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NYU School Of Law Warns Digital ID “Paving A Digital Road To Hell”
New York University’s Center for Human Rights and Global Justice has issued a chilling warning about the potential dangers to human rights posed by the push for digital identity.
In mid-June, the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, a “hub for human rights study” at New York University (NYU) School of Law, issued a 100-page report detailing the growing dangers of a reliance on digital identity around the world. The report, titled Paving a Digital Road to Hell?, examines the role of the world bank and other international networks which have been promoting the use if digital ID in recent years.
The report notes that the World Bank has been “energetically promoting biometric and other digital ID systems that are increasingly linked to large-scale human rights violations, especially in the Global South”. The researchers warn that digital identity schemes “promoted in the name of development and inclusion, might be achieving neither”. Despite ostensible good intentions on the part of some promoting these systems, they “may well be paving a digital road to hell.”
The press release for the report notes (emphasis added):
“Governments around the world have been investing heavily in digital identification systems, often with biometric components (digital ID). The rapid proliferation of such systems is driven by a new development consensus, packaged and promoted by key global actors like the World Bank, but also by governments, foundations, vendors and consulting firms.“
The report states that many of the digital identity schemes are taking inspiration from the Aadhaar system in India. This specific digital ID model has prioritized digital ID as an “economic identity”, according to the report. “The goal of such systems is primarily to establish ‘uniqueness’ of individuals, commonly with the help of biometric technologies,” the release states. This in turn allows for bringing in impoverished people from the “informal” or “counter-economy” to the formal economy. This also has the effect of “unlocking” their behavioral data that can then be used by governments and other parties.
The report also notes that the Executive Chairman of the influential ID4Africa, a platform where African governments and major companies in the digital ID market meet, noted at the 2022 Annual Meeting in June that digital ID is no longer about identity alone but,
“enables and interacts with authentication platforms, payments systems, digital signatures, data sharing, KYC systems, consent management and sectoral delivery platforms.”
The report details how the promoters of the new digital/economic identity model often evade “difficult questions” about the legal status and rights of those being registered. Despite promises of inclusion and flourishing digital economies, digital ID systems have “consistently failed to deliver on these promises in real world situations, especially for the most marginalized”. The Aadhaar system itself has been criticized for severe and large-scale human rights violations.
In fact, the report finds that the evidence indicates it is the small group of companies and governments who stand to benefit most from these systems.
“After all, where digital ID systems have tended to excel is in generating lucrative contracts for biometrics companies and enhancing the surveillance and migration-control capabilities of governments.”
Who is Driving the Push to Digital Identity?
The authors of the report also call for a “more clearly developed notion of ‘who’ are the most relevant actors driving this agenda and ‘what’ are the key concepts that should be contested and reimagined”. They say that much can be learned by focusing on the actions of the World Bank Group, and, “more specifically its ID4D Initiative, as a central node in a more extensive global network of digital ID promotion.”
In 2014, the World Bank launched the Identification for Development (ID4D) program with the aim of solving the problem of a lack of identity for much of the so-called “developing world”. The World Bank is funding digital biometric ID programs in Mexico, pushing digital ID in poorer countries with the ostensible goal of providing legal identity to the 1.1 billion people who do not currently have one.
This program was started with a “catalytic investment” from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Omidyar Network, as well as various governments. The report notes:
“We have noted that the World Bank and its ID4D Initiative do not stand alone in pursuing the digital ID agenda. They exist within a global network of organizations and individuals. This includes donor governments like the United Kingdom, the United States and France; global foundations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and Omidyar Network; tech-savvy governments such as in India and Estonia; the UN system, including the members of the UN-Legal Identity Agenda Task Force; regional development banks, including the Asian Development Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank; private biometrics corporations like Idemia, Thales, and Gemalto; card companies such as MasterCard; new networks such as the Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA) and ID4Africa; and numerous other global organizations”
Many of the governments and companies listed above are also partners with the World Economic Forum, the proponents of “The Great Reset“. The Gates Foundation is likely more well known to regular readers, but the Omidyar Network should also raise red flags. The Omidyar Network was set up by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and Pam Omidyar. To learn more about the history of Omidyar and his co-opting of the Snowden leaks via his ownership of The Intercept, read these investigations.
Interestingly, the NYU report states that proponents of this digital identity future have “cloaked this new paradigm in the language of human rights and inclusion, arguing that such systems will help to achieve multiple Sustainable Development Goals”.
As I reported in my previous investigation, Exposing the “Digital ID is a Human Right” Scam, the push towards a digital identity has its roots in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 Agenda. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a collection of 17 interlinked objectives adopted by the United Nations in 2015 with the ostensible goal of ending poverty, protecting the planet, and spreading peace and prosperity to all people by 2030.
