Coming Soon to America? Digital Branding.

Reclaim The Net: Mexico Speeds Up Biometric ID Rollout. 

Every Mexican with a cell phone has until July to hand over their fingerprints, iris scans, and facial data to a government whose last two attempts at phone registration ended in a data leak and a Supreme Court smackdown.

Mexico’s government wants you to believe that handing over your fingerprints, iris scans, and facial data is voluntary. President Claudia Sheinbaum has said so publicly.

But by July 2026, every one of the country’s roughly 130 million mobile phone lines must be linked to a biometric national ID, and unregistered numbers get suspended on July 1.  

This idea, in Mexico, is a test run for what's coming next in other countries, including us. Why do you think there's such immediate growth of new, under construction and planned data centers in the U.S.? 

Will you comply?  You going to accept being branded, like cattle? Probably. You know why. 

Australia passes what some call Mark of The Beast Act.

Parliament of Australia: Digital ID Bill 2024. 

Is Australia initiating the Mark of the Beast? I dunno, I didn't read the full bill. The U.S. is moving in the same direction with next year's Real ID Act. Are undocumented immigrants required to have Real ID? Cuz if not, then I identify as an undocumented immigrant.

We gain nothing worrying about the end of times. Scripture and Christ are adamant in reminding us to be aware of, but not concern ourselves, over this. From what I've listened to, from Christian theologians is this: there will be NO MISTAKING that the Mark of the Beast is The Mark of The Beast. 

IOW, no, it's not our SSN or other designated numbers (DL, Medicare, Tax ID, etc) we currently have. And The Mark will be a clear choice. You're not going to be tricked into getting it; you'll know what it is. If you're wise, you'll absolutely refuse it, no matter the consequences. We know how everything ends, anyway: God Wins. He always does. The question is, when time comes, do you want to be with God or without Him? 

Scripture is clear that salvation is the gracious, undeserved gift of God (Ephesians 2:5, 8) and is only available through faith in Jesus Christ (Acts 4:12).

Need a starting place? Try the late Dr. Charles Stanley's "In Touch Ministries" videos. Keep scrolling and strolling, there's a ton of videos on so many topics. Find a subject that interests you or pick one at random. You can't go wrong with him. Each one is around 25 minutes long, but they fly by in 5 minutes.

The Federal Reserve says WE MUST HAVE CBDC!

Tucker Carlson covered this on his program Friday, November 25.

I couldn't find the full segment, it may appear on his website or You Tube later. But there was this snippet:

The government needs to make sure you're not spending your money on something of which they disapprove.

The U.S. government, along with their global Luciferian overlords, must decrease the standard of living for those who've worked 20, 30, 40, 50 years and redistribute what they've earned to...whom? Their cultists?

This idea is so bad only a Marxist will love it.

We're living in a very bad time and reversing course is getting shorter every day.

Link to the Abstract.

Link to the Fed's PDF on CBDC. 

What is a Central Bank Digital Currency? 

A short history: Who Owns The Federal Reserve? 

How many steps away from The Mark of The Beast are we? Anything more than "three" seems overly generous. I hope I Exit Earth before this happens because this is not something in which I will participate.

We're witnessing in real time a free-for-all shitshow and this is just the previews.

"The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged."
- Deuteronomy 31:8

Man hands Melinda Gates whores for the WHO, NWO and the globalists. Calls WHO "good and robust".

Manlinda Gates, Man hands.

Yahoo: Melinda Gates says Trump Administration's COVID response is 'costing lives'.

Melinda Gates has a strong take when it comes to the Trump Administration’s response to the coronavirus crisis.

“We are lacking leadership at the federal level in the United States, and it's highly distressing and disappointing,” the co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation told me in a recent interview. “To have to have 50 state grown solutions is inefficient. It makes no sense. And it's costing people their lives.”
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“If we had a good testing and tracing system like Germany has, we would have started to reopen slowly more places in the economy,” she said. “People wouldn't be struggling so much to put a meal on their table. The lack of action is really causing harm and hurt unnecessarily in this country. And I'm incredibly disappointed to see that.”
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[When] asked why her husband Tweeted his unhappiness with President Trump when he announced he would freeze support for the World Health Organization.

“Bill and I both came out strongly,” she said. “We know the World Health Organization, it's not perfect. But we have worked with them for over 20 years. When you're in a crisis, and you know a partner is good and robust, you stand up for what's right, and you stand up for your partners.”

