Legendary American Intellectual Thomas Sowell Warns Our Country Is Approaching the ‘Point of No Return’

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Every election is described as the most important election of our lifetime, But this time – it’s true. It’s the most important election since Lincoln ….

Legendary Thomas Sowell Warns Our Country Is Approaching the ‘Point of No Return’

By Elise Ehrhard, Western Journalism, July 18, 2020:

Conservative economist and American treasure Thomas Sowell has a warning for Americans:

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The 2020 elections could be a “point of no return” for the United States.

Sowell delivered the grim news Sunday during an appearance on conservative commentator Mark Levin’s Fox News Show, “Life, Liberty and Levin” — and appearance that came against a national backdrop of leftist calls to “defund police” amid rising crime and chaos in the streets of major U.S. cities.

“I must say, even though I was regarded as pessimistic, I was never pessimistic enough to think that things would degenerate to the point where they are now,” Sowell told Levin.

“Where adult human beings are talking about getting rid of the police. Where they’re talking about reducing the number of police, reducing the resources put in police work, at a time when murder rates have been skyrocketing over what they were just a year ago in 2019.

“I never dreamed that we would come to this point, it just seems such utter madness. And what is frightening is how many people in responsible positions are caving in to every demand that is made, repeating any kind of nonsense that you’re supposed to repeat. I do believe that we may well reach a point of no return.

“I hope, of course, that will never happen, but there is such a thing as a point of no return. The Roman Empire overcame many problems in its long history, but eventually, it reached the point where it simply could no longer continue on. And much of that was from within, not just the barbarians attacking from outside.”

https://youtu.be/8nW3GiXTHi0

Sowell, a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, has written some of the most influential conservative books of the late 20th and early 21st centuries on issues ranging from economics to racism.

Levin asked Sowell what he thought of the phrase “systemic racism.”

“It really has no meaning that can be specified and tested in the way that one tests hypotheses,” Sowell replied.

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MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago

In the USA the barbarians are already inside the gates, they’re called muslums, but they also have plenty of useful tools and collaborators, whether unpaid or not (take a bow prairie feather flower). The atheist West is D-O-N-E.

Dave Jensen
Dave Jensen
3 years ago

Reading newspaper columns of Thomas Sowell and James J. Kilpatrick turned me into a conservative many years ago. I am still a registered democrat but haven’t voted for one for many years. The only ones I voted for were state democrats, much different than the national ones and that was quite a few years ago too.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  Dave Jensen

Why would you still be a registered Democrat?
Isn’t it clear what their agenda is?
See any objecting to it?
Why be associated with that party?
It’s like being associated with Hitler and registered with his party….

Dave Jensen
Dave Jensen
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

I can hurt them by voting in the primary for the most outrageous candidate that would have no chance of getting elected against a conservative. I doubt my vote would do that but it is the thought that counts.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  Dave Jensen

Well… it could hurt because the outrageous ones are getting elected – Omar, Talib, AOC etc.. I hope you reconsider. Don’t misunderstand me, the GOP isn’t that much better … but not quite as derranged and in you face about it.

Here’s a token black who posed as a Republican under GWB showing his true colors again and btw he also endorsed Obama.

Colin Powell: We Need to Rename Confederate-Named Bases ‘as Quickly as We Can’
PAM KEY 19 Jul 2020

I never really thought about it. I went to Fort Benning, Georgia, named after a Confederate, and I did all my training there, but it never stuck to me that this name should be changed. So I fully support what John Millie is doing. I think it’s something we should do quickly as we can.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/07/19/colin-powell-we-need-to-rename-confederate-named-bases-as-quickly-as-we-can/

He HATES Trump!

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Saul Alinsky 101…..change a society’s history…..and you can rewrite it to anything you want.
Mao did it in China…..and you see what you got.

John Marshall
John Marshall
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

The right is just more professional about their criminality, the lefts is unhinged.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

I was very disappointied in him when he retired his pen because of his hatred for Trump. As he put it, he couldn’t bare to write about Trump…. however he is RIGHT on this issue.

