Surveillance, Pricing, and the Coming Prophetic System

So, um, I want to bring you up to speed on what's actually happening in grocery stores and what's getting ready to come your way. And uh, what is what, what we're calling this, and I'm getting this from Patrick Wood from Technocracy News. And he did a, he highlighted an article on his website that I, I paid particular attention to, and it's called surveillance pricing. And uh, there's a prophetic aspect to this, but some weird stuff is happening.

So, first of all, we'll start with Kroger's. Um, sir, Kroger's is doing kind of what we call surveillance uh pricing. Um, can I, don't do, I don't think we have a Kroger's here in Beckersville, do we? No. Do we have them in California? >> I don't think so. But anyway, what you know, if one grocery store does something, it's going to catch on and eventually all these grocery stores are going to be doing it.

So, what they're doing, um, they're starting to do this surveillance of customers, facial recognitions. Some were doing it with or without, but there's some weird stuff. Anyway, the the US Senate sent sent the the the the chairman and CEO of Kroger a letter warning him about what they're doing. And again, there are no regulations right now on facial recognitions in grocery stores or any of this other stuff that I'm going to show you. So there are no regulations because this, so this can be happening to you.

So anyway, they highlight to Kroger and they said, "Look, I'm writing you today regarding Kroger's adoption of the use of electronic shelving labels." So if you've been in the grocery store lately, uh, even in Walmart, some of the the labels are digital, okay? They're not paper. So that means they can change the the pricing on it within a second. Okay? So, so they're called electronic shelving labels. Okay. In dozen of its grocery stores, it says these digital price tags may enable Kroger and other grocery chains to transition to dynamic pricing. This is the problem with it. So, it's not just simply about the grocery store changing, having the ease of changing the prices. It's the fact that they can do dynamic pricing with the labels. Okay, that's what the United States Senate is getting after them about, in which the price of basic household goods could surge based on the time of the day, the weather, or other transitory events, allowing stores to collaborate uh, calibrate prices, price increases to extract maximum profits at a time when the amount of Americans income spent on food is at a 30-year high.

So, they start pointing out the concerns. And in this letter, it continues on. Says, "Widespread adoption of digital price tags appears posed to enable large grocery stores to squeeze customers to increase profits. Analysts have indicated that the widespread use of dynamic pricing will result in groceries and other consuming consumer goods being priced like airline tickets, creating a sense of urgency, a sense of scarcity uh that wouldn't exist if there were just publicly posted prices that everybody understood, allowing sellers to figure out ways to extract the maximum amount of profit for each customer."

Okay, he continues on in this letter. "These devices also introduce potential for grocery giants to abuse their power and surge grocery prices, raising prices suddenly and at times when certain products are in the highest demand. For example, stores may use this technology to raise the price of turkeys in the days leading up to Thanksgiving or the price of ice cream on a hot day, causing customers to face unexpected price hikes when they reach the grocery aisle and find themselves unable to afford groceries that they had originally budgeted for."

Continues on the other highlighted through the partnership with Microsoft. Okay, that's a, that's a red flag. Anytime you hear Microsoft, that's a red flag. Kroger plans to place cameras at its digital displays, which will use face recognition tools to determine gender and age of customer captured on camera and present them with personalized offers of advertisement on the Edge shelf. Edge will allow Kroger to use customer data to build personalized profiles of each customer and then use those profiles to determine how much price hiking each of us can tolerate, quickly updating displaying customers maximum willingness to pay for on the digital price.

Okay, this is the problem. It's not about uh Walmart being able to change the price, you know, hey, we're going to up their price of eggs or anything. It's changing the price according to the person based on AI reading the person, uh, putting the data together, what that person typically buys, what's the socioeconomic status of that person, what's, what, how much money do they make? Um, can they afford this? And can we raise the price enough to where they will continue to buy it? What's the price break that they will stop buying something? And and so what would could happen is you feasibly go into a store and you typically buy something and the price would change because the facial recognition would hit you and they say, "Aha, that's Brandon and we don't like him. So, I am going to raise the price to what I know economically he can afford versus someone else goes there and they would say, "Well, this person uh is blah blah blah blah. We're going to lower the price for them." So, you would have this up and down pricing according to the person buying the product, not a flat cost.

This is where it's going. This is why the Senate sent this to Kroger and said, "We understand what you're doing." And the problem is all these grocery stores are getting on board on this because they have AI abilities and facial recognitions. Okay.

