Michael Bloomberg is the consummate Technocrat who is addicted to data. As former mayor of New York City, he is a top supporter of Smart City development, and has just pledged an additional $42 million to help cities understand their 'data'.
The TSA has long since gone rogue against American citizens, but no-fly lists were apparently not enough. The secret list of anyone who resists or smart-mouths them is nothing short of a police-state in action.
Cattle have been demonized by environmental radicals as 'unsustainable', carbon belchers and wrecking the environment. To their chagrin, the exact opposite has been demonstrated in practice. Cattle are highly beneficial to the ecosystem while proving an excellent source of protein.
The uproar over 5G wireless installations will likely not diminish as carriers move closer to full implementation. The new technology promises to enable and connect the ubiquitous Internet of Everything, but it will potentially create a toxic soup of high-energy microwave frequencies.
The elitist World Economic Forum is spinning futuristic and speculative visions of the future including "Earth is in the midst of a climate crisis that will not improve without deliberate and sustained action." This is not the future we are going to see, but trillions will change hands in trying to create it.
Every continent is proceeding along the same path to destroy the cash economy, opening the door to a digital currency that can record every financial transaction in a central repository. This is a clear prerequisite for the emergence of Technocracy, resulting in a Scientific Dictatorship.
This article from the World Socialist Web Site reveals the ongoing tension between Technocracy and Socialism/Communism. While both use a collectivist model, the difference is in who controls the system and how they are selected.
For all the supposed benefits offered to motorists, the real ability of the digital plate is exposed: "If the car is stolen, the plate's manufacturer says the plate can tell the owner and police exactly where the car is or at least where the license plate is if it has been detached." This means 24x7 geospatial tracking is enabled.
Every camera and every sensor in every city will ultimately combine into a single comprehensive surveillance grid where every person will be identified and tracked for criminal activity. American tradition has always been to leave innocent people alone until there is an actual crime to investigate and criminals to arrest.
With new Technocrat laws in hand, lawyers are descending like wild animals on tech companies who share data in Europe, which means just about every website on planet earth. For most companies in North America, defending against a lawsuit filed in Europe will be impossibly, so they will simply be extorted into a 'settlement'.