They have tried everything to get rid of Trump and to promote their twisted global NWO, globull warming, now called climate change,the Paris agreement, hoaxes, phony sex scandals and now a direct appeal to the people for reverse racism, class warfare, anti-capitalism, white hatred, elevating perversion – LGBTQ+ as being superior to heterosexuality and the rest of their anti God agenda. Now they are using the Chinese virus to control us and that seems to be working like the other attempts haven’t. It’s called tyranny!
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whammie
whammie
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

This is about CONTROL of your soul… not any virus…

“Social Distancing”… is about getting people to accept the word “SOCIAL”…


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ladywarrior
ladywarrior
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

If Killary had won…..we’d all be wearing Mao jackets now and being monitored 24/7…..descendants would be in “re-education camps.”

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

We are being heavily censored too!
Reich Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels would be envious.
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ladywarrior
ladywarrior
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Felix….your picture post is not showing up. Are you being monitored?

I saw the most disturbing racist ad on TBS yesterday. I’m going to be contacting TBS and the FCC today.

How’s this for propaganda:
“NO LIVES MATTER IF BLACK LIVES DON’T MATTER”

It infuriated me. NO ONE HAS SAID BLACK LIVES DON’T MATTER!!!
This is meant to start more mass shootings and give license to killers.

Disgusting, inflammatory, and Commie lies!

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3 years ago

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Poetcomic1
Poetcomic1
3 years ago

Thousands and thousands of poor blacks being denied police protection, their nieghborhood stores looted and burned, thugs roaming free. You will be AMAZED at the Trump vote among blacks.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
3 years ago
Reply to  Poetcomic1

When do the Feds come in and stop this!?!

Dorrie_
Dorrie_
3 years ago
Reply to  ladywarrior

Federal Marshals are trying to clear out the horrific mess in Portland as we speak. One was hit on the head with a club the other night. So you can rest assured the FEDS are on it.

Grandma Dorothy
Grandma Dorothy
3 years ago
Reply to  Dorrie_

Let’s hope it isn’t too little too late.
This should have been done five weeks ago and we wouldn’t see the destruction we do around the country. But it was allowed to go on. Why? …

caschmid@centurytel.net
3 years ago

Baby Lives Matter

Rusty
Rusty
3 years ago

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caschmid@centurytel.net
3 years ago
Reply to  Rusty

Thanks for the post, this critical fact used to be taught in school decades ago.

John Marshall
John Marshall
3 years ago
Reply to  Rusty

And she was a demonrat

Rusty
Rusty
3 years ago
Reply to  John Marshall

According to Paul Kengor, Sanger had a love affair with the Fabian HG Wells.

Grandma Dorothy
Grandma Dorothy
3 years ago
Reply to  John Marshall

It’s always been the Democrats that have been against the POC.
When they got Civil Rights, it was because the Republicans got enough votes to pass it and the Democrats were fighting against it every step of the way.
And still POC follow their enemy.
A go figure moment? …

Grandma Dorothy
Grandma Dorothy
3 years ago

I believed that once too. But today I see that 6 & 1/2 million babies have been murdered before they even took that first breath…

caschmid@centurytel.net
3 years ago

Aye, lass. That’s why people are changing the B in the saying to Baby. I feel that as a nation, the slaughter of the innocents is our greatest failing; If we could just repent and stop that one sin……. God calls us one at a time. Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation! Keep spreading His Word.

Grandma Dorothy
Grandma Dorothy
3 years ago

Started from Scottish and Irish ancestors but far from being a lass. : )
But add to that the taking Bible reading out of the schools. That was the only Word of God many had as it wasn’t and still isn’t taught in many homes.
2 Chronicles 7:14 makes what you say so clear. A long time ago I brought this out on several sites online and even after a month and hundreds of those that call themselves Christian, I only got about 5 or 6 up votes that they would join me in praying for our nation. You know what hurts me more than those that ignore His Word? It’s those that haven’t given a second thought to the future (lack of one) of their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. It is those and many other generations that will have to pay the price for the “free will and do whatever they want” of this day. I can only hope the Blessed Hope comes sooner than later, or any of us will be lucky to make it through what is being thrown at us.
Same wishes to you and may He Bless you and yours…

caschmid@centurytel.net
3 years ago

Then I will pray with you, every day, for our nation. I read your comment to my husband and as I looked up your reference, he just spoke it out from memory. Tears. “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and
pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I
hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” It is a most hopeful passage and I needed that today. Thank you. God keep you.

