The Beast System Approaches

AI and the Cashless Society: Freedom or Slavery?

Tom DeWeese

The threat to control our society with artificial intelligence (AI) is growing. That’s why I believe it’s urgent that Americans take strong action to stop or at least take serious action to control it!

Digital ID systems implemented through government and corporations will have the unprecedented power to track, monitor, and control every aspect of your life — from your money and healthcare to your social connections.

Bill Gates, one of the most powerful proponents behind AI, has threatened that “Digital ID must be accepted by US Citizens by 2028. Otherwise, they risk exclusion from society.” That means controlling where you can travel. They will monitor who you associate with, what you spend your money on, and what you believe in politically!

In your bank the move is on to replace cash with digital currency. The account can be closed at any time and the money confiscated — because, in reality there is no money. It’s just pretend wealth controlled at the whim of a government bureaucrat.

Do you fully understand what NO CASH means and how you will be personally affected? A cashless society means fully digital. Cash won’t exist. Banks will have full control of every single dollar in your accounts. Every transaction will be recorded. You will control nothing.

• You won’t be able to have a hidden supply of backup cash in the house for getting the little things you need.
• It means no more money in birthday cards, or extra cash earned for some odd jobs to help you balance your budget on a rainy day.
• Your grandchildren will never know what a piggy bank is.
• No more charity collections or yard sales to raise extra money by getting rid of some old stuff.

Every transaction can be blocked by a non-elected government bureaucrat. If they have any questions about a transaction, they will be able to freeze your accounts — for your own good, of course!

And here is a vital detail. The government will decide what you can and cannot buy. This will come after the government has created regulations about what products a company may sell — all for your safety. You know what I mean — electric cars, bikes or public transportation instead of gas-powered cars in those 15 minute cities your city council is building.

And look at the growing control over farmland that’s being buried under wind and solar projects — or the thousands of acres being put under roof by massive data centers. Eventually they will tell you we have a food shortage.

Now government will have to control what you purchase to eat. Remember, we’ve recently been told that someday soon we will need to eat bugs instead of beef, ham and chicken. Every single person I’ve talked to about this has adamantly declared they will NEVER eat bugs! Oh? But what if the government declares a food emergency and bugs are all you will be able to purchase with your controlled cashless, digital bank account?

And let’s add one more layer to the control — your source of money. How do you earn it? Many reports have shown that the massive move to control us with AI will affect and even eliminate a lot of jobs people currently have. What is the plan for those who become jobless? Here is their plan in their own words:

As AI systems become more advanced, they will start to infiltrate various sectors, beginning with white-collar jobs and eventually extending to blue-collar industries…. This shift could lead to a situation where businesses simply don’t need human employees to maintain and increase profits…. One widely discussed solution to the potential job displacement caused by AI is Universal Basic Income. This concept involves providing all citizens with a regular, unconditional sum of money to ensure they can meet their basic needs, regardless of their employment status.… The primary means of earning a living is no longer necessary for many.

This is a drive to slavery. You will have no control over your life. There will be no incentive to create new ideas and products. Corporations will dictate what products are available concerning your food, clothes and housing.

There will be no freedom of choice, no hopes, no dreams for your life. In short, the cashless society of AI is the greatest threat to human society ever conceived

More...

Is The Dollar Collapsing? 8 Key Indicators You Can't Ignore

Is The Dollar Collapsing? 8 Key Indicators You Can't Ignore

Nick Giambruno

There are eight key indicators to watch as the US government falls deeper into the self-perpetuating debt spiral.

Indicator #1: Federal Budget Deficits

The chart below shows the actual and projected federal budget deficits.

It’s important to note that these projections rest on the ridiculous assumption that there will be no wars, recessions, or other events that drive additional federal spending. That assumption is already out the window with the Iran war: the Pentagon has requested an additional $200 billion, for starters.

Even with this rosy and unrealistic forecast, the US government is projected to run a cumulative deficit of over $22 trillion over the next ten years—deficits that will have to be financed by issuing more debt, a significant share of which will likely be bought by the Federal Reserve with “money” it creates out of thin air.

