For the love of God, do not sign up for digital ID

Dr. Michael Yeadon
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Whatever the consequences, however inconvenient, however scary: resist, refuse, do not comply with digital ID

Our children are condemned to the ultimate unbreakable dystopian nightmare unless we all put our foot down on this one. No compromise!

Prison? Essentially-eternal prison in 15 minute concentration camps, for all we love is worse. Compulsory jabs to be allowed to eat, no travel, Net Zero carnage. Every purchase ‘approved’ from the BIS at point of purchase - or not. Inevitable?

Ben Rubin’s summing up of 2024 on UK Column finished with a few quotes from an unimpressive gentleman who told us, in relation to a digital ID, that “The debate has been won. It’s just about how & when we implement it in U.K.”

I tell you this, with absolute conviction. The day you sign up for a new format, global, editable, biometric digital ID, that’s the day that any possibility of a continuing, free life, free from perpetual interference and increasing control over every aspect of your existence, ends.

Furthermore, knowing what we now know, and not requiring anyone to be a conspiraloon, merely open minded to what unpleasant people through history always do, you will recognise that you won’t be gaining a new, shiny digital ID on an app. You will disappear, replaced by an avatar that is solely that digital ID.

As far as the state and any corporation and institution is concerned, any interaction with you will be conducted through that digital ID. Not with you, a natural person. Whatever that digital ID says about you is reality. Even if it’s clearly not.

This isn’t my primary concern, though. I’m not even arguing that there won’t be many ways in which, for most purposes, it’ll be genuinely useful. That’ll be how they sell it.


Trump’s Special Envoy Shed More Light On His Boss’ Ukrainian Peace Plan

Andrew Korybko
Andrew Korybko's Newsletter

Trump will implement a comprehensive economic, diplomatic, and military pressure campaign against Russia if Putin rejects a ceasefire, but it’s unclear whether Trump will coerce Zelensky into territorial concessions first in order to make it easier for Putin to compromise on his prior demands for this.

Trump’s Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg told the New York Post more about how his boss plans to bring Putin to the peace table. According to him, the US might ratchet up its energy-related sanctions on Russia and associated secondary ones on its clients if he refuses. This would occur together with more diplomatic pressure, likely upon China and India to have their leaders convince Putin to reconsider, and “some type of military pressures and levers that you’re going to use underneath those”.

The immediate goal is “to stop the killing — just stop it — and then you go from there”, so in other words, the abovementioned approach would be aimed at getting Russia to agree to a ceasefire. This aligns with what was assessed here in late January about Trump’s plans. The problem though is that Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova confirmed on the same day as Kellogg’s interview that “A temporary ceasefire or, as many say, freezing the conflict, is unacceptable” for Russia.

One day earlier, however, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov suggested that his country’s position on not holding talks with Zelensky due to the Ukrainian leader’s illegitimacy might be reversed for pragmatism’s sake so it’s possible that the aforementioned one about rejecting a ceasefire might be too. That could occur if Trump coerces Zelensky into withdrawing from at least Kursk and Donbass along with declaring that Ukraine won’t join NATO, thus satisfying some of Russia’s goals as recently explained here.

Ukraine would then lift martial law and finally hold its long-delayed elections, which could potentially lead to the US replacing Zelensky like Russia’s foreign spy agency claimed last week is supposedly in the cards. That scenario sequence aligns with Russian and US interests, but it can’t be ruled out that some of the last administration’s Russophobic hawks remain in positions of influence within the US’ “deep state” and end up dissuading Trump from coercing Zelensky into territorial concessions first.


USAID debacle revealed. The business of aid must be Trump’s business

Martin Jay
Strategic Culture Foundation

The USAID move by Trump is a polite signal to Zelensky. Your time is up

What is USAID and what has it become a minor obsession with Donald Trump and Elon Musk? From its title you would be fooled into thinking it was an aid agency and nothing more. In fact, when JFK created it in the 60s it probably was simply that – a tool of the U.S. government to get vital aid to the most troubled corners of the world. But in recent times, USAID has taken on a role more sinister. These days it does the work of an intelligence agency which interferes in the internal politics of countries whose leaders the U.S. wants to topple, organizing underground campaigns and more recently funding NGOs and fake news outfits on a grand scale.

USAID is of course political. Traditionally it seems to have been a tool more of the Democrats than the Republicans who have brought all of their absurd woke values to it so that now it funds sex change operations in poor countries along with LGBT programs. USAID is still an aid agency and it is true to say much of its work is about delivering vital aid to countries in Africa or those who have suffered under the hands of leaders which the U.S. would describe as ‘tyrants’ like Assad in Syria. But it is this duplicitous role of being an aid agency and using its presence and staff as a tool for more nefarious work such as spying or even openly funding hundreds of fake news outfits which is really the problem.