Grandma Dorothy
Grandma Dorothy
3 years ago

I welcome you to pray with me for our nation and people. Why can’t others seem to understand what a privilege it is to either have the Lord hear us or for us to hear Him.
I was blessed by being saved at 12/13 and received the Holy Spirit then, before I knew what it meant to be born again. : ) So for around 70 years (I’m in my 80’s) I have been blessed to be taught by Him and to walk with Him.
When a friend or one of my children call and say they meant to call on such-an-such a day, I tell them that the Lord’s timing is better than ours and they called at the perfect time. : ) So it is with our words at times too. I thank you for your kindly being there to read my post.
The Lord be with you and know that I join you in prayer for our land and will keep you and your husband on my prayer list too. God bless…

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3 years ago

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whammie
whammie
3 years ago

Throw RED paint on anything with BLM on it…

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MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago

Typical left wing regressive why should he care if the little people suffer? It’s not like it’s going to affect him in his gated community, in his 12 million dollar mansion w/surrounding 20′ high concrete security wall with his hired security apparatchiks.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
3 years ago

Sick, Sick, Sick twisted Bastardo!

Leonard Payne
Leonard Payne
3 years ago

Dear Mr. Maher ……… IT IS NOT A FUCKING DEMOCRACY.
Just ask Ben Franklin!!!
Besides, one work that you WILL NOT find in the Constitution is, “democracy”.

Sweetp Holt
Sweetp Holt
3 years ago
Reply to  Leonard Payne

A widespread criticism of representative democracy is that the
representatives become the “elites” that seldom consult
ordinary citizens, so even though they are elected, a truly
representative government doesn’t really exist.
Another modern version of democracy is called “democratic centralism,” a term made famous by Vladimir Ulyinov Lenin.

https://www.ushistory.org/gov/1c.asp

Leonard Payne
Leonard Payne
3 years ago
Reply to  Sweetp Holt

As so succinctly stated by Mr. Franklin, “if you can keep it”.

Last Puff
Last Puff
3 years ago

I would not call the brilliant Dr. Sowell pessimistic. I would call him optimistic for believing we haven’t already passed the point of no return.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago
Reply to  Last Puff

I agree. If not for civil war or revolution I expect Sharia law will be enforced through the backdoor of outlawing hate speech (as the cowardly leftist, Scottish atheists who run that cuntry have already done).

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
3 years ago

America went past point of no return June 26, 2015. From that point, all we have is increasingly violent and lawless fallout, coupled with a virus out of control, un-Constitutional lockdowns and strictures and increasing natural disasters.

What happened then? God ordered out of America one last time. Life and Godliness no longer matter. SCOTUS voted gay marriage.

There you have it.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark Steiner

God is not happy with us…..

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark Steiner

The virus did not get out of control…..we now know that hospitals and doctors are now falsely tagging everything as the Covid Virus because they get thousands of more dollars if it is a covid case….everything is covid. Even a guy who died in a motorcycle crash was tagged as a Covid Death.

This is crapola worthy of Hitler!

FaustianFauci-Masks-Don’t-Work
FaustianFauci-Masks-Don’t-Work
3 years ago

When I see a a complete redo of the education system and what is taught I will have hope. Internet news is changing nothing and were already doomed as a country with massive intervention.

John Marshall
John Marshall
3 years ago

When the chemtrails stop is when my hope is awakened by results but if the top commie dogs start getting arrested then I’ll know we will be around for another hundred years. So far they’ve gone free…but the heat is on!

Dorrie_
Dorrie_
3 years ago
Reply to  John Marshall

The chem trails won’t stop because too few people really understand what they’re about. I watched a 2-hour scientific symposium about it 2 years ago. Scientists first started taking soil samples about 10 years ago and noticed trace amounts of aluminum in the soil. Then 5 years ago, they noticed a large increase and were stunned. Then 2 years ago, just before the symposium, they did the soil samples again and even tested the snow on top of Mt. Shasta, California and were EXTREMELY ALARMED at what they discovered. The
aluminum and other heavy metals they found in horrific abundance in the soil, was also in the SNOW, so they knew it was intentional. Do our highest government officials know about this? They must! Are they doing anything about it? NO! And WHY aren’t they?! This appears to be intentional poisoning of food in the entire country!! My guess is that Trump hasn’t even been told about it!

stephen5970
stephen5970
3 years ago

If Trump doesn’t win, that is it.