"We know the World Health Organization, it's not perfect." Words that can only be spoken by an Elite Liberal globalist whore.

The WHO is a "partner [that] is good and robust"? The WHO is "good and robust"? How convenient for her selective memory that China asked WHO to suppress the CHINA VIRUS outbreak:

Taiwan News: China asked WHO to cover up Coronavirus outbreak.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping asked World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to suppress news about the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, the German intelligence agency BND found, according to a report by German magazine Der Spiegel.

During a conversation on Jan. 21, Xi reportedly asked Tedros not to announce that the virus could be transmitted between humans and to delay any declaration of a coronavirus pandemic.

It took until the end of January before the WHO declared that the coronavirus outbreak needed to receive international attention. Because of China’s delay, the world wasted four to six weeks it could have used to better counter the spread of the virus, the BND concluded.

Germany's Robert Koch Institute also said that China failed to reveal all the relevant information at the outset of the epidemic, leading it to turn to the BND for advice, CNA cited a report in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung as saying.

In response to the reports by German media, Chinese diplomats said the opposite was true, arguing that the communist country’s handling of the virus had bought time that was then wasted by other governments.

 
The Famous People: Melinda Gates biography.

She is on the board of directors of the Washington Post company and is an active participant in the Bilderberg Group conferences for fostering dialogue between Europe and North America.
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In 2013, she launched a partnership with Hillary Clinton to gather and supply data for the Clinton Foundation on the progress of women and the girl child around the world since the 1995 United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing.

Oh gee, a Bilderberg "participant" and a partnership with the Clinton Foundation. How conveniently diabolical.

How many deaths of children in India is Bill Gates responsible for with his experiments in vaccines? Who cares about children in India, right? They're expendable. Now it's time to move on with a Gates vaccine for Americans and the rest of the world.

More:
Iron Burka (two videos): Bill Gates implantable quantum dot microneedle vaccine.
Bill Gates is here to save us, by RFK, Jr. 
Bill Gates shills for China.
Bill Gates Coronavirus vaccine. 
Bill Gates and George Soros are behind the Coronavirus.
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Kansas City Missouri reverses demand for list of churchgoers, but the fight isn't over.

FOX4 KC: Quinton Lucas DUI and mugshot

Wiki: Quinton Lucas

Liberty Counsel: Kansas City Repeals Name Gathering Order.

Liberty Counsel broke the story after being contacted by concerned pastors. The story went viral quickly and now, as a result of the public outcry over this unconstitutional provision, Kansas City reversed the Fourth Amended Order and issued a Fifth Amended Order on May 4. Under the new order released yesterday, the recording of names and contact information is no longer mandatory. The Fifth Amended Order encourages religious groups to record names and contact information, but it is now voluntary. (Here comes KC's "we pay snitches" program. - DD)
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The amended order now states: “Attendees are not required, however, to provide their names or contact information at any religious gathering.” The recording of names and contact information was also removed from the other “non-essential” operations. However, the Fifth Amended Order still imposes the 10/10/10 rule and no more than 50-person limit on outside religious gatherings, the latter of which is not imposed on any secular gathering.
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["]Due to the overwhelming public outcry, the Kansas City Mayor reversed course and removed this unconstitutional provision. That is the good news. The bad news which Kansas City must still remedy is the continued unconstitutional treatment of churches and houses of worship compared to other secular gatherings," [said] Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver.

Churchgoers required to register with Kansas City, Missouri government. (May 2, 2020)

Churchgoers required to register with Kansas City, Missouri government.

 

FOX4 KC: Quinton Lucas mugshot - arrested for DUI in Douglas County.

FOX4 KC Archived

Wiki: Quinton Lucas

Liberty Counsel: Churchgoers Must Register With the Government in Kansas City.

Kansas City, Missouri, officials are now requiring every church to submit a list of members and attendees along with their names, addresses and telephone numbers to city officials for tracking and surveillance purposes.

I am running out of adjectives to describe how completely insane the tyrannical abuses launched by state governors and local officials against pastors and churches are becoming. It is as if these leaders never bothered to so much as glance at the Constitution they swore to uphold and defend. They seem to be governing from some make-believe, dystopian viewpoint.

Yesterday, we received a desperate call from a Kansas City, Missouri, church whose local government is reaching new and terrifying heights in destroying our constitutional freedom. The Kansas City government is now DEMANDING that churches turn over membership lists, along with the names, telephone numbers and physical addresses of anyone who enters a church! This order also applies to all businesses.