Modi & Trump Will Talk About More Than Just Trade & Military Topics During Their Summit

Andrew Korybko
Andrew Korybko's Newsletter

The convergence of their shared worldviews and the close friendship between their leaders increases the chances that India can convince the US to lend it support on the two other very sensitive issues of Russia and Khalistan.

Indian Prime Minister Modi is expected to travel to the US next week from 12-14 February, during which time their talks on trade and military topics will take precedence over all else. Regarding the first, Trump previously criticized Modi for his country’s use of tariffs in spite of them being close friends, yet India just slashed its peak tariffs and there’s now talk of them starting negotiations on a free trade pact. As for the second, they have a shared interest in militarily containing China, which is Trump’s foreign policy priority.

The second Trump Administration is also considered to be Indophilic so this makes it even more likely that they’ll agree to closer military cooperation, perhaps also a big-ticket arms sale or at least the start of talks on such, and peacefully smoothing over whatever rough edges they have on trade. The US considers India to be as a partial economic-military counterweight to China, with the key word being partial since it might never be able to play this role completely, but what it does fulfill is still important.


International development under the supervision of the CIA. The Rise and Fall of USAID

Pavel Kotov
Украина.ру

Donald Trump and his team launched a powerful attack on the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), effectively paralyzing its work

USAID: the beginning — Shortly after taking office as President of the United States, Trump suspended USAID programs related to aid to other countries. The new administration announced that this organization is awaiting a serious audit in order to find out where the American taxpayers' money, which funds the agency, is going.

The role of the leading violin in the USAID pogrom was assumed by Elon Musk - the position obliges. The billionaire heads the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a kind of oprichnina, which is designed to rid the state of excessive bureaucracy and noble idlers who spend government money on all sorts of stupidity.

The first to be sent to the chopping block was USAID, an odious organization that has entangled the world in a network of its funds, projects and programs, which have spent billions.

The Agency for International Development was established by decree of President John F. Kennedy in 1961. The formal purpose of this government agency is to provide external assistance to the countries of the world aimed at their long-term socio-economic development. More than half of all aid provided by the United States is accumulated through USAID.

USAID operates in a variety of areas, the main of which are grant support to non-governmental organizations (NGOs), "independent" media, healthcare programs, etc.


Can Trump make a peace deal with Putin?

Strategic Culture Foundation Editorial
Strategic Culture Foundation

Proposals are being reported. But any deal must be based on addressing the roots of conflict. President Trump says he wants to end the conflict. But does he understand what the conflict is really about? If a problem is not correctly defined, then a solution is elusive.

U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he wants to open talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to end the war in Ukraine. Trump has spoken about the urgency of bringing the conflict to a peaceful conclusion. Fair enough.

For his part, President Putin has magnanimously reciprocated, saying he is ready to engage in talks with Trump.

So far, so good. At least the American side is no longer encumbered with the stupid intransigent, hostile mentality of the Biden administration, which refused to have any diplomatic contact with Russia.

Russia, for its part, has always been willing to negotiate a genuine way to not just end the conflict but to avoid future conflict. Before the war in Ukraine erupted three years ago in February 2022, Moscow put forward a comprehensive proposal for a security treaty in Europe in December 2021.


Five Takeaways From Trump’s Plans To Build An Iron Dome For America

Andrew Korybko
Andrew Korybko's Newsletter

This is a game-changer in the New Cold War since it’ll take the US’ rivalry with Russia and China to a qualitatively more dangerous level through the consequent hyper-militarization of space.

Trump signed an Executive Order to build an Iron Dome for America, which aims to defend the homeland “against ballistic, hypersonic, advanced cruise missiles, and other next-generation aerial attacks.” It’ll also importantly include space-based monitoring and interception systems. Some of the latter will have “non-kinetic capabilities” too, likely referring to directed-energy weapons (DEWs), but it’s unclear whether they’ll be deployed on the ground and/or in space. Here are five takeaways from this monumental move:

1. Strategic Stability Will Never Look The Same

Bush Jr.’s unilateral withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 2002 prompted Russia to develop hypersonic technology so as to prevent the US from feeling comfortable enough with its missile defense shield that it one day plots a first strike after thinking that it could intercept Russia’s second one. Trump’s Iron Dome plans mean that there’s no going back to the era of mutual restrictions on missile defense, which was already dubious after what Bush Jr. did, thus worsening the Russian-US security dilemma.

2. The US Just Sped Up The Second Space Race

The second Space Race has already been underway since Trump created the Space Force in 2019, but his latest Executive Order sped it up by compelling Russia and China to further prioritize their space-based defense plans, which will inevitably result in the hyper-militarization of space. There’s no way that those two won’t suit through the deployment of their own defensive systems there that could also disguise offensive weapons just like the US might secretly be plotting to do under this pretext.


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