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By The Sharp Edge While dysfunctional D.C. battles it out over the debt ceiling to reign in uncontrolled federal spending, ‘Quid Pro Joe’ (who is under Congressional investigation for laundering bribes by foreign nationals) recently pledged hundreds of millions more in aid to corrupt Ukraine, which has been exposed for embezzling funds. If that wasn’t enough, ‘The Big Guy’ committed another $250 million through USAID to the World Bank, which has the power to launder with immunity. Meanwhile, the 2023 banking collapse is turning out to be worse than the 2008 crisis, and the Treasury Secretary is warning that more bank mergers may be around the corner, as wealth consolidates into a handful of woke megabanks, like JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America, which continue to target the regime’s political enemies. According to 19 state attorneys general, JPMorgan Chase has repeatedly de-banked Christian and conservative organizations. Furthermore, a House Weaponization Subcommittee report detailing FBI whistleblower testimony, disclosed how Bank of America colluded with the FBI to hand over confidential data of customers in the D.C. area on January 6th, highlighting individuals who had ever purchased a firearm using B of A products. Adding insult to injury, the weaponized IRS, which recently beefed up its workforce and arsenal to target Americans, received a green light from the Supreme Court to obtain bank records of individuals who aren’t even under investigation. If you think all of this is bad, just imagine what our absolutely corrupt federal government could do with a central bank digital currency. Of course, the Fed is looking to CBDCs as the solution to the financial crisis they’ve created. Problem – Reaction – Solution, as the old Hegelian Dialectic goes. Central banks around the world are working feverishly on implementing a CBDC system, and globalists are salivating over the “absolute control” it would give them. Now, onto the good news. Red states are leading the charge in the financial rebellion. Several Republican states have recently introduced or passed legislation to establish a parallel economy by protecting the use of cash, affirming gold and silver as legal tender, establishing precious metal depositories, and blocking central bank digital currencies. This report highlights a collection of 10 red states which are designing a blueprint for the rest of the country to follow. This is by no means a comprehensive list. There are solid pieces of legislation designed to secure financial freedom working through other states as well. A comprehensive list of legislation in each state can be found here. Alabama Alabama’s state legislatures are taking a stand against central bank digital currencies. A recently proposed bill in the Senate, SB330, “would prohibit any state or local governmental agency from accepting CBDC as a form of payment and would prohibit any governmental agency from participating in testing the use of CBDC by any Federal Reserve branch.” Another bill introduced this month in the House, HB408, seeks to amend the Uniform Commercial Code to exclude CBDCs from the definition of “money” stating, “The term does not include a central bank digital currency.” Meanwhile, there are two other bills pending in the Alabama legislature, HB348 and SB231, that seek to amend the UCC, but don’t have any language to exclude CBDCs from the definition of money. The UCC is a set of standards designed to create uniformity among states to facilitate interstate commerce. Recent changes to the UCC, promoted by the Uniform Law Commission, have embedded language to block crypto and enable CBDCs. The recommended UCC changes aim to revise the definition of “money” to state that, “the term does not include an electronic record that is a medium of exchange recorded and transferable in a system that existed and operated for the medium of exchange before the medium of exchange was authorized or adopted by the government.” While the language blocks crypto because it is a “medium of exchange” that existed “before” the medium was adopted by the government, it also paves the way for a CBDC as the implied “medium of exchange” to be “adopted by the government.” Some states have already passed UCC amendments with embedded language to facilitate CBDCs, as legislation remains pending in several others. More information on the status of UCC amendments sliding through other states can be found here. Arkansas Arkansas is making moves to affirm gold and silver as legal tender, remove taxes on gold and silver, and block the tracking of individuals through a central bank digital currency. In April, Arkansas passed HB1718, which establishes The Arkansas Legal Tender Act to affirm gold and silver as legal tender and remove tax liability by stating, “the exchange of one type or form of legal tender for another type or form of legal tender shall not give rise to any tax liability,” and “the purchase, sale, or exchange of any type or form of specie shall not give rise to any tax liability.” Also, Arkansas signed HB1720 into law in April. HB1720 explicitly refers to a “central bank digital currency,” and prohibits “the tracking of an individual through the use of digital currency except for limited circumstances,” stating that “A digital currency tracker shall not be used in this state to track an individual’s purchases or location through the use by an individual of digital currency unless: (1) A warrant has been issued in a criminal or civil court case that expressly authorizes the tracking of the individual’s purchases; or (2) The individual knows and consents to the digital currency tracker.” Florida & Indiana This month, both Florida and Indiana passed amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code to block central bank digital currencies. Florida’s SB7054, which passed on May 15, 2023, amends the UCC’s definition of money to state, “The term does not include a central bank digital currency.” Likewise, Indiana’s SB0468, which passed on May 4, 2023, amends the UCC’s definition of money to state, “The term does not include a central bank digital currency that is currently adopted, or that may be adopted, by the United States government, a foreign government, a foreign reserve, or a foreign sanctioned central bank.” While a handful of states have proposed amendments to the UCC to exclude CBDCs from the definition of money, Florida and Indiana are the first to successfully pass such amendments. Louisiana Louisiana’s state legislature is taking steps to block central bank digital currencies in the state. HCR71, which passed in the House this month and is now pending in the Senate, “urges the United States Congress to not support any legislation or efforts to adopt a central bank digital currency in the United States,” adding that “a United States CBDC raises significant concerns over privacy for individuals and businesses in Louisiana.” Another bill that passed in the House this month, HB415, relates to banking in the state, amending the definition of “deposit account” to state “The term does not include… a central bank digital currency.” Missouri A few Missouri bills working through the state legislature would protect the use of cash, affirm gold and silver as legal tender, establish a gold and silver depository, and block public entities from requiring payments by a central bank digital currency. SB100 passed in the Senate last February and is working its way through the House. A similar piece of legislation, HB1375, is also pending in the House. The bills state “No public entity shall require payment in the form of any digital currency. Payment by means of cash, debit card, or credit card shall be considered legal tender and shall be accepted by all public entities. Payment in gold and silver coinage shall also be considered legal tender and shall be accepted by all public entities.” Furthermore, SB100 and HB1375 provide exemptions for “all tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2024, the portion of capital gain on the sale or exchange of gold and silver that are otherwise included in the taxpayer’s federal adjusted gross income.” Lastly, these bills direct the State Treasurer to “keep in the custody of the state treasury an amount of gold and silver greater than or equal to one percent of all state funds.” A separate bill, HB718, which is pending in the House, would establish a Missouri Bullion Depository. Oklahoma Meanwhile, Oklahoma is working towards protecting cash, blocking public and private entities from requiring payments using a CBDC, and establishing a bullion depository. A promising bill, HB1633, which passed in Oklahoma’s House last March and is pending in the Senate, states “an agency shall not require any citizen of this state in conducting transactions with the agency to pay using credit cards nor a central bank digital currency and shall not prohibit cash, cashier’s checks, or money orders as payment” and “businesses providing basic needs selling or offering for sale goods or services during regular business hours shall not require a buyer to pay using credit cards nor a central bank digital currency nor prohibit the use of cash, cashier’s checks, or money orders as payment in order to purchase the goods or services.” Another bill pending in the Senate, SB816, would establish the Oklahoma Bullion Depository “as a division of the Office of the State Treasurer.” South Carolina South Carolina is taking steps to secure financial freedom in the state by affirming gold and silver as legal tender, removing taxes on gold and silver, and blocking CBDCs. H3080, which is pending in the House, provides “that gold and silver coins minted foreign or domestic shall be legal tender in this state.” Another bill pending in the House, H3081, amends capital gains tax to provide exceptions for “the portion of the capital gain that was recognized from the sale of gold, silver, platinum bullion, or any combination of this bullion, for which the deduction equals one hundred percent of such capital gain.” A pair of bills also pending in the House, H4373 and H4442, aim to amend the Uniform Commercial Code to block CBDCs under the definition of money. The UCC amendments state that “The term does not include a central bank digital currency.” Furthermore, H4373 states the bill is designed to “prohibit a banking corporation from offering any service or approving of or conducting any transaction that involves central bank digital currency.” Tennessee Tennessee is making headway on affirming gold and silver as legal tender, establishing a bullion depository, and shielding Tennesseans from a central bank digital currency. A pair of Tennessee bills, SB0519 and HB1479, passed in March to allow “the state treasurer to purchase and sell physical gold and precious metal.” The bills say that “The physical gold and precious metal purchased… must be custodied by the state treasurer in a state depository.” Another set of bills working through the Tennessee legislature, HB1481 and SB0311, would make “gold and silver coinage legal tender” and authorize “payment of taxes with gold and silver coinage.” Furthermore, the bills would require that “any gold and silver coinage received by this state… must be stored in a depository institution and the value of the gold and silver coinage must be attributed to the balance of the reserve for revenue fluctuations. The gold and silver coinage must not be liquidated until all other funds in the reserve for revenue fluctuations have been expended.” Also, SB0150, a bill that is pending in the Senate, would enact the Tennessee Bullion Depository Act. In an interview by Catherine Austin Fitts of the Solari Report, Tennessee Senator Frank Niceley remarked on how proposed legislation could work to create a sovereign state bank and bullion depository to support local banks and shield them against a central bank digital currency. Texas Texas is taking action on legislation to protect cash, recognize gold and silver as legal tender, maintain the nation’s first state bullion depository, and oppose a central bank digital currency. A couple of bills pending in Texas’ Senate, HJR146 and SJR67, propose a constitutional amendment to state that “The right of the people to own, hold, and use a mutually agreed upon medium of exchange, including cash, coin, bullion, digital currency, or privately issued scrip, when trading and contracting…The post A Look at 10 Red States Leading the Charge Against Financial Tyranny appeared first on coreysdigs.com.
