With the EU's Transatlantic 'industry partners' holding US gov't/intel community contracts, the question isn't 'will this be bad' but 'how big is that shitshow gonna be?'
Meanwhile, if you arrive without documentation and are of the correct shade of brown/yellow/tawny, you can just say "asylum" and bypass the whole thing.
Or you simply drive or walk across an unguarded crossing.
Here's why the "Swedish" gangs are moving into Norway in force:
Drug shipment from SA comes by boat to Morocco. Is reloaded onto sailboat headed for Sweden or Norway. Look at MarineTraffic-dot-com to see the amount of traffic, then look up no. of customs/coast guard boats, and laugh at the delusion of "border security".
Same with every border crossing. Are we to believe that a train from outside the EU is to be stopped, searched, everyone onboard checked, while inside a wiremesh cage, the way they used to do it in Sassnitz back in the day? If so, €200 ain't going to cover costs of real border security, just sayin'.
To say nothing of the idea of stopping each and every lorry coming in from Turkey. Sure, the Greeks and sundry are going to do stellar work on that, right? No corruption there, no slacking, no lackadaisical attitude - naaah.
Issue is: either you go full DDR on border security and wreck how trade&travel has worked since 1990 or so, but also wrecking smuggling, illegal migration and slave trade: or you target the group that's not a problem anyway, just to make it seem as if you're doing something.
The EU, and any other Western nation, will always opt for the latter: safer, cheaper, and as long as you can get kickbacks from the capitalist companies hired to actually do the job, what's the loss?
Heck, just look at a map of the border of Sweden and Norway. Not too many roads, right? Wrong. There are lots more that aren't on the maps. And let's say we have some ambitious smugglers: snowmobiles. Land the goods on the Norwegian coast, load on truck, drive up the mountains, load on snowmobile, drive into Sweden without ever coming near any customs or border crossing.
I could make a fortune guiding smugglers, come to think of it...
Oh, it's all a kind of kabuki performance gig, as in 'look, mom, I'm doing something™'.
It also tells you who the target is: not those pesky illegals™ and criminals™ but the likes of you and me.
I'm unsure if one needs to go 'full DDR' here, but consider this: surveilling the borders has been one of the core issues of states since the later 18th century; granted, often this is more aspirational than factual, but the point here is: smuggling aside, if there's a road, people will use it; same with railroad tracks or cruise connections.
If you take the Eurostar train from Paris to London, though, you must go through passport checks; if you wish to board, say, Italian high-speed trains, you have to have a valid ticket to get onto the platform. It's quite uncommon to do so in Germany, Switzerland, or France, though, for these countries have such dense RR networks (same in the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands), but beyond these places, access control on platforms is quite easy. The same holds true for naval travel. Cars are very different in this, and if you wish to re-route traffic towards a few well-oiled checkpoints, that's also possible: just close these other small roads, which would work also between Norway and Sweden, by the way.
As to the way this is supposedly done, people will be harassed to download the app and perform 'self-service' (while paying the fee). The one and only thing anyone can do is--take the time, print out any ticket/form, and hand it over in person. Like, always. I doubt it'll change the grander scheme of things, but it'll annoy the powers-that-be.
For real border security, the DDR is sadly the model (though in their case it also helped that virtually no-one wanted to go there).
Border control is otherwise a joke. Öresund bridge sees at least 20 000 vehicles per day; imagine the logistics of checking each one. Trains, it's one every twenty minutes both directions.
And nothing on either side is built for any kind of check-point beyond the 1/10 000 travellers stopped for spot checks.
I lived there (Malmö) for over 20 years, moved there before there was a bridge. In all that time with frequent trips to Copenhagen, I have seen (1) passports-inspection done by police, and have had to show my ticket fewer than half a dozen times (the inspectors don't have the time to check everyone before the train is at Hovedbangården/Malmö C).
I think this will be about as succesful as the EU's directive on old clothes and garbage sorting.
This will happen everywhere. It is an integral part of the control grid architecture. Directives emanate from the supra national empire. Why is this important to understand? Because if our intention is to stop our enslavement process, we must first understand whom we are facing. Fighting individual battles will not win the war. We must aim for the source of the Evil and slay it.
Empire is quite weak and requires performative compliance--every small act of non-compliance counts as it forces Empire to reveal its true face a bit more.
They are indeed weak. A critical mass of us farting in unison would topple them. Unfortunately, they seem to control us through controlling our thoughts, while they build their control grid, which is real. As long as most of us don't understand our current reality, the system will continue by default. By the time a sufficient number awakens to their true reality, it may well be too late.
In traditional totalitarianism, when people lose fear and elite troops refuse to shoot, the end is near. In our future the enforcers will be drones, incapable of refusing the orders to shoot. That is why it is so important to destroy the Empire while we still can.
