv2hdsWQAALQtH.jpg (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOv2hdsWQAALQtH.jpg)

6/ Among the attendee at Nexius: Israel, were corporate giants in Tech and various Industries from Viacom, to Alibaba, to GE, to Oracle, and of course Peter Thiel’s friend, Ariana Huffington.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOv3Eq4WYAQANEl.jpg (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOv3Eq4WYAQANEl.jpg)https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOv3EqsWQAAwR1y.jpg (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOv3EqsWQAAwR1y.jpg)

7/ Biden is a also a member of the Yang fan club.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOv3eHcXoAEDG8l.jpg (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOv3eHcXoAEDG8l.jpg)

8/ Yang is a socialist who ran for president in 2020 & founded the Forward Party a political action committee (PAC) that seeks to form a new political party in the US. Yang campaigned on universal basic income touted by Silicon Valley which he termed “freedom dividend.” https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOv3qV4XsAckbwU.jpg (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOv3qV4XsAckbwU.jpg)

9/ Yang’s ‘Forward’ reference shared special meaning in socialist, communist circles. The term was also used by Stalin, Lenin and Mao by Mao Zedong. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOv4CkYXsAk_Psv.jpg (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOv4CkYXsAk_Psv.jpg)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOv4CkYXoAMWohT.jpg (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOv4CkYXoAMWohT.jpg)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOv4CkXX0AEZxf-.jpg (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOv4CkXX0AEZxf-.jpg)

9/ Yang is not the only one. Obama announced his ‘Forward’ campaign slogan. Mao Zedong used it in his 1957 ‘Great Leap Forward’ campaign and Communist Russia’s Vladimir Lenin incorporated it in 'Spring Forward' campaign. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOv4e-jWYAECQjU.jpg (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOv4e-jWYAECQjU.jpg)

10/ In 2016, Hillary Clinton’s campaign used the slogan ‘Forward Together,’ on her tour bus. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOv5GRNXEAIjMzG.jpg (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOv5GRNXEAIjMzG.jpg)

11/ WEF: “…the cross-pollination of ideas between capitalism and Marxism is worthy of serious discourse.”

12/ This one is for you. @PerryBartol (https://twitter.com/PerryBartol) There is always an underlying meaning to what they say.

13/ If you haven’t read it, Josef Pieper’s ‘Abuse of Language Abuse of Power’ is a must read. 50 pgs archive.org/details/abuse-… (https://archive.org/details/abuse-of-language-abuse-of-power-josef-pieper)https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOv7222XMAkHeWK.jpg (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOv7222XMAkHeWK.jpg)

14/ Fini. @threadreaderapp (https://twitter.com/threadreaderapp) compile
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