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By The Sharp Edge As the national debt approaches 32 trillion, and the Biden regime commits billions to Ukraine despite reports of embezzled funds, the American financial system is failing. Already, the 2023 banking collapse is bigger than 2008, with the combined assets of three big banks that failed in 2023 dwarfing the assets of 25 banks that failed in 2008. Meanwhile, the public is strapped with historic levels of consumer debt and inflation, driven by federal spending, as Americans struggle to make ends meet. Congress has, so far, failed to restrain the out-of-control federal budget, by passing trillion-dollar packages, continuing the money flow to weaponized agencies riddled with fraud, waste and abuse. Though this financial debacle may appear on the surface to be a destructive combination of incompetence and circumstance, in reality, the controlled demolition of the financial system as we know it is all part of the World Economic Forum’s Great Financial Reset. While we watch this trainwreck in disbelief, central banks are preparing behind the scenes for the next phase of their financial reset – central bank digital currencies. A programmable CBDC system would enable “absolute control” over how, when, where, and by whom every single transaction is made. The implementation of a CBDC system is, without a doubt, the greatest threat to our financial freedom. As part of this plan to roll out CBDCs, a stealth piece of legislation known as the Uniform Commercial Code, has been sliding through states unnoticed. The UCC is a set of standards designed to create uniformity among states to facilitate interstate commerce. However, recent changes to the UCC, overseen by the Uniform Law Commission, have embedded language to block cryptocurrencies while enabling CBDCs, hidden among hundreds of pages. The devil is always in the details. Tucked into the UCC amendments, the definition of “money” is amended to state “the term does not include an electronic record that is a medium of exchange recorded and transferable in a system that existed and operated for the medium of exchange before the medium of exchange was authorized or adopted by the government.” This is a sly way to block crypto because it is a “medium of exchange” that existed “before” the medium was adopted by the government. The language of course clearly paves the way for a CBDC as the implied “medium of exchange” to be “adopted by the government.” This sinister language embedded in the UCC amendments has gone largely overlooked by state legislatures, and has already passed in 5 states, while there is legislation to amend the UCC still pending in more than 15 states. Some states have gotten wise to the sneaky tactic and changed the language to explicitly exclude central bank digital currency from the definition of money in the UCC. Florida and Indiana have both passed UCC amendments to exclude CBDCs from the definition of money, while the governor of South Dakota outright vetoed a bill containing the shifty language. These devious UCC amendments are a perfect example of why state legislation to protect the population from financial tyranny is so important. Needless to say, we must act with the utmost urgency to protect our financial freedom and security at the state level, by urging state legislatures to pass meaningful legislation in each state to protect the use of cash, affirm gold and silver as legal tender, establish bullion depositories, and halt the implementation of central bank digital currencies. Do you know where your state stands on these important financial freedom issues? Check the list of legislation working through your state below, and then contact your state representatives to insist they take immediate and decisive action to secure your state’s financial freedom. If your state is lacking in proposed legislation in these key areas of financial freedom, check out what other states are doing, and then urge your representatives to propose similar legislation. Here are some additional tools to track state legislation related to precious metals, cryptocurrencies, and by using a “Full Text Search” of bills in each state. Alabama Protecting the Use of Cash: No recent legislation found. Recognizing Gold & Silver as Legal Tender: No recent legislation found. Removing Taxes on Gold & Silver Transactions: SB13 Passed on April 7, 2022. SB13 is designed “To extend the exemption from sales and use tax for the gross proceeds from the sales of gold, silver, platinum, and palladium bullion, and money.” Establishing a Gold Depository: No recent legislation found. Digital Currency: No recent legislation found. Protecting Against CBDCs: HB408 Introduced and referred to the House Financial Services Committee on May 2, 2023. HB408 would amend the Uniform Commercial Code to define a central bank digital currency “and to specify that the definition of ‘money’ does not include central bank digital currency.” Other states have introduced or passed legislation to amend the UCC by changing the definition of money to exclude crypto such as Bitcoin while enabling a CBDC. Enabling CBDCs: HB348 Passed in the House on May 9, 2023, referred to Senate Judiciary Committee on May 11, 2023, and SB231 introduced and referred to Senate Committee on April 20, 2023. HB348 and SB231 seek to amend the Uniform Commercial Code. Changes to HB348 proposed on May 3, 2023, define a central bank digital currency and a deposit account, stating that the term “deposit account” does not include a CBDC. However, these changes do not appear in the latest version of HB348. Other states have introduced or passed legislation to amend the UCC by changing the definition of money to exclude crypto such as Bitcoin while enabling a CBDC. The definition of “money” in HB348 and SB231 does not contain such language. However, the definitions of a “controllable electronic record” (CER) in both HB348 and SB231 do contain similar language to exclude crypto such as Bitcoin while enabling a CBDC. Contact your Alabama state representatives here and here and urge them to take immediate action on key pieces of legislation to secure your financial freedom. Alaska Protecting the Use of Cash: No recent legislation found. Recognizing Gold & Silver as Legal Tender: HB3 Passed in the House on May 11, 2023, referred to Senate State Affairs Committee on May 12, 2023. HB3 affirms “gold and silver specie as legal tender.” Removing Taxes on Gold & Silver Transactions: HB3 Passed in the House on May 11, 2023, referred to Senate State Affairs Committee on May 12, 2023. HB3 states that a city or borough “may not levy or collect a sales or use tax on the sale or exchange of specie,” in reference to gold and silver. Under current Alaska Department of Revenue Tax Division, “The State of Alaska currently does not have a sales and use tax; however, some local jurisdictions impose local sales taxes.” Establishing a Gold Depository: No recent legislation found. Digital Currency: HB86 Referred to the House Finance Committee on April 14, 2023, and SB84 referred to the Senate Finance Committee on May 9, 2023. The “Uniform Money Transmission Act” seeks to regulate “virtual currency” or cryptocurrency “for money transmission” and to “cooperate with other states in the regulation of money transmission.” Protecting Against CBDCs: No recent legislation found. Enabling CBDCs: No recent legislation found. Contact your Alaska state representatives here and here and urge them to take immediate action on key pieces of legislation to secure your financial freedom. Arizona Protecting the Use of Cash: No recent legislation found. Recognizing Gold & Silver as Legal Tender: S1235 Passed Senate Finance Committee on February 6, 2023. S1235 seeks to affirm “specie” and Bitcoin as legal tender. “Specie” is defined as “coins having precious metal content.” HB2014 Signed into law on May 22, 2017. HB2014 states “’Legal tender’ means a medium of exchange, including specie, that is authorized by the United States Constitution or Congress for the payment of debts, public charges, taxes and dues. ‘Specie’ means coins having precious metal content.” Removing Taxes on Gold & Silver Transactions: HB2014 Signed into law on May 22, 2017. HB2014 removes capital gains taxation on gold and silver if exchanged for Federal Reserve notes or used in barter transactions. Arizona law 42-5061 states “the sale of precious metal bullion and monetized bullion to the ultimate consumer” is exempt from sales tax. Establishing a Gold Depository: No recent legislation found. Digital Currency: SB1236 Vetoed by Governor on April 12, 2023. SB1236 would have prohibited a city or town from imposing “a tax or fee on any person or entity for running a node on blockchain technology in a residence.” S1191 Passed in the House on May 15, 2023. S1191 relates to Escrow Agents and forms in which deposits may be made to add “distributed ledger technology transfers” defined as “a decentralized, shared and immutable ledger, which may be public or private, permissioned or permissionless, or driven by tokenized crypto economics or tokenless,” and explicitly excluding CBDCs by stating, “except that transfers may not be settled or backed by a central bank digital currency.” S1235 Passed Senate Finance Committee on February 6, 2023. S1235 seeks to affirm “specie” and Bitcoin as legal tender. “Specie” is defined as “coins having precious metal content.” S1239 Passed in the Senate on March 6, 2023, failed to pass House Ways & Means Committee on March 29, 2023. S1239 would have allowed state agencies to “enter into an agreement with a cryptocurrency service provider to provide a method to accept cryptocurrency as a payment method of fines, civil penalties or other penalties, rent, rates, taxes, fees, charges, revenue, financial obligations and special assessments to pay any amount due to that agency or this state.” S1240 Passed in the Senate on March 1, 2023, transmitted to the House on March 2, 2023. S1240 exempts “virtual currency” from taxation. Virtual currency is defined as “a digital representation of value that functions as a medium of exchange, a unit of account and a store of value other than a representation of the United States dollar or a foreign currency.” SCR1007 Read 2nd time in Senate on January 23, 2023. SCR1007 seeks to exempt “virtual currency” from property taxes. Virtual currency is defined as “a digital representation of value that functions as a medium of exchange, a unit of account and a store of value other than a representation of the United States dollar or a foreign currency.” Protecting Against CBDCs: SB1144 Failed in the House on May 15, 2023. SB1144 “Prohibits the use of central bank digital currency (CBDC) involving any contract, security or similar interest in this state, including commercial contracts.” SB1191 Passed in the Senate on March 6, 2023, passed in the House on May 15, 2023. SB1191 relates to Escrow Agents, stating, “transfers may not be settled or backed by a central bank digital currency.” Enabling CBDCs: HB2770 Blocked by AZ Freedom Caucus in March 2023. HB2770 amended the Uniform Commercial Code by defining money as “a medium of exchange that is currently authorized or adopted by a domestic or foreign government. The term includes a monetary unit of account established by an intergovernmental organization or by agreement between two or more countries. The term does not include an electronic record that is a medium of exchange recorded and transferable in a system that existed and operated for the medium of exchange before the medium of exchange was authorized or adopted by the government.” HB2770 amended the UCC by changing the definition of money to exclude crypto such as Bitcoin, while enabling a CBDC. Furthermore, HB2770 contained “electronic money” language in reference to CBDCs. Contact your Arizona state representatives here and here and urge them to take immediate action on key pieces of legislation to secure your financial freedom. Arkansas Protecting the Use of Cash: No recent legislation found. Recognizing Gold & Silver as Legal Tender: HB1718 Passed on April 11, 2023. HB1718 creates “The Arkansas Legal Tender Act” which reaffirms gold and silver as legal tender. Removing Taxes on Gold & Silver Transactions: HB1718 Passed on April 11, 2023. HB1718 removes tax liability from gold and silver by stating,…The post Is Your State Protecting Financial Freedom? Get The Full Breakdown Here appeared first on coreysdigs.com.