So, basically, what, what Patrick Wood is saying, and this article continues to say, every time you step in a grocery store with facial recognition, you step into a machinery of data, data that tracks, analyzes, and shares and influences your shopping behavior. So I'll give you some examples. Here's New York Times. Large grocery grocers took advantage of pandemic supply chain disruptions. So don't think that these grocery stores are altruistic. They hiked up the prices and we already know what they did during the pandemic, right? Remember toilet paper? >> Remember all that antibiotic uh uh what is it? Um >> antiseptic and uh alcohol and and all this stuff. You know, the the handwashing stuff, soap, you couldn't find it. We already saw what they did. Okay? And and we already know that everybody's concerned about their groceries. Okay? Voters are concerned about inflation. Cite the cost of food and groceries as their top concerns. This is what everyone's saying. I am concerned about the food prices. Yeah, we all are. Everybody is. I get it. But Los Angeles Times had this article, "The Future of Shopping is Here with Digital Price Tags, and Some Are Worried." Yeah, we should be.

So, so cooler. So, here's what's happening like at Walmart and and Kroger. Um, they have these screens. Uh, it's called Cooler Screens. That's the company. And they install these digital screens that embed cameras and sensors uh to replace refrigerator and freezer doors that usually are see-through uh in grocery stores. And and what they're doing is, is an initial reporting in the Wall Street Journal had this on Cooler Screens' controversial partnership with Walgreens. Cooler Screens touted its ability to use facial detection to infer features such as age and gender to tailor the digital ads on the screen. So again, you don't see the product, you just see what it wants you to see, if that makes sense. Okay? Based on you.

So then Kroger expanded its partnership with Cooler Screens in 2023. Uh, Kroger insists that the sensors do not collect on store shoppers' data. Yeah, right. I don't believe that. And that Kroger does not seek to identify customers through facial recognition technology. Then why have it then? It's only to detect customers' presence, dwell dwell time, and doors opens. No, it's more than that. You're using AI. You're using facial recognition. So again, more art, more articles, Kroger's facial recognition plans draw increasingly concerns from lawmakers. Yes.

Okay. So here's like what Patrick Wood is saying. So you walk into a store, okay, and the facial recognition is watching you. It's reading you. And then it can connect to the internet and look what your credit score is. It can look what, whatever you have, how much money you make. It can go on whatever. And basically, it's surveilling you and giving you a surveillance pricing. Then profits from the surveillance capitalism by selling all the data collected about you to the highest bidder. So they can sell your data, but they're also going to sell you stuff. So basically, surveillance pricing refers to the practice whereby companies collect and obtain individualized personalized information about their actual potential customers and use a variety of techniques to target different prices to specific customers for the same goods or services to generate greater profits. The goal of surveillance pricing is to determine the highest price that the business infers that the customer is willing to pay.

So, we're not talking about a baseline of how much eggs cost. We're talking about how much would you pay for eggs, and the AI will determine that. Uh, does that sound crazy? >> But yeah, it's, yeah, it's this is bad. This also keeps individual cu consumers in the dark about lower prices offered to other customers. So you might be, I know you, you might be charged, you know, eight bucks for whatever for whatever product. Someone comes along and they only charge the other person four bucks, but they're charging you eight. Sounds like communism in a in a weird way because it, it, it's trying to make everyone equal, but it's not equal. It's robbing people.

Related to this, personalized pricing refers to the practice of business using consumer specific data about their conduct or characteristics to set different prices to different consumers based on what the business thinks they're willing to pay. In contrast, dynamic pricing refers to using non-customer specific variables to adjust prices depending on changes in demand and supply, often real-time. Examples of companies using non-customer specific variables to change prices include Uber prices surging during rainy weather. So your Uber price will go from $50 to $250. Okay? Or last minute flight price increases or Ticketmaster, for instance, charging more than $22,000 for a Taylor Swift concert ticket because of massive demand, whereas someone else paid $300. But based on demand, they could put the ticket up to $22,000. >> So this is what's called dynamic pricing. May also be called surge pricing. Now they do dynamic pricing with Airbnbs, by the way. Um, and a lot of things are using dynamic pricing. Okay? Based on the season, the flow, things are more expensive, that type of thing. Um, but they could base it on the demands. Okay? So this is bordering and probably crossing the line of price discrimination. Okay.

So you have sellers, same product, but different prices in different markets. Well, all these practices fall under the broader umbrella of price discrimination, where a business charges different prices for similar products for reasons unrelated to the cost to the benefit of the business. Um, in the Federal Trade Commission uh in price discrimination, Robinson-Patman violations, a seller charging competing buyers different prices for the same commodity or discriminating in a provision of allowances, I uh ergo compensation for advertising and other services may be violating the Robinson-Patman Act. Price discriminations are generally lawful, particularly if they reflect the different cost of dealing with different buyers or are a result of a seller's attempt to meet a competitor's offering. So, we're not getting a lot of a lot of help from the Federal Trade, uh, Commission.

