People Still Not Aware of Smart ID Totalitarian Control
China’s Social Credit System Being Forced on the World
- British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, apparently attempting to impersonate a Soviet dictator, appears to be forcing mandatory digital ID on the population, despite huge opposition to the issue.
- “You will not be able to work in the United Kingdom if you do not have digital ID,” Starmer said on September 26 at the Global Progress Action Summit. In other words, if you refuse to obey, there will be nothing for you but poverty and unemployment.
- Starmer — who apparently could not care less that thousands of migrants from North Africa and the Middle East, both legal and illegal, continue to pour into the UK — gaslights the public that this totalitarian measure is somehow needed to stop illegal migration. Remember when the world used to have closed borders everywhere – until the globalists opened them up? US President Donald J. Trump seems to have pretty much closed US borders without the need for a digital anything.
- Bizarrely, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair — the globalist who launched the floods of migrants into the UK and solidified the idea of a “multicultural state” – has been endlessly advocating for digital ID. He is claiming that the UK “desperately” needs it. For what?
- While the European Union has been rolling out digital ID for all member states, citizens have not been asked if they consent to such a measure.
- “It is Americans, including Bill Gates and the controlling owner of Oracle, Larry Ellison, who are financing the digital ID push.” — Michael Shellenberger, author, September 28, 2025.
- The World Economic Forum, despite being elected by nobody, leads the G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance…
Totalitarianism is growing at a terrifying speed in what was once considered the free world. “Digital identification” (digital ID) is now being pushed by world leaders, the World Economic Forum, and the tech billionaire set.
Although this rollout has the potential to affect negatively everyone on the planet, the media, instead of reporting it, seems happy distracting the public with a Gaza obsession; unserious culture wars over wokeness, transgenderism, “climate change” and so on.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, apparently attempting to impersonate a Soviet dictator, appears to be forcing mandatory digital ID on the population, despite huge opposition to the issue.
“You will not be able to work in the United Kingdom if you do not have digital ID,” Starmer said on September 26 at the Global Progress Action Summit. In other words, if you refuse to obey, there will be nothing for you but poverty and unemployment.
As a pretext for introducing digital ID, Starmer — who apparently could not care less that thousands of migrants from North Africa and the Middle East, both legal and illegal, continue to pour into the UK — gaslights the public that this totalitarian measure is somehow needed to stop illegal migration. Remember when the world used to have closed borders everywhere — until the globalists opened them up? US President Donald J. Trump seems to have pretty much closed US borders without the need for a digital anything.
Bizarrely, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair — the globalist who launched the floods of migrants into the UK and solidified the idea of a “multicultural state” – has been endlessly advocating for digital ID. He is claiming that the UK “desperately” needs it. For what?
While the European Union has been rolling out digital ID for all member states, citizens have not been asked if they consent to such a measure.
Thierry Breton, then European Commissioner for the Internal Market, said in 2024:
“The EU Digital Identity Wallet will revolutionise the way European citizens and businesses engage with online services by seamlessly integrating convenience, safety and privacy. By providing a transparent and secure framework, this innovative solution ensures that our personal data remains safeguarded as we navigate the digital world.”
Europeans are being controlled “for their own good,” of course. The bureaucrats are only removing their privacy and freedom as a “safeguard.”
In possibly the most inverting, gaslighting sentence you could imagine, the EU markets digital ID by stating: “Your personal data tells your life’s story: you should be the one to control it.”
Digital IDs may not (yet) be forced upon Americans, but, according to author and journalist Michael Shellenberger, the same extreme sentiments are being thrown about by influential people in the US who are financing the push for digital ID: Larry Ellison and Bill Gates.
“It is Americans, including Bill Gates and the controlling owner of Oracle, Larry Ellison, who are financing the digital ID push.” Shellenberger writes. Larry Ellison is the second-richest person in the world and one of Tony Blair’s biggest financial backers. Ellison has said things that make it distressingly transparent that the actual goal of digital ID is total control: In a conversation with Blair at the World Governments Summit in February, Ellison stated that all population data must be “unified”:
“The NHS [National Health Service] in the UK has an incredible amount of population data but it’s fragmented. It’s not easily accessible by these AI models. We have to take all of this data we have in our country and move it into a single, if you will, unified, data platform.”
That data, in conjunction with a vast network of interconnected cameras, will apparently be used by AI to constantly surveil the populace, Ellison, whose business, Oracle, is an AI database cloud computing company, explained last year: “Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on,” he said. What could be wrong with that?
If all this sounds familiar, it is: It is the Chinese social credit system. Under it, cities have an AI-surveillance-driven “City Brain” to closely monitor residents in real time through hundreds of millions of cameras. Such a system, sort of a Big Brother on steroids, obviously, will efficiently eliminate all semblance of privacy and any sort of freedom, as it tracks your movements down to the minutest detail, so you have nothing to worry about!
