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Jun 27, 2022Liked by Edward Slavsquat

It's funny to think how our grandparents or great-grandparents were free from this sort of thing. I'm sure my grandmother (born 1910) probably never even had a paper driver's license until the late 1920s or the 1930s. I wonder if she even had a birth certificate. Maybe a Christening certificate or something. But definitely nothing you had to show at the bar/airport/courthouse/bank/etc. And I think my great-grandmother lived into the 1950s but probably never drove a "horseless carriage." So she probably never even had a single form of ID.

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Jun 27, 2022Liked by Edward Slavsquat

Wondering just how different it is - or WILL be - in the US .... Will life there be the same as life in Russia, in the very near future? Where would be best to settle, I wonder?

The future is murky, at best.

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Thank the cosmos for small favors and unintended beneficial consequences of sanctions. Great post!

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A gun is not by itself evil, and neither are digital currencies or digital IDs. The Netherlands has had a Digital ID for many years, and if it is used for evil purposes, I have not seen it.

Like you write, I suspect the crashing economy and supply chains will make digital IDs unfeasible, and not just in Russia.

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QR code digital IDs are problematic for the following reasons>

1) The people pushing this QR code digital ID agenda are evil.

2) A digital ID can be hacked and copied (digital twin).

A government in collusion with big tech will build "back doors" for hacking. If one makes the government "upset", then your QR code digital ID can be posted on the dark web by the CIA for example. Then a nefarious person buys the QR code and creates havoc by going on a spending spree for example.

3) The virtual digital QR code ID can be hacked and swapped for another QR code digital ID.

In other words, the real person will NOT match their virtual ID person. The nightmare of being swapped for a real criminal would be agonizing.

4) The plan for QR code digital IDs WILL BE based on conditions such as a social credit point score, injections, "green rewards based on *behavior modification*.

5) What is the fail/safe, if one refuses to buy a cell phone, or if one has their cell phone malfunction or if the cell phone battery becomes exhausted at the most inopportune time.? (At an airport for example for a romantic rendezvous).

6) QR code digital IDs can be easily tracked and traced. My private life is an open book HOWEVER I do NOT like being a "target" of the government if I refuse to be injected by poison.

7) Probably another reason that escapes me at the moment.

One final note, ONLY IF a good entity was behind the digital ID (like Riley for example) and the above reasons were null and void, then my suspicions would be alleviated.

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Whoa! https://tass.com/economy/1472097

Putin blasts global Big Pharma for pushing their products in Russia

MOSCOW, June 27. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has criticized foreign drug companies for pushing their products through local medical institutions and via doctors in Russia using their deep-pocketed resources.

"Unfortunately, foreign pharmaceutical companies attracted some heads of our medical institutions, and medical workers in 30 regions. And they pushed their medicines [on to the Russian market], paying quite a lot of money for it. We saw that under just one scheme they doled out 500 million [rubles]," he said at a meeting with Yury Chikhanchin, Head of the Federal Financial Monitoring Service.

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