The new order states that by recording names and contact information, the health department will be able “to more quickly trace, test, and isolate individuals who may have been exposed to COVID-19.” Anyone who does not provide this information should be refused entrance!

The Germans did this very thing to Jews – collecting the names and locations of all known synagogue attendees - in the early days of the Nazi regime.
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These attacks on our churches cannot stand.
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[Signed]
In Christ,

Mat Staver
Founder and Chairman

Please read the full story at the Liberty Counsel link.

Where is the normally loud "separation of Church and State" crowd in all of this? Surely there must be...3 or...4 of them who attend places of worship. This should not only offend them, but scare them.

Have mosques and other places of worship received the same "request" from the Kansas City Politburo? Have leaders of other denominations spoken up in defense of, advocating on behalf of, and aligning themselves with, Liberty Counsel?

This is my opinion, and only my opinion: In instances like those described in the Liberty Counsel letter, the best - and only - response to any government agency requesting this type of information is: "We have turned these matters over to our attorneys and they will be in contact with you." The end.

Read more at Meto Voice News.

AI social-distancing enforcement tool. "You will be TRACKED!"

RT: Coronavirus inspires DYSTOPIAN new AI social-distancing enforcement tool (VIDEO).

An AI start-up company has developed a video surveillance system that can tell if we’re abiding by social distancing rules. It’s the latest example of the pandemic inspiring what some might view as sinister technology.
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Californian software developer Landing AI has created a video tool that can be used to ascertain whether people are following social distancing rules.

“Landing AI has developed an AI-enabled social distancing detection tool that can detect if people are keeping a safe distance from each other by analyzing real-time video streams from the camera,” the company chirps, in a blog post about the new software.

Remove your mask and smile for the camera! Big Brother wants a nice, clear image of your facial recognition for their database.

Cash is the Bicycle of World Finance!

Relaxed, unhurried average reading time:  7-8m -  and I'm sorry about that. Originally this was two paragraphs and two links. It kind of took off on its own.

What's developing in the world of a cashless society? Would you want to give up using cash? I would hate a cashless society. Paying with cash is so easy and fast. Cash brings anonymity. Why does the government, or a business, need to know, to the penny, what we spend our money on? Going cashless is a giant step into a one-world government. Yeah, yeah...I know...I know...I know...

This is not a conspiracy. Why would anyone put 100% of their method of paying for things into one digital basket? Even more, why into cryptocurrency / digital cash? JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon says Bitcoin is a fraud that will blow up. (The Guardian, September 13, 2017).

Also dated September 13, 2017 it is again The Guardian with a fantastic article on the dangers of going cashless. And this is right in line with the Technocracy story on Global Elitists' Secret Plan for Cryptocurrency.

Some excerpts from (the second link to) The Guardian:

“Cashless society” is a euphemism for a “bank payments society”, in which every transaction must be passed through a complex of banks, card companies, phone providers and payments apps.
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Ask a room of people to raise their hands if they wish to be able to use digital payment, and most will do so. But if you reframe the question as “Do you want to not have the option to use cash?” people are more hesitant. We like new options, but we don’t like having options removed.
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The digital payments industry tries to cast cash as the horse-drawn carriage of payments; but cash is the bicycle, more flexible, resilient and convenient in certain settings, especially informal ones.
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States having access to your payments data opens up potential for economic censorship.

[.]  Corporations too are drooling over the potential to monitor customer payment data.

"Honey...pay the sitter in Bitcoin."
"I'm doing the transaction right now!"

How much more of your personal life do you want to voluntarily turn over to corporations? Are we not market-profiled enough already? Is it that maybe Google or Facebook doesn't know enough about you?

Paying with cash is always quicker. Always. We've all been there, standing in the check-out line while someone at the register keeps passing their card into the slot, it beeps, for some reason payment is being rejected. 

Then comes the question everyone standing in line knew was coming from the confused (that deer-in-the-headlights look) payer, "Duhhhhhhhh, do I press 'debit' or 'credit'?"  Well, just how fucking long have you been using the card, and you still don't know which button to press, debit or credit? On the other hand, the person paying by cash is in and out for only as long as it takes to ring up the sale and make change, if required. "Next!"

The other day I linked to the Technocracy article on cryptocurrency and how it will enable Global Elitists. They're not going to limit themselves to one, single form of currency or means of exchange. But they will want the rest of the world to do so.