These unelected billionaires — set to make billions more from the totalitarian plans that they are pushing — are meanwhile being hosted at international governance conferences, and setting the agendas for how to best override our basic human rights. Millions of people across the world have been brainwashed and manipulated into marching for a non-existent “Palestine” while virtually nothing is heard about the magnificent totalitarian future our billionaire overlords are cooking up.
In Communist China, in fact, they just upgraded their urban dystopia to “City Brain 3.0”: “With City Brain 3.0, Hangzhou is pioneering AI-driven governance, making city management smarter, safer and more efficient, setting a model for other global smart cities.” [Emphasis added.]
Smart cities are a Chinese Communist Party idea, established in China by the regime in its 12th Five-Year Plan, issued in 2011. The UN evidently wants all cities to become smart cities:
“The concept of ‘smart cities’, which can help stimulate inclusive growth, promote social inclusion, decrease traffic congestion, combat crimes, improve resilience during natural disasters and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, has a potential as a solution to urban problems both in developing and developed countries.”
The World Economic Forum, despite being elected by nobody, leads the G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance, which it describes as follows:
“Representing more than 200,000 cities and local governments, companies, start-ups, research institutions and non-profit organizations, the Alliance is leading numerous initiatives in more than 36 pioneer cities around the world focusing on smart city governance through mobility, administration, infrastructure, energy, as well as cultural and creative industries.”
Welcome to the global “City Brain” — your very own warm, loving “protector.”
Robert Williams is based in the United States.
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While I am very concerned about increasing surveillance in the UK, I would remind readers that we already have digital ids: passports, driving licences, national insurance numbers etc. I recently discovered that as a company director and charity trustee, I now need to have a government id for these roles. So yes, Big Brother may be around the corner, but digital ids are nothing new in a sense.
Wait! Wait! Everybody gets a barcode tattooed on their ARM and without showing that bar code you can’t buy anything or rent anything or travel anywhere except perhaps to buy a ticket out of the country. In this process you eliminate cash, and you can only purchase via a credit card. NO!! Wait! Wait! No more credit cards. The giant computer run by AI will keep tabs on what money/credit you have, and you can only buy things, or sell things, by the use of that system. NO!! Wait! Wait! Everything will be owned by a combination of huge conglomerates and the government, and they will take care of everybody’s needs so you don’t have to worry about your standard of living. It will be government/conglomerate controlled based upon your bar code.
It’s much like a prehistoric AI that kicked in when you strolled down Oxford Street in London years ago and a voice embedded in a clothing store window pane greeted you by name, inviting you in for the latest fashion range you’ve long supported back in South Africa. That was scary then, and now hardly a YouTube short flashes past without a clear sign of AI a la 2025, and is so damn smart it hoodwinks completely.
So, with your every move and reaction, there is an enormous invasion of privacy lurking in society that makes for quite some anxious contemplation. Plus, it’s said to make sure your television is disconnected by all means possible because you are being watched and listened to 24/7 even though you are completely unaware it’s still active in your household.
If and when you’re next strolling from the kitchen to the bedroom in an open-plan unit, don’t be surprised if your nakedness appears simultaneously on a big-screen billboard in a sleazy Beijing red-light district.
Thing is, with AI, somewhere down the line you will be seriously disadvantaged in one way or another. Best to discontinue internet banking before your account is thoroughly cleared of all your life savings.
Couple this with nanotechnology and an artificial housefly with high-tech eyes well positioned in ATM’s to capture your account details for instant transmission back to a team of nasties on the other side of the world. In the last two weeks I’ve had calls from scam artists in India and Nairobi with similar approaches and really clever tactics to dupe the most suspicious of us all.
There are now tens of millions of active cameras on all continents, watching your every move. Never forget that if you want a bit of privacy, if that’s still at all possible.
Great article: so true. Despite all the cameras & AI “supervision,” I believe the murderers and rape gangs will continue to operate in American and European cities with impunity. Evil is evil.
The UK is very conflicted re whether to love totalitarianism or the forces of Islam more. Thus, they have embraced both. Today’s UK citizens are not like those we helped in WWII. Those Brits saw a clear path for their beleaguered nation. Today’s Brits sit on their hands and await their fate. Like frogs in a pot.
This issue / problem is more than just what the article above points out. Constant surveillance by the many cameras, as is expressed by following the ‘DC Pipe Bomber’, exposes an already precarious situation. However, the technology is there along with the trend towards greater examination of everyday life by a now connected entity of capabilities we know little of.
Our 1st amendment is robust, but not the 4th as it slips from view while being diminished daily under the onslaught described. “Expectation of privacy” is NOT being expanded as it must be. EFF and EPIC have been around, but more is needed from everyday folks – you, you, and YOU – must take up this struggle no matter the personal cost.