Indicator #2: The Federal Debt

The federal debt has exceeded $39 trillion, representing more than 124% of GDP.

It’s important to remember that GDP is a flawed statistic. For example, it counts government spending as a positive. A more honest measure would count government spending as a big negative, as it compounds the debt spiral. In the US, government spending accounts for at least 37% of GDP.

In other words, the amount of debt relative to the productive economy is much more than the official numbers suggest.

Indicator #3: The Federal Interest Expense

Annualized interest on the federal debt exceeds $1.2 trillion and is surging higher. That means more than 23% of federal tax revenue is going just to service interest on the existing debt.

The interest cost on the federal debt is already the US government’s second-largest outlay. It’s set to exceed Social Security and become the biggest federal expenditure in a matter of months.

Indicator #4: The Federal Funds Rate and the 10-Year Treasury Yield

Whenever discussing the Fed or central banks, it’s essential to keep the basics in mind.

You have to start with the most fundamental concept: central planning doesn’t work. That’s the first principle.

Central planning of shoes doesn’t work. Central planning of wheat doesn’t work. And central planning of (fake) money doesn’t work.

Central banks in general—and the Fed in particular—are on a mission impossible. They don’t know what the interest rate should be. Nobody does. That’s something only a voluntary market of savers and borrowers, dealing in honest money, can determine.

A politburo can’t centrally plan interest rates any more than it can potatoes. They are inevitably going to fail—and cause significant damage in the process.

It’s also crucial to remember that central banks have nothing to do with the free market. They are, in fact, the antithesis of it.

In Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto, central banking is the fifth plank.

With that important context in mind, consider the following.

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the Fed brought interest rates to roughly 0% and held them there for years.

Then, in late 2015, they started a rate-hiking cycle that lasted until the repo market turmoil in late 2019.

After the outbreak of the Covid hysteria in early 2020, the Fed brought interest rates back down to around 0%.

Inflation subsequently hit 40-year highs in 2022, forcing the Fed into another rate-hiking cycle, one of the steepest in history.

In just 18 months, the Fed hiked rates from around 0% to over 5%.

The Fed has now pivoted back to monetary easing and rate cuts without having defeated inflation.

More...

VIDEO: AMIR TSARFATI – Breaking News

VIDEO: AMIR TSARFATI – Breaking News

Amir gives an  update concerning current issues re: Iran and Bible prophecy.

view video

No Real People Were Polled: AI Is Now Fabricating What "The Public Thinks"

No Real People Were Polled: AI Is Now Fabricating What "The Public Thinks"

TYLER DURDEN

The other day Axios ran a piece that cited "findings" that a majority of people trusted their doctors and nurses. Turns out, those "findings" were completely fabricated by a company called Aaru - using AI (causing Axios to issue an editor's note and 'clarification')Aaru uses something they call "silicon sampling," where large language models (the AI) can emulate humans at a fraction of the cost and time required for traditional polling, the NY Times reports.

Silicon sampling isn’t polling. It is the outright fabrication of public opinion by machines - and major news outlets and research firms are now publishing those fabrications as legitimate findings. 

This is not an isolated slip. The technology is being embraced by some of the biggest names in media, polling, and corporate research. Gallup has partnered with the startup Simile to create thousands of AI-generated “digital twins” that stand in for real people. Ipsos is working with Stanford to pioneer synthetic data for public opinion studies. CVS, whose venture arm invested in Simile, is already using these fabricated insights to shape customer strategy. And outlets like Axios are treating the output as news.

The entire point of polling has always been authenticity - capturing what actual humans actually think (after oversampling your preferred party to make it look like as if people like Hillary Clinton).

That process is imperfect and messy. Let’s say a pollster wants to learn how many people in the United States are in favor of a certain policy measure, but the pollster ends up with a survey that includes 80 percent Republicans and only 20 percent Democrats. The pollster may think that in reality the country is closer to a 50-50 split, so the results are rebalanced to reflect that perceived reality. This means that the percentages you read as the results of polling are the output of the model, not numbers from the actual survey data.