So, um, here's a little bit of example of surveillance pricing. The products are shown or prices displayed differ for each customer or consumer depending on where the consumer is, what time it is, who the consumer is, what the consumer is doing, and the prior actions the consumer has taken or interactions with the seller, the seller. So, you get different prices. You get that for $39. You get that for $49 based on who you are, based on where you're at, based on all this other stuff. For example, you have a Target app. If you have a Target app, this is what the Target app did. Target charged $100 more for a TV on its app when the consumer was in the vicinity of Target store versus farther away. Yeah, because Target had determined consumers are willing to pay more the closer they were to a store. So, they charged more when you were in the store. But if you're looking at the app and you just do that, you don't know that it changed on you. That's the problem. You don't know it changed. An Apple Watch band went up $2 just on the proximity to the Apple store. A Shark vacuum went up $40. A Graco child car seat jumped $72 and a Dyson vacuum shot up $148 on the app while inside the store. >> Okay, so you, if you were in the store, you're using the app and I'm going to buy the Dyson vacuum, you paid $140 $48 more than if you were living in Timbuktu just by being in the store. And no one, the consumer, didn't understand this, that the app was actually charging more. So Target's doing it, Apple's doing it. They're all doing it.

Orbits inferred that if that if you used a Mac that you were willing to spend more in your hotels. Guess what? They steered you to more expensive hotels if you were using a Mac to make your plans in traveling. And you wouldn't know the difference. Now, if you would have did a side-by-side comparison and said, "Well, I'm going to use my PC versus my Mac," you would have been shown a different uh hotel option. This is happening. No one knows this is going on because of AI. Okay, this is big problems. Big problems. Booking sites also charge higher prices for the same hotel rooms based on what city the consumer was browsing the website from, leading to a difference of more than $500 for the same room in one case. Based on where you're making your reservations at, Bakersfield versus New York. You see what I'm saying? >> Yeah. Orale. Staying at the the the, I guess, I guess if you're, you're, I guess if you're making plans to stay at the Waldorf Astoria in New York, they're going to charge you different if you're making the plans in oil versus making the plans in Manhattan. I guess so.

What's the deal with the electronic shelf labels? Have you seen those types of things? Okay. They're small screens that replace paper price labels in stores, allowing grocers to change prices in mere seconds rather than having employees physically change the price tags. Okay, got that. But the problem is these screens can be changed throughout the day, making it possible for the shopper to see one price at the shelf when picking up the item and another price when checking out. >> And if you're not paying attention, that's what ends up happening.

So, here's the thing. Even if a retail store is not using ESLs or facial recognition technology, it can still engage in surveillance pricing through the vast network of data collection and sharing that occurs without consumers knowing this. Grocery stores may collect the data from the consumer's past purchases, app usage, and loyalty program usage, but also may incorporate data from third parties like data brokers. So, they're using AI to bring this all in to determine what they're going to charge you for your steak that you buy, for your meat or your eggs. Okay.

So, here's So, what's going into the data collection? What, what, what do they know about us? It's this. It's sensitive information. Geoloc, age, gender, race, ethnicity, finances, religion, employment, political speech, online activities. Wow. >> That's all what the AI is feeding into the pricing. Okay, let's theorize. You're me. Okay, you make political comments about all kinds of things, right? Or whatever. I wonder how much they're going to charge me. >> Right? >> Yeah, I can't afford it. So you can see that I don't know, le, you know, let's say you're a big Second Amendment guy. All right? Like we're probably all in this room, Second Amendment guys. But the problem is, oh, you're you're one of those guys. Well, here's the price for you. Here's the price for you. And it'll be so astronomical, you're like, I can't afford that. That's right. That's right. Because based on the data we're collecting on you, that's the price we have determined it costs you. That is scary. That is freaking me out, man. And if Kroger is already launching this, guys, don't you think the rest of them are going to pick up on this?

The data would include reluctant gamblers, for instance. Ba, what do you mean? Well, based on consumers lingering on a sports betting site longer than expected because the AI would say that guy gambles. I saw him online and we're going to make a price. He just won $1,000 at uh uh Tachi Palace or whatever or whatever the Hard Rock Cafe and to home. He just won $1,000. Let's up the price on this guy. He's a gambler. Or how about this? Grocery stores might categorize shoppers as interested in fitness and not price sensitive, which, hey, they they got some money and they're interested in fitness. So based on on that, they let's charge more because these people buy organic foods, which are more costly. They don't buy Cheetos. They don't buy Twinkies. Um, and and so they're all into uh uh they, they go to the gym because we can see the AI is telling us they go to the gym. They're on the gym. uh websites are looking at muscle and fitness. They're looking at this. They're looking at that. So, these types of individuals are more willing to pay higher prices for whole foods. Let's charge them more rather than they're not, they're not going to buy white Wonder Bread. They're not going to buy stuff, you know, that's going to hurt them. They're not buying uh, you know, canned foods. They're not, they're not buying uh processed foods. So, let's up the price on these people. New parents who are less price sensitive because they have a baby, okay? Versus you not having a baby, you'd be more price sensitive. But if you have a baby, I need supplies. Let's up the, let's up the, let's up the price on those guys. Especially if they need formula. >> Yeah. Well, maybe they'll maybe they'll factor that in. I don't know. Again, that's probably one of the AI things versus, hey, do you live in Seven Oaks or do you live in Oil Dell if you, and that's what they, that's what they'll do. That's what they'll do. Or how about this one? Individuals who are in an area experiencing flooding. So, they're going to get stress relief products. So, what we're going to do, we're going to up the pri, the the the the products uh price uh because that's in need right now.