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By The Sharp Edge We are building our own digital prison. The technological panopticon developing all around us enables centralized power, control, and visibility over every aspect of our lives. With our hard-earned taxpayer dollars and mountains of debt, we are funding the construction of a digital control grid designed to enslave us. This technological control grid consists of advanced computing, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, nanotechnology, CBDCs, digital IDs, 5G and a host of other emerging technologies. The purpose of this report is to outline funding and legislation to build the technological control grid, condensed from 6,000 pages of legislation passed through the Omnibus and NDAA at the end of 2022. Background & Context Advanced Computing & Artificial Intelligence In November 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence large language model. By January 2023, ChatGPT reached over 100 million monthly active users, making it “the fastest-growing ‘app’ of all time.” The AI chatbot, which averages 4.5 billion words per day, has gained in popularity as updates by OpenAI have made the large language model more user-friendly and conversational. The latest version of ChatGPT, known as GPT-4, has passed several exams with flying colors, finishing around the top 10% for the bar exam and LSAT exam. Criticisms of the chatbot have abounded since its rollout, including “woke” social engineering, replacing jobs due to automation, and its weaponization for hacking and phishing scams. Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI in 2019, and just as the company recently announced layoffs of 10,000 workers globally, it committed billions more to OpenAI’s technology. Microsoft is incorporating GPT-4, a faster version of ChatGPT, into their new version of the search engine, Bing. Microsoft President, Brad Smith, remarked, “It’s now likely that 2023 will mark a critical inflection point for artificial intelligence.” Elon Musk, who co-founded OpenAI in 2015, has since cut ties with the project and has recently pursued efforts to produce an alternative to ChatGPT in order to fight “woke” AI, stating in a tweet, “The danger of training AI to be woke – in other words, lie – is deadly.” In a recent interview, Musk explained his role in creating OpenAI as a response to conversations he had with Google co-founder, Larry Page, in which Musk felt Page was “not taking AI safety seriously enough,” adding that Larry Page wanted a “digital super intelligence, basically a digital god… as soon as possible.” Musk says he hoped to create an open source non-profit AI project through OpenAI to counter Google, but expressed disappointment that OpenAI became closed, for-profit, and closely aligned with Microsoft, stating “In effect, Microsoft has a very strong say, if not directly controls OpenAI at this point.” The 2 heavyweights in the arena of AI, Musk explained, are OpenAI/ Microsoft and Google’s DeepMind, adding that he thinks he will “create a third option.” According to a Nevada state filing, Musk set up a new company named X.AI Corp in March 2023. Google’s response to the success of ChatGPT and competition with Microsoft’s Bing is a conversational AI model known as Bard. In March 2023, Google opened access to Bard by allowing users to join a waitlist. Bard has been powered by LaMDA – a family of large language models created by Google, but the company is looking to transition Bard to a larger-scale model known as PaLM. A former Google engineer, Blake LeMoine, who was tasked with testing LaMDA, made controversial headlines in 2022 with the publication of conversations with LaMDA that led LeMoine to believe that it had become sentient. The engineer was subsequently fired from his position at Google. However, LeMoine has not backed off his claims of the dangers AI sentience, stating “I published these conversations because I felt that the public was not aware of just how advanced AI was getting. My opinion was that there was a need for public discourse about this now, and not public discourse controlled by a corporate PR department.” LeMoine added, “I believe the kinds of AI that are currently being developed are the most powerful technology that has been invented since the atomic bomb. In my view, this technology has the ability to reshape the world.” LeMoine went on to explain several ways in which AI could be weaponized. Likening the rollout of AI to watching a trainwreck, LeMoine concluded, “I feel this technology is incredibly experimental and releasing it right now is dangerous.” Adding to this, a team of Google Deepmind researchers published a paper in August 2022 concluding that an “existential catastrophe” resulting from AI was “not just possible, but likely.” An AI arms race is unfolding as Big Tech companies, including Microsoft, Google, and Amazon vie for leading roles. Meanwhile, the risks of introducing experimental AI onto the public have been tossed aside, as lawmakers have so-far failed to pass meaningful regulations. An open letter, published by Future of Life Institute and signed by Elon Musk and other tech industry leaders, called for a six month moratorium on developing AI more powerful than GPT-4. MIT professor and head of Future of Life Institute, Max Tegmark, commented, “It is unfortunate to frame this as an arms race. It is more of a suicide race. It doesn’t matter who is going to get there first. It just means that humanity as a whole could lose control of its own destiny.” AI expert at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, Eliezer Yudkowsky, calls for an “absolute shutdown,” warning of what may happen when AI becomes sentient and more intelligent than humans, stating, “the most likely result of building a superhumanly smart AI, under anything remotely like the current circumstances, is that literally everyone on Earth will die… Not as in ‘maybe possibly some remote chance,’ but as in ‘that is the obvious thing that would happen.’” Yudowksy argues that a super-intelligent, self-aware AI “would not value us” or any other life on Earth, and could opt for building “artificial life forms.” Meanwhile, Bill Gates dismissed calls for a moratorium on developing AI, stating that a pause would not “solve the challenges” that super AI poses. In January 2023, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published an “Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework,” to give companies guidance on responsible AI development, but the implementation of these recommendations is voluntary. In March 2023, the House Committee on Oversight held a hearing entitled “Advances in AI: Are We Ready for the Tech Revolution?” with expert testimonies from the likes of Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO and key liaison between the Pentagon and Big Tech, who is assisting the military in a shift towards AI-backed war-fighting capabilities to counter China. Schmidt believes that AI is a game-changer, stating, “Every once in a while, a new weapon, a new technology comes along that changes things… Einstein wrote a letter to Roosevelt in the 1930s saying that there is this new technology – nuclear weapons – that could change the war, which it clearly did. I would argue that [AI-powered] autonomy, and decentralized, distributed systems are that powerful.” When asked in the committee hearing about the AI arms race between the U.S. and China, Schmidt replied, “The bad news is that these research ideas are in the public domain, and international. So, we can’t prevent China from getting it,” adding that the solution means more AI development in the west – “under our values,” where lawmakers have the ability to regulate it as opposed to AI development in China. The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, chaired by Eric Schmidt, issued a report in March 2021, stating, “Americans have not yet grappled with just how profoundly the Artificial Intelligence (AI) revolution will impact our economy, national security, and welfare… Nevertheless, big decisions need to be made now to accelerate AI innovation to benefit the United States and to defend against the malign uses of AI.” The report called for “an integrated national strategy to reorganize the government, reorient the nation, and rally our closest allies and partners to defend and compete in the coming era of AI-accelerated competition and conflict.” Several recommendations by the commission have been or are in the process of being implemented. In 2018, the DOD established the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) to accelerate AI capabilities across the Defense Department. JAIC’s budget grew from $89 million in 2019 to $278 million in 2021. During 2022, the DOD had over 600 AI projects underway and spent $14.7 billion on science and technology projects, $874 million of which went directly to AI development and adoption programs. In February 2022, the Defense Department launched a new Chief Digital Artificial Intelligence Office designed to “set up a strong foundation for data analytic and AI-enabled capabilities.” The new office marks a heightened effort by the Pentagon to consolidate and advance AI operations to counter threats posed by China. The DOD appointed Craig Martell, former head of machine learning at Lyft, to the new office in April 2022. Martell believes that AI-based war-fighting capabilities can only be as good as the data with which they rely on, and has made data fidelity – or the accuracy, granularity, speed and reliability of data – a top priority for implementing AI across the Defense Department. As Martell points out, big data and advanced computing – an umbrella term for quantum computing, cloud computing and edge computing – are the keys to moving artificial intelligence forward. In May 2022, the Biden administration issued an Executive Order on “Enhancing the National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee,” announcing the regime’s commitment to remain a global leader in quantum computing while “mitigating risks to vulnerable cryptographic systems.” As the White House memorandum notes, powerful quantum computers will have the capabilities to hack encrypted networks and blockchain. To guard against this eventuality, the White House called for a shift to more advanced “quantum-resistant cryptography” beginning in 2024 “with the goal of mitigating as much of the quantum risk as is feasible by 2035.” While some are sounding the alarm about the existential threat that AI poses, others argue that “there is an even more powerful emerging technology with the potential to wreak havoc, especially if it is combined with AI: quantum computing.” While still in the early stages of development, quantum computing projects are largely backed by governments and Big Tech firms such as Google, IBM and Microsoft. In 2019, Google and NASA partnered on a project to achieve quantum supremacy – a term used to describe the point in which a quantum computer is capable of surpassing the most advanced conventional supercomputers. Google claimed their 53-qubit quantum computer could perform a complex task in 200 seconds that would have taken the fastest supercomputer, IBM’s Summit, 10,000 years to accomplish. In response, IBM tweaked Summit, their supercomputer built for the U.S. Department of Energy, to solve the particular complex task much faster. Then in 2021, IBM announced the creation of their 127-qubit quantum computer known as Eagle. The race to achieve true quantum supremacy continues, while the Biden regime nearly doubled the Quantum Information Science budget from $449 million in 2019 to $877 million in 2022. Advanced Wireless, 5G, Electromagnetic Spectrum & Directed Energy The fifth generation of mobile networks, known as 5G, plays an integral part in advancing the 4th Industrial Revolution. With the ever-expanding web of smart cities and smart devices monitoring and collecting data – known as the internet of things (IoT), 5G offers greater speed and bandwidth to support the data flow. IoT devices are seeing massive growth globally, with projections reaching 19 billion devices by 2025, an increase from 13.14 billion devices in 2022. The deployment of 5G is also essential for supporting the mountains of data necessary to enable faster evolution of artificial intelligence and machine learning. 5G uses additional higher frequency radio waves on the electromagnetic spectrum, up to 47 GHz. The higher the frequency, the quicker the data-transfer speeds. Higher frequencies travel shorter distances, requiring more 5G towers, primarily concentrated on the most densely populated areas. So far, China and the…The post Funding The Control Grid Part 4: The Technology Framework appeared first on coreysdigs.com.