The problem is that every model is designed with its own biases, because pollsters disagree about which variables deserve more weight. In 2016, The New York Times’s chief political analyst, Nate Cohn, ran an experiment in which he gave five pollsters the same election poll data. (That included Siena College, which conducts opinion polls for The Times and first acquired the data.)

Mr. Cohn found a 5 percent range of difference among what the five pollsters’ models returned. That range was larger than the margin of error typically associated with random sampling, meaning that the modeling assumptions were meaningfully skewing the results. This is alarming, because it suggests that pollsters can use modeling to nudge polls in a certain direction and influence public opinion itself, rather than merely to report what the public thinks.

Walter Lippmann warned a century ago that democracy depends on an accurate picture of the public will. Traditional polling, however imperfect, at least began with real responses from real citizens. It was expensive, slow, and messy precisely because humans are expensive, slow, and messy. Silicon sampling removes every trace of that mess - and with it, every trace of reality. The models are trained on past data, tuned by the biases of their creators, and prompted to spit out whatever “representative” opinions the client wants to see. The result is not public opinion. It is a mirror of the assumptions fed into the machine.

On the eve of the 2024 election, Aaru ran a full-scale simulation that confidently projected a narrow victory for Kamala Harris. Market researchers now use these synthetic polls to decide product launches and ad campaigns. Policy shops quietly substitute AI-generated “constituent sentiment” for actual feedback. Each time a respected outlet or pollster presents these inventions as fact, they normalize the idea that fabricated data is good enough.

The consequences are already here. When headlines say “a new poll shows,” readers have no way of knowing whether real people were ever asked. Trust in institutions is eroding fast enough without handing decision-makers and journalists an unlimited supply of plausible-sounding fake data. Social science, political strategy, and market research risk becoming elaborate games of digital pretend.

Strait of Hormuz remains virtually shut despite Iran war truce

Strait of Hormuz remains virtually shut despite Iran war truce

 Times of Israel is liveblogging Thursday

Only one oil products tanker and five separate dry bulk carriers have sailed through the Strait of Hormuz in the past 24 hours despite Iran and the United States reaching a two-week ceasefire deal, according to analysis of data from ship trackers.

Traffic through the critical strait has remained at a virtual standstill, with little movement since the US-Israeli war on Iran began on February 28 and sailings averaging a few vessels daily, according to data from Kpler, Lloyd’s List Intelligence, and Signal Ocean.

This compares with an average of 140 vessels sailing daily through the strait before February 28, according to market estimates.

EU dismisses Iran’s Hormuz toll idea, says freedom of movement must be ensured

The EU says that freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz must be ensured with “no payment or toll whatsoever,” after Iran suggested it could charge for letting ships through the vital Gulf waterway.

“International law provides for the freedom of navigation, which means… basically no payment or toll whatsoever,” European Commission spokesman Anouar El Anouni tells a press conference in Brussels. “Freedom of navigation is a public good and needs to be ensured.”

UAE oil firm chief says Hormuz still shut, Iran must open it without conditions

The Strait of Hormuz is shut, and Iran must open it without conditions and be held accountable for damages after attacks on facilities, United Arab Emirates state oil giant ADNOC’s CEO says.

The narrow waterway that Iran has effectively shuttered since the US-Israeli war began on February 28 is not open, Sultan Al Jaber says in a LinkedIn post, adding that access is being restricted, conditioned, and controlled.

“Iran has made clear — through both its statements and actions — that passage is subject to permission, conditions and political leverage. That is not freedom of navigation. That is coercion,” Jaber, also UAE minister of industry and advanced technology, writes.

“Energy producers must be able to swiftly and safely restore production at scale. At ADNOC, we have loaded cargoes and we will expand production within the constraints of the damage we have suffered.”

Around 30 rockets fired by Hezbollah at north this morning — IDF

Lebanon orders security forces to enforce state’s monopoly over weapons in Beirut