The SDGs were part of a larger resolution known as the 2030 Agenda, or Agenda 2030, with the stated purpose of fighting climate change. While the United Nations SDGs and Agenda 2030 are often touted as a tool for establishing healthy multilateral relationships between nations, in truth, they are based in a deeper agenda to monitor, control, and direct all life on the planet.
The UN and the World Economic Forum have regularly promoted the idea of a digital identity as a necessity for life in the 2020’s.
It’s clear that this effort to strong-arm the world into accepting digital identity programs is part of a larger push towards biometrics, a track and trace society, and, eventually, tools like Central Bank Digital Currencies.
While the NYU report is the latest to warn about the dangers of the quickly approaching digital world, this is not the first warning. In April 2021, the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice published a skeptical piece titled “Everyone Counts! Ensuring that the human rights of all are respected in digital ID systems.” This article looked at some of the ways marginalized populations are further marginalized by digital systems. They warn of the “need for the human rights movement to engage in discussions about digital transformation so that fundamental rights are not lost in the rush to build a ‘modern, digital state’.”
In January 2020 — prior to the COVID-19 crisis and the increase in biometrics and vaccine passports — forty organizations signed a letter calling on an independent government watchdog to recommend a ban on U.S. government use of facial recognition technology. The organizations challenged the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) to “examine the more significant public concerns about the use of facial recognition in public spaces.” They also called on the board to address concerns that facial recognition software can be used by “authoritarian governments to control minority populations and limit dissent” and that this “could spread quickly to democratic societies.“
What is clear at this pressing moment is that it will take a combination of the people standing up and pushing back against these systems, and academics and think tanks like the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, to force a much needed debate about these technologies. The CHRGJ outlines the need for an “equally global effort by the entire human rights ecosystem” to counter the influence of the global network of digital identity advocates.
The Paving a Digital Road to Hell? report calls on each of us to ask these important questions to local, state, national, and international lawmakers:
“What can we in the human rights ecosystem meaningfully do, individually and collectively, to ensure that digital ID systems enhance, rather than jeopardize, the enjoyment of human rights?”
“Is this even possible through digital ID systems?”
If we do not have this crucial conversation we may miss an opportunity to prevent further violations of human rights, and loss of civil liberties.
Comment to article:
" Hukou is the name of the current Chinese “internal passport,” "social score" and submission requirement,
Points are awarded to an individual or family for political correctness, or deducted in response to politically unacceptable speech or behavior..... or thought. A high or low"social score" effects the lives of every person. a person with a low score sees the punishment exacted on his family, unto several generations.
Access to such amenities as housing availability, employment, permission (or requirement) to marry, travel, income, credit, water, sewer, gas and electric services - even permission - or requirement - to have children may be dependent on the Social Credit Score of the person or family holding the mandated “internal passport.".
Subservience adds points. "Unfavorable" words - or thoughts- are deductions.
But do the Democrat-Fascists intend to gradually or rapidly institute a hukou -type system in the United States?...."
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https://stephenlendman.org/2022/07/19/growing-risk-of-global-war-3-0/
Growing Risk of Global War 3.0
Today is the most perilous time in world history, exceeding all earlier perilous times.
The risk of humanity-destroying war exists on multiple fronts.
Hegemon USA-dominated NATO’s proxy war on Russia risks direct East/West confrontation with nukes — things heading ominously in this direction.
Last Sunday, Russia’s Security Council Deputy Chairman, Dmitry Medvedev, said the following:
“Some bloody (Ukrainian) clowns, who pop up with statements now and then, are trying to threatens us, I mean attacks on Crimea and so on,” adding:
“Should anything of the kind happen, they will be faced with doomsday, very quick and tough, immediately.”
“There will be no avoiding it.”
“But they keep on provoking the general situation by such statements.”
Medvedev should have stressed that US-dominated NATO’s proxy war on Russia with Ukrainian foot soldiers risks WW III.
Something similar is at risk of playing out in the Asia/Pacific.
On Monday, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman commented on the Biden regime’s intention to sell another $108 million worth of weapons to Taiwan, saying:
“US arms sales to China’s Taiwan region seriously violate the one-China principle and the stipulations of the three China-US joint communiques, especially the August 17 Communique of 1982.”
“The sales gravely undermine China’s sovereignty and security interests, and severely harm China-US relations and peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.”
“China firmly opposes and strongly condemns this.”
“We have made serious demarches to the US side over this” — demanding that the empire of lies “stop arms sales to and military contact with Taiwan and stop creating factors that could lead to (increased) tensions in the Taiwan Strait.”