The Big Lie being told in trying to sell the public on government blockchains  goes something like this. GovCheck:

Blockchain is among the “next big, transformational technologies” being eyed for use by government in its ongoing quest to provide residents with easy, online access to services and transactions[.]

You caught that, right? Government blockchain control will provide citizens with easier online services and transactions. 

When has government ever done anything that made things easier? (I'll give you the electronic filing of income tax). When has government ever done anything that simplified our interaction with them?

When the government says what they're doing for us will make life easier, we can bet it will do just the opposite.

Anyone or any institution telling you blockchains are infallible is lying.

The World Economic Forum.org is lying: 

The cloud-based ledger ensures that records can’t be duplicated, manipulated or faked, and increased visibility in parts of the supply chain promotes an unprecedented level of trust.

Everything above said by the WEF is a lie. Why would anyone believe the WEF? They're the United Nations of world economy. Their vested interest in blockchain is controlling all global finance.

Blockchains are considerably safer than other electronic means of transactions, but - this is a semantics thing, some people don't like to admit blockchains can be "hacked" - they can be infiltrated, compromised and falsified. Huh - sounds like "hacked" to me.  

Of course vulnerabilities exist within blockchains, they're created by humans. Humans have flaws, and thus, anything created by humans will be flawed. In technology, all it takes to compromise a network is one, tiny exploitable flaw. In the time it takes you to read this post, I can assure you that MicroSoft will have issued two patches for a security flaw in one or more of its Operating Systems or for Internet Explorer.

Image: WikiCommons

Does the name Marcus Hutchins ring a bell? What about the name MalwareTech? He's the guy who stopped the WannaCry malware virus that attacked computer systems from Europe to the U.S. earlier this year.

Hutchins noticed the flaw; that all the WannaCry traffic was directed to an unregistered web domain. As soon as he purchased the domain - registering it as an active, "living" domain rather than the dormant domain it was - the malware was inactivated. The kill-switch was activating the domain. Pretty damn good critical thinking on his part, huh?

Some may argue it's inaccurate in comparing a viral  flaw to a blockchain flaw. Well, a flaw is a flaw. Virus, blockchain, power steering, canoe...if it's flawed, it's flawed.

This is one of the best articles (LINK RESTORED. I've LOST THE LINK, AM WORKING TO FIND IT AGAIN-DD)  that I've read on blockchains. It's a long, long  article, but it's darn good. I encourage you to do everything you can to make it through that article. It is worth downloading and reading at your leisure or to have for future referral.

The legend goes, that once a transaction is logged and completed within the blockchain (think of it as one 'cell' of many within a digital a ledger), that it cannot be modified, changed or imitated. But that's not true. A "cell" has been  retroactively changed. Or...hacked. It's much more difficult to compromise blockchain than our current technology in digital monetary security, but it's not fail-safe. Some of the more rigid and inflexible IT crowd cringe at "fail-safe", instead preferring the term "fault tolerant."

The biggest flaw - you already know this - is human fallibility. People are going to have to trust other people in any blockchain transaction. As in any situation involving humans, the degree of trustworthiness and the honesty of others always must be considered. And add human error to the list...it can't not happen.

Moving to a cashless society makes Asset Forfeiture  (already an all-too uncomplicated action) even easier and more pervasive. From BLF (Bigger Law Firm):

On July 19, the DOJ under Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the resumption of federally adopted forfeitures, whereby local and state law enforcement to use federal law to seize cash and other property from people suspected of crimes, even if they are not charged.
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Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein defended the [Asset Forfeiture) program to reporters.

“This is not about taking assets from innocent people," [said Rosenstein].
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[Criminal defense attorney and professor at Virginia Commenweatlh [sic] University Matt C. Pinkser] states:

“No one objects to criminals losing their ill-gotten gains from their criminal activity. The problem is that for civil forfeiture, there is no requirement that a person is charged with a crime, let alone convicted.”

Pinsker explained that prosecutors need only show it is more likely than not that the asset being seized was involved in, contributed to or acquired through criminal activity.

 From The Sovereign Investor:

Seizures can be based on mere rumor, gossip, a police hunch, or self-serving statements from disreputable people with an axe to grind like anonymous paid informants[.]

It seems eliminating cash, and moving to only a digital form of currency, would expand the Black Market.

Will we have to depend on criminal elements and drug cartels to keep cash alive?

