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Facialized: US to Force Mugshots From All Citizen Travelers
by grarpamp 07 Dec '19

07 Dec '19

https://papersplease.org/wp/2019/12/02/dhs-plans-to-require-mug-shots-of-u-… https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaViewRule?pubId=201910&RIN=1651-AB22 https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/02/homeland-security-face-recognition-airpor… https://yro.slashdot.org/story/19/12/02/2326235/dhs-wants-airport-face-reco… You choice for 1984 in effect... DHS plans to require mug shots of U.S. citizen travelers Buried in the latest Fall 2019 edition of an obscure Federal bureaucratic planning database called the Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions is an official notice from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that: To facilitate the implementation of a seamless biometric entry-exit system that uses facial recognition … DHS is proposing to amend the regulations to provide that all travelers, including U.S. citizens, may be required to be photographed upon entry and/or departure [to or from the U.S.]. According to the “Unified Agenda”, the DHS plans to publish a “Notice of Proposed Rulemaking” (NPRM) in approximately July 2020 to make mug shots mandatory for U.S. citizens leaving or returning to the U.S. The laws cited in the “Unified Agenda” as providing the statutory basis for the proposed rule pertain to searches of aliens (non-U.S. citizens) and the obligation for U.S. citizens entering or leaving the U.S. to have U.S. passports (a requirement of questionable and largely untested Constitutionality). It’s not obvious how the DHS will twist this into purported authority to require mug shots of all U.S. citizens who travel internationally. The DHS has already given notice of its intention to solicit bids for systems to capture photos of all air travelers, including U.S. citizens, and is working with airlines and airports on schemes to share the photos, so that airlines and airports will be able to use data collected under government coercion for their own commercial business-process-automation and price-personalization purposes. In November 2019, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) component of DHS declared that its “test” of facial recognition on travelers crossing the US-Mexico border on foot had become a “permanent fixture” at certain pedestrian border crossings. Meanwhile, the DHS continues to try to reassure travelers by claiming that U.S. citizens can and will be able to opt out of being photographed at airports or land border crossings — even though we continue to get reports, as we have told DHS officials directly, from travelers who were told by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers and/or by line-minders at airports and borders that photography is mandatory . Can you opt out? All current statutory and regulatory provisions for biometric entry and/or exit are explicitly applicable only to non-U.S. citizens. They provide no legal basis for photography of U.S. citizens leaving or returning to the U.S. But current law also provides no guarantee of a right for U.S. citizens to opt out, and no specification of procedures for opting out or for redress for U.S. citizens who aren’t allowed to opt out. That will all become moot if the DHS succeeds in promulgating regulations requiring all travelers to submit to mug shots, the courts uphold them, and travelers acquiesce. Just say no.

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Man who tweeted $500 offer to kill ICE agent is acquitted
by Razer 07 Dec '19

07 Dec '19

"Brandon Ziobrowski, 35, was arrested in August 2018 and charged with use of interstate and foreign commerce to transmit a threat to injure another person. The tweet posted in July 2018 read: "I am broke but I will scrounge and literally give $500 to anyone who kills an ice agent,” referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, federal prosecutors said. Ziobrowski had faced up to five years in prison." https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-who-tweeted-500-offer-kill-ice-age…

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jimini
by Rob Avina 07 Dec '19

07 Dec '19

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Lawyers, China, everyone getting sophistamicated out there - [PEACE] [COMEDY]
by Zenaan Harkness 06 Dec '19

06 Dec '19

End of year highs rolling of the (literally true) comedy pipelines. We give thanks to Kek for training the Chinese: China’s Foreign Ministry Is Starting To "Speak Like Trump" https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/chinas-foreign-ministry-starting-speak-tr… Can you imagine the MFA training school for the poor bureaucrats being trained in ‘Trump’? “Good try, Mr Wang, but end your tweet with an extra ‘SAD!!!!!’” And we give thanks to Gritty for the gentle expressions of caring lawyers: Allstate Lawyers Fear For Safety After Opposing Counsel Threatens To Unleash "Long D*ck Of The Law" https://www.zerohedge.com/political/allstate-lawyers-fear-safety-after-oppo… "Pay up fu*ktard or you will be lucky to work as a notary public in El Cajon? ... "Karma is a bitch mother f*cker," Hook continued, adding "You are going to learn that in spades. I know where you live pete."

