The next wave of education reform is one part of a much larger societal shift that hinges on the use of Big Data, predictive analytics, and digital profiling to control populations in a world of growing economic uncertainty and unrest. What follows is a speculative dystopian scenario, a world that could very well emerge from systems being put in place right now. It centers on two sisters, Cam and Li, who live in a near future New York where authorities have come to view human life primarily as a source from which to extract financial profit. Many elements of the story read like science fiction, but they are not. I’ve included links to sources at the end of each post so you can explore this reality for yourself.
The future is uncertain and unlikely to play out exactly as described. Nevertheless, we must begin to comprehend how technological developments combined with concentrated power and extreme income inequality are leading us to increasingly automated forms of oppression. My hope is that communities will begin to incorporate an understanding of this bigger picture into resistance efforts for public education and beyond. Let us join together, embracing our humanity, to fight the forces that would bring us to “lockdown.” How can we preserve our lives and those of our loved ones outside the data stream? How can we nurture community in a world where alienation is becoming normalized? What do we owe one another? What are we willing to risk? I have divided my story into seven parts. I hope you’ll read along and consider sharing it with others.
In this first instalment of a new series, Iain Davis and Whitney Webb explore how the UN’s “sustainable development” policies, the SDGs, do not promote “sustainability” as most conceive of it and instead utilise the same debt imperialism long used by the Anglo-American Empire to entrap nations in a new, equally predatory system of global…
This series of blog posts from Alison McDowell at wrenchinthegears.com highlights various threads of research and pieces of the puzzle which overall begin to produce a larger picture of how these individuals and organizations are working towards accomplishing their objectives, and possible motives as to WHY they are so focused on doing so. I wanted…
A growing contingent in the crypto world focuses on a concept of ‘regenerative’ finance termed refi, which relies on the premise that social engineering, through economic incentives, smart contracts, mass data collection, and Artificial Intelligence, can create a positive outcome on society, and thus avoid the abuse of incumbent power centers through ‘decentralized’ digital organizations which implement…
The escalating regulatory attack on agricultural producers from Holland and the United States to Sri Lanka and beyond is closely tied to the United Nations’ “Agenda 2030” Sustainable Development Goals and the U.N.’s partners at the World Economic Forum (WEF), numerous experts told The Epoch Times. Indeed, several of the U.N.’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)…
This is an extremely brief and basic overview of some of the mechanisms being developed and implemented under the guise of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, Agenda 21, Agenda 2030, Vision 2050 “utopian” worldview that “the powers that be” are envisioning, and actively working towards. The ultimate vision is to create an all-encompassing data…
The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most manipulated infectious disease events in history, characterized by official lies in an unending stream lead by government bureaucracies, medical associations, medical boards, the media, and international agencies.[3,6,57] We have witnessed a long list of unprecedented intrusions into medical practice, including attacks on medical experts, destruction of medical…
Let me introduce you to Barbara Baarsma. Barbara is the CEO of Rabo Carbon Bank. Yes, you read that right. Not Rabo Bank but Rabo Carbon Bank. In this 53 second video interview below she is advocating for a “Personal Carbon Wallet”. That may not seem like a big deal but when you hear what…
The Atlantic Council published a report titled Designing Decentralized Finance For Financial Inclusion. They specifically note how DeFi projects need to expand their reach to mobile users and improve internet access to achieve financial inclusion. According to their report 90 percent of people who access the internet do it through their smartphone. They note how public…
– Social validation for identity is becoming increasingly popular due to its game theoretical security properties. A concept gaining traction called “Soul Bound” tokens expands the concept of digital identity significantly, and reveals the dangers of interoperable digital identity. In a May 2022 paper titled Decentralized Society: Finding Web3’s Soul Vitalik Buterin, Glen Weyl and Puja Olhaver describe the…