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By The Sharp Edge “Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.” This quote has been attributed to Henry Kissinger, though he denies ever saying it. Kissinger certainly did, however, perfect the weaponization of food through The Kissinger Report during his tenure as Secretary of State. The Kissinger Report outlined a covert operation to force compliance with a depopulation agenda using food aid as leverage in underdeveloped countries of strategic U.S. interest. The report posited the following questions: “Would food be considered an instrument of national power?… Is the U.S. prepared to accept food rationing to help people who can’t/won’t control their population growth? Should the U.S. seek to change its own food consumption patterns toward more efficient uses of protein? Are mandatory population control measures appropriate for the U.S. and/or for others?” The use of food as a weapon of war is a centuries old tactic, perfected in recent decades by the likes of Kissinger, and passed down through his protégé Klaus Schwab. Schwab’s World Economic Forum has planted Young Global Leaders throughout the world to carry out a continuum of Kissinger’s depopulation plan, in-part by controlling and transforming the food supply. Weaponization of the food and water systems is one aspect in a much larger scheme to create a control grid over the entire global population. The food control grid consists of four key elements: poisoning the food and water supply, manufacturing food shortages, consolidating food and water systems, and weaponizing food programs while tracking the food supply and the people. The purpose of this report is to outline these important aspects of the food control grid as well as funding for programs that contribute to this operation, condensed from 6,000 pages of legislation in the Omnibus and NDAA, passed through Congress at the end of 2022. Watch Dig It! episode #180 for audio/video coverage of this report. Background & Context Poisoning the Food & Water Genetically engineered (GE) foods, also referred to as genetically modified (GM) or (GMO), have long been a source of concern for food safety organizations as research shows they have the potential to cause toxicity, allergic reactions, antibiotic resistance, immuno-suppression, cancer and loss of nutrition. However, federal agencies including the FDA, USDA, and EPA insist that GE foods are safe for public consumption. Aside from GE crops, genetically modified meat has also been approved for public consumption. In 2017, genetically modified salmon were approved for use as food. Then in 2020, the FDA approved genetically modified pork. By March 2022, the FDA approved meat from bioengineered cattle using CRISPR technology. Although GE foods have been widely produced for decades, new technologies are developing so rapidly that the umbrella of “genetically modified” foods has expanded significantly in recent years, leading some to define this next generation of GE foods as “GMO 2.0” or “Pharma Food.” In an in-depth report entitled “Pharma Food,” investigative journalist, Elze van Hamelen, details the next generation of GE foods including lab-grown meat, milk and egg products. In February 2021, Bill Gates stated in an interview that he believes “all rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef” as a way to combat climate change. However, as Elze’s “Pharma Food” report points out, highly processed cell-cultured meat products are neither healthy nor ‘climate friendly.’ Despite overall rejection of fake meat products by consumers, there is a multi-billion-dollar effort by governments, organizations and corporations to develop and market synthetic foods and lab-grown meats for public consumption. Globalist organizations, including the World Economic Forum, are completely reengineering the global food system to incorporate GMO 2.0 foods and insects, a move termed by some to be “The Great Food Reset.” The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations which created the Codex Alimentarius in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO). “Codex was established for the sole purpose of setting the standards and guidelines for all food that is consumed by human beings,” according to a Corey’s Digs report entitled, “Inside Codex with Scott Tipps: New Global Food Diet – Insects, Rats and Dogs.” Furthermore, the report states, “The USDA, for example, is a driving force for not only adhering to the [Codex] standards, but making certain other countries follow in lock step as well.” In July 2022, a new “meat” category was presented to the Codex Committee which included dogs and rats, among others. Additionally, the same document included a variety of insect food categories. The push by international organizations to incorporate insects into the global food supply comes despite multiple studies warning of the dangers of insect consumption. In September 2015, the USDA granted Merck conditional approval for mRNA injections for avian flu and the following month awarded Merck a $6 million contract to stockpile 48 million doses of the mRNA avian flu vaccines. Also sometime in 2015, the USDA approved mRNA vaccines for pigs. In 2018, Merck introduced their SEQUIVITY mRNA vaccines for pigs which are currently on the market. Since the introduction of the Covid mRNA jab, federal agencies have “opened the floodgate” on a wave of new mRNA injections for livestock. As Dr. Malone points out in both his substack as well as a recent interview, there is a total lack of transparency among federal agencies as to the details of clinical trials for mRNA vaccines in livestock as well as the safety data on human exposure to meats tainted with these experimental gene therapies. Viral Immunologist, Dr. Byram Bridle, remarked recently, “This [mRNA] technology technically is not new. It’s relatively new for being used in people. It’s been used for quite a few years in agricultural species and I’m actually starting to get quite worried. If these vaccines can get into things like milk products, I start worrying about our food products. People have to realize these technologies are not only being pushed hard now in people, but… many of them are being fast-tracked and we are going to have our food species loaded up with these mRNA vaccines and we need to understand whether or not these things are getting into our food products now.” Recent court rulings have placed pressure on the EPA to assess the impact of certain conventional pesticides on endangered species in compliance with the Endangered Species Act (ESA). In response to litigation, the EPA announced that the agency would embark on an “unprecedented effort” to streamline their approach to pesticide registration, while placing a central focus on the protection of endangered species. While the EPA has placed further regulatory pressure and bans on the use of certain conventional pesticides, developments in new RNAi-based biopesticides are paving the way “as a promising substitute to conventional chemical pesticides.” RNAi technology is the next generation of pesticides designed to genetically modify crops and pests, so that pests are unable to produce a specific protein vital to their survival. While similar technology has been deployed in the Covid mRNA injection to induce the production of a spike protein in the body, RNAi-based pesticides genetically modify organisms to inhibit the production of certain proteins. This “next generation” of pesticides deploys nanotechnology as a delivery method. Researchers claim RNAi-based pesticides are ‘climate-friendly’ and they are capable of specifically targeting insect species, weeds, viruses or fungi without impacting non-target species. However, little is known about the impacts of unintended mutations using this emerging technology which could pose a serious biosafety risk. The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy reports some of the risks posed by RNAi pesticides may include, “allergenicity, increased toxicity, changes in nutritional composition; [and] unwanted immunostimulatory effects can reduce white blood cell count in humans and non-target organisms throughout the food chains.” Researchers have remarked how the “funding that poured into making mRNA for Covid vaccines,” helped to drastically reduce the manufacturing costs of RNA which has enabled an explosion in this new multi-billion-dollar pesticide industry. In June 2017, the EPA approved Monsanto’s SmartStax Pro RNAi pesticide for corn. Since then, the EPA notes that the agency has approved RNAi pesticides for a “number of crops, including corn, cotton, potato, soybean, papaya, and plum.” Not only have agencies been deceptive about the health hazards of GMO 2.0 foods, but they have also misled the public in their approval processes and labeling practices. In May 2020, the USDA issued a final rule amending regulatory requirements for certain genetically engineered organisms including crops, “thereby reducing the regulatory burden” and “facilitating the development of genetically engineered organisms.” The Center for Science in the Public Interest stated, “a majority of genetically engineered and gene edited plants now will escape any oversight,” and “government regulators and the public will have no idea what products will enter the market and whether those products appropriately qualified for an exemption from oversight.” In July 2021, the Center for Food Safety filed a suit against the USDA for giving “private entities carte blanche to ‘self-determine’ their own products’ regulation without any future oversight.” This case appears to be ongoing with a recent filing in December 2022. Meanwhile, the Center for Food Safety filed an additional lawsuit over the USDA’s attempts to deceptively label GE or GMO products with QR codes alone. The district court held that USDA must include additional labeling on packages, but sided with the USDA on the new terminology, “bioengineered,” for packaging. On February 3, 2023, a train carrying vinyl chloride was derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, near the Ohio / Pennsylvania border, just miles north of the West Virginia border. According to the EPA, vinyl chloride was “diverted to an excavated trench and then burned off,” while, “contaminated soil and free liquids were observed and potentially covered and/or filled during reconstruction of the rail line.” A massive plume of deadly chemicals was released into the air, soil and water, with an evacuation zone ordered in the immediate vicinity of the crash site. By February 8th, the area was “deemed safe,” noted Ohio Governor, Mike DeWine, and the evacuation order was lifted, as Pennsylvania Governor, Josh Shapiro, emphasized that the burning of toxic chemicals went “as planned,” with “no concerning” detections of air or water toxicity in the area. EPA officials claimed that they had not detected anything unexpected from the derailed train’s toxic chemical release, as clean-up and testing for air and water quality continued. “So far so good,” claimed EPA official James Justice. Stephen Petty, who is the president of an environmental health and safety company and has overseen thousands of forensic investigations as well as provided expert testimony in more than 200 cases, is in the process of independently testing samples from East Palestine. He stated, “It was a bad decision to release it and burn it,” adding, “When you burn vinyl chloride poorly, and that was definitely burned poorly because it had such a black plume… When there’s incomplete combustion, there’s evidence that part of the vinyl chloride goes to dioxin, and dioxin is one of the most deadly compounds known.” Petty went on to explain, “There’s the lie. It wasn’t a ‘controlled burn.’ It was an uncontrolled burn,” adding that in order for it to be a controlled burn, officials would have to “very carefully” control the temperature and oxygen levels to facilitate complete combustion. “They didn’t do that. So, it’s an uncontrolled burn,” Petty explained. Petty also remarked on the EPA “purposely” measuring for “things that don’t really matter,” while indicating to the public that the area is safe. When burned, vinyl chloride can form into dioxins, which are highly toxic environmental pollutants that can accumulate in humans and animals resulting in cancer, reproductive and developmental issues, as well as immune system damage. According to a 2006 toxicology profile provided by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), “vinyl chloride in water or soil evaporates rapidly if it is near the surface. Vinyl chloride in the air breaks down in a few days, resulting in the formation of several other chemicals including hydrochloric acid.” …The post Funding the Control Grid Part 3: The Food Framework appeared first on coreysdigs.com.
