By Cindy Niles, Zara Bourgeois, March 30, 2025 Human societies have had to relearn what remunerating labour has meant with successive industrial revolutions or ‘resets.’ There was a time when one had to hunt or gather his own food, build one’s own shelter, collect her own water and start her own fire. Villages formed, farming, […]
By Koen Jacobs, March 16, 2025 The United Nations its “Better Than Cash Alliance” – founded in 2012 together with the Gates Foundation, USAID and Visa – wants to ban all cash money, worldwide, no later than 2029, because they “care about achieving the Sustainable Development Goals” of the United Nations. Cash is “untraceable” and […]
By Ken Macon, Reclaim the Net, March 12, 2025 A congressional hearing on digital currencies rarely makes headlines. Yet, this week’s debate over stablecoins and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) revealed more than technical disagreements; it exposed deeper anxiety about financial power, privacy, and control in an increasingly digital world. The conversation unfolded along predictable […]
By Allison Stanger, Gizmodo, March 9, 2025 “A private company with exclusive access would gain unique insight into the physical and economic arteries of American society. This could allow the company to develop ‘smart city’ systems that city governments would become dependent on, effectively privatizing aspects of urban governance. When combined with real-time data from […]
By Cindy Niles, March 2, 2025 Besides nudging poultry farmers with hideous red tape to shut down their operations, the reason for the bird flu narrative is to make each poulette, egg, breast fillet and drumstick subject to carbon and ESG metrics. Farmers who intend to stay in business must comply with comprehensive digital oversight […]
By Dimitri Legrand, February 17, 2025 The paradigm shift is happening now. They show you corruption, incompetence, and lies, so you demand change. But the solution they offer isn’t freedom. It’s total digital control. AI, blockchain, and automation disguised as ‘transparency.’ They’re not cleaning up the system, they’re replacing it. Watch carefully, because this is […]
By Didi Rankovic, Reclaim the Net, February 4, 2025 The EU isn’t the beacon of privacy it pretends to be. On February 2, the EU AI Act, which came into force in August, reached the first compliance deadline. These are provisions that contain rules that allow the bloc to legalize biometric mass surveillance. This is […]
By Didi Rankovic, January 28, 2025 One of the panels during last week’s World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting – “Empowering People with Digital Public Infrastructure” – saw the participation of Avathon CEO Pervinder Johar, who provided a vision of a gloomy future of “optimized” and omnipresent surveillance. Johar, of course, would not put it […]
By Sense Receptor, May 26, 2024 “Fifth-Generation Warfare is…focused on psychological manipulation—psychological warfare, deception, social engineering…it is about changing the societal order in a massive way. So it is about the destruction of the state and the creation of a totally new social order.” Assistant Professor and Director of the Security Studies Program at East […]
By Mikayla Gruber, July 20, 2023 Nearly half of cybersecurity leaders will change jobs by 2025 due to multiple work-related stressors. Of that near 50%, 25% will leave the field entirely, according to recent research from Gartner. There are a lot of widely reported reasons for the exodus. Many IT cybersecurity leaders have reported struggling with new […]