Otherwise, 'Skynet' is the future, coupled with 1984 and Brave New World.
Curiously, the totalitarian spectrum (which I think is a helpful metaphor) indicates many 'mixed' forms, and the Western style after 1945 is massive public-private (i.e., fascist) brainwashing; I suppose that the control grid is there just in case.
They posses data of higher granularity than we do. I am sure they are detecting longer term troubling trends which were created the decentralization brought about by Internet. They are building up the control grid as fast as they can, taking into account our acceptance velocity.
Also, it is entirely possible that Internet was developed with the control grid in mind, since it was developed by ARPA (predecessor of DARPA). They just accepted the idea of an initial free Internet, as a temporary stage on the way to the final control grid. The benefits of network interconnectedness outweigh the risks. Regardless, the control grid noose is tightening. Only willfully blind can’t see it.
I’m quite 112% sure that the internet in its earlier, less-controlled versions, was a ‘risk’ (sic) factor. Given the analogy to cell phone communication, though, I think ‘the internet’ was released to the public as the intel/military couldn’t think of other uses or had moved on since; if ‘the internet’ release works akin to the progression™ of 1 through 5G—see, e.g., the DoD getting ready for 6G now: https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2024/09/13/pentagon-readies-for-6g-the-next-of-wave-of-wireless-network-tech/—who knows what ‘other’ connections are available to the powers-that-be.
As to mind control and efficiency, I continue to hold this view: totalitarianism is a spectrum, and it’s cheaper to bamboozle people into complacency in the Western way than, say, going full Stalin plus Gulags. We note, in passing, that Mao’s régime relied more on brain-washing in ‘re-education’ camps than brute force à la Stalinism.
Your link returns missing page error. No question about, the Western Empire’s totalitarianism has primarily been based in the control of the flow of information. As this system became less effective, we have seen the emergence of a digital control grid, eventually to be coupled with more coercive technical measures. Our present condition certainly points to an utterly dystopian future. Will they achieve their ultimate aims? At the moment I don’t see any systemic development emerging anywhere on the horizon that might seriously jeopardize their efforts. That doesn’t mean there will be none; we could be near some inflection point and not know. I believe they feel confident they will succeed.
David A. Hughes describes this multi-vectored attack on mankind Omniwar. They are waging an Omniwar against us.
It’s a sad day we come to this. I was planning to return to the US from the EU, where my wife and I will have spent around 500-600 a day on the 15th of October. Now we will return on the 10th. It will be our last trip. Please keep your technocracy on your side of the Atlantic.
Even West Africa has biometric facial scans and digital fingerprints to enter. Last time I was in Ghana they had them in passport control for foreigners. They have just now deployed them for locals. Africa and Asia are extremely sophisticated in terms of biometric surveillance and there are very few places in the world without it now.
Well, just look at literacy rates and corruption (not to imply Western countries aren't corrupt), but a fingerprint can't really be faked that easily…
EDIT: often, these systems are rolled out in the Third World first to point to 'case studies', such as the failure of the eNaira [edited the name], Nigeria's stupid move to a CBDC a few years ago.
I would offer a counterpoint. The eNaira has been spectacularly successful - millions more have been driven to poverty, and despair and organised crime (kidnapping for ransom) is so bad that people are afraid to leave their homes. The emerging middle class has been decimated.
More money has been funneled into the hands of government (i.e. warlords) and it is an unstable currency dependent on a spotty power grid and mobile coverage causing soceital chaos.
As you quite rightly say, they deploy the case studies to the third world first.
Well, smarter, prepared people in Central Europe had a few bottles of liquor and packs of cigarettes as a black market-able 'currency' in spring 1945: the former because of its relatively high value per bottle, the latter to trade individually for smaller 'purchases'. Strikes me as useful, eh?
If there is a major EMP there will quickly be mass violence and cannibalism. Motors will not start - farming and water purification and delivery will stop. Nuclear facilities will have catastrophic breakdown.
Online age verification will be the least of people's worries at that point.
Meanwhile, if you arrive without documentation and are of the correct shade of brown/yellow/tawny, you can just say "asylum" and bypass the whole thing.
Or you simply drive or walk across an unguarded crossing.
Here's why the "Swedish" gangs are moving into Norway in force:
Drug shipment from SA comes by boat to Morocco. Is reloaded onto sailboat headed for Sweden or Norway. Look at MarineTraffic-dot-com to see the amount of traffic, then look up no. of customs/coast guard boats, and laugh at the delusion of "border security".
Same with every border crossing. Are we to believe that a train from outside the EU is to be stopped, searched, everyone onboard checked, while inside a wiremesh cage, the way they used to do it in Sassnitz back in the day? If so, €200 ain't going to cover costs of real border security, just sayin'.