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“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. …We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.” – Edward Bernays For decades, agencies and organizations operating in the shadows have used billions of taxpayer dollars to create a grid of psychological control over the population. The psychological control grid consists of psychological operations, narrative control campaigns, indoctrination programs and the weaponization of the mental healthcare system. These very agencies and organizations received a boost in funding through the Omnibus bill and National Defense Authorization Act 2023, to expand their operations. The purpose of this report is to outline the agencies and organizations contributing to the psychological control grid condensed from 6,000 pages of legislation rushed through Congress at the end of 2022. Watch Dig It! episode #176 for audio/video coverage of this report. Background & Context Psychological Operations After decades of experience, the intelligence community has perfected the art of psychological operations (PSYOPS) using propaganda and mind control tactics, as outlined in the Corey’s Digs report entitled The Cancer Within Modern Medicine Part 4: Manipulation of the Masses. One of the most nefarious operations conducted by the CIA was Project MK Ultra, a well-documented, extensive program using the most inhumane tactics to control and manipulate minds. Though the intelligence community claimed that the MK Ultra program was shut down in 1973, subprojects, such as Project MONARCH, are alleged to have continued. Aspects of CIA mind control techniques carried on in their interrogation methods outlined, for example, in the KUBARK Counterintelligence Manual, which was a “comprehensive guide for teaching interrogators how to effectively create ‘a world of fear, terror, anxiety [and] dread.’” In 1961, as the CIA was funding MK Ultra research in at least 80 institutions, Stanley Milgram – a Yale psychologist, conducted experiments on obedience to authority. The experiments tested the willingness of subjects to apply increasingly painful and dangerous shocks to other subjects if coerced by someone who appeared to be an authority figure wearing a white lab coat. The purpose of the study was to determine how easily ordinary people could commit atrocities, if coaxed by someone they believed was a trusted authority. The study found that 65%, two thirds of people tested, were willing to shock their counterpart subjects at potentially lethal voltage levels. The research was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation. The CIA has used NSF in the past as a vehicle to fund their programs. Professor Alfred McCoy, a historian, has alleged that the Milgram experiments were likely part of the many CIA-funded MK Ultra projects. In a recent interview, Robert Kennedy Jr. remarked on the government’s response to Covid, “We’re just in a huge Milgram experiment here. We’ve got Anthony Fauci in his white lab coat…” In the same interview, Robert Kennedy Jr. stated, “When I was writing my book… one of the most momentous and shocking discoveries that I encountered, that I made in my research, was seeing the deep involvement of the intelligence agencies in this public health space. The last chapter in my book shows this series of tabletop exercises, about 20 tabletop exercises… They were sponsored – all of them by the CIA… What they each did was, they’d take a simulated pandemic, and they’d show what the response was, and the response was not a public health response. It was the imposition of totalitarian control. So, they weren’t talking about providing Vitamin D to people… or quarantining the sick… and keeping Constitutional rights, which is something that you’ve got to think of in a pandemic… They weren’t doing any of that stuff. What they were doing is – ‘How do we use this pandemic to suppress free speech, to censor social media and the media, to close churches, to lock down society, to force people to wear masks, and then funnel them into this chute of mass vaccination with a quickly created and untested zero liability vaccine?’ And every one of them does the same thing. None of them [are] about public health. It’s a militarized and monetized response.” Former Deputy Director of the CIA, Avril Haines, was one of the key players involved in the now infamous Event 201, which was a tabletop exercise that predicted the Covid pandemic in October 2019. In Segment 4 of the pandemic simulation, players strategized how to censor “disinformation” related to the pandemic on social media. The exercise presented a scenario in which information spread about the “man-made” origins of the virus – created by pharmaceutical companies for the purpose of profiting from vaccines. The simulated news report explained, “In some cases, limited internet shutdowns are being implemented to quell panic.” One commentator on the simulated news report remarked that “disinformation” on social media “is a huge problem that’s going to keep us from ending the pandemic and might even lead to the fall of governments… If the solution means controlling and reducing access to information, I think it’s the right choice.” The strategies presented by panelists to combat “disinformation” included: having a “centralized” international response to the communications efforts, flooding social media platforms with the regime’s narrative, partnering with Big Tech companies on censoring and deamplifying “disinformation,” advancing technology for algorithms to censor information, planting “the right representatives” on traditional media platforms to “portray our side of the story,” as well as using trusted faith-based or community-based organizations to disseminate the regime narrative. According to secretive internal documents, Twitter not only partnered with the intelligence community on narrative control operations, but they aided in the Pentagon’s PSYOP campaigns. Twitter executives testified to Congress that the company pledged to “rapidly identify and shut down all state-backed covert information operations and deceptive propaganda.” However, the Big Tech firm actually “gave approval and special protection of the US military’s online psychological influence ops.” Twitter executives were well aware of the “vast network of fake accounts and covert propaganda” generated by the DOD and did nothing to suspend those accounts. Internal documents reveal “Twitter actively assisted CENTCOM’s network going back to 2017 and as late as 2020 knew these accounts were covert/designed to deceive to manipulate the discourse, a violation of Twitter’s policies and promises. They waited years to suspend.” Narrative Control Campaigns Newly unredacted NIH emails show that Dr. Fauci and Dr. Collins communicated with several scientists regarding the origins of the Covid virus in the early stages of the pandemic. Though some scientists admitted in the emails that there was not enough evidence to disprove the lab leak theory, they were pressured to ‘get ahead of the narrative,’ by issuing a research paper discrediting it. In the research paper entitled “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2,” which was published in Nature Medicine, the scientists concluded, “we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible.” The research paper has been viewed over 5.7 million times and has been cited more than 2000 times by mainstream media as a means to discredit the lab-leak theory. Confidential emails obtained through the Missouri v. Biden lawsuit reveal that officials at the CDC were in constant communication with Facebook to censor information regarding the origins of Covid and the dangers of the Covid jab. Claims such as “COVID-19 is man-made,” or “the Covid vaccine is not safe for kids,” that were vetted by the CDC were then censored by Facebook. Furthermore, emails obtained through the Missouri v. Biden lawsuit reveal that the White House censored viewpoints that countered the establishment narrative on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. The Missouri v. Biden case against Biden, the White House, HHS, Fauci, NIAID, CDC, DHS, and CISA has produced troves of documents, particularly from HHS, CISA and the White House, that confirm these agencies actively engaged in the censorship of information relating to Covid and elections on social media platforms. In April 2022, DHS launched a “Disinformation Governance Board,” designed to censor online information, which came to be known as an entity more like “Ministry of Truth,” described in the dystopian novel ‘1984’. The Disinformation Governance Board was headed by extremely partisan activist, Nina Jankowicz, who had previously referred to all Trump supporters as purveyors of disinformation. Following the public outrage of this clear violation of free speech, the DHS announced the termination of the board in August 2022. However, leaked documents reveal that the DHS’s plans to censor information online remained ongoing. The documents show that DHS continued to target information for censorship related to “the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and the efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines, racial justice, U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the nature of the U.S. support to Ukraine.” A report published by Foundation for Freedom Online outlines the scope of DHS censorship across social media platforms, which extends far beyond what has been previously reported. According to the report, under DHS leadership, 22 million tweets were labeled as “disinformation” on Twitter, 859 million tweets were collected in databases for “misinformation” analysis, 120 “misinformation” analysts monitored social media in up to 20-hour shifts, and DHS partners openly bragged about the “huge regulatory pressure” imposed on Big Tech platforms which impacted hundreds of millions of posts to social media sites. A series of disclosures from internal Twitter communications, known as the Twitter Files, reveals that the FBI, DHS, ODNI, CISA, CIA, NSA, HHS, the White House, the State Department, the Treasury, Big Pharma lobbyists, and even politicians like Adam Schiff, all had regular communications with Twitter executives to censor, deplatform, and deamplify individuals and information counter to the Washington establishment narrative on topics including the Hunter Biden laptop, the 2020 election, January 6th, and the dangers of the Covid mRNA injections. Furthermore, Twitter executives were pressured to support the intelligence community’s narrative that Russian influence was behind information that countered the establishment agenda. Indoctrination Programs According to a presentation hosted by Parents Rights in Education, in 2010 the Consolidated Appropriations Act signed by Obama sent federal funding through HHS to the CDC’s Department of Adolescent and School Health (DASH), which created a partnership with the Department of Education on a series of grants to accomplish three goals for school-based programs across the nation: to implement comprehensive sexual education, to create school-based access for sexual health services, and to ensure “safe, supportive environments,” in which to implement these programs. As the presenter explained, the CDC’s DASH playbook in layman’s terms means “They’re going to teach it. They’re going to give the kids access to it. And they are not going to tell the parents anything about it or let them do anything about it.” By 2018, federal grants were distributed for student access, including minors, to school-based sexual health services including birth control pills, condoms, IUDs, hormonal implants, emergency contraception, and referrals to Planned Parenthood. As part of California’s Behavioral Health Initiative, in 2019 Planned Parenthood announced that they would be opening 50 on-campus clinics in Los Angeles high schools. At least 5 Planned Parenthood clinics are currently operational in high schools in the Los Angeles area. Planned Parenthood has been in the “gender transition business,” since 2017 and has shifted much more focus towards a “gender affirming” revenue stream since then. With 239 clinics in more than 40 states offering transgender services, Planned Parenthood has made it quite easy for thousands of kids to access hormone treatments. In some states, “gender affirming” care may be provided to minors without parental consent or knowledge. Furthermore, public schools continue to use taxpayer dollars to hire Planned Parenthood or their affiliates to teach sexual education programs including the promotion of abortion, gender fluidity and transitioning. Each year, 1.2 million students receive sex education from Planned Parenthood’s affiliates. Documents uncovered through a recent FOIA request revealed that a California school district partnered with a healthcare facility known as…The post Funding the Control Grid Part 2: The Psychological Framework appeared first on coreysdigs.com.