“China will continue to take resolute and strong measures to firmly defend its sovereignty and security interests.”
Separately, Chinese Defense Ministry’s spokesman, Col. Tan Kefei, said the following:
If hegemon USA continues to supply Taiwan — what Beijing considers a breakaway province — with weapons, “the US side will be solely responsible for undermining the relationship between China and the US, and the two militaries and the peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait.”
“The Chinese People’s Liberation Army will take all necessary measures to firmly defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and resolutely thwart any form of external interference and separatist attempts for Taiwan independence.”
According to interventionist Blinken’s so-called spokesman Price:
The empire of lies and forever wars on invented enemies intends to continue providing Taiwan with weapons and munitions to “defend itself” — despite having no regional or other enemies, just invented ones.
Hostile to peace and stability sales to Taiwan flagrantly breach hegemon USA’s one China policy — what exists in name only.
In response to the State Department’s approved sale, Taiwan’s so-called defense ministry said the following:
“We express sincere gratitude to the (Biden regime’s) State Department for giving clearance for the order,” as well as sticking to so-called “Six Assurances.”
They refer to US arms sales to Taiwan without consulting China.
Announced in the 1980s, the include the following:
The US set no date for ending arms sales to Taiwan.
It did not agree to consult with the PRC on arms sales to Taiwan.
Nor will it play a mediating role between Taipei and Beijing.
It did not agree to revise the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA).
Nor did it alter its position regarding Chinese sovereignty over Taiwan.
It will not exert pressure on Taiwan to enter into negotiations with the PRC.
By joint resolution in 2016, the US House and Senate affirmed the Six Assurances and Taiwan Relations Act (TRA) as cornerstones of US/Taiwan relations.
The 1979 TRA terminated formal US diplomatic recognition of Taiwan.
The Trump and Biden regimes breached the letter and spirit of Sino/US relations by establishing and maintaining de facto relations with Taiwan — as well as virtually abandoning the US one-China policy.
Earlier this year, Beijing’s US envoy, Qin Gang, called “(t)he Taiwan issue the biggest tinderbox between China and the US,” adding:
“If the Taiwanese authorities, emboldened by the US, keep going down the road for independence, it most likely will involve China and (hegemon USA) in a military conflict.”
Is the empire of lies heading for direct confrontation with Russia and China at the same time?
Is war on Iran another risk too serious to ignore?
On Monday, apartheid Israel’s IDF chief, General Aviv Kochavi, said the following:
“Preparing a military option against (Iran’s commercial) nuclear program (with no military component) is a moral necessity and a national security imperative (sic).”
On all things military and most everything else, the empire of lies and apartheid Israel are joined at the hip.
The Jewish state won’t undertake anything belligerent against Iran without US permission or involvement.
If the Islamic Republic is attacked, it’ll likely be a joint US/Israeli operation.
Is this where things are heading?
Israeli warplanes recently simulated a large-scale attack on Iran during military exercises.
If attacked by Israel or any other nation, Iran vowed to respond in crushing fashion.
On numerous occasions, Iran’s ruling authorities and military vowed to annihilate Israel if attacked by the Zionist state.
In early July, Tehran’s chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Bagheri-Kani, said the following:
“Even if (Israel) attack(s) Iran in (its) dreams, (its ruling regime) should know that (it) certainly will not wake from that dream.”
Yet the threat of US/NATO direct confrontation with Russia and China, as well as Israeli aggression against Iran, remain ominous possibilities.
Never before in my lifetime has the threat of global war with nukes been as worrisome as now.
What’s unthinkable is very possible because of US rage for unchallenged global dominance.
The same goes for Israeli rage to dominate the Middle East by neutralizing and partitioning other regional states to control them, especially Iran.
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http://endoftheamericandream.com/we-appear-to-be-very-close-to-peak-global-oil-production-and-that-has-enormous-implications-for-the-entire-global-economy/
We Appear To Be Very Close To Peak Global Oil Production, And That Has Enormous Implications For The Entire Global Economy
What do you think is going to happen when we get to a point where the world simply cannot produce any more oil than it is already producing? It is often said that “energy is the economy”, and to a large degree that is true. Very wealthy nations with large GDPs tend to use a great deal of energy, while very poor nations with small GDPs tend to use a lot less energy. Just about every form of economic activity requires energy, and so those countries that have a high level of economic activity require more of it. Of course we live at a time when the total population of the world has been steadily increasing and global demand for energy has soared to unprecedented heights. Production has struggled to keep up with demand, and now it appears that we will soon reach a point where we are simply not able to produce enough for everyone.
The “green revolution” was supposed to rescue us from this fate, but the “green revolution” has failed miserably.