To say nothing of the idea of stopping each and every lorry coming in from Turkey. Sure, the Greeks and sundry are going to do stellar work on that, right? No corruption there, no slacking, no lackadaisical attitude - naaah.
Issue is: either you go full DDR on border security and wreck how trade&travel has worked since 1990 or so, but also wrecking smuggling, illegal migration and slave trade: or you target the group that's not a problem anyway, just to make it seem as if you're doing something.
The EU, and any other Western nation, will always opt for the latter: safer, cheaper, and as long as you can get kickbacks from the capitalist companies hired to actually do the job, what's the loss?
Heck, just look at a map of the border of Sweden and Norway. Not too many roads, right? Wrong. There are lots more that aren't on the maps. And let's say we have some ambitious smugglers: snowmobiles. Land the goods on the Norwegian coast, load on truck, drive up the mountains, load on snowmobile, drive into Sweden without ever coming near any customs or border crossing.
I could make a fortune guiding smugglers, come to think of it...
Oh, it's all a kind of kabuki performance gig, as in 'look, mom, I'm doing something™'.
It also tells you who the target is: not those pesky illegals™ and criminals™ but the likes of you and me.
I'm unsure if one needs to go 'full DDR' here, but consider this: surveilling the borders has been one of the core issues of states since the later 18th century; granted, often this is more aspirational than factual, but the point here is: smuggling aside, if there's a road, people will use it; same with railroad tracks or cruise connections.
If you take the Eurostar train from Paris to London, though, you must go through passport checks; if you wish to board, say, Italian high-speed trains, you have to have a valid ticket to get onto the platform. It's quite uncommon to do so in Germany, Switzerland, or France, though, for these countries have such dense RR networks (same in the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands), but beyond these places, access control on platforms is quite easy. The same holds true for naval travel. Cars are very different in this, and if you wish to re-route traffic towards a few well-oiled checkpoints, that's also possible: just close these other small roads, which would work also between Norway and Sweden, by the way.
As to the way this is supposedly done, people will be harassed to download the app and perform 'self-service' (while paying the fee). The one and only thing anyone can do is--take the time, print out any ticket/form, and hand it over in person. Like, always. I doubt it'll change the grander scheme of things, but it'll annoy the powers-that-be.
For real border security, the DDR is sadly the model (though in their case it also helped that virtually no-one wanted to go there).
Border control is otherwise a joke. Öresund bridge sees at least 20 000 vehicles per day; imagine the logistics of checking each one. Trains, it's one every twenty minutes both directions.
And nothing on either side is built for any kind of check-point beyond the 1/10 000 travellers stopped for spot checks.
I lived there (Malmö) for over 20 years, moved there before there was a bridge. In all that time with frequent trips to Copenhagen, I have seen (1) passports-inspection done by police, and have had to show my ticket fewer than half a dozen times (the inspectors don't have the time to check everyone before the train is at Hovedbangården/Malmö C).
I think this will be about as succesful as the EU's directive on old clothes and garbage sorting.
As I wrote above, it's the functional equivalent of a child tasked to clean up his or her room saying, 'look, mom, I'm doing something'.
As to Europe's future, well, with the EU in continued existence, no-one will want to go there before too long either…
This will happen everywhere. It is an integral part of the control grid architecture. Directives emanate from the supra national empire. Why is this important to understand? Because if our intention is to stop our enslavement process, we must first understand whom we are facing. Fighting individual battles will not win the war. We must aim for the source of the Evil and slay it.
Empire is quite weak and requires performative compliance--every small act of non-compliance counts as it forces Empire to reveal its true face a bit more.
They are indeed weak. A critical mass of us farting in unison would topple them. Unfortunately, they seem to control us through controlling our thoughts, while they build their control grid, which is real. As long as most of us don't understand our current reality, the system will continue by default. By the time a sufficient number awakens to their true reality, it may well be too late.
In traditional totalitarianism, when people lose fear and elite troops refuse to shoot, the end is near. In our future the enforcers will be drones, incapable of refusing the orders to shoot. That is why it is so important to destroy the Empire while we still can.
Exactly.
Otherwise, 'Skynet' is the future, coupled with 1984 and Brave New World.
Curiously, the totalitarian spectrum (which I think is a helpful metaphor) indicates many 'mixed' forms, and the Western style after 1945 is massive public-private (i.e., fascist) brainwashing; I suppose that the control grid is there just in case.
Mass media enabled a very efficient mind control.
They posses data of higher granularity than we do. I am sure they are detecting longer term troubling trends which were created the decentralization brought about by Internet. They are building up the control grid as fast as they can, taking into account our acceptance velocity.
Also, it is entirely possible that Internet was developed with the control grid in mind, since it was developed by ARPA (predecessor of DARPA). They just accepted the idea of an initial free Internet, as a temporary stage on the way to the final control grid. The benefits of network interconnectedness outweigh the risks. Regardless, the control grid noose is tightening. Only willfully blind can’t see it.
