Read this today and I personally had run across the ID.me thing at the state level recently and it made me take notice...
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
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The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has partnered with a Virginia-based private identification firm which requires a facial recognition selfie among other things, in order to create or access online accounts with the agency.
According to
KrebsonSecurity,
the IRS announced that by the summer of 2022,
the only way to log into irs.gov will be through ID.me. Founded by former Army Rangers in 2010, the McLean-based company has evolved to providing online ID verification services which several states are using to help reduce unemployment and pandemic-assistance fraud. The company claims to have 64 million users.
Some 27 states already use ID.me to screen for identity thieves applying for benefits in someone else’s name, and now the IRS is joining them. The service requires applicants to supply a great deal more information than typically requested for online verification schemes, such as scans of their driver’s license or other government-issued ID, copies of utility or insurance bills, and details about their mobile phone service.
When an applicant doesn’t have one or more of the above — or if something about their application triggers potential fraud flags — ID.me may require a recorded, live video chat with the person applying for benefits. -KrebsonSecurity
It made me think of Michael B-C's mention of the 'Go Direct' topic in this thread and also the FedNow program and the US version of Central Backed Digital Currencies (CBDC):
So that put the whole sector on notice that this strategy of 'resolution' by committing theft is to be their number one policy going forward. In alignment with what Blackrock told the Fed in the US, the game of faking it by continually printing new money from public resources has been bled dry and its time to 'Go Direct' - which means in a multitude of ways, more overtly turning to pillage and theft.
And also in this thread:
Add to this the Going Direct policy instigated by Blackrock via the Central Banks in late 2019 (whereby central banks are now taking control of both monetary and fiscal policy) and the huge moves now underway to monetize all of nature as a new asset class for Blackrock and palls control under the guise of 'sustainability' (excellent conversation between Corbett and Whitney Webb below), and thus we have the full-spectrum dominance financial tyranny emerging to match the political. Happy days!
From the Fed website on FedNow -
Federal Reserve Board - FedNow℠ Service
The target release date for the service is 2023. As development of the FedNow Service progresses, additional details will be available through established Reserve Bank channels, including more specific timing, and implementation information for depository institutions.
So we have the IRS going big brother for anything electronic by the summer of 2022, and I'd image they will try to also go completely paperless at some point, which would try to force you to use this ID.me via an all digital IRS system, etc.
That sets up the identification and verification side, for one (the first?) interaction of the beast system, of what would likely be needed for an individual to participate in the central bank and related entities programs of Going Direct and FedNow. And hey!, wouldn't you know that FedNow is targeted for a "release date for the service is 2023." Huh... summer of 2022 beast verification starts to be required by the IRS... and then the beast monetary side will just happen to be ready and/or targeted for release in 2023.
I also figure a government built app will be 'made available' with respect to Going Direct and FedNow... and wouldn't you know, you will just happen to need to ID.me verification to use the app - my speculation.
I also figure given some nice fake economic collapse, for any given reason such as war with Russia on top of the issues created with the plandemic, and them trying to tell you their is justification for such drastic measures and needed changes and full digitization (ie The Great Reset, The Economic Rest), such as Going Direct and FedNow, and presto looks to me like there is your nice government issued mark of the beast system sliding right in under the radar. We will see how their plans pan out...