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Social media, Universal Basic Income, and cashless society: How China's social credit system is coming to America

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Some well-informed Americans may be aware of China's horrifying "Social Credit System" that was recently unveiled as a method of eradicating any dissent in the totalitarian state. Essentially freezing out anyone who does not conform to the state's version of the ideal citizen, the SCS is perhaps the most frightening control system being rolled out today. That is, until you consider what is coming next.

Unbeknownst to most people, there appears to be a real attempt to create a system in which all citizens are rationed their "wages" digitally each month in place of a paycheck, including the ability to gain or lose money. This system would see any form of dissent resulting in the cut off of those credits and the ability to work, eat, or even exist in society. It would not only be the end of dissent but of any semblance of real individuality.

Here's how the Social Credit System operates in China.

First, however, for those who are unaware of the Social Credit System as it operates in China, we should briefly describe just what has taken place there. The Social Credit System in China isn't merely a punishment for criticizing the state as is the case in most totalitarian regimes, the SCS can bring the hammer down for even the slightest infraction such as smoking in a non-smoking zone.

One summary of the SCS can be found in Business Insider's article by Alexandra Ma entitled "China has started ranking citizens with a creepy 'social credit' system — here's what you can do wrong, and the embarrassing, demeaning ways they can punish you," where Ma writes,

Comment: More on the new system of Totalitarian control: the Social credit system:


Bug

Bill Gates says life will only return to "normal" at the end of 2021 when there's a Corona vaccine

Bill Gates
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Warns that's a "best case scenario".

Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates says that life will only return to "normal" once there is widespread adoption of a coronavirus vaccine and that this will not happen until the end of 2021 at the earliest.

Gates said that the end of 2021 is a "best case scenario" and that it remains unknown whether a successful vaccine will even be produced.

"We still don't know whether these vaccines will succeed," said the Microsoft founder. "Now the capacity will take time to ramp up. And so the allocation within the US, and between the US and other countries will be a very top point of contention."

Despite positive signs in the development of vaccines in Russia and China, Gates doubted whether these would ever be made available internationally.

Eye 1

'Green' billionaires behind professional activist network that led suppression of 'Planet of the Humans' documentary

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"We must take control of our environmental movement and our future from billionaires and their permanent war on Planet Earth. They are not our friends."

— Jeff Gibbs, director of "Planet of the Humans"
The Michael Moore-produced Planet of the Humans faced a coordinated suppression campaign led by professional climate activists backed by the same 'green' billionaires, Wall Street investors, industry insiders and family foundations skewered in the film.

It is hard to think of an American film that provoked a greater backlash in 2020 than Planet of the Humans. Focused on the theme of planetary extinction and fanciful proposals to ward it off, the documentary was released for free on YouTube on April 21. The date was significant not only because it was the eve of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, but because a global pandemic was tearing through America's social fabric and exposing the human toll of the country's globalized, growth-obsessed economic model.

Even before Planet of the Humans was released, however, the producers of the film had fallen under pressure to retract it. Upon the film's release, a who's who of self-styled climate justice activists proceeded to blanket the internet with accusations that it was a racist, "eco-fascist" screed that deliberately advanced the interests of the oil and gas industry. When Planet of the Humans was briefly yanked from YouTube thanks to a questionable copyright claim by an angry climate warrior, the free speech organization Pen America issued a remarkable statement characterizing the demands for retraction as a coordinated censorship campaign.

Pyramid

Covid-19 is a Trojan Horse for 'The Great Reset': Sky News Report on Klaus Schwab and the Davos Set

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Sky News host Rowan Dean says the next World Economic Forum in Davos has morphed from a "jet-setter climate gabfest" into a sinister "anti-democratic enterprise designed to destroy your job, steal your prosperity and rob your kids of a future".

"It's a hardcore leftist eco-horror show replete with quasi-fascism," he said. Mr Dean highlighted what he described as a "disturbing trend among many of the world's left-wing elites to increasingly conflate COVID-19 with climate change. Many are going so far as to suggest that all the measures applied to the coronavirus, the lockdowns, the destruction of businesses, the suppression of dissent, curfews, strong-arm police tactics, should become the 'new normal' for dealing with climate change."

Mr Dean said the next World Economic Forum is planning "to convince governments with the help of big businesses and big tech to bring about something deeply sinister called 'The Great Reset'. It is a program designed to strip us all of our fundamental democratic rights in favour of a new form of society as dictated by the elites."

Mr Dean said the advertising for 'The Great Reset' was "just about as cliched and vomit-inducing as the most inane corporate ad can be. This promo is saying that all the very worst things in the world, from the coronavirus to bushfires to riots to pollution to poverty are somehow linked. Then it is claiming they can magically disappear. Literally at the push of a button and just like that, everything in the world is made right and pure again. The Great Reset. What could be simpler?

