New Reports Reveal Five Eyes’ Surge in Biometric Data Collection
Big Brother might be always “watching you” – but guess what, five (pairs) of eyes sound better than one. Especially when you’re a group of countries out to do mass surveillance across different jurisdictions, and incidentally or not, name yourself by picking one from the “dystopian baby names” list.
But then again, those “eyes” might be so many and so ambitious in their surveillance bid, that they end up criss-crossed, not serving their citizens well at all.
And so, the Five Eyes, (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK) – an intelligence alliance, brought together by (former) colonial and language ties that bind – has been collecting no less than 100 times more biometric data – including demographics and other information concerning non-citizens – over the last 3 years, since about 2011.
That’s according to reports, which basically tell you – if you’re a Five Eye national or visit out of the UN’s remaining 188 member countries – expect to be under thorough, including biometric, surveillance.
The program is (perhaps misleadingly?) known as the “Migration 5,” (‘Known to One, Known to All” is reportedly the slogan. It sounds cringe, but also, given the promise of the Five Eyes – turns out, other than sounding embarrassing, it actually is.)
And at least as far as the news now surfacing about it, it was none other than “junior partner” New Zealand that gave momentum to reports about the situation. The overall idea is to keep a close, including a biometric, eye on the cross-border movement within the Five Eye member countries.
How that works for the US, with its own liberal immigration policy, is anybody’s guess at this point. But it does seem like legitimate travelers, with legitimate citizenship outside – and even inside – the “Five Eyes” might get caught up in this particular net the most.
“Day after day, people lined up at the United States Consulate, anxiously waiting, clutching the myriad documents they need to work or study in America,” a report from New Zealand said.
“They’ve sent in their applications, given up their personal details, their social media handles, their photos, and evidence of their reason for visiting. They press their fingerprints on to a machine to be digitally recorded.”
The overall “data hunger” between the 5 of these post WW2 – now “criss-crossed” – eyes has been described as rising to 8 million biometric checks over the past years.
“The UK now says it may reach the point where it checks everyone it can with its Migration 5 partners,” says one report.
Japanese Banking Giant Norinchukin Pulls Plug on Global Financial System With $63 Billion Treasuries, European Bonds Liquidation
As many predicted, the next phase of the global financial collapse currently in motion is striking Japan as banking giant Norinchukin, best known as Japan’s “CLO whale,” liquidates $63 billion worth of U.S. Treasuries and European bonds to address the massive unrealized losses on its balance sheet.
Many people missed it, but last fall Norinchukin was quietly added to the private Federal Reserve banking cartel’s Standing Repo Facility, which Zero Hedgeappropriately and simply describes as “the Fed’s foreign bank bailout slush fund,” effective Dec. 1, 2023.
Japan’s fifth largest bank with $840 billion in assets, Norinchukin will reportedly sell more than 10 trillion yen’s worth of its holdings of both U.S. and European government bonds during the year ending March 2025 “as it aims to stem its losses from bets on low-yield foreign bonds, a main cause of its deteriorating balance sheet, and lower the risks associated with holding foreign government bonds,” to quote Nikkei.
Just like what is happening right now here in the United States, Japanese banks in general are sitting on mountains of unrealized losses that eventually have to be settled. The powers that be(TPTB) are pulling out all the stops, including many of their usual financial rigging shenanigans, to try to save themselves, but unlike 2008 it appears as though there are no options left to kick the can any further down the road than it already is.
(Related: Did you hear that America’s largest private bus company just filed for bankruptcy?)
U.S. banks sitting on more than half a TRILLION dollars in unrealized losses
Since the world’s financial system is global and interconnected, what hits Japan also hits the U.S., and vice versa. In fact, all Western nations allied on the opposing side of BRICS face epic financial meltdowns once the falling house of cards really gets going.
According to the latest figures, U.S. banks are currently sitting on more than half a trillion dollars in unrealized losses as a result of the Fed’s interest rate increases over the past several years. Those increases were necessary, we are told, to fight inflation, but as they hike up the ladder the banks on the other side of the bad trade are failing one by one.