Here's an example. Uh, and Patrick Wood gives this example. So say you want, you buy multivitamins periodically. Okay? And that store has been recording your purchases. They, you know, they're already recording your purchases, right? Especially if you have apps. But today, on a whim, you've reached for a prenatal vitamin instead. Okay? Nobody knows you're pregnant and you're not sure you are. Okay? But anyway, the store uses facial recognition to determine that you are a young woman, a childbearing age. And bingo, it's got you. What do you mean? Before the day is over, you start seeing targeted ads for products related to your pregnancy and your email, social media feeds, and even your smart TV, and the feeding frenzy starts because you're a young woman. You're looking at prenatal. Got you. They, they're, and you have lo, you understand what you've lost at that point in time. You have lost all privacy at that point in time. Whatever you're buying, you know, individuals who are in an area experiencing flooding to target them. We, oh, I already did that one.

Okay, here's this. So, based on your shopping history and data shared from data brokers, including internet browsing history. So, here, here's the thing I've always said. Quit using Google. You've got to use an internet that that is not tracking you. Stop using Google. Google is tracking you. Okay? Um, use, there's plenty of other things out there. Uh, DuckDuckGo, uh, other, other ones out there that you can use that that don't do tracking. Okay. Um, and so anyway, they're watching your purchases. is to look at that grocery stores may refer to and your age, your gender, your race, your economic status, family makeup, health conditions, and other lifestyle characteristics. Okay.

So, why is this a problem? Well, it's violating your consumer privacy by collecting data about your consumption and using it for unexpected and out-of-context purposes. That's the problem. And increases the cost of everyday goods based on the price threshold the consumer is willing to pay. That's the problem. So, it, it, it's, it's stealing your information. The AI is using it and saying, "I'm going to make a determination that they can afford this and let's see if they buy it." And you're like, "I have to buy it because I need that ingredient or I need this." Well, this is how much it costs for you, Mr. Brandon. And and so you buy it and guess what happens? Oh, he bought it at five bucks. Let's try it next time. $5.20. That's five nuts. It just, they can just play around with this. It's insane, right? You have no autonomy because you're covertly, they're co uh uh covertly influencing your choices. Um, you know, and and and and like I said, there is, or there are no facial te recognition technology rec uh uh regulations right now. They can use it and there's nothing to stop them. There's also no data minimization regulations that they can collect on you. None. And and you know, we, we all thought, well, you know, I, I understand their data collecting on my phone. I, I understand their data collecting, you know, on the when I'm surfing the internet and stuff like that. I didn't know the grocery stores would start data collecting. Yeah. Yeah. So, it's, it's, it's, it's going on even beyond them trying to sell you something because then they can sell your information to other third parties and so you're losing your privacy. That's a big problem.

Okay. So, now let's take a step back and understand the implications of this. I, I, I, I don't, I don't see the end of this. I, I, I don't see them wanting to stop this at all because it, it, they have everything to gain from this. Everything. I think it's wrong. I think it's, it's totally wrong. And I think it's a form of economic manipulation uh from the technocratic elite. There's no doubt about that. And that's what the the Proverbs warns about. Don't rob the poor because he's poor. That's what it does to people. The elites don't care about this, but it, it, it's going to affect you and I, right? And and so they're going to squeeze you economically, determining based on what you have. Look, they can find out what you have in your, your retirement. They can find out how much you're getting paid. AI figures all that out. AI knows that if it's on the internet, if your information's on the internet, AI knows it already. They already know it. So, they can exploit your social status, biometric data. This person is sick. They always have this problem, so let's up the price for this because they're going to buy more of this. Whatever that issue is. Um, let's punish certain groups. Let's punish the Brandons of the world that they don't keep their mouth shut and we'll teach them a lesson. We'll make it harder for them to buy this or buy that or buy gas or whatever that might be. And we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll then also use this to manipulate groups. Sale. There's a sale happening and it pops up on your phone. It's really not a sale at all. It's actually charging you $148 more because you're in the store and not in Wasco, because you, they're charging more in the store. Guys, this, this is so horrible economically and and like I showed you, that's why the Senate sent Kroger the letter saying, "We see what you're doing," but the problem is there's no one. I don't see anyone else doing anything about this.