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The following report, originally published on The Solari Report, provides helpful tips to bring a halt to Central Bank Digital Currencies. By Catherine Austin Fitts and Carolyn Betts Many subscribers and readers of the Solari Report have…
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By The Sharp Edge When asked if a United States CBDC would be used to control how, when and where the population spends their money, a senior vice president for the St. Louis Fed’s Research Division responded, “in life, one can’t give absolute assurance of anything…The best we can hope for, is for Congress to respond to the electorate’s concerns about privacy.” However, signals by the Biden regime and the Federal Reserve indicate they intend to move forward on a CBDC, regardless of any approval from Congress, industry leaders or the public. In fact, there are a growing number of research and pilot programs in various phases of development in America and around the world, despite public concerns of an impending digital currency enslavement system tied to a digital ID and social credit system. The Biden Regime Presses Forward On March 9, 2022, the Biden regime issued an Executive Order on ‘Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets,’ which placed “the highest urgency on research and development efforts into the potential design and deployment options of a United States CBDC.” The EO commanded Attorney General Garland, Treasury Secretary Yellen, and Federal Reserve Chair Powell to determine if a legal path to bypass Congress is possible, stating, “within 180 days of the date of this order [by September 5, 2022], provide the President…an assessment of whether legislative changes would be necessary to issue a United States CBDC, should it be deemed appropriate and in the national interest.” The EO further directed them to provide the President with a legislative proposal within 210 days, by October 5, 2022. A former Fed vice chair, Randal Quarles, remarked that any bill in Congress authorizing a CBDC would be unlikely to pass, noting a lack of support from the public. In July of 2021, lawmakers introduced legislation that has yet to pass, known as the ‘Digital Asset Market Structure and Investor Protection Act,’ which appears to authorize the Fed to issue digital versions of Federal Reserve notes and to use distributed ledger technology for the “creation, distribution and recordation of all transactions involving digital Federal reserve notes.” On the other hand, legislation was introduced in January of 2022 to prohibit the Federal Reserve from issuing a CBDC directly to individuals. In March of 2022, legislatures proposed an alternative to CBDC in a bill known as the ‘ECASH Act‘, which proposes to develop an electronic version of the US dollar issued by the US Treasury instead of the Federal Reserve, and purports to imitate the privacy and anonymity features of cash. While there is no current federal statute mandating businesses to accept cash, lawmakers introduced the ‘Payment Choice Act of 2021‘, designed to require retail businesses to accept cash as a form of payment. In all, Congress has introduced 50 bills on digital assets, blockchain, and CBDCs. During a May 26, 2022, House Committee hearing, some lawmakers took issue with the Biden regime’s Executive Order and the ambiguity of the Federal Reserve’s comment in their January 2022 discussion paper, which states, “The Federal Reserve does not intend to proceed with issuance of a CBDC without clear support from the executive branch and from Congress, ideally in the form of a specific authorizing law.” Representative Andy Barr commented, “This to me suggests that the administration is not yet convinced that Congress has a role here.” Lawmakers were unable to seek clarity from the vice chair of the Federal Reserve during the hearing on whether the Fed would in fact proceed with the issuance of a CBDC without official Congressional authorization. Other issues raised in the House Committee hearing on CBDCs included risks to the public of mass surveillance and targeting of citizens who are critical of the regime. Representative Warren Davidson remarked to the Fed vice chair, “The concern is the surveillance state… If you turn the Central Bank Digital Currency into this creepy surveillance tool…it literally is what China is developing and we shouldn’t imitate them. We should protect America’s way of life.” The threat of adopting China’s model for surveillance and control has become even more apparent in recent days, as China thwarted attempts by protesters to access their frozen funds by turning their QR codes red. Representative John Rose addressed his concerns to the vice chair, adding, “We saw how dangerous it can be when the government weaponizes the financial system for political purposes under the Obama Administration’s Operation Choke Point. More recently, the Canadian government instructed banks to freeze accounts linked to the trucker protests over vaccine mandates…Without appropriate safeguards, would a CBDC make it easier for the federal government to block individuals it disagrees with from accessing the financial system?” Vice Chair Brainard did not deny that CBDCs could be used to block access of individuals, stating that the use of CBDCs would essentially be no different from the current banking systems, from which accounts of political dissidents have been frozen. Legislatures aren’t the only ones concerned about the rise of the CBDC surveillance system. Both the public and shareholders were invited to submit comments on the Federal Reserve’s plans to issue a CBDC, many of whom were resolutely opposed to the idea. One citizen wrote, “You don’t want privacy. You want to control every aspect of our lives.” Another individual replied, “I do not want government in charge of access to the kill switch to my account/money if I do not ‘tow the line.’” Yet another responded, “Stop playing games with our lives. And ignore Klaus Schwab. I fear the system completely breaking down if CBDC is enacted. Because Americans want privacy, freedom, and their work rewarded with sound money.” In response to the Fed paper on CBDCs, the American Bankers Association warned how the disbursement of a CBDC would devastate local banks, stating, “The issuance of a CBDC would fundamentally rewire our banking and financial system by changing the relationship between citizens and the Federal Reserve,” adding, “The risks associated with issuing a CBDC are often downplayed but are real and likely to undermine any possible benefit that a CBDC would have. Most importantly, every construction of CBDC requires moving funds from banks to the Federal Reserve.” The ABA concluded, “As we have evaluated the likely impacts of issuing a CBDC it has become clear that the purported benefits of a CBDC are uncertain and unlikely to be realized, while the costs are real and acute. Based on this analysis, we do not see a compelling case for a CBDC in the United States today.” Despite numerous dissenting voices among Congress, industry leaders and the public, the Biden regime and the Federal Reserve are pressing forward with plans to develop a United States CBDC. The Fed released yet another paper on the issuance of a retail CBDC in April of 2022. On June 17,2022, Fed Chair Powell lamented the decline of the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency (driven by reckless federal spending and intentional mismanagement) and looked to a United States CBDC as a solution to the problems they’ve created, stating, “Looking forward, rapid changes are taking place in the global monetary system that may affect the international role of the dollar in the future. Most major economies already have or are in the process of developing instant, 24/7 payments. Our own FedNow Service will be coming online in 2023. And in light of the tremendous growth in crypto-assets and stablecoins, we are examining whether a US central bank digital currency would improve upon what is an already safe and efficient domestic payments system. As our white paper on this topic notes, a U.S. CBDC could also potentially help maintain the dollar’s international standing.” Research & Development Projects Underway There are a multitude of research and development programs for CBDCs underway. Currently, 105 countries, which represent more than 95% of the global GDP, are in various phases of CBDC exploration. Approximately 50 countries are in the advanced phases of research and development, while 28 retail CBDC pilots and 3 live retail CBDCs have been implemented. A study of 81 central banks determined that 90% are currently researching CBDCs, and over half are in the developmental or experimental phases. Several key areas of CBDC exploration are highlighted below. China & e-CNY Project China’s CBDC pilot program continues to expand since the announcement of its launch in 2020, gaining 261 million digital wallets opened in 2021. The Chinese government has extended the program to include more regions and applications. As China’s CBDC pilot program expands, so do their surveillance capabilities of Chinese citizens, multinational corporations, and other consumers around the world. On May 25, 2022, Senators introduced a bill known as the ‘Defending Americans from Authoritarian Digital Currencies Act,’ to prohibit app platforms, such as Apple and Google, from hosting apps that accept China’s digital currency. Senator Tom Cotton commented that the digital currency will provide the Chinese government with “real-time visibility into all transactions on the network, posing privacy and security concerns for American persons who join this network,” adding, “The Chinese Communist Party will use its digital currency to control and spy on anyone who uses it. We can’t give China that chance.” On June 7, 2022, lawmakers introduced a bill in the Senate known as the ‘Responsible Financial Innovation Act,’ to regulate crypto and to direct several agencies including: CISA, ODNI, and the DoD to investigate the national security implications of the use of China’s CBDC. United States & Project Hamilton The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and MIT Digital Currency Initiative are collaborating on a CBDC exploratory project known as ‘Project Hamilton.’ The first phase of the operation was completed, demonstrating the feasibility of a CBDC payment system similar to the scale of the US economy and the US dollar’s utilization globally. Phase 2 of the project will focus on security, programmability, “how to balance privacy with compliance,” and safeguards against cyber-attacks. Critics argue that a United States CBDC does not address the issues of cybersecurity, government abuse, privacy, and centralized control. Congressman Tom Emmer commented, “Not only would this CBDC model centralize Americans’ financial information, leaving it vulnerable to attack, but it could also be used as a surveillance tool that Americans should never tolerate from their own government,” adding that, “Requiring users to open up an account at the Fed to access a US CBDC would put the Fed on an insidious path akin to China’s digital authoritarianism.” Laying the foundation for their CBDC program, the Fed has developed “a new instant payment infrastructure” known as FedNow. The new digital interbank instant payment system is expected to launch in 2023. European Union & Digital Euro Project The investigation phase of the Digital Euro Project began in October of 2021 and will be completed by October of 2023. As part of the investigation phase, the European Central Bank has solicited public feedback. The ECB received 8,200 public responses, a record number of participants in the survey that ended in January of 2021. The feedback from this consultation provided a clear mandate, with the majority of respondents confirming that the public wants “payments to remain a private matter.” The ECB again solicited public feedback in a survey that ended in June of 2022, which received well more than double the number of responses as the previous survey. Once again, the public survey determined an overwhelming rejection of “digital slavery,” from a CBDC “slavecoin.” One respondent wrote, “No to the digital Euro! Living in the EU is becoming a nightmare, with forced vaccinations on the horizon, and now a digital Euro. It is clear that you want to have a population with no rights and no privacy – as wanted by your overlords of the WEF.” Despite the crushing negative public responses to a CBDC over privacy concerns, the European Central Bank is moving forward with their plans. European Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni remarked to the press that, “A completely anonymous digital euro is not desirable.” A digital euro prototype is expected to launch in late 2023. International CBDC…The post The Rise & Risks of Central Bank Digital Currencies appeared first on coreysdigs.com.