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Canada - literal wave of "notorious and violent male criminals" being transferred to women's prisons - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 06 Dec '19

06 Dec '19

Had enough of Canada's SuperMax? Had enough of just being around other jailed blokes 24/7 for, like, too many years already? Willing to "out" yourself (wink wink, nudge nudge) and self declare as a woman for the remainder of your sentence, so you can bunk up in a women's prison? Just say the words "how do you do, fellow 'trans' person" :D HA! Canada, literally trolling "women"s libbers harder than the rest of the world put together, and when I say "harder" I mean ... "What? WHAT? I mean, what's up with dat already?" As good as it gets folks, the funniest of funnies to round out the second decade of the first century of the third millennium (like, it's a thousand years, so wouldn't you call it a "thillennium" and reserve "millenium" for, you know, a million years?). Yep pi doo dah, yessir I ay! Australia's a wonderful matey you say? Yeah! Tearing up handball, women go 'way, Keepin' it real down under Hurray! And I thought we wuz progessive down under - then dem Canuks are just -ripping- it in! Yeeeeehaaaaaaaw muffas! :D Canada: Violent Men Getting Put in Women’s Prisons Because They Say They’re Women http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/canada-violent-men-getting-put-in-womens-pris… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk1NO1BB7KQ https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/violent-male-convicts-claiming-to-be-tran… ... Former inmate and prison advocate Heather Mason told the Toronto Sun’s Brad Hunter last week that male criminals housed with women include serial pedophile Matthew “Madilyn” Harks (reportedly now released); contract killer Fallon Aubee; child killer and rapist “Tara” Desousa (formerly Adam Laboucane); murderer John “Jamie” Boulachanis, and serial sex offender Patrick “Tara” Pearsall. ... So what’s the problem? You should believe all women, especially when they tell you they’re not men. Mason wrote that an inmate in Grand Valley Institute in Ontario — one of Canada’s six federal women penitentiaries — told her in a phone call that medical staff were “handing out the morning after pill” to female prisoners. ... (The original news article, and the Amblin Memer's commentary, continues on in classic style... see link above)

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TruNews blows view on Jew coup - "Stop being mice, start being lions" - 'tubes goin' down - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 06 Dec '19

06 Dec '19

Boomer grumblins a rumblin as the fight of the duo-millenia heats up. The synagogue is teetering and free speech and all else is on the line. (Yes "all demoncratic government" violates our basic rights..) Boomer Rumbling Intensifies: TruNews Lays Into “Jew Coup” Against Trump! http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/boomer-rumbling-intensifies-trunews-lays-into… ... “We have weeks to stop it. That’s why I’m speaking out. That’s why I’m putting everything on the line saying this is a coup led by Jews to overthrow the constitutionally elected president of the United States.” ... - Rick says he’s not calling for a peasant’s revolt *nudge nudge* *wink wink* - Rick says Americans absolutely SHOULDN’T – let me repeat this – absolutely should NOT storm YouTube headquarters! ... Rick showed footage of Orthodox Jews worried that the Jews have over-stepped their bounds with this outrageous Jew Coup against President Trump and calling for their fellow Jews to cool it before the goyim catch on! Then, they play audio from Michael Savage’s show where he too says that the Jews have overstepped their bounds! Not every American is too brain-dead to not notice all the Jews arraigned against Trump – the Chieftain of the Great Goy tribe! Good stuff all around. In general, I strongly approve of the new direction that Christianity is going. ...