And here's the thing. You start going in the grocery store and you start realizing that the cameras are on you and there's facial recognitions and stuff like that. What they're doing then is you're getting this constant monitoring and you're conditioned that this is the way it's going to be. That there's always going to be a camera on me. There's always this, always that. And you start seeing these digital shelf labels and all this other stuff. You're, you're, you're entering into a world where you're always watched and you're always analyzed. That's pretty scary.

Here's the interesting thing. I was reading this today and I thought it, it was so apropos for what, what, what this is really about because this is the technocratic elites, you know, partnering with, you know, the grocery stores or just corporations to fleece as much money out of us, you know, and and so Israel reached that point in their life where they got tired of the judges. Remember that scene? And they went to Samuel and like, "Hey, man, we got to have a king. We got to be like everybody else. Uh, we're really behind on this stuff. You know, everybody is technologically with kings and they're doing really good and we need to get up to speed on this." And uh, it says, "The elders gathered together and came to Samuel and Rama and said to him, 'Look, you're old and your sons do not walk in your ways.' Come on, man. Uh, now make us a king and and to judge us like all the nations. We want to be like everyone else. We want to be like the technocratic elite in Europe and and and, you know, control all the buying and selling." And he said, "This is will be the behavior of the king who will reign over you. So if you guys want a king, here's what you're going to get out of that. He says, 'He will take your sons and appoint them for your his own chariots and to be his horsemen, and some will run before his chariots. He will appoint captains over his thousands and captains over his 50s. Will set up some to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and some to make his weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. And he will take the best of your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, and give them to his servants. He will take a tenth of your grain and your vintage and give it to the officers and his servants. And he will take your male servants and your female servants, and your finest young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work. And he will take a tenth of your sheep, and you will be his servants, and you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourself, and the Lord will not hear you in that day.'"

Now, what did he just do? He's saying, "You want to be like the other nations, right? You want to have a king, here's what's going to happen. The minute you put that king in place, he's going to take, seize, control, and collect. He's going to take it all from you." And what, what is Israel's response when they hear that? "We want a king." I just warned you. They're going to take everything from you. It's the same principle. Our society wants to be technologically savvy. They want to be technologically. It's going to make everything easier. We can do business better. We can make more money. We want to be like the tech giants. We want to be like the Elon Musks. We want to make as much money as we possibly can. We want to be like that. Yeah. And guess who they're going to take? Us. They're going to take our money. That's what's leaving, right? And this surveillance stuff, this surveillance stuff is conditioning people for the system of the beast. That's what it is. Look at Revelation. It talks about identification, surveillance, exclusion, can't buy or sell if you don't have the mark. Centralized control, the ability to determine who can buy and sell. That's what you're seeing forming right in front of you. And the implications with AI and quantum computing, you understand when they marry the two with quantum computing, and quantum computing is like instantaneously and basically can they can call all your information up in quantum computing instantaneously. Whereas before, if they don't, if they're using a regular computer without quantum computing, it can take them days. Okay. Now why is that important? Because if it, it, without quantum computing, they can't, the AI can't do all the data while you're in the store. It won't have enough time to collect all the data. It will take too long. But you marry that AI with quantum computing, the minute you walk through that store, it's got all the data ready. That's the, that's the game changer is the quantum computing. And these things are master fast, man. Big time. And so you're gonna have these massive consumer databases which are building all over our country. Facial recognition is gonna be ever. If you're flying, you're already doing facial recognition. Did you know that? They're already, I've already done it to me. They, in in Europe, when you go through, you walk through and that, especially in France, Germany, whatever, the cameras look right at your face, man. And then the, the only way the doors open is if they, they get your, your picture, your facial recognition, and it opens everything up. It's the only way you're getting through. So they're using it and without your permission. Algorithmic profiling, real-time tracking, digital pricing, dynamic control over buying and selling. So what if you want to go, if you're one of our young people and you want to go buy a house and like, yeah, you know, you know what? Let's see how much you guys make. Oh, you make that much. We're going to charge the house for this price. Well, yeah, but you're going to charge this guy this price. Yeah. Yeah, I know. It's but it was, it's based on dynamic selling. Oh, that's scary.

