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Oxford Mass Leafleting Completed

Details: Category: Free Citizen; Published: 14 January 2023; Hits: 1126

2023-01-14

In a project to explain the purposes and implications behind Oxford's plans to introduce motor travel restrictions within it's boundaries, a vast team of volunteers requested by Not Our Future turned up on time and in full and leafleted the entire city on Saturday 8th January.

As if it were all in a day's work.

Full report here.

Rebel News were there to report on this extraordinary event.

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Your Government Id is Awaiting Your Realisation

Details: Category: Free Citizen; Published: 14 January 2023; Hits: 1251

2023-01-14

The good news (as I understand it) is that you will be able to "seamlessly" identify yourself to the government (or any of its many agencies) on-line, all without quoting your Id number.

The bad news?

(7 minutes)

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The government's digital id proposals (or "UK Digital Identity and Attributes Trust Framework beta version (0.3) updated 11th January 2023" as we should properly entitle them) are announced by Julia Lopez MP, Minister of State for Media, Data, and Digital Infrastructure at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport, and a very fine front-person for the Civil Servants responsible for this confection she does make.

Of course, nobody must be left behind in the race to access government services digitally, so the government has drawn up guidelines to ensure that as many "certified digital identity service providers" as may be necessary may be configured to complete digital identity checks for "the Right to Work, Right to Rent, and DBS schemes ... "

"This development will align with the Disclosure and Barring Service’s (DBS) proposal to enable digital identity checking within their criminal record checking process".

Along with the identity service providers, there will also be attribute service providers, and orchestration service providers, all playing their allotted roles within this intricate tapestry of conceptual identity determination.

Sounds as though there may be quite a few individual contracts for the private sector to set up all these certified service providers, but no doubt the government will have learned from the Covid procurement problems and has thought through all of that.

Of course there will be Luddites and nay-sayers who deny the immense benefits that such a scheme can bring, and see only the scope for life-and-sanity-denying problems that may arise when these certified intermediaries fail to connect an applicant with the correct digital identity, leading to a trail of wrong decisions and invalid events recorded against the wrong person; but given the government's track-record in handling digital projects at scale I'm sure that the civil servants have thought of everything, and such doubts will be proven groundless in short order.

Nevertheless the government is keen to involve the public and has published a Consultation on Draft Legislation to Support Identity Verification - running from 4 January 2023 to 1 March 2023:

"The organisations affected by this consultation are public authorities in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and/or other government departments, arm’s length bodies, non-departmental public bodies or other organisations who may consider they could be affected by the draft regulations ... Responses are welcome from anyone with an interest in or views on the subject covered by this consultation."

"The legislation will take effect from 6 April 2022"

The sharp-eyed may note that we are now in 2023, and I'm not clear whether the scheme has already been in limited operation since April 2022, or has been subject to delays.

As a final thought, the government has clearly considered the implications for GDPR compliance and the Trusts Frameworks beta version goes to some lengths to ensure that applicants for certified digital identity service providers are aware of their (not inconsiderable) responsibilities under the UK's GDPR. Of course, holding them to account for these responsibilities may not be a simple matter.

Over to you.

So, Despite the War in the Ukraine, the CBDCs Are in LockStep to Replace the Dollar Order?

Details: Category: Free Citizen; Published: 13 January 2023; Hits: 713

2023-01-13

Despite the appearance of being at loggerheads over the Ukraine, Taiwan, and whatever other flashpoints may yet surface, and despite the BRICS countries moving ahead with their own basket of interchangeable currencies supported by "hard assets" and the Western nations still wedded to their essentially worthless paper, is there really uniformity of approach to base the new world financial system on the existing Central Banks and the Central Bank of the Central Banks, the Bank of International Settlements?

Would that not simply leave the foxes in charge of the hen-house?

"it was the West's sanctions that helped the BRICS nations achieve a long-held monetary policy objective, In June 2022 the BRICS member states announced their plans to establish an alternative to the IMF's special drawing rights (SDRs). A basket of BRICS currencies will potentially form a new tradable asset to be exchanged for goods, services and commodities, or redeemed for equivalent currency value"

"According to ... the Atlantic Council, 105 countries around the world—accounting for 95% of global GDP—are surging ahead with development of a central bank digital currency (CBDC)"

"a coincidence of almost incalculable improbability that, following the G7 bankers' emergency plea to create a new multipolar international monetary and financial system, global events in the space of just a couple of years—first the pseudopandemic and then the war in Ukraine—and more specifically the West's spending responses to these crises—should have coalesced so perfectly to move the world, with pinpoint precision, towards the specific monetary destination desired by the central bankers"

Well, who would have thought it?

Even the WEF is on board:

"The open 'transformation' of global governance to the multipolar system is simply the public disclosure of that which was already extant. The New World Order has been repackaged as 'multipolar' and is now being advocated as some kind of escape hatch from itself"

Iain Davis writing for UK Column sorts the facts from the fluff.

The conclusion?

Well, my conclusion is that whichever faction you back they are likely all as bad as each other. At the end of the day when all is said and done, the real questions that matter are simple:

a) Who has custody / control of my money? I want that otherwise I may not be free to save or spend it as I wish, and in the event that my bank collapses I don't want my money disappearing with them.

b) Is it asset-backed? I don't want any intermediary racking up any charges or otherwise inflating away my monetary value.

If either (a) or (b) is not forthcoming then we will never be free.

Unrealistic? Under any of the "usual suspects", definitely. This needs to be redesigned from the point of view of the man in the street, none of whom are present in the corridors of the WEF or the great financial institutions. It cannot be left up to them, nor to their cronies that run our governments for their own purposes. Is there anyone who is even talking about it?

We would need some alternative form of monetary governance where the currency issuance and tracking systems are distributed and the banking system may provide services but would never hold custody control over our money.

One thing is for sure, if you allow yourself to be sucked into the "my version of CBDCs is better than yours" you will lose sight of question (a) simply because it will never be mentioned.

Climate - How is it Changing?

Details: Category: Green; Published: 07 January 2023; Hits: 1455

2023-01-07

This is a huge topic but the reality is very simple - can we link the predicted "extreme weather" events (or even any predictions) to "climate change", and did those predictions come about?

Since the climate has been said to be changing for 50 odd years now, we should be able to point to some predictions that have indeed come about, and in view of the severity of the proposals put forward for combating this menace, we really ought to be able to point to some concrete evidence that (a) the predictions so far have been quite good and (b) we understand quite well how these predicted phenomena work.

In short, let's look at the evidence.

And by the way, models are not necessarily "science".

Models can only be regarded as scientific if they implement a theory that has been found to be successful at predicting the behaviour of whatever system is being modelled. Otherwise they only predict whatever the modeller wants them to predict. Whether or not that modeller is described as a "scientist" has no bearing on the matter whatever.

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Neil Oliver Tells it As It Is - Wilful Blindness

Details: Category: Free Citizen; Published: 07 January 2023; Hits: 1417

2023-01-07

As always, he makes the unanswerable case.

Our MPs are complicit in their absence. They are complicit in the ongoing fake vaccination programme, even though there is clearly no cause for it that has not been long discredited.

Will they be complicit in the next restrictions?

We need to go back to first principles.

What will it take?

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