Today’s The Sunday Times, London [February 26th, 2023] had a live poll at the end of the following article that asked “Should everyone in the U.K. be issued with a digital ID?” I could not copy and paste the live poll, but I voted in it to learn the results.

I voted “no” to the question. I received the following information; 23% of users agree with you!

While 77% of people in the U.K. right now think digital IDs are a great idea and ought to be implemented in the United Kingdom.

If anyone is under the impression that there are no signs and wonders of these last days of the age of man and woman on earth as known, or under the impression, it takes a country such as America, Russia, Communist China, or perhaps Germany or Japan to bring about certain events that will usher in all the necessary ingredients to fulfill Bible prophecy and open the way to the introduction of the Antichrist and his false prophet and the beginning of The Great Tribulation — folks aligning themselves thusly really ought to pay attention to nations such as Estonia. The United Kingdom. India. The Scandinavian countries.

Everything to transition into every aspect of the Mark of the Beast — mainly the quick and very easy submission that the people of this world will demonstrate upon the appearance of the Antichrist and his false prophet to very willingly take the Antichrist’s name into their flesh. Because it’s the thing to do, it makes life easier, in fact, it’ll make life possible — for if anyone doesn’t have the name of the Antichrist branded into their flesh they won’t be able to buy, sell, or conduct daily life affairs.

If not familiar with the former prime minister of England, Tony Blair, it would behoove those folks to take the time to be keen about learning more about Mr. Blair. He is the leading voice in the world for one world religion, which will make one world governance a lot easier than the one world governance we’re now living in its adolescence. We’re past the one world governance infancy. That occurred after World War II up until about September 11th, 2001, and around the same time the flexing of the atrophied muscle of the United Nations and the World Economic Forum to realize the opportunity afforded them. Now exercising daily on steroids seizing the apathy and ignorance of the people of the world to implement their longtime desired goal.

And they have grown in voice and power accordingly.

Many pieces have been put in place. Especially with the rise of technology — the rapid increase of knowledge, and travel.

Those words may jog your memory thinking, “where have I heard or read that before?”

Nations such as Estonia, the United Kingdom, and a few others are the foundational blocks upon which the world order whose effort has been and is to control — everything — and every one is built. Leading to the worldwide structure to be built upon that foundation.

Sir Tony Blair, Lord William Hague, and Estonia might appear benign. Insignificant. Nothing to get up about. Everything begins small. World Wars. Plagues. Movements.

It would behoove you, dear reader, to begin to see the small things, the things not being mentioned among all the distracting sleight-of-hand misdirection and mind numbing dung presented to people as news, and see how the web to snare people is built no different than the web of a deadly spider.

Methodically. Diligently. With evil intent. The whole purpose of the web is to catch passing life and keep it from leaving the web. So the fangs of the spider can go to the living thing snared in the web and suck the life out of that living thing.

What Estonia has done is NOT The Mark of the Beast. The Mark of the Beast is people actually taking his name branded into their flesh. Either on their hand or their forehead.

While what Estonia has done and this evil is quickly becoming noticed by some the actions of Estonia have propelled the advent of worldwide digital IDs that contain everything necessary by a terrified tyrannical.

Estonia has just taken one giant step toward the ultimate fulfillment of Bible prophecy.

The following is just one big piece of the puzzle taking place in a small country few ever think about.

Perhaps now is a good time to begin learning about these matters if you haven’t yet.

Oh, and the U.S. Congress has as one of its priorities — instituting national ID cards. To every person in America. Various Congresses have attempted to get a national ID requirement passed and made the law of the land [Digital ID bill sees action in the House and Senate – FCW, H.R.1764 – 117th Congress (2021-2022): National Child Identification Act of 2021 | Congress.gov | Library of Congress.

If you don’t want to open the above links and read them the condensed version is a Representative in the U.S. Congress from Illinois, the Congress of 2021-2022, introduced the above bill and it has 13 cosponsors and is still active in committee. Evil is just working out the way to make itself palatable to the American people and finally get passed in Congress, and it will be signed into law by almost any of the current people bantered about running for president, and it would certainly be signed into law by the current sitting president. Evil can’t wait to bring this about.

And it is all about the spiritual war every person is a participant. And the fulfillment of Bible prophecy. The end times. It really isn’t about politics. Has very little to do with politics, really, if only folks would pause to ponder, to do the research, and to turn to God’s Word for the illumination necessary, If they come to believe, they then will come to know. Or, they ought to.