So, here's what's happening. Here's what the direction you're going in. You're having data, identity, and then control. You're having privacy, surveillance, manipulation, and free markets to controlled markets. So, where do you think you end up economically if they're going to charge you more than someone else? That's right. That's where you're heading. That you're going to kill the middle class, which that's it. We know that is on the agenda. Every Marxist, communist, uh, they, they love that. They want to kill the middle class. No doubt about that. You're going to make everyone poor because in, in some strange way, you're, you're stealing from people by charging them more prices based on how much they make, right? It's like a graduated income tax. But this is be a graduated price for you. Oh, you make, you make over $100,000. This is your price for chicken versus if you made $20,000. So, they would deincentivize you making more money because the more money you make, the more they charge you. So, it would be better off. Well, you can see a bunch of people say, "Well, why, why even work?" >> Why even work? Because then these guys are getting it all free. You know, their chicken cost them a dollar and it's costing me $5 to buy chicken because I'm making this amount of money. So, they're basically putting me on their level by price gouging me and exploiting my money and and and and we're doing this. Everybody's getting lowered down. Dude, this, I, I don't know about you, but this is freaking me out. This will kill me economically if they base it on that. Now, I hope people step in and maybe stop this. I don't know. Do you think they will? I, I hope. I hope. But I have, I picked up enough articles from even leftist papers. I, The New York Times even had an article about this. The Atlantic had an article on it. So, leftist papers are picking up on this, but very few, I didn't see hardly any conservative papers picking up on this this notion. Um, which is strangely odd because they would be the first ones typically economically that, hey, you can't do that. That's crazy talk, maybe. I don't know. It's just weird. >> I don't know. But here's the thing. The AI is not reversing itself. We're not going to get away from AI. It's, it's here to stay and they're using it. And if they're going to say we're going to collect data, dude, this is, this is how they're going to destroy us economically. At least one of the ways economically. Anyway, any questions on that? That's all I wanted to. Yeah. Uh, let's get some mics for some people.

