Hey and welcome to Unlimited Hangout. I'm your host Whitney Webb.

Today, throughout much of the world, a certain set of overarching policy goals that first

revealed themselves during the COVID era continued to march forward, with political parties

on the left and the right calling for those policies implementation, albeit with different

justifications. Digital IDs and they're used to

access online services, biometric control over national borders, unprecedented surveillance,

and so-called predictive policing, the creation of a new carbon pricing scheme, an unprecedented

effort to merge man with machine, the increased militarization of domestic policing,

and much more are being rolled out in relative lockstep globally.

However, many who were against these measures just a few years ago now seemed to view them

somewhat differently as certain political figures have postured themselves as against these policies,

but in reality only really offer different sales pitches to the public for many of those same policies.

This can also be seen on the international stage where the apparent hostilities between West and East

disappear when it comes to these same policy goals.

The reason for this likely lies in the adoption by both the Western and Eastern power blocks

of United Nations policy agendas, such as Agenda 2030,

and the so-called Sustainable Development Goals.

While those goals themselves are worded to sound pleasant and as ensuring basic rights and needs,

which is, of course, aided by the UN framing itself rather disingenuously,

as a place where national governments all have an equal seat at the table,

the reality is really quite different, as we will discuss today. To understand where these policy

goals come from and who the UN really serves, it is best to start by examining the genesis of that

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