The Dems are blinded with hatred of anyone in power other than themselves. They encourage the violence not understanding that if they do win, and with Biden the sock puppet as president, the violence will not go away. It will only get worse and eventually the country will fall. But hey, at least the Dems will be in power, right?

So China will be the next world supreme superpower, Russia second. China will eventually own most of the socialist anarchy formerly called the USA. Cancel culture will be looked at as a time of social cohesion.

If the US is done, North Korea will wipe out South Korea and go after Japan. Taiwan will be invaded, and a good deal of south east Asia will become part of Greater China. Eventually China will take out North Korea, start on India, and eventually it will be a conflict between Russia and China. The world’s finances will be in complete chaos. Brazil and the southern part of South America will be the only safe haven for many, and that may be temporary.

Good luck.

James Jones
James Jones
3 years ago
Reply to  stephen5970

I use ‘Titanic’ analogies so many times, people are going to think I’ve got an obsession, but at what point was she doomed…when she hit the iceberg or when she was still a mile away in heavy fog?

This guy deserves some credit for being gutsy enough to use his position and respect to utter something more from the ‘tin foil hat’ brigade than from an academic. The ‘Point of no Return’ for a nation like America, is one of those topics of discussion that most people don’t want to have.
They hang onto the notion and hope of fixing and restoring the greatness, anything else is unpatriotic. They say things like, “We’ve been through worse before”…”Kick all the Muslims out and put an end to Leftism”…”Lock and load”…..It ranges from not understanding the depth of difference now compared to history, to suggesting things that are not even possible, and finally advocating for civil war, as though that is a solution and not an end.

Have we yet to reach the “PONR”, or like the Titanic, are we a mile out in heavy fog. Yes, we haven’t reached outright, full blown anarchy yet, but then again, its not November, and it doesn’t matter who wins.

PS. I like the sequence of dominos that you have laid out, all hinging on an America that has fallen. America right now, under Trump, still has the teeth to keep some semblance of global order, but any change to that, releases floodgates of war upon war. The time of the end is here, imagine, one man leading one powerful nation is all that stands in the brink. What has been ordained, will occur.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  James Jones

If Trump is lucky and gets a second term, that will be it for the GOP. By then we will have a population we don’t recognize. He needs to do more about immigration and get tough. If he doesn’t there will be no need to worry about fraud or wonder about what we will get next as a President. It will be a swamp rat running the country. Then there is Israel, surrounded by Muslim countries…. It’s all lining up ….Israel is that tiny country in blue.

http://www.wildolive.co.uk/IMAGES/Israels%20neighbours.jpg

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Hmmm, the Lord’s Resistance Army is arguably trying to prevent the genocide/persecution/enslavement of Christians across Africa by f’ing muslums — because no one else is — especially among the rotten, degenerate, immoral atheist bastages who run the dying West.

Grandma Dorothy
Grandma Dorothy
3 years ago

???
When the ungodly countries come against Israel, the Bible makes it clear that no one, not even the US will come to Israels aid. That God alone will save them so the world will see He is the one in power. However it also says that 2/3rd of their population will die during that day…

Grandma Dorothy
Grandma Dorothy
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

God has promised Israel that He (no one else, not even the US) would come to their aid. However 2/3rd of their population will die…

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  James Jones

If Trump is lucky and gets a second term, that will be it for the GOP. By then we will have a population we don’t recognize. He needs to do more about immigration and get tough. If he doesn’t there will be no need to worry about fraud or wonder about what we will get next as a President. It will be a swamp rat running the country. Then there is Israel, surrounded by Muslim countries…. It’s all lining up ….Israel is that tiny country in blue.

http://www.wildolive.co.uk/IMAGES/Israels%20neighbours.jpg

strangequark
strangequark
3 years ago
Reply to  stephen5970

Much of what you say is logical and perhaps countries will fall in the order you predict. However, I offer several thoughts worth considering. Japan has never lost a war until WWII going back more than 3 thousand years while dominating all of Asia throughout its history. Japan is a nuclear power and will not go quietly into the night. Ditto for India, also a nuclear power. What unfolds may be closer to the 1964 movie, “Dr. Strangelove” starring Peter Sellers. The movie was a parody of nuclear powered nations that stupidly triggered events to bring about the end of the world. Could this be why everyone is so worried about Iran joining the club?