It may be only in one nation presently. Soon coming to the country in which you live. Wherever that may be — and overwhelmingly the people of your nation think digital ID cards are a great idea and they look forward to having them. Make no mistake. It is coming…as is everything written within the Holy Bible…as is the Lord Jesus Christ a Second Time. That’s in the book that also tells of what occurs when knowledge and travel increase greatly.

Read the article written by Mr Conradi in The Sunday Times below…

Ken Pullen, A CROOKED PATH, Sunday, February 26th, 2023

 

 

Do digital IDs work? The nation with one card for everything

Should we be wary of Tony Blair and William Hague’s call for electronic identity cards for all? Peter Conradi travels to Estonia, where an 11-digit number issued at birth unlocks access to 600 services

 

Sunday, February 26, 2023

By Peter Conradi

Reprinted from The Sunday Times [London]

 

When Kaja Kallas, the prime minister of Estonia, votes in next week’s general election, she will not be followed by cameras to a polling station in a church hall or primary school. Instead, photographers will snap her strolling into a café, opening her laptop and casting her vote with a click.

About half of the voters in this, Europe’s most tech-savvy nation, will do the same. Most of their day-to-day interactions with the state and also with many private companies have long since been through a single integrated system accessed by smartphone or computer. Why should voting be any different?

Last week Sir Tony Blair and Lord Hague of Richmond urged Britain to introduce digital ID cards as part of a “technological revolution”. Their model was Estonia, which has had them since 2002. (Online voting followed three years later.)

So could following Estonia’s example drag the creaking British government machine into the 21st century, as the two former statesmen claim? Or is Sir Jake Berry, the former Tory party chairman, right to dismiss it as “a creepy state plan to track you from the cradle to the grave”?

Berry is correct about one thing, as I found out during a visit to the country last week. Like it or not, Estonians become part of this brave new e-world from the moment they draw their first breath: newborns have a band attached to their wrist bearing the unique 11-digit number that will accompany them for the rest of their life.

“This is where the story starts. Even before a baby has a name it has an identity code,” says Silvia Lips, an expert on electronic ID — or eID — at the Information System Authority (RIA), the government body responsible for cybersecurity. A mother of three, she has kept her children’s wristbands as a memento.

Everything follows from the number, which is embedded in a physical identity card (which has to be inserted into a reader), in a Mobile-ID or in a Smart-ID — a more recent innovation developed by the private sector, which is easier to use and works on both phones and tablets. This becomes the basis for interactions with the state. Getting access to information requires a four-digit password. To sign an agreement or other legal documents you must input a second five-digit code.

Kaja Kallas has been outspoken about her support for the eID card system and has urged more European countries to adopt them

Kaja Kallas has been outspoken about her support for the eID card system and has urged more European countries to adopt them
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There are more than 600 services that the eID card unlocks access to. Among the most important are voting, shopping, travelling abroad, signing official documents, medical records and e-prescriptions, banking and paying bills. It can also be used to decrypt secure documents intended solely for the cardholder and in turn provide a digital signature.

The beauty of the technology is that many shops, entertainment venues and other services used by Estonians in their daily lives are linked up to it. Why have a supermarket loyalty card when you can get the benefits via the same system?

I ask Lips and two of her colleagues when they last used their eID: in her case it was earlier that morning, when she logged in to get some information from her daughter’s school. Martin Lambing, who heads the eID department, used his to approve one of his staff’s leave requests. Seiko Kuik, the agency’s press officer, quoted his the previous evening at his local bar to prove his entitlement to a discount.

Carmen Raal, 25, who works for e-Estonia, a government body that promotes the country’s expertise in digital services, has never known another world — except during stints abroad in Hong Kong and in France, where she was frustrated by the bureaucracy. People who live outside Estonia are “amazed” when she tells them how smoothly things work. How do we in Britain prove our identity without even simple IDs, Raal wonders. When I explain the crucial role played by the humble utility bill in our day-to-day battles with bureaucracy, she struggles to suppress a giggle.

The system is estimated to save the state about 2 per cent of GDP — as well as encouraging the development of high-tech industries in a country of just 1.3 million people that was the birthplace of Skype and claims these days to have more start-ups per head than Silicon Valley.

But could something developed for such a tiny nation as Estonia work in the U.K., with its population of more than 67 million? “Absolutely. Technology is scaleable,” said Raal. In fact, Estonia has since 2019 been sharing its expertise on developing e-services with Ukraine, home to more than 40 million people, of which it has been a staunch supporter since last year’s Russian invasion.

