The village of East Palestine rolled out a proprietary, albeit optional, digital ID system just days before a disastrous trainwreck that saw copious amounts of the highly carcinogenic vinyl chloride spilled, and then burned off into the atmosphere by Norfolk Southern Railway as the company raced to get its line reopened.

On Jan. 26, Lisbon, Ohio-based media outlet Morning Journal (archive) reported that East Palestine Fire Department was “hosting a sign up event” for a service called MyID targeting both EP and nearby Unity Township.

The outlet quoted East Palestine Councilman Robert Runnion as stating, “MyID is a program that helps first responders aid victims more effectively and efficiently.”

Chris shared these with me, they’re images he’s received from others. I’d give credit for each one if I could pic.twitter.com/a5jLjV1Jm4

— Pedro L. Gonzalez (@emeriticus) February 17, 2023

The article added that MyID “touts itself” as a “comprehensive medical ID solution that provides an easy way to access, store and manage your health information.”

Morning Journal explained, “How it works is the company sells a variety of products like bracelets, tags, stickers and wallet cards that feature a QR code that can be scanned by medical personnel to get access to your online medical profile in a few short seconds.”

“The products allow first responders to scan the QR code quickly in the event of an emergency thereby removing any time delays in accessing important health information related to the person in need of help, or in the event that a person cannot communicate,” the outlet added.

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But the plan had been months in the making, according to WKBN27 news, which ran something of an advertorial for the MyID rollout in East Palestine in October of 2022.

The lead paragraph of the article stated, “East Palestine is known as ‘The Place to Be.’ It’s way ahead of the curve on a program to provide better treatment for anyone in the event of an emergency. We learned how it works and how it could help everyone in East Palestine.”

Video: East Palestine switching to ‘MYID’ emergency service

A video of a television segment accompanying the article showed that the wearables sold by MyID not only included a scannable QR code, but were also RFID tap-enabled.

“Orders will start in January,” WKBN27 stated, adding, “The Fire Department has already collected $5,000 in donations to help.”

In a second Jan. 26 article published by WKBN27, EPFD Chief Keith Drabick stated, “We’re not doing this to gain anybody’s information, to try and steal anybody’s information. We’re doing this to help the public in medical emergencies.”

Drabick added, “Anybody that skeptical? Please come on down. Sit down, talk to us. We’ll be happy to show you everything that goes on with it. We’ll be happy to show you how secure it is.”

Darlene Chapman, also with the EPFD, told the outlet regarding the MyID signup event, “We want to bring people in to get signed up, to pick their device that they want, and just so we can see who all is interested in it.”

WKBN stated that the devices were not only ready to go, but would be free for the first 250 customers, “People who are ready can sign up and pick their device. It’s free. The village has $5,000 in donations to cover the first phase of 250 devices.”

According to a Facebook page for the Jan. 29 signup event, 1 person was interested, and 1 person went.

A Facebook Live video published by the East Palestine Park Board on Oct. 1, 2022 also showed Chapman manning a promotional booth for MyID at a local craft fair.

In the video, Chapman showed the session how she could scan a wearable device connected to her own health information.

The MyID app displayed “your diagnosis…your personal information…your emergency contacts…allergies you have…medications that you’re on…lists your family physician,” Chapman both stated and demonstrated.

Chapman added that, at the time, the EPFD was only doing signups, and hoped to get a proper rollout of the system to takers by November.

The MyID website shows a variety of RFID and QR code-enabled wearables ranging in price from $5 to $95.

A FAQ page on the company website states that its technology is secure because it utilizes Amazon Web Services, firewalls, SSL, and an automatic logout function on its app.

Eyes on the ground

A Feb. 16 Twitter thread by independent journalist Pedro Gonzalez displayed on the ground scenes from East Palestine following the disaster, which showed what appear to be a dozen construction site dumpster-style bins lining the side of the town’s roadways at the East Palestine Park.

“I interviewed a family near the park that works at a factory that was close to where the train derailed. Workers are pumping and cleaning this creek all day and night,” Gonzalez stated.