The Fed is printing its worthless Federal Reserve Notes (FRN) as quickly as possible to try to plug the hole of the sinking ship, jacking up the tab of the U.S. taxpayer along the way, but it appears as though the Western financial oligopoly has run out of schemes to save itself from an inevitable implosion.
While interest rates in Japan have barely budged all this time, the Fed’s efforts to sweep the overflowing sewer of unrealized losses under the proverbial rug, Japan’s financial system is already feeling massive shockwaves that threaten to topple its financial house of cards.
Western finance is a lot like those circus clowns that spin a bunch of plates on sticks, dancing around and creating a spectacle while trying not to drop any of them. The minute one falls or strikes another, they all end up falling, followed by a womp, womp – though there will be no laughter or goofing around when all these financial plates fall.
“Maybe Japan now and the U.S. later,” speculated one internet commenter. “We’re all headed off the cliff.”
“The obvious evolution of ALL fractional reserve banking was going to be the destruction of all currencies,” wrote another.
“History has proven this over and over and over. This allows the USSA and the Petro$ to live another day, but the die has been cast. The worldwide debt Ponzi scheme is imploding. There will be no lifeboats for anyone.”
They said not even God could sink the Titanic – then look what happened. Learn more at Collapse.news.
German Police Responding to Birthday Party Group Chanting ‘Foreigners Out’ are Surprised by What They Find
Germany has featured more and more incidents involving young people charting, “Foreigners out, Germany for the Germans,” over the beat of the hit electronic song “L’amour toujours” by Gigi D’Agostino. Now, police are being deployed in “operations” to respond to such instances. This time, police arrived at a birthday party in Cochem on the Moselle River, in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, only to be surprised when they learned who was singing the song.
Once on the scene, officers learned that everyone calling for foreigners to leave Germany were actually foreigners.
“What is remarkable in this context is that the women were all non-German nationals and only one woman had any significant knowledge of German,” said the Mayen police department. According to Bild, all the people present only spoke Bulgarian, Romanian and Ukrainian.
The police determined that they were singing the song due to its spread on TikTok and other social media platforms. They were allegedly unaware that those singing the song face criminal prosecution, according to police. However, in similar cases, prosecutors have already dropped such cases, saying they did not rise to the level of criminal prosecution. Top politicians in Germany have called for those singing the song to face the “maximum penalty.”
Police still opened an investigation into “incitement of hatred.”
As violent crimes from foreigners explodes in Germany, the media establishment and the country’s top politicians focus all their efforts on doxxing and ruining the lives of a few young people drunkenly singing.https://t.co/gVvVV4rre9
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) May 28, 2024
The first time the “Foreigners out” chant was sung was at a 2023 harvest festival in Bergholz, Germany. Since then, a number of high-profile incidents involving people singing the song have sprung up across Germany, most notably a video from the island of Sylt, which was released in May.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz responded at the time that “such slogans are disgusting. They are unacceptable.”
On Wednesday, during the European Football Championship match between Hungary and Germany, Hungarian fans chanted the song in Stuttgart. It is unclear if a criminal investigation has been opened due to this instance.
NOW: Hungarian football ultras TROLL Germany, singing the forbidden techno song “L’Amour toujours” over and over while holding “Free Gigi” banners.
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) June 19, 2024
The song has been embraced by the right to signal opposition to immigration.. #EURo2024 pic.twitter.com/M6bceEzYB6
West Has Plan to Replace Zelensky – Russian Intelligence
Vladimir Zelensky’s position is totally dependent on Western support, but the US and its allies will sacrifice him without any qualms, the Russian foreign intelligence service (SVR) has said.
Moscow considers Zelensky to be a usurper, since his five-year presidential term expired in May. President Vladimir Putin has argued that, under the Ukrainian constitution, the parliament remains legitimate, and presidential authority should have passed to its speaker when Zelensky’s term ended. However, officials in Kiev have conspired to keep Zelensky in place.