I’m quite 112% sure that the internet in its earlier, less-controlled versions, was a ‘risk’ (sic) factor. Given the analogy to cell phone communication, though, I think ‘the internet’ was released to the public as the intel/military couldn’t think of other uses or had moved on since; if ‘the internet’ release works akin to the progression™ of 1 through 5G—see, e.g., the DoD getting ready for 6G now: https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2024/09/13/pentagon-readies-for-6g-the-next-of-wave-of-wireless-network-tech/—who knows what ‘other’ connections are available to the powers-that-be.
As to mind control and efficiency, I continue to hold this view: totalitarianism is a spectrum, and it’s cheaper to bamboozle people into complacency in the Western way than, say, going full Stalin plus Gulags. We note, in passing, that Mao’s régime relied more on brain-washing in ‘re-education’ camps than brute force à la Stalinism.
Your link returns missing page error. No question about, the Western Empire’s totalitarianism has primarily been based in the control of the flow of information. As this system became less effective, we have seen the emergence of a digital control grid, eventually to be coupled with more coercive technical measures. Our present condition certainly points to an utterly dystopian future. Will they achieve their ultimate aims? At the moment I don’t see any systemic development emerging anywhere on the horizon that might seriously jeopardize their efforts. That doesn’t mean there will be none; we could be near some inflection point and not know. I believe they feel confident they will succeed.
David A. Hughes describes this multi-vectored attack on mankind Omniwar. They are waging an Omniwar against us.
It’s a sad day we come to this. I was planning to return to the US from the EU, where my wife and I will have spent around 500-600 a day on the 15th of October. Now we will return on the 10th. It will be our last trip. Please keep your technocracy on your side of the Atlantic.
Problem is, Trump just announced kinda the same for the US: there's no escaping this.
I recently made a bingo card: https://substack.com/@excessdeathsau/note/c-141161546
Currently working on an updated one with new material.
Yes, I should have acknowledged this. There is no escape. If there is I’d like to hear about it.
Sir, respectfully, you may want to take a look at these articles by Catherine Austin Fitts - financial analyst and former HUD. This is a global issue.
https://solarireport.substack.com/p/trump-administration-digital-control
https://solarireport.substack.com/p/the-fast-approaching-digital-control
Good suggestion!
I won't be going there. F the the EU and it's kleptocrats.
European tourism will start going into the toilet and I will definitely be planning trips elsewhere.
I share your sentiments.
Also, tourism will probably tank due to inflation and impoverishment--plus the creeping, if accelerating, Islamification of Europe.
Even West Africa has biometric facial scans and digital fingerprints to enter. Last time I was in Ghana they had them in passport control for foreigners. They have just now deployed them for locals. Africa and Asia are extremely sophisticated in terms of biometric surveillance and there are very few places in the world without it now.
https://www.graphic.com.gh/news/general-news/vp-bawumia-unveils-digital-border-control-system-and-e-gates-at-kotoka-international-airport.html
This is a global issue.
Well, just look at literacy rates and corruption (not to imply Western countries aren't corrupt), but a fingerprint can't really be faked that easily…
EDIT: often, these systems are rolled out in the Third World first to point to 'case studies', such as the failure of the eNaira [edited the name], Nigeria's stupid move to a CBDC a few years ago.
Ghana has always been the UN stepping stone in Africa.
Check out Guinea-Bissau, specifically the EU ‘civil’ (nation-building) mission Brussels’ ran there for years!
I would offer a counterpoint. The eNaira has been spectacularly successful - millions more have been driven to poverty, and despair and organised crime (kidnapping for ransom) is so bad that people are afraid to leave their homes. The emerging middle class has been decimated.
More money has been funneled into the hands of government (i.e. warlords) and it is an unstable currency dependent on a spotty power grid and mobile coverage causing soceital chaos.
As you quite rightly say, they deploy the case studies to the third world first.
Fair enough.
And the first major EMP or CME will wipe all of this away...then what?
Well, smarter, prepared people in Central Europe had a few bottles of liquor and packs of cigarettes as a black market-able 'currency' in spring 1945: the former because of its relatively high value per bottle, the latter to trade individually for smaller 'purchases'. Strikes me as useful, eh?
Vodka and tequila keeps pretty well. As for cigarettes...you'll have to vaccum pack those for longer term storage...before it happens.
Well, I’m going for—if you’re keeping these items, I suppose you can afford a vacuum machine…
If there is a major EMP there will quickly be mass violence and cannibalism. Motors will not start - farming and water purification and delivery will stop. Nuclear facilities will have catastrophic breakdown.
Online age verification will be the least of people's worries at that point.