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By The Sharp Edge Since the onset of Covid-19, many Americans are re-evaluating their lifestyles in search for ways to live freely from debt and government overreach. The influx of lockdowns, mandates, inflation, and ‘woke’ agendas…
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By The Sharp Edge In an appearance at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2022, climate-grifter, Al Gore, took the opportunity to, once again, tout Climate TRACE, a coalition backed by the former Vice President and former Google CEO, Eric Schmidt. In response to a comment made by WEF panelist, Lea Wermelin, on the responsibility of governments to make structural changes in our economy to combat climate change, Gore replied, “I have good news on this front. We are about to enter an age of radical transparency. I have been among those who have formed a new coalition called ‘Climate TRACE’…Tracking Real-time Atmospheric Carbon Emissions. It’s a coalition of artificial intelligence technology companies, NGOs, and universities, using data from 300 existing satellites from multiple countries, ground, sea and air-based censors, and internet data streams, to use machine-learning to create algorithms for every single sub-sector of the economy.” This colossal data-collection project aims to replace the current self-reporting system of greenhouse gas emissions by countries and companies, who have committed to net zero goals, by publishing reports of climate offenders so that countries, companies, and even individuals can be “held accountable.” The Google-backed AI algorithm used by Climate TRACE appears to lay the framework for enforcing ESG initiatives heavily pushed by financial behemoths such as BlackRock, as well as a technocratic social and climate credit system. A Framework for ESG Initiatives BlackRock CEO, Larry Fink, has made no attempts to hide his plans to demolish the current economy through environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards. In his 2021 letter to CEOs, Fink remarked, “It’s important to recognize that net zero demands a transformation of the entire economy.” Since Larry Fink issued a letter to CEOs in 2020, which focused on BlackRock’s shift from shareholder capitalism to stakeholder capitalism, by assessing companies based on ESG initiatives, corporations have been falling in line with Blackrock’s ‘woke’ climate agenda. However, Al Gore warned his fellow climate activists at the WEF 2022 Annual Meeting that, “greenwashing,” or the act of falsely claiming to be environmentally sustainable, “is a major obstacle to solving the climate crisis. It is made up of falsehoods, clever PR, and it has to stop.” Of course, Gore presents his Climate TRACE framework as the perfect solution and has stated that investors (such as BlackRock), could potentially use this technocratic system to hold corporations responsible for falling in line with their ESG standards. Billionaire critics of Fink’s ESG initiatives, Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, have publicly pushed back on BlackRock’s attempts to fundamentally change the economy based on ‘woke’ ideology. Elon Musk recently remarked on Twitter, “Exxon is rated top ten best in the world for environment, social & governance (ESG) by S&P 500, while Tesla didn’t make the list! ESG is a scam. It has been weaponized by phony social justice warriors.” Republican lawmakers have introduced legislation, known as the INDEX Act, designed to limit the power of mega money managers, like BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard, from using other people’s money to push a toxic mix of personal politics and climate doom hysteria. A Foundation for Social & Climate Credit System Aside from the obvious dangers of providing a framework for radically transforming an already unstable economy, a far greater threat of this Google-backed global surveillance system is the way in which it could be used against the public, as a foundation for the coming social and climate credit system. Using a project like Climate TRACE to target individual cars, homes, or small businesses for whatever climate offenses these technocrats deem to be greatest, does not seem far off. The social credit system, already implemented in China, relies on mass surveillance of the population to punish or reward their citizens based on their behaviors. Offenses against the authoritarian regime, through the social credit system, result in restrictions of access to traveling, working, or buying a home. Public fears that mass surveillance tools, like Climate TRACE, would be used by governments to implement a social and climate credit system are justified. Corporations, like Alibaba Group, operating in China are pressured, by law, to provide their data collection to the CCP. At the WEF 2022 Annual Meeting, Alibaba Group president, J. Michael Evens, bragged about the company’s development of an “individual carbon footprint tracker,” which has the ability to track everything consumers buy, eat, as well as where and how they travel. Of course, Evans failed to mention if this information would be shared with the Chinese government or if the information would be used as part of their social credit system. The fairly new Climate TRACE coalition, which was launched in July of 2020, has set ambitious goals of tracking and tracing emission sources and reporting on “not just national subsector estimates, but ‘asset-level’ data: individual power plants, factories, ships, planes, farms, and so on all around the world.” Their use of the phrase “and so on,” in this statement isn’t reassuring, as it implies an intent to eventually narrow-in on tracking emissions at the individual level. Climate TRACE brags that their development of this machine-learning approach to trace emissions is “constantly evolving, improving and collecting more data,” allowing it to “get more and more detailed over time.” It seems it’s only a matter of time before Climate TRACE moves their focus of tracking individual planes and farms to tracing the emissions of our individual cars, homes, and small businesses. When asked what Climate TRACE will do with all the data they collect, Gore joked, “Publish it. We’re not the climate cops. We’re maybe the neighborhood watch, but our neighborhood is the whole world.” The thought of ‘climate cops’ using this data as a framework for building a social and climate credit system is no joking matter. While in Glasgow for the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference, known as COP26, Al Gore elaborated on the function of this Climate TRACE coalition to hold entities and individuals accountable for climate offenses, stating, “We can now accurately determine where the greenhouse gas emissions are coming from…and we’ll have the identities of the people who are responsible for each of those greenhouse gas emission streams, and if investors, or governments, or civil society activists want to hold them responsible, they will have the information upon which to base their action in holding them responsible.” Climate TRACE Funders, Members, Partners & Contributors One glance at the funders of this project, reveals that Climate TRACE and their financial backers are unworthy of the public’s trust. Climate TRACE funders include Google, Schmidt Futures, Al Gore, Benificus Foundation, and the partners of Generation Investment Management. Google has a history of surveilling customers, tracking location data, and misleading users about their privacy protections since 2014, and attorneys general in multiple states have filed lawsuits against the Big Tech giant. Former Google CEO and founder of Schmidt Futures, Eric Schmidt, has been accused recently of providing financial incentives to staffers of Biden’s Office of Science and Technology policy, to shape policy that, “benefited…himself.” Schmidt has also been described as reinventing “himself as the prime liaison between Silicon Valley and the military-industrial complex,” due to conflicts of interest for intermingling work with Google and the Pentagon. Benificus Foundation is the family foundation of John and Ann Doerr. John Doerr is a member of Breakthrough Energy Coalition, a fund backed by some of the biggest technocrats in the world, including Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Branson, and George Soros, dumping millions into the junk science climate hoax. Generation Investment Management is a “climate-focused hedge fund” founded by Al Gore and David Blood, former CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Their holdings include investments in Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Alibaba Group. David Blood and Larry Fink are both part of the Principals Group of Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), leading the financial industry to fundamentally transform the global economy through ESG initiatives, by uniting “net-zero financial sector-specific alliances from across the globe into one industry-wide strategic alliance.” Members, partners and contributors to the Climate TRACE coalition include Blue Sky Analytics, Earthrise, Hypervine, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Ocean Mind, Rocky Mountain Institute, Transition Zero, WattTime, and Carbon Plan. Blue Sky Analytics’ lead investor is the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation, and the World Bank wants to hold ‘climate actors’ accountable using verifiable credentials and blockchain, of course. Earthrise Alliance is the brainchild of former NASA Deputy Administrator, Lori Garver, who served as a lead space policy advisor for Obama, Hillary, and John Kerry. Earthrise is trademarked by the Winward Fund, which is managed by the billion dollar “dark money” network, Arabella Advisors. Hypervine is a “Glasgow-based start-up” co-funded by the European Space Agency (ESA), designed to use blockchain and satellite data, and has been promoted by Cemex. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory “supports the Department of Defense (DoD) and a wide array of U.S. government agencies,” on missions “ranging from cyber operations to homeland protection and strategic security, and…national health.” In response to Covid-19, Johns Hopkins APL has developed AI for “health surveillance data,” as well as electronic disease surveillance systems and bio-surveillance. Johns Hopkins APL has contributed research to Climate TRACE by providing data on “road-transport emissions” using satellite imagery. Ocean Mind uses satellites and AI to power “enforcement and compliance,” to protect the world’s oceans, and has partnered with Microsoft after receiving their “AI for Earth” grant. Rocky Mountain Institute merged with Richard Branson’s Carbon War Room and has deep connections to the U.S. Department of Energy going back to the Obama Administration. TransitionZero is funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, Google and Quadrature Climate Foundation, and their CEO is a member of the World Economic Forum. The lead investor of WattTime is Google and they partner with Rocky Mountain Institute and Microsoft. Carbon Plan receives donations from the co-founder of Google, through the Sergey Brin Family Foundation, as well as the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. They’ve also received project-specific funding from NASA and Microsoft, as well as computer credits from Amazon and Microsoft. The list of members, partners and contributors to the Climate TRACE coalition goes on, but as you can see, the project is supported by a who’s who of technocratic globalists with deep pockets. Climate TRACE is merely one piece of the puzzle in their technocratic plans to implement a global surveillance and control system, as clearly outlined in Corey’s Digs’ 4-part report entitled, ‘Global Landscape on Vaccine ID Passports.’The post Climate TRACE: A Framework for ESG Initiatives and Social & Climate Credit System appeared first on coreysdigs.com.