We've seen in movies and television a drug lord being paid by a bank-to-bank transfer or "wire". This is an entirely different animal than an electronic funds transfer (EFT) based on virtual currency.

In other words, what's being transferred isn't the dollar or the Euro or the pound. A cashless digital transfer is an amorphous exchange of a form of currency devoid of physical representation taking place in the ether .

Medium.com, writing about cryptocurrency, points to the encryption "keys" needed by the parties involved in digital currency transactions:

A private key is a tiny bit of code that is paired with [algorithms] for text encryption and decryption.
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As the term suggests, private keys are intended to be secret, and is shared only with the key’s initiator, ensuring security.

Insider trading isn't supposed to happen, but it does. Why? People can't keep secrets.

A digital key "secret" code is secure only up to the point of a bribe or a criminal, embezzler or hacker threatening the other party. "We've abducted your family/son/daughter...give us the code or watch your family die." Gee, how long do you think that that code will remain "secret"?

Where, when and how this ends, I don't know. If I did, I guess I could parlay that info into becoming a wealthy man. Personally, I don't think any of the Seven Trumpets of the Book of Revelation have blown, signaling the coming of the Mark of The Beast, but who knows?

I don't know about you, but on this issue of a cashless society, if I have to depend on drug lords, cartels, criminals and hackers, I'll take any ally I can get who wants to keep the bicycle of world finance alive and well.

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Although this has been proofread several times, grammar/punctuation/ typos may occur. Consult your doctor if these symptoms persist.

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Grammar clarifier; fixed typo 9/15/2017

Tech News

From BGR, just in time for Oktoberfest, Adidas markets beer and puke resistant sneakers. Really!
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MARK OF THE BEAST, ANYONE? This is not a conspiracy. This is real, this is happening. It must be stopped. From Technocracy-  Global Elites' Scheme for crypto-currency:

...crypto-hysteria is distracting you from a scary truth no one is talking about. There is every indication that governments, regulators, tax authorities, and the global elite are moving in for the crypto-kill. The future of Bitcoin may be a dystopia in which Big Brother controls what’s called “the blockchain” and decides when and how you can buy or sell anything and everything.

Furthermore, cryptocurrency technology could be the very mechanism used by global elites to replace the dollar based financial system.

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Security Week: Bashware; vulnerable Win10 feature for Windows Subsystem for Linux may transfer malware. Don't worry, Windows will release another patch.

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This is the stuff that makes Tech-files drool. BetaNews: 12 Terabyte HD, 7200 RPM disk speed. But it's pricey.
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We've all heard the term Big Data. What is it? InfoWorld tells us all we need to know.
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As long as we're talking about Big Data, attention business owners: Your analytics are all wrong. Information Week:

"Analytics are viewed as how many tools or dashboards you have, or how many reports you generate, " said Isher Kaila, CEO of management consulting firm Sapphire Nine Consulting.  "No one is anchoring that to the amount of insights you are delivering, and by extension, what those insights translate to in terms of business outcomes.

Exactly. But try and tell that to your boss.
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ZD Net: The inadequate tech protection is why Equifax was hacked.
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Here comes the MARK OF THE BEAST AGAIN. This time, it's in the form of ... the iPhone X. Geek:

The biggest reason I’m immediately turned off by the iPhone X is [the]  FaceID facial recognition technology.
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But no, Apple, the iPhone X can’t have my face.

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Speaking of Facial ID recognition, NextGov asks what will become of your facial scan, who can access it, and some very other pertinent legal questions.
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TechCrunch: "Animoji are dumb and I detest them." I could not agree more.
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NewAtlas: Change the view from your house...your revolving house.
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Gizmodo: Slash-In-A-Box.
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The designs on the arm are not a Swastika.

It is not a swastika - it's not even close - but because some say it kind of looks like one, people are all upset. ArsTechnia:

"It's come to our attention that a gauntlet [an armor item] in Destiny 2 shares elements with a hate symbol," Bungie wrote on its official Twitter channel. "We are removing it. Our deepest apologies. We renounce [sic] hate in all forms."

The item in question, which was still live on the game's official site as of press time, is a piece of arm-and-shoulder armor named "Road Complex AA1." Its lime-green color and iconography, with solid lines offset by opposite-facing letter K shapes, look quite similar to elements on a flag for a fictitious nation dubbed "Kekistan." The full flag design, which has flown at recent neo-Nazi rallies across the United States, looks very similar to a German Nazi flag. Differences include the color swap to lime green and a mix of Ks and lines instead of a swastika. (The flag also commonly includes 4chan's heart-shaped logo.)