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  stephen5970

Iran and some other countries will go after Israel with the U.S. out of the way as a back up. Israel is that little country in blue.

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j b
j b
3 years ago

Already in the point of no return. Simply and honestly put, this country is finished.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
3 years ago
Reply to  j b

sorry you feel that way…..I don’t.

j b
j b
3 years ago
Reply to  ladywarrior

You will soon enough. This is now a certainty.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago
Reply to  ladywarrior

The writing is already on the wall not just in the USA but across the dying atheist West. Degenerate, decadent, totalitarian Imperial Rome survived for centuries after it stopped being a Republic. It was the Romans who sacked Jerusalem and destroyed the Temple, not the f’ing muslums.

movingwaters
movingwaters
3 years ago

Most of the country does not go along with the bizarre situation in which lawlessness from seeming protected anarchists abounds. Yet we are being told by Communist minions like De Blasio and others that we must submit to the demands of spoiled brats who want to overthrow the country. It isn’t just New York and Seattle. The far Left has been planted in positions of authority over others for a very long time. We are seeing some of this in my own hometown in North Carolina in which left leaning Democrats have taken over key positions.

I am not as knowledgeable or astute as some people on this blog but I believe that Communist takeovers of nations in the past did not come about by the will of the ordinary people. They were forced into bloody and lawless hell.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
3 years ago

Legendary American Intellectual Thomas Sowell Warns Our Country Is Approaching the ‘Point of No Return’

AMEN, Mr. Sowell! Yesterday I saw the most racist, despicable ad on TBS I’ve ever seen.
” NO LIVES MATTER UNTIL BLACK LIVES MATTER.”

I was enraged. I intend to contact them today and the FCC.

First, I have not heard or seen anyone say a Black life doesn’t matter!

Second, that means all these Antifa/Soros paid thugs will start killing more people because “it doesn’t matter.” They are already killing children.

The Radicals are devaluing human life…..no matter the race.
I will file a RACISM charge against TBS!

Dorrie_
Dorrie_
3 years ago

I watched that interview with Levin and believe BOTH men are brilliant!! I’ve ALWAYS thought Thomas Sowell had more intelligence than most people ever dream of. Americans better be praying for this country and working to dislodge every Democrat from our government in November!

whammie
whammie
3 years ago

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John Marshall
John Marshall
3 years ago
Reply to  whammie

The law is there only when you have less than nine zeros behind your name.

John Marshall
John Marshall
3 years ago

Mr. Sowell is right but if this country does cease to exist, it will never come back. My grandchildren would be doomed. One good thing though there’s a weak point in all this communism, capitalism and if we fight back seriously America will not be beat. We have to purge this country of our enemies and reward our friends. God save the ignorant and the awake in this country.

Dorrie_
Dorrie_
3 years ago
Reply to  John Marshall

How do you suggest we fight back?

whammie
whammie
3 years ago

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Testing Will Begin In Africa For Biometric ID, “Vaccine Records”, & “Payment Systems” …………19
July 2020

Testing will soon begin in poverty-stricken parts of Africa for a biometric ID which will also be your payment system and vaccine record.

The biometric digital identity platform that “evolves just as you evolve” is backed by none other than the Bill Gates-backed GAVI vaccine alliance, Mastercard, and the AI-powered “identity authentication” company, Trust
Stamp.

The GAVI Alliance, which is largely funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates and Rockefeller Foundations, as well as allied governments and the vaccine industry, is principally concerned with improving “the health of markets for vaccines and other immunization products,” rather than the health of individuals, according to its own website.

Similarly, Mastercard’s GAVI partnership is directly linked to its “World Beyond Cash” effort, which mainly bolsters its business model that has long depended on a reduction in the use of physical cash.