Citizens can vote, file taxes, access government services and even shop and claim discounts using their ID cards

Citizens can vote, file taxes, access government services and even shop and claim discounts using their ID cards

 

The key, it seems, is making everything simple. The system works according to the “once-only principle”. The state will ask you only once for a particular piece of information, such as your address, and then forms tend to come largely filled in. Estonians like to boast about how quickly they can do their tax return: Raal’s took just three minutes this year.

It is also set to become even easier to use. An artificial intelligence-based digital assistant, known as Bürokratt, which will allow people to access services using their voice, is also being developed. Rather than “Hey, Siri” or “Hey, Google”, it will be “Hey, Bürokratt”.

This will also help prevent the older and less tech-savvy from being left behind. Even Raal’s 90-year-old grandmother already uses the system, although she needs some assistance. Important, especially, for older people are e-prescriptions. “You can call your doctor, get your prescription topped up, go to a pharmacy, hand them your ID card and the pharmacist can see what you have been prescribed,” said Raal.

It can also be a lifesaver in the case of, say, a road accident. An ambulance crew arriving can use a patient’s number to read medical records that might reveal a serious allergy to a particular medicine.

So why aren’t the Estonians, who spent more than 50 years as part of the totalitarian Soviet Union, more worried? Part of the explanation is that the system was created from scratch in the 1990s by authorities of the newly independent Estonian state, which people were inclined to trust. “So it was not a Soviet legacy; it symbolised a new era,” says Lips.

Nor, more fundamentally, are they fazed by the idea of carrying an identity card — any more than the French baulk at having a carte d’identité or the Germans a Personalausweis. It seems to be only those of us in the English-speaking world, with a different attitude towards the relationship between the individual and the state, that are suspicious of them. Britain last had compulsory identity cards during the Second World War, but they were withdrawn in 1952, and a faltering attempt by Blair to bring them back while prime minister was killed off by David Cameron’s Conservative-Lib Dem coalition.

Newborns in Estonia are issued with an identification number before they are named

Newborns in Estonia are issued with an identification number before they are named
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So why aren’t the Estonians, who spent more than 50 years as part of the totalitarian Soviet Union, more worried? Part of the explanation is that the system was created from scratch in the 1990s by authorities of the newly independent Estonian state, which people were inclined to trust. “So it was not a Soviet legacy; it symbolised a new era,” says Lips.

Nor, more fundamentally, are they fazed by the idea of carrying an identity card — any more than the French baulk at having a carte d’identité or the Germans a Personalausweis. It seems to be only those of us in the English-speaking world, with a different attitude towards the relationship between the individual and the state, that are suspicious of them. Britain last had compulsory identity cards during the Second World War, but they were withdrawn in 1952, and a faltering attempt by Blair to bring them back while prime minister was killed off by David Cameron’s Conservative-Lib Dem coalition.

Linking such cards to a vast digital network necessarily presents further potential risks — in particular, creating a Big Brother state of the sort being developed in China. Those who run the Estonian system insist theirs is run on different lines: crucially, records are held not on a single central server but on myriad individual ones.

Data travels between them in encrypted form along the “X-road”, policed by private and government bodies. Decentralisation makes it more resistant to outside attack — a handy attribute when your next-door neighbour is Russia. Memories are still fresh of a massive cyberattack on Estonia in 2007 that was blamed on Moscow as part of a row over soldiers’ graves from the Second World War. In addition, users can put special protection on certain information, such as medical records. Transparency is also key: log in and you can see who has been looking at your data and when. Breaches are punishable by law.

No system is foolproof: a potential security flaw uncovered in 2017 required the temporary suspension of 800,000 cards. Users occasionally receive notifications that some data may have been compromised. Nor does it eliminate fraud. According to official figures, Estonians were scammed out of €5 million (£4.4 million) last year, through a familiar mixture of fraudulent calls, phishing messages and fake websites in which they were tricked into handing over passwords. But in two decades no one has decrypted the technology itself.

Indeed, the system has become so embedded in Estonian life it is hard to find anyone who knocks it. Its few critics are mostly to be found among the ranks of the populist right-wing Conservative People’s Party of Estonia (Ekre), which is expected to take third place in the election. The party has expressed scepticism about the security of online voting — and its supporters are less likely to use it than supporters of mainstream parties. But although it spent two years in a coalition government from 2019, Ekre did nothing to dismantle the system.

Ingrid Sembach-Hõbemägi, 46, a landscape architect, reckons this is simply because everyone finds it makes their lives easier. “Sometimes there are concerns that databases don’t match or there are other problems, but generally it’s a really convenient system,” she said. “I can’t imagine life without it.”