So, everything you just described sounds like a very modern, sophisticated version of price gouging. >> Yeah. Right. >> Which used to be illegal. >> Yes. I, that's the thing is, and and so when I'm reading these articles, um, a lot of people reference that that what I thought this is illegal, but then you find out, well, wait a second, there's no regulation on face recognition. There's no regulation on this AI stuff. And so it's almost, it's happening covertly, is what's going on. And again, that's what um, the letter from the Senate, if you read that entire letter, was trying to say is like, you're, you're price gouging. This would be like a, a company charging more like when a hurricane's happening and you guys started charging a bunch of money for gas. And and Kroger's response was, "We're not doing that. We're not doing that. That's, that, that's not what we're doing." But but yet I showed you examples of it did happen. How could you, how could you charge me that and I'm in Target and you charge me $148 while I'm in, but if I was outside in Wasco, you didn't charge me $148. That's it. That's price gouging. And and it's just, yeah, I, I, I hear what you're saying and I'm, I'm with you. I'm like, I thought that was illegal. >> Yeah. Go ahead, Paulo. Go ahead. >> Okay. Uh, I've been complaining about this for the last three or four weeks. I was at Target and um, I was buying Christmas gifts for our niece's twins and you know, I thought, "Oh my gosh, at the checkout stand, I thought, boy, this cost me a lot more than I thought." Well, when I got home, they charged me $20 a piece for a little six-year-old sweater. >> I'm taking that stuff back. Yeah. But also, I noticed at Walmart and Target, they're taking the prices off. So, you don't know what you're buying unless it's right there. So, the prices aren't even on the clothes. >> So, I've been really complaining about that. >> Yeah. >> They're already doing it. >> Well, you know, I, I, I, I wouldn't put it past them that that's intentional. >> Yeah. You know. >> Yeah. >> Um >> When you're when you're at the checkout stand and you've got a line way down here, you're going to say, "Now, wait a minute. That's not what I thought I was buying." >> Right? >> I mean, some people do that, but I didn't. And I, when it's, when I got home that I realized that that's what I spent. So, like I said, I'm taking them back. >> Yeah. Good for you. >> Yeah. I went into Vons and um on the radio. >> Yeah. The card that that that I'm supposed to use, they just have you put your phone number in now. >> And the guy was like, "Well, you know, it'll be really convenient for you because you see what'll happen is we'll start knowing what you buy and we'll be able to send you coupons um so that, you know, you can get good pricing on these things." And I said, "I don't think I want you to know that much about me." >> You're right. Totally. I, I, and you know, and I read the articles today on on some of these these websites and people were, you know, um uh they, they were doing it tongue and cheek. Well, what do you got to hide? It's not, I don't have anything to hide. I just don't want you knowing that, you know, I'm buying whatever. It doesn't matter what I'm buying. I'm not buying illegal. It's not like I'm buying heroin at the at Walmart, you know? I mean, but I, I still, I don't want you to know even how many eggs I consume. It's none of your business how many eggs I consume. It's none of your business how much meat I eat because you know that's a big problem. They don't want you eating a lot of meat. I, I don't want them knowing that. It's none of their business. None of their business. >> Where am I at? >> Kroger is here. Where are they at, Eric? Food for Less and Foods Co. are Kroger. >> That's Kroger. Yes. >> No more ice cream. >> No more ice cream for Terry. >> See, and we know too much. He's eating ice cream. He's eating ice cream. >> Vons already knows. He eats ice cream. Probably even knows what flavor it is. >> Hi, Pastor Brandon. I have this question for you. Um, it's about the digital tracking. Um, >> so is it just like when the phones, when we're talking about a certain topic, it starts giving you ads like, "Oh, I want to go skiing." >> Yeah. >> For example, and it shows up like skiing gear, stuff you could buy. That's what we're all curious about. >> Yes. Okay. So, that's part of it that you know, and in some of the articles I read is that um, it, it finds, it, the store, like if you're going to Target, it figures out your buying habits and then it's going to pop up these ads and like coupons like Terry was saying and and entice you to buy more. Okay, that, whatever they're doing that now. This thing goes one step further and and says you like to buy eggs. Okay, but the uh, the algorithm and the AI is telling me that you make X amount of money and based on our calculations, you can afford eggs at this price. That, that's the, that's where this is going. What these articles are trying to say is the danger in that is that they're going to set individual prices for everybody in this room will be at an a different price. B and and and and look, dude, when they're when they throw in there, it's not just economics, but your social standing, like what you're like, they're, they, one of the articles was saying that they're going to go and the AI will sweep through your social media. They'll see what you're putting on Instagram, Facebook, all your, all your social media, what, what you're against, who you voted for. Okay? And then that's going to be calculated into the algorithm equation. Oh, you voted for Trump. You're one of the Trump people. Okay, maybe eggs will be $8 for you or something like, see, it's, it's like China. You start getting a social credit score in all of this and then they start charging you more. Oh man, it, it's off the chain at that point. And especially if they want to kill the Second Amendment. I was thinking about that today. If they wanted to kill the Second Amendment, well, we're just not going to take the Second Amendment. We're just going to make it so outrageously priced that you can't afford to do it. You can't afford to buy ammo. You can't afford to buy a gun or what, or whatever the issue is. Or let's say we get into another pandemic, okay, and you want to buy hydroxychloroquine or you want to buy ivermectin and and now it's all digital. How you going to buy it? Because they're going to say you can't buy it. Not with a digital currency. You can't, because that's programmable and we don't allow you to buy that. And so this dovetails not only into um price gouging, but but also forbidding you to buy certain things like if they tell Terry, "You're driving too much. You can't buy any gas or we're going to, but gas for you is going to be a little bit higher because we notice that you drive too much. So we're just going to bump up that that price for you a little bit more and now it's six bucks a gallon instead of five. Or whatever and maybe that will curtail Terry's driving habits or something like that. It's like, what? Where is that fair? Oh, wait a second. You're, you're, you're thinking in your terms. You're not thinking in their terms. They think that's fair. That's not fair to me. That seems like a form of communism. >> Who's they and how do we take them out? >> Okay. Yeah, exactly. Who's they and how they take them out. Okay. So, what I, what I can understand what these these these the the companies these like Kroger are partnering with is tech firms. This is coming from technocracy. That's why I accessed Patrick Wood because he's the expert on technocracy. We had him