The "flag" of a fictitious nation. "Similar" to(??), but NOT a swastika.

No one who is affiliated with a true hate group is going to incorporate into their logo or hate symbol the four 4Chan hearts. No offense to 4Chan (they are an informative site) - it's just not a design that a hate group is going to drop into their logo.

Should I, as a Christian, be offended by the above flag because of the "cross" symbol which is similar to a crucifix?

What about the military-style short buzz haircut that so many guys sport? Are they sporting a "neo-Nazi" haircut? Should we ban short, buzz-cut haircuts? The Swastika predates Nazism by thousands of years and was used as a spiritual and religious symbol.

The word ‘swastika’ is a Sanskrit word (‘svasktika’) meaning ‘It is’, ‘Well Being’, ‘Good Existence, and ‘Good Luck’.
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It is ironic, and unfortunate, that a symbol of life and eternity that was considered sacred for thousands of years has become a symbol of hatred.

The flag has four letter "K's" back to back; the "K" for Kekistan. Kekistan does not exist. It is not a real country. We, as a society, need to clearly establish and define true symbols of hate from those that kind of look like, but are not, a hate symbol. The lines have been blurred so much by the Politically Correct Police that soon, a single, solid, bold "line" drawn on a piece of cloth will be misinterpreted as a hate symbol or said to "resemble or have elements similar" to an actual hate symbol.

Micro-chipped employees can pay for snacks at the vending machine with a "swipe" of their finger!

Average reading time: 2m 30s

The recent micro-chipping of employees at a Wisconsin company  isn't anything all that new. The Ladders.com:

...employees can get chips faster from the vending machine. With the microchip implanted in their hands, employees can wave their hands and get chips from the company vending machine[.]

Yah, yah, yah...they can also open doors within the company and log onto their computer without signing in. Well, if their corporate office is using any version of Windows - sorry - that micro-chip isn't going to do a thing to make MS boot any faster.

What more could we ask from technology? Technology ends here, Mister Musk.  We can go no further in technology than micro-chipping us for vending machines. "Stop all the research, somebody call CERN and tell 'em 'shut her down', we've gone as far as we'll ever go. We've reached the zenith of technology with this vending machine thing."

The earliest news story about employee chip implants that I found is from The Daily Mail, from January 2015 :

A Swedish company has implanted microchips in its staff which allows them to use the photocopier, open security doors and even pay for their lunch.

I don't believe the type of chipping above is The Mark of The Beast, and I base this opinion on someone I know who knows the Bible inside and out, backwards and forwards, and left to right, upside down and in reverse. And he said, there will be no mistaking the mark of the beast as The Mark of The Beast. There will be no question about it. People will clearly know they are accepting the Mark of the Beast, as opposed to chipping for vending machine access and opening office doors, or a credit card or your means of digital payment.

I think this was just a PR stunt by the Wisconsin company that had voluntary employees be chipped. After all, this company makes and produces vending machines. Do you think there was some vested interest in their publicizing the chipping?

Candy bars, soda, M&M's, gum, granola bars, those small cheese and cracker plastic containers with barely nothing in them, Ho-Ho's, Skittles, all of which are ludicrously overpriced...and you can PAY with your FINGER?!?!? What a huge step in the advancement of technology.

Anyway, here's what it comes down to. (If I were to say that properly, without ending with a preposition, it would be, "to here is what it comes down").

Does anyone, anywhere, really think that the line at the vending machines will move more quickly just because their co-worker ahead of them can pay by waving their finger?

No. The entire thesis of more efficiently advancing the line at the snack machines because your co-worker is chipped has no legs.

Why? Because the same people micro-chipped are still going to be the same ones standing at the vending machine pondering, "Hmmmm, chips or a Twix?  Cheetos or trail mix. The trail mix is more healthy but I kinda want some Cheetos. Oh, Oreos too???!"

And then, as they're about to make their selection on the A,B,C,D,E,F and 1,2,3,4,5,6 vending buttons, their finger freezes. Again, they're mulling over, "salt or chocolate."

No, I'm afraid nothing will speed up the selection process of the undecided minds of people who - well...how can you not be relatively 90% certain of what you want long before you even enter the break room?

Propaganda film maker Michael Moore ponders vending machine snack choices.