Freedom and Liberty do not apply to governments. Malignant safety is not healthy. I am an American and native to this soil and will not tolerate safety at any cost because it is self-defeating.
The insectary drift by governments is a regression and all who want excessive safety want a degeneration. Struggle and overcome these trends ; a healthy future is better.
There are at least two other social phenomena that threaten the existence of man on Earth, namely nuclear war between Russia and the U.S. and Iran, who is planning to attack Israel with nuclear weapons, and the fact that computerization, robotics and artificial intelligence are taking away jobs, which could easily result with 8 billion people on Earth killing each other for the necessities of life. It seems that the leaders of nations lack the brainpower to recognize that wars, free trade agreements and automation are inevitable disasters for all life on Earth and the current governances of man by nations are total failures. I have suggested in newspaper articles and in X that the forms of Government in Canada, the U.K, and the U.S. are obsolete and do not represent the voices of the people and should be replaced by a form of government in which every citizen of a nation votes monthly from their house or residence on a particular topic by using his/ her social insurance number and civil servants called “implementers” are obligated by law to send to every voting citizen before the monthly vote, the pros and cons of every subject to be voted on. “The Implementers” will implement the result of the monthly voting. Prime ministers, presidents, dictators and legislatures would all be eliminated, as they don’t represent the citizens of the nation but only special interest groups.
Morris Givner • Dec 6, 2025 at 16:51Sorry, but one can’t trust the Implementers either. Stalin said the people who vote decide nothing, but the people who count the votes decide everything. America has the best system of government so far in history. However, the MSM is now part of the Left, so honest voting and counting are compromised. No thank you to National Personal Numbers. They are so One World Government.
It is important to remember that all of the devil’s servants are working together. Whether they call themselves conservative, liberal, moderate, left wing, right wing, communist party, Nazi party, Republican, Democrat, Catholic, Protestant, black, white, gay, straight, radical, reformer or any other label. It’s all just labels with sliding definitions. There’s not a nickel’s worth of difference between Joseph Stalin, Keir Starmer, Mao Tse Tung and any of the rest of the devil’s servants. And they are all working together, even when they appear to be fighting against each other. Your privacy as an American citizen means absolutely nothing to those who want to track and control your every move with digital currency and iris scanners everywhere powered by 5G to sterilize you and keep you sick.
Absolutely terrifying prospects.
This is reminiscent of the Madeleine L’Engle book “A Wrinkle in Time”, in which the planet called Camazotz is characterised by houses that are exactly the same, and children who play ball, each in uniform yards, at the same time, with their balls hitting the ground simultaneously, all of it micromanaged by “IT”, which also imprisons those who resist.
How ironic that George Orwell, author of 1984, was a UK citizen.
Journalists, I use the term loosely, are not reporting on the dangers of digital IDs because they have never experienced how the Communist Party of China uses them to suppress its citizens to maintain the Party’s power.
Real ID will morph into Digital ID. It is all about Control and Power. Big Brother is watching.
Fascists of the world, unite, in the name of a more benevolent socialist order?
Better start practicing my goose step.
Isn’t something like this mentioned in the book of Revelation? I never took biblical texts seriously and then I read Gatestone’s erudite piece. No wonder China wants people crammed together in cities!!!?
This is surely the forerunner to the Mark of the Beast as described in Revelation 13:16-17:
“[16] He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads,
[17] and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”
Not only will the initial digital ID be enforced in Europe, but also the rest of the world, including the US. The final version of the digital ID will be applied to the right hand or forehead; the globalists presumably have a plan ready for this. During the Covid ‘pandemic’ the unsurpressable hard-at-work Bill Gates was pushing ID2020. Everything is pointing to the Second Coming of Christ, and the preparation for the world to welcome the Man of Sin, the Anti-Christ.
Saul • Dec 6, 2025 at 16:55Well said. Thank you!
As always, thanks, Gatestone, for an insightful and informative investigation. Reminds me of a recent article, “How to Steal The World” which highlights in an interesting schematic how many global-Left ‘projects’ are aimed at re-ordering the world to a globalist agenda. (Linked here: https://christiancomment.org/2025/10/29/how-to-steal-the-world/ )
As Gatestone points out, the electorates of Western nations by and large are sleepwalking to this dystopian future. I sometimes think the public is being increasingly ‘infantalised’ and is much more interested in the results of some local lottery than they are in the future, and their place in that future.
In China if you jaywalk on a pedestrian crossing, it adds bad points to your annual social credit score.
If at holiday time you try to buy a ticket to travel to your hometown, you will be refused a ticket if your score is too high.
Think they won’t try something like that?
Bazz • Dec 5, 2025 at 18:31Copying China is nothing new for even the western countries. The COVID-19 lockdowns were copied from China too.
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