Containers, cleanup crew, and the creek they’re draining pic.twitter.com/ldGqF5qSG2

— Pedro L. Gonzalez (@emeriticus) February 16, 2023

Further video showed extensive equipment operating in a local creek.

Gonzalez added that town residents appear to be in the dark about what exactly is being done by the cleanup crews, “…there are conflicting reports about everything on every level. Even locals are in the dark about what’s happening literally in their backyard and those in charge aren’t helping. It’s a huge communication problem.”

The journalist showed a video he obtained from a local resident showing cleanup crews transporting the dumpsters out of the city every night between 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. “like clockwork.”

He added that the cleanup crews refused to talk to him, and that town residents he spoke with say that although the crew is polite, they won’t speak with the residents, either.

Clear and present danger

Although network media has attempted to downplay the severity and danger of the chemical spill, a Feb. 15 “Tip Sheet” issued by the University of Cornell quoted Emeritus Professor Murray McBride as warning that vinyl chloride is “highly mobile in soils and water.”

The Tip Sheet advised farmers and residents to “test wells and soils where crops are grown.”

McBride explained, “Several industrial chemicals, including vinyl chloride and butyl acrylate, were released in large quantities into the air, surface waters and soils at the site of the derailment.”

“The vinyl chloride release from the rail cars is of special concern because of the particularly high toxicity of this chemical to humans,” he added.

The Professor noted that the chemicals can also “persist for years in groundwater.”

McBride also warned that the burnoff of the chemical spill by Norfolk Southern Railway as it raced to get the line reopened was also not a trivial matter for the local environment.

“Because the combustion of vinyl chloride that resulted from the accident may have (Absolutely without a doubt)  created highly toxic dioxins, surface soils downwind of the spill site should be tested for dioxin levels particularly where food crops are to be grown,” he stated.

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East Palestine launched “MyID” emergency service to surveil locals’ biometrics data just one week before train derailment

Wednesday, February 22, 2023 by: Ethan Huff

Bob Moore, a local 70-year-old farmer and longtime East Palestine resident, told the independent media that he ignored local news reports prior to the disaster urging residents like himself to sign up for MyID, allowing them to receive a biometric tracking device capable of relaying updates to first responders about their health conditions amid an emergency or “major disaster” not unlike the one that occurred in real life a week later.

The timing of the MyID rollout, Moore explained, is nothing short of suspicious – almost like the whole thing was planned as a false flag event.

“It was exactly a week before the derailment happened,” Moore explained. “The people were asked to go to the local fire department in downtown East Palestine to get that MyID.”

“They began monitoring your physical activity, your heart rate, your respiration, anything you might be exposed to. I see this as the kind of sensor you would put on an astronaut or on an athlete that you wanted to track to see how he’d react to stress or being winded, or in this instance chemical exposure. It’s a monitoring device.”

(Related: The company hired by Norfolk Southern to conduct toxicology assessments on the train derailment chemical release has a history of questionable and potentially fraudulent behavior.)

Was East Palestine a “test town” for the release of biometric tracking bracelets?

On January 26, WKBN, a local Ohio news affiliate, announced that East Palestine would begin making “an important medical device available to all 4,700 residents” starting on January 29, just five days before the derailment.

“The MyID program is ready to roll out in East Palestine. It’s a medical information system that helps first responders provide care,” WKBN reported – watch the news report below.

“MyID provides wearable devices or key FOBs that have QR codes. Emergency responders use a camera phone to access important medical information.”

The announcement upset Moore, who said it reminded him of the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) “vaccine” rollout under Operation Warp Speed.

“I completely ignored it,” Moore said about the announcement.

“But the way the media played it up – it was like East Palestine was a test town that they volunteered to be part of, that they were chosen and were going to implement it right after Jan. 23. I do find it odd. I find it a coincidence that we are having coincidences pile up around here.”

Moore further speculated about the rise in disasters at food factories and egg farms on top of the train explosion and MyID rollout. He believes the biometric bracelets are possibly a way for the government to track people in the midst of a major disaster.

“The fact that the program exists indicates that somebody somewhere knows something and wants to get data,” he said.