“It is becoming increasingly evident that the White House will soon shut down ‘Project Zelensky’,” the SVR said on Thursday.
It believes Zelensky will be used as a scapegoat “once Russia solidifies its successes on the battlefield, and exhausted and demoralized Ukrainian troops find themselves with no way out.”
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Once Zelensky is of no use, “the White House will throw him on the trash heap of history with no second thought, and replace him with another Ukrainian politician whom it considers suitable to negotiate a peaceful resolution of the conflict with Russia.” Retired General Valery Zaluzhny, the former top commander of the armed forces, is a likely candidate, according to the SVR.
The Russian intelligence agency dismissed as “comical” Zelensky’s attempts to convince foreign audiences that a Ukrainian military victory over Russia was possible.
Putin’s analysis, which he outlined last week in a keynote speech on Russian foreign policy, is that Zelensky remains of use to foreign sponsors. He can issue and enforce several policies, which would be highly unpopular among Ukrainians but would otherwise help Kiev to prolong hostilities with Russia. He will then have to take the blame for those decisions, Putin predicted.
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The president noted that any agreements signed by Zelensky with foreign nations after May 20, such as the recent bilateral ten-year security deal with the US, can be easily discarded by other parties, since he no longer has any legal authority to represent Ukraine.
Big Brother on Board: UK Train Stations use Amazon-Powered AI to Read People’s Mood
In the UK, a series of AI trials involving thousands of train passengers who were unwittingly subjected to emotion-detecting software raises profound privacy concerns. The technology, developed by Amazon and employed at various major train stations including London’s Euston and Waterloo, as well as Manchester Piccadilly, used artificial intelligence to scan faces and assess emotional states along with age and gender. Documents obtained by the civil liberties group Big Brother Watch through a freedom of information request unveiled these practices, which might soon influence advertising strategies.
Over the last two years, these trials, managed by Network Rail, implemented “smart” CCTV technology and older cameras linked to cloud-based systems to monitor a range of activities. These included detecting trespassing on train tracks, managing crowd sizes on platforms, and identifying antisocial behaviors such as shouting or smoking. The trials even monitored potential bike theft and other safety-related incidents.
The data derived from these systems could be utilized to enhance advertising revenues by gauging passenger satisfaction through their emotional states, captured when individuals crossed virtual tripwires near ticket barriers. Despite the extensive use of these technologies, the efficacy and ethical implications of emotion recognition are hotly debated. Critics, including AI researchers, argue the technology is unreliable and have called for its prohibition, supported by warnings from the UK’s data regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office, about the immaturity of emotion analysis technologies.
According to Wired, Gregory Butler, CEO of Purple Transform, has mentioned discontinuing the emotion detection capability during the trials and affirmed that no images were stored while the system was active. Meanwhile, Network Rail has maintained that its surveillance efforts are in line with legal standards and are crucial for maintaining safety across the rail network. Yet, documents suggest that the accuracy and application of emotion analysis in real settings remain unvalidated, as noted in several reports from the stations.
Privacy advocates are particularly alarmed by the opaque nature and the potential for overreach in the use of AI in public spaces. Jake Hurfurt from Big Brother Watch has expressed significant concerns about the normalization of such invasive surveillance without adequate public discourse or oversight.
Jake Hurfurt, Head of Research & Investigations at Big Brother Watch, said: “Network Rail had no right to deploy discredited emotion recognition technology against unwitting commuters at some of Britain’s biggest stations, and I have submitted a complaint to the Information Commissioner about this trial.
“It is alarming that as a public body it decided to roll out a large scale trial of Amazon-made AI surveillance in several stations with no public awareness, especially when Network Rail mixed safety tech in with pseudoscientific tools and suggested the data could be given to advertisers.’
“Technology can have a role to play in making the railways safer, but there needs to be a robust public debate about the necessity and proportionality of tools used.
“AI-powered surveillance could put all our privacy at risk, especially if misused, and Network Rail’s disregard of those concerns shows a contempt for our rights.”
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