here last spring. Okay. So, what's happening is they're partnering with Silicon Valley and they're making deals with them and and looks, I don't trust Silicon Valley as far as I can throw them. These tech people um, whe, you know, and I, I, none of them reference like Sam Altman or or Elon Musk or anything like that, but they are using tech firms to do this and these tech firms, dude, have the same mentality of technocracy. They, remember we, we studied this and what did they want to do? Um, they wanted to accelerate technology to break the system and they don't like the system that we're in anyway right now. They don't like free marketism. They don't like it. They want to break the system because in the technocrat's mind, they really believe they're God and they're making the rules for us and they believe that this is what's fair for people. Now, from from a, a Kroger standpoint or a Vons or a Walmart or a Target, if you're the CEO and and the tech company's coming to you saying, "We can make you 20% more uh profit by using AI, what do you think they're going to do?" >> They're going to sell out the customer. They don't care about the customer. They care about the profit. And if you're telling them the tech guys can do this with facial recognition, up the price, get this going, and we can make a 20% more profit than we're making now, we're all in. We're all in. I, I, I can totally see it. And and look, this is, this is not free marketism. Th This is controlling prices, forcing people to do certain things, to buy at certain rates. Oh, man. This is, this is a, a, a prison. This is a prison, man. It's horrible. So, anyway, I hated to burst your bubble about uh what the the grocery stores were doing, but I think it's only fair that you know this. >> Yes. >> And that you, you need to pay attention to what's happening here. I got one more question, then we got to get out of here. Um, because I ran across this and I'm like, okay, that's that freaked me out. And then I like, I'm thinking prophetically of like, I see where this is going. A quart of wheat for a day's wages. You're, you're going to make everyone poor on top of all the junk other stuff that you're doing to make us all poor. This is just one thing. Do you guys, I want to say to the, anybody, the any of these people in control, do you guys do anything that benefits humanity? >> No. Of course not. You don't do anything that benefits humanity. You, you just destroy us. You want us all dead. That's, that's right. I forgot about that. They want us all dead. That's right. Okay. We had one more question. Are we good or over here? Yeah. There. >> It's more of a comic comment question to everybody. Yeah. >> As far as I know, I haven't been abducted and implanted with a chip. >> But lad gentlemen over here that was talking about, you know, we just talk >> about something and our phones will give us ads. >> Yeah. >> I have had more than enough experiences that it's more than coincidence that I think of things >> and my phone will give me >> Okay. That's weird. And I've talked to other people that have said the same thing that, oh, that was weird. I was just thinking that and it pops up. I don't know how to explain that, man. That other, other than there might be some supernatural element. Here's the thing. >> In my research of AI, there's, I said this before, there's a black box element to it. And the black box means there's stuff that that thing's doing that they have the developers have no idea why it's doing what it's doing. Why does it lie? Why, why does, why is it always anti-good? They have no idea. But here's the thing. I know just knowing case studies of exorcists, deliverances, demonology, uh, uh, fallen angels, their activities. They have no problem messing with electronics. None whatsoever. In fact, they mess with it all the time. Um, they can make things go off in your house that you never turned on. That, that, you know, that's paranormal activity. So when you put it all together, what you're just saying is I think there's a spiritual element behind it. And I'm not going, I'm not crazy, but how in the world, you're not the only person that's ever told me that and and and so at that point now we've, we went into and we've crossed into the spiritual realm at that point. Now something's going on here. And and the fact that AI continues to show this supernatural element inside of it tells me that I think the demons and fallen angels are harnessing its power and manipulating people through it. I, I think honestly, if you don't use AI correctly, it can become a a digital Ouija board. You start having a conversation with AI like it's your buddy. That thing takes off and starts manipulating your mind. And I think there's demonic activity behind that. So, you're on to something. And I, I think there's a spiritual component to it. And I would not discount, dude. You talk to Alfonso and and Bruce and anyone that runs our electronics. There's there or or anybody. There's things that we come here on Sunday, everything worked great on Saturday or whatever. Nothing works. And then you know what happens? We can't figure it out. My computer doesn't work. It worked last night. And you know what happens? Lord intervene and make this thing work. Starts working. So what does that tell me? So if I pray and then the electronics work, that tells me there was a spiritual problem going on. >> That, that, the the demonic was making something happen. And it happens a lot, quite frequently. And you pray and it stops. Well, that's odd. It's not like I hit a switch. I prayed. >> It's a spiritual issue sometimes. And I, I, I would tell you this, spiritual, they, they mess with electronics. Um, I remember um, uh, after I, I, after I dealt with somebody that was demon-possessed, um, they, uh, I think the demons followed me home and my kids were real small and that's when they had all these electronic toys and I went into one of their rooms and the electronic toys were going off like all over the place. Two, three in the morning, electronics were all going off, these toys, and the, the, the switch was not turned on. >> And they were going off. So what did I do? Prayed. Stopped. How can I pray and it stops the electronics and no one even turned them on? I'm just telling you. So there's a, there's always a spiritual component. And look, with with how evil that is, you don't think that the, the, the Satan and the spirit of Antichrist is working through all this to control people? Forget it. That's game over. Anyway, uh, we got to get out of here, man. Um, let's, let's pray and we'll get your. Oh, Ron, what do we got to do before you? >> Set up for something beautiful. >> We got to set up for something beautiful. So, we got to get small tables and the big round tables in. Okay. If you can stay back and help us, that'd be great. Let's pray. Father, thank you, Lord, for all that you've taught us in your word about the poverty of the Messiah coming in the first coming. Uh, amazing how he came like that. Uh, and took that humility on, especially in this Christmas season as we recognize that. We thank you for it. That and we thank you for him. We thank you, Father, that you have an ultimate plan that this evil that we see all around us. Um, that one day you're going to redeem what the locust have eaten. You're going to set things right. You're going to make everything perfect when you come. And we look forward to that because, man, we are vexed looking at the junk around us, the evil around us, and the stealing around us, Father. So, thank God we have a future in you. Bless us now as we go. We pray in Jesus name. Amen.