The effort, since its launch nearly two years ago, has been funded via $3.8 million in GAVI donor funds in addition to a matched donation of the same amount by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

In early June, GAVI reported that Mastercard’s Wellness Pass program would be adapted in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Around a month later, Mastercard announced that Trust Stamp’s biometric identity platform would be integrated into Wellness Pass as Trust Stamp’s system is capable of providing biometric identity in areas of the world lacking internet access or cellular connectivity and also does not require knowledge of an individual’s legal name or identity to function.

The Wellness Program involving GAVI, Mastercard, and Trust Stamp will soon be launched in West Africa and will be coupled with a COVID-19 vaccination program once a vaccine becomes available.

The push to implement biometrics as part of national ID registration systems has been ongoing for many years on the continent and has become a highly politicized issue in several African countries.

Masking ulterior motives

Trust Stamp’s biometric identity system, largely funded by Mastercard’s massive investment in the company in February, utilizes a technology it calls Evergreen Hash that creates an AI-generated “3D mask” based on
a single photo of a person’s face, palm or fingerprint. Once this “mask” is created, much of the original data is discarded and encryption keys are created in place of a person’s name or other more traditional identifiers.

“Only a small percentage of the data that originally existed is in the hash,” Trust Stamp CEO Gareth Genner has stated. “What you have is something safer for storing because it can’t be used to directly identify you. No one
would recognize you in this huge jumble of numbers.” The result, according to Genner, is an “irreversible non-personally identifiable information” system that “protects privacy, reduces potential for misuse and allows effective inclusion when there is no other form of legal record.”

Genner also explained in a recent press release that the unique “hash” is capable of “evolving” as a new hash with updated health information is created every time a child or individual gets a vaccine. Trust Stamp’s AI algorithms can accurately determine if different hashes belong to the same individual, meaning that “the hash evolves over time just as you evolve,” said Genner.

It is unclear how much the Wellness Pass initiative is motivated by public health concerns as opposed to free market considerations. Indeed, the GAVI alliance, largely funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates and Rockefeller
Foundations
, as well as allied governments and the vaccine industry, is principally concerned with improving “the health of markets for vaccines and other immunization products,” rather than the health of individuals, according to its own website.

Trust Stamp also shares this market-focused vision for its digital identity system as the company has stated that it is looking for new commercialization options for its Evergreen Hash technology, specifically with prison systems.

Talks with private and public prison systems have revealed an interest in their utilization of Trust Stamp’s technology to provide identification for individuals on parole “without making them pay for pricey ankle bracelets that monitor their every move,” as Trust Stamp’s platform would ostensibly provide that same function but in a “touchless” and less expensive manner.

Trust Stamp’s interest in providing its technology to both COVID-19 response and to law enforcement is part of a growing trend where numerous companies providing digital solutions to COVID-19 also offer the same solutions to prison systems and law enforcement for the purposes of surveillance and “predictive policing.”

For instance, contact tracing software originally introduced as part of the COVID-19 response has since been used by police departments across the U.S. to track protesters during the country’s recent bouts of protests and civil unrest.

Similarly, a controversial Israeli tech firm currently being used in Rhode Island offers AI-powered predictive analytics to identify likely future COVID-19 hotspots and individuals likely to contract COVID-19 in the future, while also offering governments the ability to predict future locations of and participants in riots and civil unrest.

What is perhaps most alarming about this new “Wellness Pass” initiative, is that it links these “dual use” digital
solutions to cashless payment solutions that could soon become mandated as anything other than touchless, cashless, methods of payment have been treated as potential modes for contagion by GAVI-aligned groups like the World Health Organization, among others, since the pandemic was first declared earlier this year.

The unholy rush to enslave the world with RFID technology is being speeded up at an alarming rate. It is now clearly identifiable as the precursor to the trading mark so clearly revealed in the Revelation. Here is the technology that will ensure that everyone who refuses the vaccination will be forbidden from being a functioning member of human society…..just as the Apostle John was shown almost two thousand years ago – staggering

Bob
Bob
3 years ago

I respect this guy but I believe we have already passed the point of no return.

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