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By The Sharp Edge In an appearance at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2022, climate-grifter, Al Gore, took the opportunity to, once again, tout Climate TRACE, a coalition backed by the former Vice President and former Google CEO, Eric Schmidt. In response to a comment made by WEF panelist, Lea Wermelin, on the responsibility of governments to make structural changes in our economy to combat climate change, Gore replied, “I have good news on this front. We are about to enter an age of radical transparency. I have been among those who have formed a new coalition called ‘Climate TRACE’…Tracking Real-time Atmospheric Carbon Emissions. It’s a coalition of artificial intelligence technology companies, NGOs, and universities, using data from 300 existing satellites from multiple countries, ground, sea and air-based censors, and internet data streams, to use machine-learning to create algorithms for every single sub-sector of the economy.” This colossal data-collection project aims to replace the current self-reporting system of greenhouse gas emissions by countries and companies, who have committed to net zero goals, by publishing reports of climate offenders so that countries, companies, and even individuals can be “held accountable.” The Google-backed AI algorithm used by Climate TRACE appears to lay the framework for enforcing ESG initiatives heavily pushed by financial behemoths such as BlackRock, as well as a technocratic social and climate credit system. A Framework for ESG Initiatives BlackRock CEO, Larry Fink, has made no attempts to hide his plans to demolish the current economy through environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards. In his 2021 letter to CEOs, Fink remarked, “It’s important to recognize that net zero demands a transformation of the entire economy.” Since Larry Fink issued a letter to CEOs in 2020, which focused on BlackRock’s shift from shareholder capitalism to stakeholder capitalism, by assessing companies based on ESG initiatives, corporations have been falling in line with Blackrock’s ‘woke’ climate agenda. However, Al Gore warned his fellow climate activists at the WEF 2022 Annual Meeting that, “greenwashing,” or the act of falsely claiming to be environmentally sustainable, “is a major obstacle to solving the climate crisis. It is made up of falsehoods, clever PR, and it has to stop.” Of course, Gore presents his Climate TRACE framework as the perfect solution and has stated that investors (such as BlackRock), could potentially use this technocratic system to hold corporations responsible for falling in line with their ESG standards. Billionaire critics of Fink’s ESG initiatives, Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, have publicly pushed back on BlackRock’s attempts to fundamentally change the economy based on ‘woke’ ideology. Elon Musk recently remarked on Twitter, “Exxon is rated top ten best in the world for environment, social & governance (ESG) by S&P 500, while Tesla didn’t make the list! ESG is a scam. It has been weaponized by phony social justice warriors.” Republican lawmakers have introduced legislation, known as the INDEX Act, designed to limit the power of mega money managers, like BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard, from using other people’s money to push a toxic mix of personal politics and climate doom hysteria. A Foundation for Social & Climate Credit System Aside from the obvious dangers of providing a framework for radically transforming an already unstable economy, a far greater threat of this Google-backed global surveillance system is the way in which it could be used against the public, as a foundation for the coming social and climate credit system. Using a project like Climate TRACE to target individual cars, homes, or small businesses for whatever climate offenses these technocrats deem to be greatest, does not seem far off. The social credit system, already implemented in China, relies on mass surveillance of the population to punish or reward their citizens based on their behaviors. Offenses against the authoritarian regime, through the social credit system, result in restrictions of access to traveling, working, or buying a home. Public fears that mass surveillance tools, like Climate TRACE, would be used by governments to implement a social and climate credit system are justified. Corporations, like Alibaba Group, operating in China are pressured, by law, to provide their data collection to the CCP. At the WEF 2022 Annual Meeting, Alibaba Group president, J. Michael Evens, bragged about the company’s development of an “individual carbon footprint tracker,” which has the ability to track everything consumers buy, eat, as well as where and how they travel. Of course, Evans failed to mention if this information would be shared with the Chinese government or if the information would be used as part of their social credit system. The fairly new Climate TRACE coalition, which was launched in July of 2020, has set ambitious goals of tracking and tracing emission sources and reporting on “not just national subsector estimates, but ‘asset-level’ data: individual power plants, factories, ships, planes, farms, and so on all around the world.” Their use of the phrase “and so on,” in this statement isn’t reassuring, as it implies an intent to eventually narrow-in on tracking emissions at the individual level. Climate TRACE brags that their development of this machine-learning approach to trace emissions is “constantly evolving, improving and collecting more data,” allowing it to “get more and more detailed over time.” It seems it’s only a matter of time before Climate TRACE moves their focus of tracking individual planes and farms to tracing the emissions of our individual cars, homes, and small businesses. When asked what Climate TRACE will do with all the data they collect, Gore joked, “Publish it. We’re not the climate cops. We’re maybe the neighborhood watch, but our neighborhood is the whole world.” The thought of ‘climate cops’ using this data as a framework for building a social and climate credit system is no joking matter. While in Glasgow for the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference, known as COP26, Al Gore elaborated on the function of this Climate TRACE coalition to hold entities and individuals accountable for climate offenses, stating, “We can now accurately determine where the greenhouse gas emissions are coming from…and we’ll have the identities of the people who are responsible for each of those greenhouse gas emission streams, and if investors, or governments, or civil society activists want to hold them responsible, they will have the information upon which to base their action in holding them responsible.” Climate TRACE Funders, Members, Partners & Contributors One glance at the funders of this project, reveals that Climate TRACE and their financial backers are unworthy of the public’s trust. Climate TRACE funders include Google, Schmidt Futures, Al Gore, Benificus Foundation, and the partners of Generation Investment Management. Google has a history of surveilling customers, tracking location data, and misleading users about their privacy protections since 2014, and attorneys general in multiple states have filed lawsuits against the Big Tech giant. Former Google CEO and founder of Schmidt Futures, Eric Schmidt, has been accused recently of providing financial incentives to staffers of Biden’s Office of Science and Technology policy, to shape policy that, “benefited…himself.” Schmidt has also been described as reinventing “himself as the prime liaison between Silicon Valley and the military-industrial complex,” due to conflicts of interest for intermingling work with Google and the Pentagon. Benificus Foundation is the family foundation of John and Ann Doerr. John Doerr is a member of Breakthrough Energy Coalition, a fund backed by some of the biggest technocrats in the world, including Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Branson, and George Soros, dumping millions into the junk science climate hoax. Generation Investment Management is a “climate-focused hedge fund” founded by Al Gore and David Blood, former CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Their holdings include investments in Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Alibaba Group. David Blood and Larry Fink are both part of the Principals Group of Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), leading the financial industry to fundamentally transform the global economy through ESG initiatives, by uniting “net-zero financial sector-specific alliances from across the globe into one industry-wide strategic alliance.” Members, partners and contributors to the Climate TRACE coalition include Blue Sky Analytics, Earthrise, Hypervine, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Ocean Mind, Rocky Mountain Institute, Transition Zero, WattTime, and Carbon Plan. Blue Sky Analytics’ lead investor is the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation, and the World Bank wants to hold ‘climate actors’ accountable using verifiable credentials and blockchain, of course. Earthrise Alliance is the brainchild of former NASA Deputy Administrator, Lori Garver, who served as a lead space policy advisor for Obama, Hillary, and John Kerry. Earthrise is trademarked by the Winward Fund, which is managed by the billion dollar “dark money” network, Arabella Advisors. Hypervine is a “Glasgow-based start-up” co-funded by the European Space Agency (ESA), designed to use blockchain and satellite data, and has been promoted by Cemex. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory “supports the Department of Defense (DoD) and a wide array of U.S. government agencies,” on missions “ranging from cyber operations to homeland protection and strategic security, and…national health.” In response to Covid-19, Johns Hopkins APL has developed AI for “health surveillance data,” as well as electronic disease surveillance systems and bio-surveillance. Johns Hopkins APL has contributed research to Climate TRACE by providing data on “road-transport emissions” using satellite imagery. Ocean Mind uses satellites and AI to power “enforcement and compliance,” to protect the world’s oceans, and has partnered with Microsoft after receiving their “AI for Earth” grant. Rocky Mountain Institute merged with Richard Branson’s Carbon War Room and has deep connections to the U.S. Department of Energy going back to the Obama Administration. TransitionZero is funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, Google and Quadrature Climate Foundation, and their CEO is a member of the World Economic Forum. The lead investor of WattTime is Google and they partner with Rocky Mountain Institute and Microsoft. Carbon Plan receives donations from the co-founder of Google, through the Sergey Brin Family Foundation, as well as the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. They’ve also received project-specific funding from NASA and Microsoft, as well as computer credits from Amazon and Microsoft. The list of members, partners and contributors to the Climate TRACE coalition goes on, but as you can see, the project is supported by a who’s who of technocratic globalists with deep pockets. Climate TRACE is merely one piece of the puzzle in their technocratic plans to implement a global surveillance and control system, as clearly outlined in Corey’s Digs’ 4-part report entitled, ‘Global Landscape on Vaccine ID Passports.’
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