“Every piece of data that the government collects, that DARPA, large corporations, and multinational corporations collect, can always be turned against the citizen. Everything is vulnerable to weaponization and the most sacred thing in any weaponizing is data.”

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16 sensors that are present in fitness bands and smart watches that you need to know..
Read more at:
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1. Ambient light sensor to tweak display brightness.
2. 3 axis accelerometer detects movement and tracks directions, can track forward and backward movement, sense gravity and determine body’s orientation, position and rate of speed change.
3. Altimeter detects changes in height; how much you are climbing stairs or going down a slope.  Helps measure calorie count.
4. Optical heartrate sensor that detects heart rate per minute. It uses light to detect the speed of blood flow on the wrist
5. SpO2 monitor to measure blood oxygen levels, measuring the reflection of red and infrared cells measuring the variation to estimate  the level of SpO2
6. Bioimpedence sensor to measure respiratory rate sleep, heartrate, water level and more.  The battery charger electrodes in the device sends electrical deliver small currents to your skin to measure the resistance.
7. Poximity sensor to let the device know when you are near it and activate it.  It helps save the battery.  It’s main job is to activate the display screen.
8. Compass – helps map applications and provide a sense of direction for the device
9. ECG Sensor to detect every electrical impulse your heart sends out with every heartbeat using the electrodes within the device.
10. GPS gauges the amount of activity, the direction and location, guides the Map applications. (A TRACKING DEVICE)
11. Gyroscope measures the angular velocity, used to detect motion and track the accurately, ‘
12. Gesture sensors detect wrist motion.  Used to give the device coded messages/directions.
13. UV sensor to measure exposure to sunlight and UV levels
14. Magnetometer works with GPS locator and Maps applications and compass to pinpoint your exact location
15. Electrodermal activity sensor to measure stress along with a heart rate tracker, ECG and skin temperature sensor. It detects small electrical changes in the sweat level on your skin
16. Skin temperature sensor to detect slight temperature changes that might signal that you are getting a fever, or detect the start of menopause

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Thought Surveillance Wearable Devices To Be New Workplace Normal: Davos 2023 Presentation

“Well, if you don’t like your job, then just quit,” said Nina Farahan from Duke University School of Law. She asked the audience, “But what if, there’s nowhere to go? What if everywhere has ubiquitous monitoring?”

ubiquitous  – yoo͞-bĭk′wĭ-təs adjective Being or seeming to be everywhere at the same time; omnipresent. Existing or being everywhere, or in all places, at the same time; omnipresent. Being everywhere at once: omnipresent.

By Neil Campbell

Neil lives in Canada and writes about society and politics.

Published: February 5, 2023

Wearable devices that collect employee brain waves for the purposes of artificial intelligence-driven data analysis to monitor the productivity, loyalty, and romantic inclinations of staff will soon become the new normal, according to a presentation at the World Economic Forum’s Davos 2023 event.

The segment was titled Ready for Brain Transparency? and was moderated by the CEO of the Atlantic, Nicholas Thompson and Nita Farahan from Duke University School of Law.

Thompson introduced the segment as a preview of technology that will, “Use brainwaves to fight crime, be more productive, and find love” as he prompted the audience to pay attention to an animated short that served as an introduction.

The animation depicted a woman working on a computer who had just met her deadline to complete a critical memorandum. During the process, AI was able to determine her stress level was rising as the deadline approached, and so her computer was intervened with, delivering an instruction to take a “brain break.”

The short also included portions straight from science fiction dystopia.

In one instance, the woman was distracted, glancing at a new co-worker she was attracted to during her writing job, but was sternly rebuked by the AI with a reddened popup that warned, “Reminder: INTRA-OFFICE ROMANCES ARE STRICTLY FORBIDDEN.”

In another instance, the animation celebrated that the woman’s performance bonus was linked to whether her brain wave metrics were in line with company edicts, including her sleep patterns.

As the clip concluded, Farahan walked on stage and asked a small audience appearing to be composed of a few dozen viewers, “What do you think? Is it a future that you’re ready for?”

The response could be described as restrained and muffled jeering.