Mr Dean said ultimately "lunatics including Prince Charles and the United Nations and the IMF want to replicate the global response to COVID and repurpose it for climate change, to enforce zero net emissions."


Comment: Schwab indeed sounds clownish. And yet he is head honcho when 'the Davos set' meet annually. He is also a retired member of the Bilderberg Steering Committee.

It's all (pretty much) out in the open now (which is why it's 'safe' for a Rupert Murdoch-owned media corporation to air such 'conspiracy theory' dissent).

Covid-19 was never about Covid-19, which is just another mild respiratory illness (albeit one that appears to have begun its life as a half-baked genetically-modified lab virus).

Covid-19 is about 'the climate agenda' - inducing, corralling or otherwise enforcing total compliance with 'global governance', their preferred term for One World Government.

Quite where the orders emanate from is not yet clear, but it is clear - given that diverse national governments are rolling out precisely the same lunatic 'Covid-19 measures' in lockstep with each other - that the orders are centrally disseminated.

Regular readers know that we have been warning about the likelihood of increasingly extreme weather and increasing numbers of meteor fireball events presaging a period of global mayhem - possibly culminating in ice age conditions - in which all will feel the effects of food shortages and systemic upheaval.

If we have known about this for the last two decades, then it's a safe bet that they have some idea of what's coming. There are differences of course; throughout, they have been telling only half-truths (which amounts to lying by omission): climate change isn't man-made, and its effects won't be felt 50 years hence when some coastal cities gradually submerge under warming oceans.

No, it's a natural cyclical phenomenon, and its effects are ramping up now. While they continue to lie by omission and cloak what they know in ideological verbiage, the 'elites' at the very least are united by a sense of urgency in 'doing something now, before it's too late'.

But their 'solutions' to anticipating the coming threat to their lofty positions are entirely self-serving. They seek to 'lock it all down' in order to - they believe - be able to 'better manage' the crisis when it fully develops in the coming years. Covid-19 is about 'training' the population, ahead of time, to believe that only dependency on government can 'save' them...


Attention

Rigged: The Chairman of the Presidential Debate Commission is co-founder of 'Color Revolution' org linked to Steele Dossier and more

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Frank Fahrenkopf • George Soros • John McCain
From the failed Chris Wallace-Biden tag-team attempt against Trump, to biased moderator Susan Page's shrill interruptions of Vice President Pence, to the Presidential Debate Commission's ridiculous and politically motivated effort to force a "virtual debate" on Biden's behalf, patriotic Americans have caught on to the fact that there is something deeply unfair about the presidential debates.

This clear bias has justifiably led many observers to wonder what is wrong with the Presidential Debate Commission. Just yesterday, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany called out the Commission directly:
Kayleigh's characterization of the Commission is of course correct. However, its corruption and bias goes beyond the simple fact that it's in the tank for Joe Biden. The nominally Republican Chairman of Presidential Debate Commission, Frank Fahrenkopf, is both a co-founder and current board member of the International Republican Institute (IRI), a top "Color Revolution" propaganda outfit. The IRI was run by Never Trump neoconservative John McCain for decades. It is closely linked to the thoroughly discredited Steele Dossier at the center of the Russia Hoax.

Comment: What a set-up! Who vets these players? A coup d'état and color revolution is unfolding from the inside out - from which there may be no return. Our politicians are public servants. Walk into the capitol and check all biases at the door. It's worse than sad the things we do not know.


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The circle is complete: BOJ joins Fed and ECB in preparing rollout of digital currency

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Masayoshi Amamiya, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Japan
First it was the Fed, then the ECB, and now the BOJ: the world's central banks are quietly preparing to unleash digital currencies on an unsuspecting population in one final last-ditch attempt to spark inflation and do away with the current monetary orthodoxy which has failed to push living conditions for the masses higher (but most importantly, has failed to inflate away a growing mountain of insurmountable global debt).

On Friday, the Bank of Japan joined the Fed and ECB when it said it would begin experimenting on how to operate its own digital currency, rather than confining itself to conceptual research as it has to date.

Digitalization has advanced in various areas at home and abroad on the back of rapid development of information communication technology. There is a possibility of a surge in public demand for central bank digital currency (CBDC) going forward, considering the rapid development of technological innovation. While the Bank of Japan currently has no plan to issue CBDC, from the viewpoint of ensuring the stability and efficiency of the overall payment and settlement systems, the Bank considers it important to prepare thoroughly to respond to changes in circumstances in an appropriate manner.

