The future that’s been planned for us all need not come about. The grand plan has a number of flaws which will likely lead to its demise.
Critically it requires the full participation of society. You can’t have half the populace on the Everything List and half living free unencumbered lives. If only 10% resist a digital ID, the game is over.
Make no mistake, at this late stage the degree of coercion will be overwhelming. Every trick that was used to intimidate young adults and children into accepting an untested vaccine to protect against an infection with a fatality rate of < 0.05% will be used again. Threats against your job, your business, your family, your health - expect the whole range of intimidations with a few new ones thrown in. Eventually they will threaten to remove you from the economy altogether - or put another way, you will be unable to buy stuff. Fortunately, they will be pitted against human ingenuity, deviousness and simple “bloody-mindedness”. It’s a powerful combination which will inevitably create a barter system, black markets and alternative local economies.
The amount of effort required to coerce an entire population means mistakes will be made, and in their desperation the mask will slip and the true game will be revealed. The question will then be: will people reject it and seek alternatives, or acquiesce and shuffle quietly into the digital prison?
The Everything List requires a colossal amount of technology to make it work. It’s strange to think how the early technocrats could have ever thought that this idea was even possible using the technology of the 1930s. You have to give them some credit for optimism and imagination.
A functioning technocracy, such as that being trailed in some Chinese cities, requires blanket surveillance, a high performance data network linked to 5G wireless, massive computing facilities and a population willing to place themselves on the Everything List. Outside of China the programme is promoted through the United Nations Smart Cities initiative which aims to “use technology to improve the quality of life in cities worldwide”. Phase one of this initiative installs fibre optic cable, and 5G wireless, safety cameras on every street corner, limits vehicle access and divides the city into sustainable 15 min neighbourhoods. Building the play park, renovating the community health centre and cleaning up the canal is in phase two or maybe phase three.
The entire plan, including Smart Cities, is encapsulated within the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of 17 global goals adopted by all UN member states as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. There are many issues with the SDGs but the main problem for the United Nations is that they are way behind schedule. When the SDGs were first proposed in 2015, fifteen years seemed a workable timeframe but with less than five years remaining, progress has slowed to a crawl.
Even within showcase cities like London where the data infrastructure is largely complete, the surveillance camera and traffic zoning strategy (ULEZ) is running into issues. In cities such as Oxford where the strategy has been tested, the initiative has been met with outright rejection. Other cities such as Birmingham, Manchester, and Edinburgh have been subjected to the slightly less draconian Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs). In the UK a total more than 200 schemes have been either proposed or trialled and the majority have been met with universal distrust and protest.
While significant progress has been made in other areas such as data centre expansion to provide the raw computing power, 5G wireless and fibre for connectivity, the AI component to efficiently process the data and advances in surveillance, crypto and tokenisation technologies, the simple fact is that the basic infrastructure that will form the walls of the digital prison isn’t in place and time is running out.
The hope that the global debt based economy could at least hold out to 2030 is looking less likely. The market crash of 2008 (GFC) which saw the failure of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual banks in the U.S. and Bradford & Bingley in the UK marked the death knell of the system. Only massive government and central bank intervention prevented a collapse of the entire global financial system.
The injection of $700 billion through the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) bailed out the banks and other financial institutions in the U.S. while the UK prime minister Gordon Brown coordinated the G20 and central banks worldwide, cutting interest rates and simultaneously devaluing currencies across the board by forcing massive credit creation.
The patient was still alive, but only just, and the system staggered on for another decade until it all went wrong again.
The repo market emergency of September 2019 was a sudden spike in overnight borrowing rates in the repurchase (repo) market, a crucial part of the financial system where banks and institutions borrow short-term cash using U.S. treasuries as collateral. Basically the Monopoly game described earlier ran out of cash, and banks refused to lend to one another to cover the daily trading accounts. Quite unknown to the public the whole system came within hours of seizing up; all financial transactions would have halted and the public would have woken up to unresponsive cashpoints, frozen online accounts and banks with closed doors. Game over.
In the days surrounding September 17th 2019, the Federal Reserve injected $53 billion directly into the market to avert the immediate crisis but it was clear that even a partial fix required credit creation on a scale far larger than that undertaken in 2008. It was politically impossible to justify bailing out the banks for a second time and the interest rate/devaluation route had already been used. A plan was required to slow the economy down while refinancing the entire operation with a truly colossal amount of fresh capital. What was needed was a diversionary global crisis that would allow governments to create and spend cash like a drunken sailor without anybody questioning the reason why. During the resulting COVID-19 pandemic the International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimated that G20 countries alone created approximately $15 trillion of new credit, equating to nearly 14% of global GDP. The amount was nearly 20 times larger than the 2008 bailout and ensured a degree of stability for another five years.
If the GFC of 2008 placed the economy on life support, 2020 was an adrenaline shot to the heart. We are now in the situation that all treatment options are exhausted. A third liquidity injection would approach total global GDP and only buy a few extra years - it’s a non-starter.
This may sound bleak, but it’s good news. It’s highly unlikely the debt based system will survive long enough to allow its technocratic replacement to be assembled. The task is proving too complex and push back from the population is already occurring.
There’s scepticism around the mainstream media continually pushing the Net Zero carbon agenda and climate change, the Smart City initiative has stalled and nobody is buying into the EV vehicle nonsense. As the destruction of the currency becomes increasingly obvious with each weekly shop, people are starting to seriously question whether the political system and established parties are truly representing their concerns. Almost every day a new story regarding government waste and corporate corruption appears in the alternative press while the people are told by the MSM to make sacrifices and trust the process.
This could be humanity’s big opportunity to break free of the banking cartel overlords while the debt based system is collapsing and digital prison is not fully constructed.
We should not underestimate the forces ranged against us. They are determined and ruthless and will employ every unprincipled tactic to retain control as the system fails. Against them is pitted the resourcefulness of the human spirit and the desire to live free and fulfilling lives. It is an unequal battle and one they cannot win.
This could truly be the dawn of a golden age. Without the curse of a debt based system warfare would be almost impossible to fund, and resources wasted on armaments could be channelled directly into solving some of the world’s most urgent issues such as environmental pollution, equitable food distribution and clean drinking water.
The technology that unpins the Everything List is not itself malevolent. It could be used to create a monetary system based on gold that represents a true energy exchange for goods and services that would energise world trade.
With a comprehensive inventory at our disposal, we could ensure a fairer distribution of the Earth’s resources and limit exploitation.
The transparency of tokenized transactions could place rigorous checks and balances on authority instead of the people.
Your token could still be a key to world citizenship as part of free society rather than the lock to your shackles.