“You may be surprised to learn that it’s a future that has already arrived,” Farahan chipperly stated. “Everything in that video that you just saw is based on technology that is already here today.”

One of the key portions of the presentation was a technological innovation underwritten by advancements in AI, allowing the humans who command the machines at present to decode the brain activity of those they monitor.

During her speech, Farahan took a page out of the playbook of the Communist Party as she reduced the existence of human beings to the level of being merely matter, “After all, what we think, what we feel, it’s all just data. Data that in large patterns can be decoded using artificial intelligence.” 

And this data was to be collected by “wearable devices that are like Fitbits for your brain,” she said.

The devices presented included headbands, hats, earbuds, and headphones.  (wrist watches, bracelets)

Even, “Tiny tattoos that you can wear behind your ear,” will be used for brain wave surveillance, Farahan added.

Farahan’s presentation revolved around “one of the most compelling use cases” for the technology-at-large being the workforce, as she levered viewers and her audience to accept the notion by providing a photo-based example of a trucker who was said to have attempted a 20 hour 1,500 mile non-stop trip before crashing into cars.

According to Farahan, wearable brain surveillance technology would have alerted the trucker’s employer that he was falling asleep.

She was happy to note that no less than the Chinese Communist Party is already using the technology in the Beijing-Shanghai high speed train “where train conductors are required to wear hats that have sensors that pick up their brain activity.”

“Employees are already having their brain activity monitored,” Farahan leveled with her watchers, before attempting to spin the development into a social advancement that “very well may be something we want to embrace as a society.”

But the use cases for employers are not just the safety-based form that nobody would be so brazen to disagree with. Farahan stated that brain surveillance is already “used to monitor productivity of employees,” using the example of an Amazon warehouse.

“Whether or not they’re taking breaks or unscheduled breaks is the kind of thing that employees resist, unionize against, rise up against, and undermines morale,” she noted.

Farahan said, “Well, if you don’t like your job, then just quit.”

“But what if, there’s nowhere to go? What if everywhere has ubiquitous monitoring?” she asked.

“During the pandemic what we found is that 80 percent of companies admitted that they used at least some forms of so-called ‘bosswear’ technology to monitor the productivity of their employees,” Farahan pointed out.

And really, collecting and analyzing brain waves is just the next step in our normal lives, Farahan added, because, “Surveillance is part of our everyday lives. Surveillance for productivity is part of what has become the norm in the workplace.”

“And maybe with good reason,” she said as she cited Salary.com’s Wasting Time at Work Survey as finding that 9 of 10 employees “admit they waste at least some time at work every day.”

The survey, which can be found online and was last conducted in 2014, stated, “The number of people in this year’s survey who reported wasting time at work every day is up to a whopping 89% — a 20% increase compared to last year.”

Specific data, however, showed that 31 percent of that group self-reported spending half an hour per day “on non work-related tasks,” while another 31 percent self-reported spending an hour.

Farahan said the AI monitors not just whether you’re working, but how focused you are, “When you combine brain wave activity together with other forms of software and surveillance technology, the power becomes quite precise.”

The presentation stated that the best way to mitigate employee resistance and rebellion against the shift in workplace paradigm is to provide the devices on an optional basis to employees who want to discipline themselves accordingly.

The book The Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party, which has led to more than 407 million people renouncing vows made to the Party, the Young Pioneers, or the Communist Youth League, which are mandatory for participation in Chinese society, provides an apt description of the portion of CCP’s nature and operational methodology that Davos and the public-private partnerships it represents appear to be emulating.

In the section On the Unscrupulous Nature of the Chinese Communist Party, the book states, “Another iniquitous characteristic of the CCP is manifest in its changing the definition of cultural concepts and then using these revised definitions to criticize and control people.”

“If you join the Party, it will control all aspects of your life, including your conscience, subsistence, and private life,” the authors continued.

The book further states, “It dictates all matters, from ones as important as who should be the chairman of the country or the minister of defense or what regulations and rules will be made, to as small as where one should live, with whom one can marry, and how many children one can have.”

“The CCP has mustered all imaginable methods of control.” (And the whole world is following their lead.)
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