tinfoilhatter

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by tinfoilhatter 7mo ago
Besides bloggers / youtubers who have written / talked about this, there's a single news story returned by Google, which I sourced. If there were other articles to source from, I would have. Given that our internet was create
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by tinfoilhatter 7mo ago
Oh yes, because intelligence agencies are known for broadcasting their moves to everyone. I can guarantee you believe in a lot of things that you have no actual evidence of happening - just some perceived authority figure you trust for what
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by tinfoilhatter 7mo ago
Do you require everything you read to spell out everything for you point blank? Are you unable to connect dots? The DARPA lifelog project ended the day Facebook was announced by a college dropout no one had ever heard of before. Facebook ju
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by tinfoilhatter 7mo ago
Always getting downvoted for typing the inconvenient truth people don't want to read and or acknowledge. This website is just as bad as reddit in terms of enabling censoring of opinions that don't support the popular narrative (li
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by tinfoilhatter 7mo ago
You're acting like every US president sans Martin van Buren hasn't been related / a descendant of King John Lackland of England.
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by tinfoilhatter 7mo ago
Remember kids - don't pick up any currency lying on the ground at an ICP concert. It most likely has poop on it.
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by tinfoilhatter 7mo ago
If people aren't getting sick, they have no revenue stream. Those non-profits you mentioned obviously aren't as capable of lobbying congress to influence industry regulation / bureaucracy as for-profit organizations are.
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by tinfoilhatter 7mo ago
Have you ever considered that once a disease is cured, the industry can no longer profit off of it being a disease? Treating disease rather than curing it, is a much more profitable venture. How is there money to be had in curing HIV? It se
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by tinfoilhatter 7mo ago
Then feel free to point out the outliers that aren't interested in maximizing profits. https://www.somo.nl/big-pharma-raked-in-usd-90-billion-in-pr... It seems to me that the leading vaccine manufacturers, who spend bi
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by tinfoilhatter 7mo ago
The healthcare industry, especially in the US, isn't interested in finding cures for disease. It's interested in maximizing profits, which is a goal that the bureaucracy serves.
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by tinfoilhatter 7mo ago
You fail to mention big Israel money, when 98% of US congress members are taking donations from AIPAC. Strange omission on your part.
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by tinfoilhatter 7mo ago
> This is a perfect example of when I think freedom of speech restrictions (such as laws criminalizing Holocaust denial) are a net positive. Of course you think that, because you don't want to have an objective conversation about th
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by tinfoilhatter 7mo ago
Spewing stuff like what? Robert Maxwell, Ghislane Maxwell's father (a proud Zionist and Mossad agent) was the co-founder of McGraw Hill, the second largest textbook publishing company in the US. Are you trying to tell me a proud Zionis
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by tinfoilhatter 7mo ago
This totalitarian agenda has been in the works for far longer than a quarter century. It's not just rich old people either. We're witnessing the creation of the beast system in real time. The one that is prophesized in the Book of
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by tinfoilhatter 8mo ago
I understand the convenience factor, but the privacy / potential ethical concerns with digital IDs connected to private sector services like banking transactions, internet access, sim card availability, etc... outweigh the convenience
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by tinfoilhatter 8mo ago
Considering every US president sans van Buren has been related to one another, I'm not sure voting is very effective either.
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by tinfoilhatter 8mo ago
The downvotes for simply mentioning the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation are quite amazing.
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by tinfoilhatter 8mo ago
Why is having a digital ID that captures your biometric information, that is central to accessing many services so amazing? Please elaborate. I guess if it was allowed to be purchased by a foreign actor, it's not so amazing after all..
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by tinfoilhatter 8mo ago
Or it could be because of... https://www.jstor.org/stable/26363914 Which is the situation that led to the conflict in Ukraine in 2013/14 - an IMF loan that was up for renewal with harsh structural adjustments. The
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by tinfoilhatter 8mo ago
I wonder why their developmental indicators are so poor? Perhaps it's because of NGOs like the IMF and World Bank and the loans they issue to these nations and the structural adjustments that keep these nations in cycles of poverty. Am
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by tinfoilhatter 8mo ago
Is expansion all that matters to you? What about human rights and personal sovereignty? Do you think China is a bastion of democracy and freedom? The benefits of security and stability do not outweigh the alternative when authoritarian gove
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by tinfoilhatter 8mo ago
It's already possible to do government-related and banking paperwork over the Internet without digital identities linked to your biometrics. We do it every day in the United States. You're also conveniently ignoring the fact that
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by tinfoilhatter 8mo ago
They also make it easier for nation states to cut off access to public and private services when they don't like what a citizen is doing. It's wasn't normalized by choice - it was forced upon people. I'm sure NGOs and go
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by tinfoilhatter 8mo ago
What about when obtaining a SIM card or internet access? What about when purchasing a bus or train or plane ticket? Do you think you should have to identify yourself with a digital ID to withdraw your own money from your own bank account? Y
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by tinfoilhatter 8mo ago
Because your physical ID isn't scanned every time you access your bank account, and your bank (hopefully) doesn't check with some central database the government controls before issuing you an account. With a digital ID controlled
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by tinfoilhatter 8mo ago
It sounds great until all of an individual's activity online and offline starts being tracked through it, because transactions require a single digital ID (potentially even accessing the internet). And then, when the government decides
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Ethiopia gets $350M World Bank financing for its digital ID project (2024)(mariblock.com)
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by tinfoilhatter 8mo ago
Ethiopia is in the process of implementing a nationwide digital ID program called Fayda ID. Fayda ID is an implementation of the open source platform MOSIP [1]. The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation is a strategic partner and funder of th
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by tinfoilhatter 8mo ago
> guided by values > driven by values > well-intentioned What values? What intentions? These people grin and laugh while talking about AI causing massive disruptions to livelihoods on a global scale. At least one of them has even g
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by tinfoilhatter 8mo ago
And the victors write it.

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