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Technocrats, Fintech corps and banks - [MONEY]
by Zenaan Harkness 05 Dec '19

05 Dec '19

Fintech Bubble Implodes And Nobody Even Noticed https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fintech-bubble-implodes-and-nobody-even-n… ... FT makes an intriguing point that the "problem for fintechs is that anything they can do; traditional banks can copy, and can throw more resources at." ... > We tend almost ubiquitously to being technocrats, presuming our > wonderful system > - social system > - non-system system > - computer crypto overlay funk > - digital next gen fiat 2 point 0 > - AP or any other system etc > will somehow, if instituded widely and in short order, somehow > magically cause existing present-day humans to live in freedom, free > of fear, and allowing one another (our neighbours) to be in peace. > This is a fallacy of the first order no less!

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shut down a country - civil action - by staying home - millions of workers at a time - yellow vests - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 05 Dec '19

05 Dec '19

Ahh, the smell of effective civic action in the morning. Gilet jaun slowing down? Getting a little weary on the weeknds? Just stay home. Effective? You bet - when millions of public transport workers and others all stay home on the same day, just as truckies have been barricading the oil refineries and other choke points, you got yerself a shutdown of Western France. Yee haw muffas :D France Paralyzed By Largest General Strike In Decades https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/france-paralyzed-largest-general-str… ... On the fist day of the strike, parts of Paris resembled a ghost town during what are typically busy morning-commute hours. Roads were empty, and train stations were deserted, according to the Times of London. The biggest industrial action of Macron's tenure is, so far, staggering in scale: 50% of French teachers are off work, nine out of ten trains were cancelled and eleven of the fourteen underground lines in Paris are closed. A total of 245 separate demonstrations have been announced across France as students, firefighters, healthcare workers and others joining in. Strikes at Air France forced a wave of flight cancellations, leaving thousands of travelers scrambling for a workaround. Air France cancelled 30% of its domestic flights and 10% of international short- and medium-haul flights on Thursday, RT reports. Millions of workers are staying home. In Paris, some resorted to bikes, skateboards or walking in the bitter cold as 90% of the trains in the country were closed. ...

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Cryptograms and Teleprinter Messages Between Portugal and Biafra in 1969
by John Young 05 Dec '19

05 Dec '19

Frode Weierud recently published a number of cryptograms and other teleprinter messages that were sent over a shortwave radio link operating between Lisbon, Portugal and the rebel state Biafra in Nigeria in August and October 1969. https://cryptocellar.org/Biafra/index.html

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No Treason - Lysander Spooner
by Zenaan Harkness 05 Dec '19

05 Dec '19

On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 06:21:01PM -0300, Punk-Stasi 2.0 wrote: > "NO TREASON. No. VI. The Constitution of No Authority. BY LYSANDER SPOONER. BOSTON: 1870." > > https://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/spooner/NoTreason/ Looking for the parent link, John Walker writes this: https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/reading_list/indices/topic_politics.html Royce, Kenneth W. Hologram of Liberty. Ignacio, CO: Javelin Press, 1997. ISBN 1-888766-03-4. The author, who also uses the nom de plume “Boston T. Party”, provides a survey of the tawdry machinations which accompanied the drafting and adoption of the United States Constitution, making the case that the document was deliberately designed to permit arbitrary expansion of federal power, with cosmetic limitations of power to persuade the states to ratify it. It is striking the extent to which not just vocal anti-federalists like Patrick Henry, but also Thomas Jefferson, anticipated precisely how the federal government would slip its bonds—through judiciary power and the creation of debt, both of which were promptly put into effect by John Marshall and Alexander Hamilton, respectively. Writing on this topic seems to have, as an occupational hazard, a tendency to rant. While Royce never ascends to the coruscating rhetoric of Lysander Spooner's No Treason, there is a great deal of bold type here, as well as some rather curious conspiracy theories (which are, in all fairness, presented for the reader's consideration, not endorsed by the author). Oddly, although chapter 11 discusses the 27th amendment (Congressional Pay Limitation)—proposed in 1789 as part of the original Bill of Rights, but not ratified until 1992—it is missing from the text of the Constitution in appendix C. Apropos as the Federal Reserve Bank and USD collapse...

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