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Dave Scrimshaw's avatar

"they were building their own prison too…" in hell.

Steve Martin's avatar

Stage 4.

Cancer, gone metastatic.

It appears that adopting behavior to slow down global warming applies only to us mere peasants.

Cheerio's avatar

It appears so!

Too many red herrings out for people to see beyond the tree to the forest.

The climate narrative was a hoax from the get go, in Canada it was a mechanism to change our current sea from petro/fiat dollar to a carbon credit system attached to all the monitoring controls, heck China has nothing on these measures of control.

Steve Martin's avatar

Bingo!

The ruling class sociopaths have turned 'democracy' into a four-letter word.

Might as well preface the official title of Canada (or my native U.S.) with 'The People's Democratic Republic of ... '

Trying to keep up the fight in Japan, but the ruling class here has an even tighter, subconscious grip on the population through an education long grounded in compliance to authority, and the constant drone of 'Japanese exceptionalism' in mass media.

I know I am bursting the bubble of those who are heavily invested in the exotic othering of 'Orientalism', but scratch the surface, and they are just human. All too human.

Cheers, and nice to meet you.

Doreen's avatar
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Is anyone doing a deep dive into the impact of Basel III on Canada and Canadians? https://www.osfi-bsif.gc.ca/en/guidance/guidance-library/liquidity-adequacy-requirements-lar-2027-chapter-2-liquidity-coverage-ratio

Basel III was made by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). Its essence is in the following: BIS runs the IMF, and this, in turn, runs central banks of all countries. The body of such control is called BCBS – the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. BCBS outlined transitional arrangements from 2017 to 2028 to provide banks sufficient time to adjust their operations and practices to comply with the new standards.

Kelly's avatar

This is a thoughtful and unsettling piece. You are right to ask who controls the infrastructure that powers AI — the land, energy, water, minerals, and centralized control systems. You are right to warn that digital freedom can become conditional on system access. And you are right that centralized systems are rarely built all at once. They are introduced incrementally, one layer at a time.

But your article diagnoses a disease without naming a cure. You describe the open-air prison. You do not describe the key.

The Prairie Key Act is the key.

On AI infrastructure and resource control. You note that AI runs on physical infrastructure — land, energy, water, minerals. Saskatchewan sits on uranium, potash, rare earths, and helium. The Prairie Key Act conditions extraction permits on peace. No uranium for water-cooled reactors that power surveillance infrastructure. No rare earths for AI-driven military targeting. No potash for systems that monitor agricultural populations. No helium for the cooling systems that keep AI data centres running without democratic oversight.

On central banking and digital identity. You note that banking is becoming integrated with digital identity and AI systems. The Prairie Key Act's verification mechanisms — blockchain, satellite monitoring, AI anomaly detection, public registries — are not surveillance tools. They are transparency tools. The difference is who controls them. The Act places verification under independent oversight: the Canadian Peace Institute, governed by equal representation from G7, BRICS, non-aligned nations, Indigenous nations, and civil society. No single bloc controls the system.

On the open-air prison. You warn that once centralized control systems are fully built, even their architects become trapped. The Prairie Key Act prevents that by building in limits from the start. Not trust. Verification. Not centralized control. Distributed oversight. Not a system that governs people. A system that governs resources — and only resources.

Your piece asks who controls the infrastructure. The Prairie Key Act answers: the people of Saskatchewan, through their elected legislature, conditioning extraction permits. The federal government, invited to establish the Canadian Peace Institute. And ultimately, the public registry that allows any citizen to see where resources go.

The prison is not inevitable. The choice is not between the open-air prison and the pre-digital past. The choice is between centralized control with no accountability and centralized infrastructure with democratic oversight.

The Prairie Key Act is the latter. Read it. Then let us talk about how to build the infrastructure without building the prison.

What's the plan? The Prairie Key Act. Condition resources. Verify everything. Build infrastructure. Keep the keys with the people.

What's the plan?