Nick Corbishley: Digital Identity Can Close Life Off For Individuals
Geopolitics & Empire
Geopolitics & Empire
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🗓️ 23 April 2024
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Nick Corbishley discusses the most important issue of our day: the deployment of digital identity programs which by their own admission can “open up” or “close off” the digital and analog world to individuals. The EU is at the forefront of introducing Digital ID and helping other regions around the world do the same. Brussels insists they will be voluntary yet countries like Greece are already making them mandatory. We’re talking about a new social contract in which the public has ever decreasing influence over their own lives. The EU is actively anti-democratic in its very essence, which is how it was designed. Multipolarity is a nice idea, but these governments are much further along the road toward killing cash and launching CBDCs. The U.S. and NATO are positioning in Latin America via countries like Argentina to keep regional powerhouses like Brazil in check. Location will be important for surviving the Digital Dictatorship, however, there is some hope because of the hubris and incompetence of the elite.
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About Nick Corbishley
Nick Corbishley is a writer, journalist, teacher, and translator based in Barcelona. Formerly a senior contributing editor at the San Francisco–based economics and finance news site Wolf Street, he is currently a regular contributor to the US financial news and analysis blog Naked Capitalism, where he writes about financial, economic, and political trends and developments in Europe and Latin America. He also worked for many years at a well-respected business journal in Spain. Nick is an occasional speaker (in English or Spanish) on economic, political, and geopolitical topics. Nick holds a BA in history from Sheffield University, speaks three languages (English, French, and Spanish) and is a regular visitor to his beloved country-in-law, Mexico.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another edition of Geopolitics and Empire. Quick reminder, support this rebel transmission, become a paid subscriber on Substack $5 a month, $50 a year. You could also buy me a coffee or send reinforcement through Donor Box. We are joined by a returning guest, Nick Corbishly, who's a writer, journalist, teacher, translator covering global financial, |
| 0:22.3 | economic and political developments a few years ago in the midst of the totalitarian biosecurity |
| 0:28.0 | state. We discussed his fantastic book, scanned why vaccine passports will mean the end of |
| 0:34.4 | privacy and personal freedom. Welcome back to the podcast, Nick. |
| 0:39.1 | Thank you. |
| 0:39.9 | Havoyer. |
| 0:40.5 | It's lovely to be back. |
| 0:42.2 | I hope I've pronounced your name more or less, right? |
| 0:45.8 | Yeah, you got it. |
| 0:47.5 | And so you're doing great work. |
| 0:51.0 | I read a lot of your stuff at places like, what is it, naked capitalism. |
| 0:56.6 | What, you know, what have you been up to as of late? It seems you've been tackling one of my |
| 1:03.2 | favorite topics, the issue of the algorithm ghetto, the digital gulag and whatnot. |
| 1:10.1 | Yeah, I mean, like the, I was staggered to realize about, about a week ago now, |
| 1:18.7 | or maybe just over a week ago, that digital identity is now a legal reality in the European |
| 1:25.5 | Union, which came as a surprise to me, |
| 1:27.7 | bearing in mind there's not been a single bit of conversation in the public, in the 27 member |
| 1:34.6 | nations of the European Union. |
| 1:36.8 | There's not been a single, you know, it's not been covered by, as far as I'm aware, |
| 1:43.0 | a single mainstream media outlet. it's just now a reality, |
| 1:48.3 | which is kind of bizarre when you think about it, because if you are the European Commission |
| 1:53.4 | and you have spent years alongside your private, the private companies you're working with, you've spent years |
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