Cell Phone

Presidential debate chairman: Moderator was hacked when asking Scaramucci for anti-Trump advice

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CPD Co-Chair Frank Fahrenkopf • C-SPAN debate moderator Steve Scully
The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) claims that the cryptic Twitter exchange between upcoming presidential debate moderator Steve Scully of C-SPAN and anti-Trump advocate Anthony Scaramucci, in which Scully asked for advice on responding to President Donald Trump, was the product of a hacker.

"He was hacked, it didn't happen," CPD Co-Chair Frank Fahrenkopf told Brian Kilmeade on The Brian Kilmeade Show Friday morning.

While the CPD claimed that Scully's account was hacked, Fahrenkopf offered no evidence for this explanation. Additionally, Scaramucci has yet to explain why he responded to a supposedly "hacked" tweet.

Comment: There has been no proof or verification of the hacking excuse. It seems there is nothing above board during this election.

For more on CPD Co-Chair Frank Fahrenkopf, see also:

Rigged: The Chairman of the Presidential Debate Commission is co-founder of 'Color Revolution' org linked to Steele Dossier and more


Light Sabers

In order to slam Trump for Taliban 'endorsement', his critics argue for endless wars

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US President Trump • Taliban
A Taliban spokesman has said they hope Donald Trump wins November's election, giving his critics plenty of ammo to attack him with. What some of them likely don't realize they're doing, though, is arguing for more war.

"We hope he will win the election and wind up US military presence in Afghanistan," Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told CBS News in an interview highlighting the unusual support. Mujahid said Trump's "America first" policy breaks with past administrations' need to be "cops for the world."

The Taliban was even concerned about Trump's recent bout with Covid-19. "When we heard about Trump being Covid-19 positive, we got worried for his health, but seems he is getting better," an unnamed senior leader told the news outlet. "Trump might be ridiculous for the rest of the world, but he is sane and wise man for the Taliban," another anonymous senior member said.

Tim Murtaugh, communications director for Trump's reelection campaign, rejected the support of the Taliban in a statement.

'The Taliban endorses Trump' though is far too tempting of a line to stay away from, so the president's critics have taken to social media to highlight the odd interview and use it as a way to argue against Trump's reelection.

Comment: See also:
Trump: Remaining troops in Afghanistan should be home 'by Christmas'


Putin

Putin trolls Biden, lauds 'common values' shared by Soviet Communists & Democrats, points out Trump's harsh record on Russia

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Then U.S. Vice President Joe Biden meeting with Putin in 2014 in Moscow
Russian President Vladimir Putin has attempted to mark a positive resemblance between Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden, and Soviet communists in a wide-ranging interview with the Rossiya TV channel, released Wednesday as the 2020 vice presidential candidates prepared to debate.

The president said the Kremlin would be open to working with whoever sits in the Oval Office in 2021, despite U.S. intelligence reports indicating that Russia is trying to undermine Biden in the same way it did Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016.

But Putin linked Biden to communist ideology during the interview. While Putin — a former party member, KGB colonel and intelligence operative — made the comparison in positive terms, his comment lines up with GOP talking points about the Biden-Kamala Harris ticket. Trump and his allies have tried to frame their opponents proposing a far-left, extremist platform dictated by the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.

Comment: A Harris-Biden presidency would likely be as neocon-influenced as one can possibly imagine. After all, they are the party that has authored the Russiagate and Russian Collusion narratives. So the idea that such an administration would somehow be more constructive towards Russia is, unfortunately, highly improbable. But Putin can still express hope and the urgency for talks so the world can hear it.


Bad Guys

Armenia, Azerbaijan say Nagorno-Karabakh truce fails to hold

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Eduard Chechyan gestures in the yard of his apartment building, destroyed by shelling by Azerbaijan's artillery, during a military conflict in Stepanakert, the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020.
Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to a Russia-brokered cease-fire in Nagorno-Karabakh starting Saturday but immediately accused each other of derailing the deal intended to end the worst outbreak of hostilities in the separatist region in more than a quarter-century.

The two sides traded blame for breaking the truce that took effect at noon with new attacks, and Azerbaijan's top diplomat said the truce never entered force.

The cease-fire announcement came overnight after 10 hours of talks in Moscow sponsored by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The deal stipulated that the cease-fire should pave the way for talks on settling the conflict.

If the truce holds, it would mark a major diplomatic coup for Russia, which has a security pact with Armenia but also cultivated warm ties with Azerbaijan. But the agreement was immediately challenged by mutual claims of violations.

Comment: For some historical background of the conflict, see the SOTT Focus:

Armenia vs Azerbaijan, East vs West: Nagorno-Karabakh crisis and the NATO-Israeli connection