Just look at Europe. They told us that they were shifting to “green energy”, but they just kept becoming more dependent on Russian natural gas instead. Thanks to the war in Ukraine, much of the population of Europe could get extremely cold this winter.
Despite all of the efforts to push us toward “green energy”, our world is powered by traditional forms of energy and that will continue to be the case for the foreseeable future.
And the most important form of traditional energy that we rely on is oil.
Today, there are just three countries that collectively produce close to half of the total global supply of oil…
Despite widespread talk about peak oil demand, the truth is that, for now at least, consumption keeps growing. The world relies heavily on three nations for crude: the US, Saudi Arabia and Russia. Together, they account for nearly 45% of global total oil supply.
Everyone has always assumed that Saudi Arabia could produce a lot more oil per day than it is currently producing, but it turns out that was not true at all…
During US President Joseph Biden’s trip to Saudi Arabia, the world was so focused on how Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman would respond to his plea to pump more oil immediately that it missed a bombshell: the level at which Saudi oil production will peak.
It’s a lot lower than many anticipated. It’s lower than the Saudis have ever intimated. And with the world still hungry for fossil fuels, it spells long-term trouble for the global economy.
Oh yeah, that definitely means big trouble for the global economy.
The Saudis just admitted that “maximum capacity” is 13 million barrels a day, and that figure shocked just about everyone…
For years, Saudi oil ministers and royals have sidestepped one of the most important questions the energy market faces: What is the long-term upper limit of the kingdom’s oilfields? The guesstimate was that they could always pump more, and for longer; if the Saudis knew the answer, they kept it secret. And then, almost casually on Saturday, Prince Mohammed broke the news, revealing that the ultimate maximum capacity is 13 million barrels a day.
If the Saudis can’t do it, where will we turn for additional capacity?
We could always try to do more drilling here in the United States, but the truth is that conventional oil production in the U.S. peaked long ago. In a desperate attempt to become less dependent on foreign oil we ramped up unconventional oil production, and that created a “mini-boom” for a time…
Many early peak oil analysts predicted that the maximum rate of oil production would be achieved in the 2005-to-2010 timeframe, after which supplies would decline minimally at first, then more rapidly, causing prices to skyrocket and the economy to crash.
Those forecasters were partly right and partly wrong. Conventional oil production did plateau starting in 2005, and oil prices soared in 2007, helping trigger the Great Recession. Afterward, however, there was strong growth in production of unconventional oil from deepwater wells and Canadian oil sands, and especially from tight oil (also referred to as shale oil) extracted by horizontal drilling and fracking. The US, whose petroleum production rate had been generally declining since the early 1970s, hit new all-time highs as tight oil gushed from North Dakota and Texas.
But now we are reaching the limits as far as what we can do with unconventional production.
It is becoming increasingly difficult and increasingly expensive to get oil out of the ground, and that is a huge problem.
Cheap oil fueled our economic boom times for many years, but now those days are over.
As for Russian oil production, there is so much that we don’t know.
But I did find it alarming when I read that oil shipments to China and India are way down…
There are tentative signs that Russia’s diversion of crude oil to Asia from long-time European customers is faltering. Shipments to China and India are down by almost 30% from their post-invasion peak.
And the Russians have told us that they expect oil production to decline “by as much as 17% in 2022”…
Russia may see its oil production fall by as much as 17% in 2022, an economy ministry’s document seen by Reuters showed on Wednesday, as the country struggles with Western sanctions.
The United States has banned Russian oil imports, while Western sanctions against Russian banks and vessels had crippled the oil trade, one of Moscow’s key sources of revenue. The European Union is also considering fully banning Russian oil.
Global supplies of oil have been getting tighter and tighter, and there have been stretches this year when daily global consumption of oil has exceeded daily global production of oil.
If we are at or near peak global oil production right now, what will our world look like once we get past the peak and global oil production actually starts steadily declining?
If you think that gasoline prices are bad now, just wait until we get to that stage.
Plus, there is the potential that a major war in the Middle East could erupt at any time.
Once that happens, the price of oil will go completely nuts.
A lot of people out there seem to think that we will have some sort of an “economic collapse”, but afterwards we will rebuild and life will go back to normal.
That is not what we are facing.
As I discussed in an article that I posted earlier today, what we are facing is literally the collapse of everything.
We are running out of energy.
We are running out of topsoil.
We are running out of clean water.
And we are already witnessing mass extinctions all over the planet.
There is something that I have been saying a lot lately, and I am going to say it again.
The clock is ticking for humanity.
Decades of incredibly foolish decisions have brought us to the brink of a planetary nightmare, and there isn’t going to be any easy way out of this mess.
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